"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.

"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."

"Are you sure?"

"You think it frivolous?"

"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."

"Would my life change?"

"You ask that every time."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

"To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

–Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#quotes #literature

"You can't have gay Klingons!", shout the dumberatti from the sidelines, having never realised that Star Trek was always a show about wokeness.

Huh? Huh? You want to say that a warrior culture would repress homosexuality when our own history shows us that warrior cultures in our past embraced it?

How about this take on one of our favourite fictional races: maybe to a Klingon, it would be an act entirely without honour to deny someone the right to become a fully fledged member of their society, just based on who and how they loved.

Maybe in Klingon society anyone who discriminates against someone just because they're gay is likely to get ostracised or challenged to a duel to the death.

Maybe Klingons believe that who you love doesn't change whether you can fight or not, and they'd look at human history of discrimination against LGBTI folk as one of the worst forms of dishonour imaginable.

#StarTrek #Klingon #LGBTIQ

TIL: The #Linux #kernel has #Klingon language support:

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/unicode.html#klingon-language-support

Qapla'!

#LinuxKernel #StarTrek

Hollywood-Star Catherine O'Hara ist tot

Ob als gestresste Mutter in "Kevin - Allein zu Haus" oder exzentrischer Soap-Star in "Schitt's Creek": Catherine O´Hara brachte Generationen von Zuschauern zum Lachen. Nun starb sie im Alter von 71 Jahren in Los Angeles.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/schauspielerin-ohara-tod-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Schauspielerin #Tod