incubator
The thing about augments in Star Trek is that, of course, you shouldn't prosecute or discriminate against people based on something their parents decided for them. The way Julian, the Jack Pack, and Una are treated by Starfleet and The Federation is unequivocally wrong.
But. In the real world, genetic augmentation and eugenics are tools of genocide, racism, and ableism. So playing around with the idea of it, and especially having multiple protagonists be victimized by the ban on augmentation- thus framing the ban in a negative light- is incredibly delicate and I don't think any of the writers rooms have enough people of color and disabled people in them to handle the topic with the nuance it desperately needs.
cats are NOT making biscuits you DO NOT knead biscuit dough or else it will be TOUGH they are making BAGELS or perhaps a SANDWICH LOAF
HAPPY CAPTAIN PICARD DAY!!!
Captain Picard Day is celebrated on June 16th because it is the equivalent date to Stardate 47457.1, mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode entitled The Pegasus. In that episode, Captain Picard Day is an occasion for the Enterprise to host schoolchildren and show them what Starfleet is like.
HAPPY CAPTAIN PICARD DAY!!!!!!!
Found another idiotic accounting mistake from my predecessor that I have to fix and I was like "WILL THE SPECTER OF THAT MAN'S INCOMPETENCE EVER CEASE TO HAUNT ME" and my coworker was like "Why do you talk like that"
I, THE DRIVER BEHIND YOU AT THIS STOPLIGHT, HAVE DEDUCED THAT YOU COULD HAVE THREADED THAT LEFT TURN BETWEEN THOSE TWO CARS IF YOU FLOORED IT BEARING 92° SOUTH AND CAUGHT THE WIND.
HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK
I am not a fan of all those lists of “untranslatable words” but I don’t believe that there is a translation of the word that can be as satisfying as “Feierabend” itself. One of the best German words. Incredibly good. 12/10. Everyone should feier their abend.
When I was working in Germany for a bit my coworkers kept telling me “have a good party tonight!” when the day was over because they thought they were being nice translating for me, and I had to explain that that does Not mean the same thing in English. It was very funny.
@polyglot-noodle it literally translates to “party evening” but describes the time of day after having finished work. No matter at what time your shift finishes and if you are only going to lie on your couch watching netflix after that, your coworkers will wish you a nice party evening. It’s also incredibly satisfying to close your work laptop and just exclaim “party evening!!!” to announce the end of your work day. The english language is really missing out.
Most Jedi during Order 66: *dies immediately*
Ahsoka: *avoids hurting the clones as much as possible while escaping*
Yoda, the mad lad:
"On a 72 kill-streak I am. Much XP I have earned. About to level up I am."
okay so making a donation post makes me genuinely anxious as hell but i've been told by many friends that i should, so here we go i guess??? long story short, i've been sleeping on the floor of my formerly abusive mother's office, and while that worked for a while, it seems like shit might break down because she wants my grandmother to move in, which will be a shitshow if it happens because she's horrifically a homophobic, transphobic, racist gusano. i don't think i'll *die* if i don't get help, but my stress levels are already kinda high as hell. i got a van for me to live out of if it gets too bad, but it needs front end work before i can even really drive it at all, and i got the money for that from borrowing from family, who want me to pay back $800 per month (which i think i can technically swing??? it'll just be really close and i'm probably going to have to sell some of my possessions) If you can help, i'd greatly appreciate it
shoutout to my hometown for banning intersex genital mutilation! the government has also implemented a medical board to oversee medical processes for intersex folk, with a mandate that this board include people with "lived experience". this is a great step forward, and I hope that the rest of Australia will follow!
you can find out more here:
I encourage my fellow Australians to look into similar movements in your state/territory! A Gender Agenda is doing some great work in the ACT at the moment, but if you're in another part of Australia, I'll point you towards Intersex Human Rights Australia for all your intersex activism needs!
The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:
- the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
- That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
- oh, that hurt
- I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
- the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
- on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
- I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
- The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
- God.
- for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
- it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”
as a person who is both trans and intersex, it is incredibly heartbreaking and enraging to see the way transphobic legislation harms both my communities. The bill that just got passed in the house in Idaho, HB 675, specifically has an exception that states that genital mutilation needs to continue to be allowed for intersex children. It makes me fucking furious because these types of bills that ban gender affirming care for trans youth also explictly promote nonconsensual treatment and surgery for intersex youth. It is fucking despicable how much they hate both of us and how willing they are to ignore our bodily autonomy.
All the right wing arguments about how lifesaving transition is “mutilation” and “sterilizing kids?” In the United States, the people that are actually getting targeted with genital mutilation and nonconsensual hormones are intersex kids, not trans kids. And right wing governments promote and encourage this when it comes to intersex kids.
As someone who has actually, legitmately dealt with being forced onto HRT (I’m a trans intersex guy who was forced onto estrogen,) it makes me fucking sick to see conservatives using my actual trauma, my pain, to deny trans youth the lifesaving healthcare that they need. They have no right to talk about genital mutilation and nonconsensual HRT while they’re pushing policies that work to eradicate both trans and intersex youth.
And on a smaller scale, I have to admit it does pain me a bit when I see my trans siblings arguing against these bills by saying stuff like “No one has ever gotten forced onto HRT” or “no one is performing surgery on kids.” It’s true that this is not what’s happening for trans kids, considering how hard it is for trans youth to access any care, but I promise you that this is routinely happening to intersex kids. And it is vital that more people are aware about it because the text of these bills affect us both–both trans and intersex youth are under attack and have been for a long fucking time. Erasing the trauma that intersex youth are going through does not help either of us win liberation.
As you’re fighting for trans rights, please be aware of how this directly targets intersex youth as well and include intersex people in your activism. Solidarity is so, so crucial.
I really like science fiction (Star Trek Enterprise) because it can fulfill the boldest dreams of our better future (the Americans using the metric system)
it’s so stupid that you can’t think your way out of the mental health trenches. like you can know exactly what is wrong, why it’s upsetting you, and you can walk yourself through all of it logically and Understand it but your brain just responds like
clammy ganon will become a fixture to my vocabulary now. excellent
sometimes your owns against homo/transphobes arent funny enough to warrant consciously reminding me that people hate me for immutable characteristics about myself
gonna call in a shitter like it's a medevac helicopter and I'm a wounded GI in the jungles of Vietnam
imagine getting in one of these and sitting down and a few seconds later you feel it lift off the ground
too busy imagining one of these malfunctioning and raining shit from the sky onto the populace
dave matthews band drone warfare
This is how Elvis got to heaven
Americans be like: My grandpa 😠😠😠 served in the Korean War 😠😠😠 and killed 9 people 😠😠😠 to fund his college degree in clownery 😠😠😠 Respect him or leave the country 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
originalzipperalmondrebel
That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem😁then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off
peteseeger
How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country
zanabism
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Happy Memorial Day
Specifically, to “swash a buckler” referred to the act of pounding a buckler (small shield) against one’s own chest as a sort of macho display.