we can't, we don't know how

which ones do you recommend i use?

cropping. that's the kind of shit it is.

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i should rewatch Willow (2022). once i've finished rereading Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call.

2023 core

i wonder if this was from most writers being (cis) male? so they could easily get their head around the idea of embracing being a man, because who wouldn't want to be the better sex, but a downgrade? why would you be happy to be a woman?

wolves are far healthier than comparably sized dogs. we must redomesticate wolfdogs to improve the large breeds. with modern polygenic testing, shouldn't take longer than a couple of decades to get a healthy big dog.

ha! latecomer.

(alas my original account, created the 10th of april 2023, is... unavailable)

lmao i did this two years ago in the middle of summer, despairing over my dissertation on at 11pm on the campus lawn.

you know, i'm something of a big deal on bluesky myself

headcanon

lmao, remember the early days when a new wave came like twice a week and immediately insisted they were the first posters ever and the site was dead before them? good times, good times. until they started talking about hitting people with hammers at least.

system based problems require system based solutions. we need a platform built not as a plaza or bazaar, but as a network of courtyards and alleys that information can flow through via gates -- gates that can be shut without completely isolating your personal sphere.

picture of elora danan (willow, 2022) captionsed with a tweet: Nobody is doing it like me because this is probably not the right way to do it.

but consider:

if rubio stays quiet, perhaps he can escape if/when trump and vance are impeached. and we find out what happens if the speaker of the house and president pro tempore don't want the hassle of even temporarily being president.

i agree with criticism of anthropocentrism, but i am a strong defender of biocentric space settlement. there's only one known world with life, it's the most precious thing in the known universe... and we are the only ones who can make more such worlds.

those who oppose space settlement do not merely value rock and ice over humans, they value rock and ice over lions and tigers and bears and trees and birds and bees and guinea pigs and flowers and-

even if we terraform every planet, there will still be far more rock and ice than there will be life

the chee, what was their problem? they could have given the yeerks a non-violent alternative as cyborgs or something. the andalites *definitely* could have done so.

animorphs is hfy, because humans are the only even half way competent species in the whole galaxy and five kids beat 50k yeerks.

animorphs is a series that cries out for a ratfic (did anyone do this already?) (no i don't mean the david books)

i bet waterboarding would get a yeerk to leave. you just have to make it think the host is in mortal danger

rolling up the invasion would have been an sg-1 two parter

i read them and i just remember the yeerks being very dumb if unable to figure out who the "andalite bandits" were from the information they were broadcasting to the world

also wondering why no one engineered a subsapient animal host for them. like the isk'yoort.

banger.

oh are they going with "fire officers until you get a chain of command willing to relay unlawful orders"

you said "co-opted into a vanity project". elon is a True Believer in Interplanetary Technofascist Manifest Galaxy.

so long none of the new crew were alive when the last crew went. whole new generation.

fair point. one might expect the president to have been more attentive to america being great, but it's probably for the best he's not.

(i assume that's who they're talking about?)

how about this. we cut the military budget by 10%, and give $48B to social services and $48B to space exploration. we can even hire the same contractors, if the congressfolk insist we must.

well, they do if you use the mass driver to launch them...

turning history off and on again six years ago has had its downsides

but damn, it has its upsides too, and tonight we got to see that in a spectacular way

Godspeed, Integrity

"But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the open skies
And a single flag unfurled"

i mean, three men one woman is a pretty standard team of four for exploring other worlds right?

it's an american-canadian team and i've been bingeing a certain american-canadian scifi series lately, so my thoughts were towards a different three men one woman team of explorers...