Punk on Bus Lives!📻🚍Mar 29

"I don’t like a lot of the new Trek. He (Kurtzman), as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are shit. He is a nice guy. But they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, fuck ’em.”

It's amazing how much we've all learned in the past day what a right-wing POS Andy Weir is. I was planning on seeing Project Hail Mary, but there's no way Weir is ever getting my money again.
#StarTrek #ProjectHailMary

Their “Shows Are Sh**”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/project-hail-mary-author-andy-weir-paramount-star-trek-1236549532/

‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**”

The author of the blockbuster film says Paramount turned down his 'Star Trek' idea and suggested that modern 'Trek' shows have lost their way.

The Hollywood Reporter
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsMar 29
@punkonbuslives So, I've been watching other conversations about him, but to also know that he's shittin' on Trek like that because he's butthurt? lol, fucking dipshit. I hope he constantly steps on legos the remainder of his small and shitty life.
Show threadPunk on Bus Lives!📻🚍Mar 29
@deathkitten
Ya, fuck him. Just another middle-aged white guy showing his true colors.
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsMar 29
@punkonbuslives I've been watching the replies to this toot for recs for other great scifi books. Already put in one hold at the library, and will probably need to comb through for others to add to my wishlist for me to dig through later when I'm looking for my next read. Very encouraged because I've seen my favorite recent discovery, the Imperial Radch books by Ann Leckie pop up multiple times, so clearly these are people with good taste.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116305873463140919
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

🤔Now I need to buy two IMAX tickets worth of sci-fi books written by authors that aren't anti-woke, just to put my part of the universe back in balance. 🤔Actually to properly balance things out, I have to keep reading new sci-fi books until I find one that I can recommend to thousands of people.

Hachyderm.io
Show threadMatthew
@deathkitten @punkonbuslives @theresmiling some great ones mentioned in that thread, and others i plan to check out too. very good thread
Mar 29 at 10:28amWeb
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsMar 29
@picard @punkonbuslives @theresmiling The one silver lining when a whiny man childs shows us who he is like this is that we end up sharing the people who do the same thing they did, except better.
Show threadMatthewMar 29
@deathkitten @theresmiling @punkonbuslives yes exactly how i try to look at it. sometimes people say things like separate the art from the artist. but why bother when there is just SO MUCH amazing stuff by people who actually care about the people in our world and making it better for everybody. when we promote the people doing that we contribute to making the world a little better too i think.
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsMar 29
@picard @theresmiling @punkonbuslives There is literally so much good shit being made all the time. Why waste time on shit made by hateful people?

Like, even just the recs in the thread I linked are more than I could possibly hope to have time to read.
Show threadMatthewMar 29
@deathkitten @theresmiling @punkonbuslives right?! it's impossible to read everything anyway, so why would we ever want to promote hateful people and give them money, it just makes no sense to me.
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsMar 29
@picard @theresmiling @punkonbuslives It's even more confusing to me when they're not just talking hateful stuff, but it's someone like JK Rowling, who has literally been giving not a small amount of her money to causes that are literally trying to destroy people.

Hateful words cause enough harm, but throwing money behind those hateful words only compounds it.