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See also, Rick Steves
The future of making sure you don’t leave this guy alone with your drink
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
Best low-key weed addict celebrities
- Louie Armstrong
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Harrison Ford
we'd like you to think of the surveillance state as less of a prison panopticon and more of a photo album assembled by a guy who hides in your house
Currently Reading: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky, On the Calculation of Volume Book Four by Solvej Balle and After the Flood by Robert Polito
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
The Enterprise D.
The title card for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard.
#TrekADay
It's time to go even further into the future with Staaaaaaaaar Trek The New Class.
A show with what can only be called a troubled birth and a wide regarded as terrible first season, but that was immediately a massive hit. Largely because Patrick Stewart can say any old crap well.
The individual 4K release of Star Trek VI, showing the theatrical poster in a black boarder.
A quote on the back of the box reading "A Bird of Prey cannot fire when she's cloakrd"--Scotty.
#TrekADay
It's the end of an era with the 25th anniversary film that nearly didn't happen!
I'd like to shout out the simple yet elegant "Boarder to create a uniform set, around the poster art" 4K sleeve. Other classic films series could learn from this.
Who the hell picked the quotes, though?
Man The Pitt takes no prisoners when it comes to health-related woo
Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.
Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol
Palantir is also claiming in this same statement that Germany went too far in constructing its postwar identity around guilt for the Holocaust, which is the exact narrative that the German far-right is running on and winning in elections.
that ones just a normal bear. get it out of here
What band and/or artist are we mad about today?
Nothing is holding you back from doing your worst
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position
Suddenly it is another day and everything keeps happening.
It's official, I'm about to go from qualifying for public service loan forgiveness in the next 4 years, to paying off my student loans in 2055. Under a Republic controlled government all of my qualifying repayment plans for student loan forgiveness would start at $900 a month.
Baby born at Miami International Airport given extremely appropriate name (MIAMI, Florida) The baby, born June 20, was named Unincorporated Area In Miami-Dade County.
life is beautiful
I caught this bullshit on the radio and couldn’t believe they were airing it. Fucking npr, man.
He's pretending to be shocked that his "comedy" of punching down on "alphabet ppl" is used by Republicans to target them. He whines that he's being persecuted by the left but he's just a joaks guy & not hurting anyone. Ain't no amount of $ gonna buy back the JK Rowling of Comedy's soul. GFY Dave.