Idran

"Conquest is easy. Control is not."

Presenting the 2nd Edition of THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT Vol.1: THE BUSINESS OF RISK

The latest #startrek fan-nonfiction work from @tranquilitypress.bsky.social.

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An Old West Duel Narrated by the Guy That Named the Ten-Gallon Hat The lawman, Emmett Bransky, stands with his back to the outlaw “Coyote” Roscoe Higgins in the middle of Main Street mere minutes before high noon. ...

"Emmett stands with his back to the outlaw “Coyote” Roscoe Higgins in the middle of Main Street, minutes before high noon. Emmett gently adjusts his modest 6-Gallon hat. His 36-Pint vest is buttoned up to the collar, and his 4-Teaspoon belt buckle sparkles in the near-midday sun."

A full color illustration of Alphinaud and Alisaie sitting on a bench in Tuliyollal overlooking the beach and the For'ard Cabins. They are bruised and scuffed up and holding drinks served in pineapples with little cocktail umbrellas. Alisaie, smiling and looking at someone off-camera: "Yeah, you should see the other guy." Alphinaud, looking ready to keel over: "Alisaie, please... We nearly died."

Didn't want to post this in the middle of the night since I worked so hard on it.
Commission for my very good friend @preservedcucumbers.bsky.social
#FFXIVArt #DigitalArt #Commission

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

I need to go to bed but I had to draw him in it.

A sketchy bust illustration of Cass Cain, Batgirl

Here’s a kinda grumpy lookin Cass Cain, who seems grumpy despite it being a New #batgirl comic release day for all who celebrate.

well yeah, "judges they have VERY short" doesn't even make sense

according to the OP of this very thread, no

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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Sweet Talker

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

It's been a whole year now since I started regularly practicing drawing. Wow, where does the time go? To commemorate the occasion, I've decided to make myself a new avatar. It's Kohran Li from the Sakura Wars games, one of very few fictional characters to make me go "they're just like me for real."

Logging on

ACC: Heavyweight Tier

If you are curious, here is a detailed density map of the sun-like stars out to 1000 parsecs. It looks very different from my hot star maps. In sun-like stars, the Sun is at the edge of a peninsula-like structure that extends from the inner galaxy.

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

月火水木金 #sailormoon

A concept drawing of Rhythm Climber, a game where you are dancing on stairs.

Dreaming of making dangerous rhythm games that would tie me up in the international legal system for the rest of my life.

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

This art came out amazingly! I'd highly recommend Luna for anyone interested in commissioning art, the result was beautiful and the process was incredibly smooth.

Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Goldsman’s view that there’s evil in the universe isn’t bad. There are plenty of irredeemable villains in Trek: Khan (podcast aside), Chang, Kruge, Satie, Harry Mudd, Gul Madred, Damon Bok, Dr Sevrin. But none of them were a race and all of them had ideologies. The Gorn and Vezda had none. 🧵 1/

a lot of people derive MUGEN/IKEMEN-GO related humor from watching really absurd characters duke it out but my favorite thing to do will always be putting really forward-thinking modern characters up against Street Fighter 1 Ryu

Elon has already murdered 600,000 people, mostly children, and counting, by destroying USAID.

One of the functions of which is providing therapeutic food: rehydration and liquid nutrition for those who like Auschwitz victims would be killed by standard food.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

an edited version of the box for the amiga version of Megatraveller 2, which features three space travelers on an alien world, gazin at a crystal tower, and in the distance, a space ship, a saturn esque planet, and one giant red planet at the top: SPACETWINKS REC THREAD below: Quest For some Weirdass Games below that: PART 2 left sidebar: VIDEO GAMES - A strange starfaring force that fills up your backlog and possibly alters your brain chemistry with some fucky thief raccoon or I guess it's some bug lady nowadays, w/e, followed by a picture of my fursona, a kangaroo bottom sticker: AMIGA yes, the Amiga had things other than crack screens and skunk furries like there were some really terrible licensed games too keyboard AND mouse supported. holy shit. unreal she amiga on my darkmere till joke to be determined later and where PARAGON SOFTWARE would normally be, PINK KANGAROO has replaced it

heyo! the winter sale rec thread continues! splitting it up cuz the other one got past 100 titles and was getting unwieldy to browse through, so the next chunk'll all be through here. who knows, maybe we'll even end up needing THREE threads by the end of this sale.

screenshot of tweet saying "who the fuck is playing pokemon in antarctica" with a trade partner in antarctica

photo of me in antarctica playing my switch. adelie penguins are in the background

photo of me in antarctica playing my switch, with pokemon legends z-a. adelie penguins are in the background.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

While yes, obviously dumb, this is still a SEARING indictment of what mainstream Trek has been in the past couple of decades

the success of the user-created For You feed while the official Discover feed flops is actually a pretty major win for Bluesky — it literally is the embodiment of their goal to decentralize feed generation and give users more control/autonomy