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Given the current state of CBS/the world I’m sure Starfleet Academy will be cancelled after the 2nd season & whatever Star Trek we get next will be a bland, non-woke, space battle show about rugged individualists, but really they should be putting Tawny Newsome in charge of it all.

(Very pro rich people who are still citizens not being able to get out of paying taxes just by living elsewhere)

The year I moved back & had 2 months of UK income + multiple temp jobs in 2 different states was the worst.

You couldn’t do the 2nd one digitally for some reason so I had to do all paper forms and mail them in, but I think they’ve fixed that at least.

When I lived in the UK my income was nowhere near the taxable limit, but instead of a single form attesting to that I had to fill out my entire tax return like it was money I earned in the US & then fill out a separate form to nullify that one.

It’s just genuinely so cool that cuisines adapt to the place they move to! And you can go to those places & try them!

‘Including the fallen angels’!

Me experiencing NYC winters: Why would anyone build a city here!?
Also Me: Guess I’ll move to Massachusetts!

Bring back elaborate matte paintings you reuse constantly!

My Dr *after years of trying to figure out why I feel terrible all the time*: Well we have a Dr here who loves solving mysteries, would like to see him?
Me:…

Honestly I don’t think the main character, technically speaking, has a heart. She’s an amorphous blob monster who shoves metal & other people’s bones inside herself to make a body. It’s a love story!

Have you read Someone You Can Build a Nest In? Surprisingly heartwarming eldritch body horror.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

For me, weird storytelling decisions are a time honored part of Trek, but if the ethos is there, I’m down to watch a bunch of earnest weirdos get up to space hijinks.

Ok, so don’t watch it then? Not liking something is fine, it doesn’t doesn’t mean it’s trash & or that the people who enjoy it aren’t real fans. Personally I’m enjoying the theme that in an imperfect world, the values of the Star Trek future are worth fighting for, but take work to build & maintain.

Other series have had confusing references to money & this one makes way more sense given that it’s set in a different time period where they’re rebuilding after the collapse of federation & earth having had a real back slide.

A mogwai is for life, not just for Christmas!

Aww, this is how I learned the building on the corner is no longer a hilariously incongruous mobile phone shop.

Usually I relate deeply to Tilly’s ways, but celery is a garbage vegetable.

On a call with my mom once: Oh, [Cousin]’s experimental brain surgery went great!
Me: Her what!?
(This was mid general catch up & not the point of the call)

I tragically knocked a half full box of Maldon off the counter recently and scattered most of it across the floor.

Thank you again for this amazing gift @itisjustcrista.bsky.social!

I ended up doing a 2nd journey with my friend once we reunited because I wanted to keep going. Now to figure out how to display it (may do some extra embellishment around the margins first).

A picture of my full A Mending map, featuring multiple journey lines, embroidered embellishments, and stitched on beads & charms.

Close up of the start of the 1st purple journey line with a small skeleton key in the starting position & a constellation that looks like a snake in the margin. There are multiple embroidered embellishments & beads stitched along the paths.

Close up of the end of the first purple journey line, ending at a tear drop charm. There’s a 2nd turquoise journey line starting at the teardrop charm. There are multiple bead charms along the paths & a small embroidered boat on a river. There’s a triangular constellation in the margin.

Close up of the end of the turquoise journey line & associated beads & embroidery. There are shorter grey & yellow journey lines that join up with the main turquoise line, these represent a cat & a dog.

I’ve spent the 1st few days of the new year playing @shing.bsky.social’s A Mending—it’s a solo RPG where you stitch your way along a journey to meet up with a friend you’ve been separated from. I’m now feeling at least a little fortified for the horrors ahead.

There was a truly transcendent vegan stew that will live in my heart all year.

Went to a New Year’s Day craft night/pot luck at the lesbian bar, (perhaps the most Western Mass sentence of all time).

Friend
Crabs
Carl

As I always say

. @itisjustcrista.bsky.social: She’s from somewhere in England that means she was insulted when someone thought she was from York
Me: …Cornwall?
Crista: Yes!

I was thinking more the combo of all three, but given the age of everything there, I suppose non-posh schools in beautiful historic buildings aren’t that rare. The robes feel very Oxbridge for children though (and that one school with old timey uniforms that goes around the internet occasionally).