JB Pritzker is meeting the moment. So fitting that the land of Lincoln has a governor like him at this dire time.
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JB Pritzker is meeting the moment. So fitting that the land of Lincoln has a governor like him at this dire time.
When I read this back in May, I felt the full Farnsworth.
Fizzbin! Tuesday! Green! Bizet! Mrs. Columbo! Did any of those help?
@daytonward.bsky.social @davidmack.bsky.social Looks like September is "Ward & Mack Month" - pretty much the entire Vanguard series eBooks are $1.99, among others! Plus several by @farawaypress.com and a pair by @unamccormack.bsky.social! www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
Yeah. And he always wanted Klingons to have ridges, but they didn't have the money for it until TNG, really. The movies, but TNG. And I think HAM said that SNW is the same bridge as TOS but looked at "through an HD lens".
Exo III perhaps? 🤔 He does go missing later that year........
Well, looks like this'll be Muriel Bowser's last term as DC mayor. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
But, in all seriousness, folklore is a masterpiece.
Six years later, the attack on Mars occurs and Picard resigns in protest. Eight years, the Romulan supernova occurs. Twenty years later, Dahj Asha arrives at Chateau Picard. #ST #NEM
A year later, the Titan would come to the rescue of the Cerritos. Two years later, Picard takes a promotion to admiral to plan the Romulan evacuation, and Jack is born. Five years later, the Enterprise partakes in the Battle near Gamma Serpentis. 1/2 #StarTrek #Nemesis
There is very little more human than sacrificing yourself for your friends. #StarTrek #Nemesis
Granted, it's a "rule of cool", but maybe the chasm was next to the computer core, and that walkway takes you to it? I have to imagine the computer core requires a lot of cooling. #StarTrek #Nemesis
That shot of the E's saucer pulling back from the Scimirar's shuttlebay is pretty sweet. #ST #NEM
Poor Branson. 🙁 #StarTrek #NEM
If you note the door numbers, the boarding party and the combat team meet on Deck 9 - one on their way up via turbolifts, one on their way down via turbolifts. Also explains the gaping chasm....kind of. #ST #NEM
For all its faults, the Battle of the Bassen Rift is pretty sweet. #ST #NEM
That and Picard asking Troi to "endure" more of the assaults. Eek. #ST #NEM
And it also uses one of the worst TNG tropes which created some of the weakest episodes. #ST #NEM
People forget that Ron Perlman played the Viceroy. #ST #NEM
Also, considering the Prime Directive, I'd guess there weren't supposed to be any Kolaruns around. #ST #Nemesis
I quite liked the "digital" tricorders in #ST #NEM
....I do dislike how SB decided to pitch down Worf's voice in post, however. #StarTrek #Nemesis
#ST #NEM laid so. much. groundwork. for PIC, season 3 in particular. PIC - especially S3 - would've been such a different show without it.
Also, the Romulans are far, *far* more interesting than they are given credit for. #StarTrek #NEM
The opening of #ST #NEM goes quite hard.
There were only eight years between #StarTrek #Nemesis and the Romulan supernova.
As someone who lives in Texas....yes.
What is the point of having that stuff if you don't play with it now and again? They were designed to be played with. When I fulfilled my childhood dream of owning the MicroMachines Collection III that came with the Ent-E toy, you know I took those things out and made whoosh and pew-pew noises.
Happy Labor Day! For over a century, Illinois has been the epicenter of the fight for workers’ rights. Working families are the bulwark that has made our state the 5th largest economy in the nation. Today, we celebrate workers and their leadership of Illinois’ success.
🙁 Sad.
And our two parties are pro-austerity, pro-military, anti-labor homophobic racist Nazis who believe you deserve to be poor....and neoliberal pro-corporate social moderates. So we have right-of-center and far-right, basically, because unions are communism, after all.
Everything is a zero-sum game to them.
Yeah. Even their fellow conservative Christians like Mormons and a lot of American Catholics aren't "real Christians" because they're not Evangelical Southern Baptists. They think the pope is an agent of Satan and Mormons are just plainly wrong.
Fascism and the like are inherently incredibly fragile because they need an enemy just to survive. If there is no enemy outside, they find them within.
Power, control, etc. but only for straight, Anglo-white Evangelical Southern Baptist males. With money. Poors need not apply. And then they'll start finding folks not being evangelical *enough* because they always need an enemy. Once the dog catches the car, the dog that starts eating itself.
And the only "real" Christians are Evangelical Southern Baptists. Everyone else is Satan.
bUt AmErIcA iS pErFeCt AnD wAs OrDaInEd By gOd To Be A cHrIsTiAn NaTiOn. For fucks sake, slavery "it wasn't that bad, and it was actually good for them because it taught them skills" apologism is starting to become a talking-point among the right-wing nuts.
Recognizing the mistakes we make is part of our learning process, and the same goes for the country. I love my country, but it's important to be critical in order to keep improving. Recognizing that my privileges also stem from this past. It is important not to forget.
This isn't about Bluesky itself; it's a test balloon. Silver is testing here whether he can give the Right a new word for wOkE since they ran it into the ground so hard people are using it for franchise rebrands they don't like. Blueskyism is taking the place of anti-racism & anti-bigot for REASONS.
Anyone know of any job availabilities in IL with relocation assistance? How about three jobs for three people? We wanna get out of Texas. Ha
Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.
I do like them, and if I had the technological capabilities to 3D model I would absolutely do an Inquiry with appropriately-sized Sagan nacelles.
@yard2380.bsky.social I got on a roll and also did the Brigid, Esquiline and Palatine. It's 3:30 AM. I should go to bed. XD Esquiline:
@badsocialism.bsky.social I was reading the history of the Trafalgar you developed for STO and 100% that was the exact thought I had - that it was developed on the eve of the Khitomer Accords and then promptly canned.
Kinda like this?
Ooooooooooooh! Neat! :D It's using the PIC S2-3 Inquiry material + the STO Inquiry model's paint job on the saucer superstructure. The S1 Inquiry material is more browny-grey. If it were "officially remastered" like this , the UV unwrapping would probably make it more "S2 Inquiry grey"
@yard2380.bsky.social Rademaker-class "revamped" as an Inquiry. 😁 By dint of the age, the Inquiry refit material does weird things (you can see some) but I do love the two-tone! (I have no 3D modelling training, and my computer got mad when I ran UE5, so this is the next best thing... :P)
100% those are Sagan-style nacelles.
The *literal* Sagan/C-III nacelles are a little big on it.
Because they want the mOdErAtE vOtErs. If they haven't picked a side by now, they're not going to on one issue. Especially not this one.
Hey! Your account is false advertising! You are not a bipedal squid man!
I find it fascinating that even hardcore ChatGPT fans seem to be turning on it in recent weeks
I know what you mean. 😕
Just hire an electrician.
What, exactly, is a "ventral engine". #StarTrek #Insurrection
Yes, but is it deep substrate foliated calcite? #ST #INS
That was a ****very**** fast 18 minutes. #ST #INS
Dougherty 100% knew what Ru'afo meant when he said "escort". #ST #INS
"Saddle up. Lock and load." #StarTrek #INS
"We're only moving 600 people." "How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes 'wrong'?" #ST #INS
The Federation Council being shitty seems to be a trend during the Dominion War and post-War era. #StarTrek #Insurrection
"But some of the darkest chapters in the history of my world involve the forced relocation of a small group of people to satisfy the demands of a large one." #ST #INS
I love that you can see which episodes of Beyond Fact & Fiction were filmed right after #StarTrek #Insurrection. Like this one ⬇️
🎵A British tar is a soaring soul.....🎵 #StarTrek #INS
"We're going to stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goren system." "They are in opposite directions." "Are they?" #ST #Insurrection
I love that they mention the Dominion in #ST #INS.
#StarTrek #Insurrection is underappreciated - it's very much a TNG movie. It follows a lot of the story beats and conventions of TNG episodes.
I can’t find the lie in this.
I love that they dropped "Daneel" last week!
I liked Spectre because it tied all of his prior adventures together...but it wasn't exactly memorable. The theme was great though. Didn't like QoS' theme, but I did like the movie - if you look at it as a "middle chapter" of the story, it fits better, IMO.
NEW: Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act provides a template for how current leaders should respond to the Trump administration’s takeover of American cities writes Ansley Skipper. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-long-history-behind-trumps-war
And with AI datacenters singlehandedly propping up the GDP, when the bubble bursts, the economy will go with it. Just like once the Medicaid cuts hit and hospitals lay offs start, the jobs mkt will go with it - since healthcare jobs are singlehandedly keeping the jobs market numbers net-positive.
#Thunderbolts is the exact type of Marvel movie the franchise has been missing for *years*. More like Thunderbolts please!
Agreed. It'd be fun, though.
100% We need Lt. Colt, LCdr Jose Tyler and Chief of Starfleet Medical Phil Boyce. Maybe Boyce says "Yeah, I know a doctor down in Georgia. A bit of a curmudgeon, but maybe he can be convinced to join on."
Yes. And *definitely* not Chekov. He's 16 right now. We haven't had Jeffery Combs in post-2017 Trek, yet. Maybe as Mark Piper?
SNW also seems to be forgetting Scotty has ten years on Kirk & Spock. 2222 vs 2230 & 2233.
Unless he's forced to step down as CMO for some reason but stays on the crew? I'm hoping we get to see Jose Tyler, Mia Colt and Phil Boyce before SNW ends.
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
Rapidly approaching the “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here” era of techno- feudalism
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
And then there are those of us who, when we are our full and unrestrained selves, we are well meaning, but incredibly annoying. As you, Mike, and Thomas are aware about me...... 😛
100% they're trying to cue up a SCOTUS ruling on this so they can use the Comstock Act to ban mail-order mifepristone and misoprostal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstoc... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
This is the burning of the Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft. Right here. This is the tipping point of genocide.
Yeah, I definitely got some full laughs from me - which means that next week and the finale are probably gonna be *really* dark - but the whole Vulcan aspect of it rubbed me the wrong way. "Four Klingons and a Vulcan" might've worked better?
Welcome news. For blue states must hang together or will hang separately.
Even Data knew independent human creativity was worthwhile.
@badsocialism.bsky.social You just got a shoutout on the DECA stream debuting the Trafalgar-class! 😊
The brother of Raxacoricofallapatorius Tandy?
@jasoncfry.bsky.social
Have less than zero idea where Alien: Earth is gonna end up in four weeks, and I love it. It's fun when a show takes you on a journey where you can't even guess the destination.
For what reason does anyone need a *scoped marksman rifle*? Unless you're going to try and completely vaporize the head of a deer from a quarter-mile away, you don't need one.
True.
