#Melania is so bad, that they're paying people to attend screenings. I love the proviso that they have to watch the entire film in order to receive payment.

NZ Post should not be run "as a business". It's a fundamental public service and every issue you have had with it, or with courier delivery, in the past 30 years is down to governments sacrificing that public service for the sake of short term cashflow

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

i wish there were a block feature on youtube to prevent channels from popping up in “watch next” or “recommended” tabs. Because i swear to god if i see JesterBell or Critical Drinker or Matt Walsh pop up again, JUST BECAUSE I WATCH A CLIP FROM *DISCOVERY* OR *STARFLEET ACADEMY,* imma fuckin lose it.

You bought into a movement that advocated the dehumanisation and subjugation of trans people, where Magdalen Berns, a woman who called them "sick, pathetic fucks" was lauded by every GC activist as a literal folk hero, but *now* you're sick of the extremism? Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

Oh they DEFINITELY fucked. #StarFleetAcademy

There is a line in an upcoming episode of #StarfleetAcademy that hits particularly close to the chest at the moment: 'There has been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance.' Star Trek, on the ball as usual #StarTrek

Just watched the latest #StarfleetAcademy episode with a friend and we were both left speechless. SFA 1x04 is in our opinion one of the best episodes of Star Trek, end of sentence. That- just. I am not even remotely qualified to get into the nitty gritty of the discussion of colonialism, of the...

This is Nazi shit and that’s not hyperbole

Landlords pricing business out and being happy with vacant properties is what’s killing cities. Not millennials, not GenZ, not people working from home. It’s cranking up rent to the breaking point and then chilling with empty storefronts. What can be done to address that issue?

Removing a face doesn’t remove the problem.

Between a cancelled train and a deep-space flight, between two funerals and a sleepover camp, these stories map the hidden geographies of the queer experience. RAINBOW STARS UNITE is coming soon! Grab your copy of this powerful queer anthology here: books2read.com/RainbowStars #QueerLiterature

Between a cancelled train and a deep-space flight, between two funerals and a sleepover camp, these stories map the hidden geographies of the queer experience. RAINBOW STARS UNITE is coming soon! Grab your copy of this powerful queer anthology here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0G88DYJR7

I will take any opportunity to post this random 4chan post that absolutely wrecks Harry Potter's shit in three paragraphs

QRP with a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek (my own WIP) Van der Linde class First Rate Ship of the Line, from a WIP where I've taken creative inspiration from The Sojourn for the age of sail vibe 'cos I found that really refreshing, go give it a listen.

I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.

A wee reminder that they handed out $6M for the Michelin Man #nzpol

Or maybe, New York Times lady, not everything can or should be popular forever! The current attitude that IP can never lie fallow, must make money for it's owners in perpetuity, ignores the fact that new generations are supposed to have their own stories, not just the same ones their parents did.

Had a thought when I saw the training sentiment came up on the news over here. Reality: Untrained goons with no care for the law are abducting and murdering people in your streets by the express intent of a fascist white supremacist president. Centrist leaders: TRAIN 👏 THE 👏 GOONS 👏

Graham Linehan proves the point that trans liberationists have been saying from the start: If you'll permit dehumanising and stripping the rights of trans people, you will dehumanise and strip the rights of anyone on a long enough timeline.

Not a single story, but a constellation. Shining with queer lives from Waitakere camps to the pink glow of a distant planet. Grab your copy of RAINBOW STARS UNITE here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0G88DYJR7 #QueerAnthology #SpecFic #LiteraryFiction #ContemporaryFantasy #QueerPoetry #QueerJoy

Up to the last little bits of detailing before I do materials! #3dModeling #Blender #Spaceships

Continuity announcer on the news' ad break: (advertising a show on later about the Titanic) "'The Titanic Sinks' tonight." My brain, instantly: A-WEEMA-WEH A-WEEMA-WEH A-WEEMA-WEH A-WEEMA-WEH IN THE OCEAN THE ICY OCEAN, TITANIC SINKS TONIIIIIIIGHT-

Look, as always, I don't want to pretend journalism is easy, but surely it is *weird* for both of RNZ's articles on this to offer no neutral summary about the work WHO does, the "original mandate" of the organisation, any kind of factual context It's just the perspectives of various dudes

Holy SHIT

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

How dare a literally leader in Starfleet sit in a chair weirdly? That isn’t professional! I have a hard time imaging Kirk or Spock doing this? What is this woke propaganda in my Star Trek? Treks really gone downhill, this isn’t Star Trek!

I've discovered something terrible about myself today... I'm Bri*ish 🤮

All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy

If the next election is not a strong rebuke of this kind of behaviour things are gonna get really bad. And at the moment we are nowhere close to achieving that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwD_... ohohoho this is coming together! Just need to do the interior stuff on the forecastle, and the rigging lines, then it's just lighting and materials followed by animation rigs! Had stuff to do so I chucked together a quick flyby.

And I'm a fucking atheist, girl

We don't need a dictator. And we certainly don't need you, Donald.

Sellers: You all gave Obama hell because wore a brown suit. But yet and still this man comes on stage in front of the world and he rambles and he misspeaks… he could have said that we solved the war between wakanda and namor. Republicans would have been like I'm glad we stopped that African country.

You just can't demonstrate to an audience what it means to voyage through all of time and space if you've only got room for for like two planets, a historical, an opener set in London and a series finale set in London.

Same feelings about Doctor Who tbh. These long running shows are designed to sprawl because they were created in a time when TV seasons were massively long and needed material badly. Trying to make them fit into smaller and smaller runs means a lot of what gives them their character gets shorn away.

The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.

Everyone super impressed when AI does something they can't personally do. It's why non writers and non artists love it. You don't know what you're looking at so you think it is good.

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

"But if it's 1000 years from now, why do they talk like people today? Why are there disabled people, and fat people, and why do they still listen to our music, and—" Stop. It's not a documentary about the future. It's a sci-fi/fantasy show about the present. It always has been.

We live for the moments we’ve been dying to finally write. Lead Writer Daniel Orrett talks about Vadric’s involvement in some of his. #thesojourn #scifi #author #writing #audiodrama #sciencefiction

Good Morning #StarTrekFamily I hope y'all have a Terrific #StarTrekTuesday 😁🖖

Try to imagine the news cycle, had President Biden opened up a book of pictures during a press availability, flipped through it, and rambled an incoherent stream of lies that have been repeatedly debunked. Just imagine. Now look at any national news source. ...Yeah. 🤷‍♂️

Cap'n Ake is gonna be one of my fav characters #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

‘I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace’

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to think that reverend Martin Luther King Jr would have been 97 years old this year to think that so many haven't heard any of his words beyond parts of his "i have a dream" speech in Washington to think that speech "cured racism" or whatever, and to turn away from the reality: the work isn't over