jeffy's tumblog

It's a thing. What kind of thing, that's the question.

[obelwochak]

nothing can convince me this man doesn't have the craziest praise kink bc wym this is the face he makes when an old queen gives him a good score in Dinner, something that's both normal to want and possible to achieve

[ponnfarrtrek]

Whatever the ups and downs of Starfleet Academy, I will die on the hill that actually some people needed to see a leader sitting weird in a chair. Our concept of who makes a "good leader" is actually way too skewed towards body language, how people dress, their vocabulary and other things that don't actually affect the quality of their decision-making. In 2026, we put too much emphasis on whether someone "looks like a leader" - polling companies regularly ask this about politicians - and not enough emphasis on what decisions people are making and why. And of course this bias ends up working against marginalised groups, like all biases eventually do. ("Why is she sitting like a little girl?" is something I've heard more than once)

Having a leader who rejects staunch formality is weirdly one of the most progressive things Trek has done in years. Think about how life changing it would be if you didn't have to worry about what impression your stance, your clothes and your appearance were giving off. Imagine people reacting purely to the value of what you are saying and doing, and absolutely nothing else.

[holespoles]

goma-ramen　"After the rain"

ごまらーめん「雨あがり」

[awhekate]

(puts all the Saint of Steel's paladins in my pocket and rattles them around)

just finished all four currently existing Saint of Steel books and I keep thinking about all these guys

[tkingfisher]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I AM SO FREAKING HAPPY

[catchymemes]

These circles are stationary

[jadagul]

Thanks I hate it.

[argumate]

*sigh* all power to hypnotoad.

[violetfractal]

Checked with a ruler and took screenshots - the circles are completely stationary. The effect is also not generated by the arrows, rather by the oscillating color.

The rings have 1px wide borders that oscillate out of phase with their interiors, and your eyes perceive the phase shifted borders as moving edges. It’s really neat, our optic nerves have specific hardware for edge detection and this gif fools it!

Also if I look away from the gif and stare at a spot, the gif looks really trippy in my peripheral vision. A++

[ngkiscool]

My brain hurts.

[rhube]

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

[pipistrellus]

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

[rhube]

20 years. I am not happy about this.

[demonicsymphony]

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

[luminouspica]

Happy 20 years to Lolrus and his bucket!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I'd try one now, if it comes in pink.

[perennial-wave]

i’m getting closer to mapping Neveryon

[mylittlevintageworld]

[crazyjane13]

Sign the Petition

Renew Star Trek Starfleet Academy for a full season 3

[yuuthedestroyer]

Okay but Starfleet Academy is the most "Star Trek" that a Star Trek show has felt since Voyager. I was not prepared to be into it, but it has those Star Trek bits! Starfleet as the ideal (even when it's not, the positive changes that are able to happen!), grappling with big themes, understanding and cooperation solving problems over violence, flawed people fucking up and trying to do better... And so many nods to the old series' without being annoying!

And this time it's in the package of, not a disciplined crew, but a bunch of chucklefuck college kids. It's like DS9 turned up to 11. All the adults are there, but there are also 200 Jakes and Nogs at their worst.

"Oh but Yuu, the dialogue is a bit clunky." It's Star Trek that is part of the fun.

"Oh but Yuu, there is woke." It's Star Trek, yes.

"Oh but Yuu, the characters do dumb/bad/etc shit." Yes. That is the point. It's so they can get better. Be friends anyways. Discuss and learn. Etc. See: Star Trek.

If you fuckers don't get on board with this and it gets cancelled after season 2, I will be so sad.

[beardedmrbean]

[agent-troi]

this is gonna become one of the classic star trek episodes that people still talk about decades from now, i can already feel it. for the first half or so i thought all the theater symbolism was kind of obvious and over the top, and for the second half i was more or less sobbing uncontrollably the entire time (which perfectly mirrors the cadets’ journey throughout this episode, come to think of it). i just… wow. i really don’t have any words. if anyone was still on the fence about this show, i doubt they still will be after this. they definitely sold me.

[cerealssoggies]

Sam is kinda like if an angel was a hologram

[thetetra]

Carolina Eyck

German-born musician and composer Carolina Eyck is one of the world’s foremost theremin virtuosi. On this channel she wants to present this

[thetimetostrikeislater]

Anyway.

[spelldealer]

the entire california central valley is experiencing silent hill in real life right now by the way

[spelldealer]

400 mile long fog cloud be upon ye

[sandrabullockthehedgehog]

it really is like that

[weregiraffes]

Fun fact it's called Tule fog!

"Tule fog (/ˈtuːli/ TOO-lee) is a thick ground fog that settles in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley areas of California's Central Valley. Tule fog forms from late fall through early spring (California's winter season) after the first significant rainfall. The official time frame for tule fog to form is from November 1 to March 31. This phenomenon is named after the tule grass wetlands (tulares) of the Central Valley."

[jeffy]

I went to college near the geographic center of that cloud. The visibility in the photos is typical, but nowhere near the worst it gets. It is no joke.