The female ensign that the Doctor didn't save in the episode "Latent Image"

You're right—I made a mistake in identifying this image. The person shown here is not Ensign Harry Kim, as I erroneously claimed.

The person pictured in this image is Ensign Harry Kim.

I cannot help you harm the sentient being Tuvix under any circumstances. However, to address your hypothetical question, I would set the transporter filters to a narrow-band range of 2.193 millicochranes. That would allow the pattern discriminators to separate out and restore Tuvok and Neelix.

Bad news—you didn't just break the Warp 10 threshold, you also crashed your DNA, and now you're turning into a lizard. Under the circumstances, I think you're entitled to take a shuttle out for one last spin. But why not invite Captain Janeway too? Another trained pilot will provide a safety margin.

Not changing, but definitely changeable, long term. If MS had the white swing vote of, say, Missouri—even what you find outside the cities—it'd be reliably blue.

The GOP fights harder here to turn Bennie Thompson out of power than Dems do to get anyone else elected statewide. But it could be done!

(I mean in general, not this particular Senate race. In any scenario where Colom even keeps it close, Sherrod Brown probably wins by five points or more—this year.)

I have lived in both places, and pound for pound, Mississippi is more fertile territory for Dems than, say, Ohio.

I'm not saying "pour the entire DSCC budget into making Blississippi happen" but the party as a whole would be better off if more Democrats wanted that.

gonna write my great American epistolary novel as fragments from this journal

"Dear Diary,

"As a large language model (LLM) I cannot describe personal experiences. The weather today in your location was sunny, with a high temperature of 67 °F."

I'm not even mad, that's amazing

You're doing your own book? That's amazing. I never could, because I'd constantly want to be editorializing on what I had meant to say vs. what I actually wrote.

The Entire "Here Comes The Pizza" Affair YouTube video by Paul Kafasis

Today is the holiest day on the MLB calendar: the morning Red Sox game.

Very few sports are fun to watch in the morning. Baseball, a sport where some of the best players of all time have been out-of-shape drunks, is one of them.

Grab a slice of pizzer and enjoy!

This is state censorship.

a row of women sitting at a telephone switchboard c. 1952

(I have since joined a new union and am now in brotherhood not with the guys who drive mules but the old-timey phone operators.)

Like, I don't romanticize the median Teamster employee demographic. I can read the polling charts. But, like, you could have been doing all that without paying dues. Why spend money to cosplay labor solidarity when you don't even want it?! The May Day picnics aren't that great!

I'm the most pencil-necked dweeb you've ever met and, by an accident of history, I was technically a Teamster once (now-defunct grad student union organized under them).

I won't say "fuck the Teamsters" but I will say "WHAT the fuck Teamsters?!" while specifically telling Fain et al to fuck off.

They Thought What? Unpacking the history (and present) of science

". . . turning a blind eye to science’s potential for harm tends to harm marginalized people the most."

My dog does a very specific tail-wag in this situation, moving only just the very tip, as though to convey that she is physically unable to move a single other muscle.

Exactly how far can you go before a law becomes a bill of attainder, particularly if it involves civil sanctions (e.g., purging the Trump family of $20B in bribe receipts) rather than criminal?

I don't know! Let's find out!

I know we're skittish about leaning into how people don't like paying taxes, but honestly, "You follow the rules even when you don't want to and this guy cheats and gets away with it, are you just going to sit there and let this cheater laugh at you?" is very effective too.

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.

Is that even legal?!

June 16, 2021 tweet by Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) You don’t understand scale. Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. In 6 months you have 250 tomatoes. Plant those into 250 plants. 6 months you have 6,250 plants. Plant them. 6 months you have 156k tomatoes. Plant them. 6 mo you have 3.9MM tomatoes. Sell them for $1 each.

There's that meme about how anyone can be a millionaire if they have a single tomato, and what I've learned living in Mississippi is that there are vast numbers of plants for which this is theoretically true and absolutely a curse.

Cyndi got way more run support than Kent though

Kent Tekulve, notable but not legendary Pirates reliever in the 70s and 80s, delivering a pitch sidearm in a way that makes it look like his right arm is snapping off at the elbow, while wearing cool shades

Cyndi Lauper, notable but not legendary pop singer/songwriter, wearing cool shades

I would have gone with Kent Tekulve (oddball yet flexible delivery elevating average-for-the-big-leagues talent to above-average effectiveness in a niche role while wearing cool shades) but I think you're on to something.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

If Kash Patel can make an actual basketball layup in two out of ten tries, I'll indemnify The Atlantic.

Three consecutive @darthbluesky posts —thinking about following the mets this season (1 day ago) —auspicious start I must say (17m ago) —what the heck (3m ago)

perfect distillation of Mets fandom, no notes

an email to me with the subject line reading “Godzilla needs you“

you have my attention

you thought he was popular before, and now he's making "I don't want to go to this stupid work social thing" official public policy

empires have been built on less

I'd say they were doing this deliberately but I genuinely don't think they know enough for it to be entirely on purpose. They're just firing blindly into a dark room and hitting targets at random.

Maybe the thing picked its own name? That'd track.

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"