"Albireo"
Of true binary stars and optical illusions.

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"Albireo"
Of true binary stars and optical illusions.
i go crazy when jim and spock are mirroring a man and his wife
The cut at the end was so funny
let this be a reminder that even if it takes time your dreams can come true
an astronaut foretold to go to the moon by a fortune cookie can be a kind of magical girl, I think
this is making me emotional
People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves
Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes I’ve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.
Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:
Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.
“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.
“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.
“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.
Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.
People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.
No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.
Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.
Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, who still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry “white purity” skinheads, you’re actually mixed with a whole other species.
Some more stuff!
Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.
Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.
Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size. Don’t believe anyone who says its our nature to fight “every man for themself.” We’re humans, not bears. We fight for each other.
And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids – community care and support is our way. We don’t cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.
Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.
Occam’s razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Don’t believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ‘theory’ on how bipedalism evolved.
Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.
Final thing: No one’s mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We can’t “stand in the way” of natural selection by caring for our ill. We don’t need to “help” evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so don’t fall for anyone that tells you not to “stand in the way” of natural selection. That’s fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.
Not to mention natural selection doesn’t have a “will” that you can stand in the way of. Its not an entity with wants, its a millions-year long process. And its impossible for our decisions to “stand in its way.” Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.
Chappell Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the Ceo was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than people in the actual Epstein files. Pedophiles are currently presidents and starting wars, wife beaters are getting awards and selling out stadiums, but a lesbian who is not the nicest most cheerful person 24/7 is the actual devil and getting banned from performing. I think she should be meaner. Let her be the nastiest bitch in the world. Maybe more women will wake up from the fucking trance this world has put us through and realise being "not nice" is not the biggest crime in the world.
guy who has a mental health condition that comes and goes: i’m cured this time actually i can feel it
same guy when they start having symptoms again: what the fuck is happening and why
Inspired by my bafflement at various ratings of TOS episodes, a poll for the episodes I consider weirdly underrated.
I mean "underrated" both in the sense of "a middling or seriously flawed, but complicated and in some ways compelling, episode getting dismissed as the worst thing ever" and "very good episode treated as just okay." Go with whatever works for you!
Which one of these TOS episodes do YOU consider the most underrated?
For the World Is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Court Martial
The Ultimate Computer
The Conscience of the King
Metamorphosis
Wink of an Eye
Dagger of the Mind
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Turnabout Intruder
Operation: Annihilate!
The Mark of Gideon
The only caveat is that the poll is not (necessarily) asking which is your favorite or the best episode in your opinion, but which surpasses its reputation the most.
So many of these are very popular already! I'd like a poll of the really reviled eps: Paradise Syndrome, Omega Glory, Elaan of Troyus, and yes, Spock's Brain.
All widely hated, but as I went through watching all the episodes people told me to skip on the first watch through, I was surprised to see how many of them actually had a lot of good in them if you could ignore the problematic or goofy parts.
(Wolf in the Fold, though......the only part I really liked was the last scene where Spock is so gay Kirk can't even finish his sentence.)
Anyway I picked Turnabout Intruder because people often say it's the very worst and I really like it.
But what about Plato’s Stepchildren? People hate that one and I think it’s actually one of the most poignant. “It makes me uncomfortable,” that’s the point, you shouldn’t be comfortable with fascists. “The acting is cheesy. My god, the scene where they make Kirk pretend to be a pony!” The acting is committed. Is it super grounded? No, but neither is this show. Shatner deserves his flowers for how he whole heartedly committed to every choice he makes in this series. “But, Spock’s singing?!” Hot, next question.
And, of course, it’s the episode that gives us the first interracial kiss on prime time television.
Michael Dunn’s work is excellent as is his usual. We get some truly beautiful solo moments for each of the Triumvirate as well as group moments. It’s beautiful and I think most people who don’t like it don’t get that stories are supposed to make you feel, and it’s not always pleasant.
(I can also make my case for Paradise Syndrome even though it has some racial issues. All in all I think season 3 is better than people give it credit for.)
‘man introduces various shapes to a cup of goo whilst sweet father-child bonding music plays’ is simultaneously one of the funniest and most emotional scenes from star trek to me, and I think about it all the time
learning how to be a solid with mama!!
“ Second star to the right … And straight on ‘til morning. ”
Got into star trek tos lately so here’s some paintings of the og space gays
I saw these and immediately knew I had to have them in a set of hinged frames so they could sit on my bedside table like they’re my kids or spouse or something 😂😂😂 (I’m currently moving, so you get them in my kitchen, not on my bedside table where they will reside once I’m moved in.)
They bring me so much joy!
(P.S. pay artists for their art! @donotaskmeagain was super kind, fast and severely undercharged 😜)
In honor of Star Trek Day, here is the collection of my cast pieces so far! I've got The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Lower Decks.
Crawdaddy magazine, December 1976
what if we held hands by the deep space nine vhs pile
Imagine you're so small and cold and scared but there's smaller ones that are smaller and colder and more scared. I'm going to cry
This is giving me Jim Kirk on Tarsus feels.
Captain Kirk appreciation post