dumbstruck with the sweetness of B E A N

Pascale's now mostly defunct Trek blog. Find me @kyniklos!

[beansmccoy]

when u love star trek but hate ur trekkie dad

(for all of you who also have fathers who could’ve taken more cues from Sisko than they did from Sarek, feel free to use this!)

[romulanfucker]

so is it sad that he's a good tailor because it means he's truly lost his sense of who he used to be in the order and everything he based his self-worth on has crumbled before his eyes and left him only a menial job,

or because it means he has the skills to settle down and live a normal life but knows he'll be forever haunted and never truly happy that way,

or because the futilism of blowing up his own shop when it served him well is painfully reminiscent of enabran's self destruction after a successful retirement,

or because this life of simplicity and stability and regular customers that are almost friends has begun to make him into a good person and his recent actions have taken steps to undo all that,

or because the tailor cover and therefore his appearance as a good man is lying in tatters before him and he knows he can't lie about it to the people he wants to lie to let alone himself,

or because he realizes he could have avoided all this pain and paranoia if he'd taken another path but he can't change time so all he has is his unmendable regret and burned up pieces of Julian's pants

[cikero]

I’m saying this seriously. I think we’re gonna need to start treating air conditioning as a human right. Prisoners, the homeless, and generally the poor will suffer the most as our planet starts heating up

[heather-heather]

Or maybe the US, I don’t know any country quite like it when it comes to air conditioning that’s why I’m using it here but other countries too, should stop air conditioning every square inch of their houses and help combat the climate crisis

[deepseametro]

when its 110+ degrees (38-40+ celcius), i am going to cool sown my entire apartment. because it is 600 square feet, i have 2 cats, and keeping it cool enough to be survivable means the entire damn house needs to be cooled down anyways. my central cooling (which has a timer - so when i’m not at work, is set to a much higher temperature!) is not the issue causing the climate crisis - and framing anything about the climate crisis as depending on the actions of (generally poor) individuals is both unhelpful and incorrect.

carbon emissions overwhelmingly come from industrial sources - not consumers.

[harpyhormones]

i 100% agree with whats said in the OP and the last comment, the blame doesnt lay at the consumers hands in terms of the AC crisis

but as someone interested in HRVAC and building science, i gotta say that the way we approach cooling in the usa IS a major problem and WILL need to change

our regulations on AC systems are extremely lax and outdated, leaving large gaps in energy efficiency between cheap AC systems and pricier ones, and better regulation would change the fact that most AC systems sold are much more inefficient than they need to be

our buildings changed drastically in the postwar boom (and i could write for days about how the postwar housing boom ruined american architecture), the relevant note being that they stopped being designed to be passively energy efficient in regards to cooling, changing to a mindset of “build it however without regards to local climate and fix the environment inside with air conditioning”

poor insulation, facing, and design leads to american houses needing much more energy for AC than a building of equivalent square footage designed well

and finally even the best most efficient ACs arent nearly as efficient as heat pumps, either air source or ground source, and we should as a whole be moving towards that

again, i dont disagree with anything said above, but it does need to be noted that the way we do AC does have to change (and im not expecting that change to come from the end users who dont have the power to set these standards)

[tchyp]

AC uses electricity and heats up the environment.

Consumers are to blame. If houses were properly built with insulation, there would be less of a problem. People have lived in warmer climates for thousands of years with no AC.

[harpyhormones]

if you want to engage in these conversations im begging you to be a little less stupid about it

any human habitation in any scale is always going to impact the environment because we are part of our environment, not separate from it

electricity production does not need to have the climate effect it has now. better ways of producing energy exist and have existed for a long long long time. the introduction of AC has had statistically significant effect on casualties from heat waves and just seasonal hot weather

if houses were properly built with better insulation, there would be less of a problem, were agreed on that, which, if you had the ability to read more than three sentences in one sitting, you would be able to see

end users are not to blame for using AC to cool their houses to a livable temperature when the deleterious effects from doing so are the result of the way we produce energy, which is out of their hands, the way we produce our buildings, which is out of their hands, and we use inefficient ACs because of lax regulations, which is out of their hands

as to people living in warmer climates for thousands of years, ill refer you again to the fact that weve had a statistically significant reduction in casualties from heat since AC was introduced, so yes, we have lived in warm climates for thousands of years with no AC, and occasionally had people die of heat stroke or heat exhaustion, and we couldnt do as much about it. now we can. not to mention that the climates were living in are getting warmer, which you were just handwringing about in your first sentence. as it gets hotter and hotter, we will need the ability to cool our environments, and we cannot allow that to be a luxury for the wealthy

please dont be a moron

[climatecalling]

Actually, air conditioning use in the US is excessive above and beyond anywhere else in the world and even way above the air conditioning that was used in the US itself until pretty recently. There is no excuse for the degree to which many Americans, specifically affluent Americans use air conditioning.

[harpyhormones]

AC use in the usa is above norm because, again, the postwar housing boom has given us poorly designed and insulated homes that require more AC to cool to the same temperature as a better home, and that has been climbing in recent years because weve had hotter and longer summers, which is going to continue

the problem is, again, a systemic one and not one of someone choosing to cool their house to 75 instead of 80

our grid system could be designed to handle AC load spikes better than it currently is, but US electrical infrastructure is extremely fragile in its current state, and again, better buildings would reduce these load spikes

how you wanna quantify “affluent” is up to you but in no reasonable definition are affluent americans the majority of the american populace, and youre making the degree to which someone cools their home a moral concern rather than a practical one

for a blog that focuses on climate change youre approaching this kinda weird im gonna be honest “no excuse” bud focus on shit other than people trying to stay cool in summer in their homes when this is a systemic issue

[climatecalling]

You’re just wrong about this. Not about it being a systemic issue, which it absolutely is, but about the extent to which the collective behavior of millions of people affects climate. It’s not moral, that’s just a convenient way of sidestepping. And it’s absolutely not about cooling the house to 75 or 80. Many Americans have become accustomed to continually running the AC all summer even on cooler days or in regions where summers are relatively mild. This was not the norm even as recently as the 90s. In the 80s many homes did not even have AC. And as far as “affluent” that is of course a relative term, but someone who is cooling a large house vs someone who has one or 2 window units is a pretty big difference.

[harpyhormones]

obviously the collective behavior of millions of people can have wide ranging effects, but when the individual choice of an end user is so heavily shaped by systemic and environmental issues outside of their control, like the rising, longer lasting heat and the poor houses the majority of americans find themselves in, focusing in on an individual “choice” to use air conditioning is frankly fucking stupid

i dont know why im having to explain to someone with a blog supposedly about climate change that we dont really do mild summers anymore. they are hotter and longer across the world, and while there are obviously still hotter and cooler places, AC is more and more of a necessity. this isnt something for the future, this isnt conjecture, this is something that is happening now. over a hundred people died of heat related causes in the recent oregon heat wave

the fact of the matter is that it is within our capability as a society to provide a given amount of air conditioning to people, and not doing so has gotten people killed as it gets hotter, and, as the original post said, prisoners, the poor, the homeless, theyre going to be most affected if air conditioning is not a right, if it remains an optional luxury

i just genuinely do not fucking understand how you can make climate change your whole thing and be this fucking bad at prioritization and evaluating a problems causes and not its symptoms

[beansmccoy]

I am thinking about him………

[beansmccoy]

I am still thinking about him.......

[trek-tracks]

Rewatching Amok Time is going well

[excavatinglizard]

[trek-tracks]

oh no

[transbisexuals]

if you’re lgbt reblog this and tag your identity, height, and whether you walk slow or fast

[radiopoison]

Help I thought too hard about the history of the world and stopped being able to function as a human being. WE ARE SO EPHEMERAL

[radiopoison]

PLEASE realize that there have been four eons on this good planet we call earth. Four. We are in the fourth. You know what else is in the fourth eon? Not only All Dinosaurs, but also hundreds of millions of years earlier than that, the motherfucking Cambrian explosion. Yeah, you know that thing that kickstarted Most Life On Earth? It happened in THE SAME EON WE'RE STILL IN. THERE WERE THREE BEFORE THAT. You know what the longest eon was? Not this one!!! It was the 3rd one, the Proterozoic eon!!! Think about the ENTIRE HISTORY OF PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING and then realize that there was an entire time before that, that was LONGER.

And this isn't even taking into ACCOUNT the sheer vastness of human history. There is land that humans lived on that doesn't exist any more it's just GONE, there is so much unwritten history, everything that has happened to us is so recent, but it is also so long and there is so much of it. And there are so many people and places and things?? But also on any reasonable scale of earth we are a BLIP?????

[kiseiakhun]

Hello friends. With the heatwave moving through western North America this past week, you might’ve heard news of the British Columbian town, Lytton, which broke the record for the highest ever reported temperatures in Canada for three days in a row.

That town is now on fire.

The linked article has some fundraisers verified by GoFundMe you can donate to, to help the survivors. I’ll also link them down below for ease of access.

Help for the victims of the Lytton wildfire

Love for Lytton

Helping our friends in Lytton

[kyniklos]

It’s important to note that the catastrophic Lytton wildfire disproportionately affected Indigenous people. The town of Lytton has a population of approximately 250 people, but there are approximately 1700 people living on six nearby Nlaka’pamux reserves. They have all been displaced.

some more GoFundMe links.

Aleck Family Relief from the Lytton Fire

Help Joe,Grace and Kechia rebuild after Lytton fire

Patrick & Tina: lose family house and possessions

Mike Sam & Family

and if you’re in the Lower Mainland, follow Ronnie Dean Harris, who is organizing donations of physical items & assembling first aid kits.

[jonathanarcher]

This made me laugh way too hard like yeah bitch you are alone

[medullam]

The remains of 215 children were discovered today on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. The youngest child found was only three years old.

[kyniklos]

a couple action items for my fellow settlers in light of the discovery in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc.

sign this petition calling for the creation of a national day of mourning for the children killed by the residential school system.

donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society

(I speak from my place as a white settler on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations)

[trek-tracks]

Anytime I had a problem and I fired on the Enterprise, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

[uglysockperson]

Klingon and cardassian lesbians

[beansmccoy]

enjoy this wonderful collaboration between @jimbotkirk and I during a round of Jackbox

I appreciate how much Spock looks like a cursed cat.

[lesbianslovebts]

Feel free to reblog if this applies to you!

[pokemon-personalities]

this image perfectly captures how i feel most hours of the day

[eggorf]

decadence

[nonbinary-cherry]

[stevencharleston]

i can't get this scenario out of my head where bones performs jim's bottom surgery and when he wakes up bones is hovering over him like "bro nice cock"

[kirksfattitties]

spock begrudgingly complimenting bones’ handiwork on an unrelated project and doing so by saying “congratulations doctor mccoy, this is some of your finest handiwork since crafting my husbands genitals”

[leehallfae]

the first officer is called the captain’s XO because they’re supposed to kiss each other. hope this helps