gubbwerks.bsky.social
Queer Trekkie Old Dude on a strange and difficult path.
I practice Buddhism because I'm terrible at it.
Autistic as hell.
I love humans, all of them, but humanity is a constant disappointment.
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*blinking*
whu...
Hm.
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I mean...yes. You have indeed named three useless neoliberal centrists, who have done more fundraising than fighting back. I'm not sure if that was your intent, though.
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Oh no, cut to the quick by your wit!
No, wait, I'm fine. Better a weirdo than a nothing.
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Your sad centrist neoliberalism is so contrary to your overdramatic account header that I can't decide whether to disdain you or be delighted by your dramatic irony.
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Oh Billiam, why can't you be more of an utterly ineffective centrist? 🙄
Believing in defending basic human rights at all costs is just as bad as fascism and that person is very smart.
Also I am a 3,000-km-diameter jellyfish and invented hair.
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"Oh, you like a rich, fully realized Old World with tons of detail but nothing to bog you down? Too bad, here's seven thousand decks of cards and a bunch of wonky-ass dice we cribbed from our ill-fated Star Fights game."
2nd was perfect.
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ALL HAIL KING TORG!
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We're all just waiting for our next ticket to the opera.
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It is a DISASTER.
But there is now an official Savage Worlds conversion that works quite well, and allows you to use all of the bat-guano multidimensional space mutant cyborg drug-addict dog-people psychics Rifts excels at without needing a maths degree.
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Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu (of course)!
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I swear to Betsy I will slap them with a signed photograph of Buddy Cole.
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Round Midnight, Thelonius Monk (Blue Note)
Solar Wind, Shadowfax
And She Was, Talking Heads
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It only takes once. I see a hashtag or a compounded phrase or something ONCE and read it wrong, and I know that it will be decades of convincing my powerful-yet-wrong tism brain that NO that is not what it says.
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The Devil's Machine (2019); dir. Lawrie Brewster.
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I can respect that. Me, I ride that Heraclitean flux and just take the beans as they come.
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That's not a fear; that's an inevitability.
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Their merch department has been kind of a trash fire for months now.
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I didn't like either of them, but I remember reading 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' and enjoying it so I may not be a person at all.
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No, the colonial-imperialist state that is committing genocide is to blame. Equating that state with the Jewish people is the height of anti-semitism.
The population of Israel isn't even a majority of the world's Jews. They do not get to assume the position of spokesperson for the Jewish people.
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Chekhov, pointing: "Say this."
Uhura: "What does it mean?"
Chekhov: "'You motherless child of a neutered targ, I will drink you under the mountain.' It's pithier in the original Russian, though."
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I'm convinced that, since Twinings stopped making Lapsang souchong, none of the Brits do. It was just a bit to cover up for the Triangular Trade and pushing opium, and now they don't know how to admit it.
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No. Neither is Israel, but no.
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Oh no, I intended that pun.
#MYPUNMYSAVE
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Awesome. Just awesome.
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I'm picturing you at a corkboard with a bunch of headshots on it, holding notecards that read "doofus; nasal; high-pitched" or "breathy; low pitched..."
I know that Mitch dived for our sins, but we love you, too.
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Big "the only winning move is not to play" vibes lately.
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Are you going to actually do anything, or just use this as a fundraising ad?
I mean, we know what you're going to do: nothing, and then send out panicked bot emails at the midterms begging for campaign money to stop the things you have never, ever tried to stop. Coward.
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Like I always say, "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father."
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I always assumed that it was wax that they *used,* since they have shells and are beastfolk. Like how surfwax doesn't come from boards... But now I'm both uncertain and concerned.
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I mean, his closest friend (apart from our boy), pressed to get him a significant birthday gift, got him...reading glasses. Which we see him using, frequently.
Pop-culture has really swapped a lot about Kirk and Picard.
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This always annoyed me about Picard. It felt out of place in his character.
I always thought that it should have been a pulp adventurer, like Adèle Blanc-Sec, Tintin, or Nyctalope; that always seemed to be how he wished to see himself (i.e. Vash).
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You underestimate my theater kidness. But I agree with you that we are a bit spoiled.
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I'd be thrilled if it was in the hands of someone (like you!) that experienced the same situation as S&S.
At this point, however, I'd even be a little happy if someone just tried to, you know, have any nuance about it *at all.*
(I'm going to rewatch those Fleischer cartoons now.)
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Understand that I say this fully, basso profundo, deep inhalation and perfect posture:
STILL?!?!
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I can't speak to this experience apart from as a queer dude, but yeah. The "real person" is when he gets to be Superman Kent without needing to be SUPERMAN. (Same goes for Batman, actually: never more himself than out of the suit but still speaking as the Bat.)
It is tricky to navigate.
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There are still companies that make analog, closed-circuit systems that can record locally or transmit by wire. It's more of a pain to set up, I think, but probably worth it for the security.
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That's what I was thinking of: Erie versus trips to Ocean City. Erie feels...like it's name, I guess.
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(I didn't mean that pun.)
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As I said to someone else recently, Trek can never die, because it's never alone.
Paramount, though, is like a corpse-studio; all of their decisions are either gas escaping or ambient electricity bleeding off.
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I'm highly thalassolphilic so I don't get the first part but I can conceptualize the height of a single coast with the "wrong" layout. The brain wants to put it in a certain angle and geometric sequence ('ocean, coast, horizon') and it doesn't fit that.
Like a geographic uncanny valley.