The #StrangeNewWorlds cartoon crossover episode absolutely should not have worked and absolutely did. That it could share a series with Ad Astra Per Aspera is quite something

SNW is, (for me), to the OS what Andor was to the original Star Wars trilogy. It gets all the stuff that was great about the original that was lost in everything that came in between. Trek was never about seeking new life as much as finding out about ourselves. With extreme whimsy

I've fallen back in love with both again

The world is full of 50 year old men constantly complaining about Dr Who and ruining it for my children.

All the coverage I'm seeing of the Barbie film is giving me very similar vibes.

As Twitter, the micro-USB of social media if you will, becomes redundant, what we need is an EU-type body to enforce a standard USB-C aggregator for all the disparate competing entities. The interaction side of things died years back, but I was still valuing the data-gathering.

And while I'm at it, there also needs to be some sort of micropayments system that allows you to pay to view individual Substack or Patreon articles (or MSM for that matter) without subscribing to whole accounts.

Last night I fell asleep between launching myself from a Skyview Tower and the landscape being mapped. At some point hours later I stirred enough to remove the glasses that were digging into my nose and work through the confusion as to where I was (hotel, not home) before plunging back to the depths. The alarm went off just as I dreamt I was opening a huge bag of M&Ms.

7am at my office desk and need drugs pls.

I'm always a little uncertain of my reactions to things like this. Have to consciously put aside my own narrative in order to start to recognise the actual lived experience of those directly affected.

Yesterday we also had to explain to a 13 and 8 year old events of which they'd almost no knowledge, but which pretty much define the state of the world they live in.

TL;DR - 9/11 Memorial is quite something

We have a 13hr flight imminent.

Packing today took about one hour.

Prepping the tablet took well over 4.

All downloads and games now cleared Airplane Mode checkout.