tymon

This is an absolute nightmare scenario

HALLELUJAH

The Tholians are at the top of my list. I was absolutely thrilled when it seemed that ENT was going to properly examine them; it’s a huge shame they never got the chance. STO tried to tackle them, but they were heavily limited by the bounds of canon.

A very close second - though they’ve definitely gotten more love since ENT - are the Andorians. My biggest problem with Trek’s portrayal of the Federation is that it’s very much a Humans Club. At best, it seems like the Four Founders are really the Humans, their babysitters the Vulcans, and the two jerks they found.

Would love to dig in more on the political realities of the balance of power between Earth, Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar.

This is a pretty dogshit take, homie.

She’s really good at the whole Cartoon Villain thing

Life is only getting worse for pretty much everyone, all the time, so yeah, that makes sense.

You too can be a Cracker

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Maybe they could all try a submersible? Nice and compact, doesn’t take up much space, will kill them, etc

I’M A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY

Honeybees moved into my backyard recently. I guess they somehow attract a lot of different wildlife in some mysterious way, because we now have cardinals, blue jays, possums, chipmunks, and marble lizards living back there too.

For context, I live in Ridgewood Queens, so this feels absolutely insane. Loving every second of it but god damn

Lots of top-quality dumb news this week

Trying to constantly remind myself that none of us are immune to propaganda, and that it would be really easy for this scenario to be misrepresented as a clean-sweep against the Russian military. Wagner’s def gonna cause serious problems but I’d frankly be shocked if this ended with a successful coup or any meaningful change

This is gonna get so fucked up.

Over in c/asklemmy, someone asked for advice on how to not poop for three days, and it seems to have officially become The First Lemmy Meme

“I won’t be pooping for the next three days”

Capitalist media only cares about sexy tragedies and expensive dangers. Focusing on 500 poors gasping their last breaths far from view only serves to remind viewers of how unfair things are on a basic level - and that threatens power.

The thing is, I’ve ***never ***seen such an overwhelmingly bored response from the general public to a Sexy Tragedy like this before. The only person in my life who expressed any iota of distress over the Titan is my dear mother, but she cried when we dropped off our old TV at Goodwill, so.

People are, I think, getting a little bit harder to trick with the song-and-dance of the hyper-rich dying in outstanding ways.

“When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways… This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor. When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.” - Pearl S. Buck

So that they have stuff to throw at Paramount+ execs.

Seriously though I’ve heard explanation like internal-ablative armor thrown around before; better to have the bridge crumble here and there than snap in half and dump everyone into Sagitarrius-A