Mike McMahan

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

Be gone, demon.

Got all my drafts in before the holidays. Hoping people don’t have time to give notes. Please let them be too busy.

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Rest in power, Chairman Fred!

Photo of the handmade Moopsy ornament on my Christmas tree. The ornament is a white paper cube with Moopsy’s face printed on the front and Moopsy’s feet printed on the sides.

An unfolded cube with Moopsy drawn on it in a way where when it is folded, it will look like a cube Moopsy. There is giant text saying “MOOPSY ORNAMENT” in the corner. The image has instructions on how to make it. Step 1 says to cut the unfolded cube out of the piece of paper. Step 2 says to fold it into a cube and put tape on the inside. Step 3 says to tape a hook onto the top of the ornament. It also says to cut around the frills.

Want a Moopsy on your tree but they don’t make Moopsy ornaments? No problem! My son made a DIY Moopsy ornament!

Images and video made by my 11-year-old son
#StarTrekLowerDecks #Moopsy #MoreLowerDecks

A female ref shirt skeleton presides over other skulls with a phaser in her hand, art by Chris Shehan, cover to STAR TREK: RED SHIRTS #5

Today the finale of STAR TREK: RED SHIRTS hits with Issue #5.

I’m so proud of this book, and it’s (intense!) twist ending.

This also marks my last STAR TREK comic after 2 years and 9 months of ongoing issues… It’s been a sheer joy.

I owe @heatherantos.bsky.social the world(s—brave & new)…

I tried do learn all of these season one and then I was like “wait, what am I doing”

Easy mode

a cartoon of two aliens shaking hands with a hulu logo in the corner Alt: Korvo and Terry dancing together

Yes! Solar Opposites is coming to Netflix UK on 15 December. Finally, another @mikemcmahan.bsky.social masterpiece to watch. It won't make up for the loss of Lower Decks, but it'll help.

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

“Ryan North” already sounds like a 90s movie starring Adam Sandler as Santa‘s kid who tries to cancel Christmas because he’s sick of not getting attention from his dad.

The day after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination, Patel reportedly refused to disembark from the FBI jet in Utah without an FBI raid jacket. Agents working on the Kirk case were sent scrambling to find one, and when they did, it was a female jacket. He reportedly threw a fit when he saw the sleeves were missing Velcro patches. Patel refused to leave the plane until he got the missing patches, which ended up being taken off the jackets of actual SWAT team members.

Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.

Everyone should also use alt text because the captions are often very funny AND they help explain inside jokes—or even obvious jokes!—that morons like me can then understand and feel included ❤️

Top view of the USS Cerritos model from Fanhome

Side view of the Fanhome USS Cerritos model

EEEEEE Happy early Xmas to meeeeee

(Actually a belated birthday gift but)

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Lower Decks is my absolute favourite of all the "new generation" Star Treks so having this is such a treat!

Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”

Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Use AI for stuff like this! More cancer research and unpacking old SETI data and less replacing artists, writers and workers.

Ok y’all, recs for small shops that make Lower Decks merch good for sticking stuffers? Please and thank you.

maybe i am going insane

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Punk/Metal Christmas by Molly Hodgdon on Apple Music Playlist · 37 Songs

If anyone's interested, here's my punk/metal Christmas playlist on apple music. I'm downright giddy playing for the first time of the year tonight. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Dr. Crusher, in her blue Doctor's uniform, stands at a food replicator station. She looks pissed, but like quiet controlled pissed not wild crazy pissed. Closed caption reads, "Computer, deactivate food slot."

Dungeons & Dragons player rule book from the 80's redraw as the Bat'leths & Bihnuchs RPG Klingon game from Star Trek Lower Decks. Procreate illustration that shows a giant red orange and yellow snake, over a bed of molten lava with its mouth wide open fighting a Klingon warrior holding a bat'leth, with his leg sticking out the frame and rocks all around him. All in a red-ish background and off white text Text says "Bat'leths & Bihnuchs" in the classic 80's D&D font, and "ghetmeH Quj" (fantastical game for the purpose of role-playing) "vey wa'"(set one) and "taghwl' pabmey'" (beginners rules) in Klingon pIqaD There's a Klingon trefoil symbol at the very bottom

Dungeons & Dragons in the original Klingon #StarTrek

The best, I get so much work done. Like having a lender brain for a while.

NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...