Yes, I know the calls can sometimes also come from inside the house, and that’s so much worse.
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Yes, I know the calls can sometimes also come from inside the house, and that’s so much worse.
A-yup. And it’s super not great how the Enterprise crew are all "Oh, they’re cargo! … ANYway…"
Oh no. Mudd’s Women. ... ... *sigh*
100% agreed—I know queerfolk get it, it’s the nonqueer I try to get to see the reality of what fallout is ahead.
I don’t know how any other way to tell you but some parents would rather have no children than queer children; these laws will kill. That second one? It assumes all parents are good parents. Children do not have to come out to their parents; outing kids to their parents can and will kill.
That’s gorgeous!
I’ve walked out of parties when dudes like that started spouting off in the real-world space. (It’s always dudes.) Why… would I do it differently with my virtual space when it’s even easier to shut out the people who’d rather I not exist, Susan?
"Don’t people on Bluesky realize they’re not interacting with everyone? They’re missing out on opposing voices! They’re only speaking to other people who believe in the same things they do!" *squints* I don’t invite people who hate me into my living room either, actually. It’s not just online.
the thing that always baffles me about the bubblesky™️ discourse is that it just makes me feel so sad for the kind of person who has only ever seen social media as a place you must extract tangible value from--political clout, or clicks for your hot takes, or idek what they're doing. I like people.
Bumblebees on the morning dogwalk...
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We are less than 10 minutes away from starting the Mutants & Masterminds 4th edition playtest on the @bamfpodcast.bsky.social GM is Alex Thomas from @greenroninpub.bsky.social Players are ME, @owenkcstephens.bsky.social , Ade Smith, and Mike Lafferty! www.youtube.com/live/i7GVb6g...
So, I muted the Orange Fascist’s name because sanity as a Canadian. This often means I miss whatever is going on, but if it happens—y’know, *it* 🪦—could someone just make sure I know to un-mute it?
"Do not believe what you have been told. An epidural is honourable."
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…and Yeoman Rand just got harassed again. Three for three.
“I hope you like meat,” Matt said. It took me longer than it should have to realize he meant the pizza. "Rear Admiral" A disaster-cute erotic romance novelette about a nurse meeting his porn-star crush and the string of cringe on the way to their happy ending. #BookSky 💙📚🏳️🌈 books2read.com/u/3yzaQ6
Right? Biofilters removed from transporters due to non-Medical Commodore’s belief that it’s just better if people work through that sort of thing.
My TOS re-watch has reached "The Naked Time." The plot hinges on "somehow, a trained member of a starship thinks nothing of taking off glove so he can scratch his nose and brings deadly virus on board ship" which I used to roll my eyes at but now I look at the world and think, "Yeah, fair."
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“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
I had so much fun with this one, especially lampooning "respectable" queers (boo!).
Duck, meet #Husky. Max would like to say hello. (We did not let him say hello.)
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Happy Labour Day. I believe we need the labour movement more than we have in a very long time, given what is arrayed against us. (Poster by Ricardo Levins Morales, who sells lots of cool things at his store and is having a 20% off sale! www.rlmartstudio.com)
Fun fact: this was one of my most rejected stories because of—I kid you not, and this is the best—its length. It’s too short to be a novella, but too long to be included in short story collections. Editors kept telling me they loved it, but told me they no room, often via amusing phraseology.
“I hope you like meat,” Matt said. It took me longer than it should have to realize he meant the pizza. "Rear Admiral" A disaster-cute erotic romance novelette about a nurse meeting his porn-star crush and the string of cringe on the way to their happy ending. #BookSky 💙📚🏳️🌈 books2read.com/u/3yzaQ6
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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I feel the same about Don Eitner. Criminally underused as nameless Helmsman one time (otherwise a body double for Shatner). Also whoever that guard was.
I will say, however, it’s full of eye-candy in the remastered episodes. You can really tell some of those extras were the stunt-doubles and body-doubles just hanging around, being all burly and stuff.
There are so many, "Well, after all, she’s just a woman"-style comments and I’m only two episodes in.
No, no, the Curzon crew are going to Risa, not some TOS-era knock-off. But actually Kellen gets to take the ship to a diagnostic facility while they do that. He’s going to be in charge, with a skeleton crew of people who didn’t want to go to Risa. IMAGINE THE FUN THOSE PEOPLE WILL HAVE.
Even when we were just casually re-watching, we started calling him Doctor Racist. I also consider Kirk’s command style to be "Captain Jerk." He just… yells. That’s his solution to everything. Yell at someone.
Oh, for sure. I’m not at all knocking the ground it covered.
Not everyone has time to go to Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet, Evan.
I’d not mind her in a SNW future season, but yeah. Rewatching is jarring. We zoom-viewed TOS episodes at the start of the Pandemic with friends, but we talked as much as we watched. Actually focusing on them is… well. Yeah. I can respect all they did, and even enjoy them, but… eek.
If you live in Canada and believe you're immune from an Orwelian future, please be aware that the Edmonton School District just banned 200 books, including six of mine, from its school libraries.
I’m doing this re-watch trying to mine TOS for ideas for the TTRPG, but wow, there’s some… stuff here. ;)
Heading to the rec room after putting away their tools.
A not so gentle reminder that we are never here for "that anti-queer-hate is because [whoever did the queer-hate] is closeted!" You don’t get to sweep it away as anything less than hate from the powerful aimed at the marginalized, and you definitely don’t get to absolve the nonqueer majority.
FFS. You couldn’t write this shit in fiction because people would be all "that’s cartoonishly, ridiculously pathetic—no people would act like that!"
Also, I feel like I need to keep a running tally of Janice Rand, Space Victim, because I’m only two episodes in and she’s already been stalked twice.
Later, Charlie gives Yeoman Rand a swat on the butt and she’s aghast and Kirk "explains" things. "I mean, man to man is one thing, but, er, man and woman, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh. Well it's, uh, another thing. Do you understand?" Smooth, Jim. So clear. This is why it never worked out with Carol.
Okay, more re-watching of TOS. "Charlie X" has a scene where two bro-dudes step out of a Jeffries Tube and one says to the other, "Hey, I'll put the equipment away. See you in the rec room, huh?" and the other dude gives him a slap on the butt and a "You got a deal, friend!" Yep. Space dude pals.
Thank you! :)
We finished up visiting the last four OC Transpo train stations for the 2 today with Max. Look, he’s a #Husky. He demands four walks a day. We have to make our own fun.
I am (as you have noticed if you have ever seen a picture of me) very white. Also I grew up in Maine & then central Minnesota which are also Very White. So it took me a long time to understand what white culture's idea of solidarity is almost always "who do we hate together" and that is awful???
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"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar
There are about six answers to this. 1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.
Absolutely majestic rainbow(s) over our restaurant tonight.
Yeah. Uncomfortable laughs at best, though I did have a real gut-laugh at the Pelia LSD lines.
“When lives are not valued or actively devalued – as the lives of Bobby and Robert and everybody like them were and often still are – they are not fully known. They can’t be. That doesn’t mean they weren’t fully lived.”
Okay, today I sat down with the first (or fifth) episode of TOS and considered aspects I could fold into #StarTrekAdventures. And yep, even though it’s been ages, there were a couple of seeds I found I could imagine growing a scenario from in here. Including one that’s… very 60s.
Ugh.
HA! "No, no, see, it says right here on page three, paragraph four of the code of conduct we all signed…"
The media has to stop anthropomorphizing AI. If I write a calculator program that generates incorrect results, it's not dishonest, it's just wrong.
Okay, today I sat down with the first (or fifth) episode of TOS and considered aspects I could fold into #StarTrekAdventures. And yep, even though it’s been ages, there were a couple of seeds I found I could imagine growing a scenario from in here. Including one that’s… very 60s.
Quoted (with citation) in my own syllabi this term:
"Readers want more from me than I could ever produce" has always been, for me, one of the most wonderful opportunities to say, "Oh, if you liked this book, try out so-n-so!" not "I need to produce more-more-more, to hell with the consequences." I just. Huh. Okay.
I’ll never understand the divide of "Make a better world" vs. "Well, I went through it, so why should they have an easier time?" um.
Certain foods used to press against the support wire thing and now and then they’d pop it free and it was *so frustrating* to get it all reattached. (Also, of course, not covered.)
Swapping from the "support wires" to the "night-guard" version of "keeping all my teeth/implants/pins in the right spot" was such the right decision, but the thing I might singularly love the most is how now I can bite things like apple slices without worrying if something will go "sproing!"
I’m so glad! I know I can be a bit "okay, here’s another front of the war against people like us existing" sometimes, so I try to toss a few joy-scrolls out there, too.
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Oh. He’s here. Duh. @tastinghistory.bsky.social. Go follow.
His thirst-tweet reading videos are awesome because you can tell he’s caught between flattered and being such an easy blush.
Yasir Naqvi, my MP, sent a "what are your concerns/focuses for the Budget?" and every "Other" section was basically me screaming about UBI being at least a partial solution to everything they listed above, and that we don’t need another test, just roll out the programs we’ve seen work. #CanPoli
Today’s joy-scrolling is a YouTube channel we often follow, "Tasting History." Max Miller recreates recipes from all over history. He’s funny, and does little history lessons alongside the recipes.
They are spending a lot of time, money, effort, and energy over *checks notes* chalk. Maybe the authoritarian/fascist government will go broke sooner. Fingers crossed!
"You know Max, I adore you—" "Thbbt!" #Husky
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
Epidemic of violence
…and earlier up in that thread from which you pulled that quote. There it is. Germany. bsky.app/profile/busi...
YEP. Like, it remains priced out of reach for most people, but just imagine if new constructions were, y’know, *designed* with solar in mind. Like, why—exactly—isn’t it required on every new development? Oh, right. I know.
After reading "Careless People," my threshold for Meta dropped from "barely holding on" (b/c all the anti-queer shit) to "delete it all" and the only thing I miss is the daily memories photographs and the few people who aren’t anywhere else for me to reach, but… No.
And while talking Solar Power… I picked up a few luminAID lamps (some models also recharge your phone) before the Ottawa derecho, and while we didn’t lose power, *all* the houses around us did, for a week+, and lending them out was helpful. Check out luminAID. Pick up a lantern, aid refugees.
I know so much of it comes from corporate greed, but I also know how much of it comes from "but what about…?"isms. People who seem to think no option that doesn’t eliminate the entire problem is worth using. "That doesn’t fix X, though!" (Yet those same people would take chemo at a 30% chance.)
What if I re-watched every Star Trek episode with the intent of mining it for ideas for #StarTrekAdventures? Like, one a day, or even a couple a week. That’d be a silly project, yes, but also… could it be a source of fun I could easily acquire and amuse myself (and maybe others) with?
Also… "Scientists set out to explore the impact of covering every rooftop on Earth with solar panels. Their research found that swapping traditional energy sources for rooftop solar could actually cool the planet — lowering global temperatures by up to 0.13°C."
Yes please. (I mean, cynic me says they’d just redirect any power savings to make sue genAI can continue to harm the planet and everyone on it, but… still.)
If you are wondering what happened in Indonesia yesterday, this is the whole summary. I don't care if you dislike politics, but it's about humanity. It would be greatly appreciated if my English speaker friends here try to educate themselves and share this as a form of spreading more awareness.
Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later
🎶 It’s me. Hi. I’m your ruin it’s me. 🎶 (He sings, hopefully.)
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@nathanburgoine.bsky.social Posted the review on my own blog too: authorjeffbaker.com/2025/08/29/d...
Happy birthday, @diannalgunn.bsky.social! Let’s all help her celebrate with some murders*. *Fictional murders. I’m not a homicidal maniac**. **As far as you know, at least.
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Makes it clear, makes it easy, makes it inarguable: The landlords who say they "can't afford" a rent freeze sure did somehow find *$2.5 Mil* to give to the dude who wants to *raise* rents. You want your rent to go up, or you want it to stay the same? Stop running to the right. Stay left, & fight.
A project I cleared my schedule for is taking some time to get off the ground, so I’m once again open for contract work. Need a writer/editor/localizer? Let me make your women angrier and your bisexuals more chaotic.
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@hschooner.bsky.social is the king of little guys and it is in full display in this week’s episode 😭 It’s tough on Jerry’s streets
For #Audiobook lovers, this one was so perfectly performed in the audio version; between that and the *air-kiss* story, it became an instant favourite. 💙📚🏳️🌈
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I’m not a US author, but re: the Copyright thing, it looks like my books were *mostly* registered by my US publisher(s). Not all, but most. My heart goes out to all those authors facing just one more straw on the GenAI camel’s back.
Last re-skeet: this is how I feel people should approach those so-called Neutrality Movements. "You don’t think any groups should be supported by a city because it 'might not make everyone feel welcome'?" Great. Cancel any city mention of Christmas, then, shall we? What? *doe eyed blink*