*|FNAME|*Rose on the corner! This was a pleasant surprise. #BloomScrolling #ddwalking
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Karl T.
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Just this once, let’s try not to be assholes to those less fortunate than ourselves.
"Hi my name is Aaron Bushnell, I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided, will be normal".
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.
Democracy Matters 
God dammit! Just leave trans people alone! They’ve got enough to contend with, for fuck’s sake.
@chicating Not gonna lie, I would have really enjoyed Picard showing the two-fingered Spike version to some officious Federation bureaucrat.
@chicating Heh. Kirk _canonically_ can't do it, either, so you're in good company.
I wrote a lot of anguished political journal entries, and one real jeremaiad, after W was elected in 2004.
If I had known then that what was coming was so, so much worse, I'm not sure I would have made it through long enough to start at the Internet Archive.
This really has been going on, and getting steadily worse, for our whole damn lives.
@chicating At the risk of digressing into one of my special interests, Nimoy's influence in Vulcan ritual and its callbacks to Jewish rituals from his youth are some of the things I treasure most about old Star Trek.
I don't consider Vulcans to be "Jews in Space" but the cultural resonance is really nice, and one of the reasons why new Trek falls a little flat for me.
"Peace and long life."
"Peace and long life," was a Vulcan blessing, typically used when characters greet or depart. First used in the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" in 1967, it has been liberally used throughout the franchise ever since. It is typically accompanied by the Vulcan Salute and is used as a return to the blessing, "Live long and prosper." Outside of the Star Trek universe, the phrase and Salute are often used among fans.
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦*whispering* (To all the librarians I know and don't know: I love you, you wizards!)