Jocelyn, Mistress of Numbers

Good. Tariffs don't work the way this administration would like you to believe they do.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I'm glad y'all were finally able to meet up. Hopefully the meet ups continue.

I've always loved Fox Trot. It's the only comic that I have multiple books of.

*takes off my glasses*

Welcome to Frid-

*puts my glasses back on because I can't see*

Welcome to Friday! I would love to hear about your good news for the past week. I will, of course, start us off. My good news is that there's been sun this past week. It was sorely missed.

The Future of 'Star Trek' Comics Is Ready for a New Next Generation (Exclusive) Welcome Captain Seven of Nine aboard the 'Enterprise' with IDW's new 'Star Trek' comic.

At last I can talk about it! I'm writing a Star Trek comic!!!!

All I can tell you right now is it takes place several years after the end of Picard. And it stars Captain Raffi Musiker working with a giant positronic brain to protect the Federation from future threats!

gizmodo.com/star-trek-id...

This post brough to you by said town moving to permanently adopt a two-way traffic flow that they've been testing out for the past three years. Those streets were originally one-way.

I live in a relatively small town (about 15,000 residents) and I'm always surprised that all everyone does it gripe about the changes made to the town.

I have my gripes too, but the way people talk about them on Facebook makes me concerned sometimes.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I got invited to participate in a one shot of Changeling: The Dreaming. The GM was like, let me get you a chatgpt summary of the world.

My dude, I'm gonna be a half-fae fighting against a force called Banality and you want to hit me with some AI summary? Get out of here with that.

If it was really the all-powerful amazing technology they constantly tell us it is, they'd just go off and use it and not spend so much time, money, and effort trying to force us to use it, too.

Star Trek Phase 2 logo, recreated by me. The Motion Picture-style treatment is my own take; a more faithful recreation is posted below.

An early promotional version of the Star Trek Deep Space Nine logo, recreated by me.

1994 Playmates logo for 'Star Trek The Next Generation: The Movie'

1994 Playmates logo for Star Trek Voyager

Recreations of four official Star Trek logos that never were. The last two were featured in a 1994 Playmates catalogue.

I always need slime.

Thank you everyone for the kind words yesterday. They are much appreciated and I'm going to say that was the highlight of my week. But I would still love to hear from you all. What's something good that happened to you this past week?

A pre-transition me has my arm wrapped casually around my grey cat

My cat, Jean Grey, in close up. She's a grey cat with yellowish green eyes. She is wearing a poorly tied blue and yellow striped bow tie.

My tubby grey cat Jean Grey, splayed on her back with her feet sticking up in the air.

A fake Magic the gathering card of a tiny grey cat. Jean Grey the Menace WW Creature - Cat 1WW, tap: Jean Grey transforms into Dark Phoenix and receives flying. 2/2

I put down Jean Grey today. I'm going to miss that cat. She made it through three presidents, two moves, and one marriage and decided to be grumpy the entire time. Wouldn't have changed it at all.

I will defer to your expertise in this area.

I'm solidly a Round type.

none of this would be happening if we'd just given greta thunberg a gundam

Some people have asked me about today's news re Hasbro partnering with Rowling, concerned what it means for Universes Beyond, but I am NOT authorized to speak on behalf of Hasbro or Wizard of the Coast.

As a private citizen, I CAN say I'd part ways with WotC immediately if I saw it on a schedule.

I need it in my Death Guard army.

PSA buys out its biggest competitor and then raises prices. Who could have predicted this?

Good. If governments won't do anything to condem these people, we as a society can do everything we can to make the rest of their lives as unenjoyable as possible.

This is the first page of a multi-panel 12 page comic strip by saucypaws, featuring two anthropomorphic female characters: Pepper, a shorter, curvy calico cat with short hair, and Whitney, a taller, athletic horse girl with longer hair. Both characters are getting ready to go out somewhere and are wearing just their underwear. The comic aims to depict a tender moment relating to body image and insecurity. Pepper is standing in front of a full-length mirror, looking at herself while holding up a green velvet strapless dress as if she is unsure whether or not she wants to put it on or not. We see a close up of her face and she is clearly very unhappy. Suddenly, a very alarmed Whitney comes rushing in: "Shoot!" she exclaims. "What time is it?" - the two of them must be late for something...

insecurities
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I wonder what it's like to own all the expansions for the Sims.

I'd imagine it's overwhelming.

I have a humble request to ask of you this Friday. I want to hear your good news for the week. I will go first, so don't be shy.

My good news for the week is that I'm (mostly) not sick anymore. Getting a cold sucks and I'm just glad to be on the other side of it.

I recently picked up Akroma and Phage at a show, which have bucket list cards for me since I was in high school. It's such a cool set.

I'm giving away TEN Collector Booster Boxes of Lorwyn Eclipsed!

I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Collector Boosters from Lorwyn as a thank you for donating to Trans Lifeline!

Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to @translifeline.org until Feb 7 at 10am PST!

Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

If I could not be sick anymore, that would be wonderful.

Hey, that's really not saying much. Have you seen who's running our government? Even the Empire would think they're a bit extreme.

I ended up starting with a clean slate. I still have my old account with my founder title, but I like my new account. I did end up subscribing, so I can't tell you what the free-to-play experience is like.