Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cadet Actors Talk Cancellation And Handling Online Negativity https://trekmovie.com/2026/04/02/star-trek-starfleet-academy-cadet-actors-talk-cancellation-and-handling-online-negativity/ #Conventions/Events/Attractions #StarTrek:StarfleetAcademy #StarfleetAcademy #TrekFranchise #KerriceBrooks #cirroclofton #KarimDiané #TrekTalks

Commented on thread on HIV testing at events, but here in main timeline for easy access.

Your local harm reduction service WANTS to come to the event you're running. A convention, parade, music festival, LARP, whatever! They want to reach more people that might never come to their location! Comp them a table at event.

Drop them an email or call with "I'm running an event on X date, Y location. I expect Z attendees. The demographic is Q." and they will likely show up ready to do STI snap tests, provide drug test kits for drinks, condoms, train people on NARCAN, and tell folks about support programs in area. Possibly even vaccinations, depending on population. Or clean needles. For free!

What services the group offers vary by region, but any midsize metro has one of more of them because prevention really is the best strategy.

It's part of their core services & getting out in public just requires inviting them in, like vampires. They are stealing your blood, afterall. :P

They also know how to do all that confidentially and securely. Harm reduction also meets people where they ARE & tries to nudge them towards one step to better health, not "stop doing all these things NOW". Have safer sex, check your drugs for fentanyl, here's NARCAN in case someone ODs. Keep folks alive & making better choices each day based on their risk tolerance.

Some may even have a full mobile set up in a van to do even more tests!

If they have a scheduling conflict and can't come, they often are happy to provide you with free condoms, drug test kits, brochures, and sharps containers.

If you're running an event and don't have a sharps container in the bathrooms.... consider grabbing some from the harm reduction folks. It helps keep everyone safe! (your local visiting nurse group may also be willing to give you sharps containers for free or wholesale cost) #eventplanning #conventions #harmreduction #STItesting #HIVtesting

How The Making Of A Classic ‘Star Trek: DS9 Episode’ Started With A Surprising Call To Leonard Nimoy https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/31/how-the-making-of-a-classic-star-trek-ds9-episode-started-with-a-surprising-call-to-leonard-nimoy/ #Conventions/Events/Attractions #StarTrek:DeepSpaceNine #irastevenbehr #LarryNemecek #terryfarrell #DS9

Fans were sold a magical Barbie Dream Fest. Instead, they got cardboard cutouts and hand sanitizer
Add the three-day Barbie Dream Fest in Fort Lauderdale to the list of highly marketed conventions that didn't live up to the hype.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/barbie-dream-fest-9.7148269?cmp=rss

C2E2 2026 Photos, Part 2 of 2: Jessica Jones, The West Wing, and a Cavalcade of Comics

Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: It’s that time again! This weekend my wife Anne and I attended the latest edition of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″), a three-day extravaganza of comic books, actors, creators, toys, props, publishers, freebies, plush dolls, variant covers, anime we don’t recognize, and walking and walking and walking and walking. We missed the inaugural 2010 gala and presciently skipped the February 2020 pre-shutdown soiree, but more often than not, whenever they send out the call to convene, we’re happy to answer... ...although we dragged our feet on committing to this year's edition as we waited for them to invite actors that we hadn't already met and who've performed in shows and/or movies we really enjoyed. Less than a month before showtime, we were finally feeling it and bought tickets. But we planned for a less epic adventure than usual. It was still fun! We have fewer anecdotes than usual, though. On the bright side, that means less typing for me and a shorter read for You, The Viewers At Home! (Not counting the next several paragraphs.) […]

https://midlifecrisiscrossover.com/2026/03/29/c2e2-2026-photos-part-2-of-2-jessica-jones-the-west-wing-and-a-cavalcade-of-comics/

C2E2 2026 Photos, Part 1 of 2: Cosplay!

It's that time again! This weekend my wife Anne and I attended the latest edition of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″), a three-day extravaganza of comic books, actors, creators, toys, props, publishers, freebies, plush dolls, variant covers, anime we don’t recognize, and walking and walking and walking and walking. We missed the inaugural 2010 gala and presciently skipped the February 2020 pre-shutdown soiree, but more often than not, whenever they send out the call to convene, we’re happy to answer. While we recuperate and wait for our feet to forgive us for their punishment, please enjoy this collection of cosplayers who brightened our day around the show floor. The jazz-hands photo ops and other details will be shared in the other chapter because everyone loves costumes. We regret we can only represent a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total cosplay wonderment that was on display this weekend. We’re clearly not professional photographers, journalists, costume designers, or Oscars red carpet commentators. We’re just an aging geek couple doing what we can for happy sharing fun. Enjoy! Please feel free to identify any characters we failed at recognizing! […]

https://midlifecrisiscrossover.com/2026/03/29/c2e2-2026-photos-part-1-of-2-cosplay/

Watch The Trek Talks 5 Livestream All Day Today https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/28/watch-the-trek-talks-5-livestream-all-day-today/ #Conventions/Events/Attractions #TrekTalks

Oh, joy! Yet another riveting tome on #naming #conventions in Go. Because, obviously, without a "practical guide" 🤓, developers would be adrift in a sea of indecipherable variable names, forever lost. 🌊🚢 Just what the world needs: another book treating us like we have the naming #skills of a toddler. 🍼📚
https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/go-naming-conventions #GoLang #Developer #Humor #Practical #Guide #Coding #HackerNews #ngated