what bluesky actually needs is a version of clippy that won't let you post unless you've taken your anxiety meds for at least four days running

I’m not the one who originally said it and won’t take credit for the observation, but men like this have the politics of housecats. Utterly convinced of their own rugged self sufficiency while depending on others in ways they can’t fathom and refuse to reckon with.

Remember, on this day, one who died to save us all and rose again to great rejoicing. #FirstContactDay

Not just one legislator, the entire legislature? Sure. I’m for it.

The idea that Joe Biden was “genocidal” is ridiculous and I have had enough of treating the people who say such things as if they have intellect or character

Bible: In the end times there are gonna be charlatans who use my name to trick you into supporting evil and it will be incredibly obvious to everyone except you. Evangelicals: This section of the Bible has always been mysteriously vague.

This website is dying because long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when The Fire Nation attacked…

Though I will dock points for “that was also kind of predictable” reasons if his motivation is just “anarchy is better than the wrong kind of order.”

youtu.be/DkVepshZhGc?... Switching gears to the other major “star” franchise for a moment, this sure looks cooler than “The Bad Batch” at least. A Sith who wants to wreck the Empire for his own reasons (that presumably aren’t just “then I’ll take the throne”) is a good angle to explore.

For future reference, I don’t mind people not liking things I like. I don’t mind them talking to me about why. But if you’re rude to me or anyone else in the process you’re getting blocked. Discourse is fine. Antisocial behavior gets you tossed into the phantom zone.

Between fixing up a station that was falling apart when he got there, dealing with Bajorans who were (understandably) leery of yet another naval superpower extending the hand of friendship, and Quark’s various space goblin crimes, Sisko just didn’t have time for Q’s bullshit.

And while we’re on the subject of Star Trek, can I just say that while there are people I respect on here who very much did not, I enjoyed Starfleet Academy and mostly blame the Ellisons for its cancellation.

“Kirk or Picard” was The Great Debate when I was a kid, and my answer to that question has always been “Sisko,” It’s a pity this crew never got their own movies.

If "Moon Colonization" causes your "Colonization is bad" neuron to fire you are more of a stochastic parrot than GPT2.

The first and strongest guardrail of democracy is the public.

Hot take: Chang'e colonized the moon first. We would be simply breaking her monopoly of extracting moon rabbit labor to pound ricecakes.

There are people who will argue against this by using a definition of “colonization” broad enough to describe goddamned near any economic activity at all, but they are wrong and bad and enamored of the smell of their own farts.

We should cultivate a culture on the broad left where constantly bashing the democrats is seen as unproductive and pathetic and essentially a self-ejection from the coalition.

I’m a woke pocket constitution person! The American Civic Religion was, in point of fact, a big part of what taught me to believe in things like equal rights and equal opportunity regardless of race, sex, gender or orientation. I know people on here see America as The Galactic Empire, but… no.

And now I want a version of like… The Prince of Egypt where a kaiju frog and a kaiju sized Moses wreck the pyramids.

And another bonus of not relying on fossil fuels? We won’t have to lean on a bunch of turbo misogynist anti queer authoritarian monarchies for all the energy our economy uses.

Seriously though the perfect pitch for serious investment in renewables rn (other than that they’ve gotten quite competitive with coal and gas all on their own) is “the fuck are they gonna do, blockade the sun?”

Remember during Covid when we were learning all sorts of things about spike proteins and viral replication that were cool in an academic context but we resented having to give that much of a shit? That’s how I feel about Hormuz rn. (1/2)

What you wanna do is get a pot of water boiling really good, and then have the strait lean over it for a couple minutes. That’ll open ‘er right up.

It is! Space exploration is cool.

i fully maintain that NASA's budget isn't big enough until they're landing probes on random moons just for the hell of it treat it like 100% completing a video game

You can tell the reason people on the far left have been getting increasingly desperate to paint liberals as the enemy of all progress forever is because they can see clips like this the same as we can and know that liberals are about to hit a generational electoral jackpot.

The simple fact is that if Kamala Harris had won we would not be in this stupid fucking war right now. 165 young girls would be alive. The world wouldn't be in an impending economic crisis. Whatever else you think about her and Biden, this is simply true

-First manned moon mission in over 50 years -SCOTUS rips into anti-birthright citizenship case as Trump sits right there -GOP completely caves to Democrats on DHS funding bill -Trump's big Iran speech is a brief detour of wheezing nonsense This was one of the best single days of 2026 so far tbh

“I’ve seen economies you people wouldn’t believe.”

To me the economy is attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate…

He’s not supposed to be on the table. He knows he’s not supposed to be on the table. And yet…

…Well played.

Jupiter says Trans Rights.

This is confusing, because a very confident, very rude person was just telling me the other day that supporting the blue guys over the red guys made me a “self-hating trans person.”

People who assert science fiction should not be political have never read any… much less watched any actual science fiction

Needed a bit of warmth and this felt appropriate for today.

I've been rewatching Babylon 5, again. J. Michael Straczynski is obviously a seer, a soothsayer. He clearly predicted Donald Trump & Pete Hegseth. youtu.be/tF27OtzAslY?...

I've had it with this mother fucking fascism in my mother fucking country

Good story telling is going to have political elements, especially if they touch anything involving the state. Watch how groups are depicted, particularly innocents, security, officials, etc. Those smaller moments will tell you far more about the creators' politics than any overt messaging.

Project Hail Mary is one of my favorite books, and now one of my favorite movies, and it sucks when the creator of something you love shoots their mouth off in a way that makes you think less of them.

I just fundamentally side against ideologies that say "where you're born is where you must stay, your family owns you, you belong to a piece of land and if you leave where you're from you're oppressing people wherever you move"

Your internal misogynist who hates women over 40 for being cringe and teen girls for being intense is the final boss between you and not being a sexist piece of shit, folx.

You've got companies dropping consoles with pricetags as high as a downpayment on an apartment and then articles coming out a month later navelgazing like "How come zoomers are so into retro gaming all of the sudden? 🤔"

Also do we really need a PS6 at this point? When did the PS5 come out? ‘21? ‘22?

A grand for a game console?! Fuck that, that’s phone upgrade money.

(Astronaut meme): Always did.

leftists: libs are dumb and think Star Wars is real also leftists: the only thing that matters is Destroying the Empire, which we will achieve through the power of our emotions

Why are all the Gaza scam accounts just randomly reskeeting people now?

Two notes here: 1) It’s the Frog CIA, not the Bug CIA 2) I now want a Mass Effect story where Garrus becomes the galaxy’s biggest Bat-fan, because you know he would.