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Just pinning both my Brilliant Minds petitions (the old one I updated with this news and the new one I made in response to it) and the NBC feedback form so I don't have to go adding them to every post in the Brilliant Minds tag in some kind of colloquially-manic ADHD spiral

The one I made in response to this that's more specific about what I want

Give Brilliant Minds's remaining S2 episodes a return date and renew it for a third season

The one with more signatures

Renew Brilliant Minds for a third season

Another one I just made to make sure that if NBC doesn't want to give it a second chance it shops it around to someone that will

Save Brilliant Minds for a third season

And here's the comment form to give NBC a piece of your own brilliant minds

So the way it works is you select the broadcast option from the first dropdown, the feedback-about-a-show-or-movie one from the feedback type and you can give either positive feedback about how much you love the show, negative feedback about how much you think this decision sucks or do what I do and submit one of each

But if things don't work out with NBC there's also the backup plans of other networks so I found the feedback forms for ABC and FOX so we can leave feedback saying that those networks should pick this up if NBC lets it go

ABC

and what to select on the dropdowns before you write your message is ABC under brand and Suggestion under category

FOX https://help.fox.com/s/contact-support-feedback

Select programming feedback from the feedback category before you write your message

The show must go on!

Also friendly reminder the six remaining episodes of S2 premiere starting May 27th on Wednesdays at 8 so watch them and stream them when they happen but use this time to get as many people into it and binging it as possible before then

What I mean by that is any fan with a streaming service they can watch Brilliant Minds on spends as much time as they can binging when not..

Also here's some solutions for how to do some of the other solutions people have thought up

1. what if we took advantage of the big gap before the return to convince as many people as we can to watch Brilliant Minds enough to catch

We won the TVLine poll let's make that mean something

And make it mean something that the ratings are actually going up and help them go even further beyond

Also this may sound crazy but since Lil Nas X is black, gay and bipolar, all minorities represented on the show, maybe if the show could end up on his radar the campaign to save it could get a massive awareness boost

And this is proof ScreenRant's got some hope

The end is near.

#brilliant minds #brilliant minds nbc #nbc brilliant minds #brilliant minds season 2 #brilliantmindss2 #brilliantmindss3 #savebrilliantminds #renewbrilliantminds

howmanyholesinswisscheese

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

howmanyholesinswisscheese

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

howmanyholesinswisscheese

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

naamahdarling

If we had more, maybe it would be easier to get the shitty ones fucking replaced. The board isn't going to do much to the only endocrinologist in the state who takes Medicaid, you know? But if there were more than, idk, maybe 5? Maybe then?

landunderthewave

More importantly if you needed less money and less physical stamina to become a doctor, people with less money and less physical stamina could become doctors, which would increase diversity and improve patient care.

why-and-or-bother

Archie Panjabi as the rani was legitimately such a stellar casting choice, I need her to do big finish stuff and have them just ignore the fact that a big cgi monster ate her. If we can breeze past all the masters “deaths” with a wave of the hand we can do it for the queen of amoral science projects too.

thewickedbohemian

With you on that whether it's just Big Finish or the show proper comes back from hiatus essentially picking up where it left off in everything but the Ncuti-getting-a-do-over-season sense (unless that could happen) and uses its meta bullshit to "fix" the story

Bring back/retcon the death of the Rani incarnation played by Archie Panjabi

And maybe we could even try and see if, if in whatever capacity she'd hypothetically return Doctor Who's still welcoming to American actors, we can fit any more freaking The Good Wife actors into that universe as we already had both her and Alan Cumming in the same season

heyhoneyfox

"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.

thewickedbohemian

Figured it's as good a context/time as any to share my favorite fic from any of my fandoms with that trope

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Yeah it's a surprise that there are High Potential fanfics I like that are Morgan/Karadec given that out of the ship combos that's my comparative least favorite (albeit not saying much) but this one isn't just barely a ship-related fic (kind of a prequel to the ship stuff if there'd be room to expand on the premise that wouldn't turn it into a generic Morgan/Karadec fic) it's just well-written no matter who you ship. Basically TL;DR wife of missing guy comes by station, assumes based on Morgan and Karadec's interactions that they're a married couple, and not wanting to correct the distraught wife Morgan does that trope and basically "yes, and"s through her interactions with her telling technically-the-truths but letting the wife's mind fill in the blanks with her narrative (e.g. that she has three kids but not who's the father)

lastoneout

Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and Stockholm syndrome was also coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.

thewickedbohemian

tfw you have what could be anxiety but could be morality OCD (and could be a bit of both for all we know) and your first thought is "okay so how many other psychology-related phenomena are going to turn out to be "copaganda" before they start getting ableist (in what's being implied is made-up)"

foone

the annoying thing about the privacy nightmare that is age verification is that this is 100% doable with double-anonymity: The verifier doesn't know what site/app you're verifying your age on, and the site/app doesn't need to know your personal information.

The fun part is that you could do this extremely easily by just bundling a key with an item you can't buy unless you're 18. Like a beer that includes a PGP key, or a pornographic magazine with a page that's a randomly generated key.

The site/app doesn't need to know WHO you are, only that you have access to something you can only get by being 18. This way they're putting the burden of verifying your age onto someone else, someone else who is already legally required to do exactly that.

But no one is interested in developing this because the point of age verification has never been age verification. it's always been governments trying to tie a real-world ID to internet identities, and companies trying to get more private information on users so they can sell it to advertisers.

(and also, it's not like this would be a good system even if it'd work and do what it says it'd do: We shouldn't be blocking minors off of large parts of the internet just for the sin of being underage, especially when "mature" labeling gets applied to more than just pornography. Queer teens shouldn't be separated from their support groups by parents who don't think they're mature enough to learn about that, for example)

quasi-normalcy

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

quasi-normalcy

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

quasi-normalcy

#more women in higher education meaning fewer men is incredibly depressing to me. funny in a sad way#what happens when women will finally get into trades? will they just stop working

sherryzade

spectacular tags from @luesmainblog

thewickedbohemian

but how do we solve this without either making them still think they're being forcefemmed, actually cutting to the chase and forcefemming them (as I feel like if I don't say that's off the table someone's gonna suggest that as at-minimum-a-joke) or appearing too the-gender-war-equivalent-of-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids with suggesting that activities we want them to be comfortable with are/give [insert positive manosphere buzzword of the proverbial month]

Also I've often been afraid that while it certainly wasn't started for this reason there's a non-zero chance some men perpetuate this pattern today as a little bit of 4D chess, to try and make women think if they started doing, let's just say, certain negative/toxic jobs or hobbies men often do, they could tempt men away from them if enough do them when really that'd just get used to slander women

wetheurban

If you spent the first half of 2026 in survival mode, may the second half be spent in revival mode. It’s time to heal.

Create a new America-based Leverage series

Whether or not Leverage: Redemption was cancelled for political reasons I still feel like we need more Leverage for political reasons because my intrusive-thoughts-in-the-colloquial-sense keep responding to certain political or business bullshit with wondering how a Leverage episode could expose a sufficiently-Expied version of the ulterior motives in a way that motivates people to fight regarding the real thing but is veiled enough to escape the censors (specifically the recent instances of this Leverage-reflex that inspired me to make this post spreading this petition around again (though I do have others like say wanting something PBS/PBSKids-related y'know "let's go steal public television") were the whole Schrodinger's Congressman bullcrap with McConnell and PlayStation deciding to ditch physical discs)

#petition #leverage #leverage: redemption

queerautism

Okay I screen recorded it so you can watch it easily bc I don't know if you can without the substack app otherwise.

Eat shit lol

(Source)

helloginnelle

Traitor Mitch, You will always be Traitor Mitch to me ❤️ Nothing wrong with a power chair my friend 🧡

queerautism

I use a powerchair and this is always my first thought when I see shit like this. It's the consequence of their ableism, getting hurt in a totally preventable way because they demonise mobility aids so much. At the very minimum he should 100% be using a cane.

anarcho-commeownism

Literal government aides have to act like personal nurses because these people refuse so adamantly to either retire or just simply use accommodations. Young people trying to get into politics get pinned with the job of caring for an ill elderly person, something they are NOT trained to do in any capacity, and have to do this on top of actual aide work they need to do.

It's not just himself he and other congresspeople are hurting, it's also the people they're treating like their substitute nurses since they won't fucking retire and just live the rest of their lives in care.

Our congresspeople are so old that it literally feels like elder abuse when you see people like Mitch McConnell just walking around like this. But theyre literally doing it to themselves! It's fucking baffling. Putting political opinions aside entirely, this shit cannot be healthy for anyone involved whatsoever.

thegenderienvy

Jesus fucking christ get a rollator bro. It’s like $50. Mitch McConnell is going to ruin the back of some poor innocent government bureaucrat trying to catch him. I was trained (back when I was a cna) on how to safely mitigate falls and I STILL fucked up my back

queerautism

Bringing this back since Mitch McConnell has been very secretively in hospital / on life support / possibly brain dead for about four weeks now.

They're doing this wild charade to avoid a special election. It's outrageous but also the natural conclusion for this elder abuse scenario.

Bro had a cardiac arrest at home, the kind that only 5% of people his age survive, and that's usually with significant brain damage. And there's still ghouls pretending they've been having great phonecalls with him about complex policy matters lmao

They did CPR on him, probably broke all his ribs. If he's still kicking he's either in massive pain or off his mind on strong opioids, depending on his doctor's mood. I had the worst 10/10 pain of my life from simply an inflammation of the cartilage on my ribs, you really can't comprehend how horrible and all encompassing that kind of chest pain is if you haven't gone through it. I was literally hitting my head against a wall at one point bc it gave me the tiniest bit of relief. Cardiac arrest + broken ribs has to be a whole new level of pain.

Plus he's absolutely alone. His wife doesn't give a fuck, she's gone away for meetings promoting business ties in China. Imagine that. It's the end of your life, and the person you chose as your partner fucks off halfway across the world.

Truly couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Rest in Piss bozo, once they're done squeezing the last drops of usefulness out of your dessicated corpse.

(If you think this is cruel, you need to go refresh yourself on what this monster has done during his long, evil career and then come back to me)

thewickedbohemian

couldn't we just somehow force their hand setting up a situation where they'd have to reveal his fate or it'd benefit us as much by e.g. meaning if he's still counted as alive but incapable of doing certain job tasks it'd be as if he didn't do them (e.g. if they're still acting like he can participate in congress (I'm not sure, this whole thing makes my head spin) what if he just happened to be the deciding necessary vote or w/e that'd sway something for the republicans)

junglejim4322

90% of age gaps don’t matter when you’re a grown adult as long as you don’t have a repeated pattern of dating people barely legal. I would date someone 30 years older than me if I liked them who gaf

junglejim4322

This entire conversation is somehow 90% people infantilizing themselves and 10% actually people talking about the issue of men who never grow out of dating 18/19 year olds. No it is not a big deal when a 25 year old dates a 35 year old please get a grip

junglejim4322

Honestly if you’re in your mid twenties infantilizing yourself on this level maybe you shouldn’t be dating anyone

dogpoet

Sun after rain

I was rewatching episode 2x02 and noticed what Oliver says about Lauren B. recovering from her psychotic episode.

It reminded me of Josh's line in 2x20.

thewickedbohemian

💬 0 🔁 19 ❤️ 21 · Just pinning both my Brilliant Minds petitions (the old one I updated with this news and the new one I made in response t

lyxchen

Okay so I need Soto and that Willa Quinn woman to fuck each other real bad!!! The sexual tension is unreal, where is my middle aged women yuri?????

hotvampireadjacent

thewickedbohemian

but read the next chapter of the history book before you go forcing it to rhyme

enki2

gatto-italiano

Americans doing fascism Americanly: What is this, soviet russia?

a-method-in-it

I am frankly sick to death of this lens being applied to things all the time. I think it started from a good place --- Americans should be able to recognize bad things are bad without knowing that The Bad Thing also happened in Places Americans Think Are Bad. That's a dumb worldview. Stipulated.

But it has very quickly morphed into making fun of people any time an American draws a connection between our current regime and other examples of authoritarian governments. And like. Guys.

Learning from history is good. Seeing commonalities between your circumstances and the circumstances of people from other places is good.

Do you genuinely want Americans to treat our country as some exceptional land where there are no parallels to be drawn with other places?

Are you so ignorant of history that nothing going on around you ever reminds you of things you've learned about other times and places?

This is like that time on Twitter I watched someone quote Marjane Satrapi's iconic line about how ordinary Americans have more in common with ordinary Iranians than either of us do with our governments --- a thing this person was quoting in order to express support for Iranians being fucked over by US foreign policy --- and someone else responded by questioning their right as a white American man to claim to have things in common with Iranians.

Fuck that.

It's rad as fuck to learn about the jokes that carried other people through their dark times. I hope someday someone going through their own dark times learns about the jokes that bounce around my groupchats on any given day and thinks "That's sounds just like OUR nascent fascist regime!"

It's rad as fuck to see your own circumstances reflected back across time and across borders. It's rad as fuck to situate yourself as part of an endless human tapestry, with a history that doesn't repeat, exactly, but definitely rhymes.

And if you aren't interested in learning that history or applying its lessons to our own lives, then at least stop making fun of the people who are.

thewickedbohemian

but also don't do the other side and e.g. that incident during the current oval office occupant's first term where Tumblr freaked out over supposed Nazi parallels in a photo showing Mexican children at the border with numbers on their arms when really this was some kind of red cross health thing and the numbers were written on their arms with sharpie (far cry from freaking tattooing them on) as an easier undroppable way to do the please take a number thing

thatlovelywitch

My mouth fell.

thewickedbohemian

ok but how can we convince people that (even if it's just via coming out of hiding or w/e) if we treat people with different skin colors right, we get mermaids, vampires, werewolves etc...

surprisinglygoodstaffcanteen

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