I guess there must've been a trademark issue, because otherwise it seems like it should've been a slam dunk to rename the Minnesota North Stars to the Dallas Lone Stars
06.03.2026 07:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@phoebebarton.bsky.social
Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com
I guess there must've been a trademark issue, because otherwise it seems like it should've been a slam dunk to rename the Minnesota North Stars to the Dallas Lone Stars
06.03.2026 07:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0clearly they need to release a prequel in 2027, then
06.03.2026 03:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0in all the years I spent in school I never had a classroom with an angled ceiling. so infuriating!
06.03.2026 03:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the first time I was in the UK it was when Teenage Mutant *ahem* Hero Turtles was on the air and I'm actually thankful for that because it prepared me for how fucking ridiculous that place is
06.03.2026 02:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Role-play"? You mean porn performers dressed like knights? That is the "unsavoury" element - why would anyone want to emulate fighting with swords? Stopping people playing D&D protects kids by stopping the idea that fighting with swords is somehow okay. It's just grim.
06.03.2026 02:54 β π 25 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0wouldn't that same logic demand that the UK criminalize D&D, because why would anyone want to emulate stabbing people with swords, and that stopping people playing it would protect kids by stopping the idea that fights with swords are somehow okay?
06.03.2026 02:51 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
i have to wonder what it's like on the bus that leaves Union Station at 2:30 in the morning and gets into Hamilton at 4:10
i lack the energy to see it for myself
They have to learn it from somewhere
06.03.2026 02:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Heathcliff and a crowd of cats walk down the streets, all with DUDE-branded accessories. Some cats are wearing DUDE tee shirts, some wear DUDE helmets, and many of them hold DUDE signs and balloons. They're all cheering, excited about being dudes. Two birds watch from a nearby tree, and one says "The bro rally was bigger."
04 Mar 2026
05.03.2026 18:42 β π 546 π 160 π¬ 4 π 14Germany is one of the great environmental criminal states of the modern age
06.03.2026 00:56 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0"So, you didn't build nuclear power stations. You screwed up. You know what you did was wrong, the question is how are you going to make things right?"
06.03.2026 00:44 β π 28 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0what the fuck do you mean that the original Leeroy Jenkins video was first posted TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO
06.03.2026 00:26 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0and here I thought that Star Trek episode with a bridge from Toronto to, apparently, Rochester was ridiculous; no, it was just anticipating Ford completely unchained
06.03.2026 00:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, βKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Trainβ
Screaming
05.03.2026 22:00 β π 12591 π 2677 π¬ 181 π 142
whenever I see writers talking about all the requests for free labour they get, I think two things
1) how DARE those jerks ask writers for free labour
b) how DARE those jerks only ask prominent writers for free labour, when there are so many less prominent writers with bandwidth to reject them
tired: a Firefly reboot
wired: an Anachronox series
don't tell me that Nathan Fillion wouldn't be a perfect Boots
that's what my doctor does!
05.03.2026 22:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0imagine what Bluesky's version of the Leper's Colony would look like
05.03.2026 22:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1inside of a year they'll be extolling the virtues of cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
05.03.2026 21:38 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0one reason I'm interested in visiting Hokkaido is that it allows a look into the sort of conclusion that Canadian colonizers tried and failed to enact here, like a perpendicular road thankfully not taken
05.03.2026 19:35 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wonder how many people ardently arguing that Argentina has a right to the Falklands would also argue that Hokkaido is rightfully Japanese and Tibet is rightly Chinese, or is imperialism only bad when Anglos do it
05.03.2026 19:32 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0the Laconia incident is likewise a standout example of why attacking protected symbols is a war crime, because it very much did encourage the Axis to not give a fuck about rescuing survivors of ships they sank
05.03.2026 18:22 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
a note: the Third Reich actually did do this, *but* they started doing it after the USAAF attacked German and Italian submarines attempting to rescue the survivors of RMS Laconia
Look up the Laconia incident
how does that work, you ask? it's as simple as the shithead argument that people living in the general area of a land, but not on that land, makes that land those people's land"
if the Falklands are Argentine because they're in the same general area, then surely that logic holds elsewhere, right
even more hilarious when it's such shitty logic that it could easily be replaced with "the Maori are evil colonizers because they stole Aotearoa from the Aboriginal Australians"
05.03.2026 17:59 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0hell yeah fellows Falklands discourse is BACK
05.03.2026 17:58 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0but also the WHY WON'T YOU LUDDITE LEFTISTS GIVE AI A CHANCE motherfuckers need to get dropped in the ocean
05.03.2026 17:25 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0"tax exiles" is a weird way to say "tax dodgers"
05.03.2026 17:40 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1A black and white cat is inside a cat carrier. His paw is reaching toward the mechanism to open the carrier's door.
today he has a vet appointment and he is attempting a jailbreak
05.03.2026 15:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0though I do find it humourous when alternate history YouTubers refer to Hitler as "Mustache Man" to avoid demonetization
05.03.2026 14:56 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0