voyager, 'one small step.' top tier ep in the 'voyager nearly gets destroyed fucking around with an anomaly for no reason' genre

i love starting with "lots of strange reactions to this game" and following that up with the strangest reaction yet

Why would voters ever make a promise to a party. Why would that ever be the balance of power in anything but a cult.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

someone should have spoken up about how donald trump would be a bad president. but nobody did. and now, we pay the price...

can this be a solution?

centrist dems shaking in fear at the prospect of taking a single step to the left, sighing in relief when they see the tattoo. phew, he's only a nazi, we were worried for a minute there

i don't like that platner guy because a) nazi tattoo & b) if a genuine progressive was revealed to have a regretted nazi tattoo somehow they would be subjected to relentless attacks over it from places that're suspiciously quiet about platner. i consider that telling

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding.

She's a billionaire.

She doesn't care about "single mums".

www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

do you want to see the whole crew rushing from one high-stakes phaser fight to another? no. nobody wants to see that. we want to see bashir and o'brien playing darts

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

This is single handedly the funniest scene from any Star Trek

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? YouTube video by Folding Ideas

Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

the reverse flowers for algernon voyager episode where tuvok becomes friends with neelix after suffering brain damage

weak americans, us brits love some carrots, shoe soles & what the hell even is that other thing. a volcanic rock?

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

the tank from episode 2 of ghost in the shell: stand alone complex

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

it feels trite to say at this point but that would be murder & illegal & i'm pretty sure advocating for it is also illegal

my favorite early bluesky psychosis was when people thought big accounts were morally obligated to follow back smaller accounts

in one sense it would be amusing for the trump administration to find out very quickly just how much of its military depends upon components and materials provided by china, but i'd rather not live in that world

ha! yeah so we need you to fire on that chinese tanker. don't worry about it

I just don't understand how we've managed to get ourselves into a place where having a home - something I would have as a child seen as a baseline - is felt as an enormous position of privilege, something you spend half your life working for and still can only achieve with help or luck.

proclaimed

a little more media literacy & we can wonder why so often hollywood associates a proclaimed opposition to colonialism with moustache-twirling villainy, maybe

am i misreading this horribly or is just a very audacious lie

the migration observatory estimates that in 1998 migration to the UK (excluding british citizens) was 287,000 people. that's more people than the entire 1500 years preceding 1945? how? ~250k belgians came here during the first world war right? & that's just belgians

a claim from matt goodwin's new book that says "To grasp how radical a rupture this was, consider one fact. In each year after 1997, Britain experienced more immigration than it had during the combined 1,500 years between the Anglo-Saxons in the fifth century and the end of the Second World War."

what do we think about this claim. seems very wrong to me