#TDOV -- i am not trans, but i am fortunate enough to have many friends who are. they are all awesome humans who deserve to be loved, treated with respect, and championed.
the fight for trans rights, trans dignity and trans joy are a drastically important battlefront in the larger fight for bodily autonomy, identity autonomy, and the ongoing struggle against fascist oppression.
i stand in solidarity and love with my sisters, brothers and others.
Let me share one more personal Star Trek story with you. In 2001, I went to see "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" with my friends, expecting nothing else but a cool Sci-Fi flick. I was absolutely not prepared for what I had to witness. The atrocities committed towards robots in the film, especially during those "Flesh Fairs", really traumatized me. I've bever been able to watch that film ever since and I don't want to. The film was effective in alerting me towards similar atrocities committed towards other minorities on this planet. Right now. So it did work and I'm grateful for that.
But when I came home in 2001, I was so perturbed, I just couldn't sleep because of what I had seen, so I watched "Data's Day" (on self-recorded video cassette because the DVDs hadn't been released yet) and that episode put me at ease because it reminded me of the good in humanity and how differently androids could be treated. Ever since then, whenever I need to be calmed down when something bad happened or before an important/stressful day, I watch "Data's Day" because that episode just calms me down immensely. Seeing Data smile like that on the holodeck, it just cracks me up and makes me laugh and cry tears of joy. Star Trek can be healing like that and I'm grateful that I have that remedy in my life!
Tonight's Episode of Night Gallery is "Tell David."
One of the characters has a "Map Machine" to give directions to a lost traveler. It's neat to see what "Mapquest" would have been like with 1971 sensibilities.
The machine still uses pages, like an atlas, it just scrolls. To look up roads, you have to find the name in table, like in old atlases, then dial in the grid. The directions are miniature incandecent lights, but honestly, that's likely just "It's 1971, and the prop guy has to use what he has."
Funky 1971 Mapquest. :D
One day someone will call in and say "I'm getting a 50099 error code on my Nintendo DS browser" only to look on in horror as the Nintendo DS browser actually still does work and the last person who knew how to fix this has left Nintendo some time ago.
TAKE THAT NOA! 😆
Who am I kidding, I'm the only one still checking to see if this works....
A judge in Texas ruled that books removed from public libraries because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours
#SomeGoodNews
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/
I had planned an April Fool's stream today, but my cough is really bad the last few days. Maybe next year.
I'm actually not the biggest fan of April Fool's day, since most posts that day simply can't be trusted. The AF streams I've done tend to be more silly things, versus trying to fool you, like streaming 7 hours (SEVEN HOURS) of Zork Text Adventures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Ck_Mj08gw) or Not Actually Playing A Game, just running the cutscenes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibn0QQCB6tc).
While I was digging through my SD cards, I came across a 1TB SSD that was just hanging out in my box of digital storage stuff. thje Gaming PC I had has a criminally small HDD (made smaller because it's split between Linux and Windows), so I transferred the OS over to that.
I like using Linux on low end systems cause it doesn't eat a lot of processing power or storage space. It was surprising to see that Linux had 128GB of the 256GB partition filled out.
But with the 1TB drive in there (split between 512GB each for Linux and Windows) I don't think that'll be an issue for a while.
There's nothing to debate. Trans people exist and deserve to exist. There's going to be a lot of bs spewing out of politicians mouths this year. There will be a lot of outlandish claims against trans people with the purpose of discrediting and making them seem dangerous. As an ally we need to call this stuff out when we see it, online and irl. Their rhetoric is what's truly dangerous and we need to stand against it #TransgenderDayofVisibility
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
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