If humanity ever does make it into the final frontier, his will be one of the great legacies that got us there
Kate Hamill
@katehamill.bsky.social
Actor, playwright, screenwriter, angry little feminist; wild-eyed Sriracha apologist. Abortion access is a human right. www.kate-hamill.com
patrick stewart more than maybe anyone else showed that you can take science fiction seriously on screen, that it can be profound and meaningful and that just because you're on a spaceship doesn't mean it's a joke I am tremendously grateful to him for that
Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online · 15h agoPatrick Stewart, a trained Shakespearian, could have treated Star Trek as something hokey, which it kind of is, but instead brought those skills to make it something bigger than it was on paper and set. I’ll keep this monologue with me, and so many other moments, forever. Thank you, Sir Patrick.
I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.
Fresh out of college, when I was a lowly assistant’s assistant at a TV movie company, I encountered Patrick Stewart, and as a Trekkie throughout my teens, I was very nervous & excited, & he couldn’t have been lovelier or more gracious. RIP to our Captain
Dolores Huerta was a moral force whose commitment, skill, and perseverance gave life to the truth of the Farm Workers’ chant: “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!”
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d agoBREAKING: Dolores Huerta, labor rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, dies at 96.
Behold - the play that’s been eating my brain for 5+ years, THE JANES, based on the story of the radical feminist abortion access group that operated from 1968-1972. First public reading at ART Nov 9, May Adrales directing… and tix are free. Get ‘em at americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events...
The Janes Reading
The Janes by Kate Hamill is a brand-new play inspired by the Jane Collective, the radical feminist group that defied the law to perform 11,000 illegal abortions between 1968 and 1972 in Chicago.
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When I say they're running on pure Islamophobia against Abdul, you need to see this shit to believe it
Don't hate the player, hate the larger infrastructure within which the player operates, which both facilitates and rewards the behaviors associated with players.
he saw an ottoman in the crowd and lost his train of thought it happens
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoJD Vance tries to say Kansas but it comes out "Sexus"
Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.
Micah@rincewind.run · 5d agochat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek
Cheesecake Factory corporate headquarters this morning.
Full Starfleet honors. RIP Walter.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
incredible thread on how refusing to fight transphobia weakens the left
Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev · 4d agoIt is, ultimately, damaging your ability to accomplish things long term or to win elections long term because you assume that you can't change the framing of the conversation even though changing the framing is a tool that's right there for you to grasp. It's incompetence. Malpractice.
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
Eat it, fascists! "At Bolsonaro’s headquarters in Brasília, the silence has been deafening since Lula retook the lead over the senator."
Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
It’s a subject that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and calling them corrupt and evil is easier. But the truth is that Republicans have a rape problem—one that they celebrate.
penbucket.bsky.social@penbucket.bsky.social · 6d agoExtraordinary. I can't believe your story may be the first time the Republican's acceptance of the rape and abuse of woman and children has been spoken of in such clear terms... considering how goddamn long it's been going on.
I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 6d ago“The sheriff said that all three would be interviewed in coming days. He is waiting for medical records from Ms. Miley’s trip to the emergency room, he added, to determine whether her injuries were severe enough to warrant felony charges instead of misdemeanors.”
You can have children that have enough nutrients to be learners or you can have billionaires. You can’t have both.
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 7d agoAbout 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.
In 1972, a group of Harlem Renaissance cultural icons gathered at Duke Ellington's house. The afternoon was captured on 16mm film by William Greaves, but the footage remained unedited in a vault for 50 years until David Greaves restored his father's project, releasing the documentary it 2026.
A student protestor says "Lock up the r*pists, not the minors!" October 2026
New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:
Vivek Ramaswamy and the Grand Old Rape Party
As Election Day closes in, the party's values have never been more clear.
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