Jane Espenson

Some assbutt thinks Trek fans are mostly male? The peace-loving, post-capitalist meritocracy, home to thoughtful morality tales in which cultural understanding is more likely to solve the problem than phasers? That Trek?!

The Star Trek thing (see previous RTs) pisses me off not just bc it's obviously wrong but bc it's based on a deep misunderstanding of Trek, the least macho SFF franchise in which everyone abandons greed and aggression in favor of problem solving while wearing bright primary colors

All right, I've done enough writing for today. Time to stare at a computer screen in an entirely different capacity.

i'm so tired i could sleep a horse

A Chorus Line

If you (or at least, I) try to check your TSA precheck status now, you get put in an infinite loop of verification - perhaps a shutdown effect?

ET

Good morning.

They literally run with a knife after they harvest the cabbage

Updating my LEGO White House

Fighter jets against the backdrop of a sky with the Idaho state flag and a quote that should say “everyone is an ally until they aren’t” but the spacing makes it look like it says “everyone is anally until they aren’t”

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

They got the jewels, but we have their ladder.

Me (not into sports): So I'm hearing that Cheri Oteri is playing some very good baseball lately?

Warm, sleepy, and full of noodles.

At airport security. Two pilots were discussing how their shoulder boards only sometimes trigger the metal detector. I said “Sounds like the machine has epauletsy.” Got a mild chuckle. Felt about right.

Whoever made this sign please dm me I’d like to send you a little love letter 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

#NoKings Miami!

A jar with Colorcoral on the lid, looking so much like Colorectal.

Bought this to clean my keyboard and it did a good job, but I swear, every time… colorectal.

Photo of a very cute protest pup with a tiny sign in the shape of a bone, with the words 'I POOP ON FASCISTS' on it

This sign @glopan.bsky.social spotted made me laugh

Aw! Thank you!!

Needs Harlem Shake music

Wait. I’ve encountered that guy I think. Overheard a man on his phone ordering slaw for takeout— he said “however much juice you think is too much, make it more than that.”

In the Handmaids Tale book, the main character’s name is never established.

....And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

Today, Billie-Joe McAllister jumped off the -

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Horrible little diagonal is, of course, art

But horrible little and horizontal is much better than horrible little and vertical

Location location location?