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Posts by Aviel Mann Ballo
Ahhh how could I forget Superman! I'll have to check out Towering Inferno, and I'll admit to having not seen The Patriot yet 🫣
The Asteroid Field, Luke & Leia (the concert suite), The Magic of Halloween, Darth Vader's Death, Wild Signals, The Fathiers... those are up there. How bout you?
Surefire recipe to avert Bad Feels and nourish Good Feels all day long 🥰
Life is short. Listen to John Williams.
**mostly everything
The wild cultural overreaction in the wake of Kirk’s death looks increasingly bizarre the further we get away from it.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess
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Klingon goth: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO CRY
Klingon stockbroker: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO BUY
Worf placed his hand on Jay-Den’s shoulder.
“So too was my son,” Worf said. “Only I could not see it.”
Worf drank his blood wine. “I robbed him of the life he knew before his mother’s murder. I—forced upon him something that wasn’t his own.”
3/7
“As a child, I was robbed of my Klingon culture when my family was killed at Khitomer,” Worf explained. “I willed myself into the ways of our people, their food, their ancient stories, their—values.”
“I—tried to—embrace that life, as well,” Jay-Den said. “I am Klingon. Just—differently.”
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Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!
Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”
Damn 😔
Some Harvard students are getting clerkships before they finish their first semester... but only if they're conservative enough.
These people were not wrongly convicted.
There is no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
There is no reason to vacate these convictions.
Unless you are a convicted criminal president trying to rewrite the history of your coup attempt.
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
ONE MEAL A DAY. CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!!!
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4 frame street reporter comic. the reporter, off frame, asks someone waiting for the subway, with a dark long jacket, a gold and red scarf and round glasses : miss! any thoughts about the newest study showing that trans people's mental health deteriorates after starting gender-affirming treatment? she replies : kaltiala's paper didn't measure mental health deterioration. it measured how many trans people visited a psychiatrist after getting their diagnosis from the finnish gender clinic, which forces trans people to be screened extensively every 3-6 months during their treatment. this paper counts any visit to a psychiatrist, including when the patient is cleared of any issue, as a sign of "mental health deterioration". that metho- dological flaw is mentioned in the paper*, but that didn't stop any of these powerful anti-trans bigots to share it online. *erin in the morning : "Fact Check: New Finnish "Study" Does Not Prove "Trans Youth Care Leads To Worse Outcomes" *kehraaja.com (in Finnish)
Mental health care
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him
how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?
A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers