just starting the new forsytes show and my first thought is that everyone is too hot

The fact that the court is even hearing this ridiculous, racist case is a disgrace. Every new breach defies credulity and yet.

ps - I think these star trek library cards are still available at sfpl branches! And any california resident can get an sf library card

I know, it’s such a shame, but honestly with the new leadership at paramount, not surprising

isn’t it! It was my first post surgery walk I did lol, to the library to get this card

I thought this was the cutest tie in for them to have done for starfleet academy

On the bright side, I never thought I’d get to live in an era of star trek back on tv, and we’ve gotten a solid 10 years of it

Limited edition SFPL library card that is a tie in with starfleet academy, has an image of the star feet logo shape and inside of it an image of a star ship, the bay bridge, and the SF skyline

I feel like I saw it coming as strange new worlds and then lower decks both got cancelled, but it still bums me out to see starfleet academy cancelled after such a promising first season - definitely the end of this era

At least I’ll always have this glorious star trek sf library card 🫶🏾🖖🏾

(this is from season 5, I think episode 6 or so?)

Mrs Patmore and Daisy from Downton Abbey are in the kitchen talking. Daisy says “When I think about it,”

Daisy continues from “When I think about it,” and says “it seems to me that we’re trapped,”

Daisy continues from “When I think about it, it seems to me that we’re trapped,” and says “held fast in a system”

Daisy continues from “When I think about it, it seems to me that we’re trapped, held fast in a system” and says “that gives us no value and no freedom.”

the best character arc in downton abbey might be daisy’s awakening class consciousness

she’s a huge part of why I avoid rewatching season 2

Bittersweet, but I do love seeing a show go out on a high note and on its own terms. Definitely relieved that season 6 wasn’t the last one, it really felt like the Miss Scarlet writers were hedging their bets.

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

this is what I’ve been saying every time someone complains about this - this slate of age verification laws getting passed all around the place are the true culprits. They’re not good and are not actually solving the problems people think they are.

This realization finally also explained to me why people would ask how I can do x activity with music, or when they’d say they could only do that with classical music or jazz. I was always like but why, the vibe is the important factor, not whether or not the music has lyrics.

It took me so long to realize that so many people listen to music lyrics first. I’m 100% music first, and then if I love the song maybe I’ll learn the words, but it’s totally optional for me.

This is me at live concerts for most of each song

I messaged my cousin studying there about this and she was like well some of the days it snowed

😳

like the symbolism was so clear

our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

It’s all of our flags 😭😭😭😭

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

I’m not over that halftime show

like from the opening with the cane fields, the casita, the guest performers, the imagery with the power lines, closing with the all those flags of the caribbean and latin america

100/10 no notes except I wanted it to be twice as long

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

and yet it feels like it’s barely making headlines, I only found out it was happening yesterday by talking to someone at the gym.

Yes, there’s been 3 episodes so far! The one with America Ferrera and Darren Criss is also so good

I don’t know where my fellow finding your roots nerds are but this season has been sooo good. I was so locked into Delroy Lindo’s story in the latest episode, it’s giving Black Cake but real life.

okay I finally watched the first two episodes of starfleet academy and it’s actually pretty delightful? loving the energy we’re getting from the combo of it being about cadets and it being about the academy restarting after the burn

finally, we're living through precedented times

This convo always irritates me so much for this reason. The same boats dropped off slaves across the Americas PLURAL. And Brazil and the Caribbean actually had the highest number of slaves brought to them. But world history isn’t really taught here so here we are 🫠.

god today was a bleak news day from beginning to end

like desperately trying to cling on to christmas spirit but today has really been disheartening

And also it seems like a really meaningful relationship that she had, and one rooted in humanities - I think both of these also makes a huge difference. Some of the relationships some of these other billionaires *cough* horowitz *cough* had with non-white people really feels surface level.