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Also wanted to mention the dress that Uhura is wearing: I found it on Kenyan site Tuko, where they were talking about modern clothes, it’s a kitenge dress:
Unfortunately, on web page the picture was from Pinterest: I think I spent about two hours non-stop trying to find the brand for it to properly write it down, but I didn’t find it (which I am very sorry). All pictures were from Pinterest without any indication for a brand name, also tried few image searches, but unfortunately didn’t find the brand name. But maybe someone knows?
PSA: Nichelle Nichols GoFundMe for Elder Abuse- Not the full story
There is a painful story going around right now, asking for money to support Nichelle Nichols on GoFundMe.
I hate, hate, hate having to go all tabloid reporter and dig into the personal life of a hero, but there are two conflicting stories about who is actually the abuser. As a result, it's not 100% clear to me whether the GoFundMe will actually benefit Nichols or harm her.
Story A: Nichelle Nichols' family set up the page on behalf of her son Kyle Johnson's countersuit against her manager Bell, alleging Bell is living in a house on her property and siphoning off her money. Johnson claims his mother has dementia and Bell tricked her into making him her conservator after she was mentally incapacitated. There's a link on the GoFundMe page to the actual text of the countersuit.
Help Legendary Nichelle Nichols Recover from Tragic Elder Abuse Perpetrated by Gilbert … Marian Smothers needs your support for Shields Up,
When I googled around checking up on this, I found news articles suggesting a different story.
Story B: Bell was the conservator Nichols chose because she had a falling-out with her son. Nichols' friend Angelique Fawcette claims Nichols was still of sound mind when she appointed Bell, and that her son has been making the "mentally incapacitated" claims for years without a doctor's verification while trying to move her into a nursing home against her wishes.
Court has put Nichelle Nichols' son in charge of her affairs
Also, allegedly, Johnson stopped letting friends visit her and tried to stop her doing activities she liked. Bell sued Johnson to stop him from taking conservatorship of his mother, allegedly acting on her wishes.
In the above article, Fawcette claims she and Nichols made the following interview as a precaution in case the situation deteriorated. Fawcette says she went public with it after the screaming argument out of concern for Nichols.
But, on the other hand, while that GoFundMe page is raising money for Johnson to countersue Bell, it was set up by Nichelle Nichols' younger sister Marian Smothers, who has just gotten involved.
A former caretaker had allegedly been taking advantage of Nichelle Nichols for years and the family is embroiled in a bitter legal battle wi
I do NOT know whose claims are true. I do not know which story to believe. I am not a lawyer or a judge or a legal expert. I'm just a fan trying to figure out whether I should donate to this GoFundMe or not.

Anyway I'm making a PSA for other Uhura fans who may see the GoFundMe link somewhere without knowing the context. 🙁
As expected, the GoFundMe had now gone viral both on Twitter and Tumblr.
For what it's worth, fellow actors Chase Masterson and William Shatner also sided with Nichelle Nichols against her son gaining conservatorship of her, as reported here.
WARNING: includes distressing tape of Nichelle screaming in protest when her son takes her away against her wishes, after she says, "he is not the boss of me" and "get your hands off me."
I think we owe it to Nichelle to listen to her wishes and her words.
So before you donate to that GoFundMe, please listen to Nichelle's own stated wishes in the two videos above. Then click on the legal document linked to on the GoFundMe page to see what your money will actually be used for: a conservatorship battle to decide who has custody of her. Note that none of the money raised by the GoFundMe will go to Nichelle Nichols.
Have you or anyone else translated and transcribed Nimoy’s final tweet into Vulcan? :0
I am 100% sure I translated it at some point in the past but I couldn't find it! Probably someone else already has... Anyway I thought it deserved me doing a new a calligraphy piece so here it is:
(Nam-tor) ha'kiv spo'bah-ker. Kup puma, hi ri kup pukorsau buhf'veshtayalar kaula svi'vokaya. Dif-tor heh smusma.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.
First off, this is hilarious, but secondly, the artist’s name is Bill Flowers and he literally goes by The Snake Artist because he just does a bunch of paintings like this.
He’s also apparently a “venomous snake wrangler.” He’s Australian, which I feel explains a lot.
So the debunking video above led me to watch another debunking video, which started down a very intriguing wormhole of asking why people are producing fake how-to videos like this, and the short version is they’re exploiting algorithms to generate ad revenue and the long version is they’re produced by a Russian content farm that has made some forays into American political ads.
Ann Reardon also has a patreon to help keep her channel running because of this shitty algorithm, PLEASE GO SUPPORT HER WHILE YOU CAN!
She seriously doesn’t deserve the treatment youtube’s been giving her, so please support her as much as you can and make sure this shitty farming channel goes down in flames.
It promotes EXTREMELY DANGEROUS activities such as PUTTING STRAWBERRIES INTO A GLASS OF BLEACH TO TURN THEM WHITE WHICH IS POISONOUS. AND POURING LAVA HOT CARAMEL ONTO A SPINNING WHISK, WHICH WOULD EASILY BURN YOU AND LEAVE A SCAR.
It’s amazing how youtube still tolerates this kind of behavior just because it’s pumping out videos 24/7 and sucking up all of the views. It’s unacceptable and it needs to be stopped as soon as possible.
Again, support Ann Reardon and her cause as much as possible and report the opposing videos promoting this shit. DO NOT LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE VIDEOS! YOU’LL ONLY GIVE THE ALGORITHM THE IDEA THAT THIS VIDEO IS SHAREABLE!
The tl;dr is that they make these videos to be intentionally misleading, both to people who don’t know why they can’t recreate these “simple” things as well as to people who know they won’t work, just so they get the interactions because clicks = $$
the best thing in the entire goddamn world is the fact that human beings have hands perfectly capable of giving amazing scritches and there are hundreds of animals out there who just love being scritched
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