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Drottningen var jättecharmig. Tyvärr har jag inga bilder.

For grins and giggles. me and two other Swedish students started the Swedish Student Society at Princeton in the mid-1980s and I was its president. When the king and queen of Sweden visited New Jersey in 1988, I was invited to a luncheon held in their honor and was seated at the queen's table.

I saw this earlier today, and totally believed it, because it seemed so consistent with Microsoft Office having gone to a subscription model and aggressively pushing Copilot in all its products. How long until AI crashes an airplane? A space station? Starts a war?

Dude. I hope she is cleared to return home soon. 💙

We got another 6-8 cm of snow last night, unfortunately followed by a thin layer of freezing rain. Looks beautiful, but a pain to shovel. Forecast is for 11° C today. Friday we're getting a mix of snow, rain, sleet, and freezing rain.

This is one of the things I love the most about cities in Sweden. There are walking and bike paths *everywhere* (these are all in Stockholm).

New dice, who dis? 🖖 #StarTrekAdventures

Oldie, but goodie. #StarTrekOnline

Everything in this picture is class.

Make sure to pick up a souvenir (available at the cashiers).

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Happy 🎂-day!

Happy birthday, you legendary creature! 🎉

Pictures from a 10+ km crosscountry ski outing this morning. The forecast today is for warm temperatures up to 11° C, so I went at 7:30 am while the trails were still in good shape from last night's freeze. Went from icy to soft trails over the span of two hours, but my skis did great.

Higher Education and the Opportunity Gap | Brookings For children from low-income families, a college degree is a good way to move into the middle class, but opportunity is still linked too strongly to class—too many low-income students drop out before ...

This is also true for Ivy League universities, but in this case I tend to agree with the person you are responding to: It's not the tuition that's the issue, but parental education, educational resources, and access to better schools for high-income earners:
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I just checked and my childhood bus line still exists (Greater Stockholm Local Transport bus line 740). The end stations are different, but the sections that we would ride are still a part of it.

Thanks for the memories!

Intressant att hon slänger in en bild på Trump som symbol för allt som är fel med toppen av samhällspyramiden.

Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

The Department of Defense new anti-drone technology has proven itself: It shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone in Fort Hancock, Texas today.
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We await your ascension.

Certificate of authenticity with a piece of fabric used to depict space in the background of the Ten Forward lounge in Star Trek: Next Generation.

Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation S3E18 "Allegiance", depicting a doppelgänger of Jean-Luc Picard approaching crew members at a table in the Ten Forward lounge.

I'm now the owner of a bit of the Alpha Quadrant shown in the Ten Forward lounge windows in Star Trek: The Next Generations. Sadly, my piece does not have any of the Mylar used for stars, but the Kickstarter was completely transparent that most pieces would not. Space is, after all, mostly space. 🖖

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Me, a Shingrix vaccine recipient.
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Favorite: The Voyage Home

Least: The Final Frontier

Having said that, I have some uncommon takes:

- I love Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Despite not liking The Final Frontier, Sybok was great.
- The Wrath of Kahn ranks nowhere near the top for me.
- I enjoyed Nemesis.

Fire photon torpedoes. 🖖

I love that you've suppressed the name. It's "The Final Frontier" (sorry).

YouTube video by Posters Madness Poster's Madness Rat King Special

Come join www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBf..., where all the cool kids are hanging out.

This is the only post from the State of the Union that I will amplify.

Thank you for voting. 💙

These are brilliant (and if it turns out they were done using AI, I am going to be devastated).

My favorite.

Kassa Kassasson har det inte lätt.

Absolutely fair.