And y'all know that it begins with a several-second lift of music from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet?
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Kansas. I like thinking about video games more than I like playing video games. EV Evangelist. Trekkie since 1987. He/Him. #StarTrek #electricvehicles #homeAutomation
The "Stealing the Enterprise" sequence from Star Trek III is still probably my all-time favorite bit of cinema.
Getting grammar advice from my first grader.
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
we have this but for vietnamese restaurants with the same name
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3w agoYour city is not a pizza city unless at least one restaurant has a complex generations-long family drama behind which locations are the good ones and which other seemingly distinct restaurant is actually the same one but owned by the children of divorced wife etc
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 4w agoHasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.
I don't understand why people saying "The thing we're building probably will kill us all inside of a decade" need to be our friends. They need to be imprisoned.
CalMatters@calmatters.org · 4w agoOpinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
STAR TREK premiered on NBC on this day in 1966.
"I posted years of information and photos of my kids to the data vortex, and now the data vortex knows these things about me! How could I have known?"
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@luizajarovsky.bsky.social · last mo.A 2-minute case study of what can go wrong at the intersection of AI and privacy, especially when children are involved:
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2mo agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
It took me forever to get through the post-Heavensward quests, but now that I'm into Stormblood, I have some momentum again. This shit is good. I love liberation stories. #ffxiv
A friend recently got a stent put in related to a kidney stone removal. My brother came up with this incredibly clever and useful mnemonic for remembering the difference between urethra and ureter that I have been laughing about all afternoon.
I think it's cool that fans rallied to change the name (and were listened to). But if they'd kept the original name Constitution and made the first space worthy shuttle Enterprise, that would have made the Enterprise Constitution class...
Spy Fi@spy-fi.bsky.social · 2mo ago49 years ago today on 12 August 1977, Enterprise conducted its first Approach and Landing Test (ALT), after detaching from the modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton safely landed on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards AFB.
sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon
There's a beautiful new JWST image today of the Lion Nebula, the link to which I'll drop in the second post. But something felt missing from the original image, which is why I photoshopped in this rad 1990s planar shockwave from when Praxis exploded #jobdone
Ralph Wiggums Simpsons
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Morgan Chilson@crazeywriter.bsky.social · 3mo agoCases of explosive diarrhea illness, caused by cyclospora organism found on some produce, doubled in Kansas between last week and this week. Though the state is still in normal numbers for the year, cases across the country are escalating rapidly. kansasreflector.com/2026/07/15/k...
remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket