Posts by Arthur Durkee
And then Odo proceeded to save the Founders.
I recall that he disobeyed that order, or Bashir did, to save Odo.
The Changeling plague was wrong, and defeated by the crew of DS9. That’s canon that they STOPPED a genocide.
And yes Section 31 is morally grey and ruthless from the start.
I usually make up my own cults, like The Religion of Mustard, but I’ll cheerfully join yours.
“Antler,” from my chapbook “Destinationless,” published 2025 by Squares & Rebels.
Cyclops, especially in the Claremont era. I actually have that same spatial geometry sense. Brooding, often underestimated to the point of being surprising, quiet when not needing to be loud, actions speak louder than words.
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
This is one of the greatest album cover designs of all time.
He surrounded himself with the “best” people. Sociopaths and sycophants and people like him.
Kinda would wear this yeah.
Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!
George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.
As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...
If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then.
A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.
Art is only limited by imagination. Which is why I think it’s so weird to see so much well-made art that’s completely derivative. Use your own imagination.
I mean, it’s one thing to learn from the masters by imitating them, but at some point find your own subject matter, your own voice.
Last few hours of Capricorn because Aquarius here, so I’m super intuitive but logical about it.
Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.
In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.
This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.
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Note to my fellow Dems: The 2026 and 2028 elections will be "change" elections. But mere promises to change or talking points about change won't do the trick. Candidates need to embody change. They need to be the change we want to see. It's not about a position. It's about who they are.
TOS. Sorry
It’s the plot of “Under Pressure” by David Gerrold.
It’s also a TOD episode.
Exquisite.
I must confess that I saw the phone box and wanted it to be a TARDIS. My bad.
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
There’s a poem in this somehow.
The iron played made at the iron pour. One relief image on an iron tile shows a lighthouse tower lighting the darkness with beams coming from each side. The second iron tile shows the moon in the branches of an autumn tree whipped by strong winds.
The results from today’s iron pour. The witch tree and moon. The lighthouse. Both bringing light out of darkness. Two more tiles in my series. I think they came out pretty well overall. Thank you, Whitewater Makers!
I made two images: a moonlit autumn tree whipped by wind, and a lighthouse. Both symbolize light in the dark times. I’ve made lighthouse prints before, as icons and talismans: when we feel lost, we all need a lighthouse to tell is where we are and light our way through the dark. So Mote It Be. 3/
Carving the mold is a relief carving process like carving wood or lino blocks to print. You carve your image in reverse. But here you have depth to work with, in layers, which can create terraced or curved effects. 2/
Two sand molds for pouring molten iron to make artistic iron plates. The molds are carved like making a relief print. Iron is poured in, then when it’s cooled the sand is broken away leaving a tile. One mold shows an autumn tree whipped by wind with the moon in its lower branches. The other mold shows a lighthouse tower shining beams of light to to either side.
I carved two sand molds this morning for the iron pour at Whitewater Makerspace.
These are fused sand molds you carve, which are then filled with liquid iron. Once the metal cools, the sand mold is broken and the plate is removed.