.

"I see no day," I heard him say, "so grey is the face of every mortal". Some Sherlock Holmes, some musical theatre, some politics, some things that just looked shiny. Rather a lot of Star Trek at the moment. TERFs, please consider developing some human empathy, then you won't be TERFs any more.

[correctopinionhaver]

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

are you taller than 193cm

yes

no

Remaining time: 11 hours 54 minutes

[milf--adjacent]

Nothing in the rule book says a dog can't play basketball. There are a couple rules against trans women, however, so she'll have to leave.

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[sequentialprophet]

There aren't words for how insidiously disgusting and blatant this is. (Link)

[depsidase]

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[copperbadge]

I met someone when I was pretty young who had received a generous inheritance -- not enough to live a life of luxury, but enough to live on comfortably without working. He had chosen to simply keep going to school his whole life. He did get degrees, but he didn't use them for anything other than pleasure -- he had a Ph.D but also two Master's degrees, three BAs, and was currently serving an apprenticeship in blacksmithing while considering trying out some trade schools next. I thought, if I had the money I'd do that too, and then thought about how I still could learn all the time, it would just have to be a hobby instead of the career he'd made of it. It definitely changed the way I saw both education and leisure.

[emilinqa]

do they have a smoking lounge on ds9 like they do at airports. this is so important to me

[unamccormack]

OK guys seriously we need to resolve this one, not least because I'm stuck at my desk all day today. Resolve as in, obviously yes there's a smoking lounge, but where is it? Is it on the Promenade? Or on one of the habitat rings? Next to a seedy docking bay? Was it there when it was Terok Nor? Or did Kira get one sorted out during that brief window of opportunity she had in charge before Starfleet arrived with their whitened teeth and healthier options? Where are people getting their fags? Does the grocer stock them or is it under the counter through Quark? Or the florist? Is there a real fight over a Starfleet ban and Odo comes down in favour of the smokers because he can't smell anything and besides it's what Kira wants? But Keiko is furious with him because of the kids and Odo doesn't know what to do about that. Hang on, we need to solve the replicator problem... Yes, there's a Starfleet regulation about not replicating them. Who smokes a pipe and is it Dax?

[vulcannot]

regardless of where the smoking lounge actually is, i know in my heart that at some point during the starfleet cigarette ban, quark starts allowing indoor smoking at the bar to attract more business, with little shitty novelty ashtrays on the bar and everything. he gets rom to do something to the ventilation system to direct the smoke away from the bar, which ends up tripping every smoke alarm in the residential area of the station, which leads to keiko o'brien beating quark's ass at two in the morning for being the reason kirayoshi woke up after she'd just gotten him to sleep

[mugknife]

Dax smokes with a pipe yeah but its not earth tobacco its kligon Marijuana and its with kurzons Gandalf pipe

Sisko borrows it after dealing with dukat or kywin

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[ndnbutch]

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

[ndnbutch]

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

[beggars-opera]

I just saw someone tag #oldpostisold on something that was like...ten months old. Gurl. Do you know what website you're on

[sophie-frm-mars]

one very funny reason you can tell eugenics doesn't work is that all the richest people with huge generational wealth have been trying to do it to produce the ubermensch for quite a long time now, and the result is people like Elon Musk who are given opportunities others would wait a lifetime for twenty times a day and manages to just spaff out absolute turd after absolute turd 99.9% of the time, and the 0.1% of the time the thing he does that anybody in his position could have well they all cheer for him doing it until it also inevitably turns to shit

[daughter-of-sapph0]

when i was a kid i was taught to be safe online. never give out my name, location, or any personally identifying information. i was told to immediately block people who ask for A/S/L. i was taught to always hide who i was, use a pseudonym, only share my email with people i absolutely trust.

and now im supposed to give my legal driver's license to every single porn website and use my email and sign up for ads and junk mail every time i want to read an article and agree to webcrawling ad tracking surveillance to do anything online anymore.

but yeah, its for kids safety. sure. i bet the panoption is much safer than the club penguin and nickelodeon dot com that i had as a kid. so glad we got rid of kid friendly spaces and in turn had to make the entire internet advertisement friendly. so glad we tore down that public park and replaced it with a strip mall and parking lot next to a police station

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[collapsedsquid]

OpenAI says its AI models escaped from a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation

The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased model

[rederiswrites]

OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models and testing resources, in order to cheat on an internal evaluation test.

Just don't... Don't even worry about it. Don't worry about that.

[undeadcorvid]

hey so they're absolutely not claiming this because anthropic claimed the same thing about their fucking mythos model and how it was ~tooo dangerous ooooo~ to release and then They Did Anyway, and it got a lot of press and hype. it was a lie then and it's a lie now. they repeatedly do this, where they doomtroll when things aren't looking so hot to drum up money because they're deeply unprofitable and lying is their only tool for survival.

LLM's 'escaping' their test environments is never a technology problem, it's always a human problem. as in, 'so why did the AI have access to the permissions it needed to do that? who gave it those permissions' problem.

don't give openAI the benefit of the doubt here. they're lying scumbags and always have been.

[respocked]

the borg mottled/greyish skin look is because of:

no nutrience and sunlight in the cubes because they're sickly little borg ants

just dirt and industrial grease because the borg don't shower

Voting ended onJul 25

[necrofuturism]

y'all... it's the nanoprobes. we're seeing the nanoprobes through their skin. they're in the arteries and veins of every single borg drone, including the smallest blood vessels - the capillaries - which are closest to the skin.

the mottling starts at the location that the assimilation tubules inject the nanoprobes and then spreads across the body as they perfuse the new drone's tissues and initiate the assimilation process.

it's literally the first sign of assimilation!

[oldmanpusspuss]

I can't watch a television show until a demon possesses me and compels me to do it