Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

In retrospect, the most unrealistic part of V for Vendetta was it showed people rioting for better protection after only 80,000 people died of a virus

In a grocery store on Saturday morning, I overheard two women with a small child talking about how a US government shutdown would mean that the WIC program, which helps to ensure that children have enough food to eat, is immediately suspended.

It turns out that almost exactly a decade after writing about donating to food banks during such a shutdown, I am still incandescently furious about this.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/charities-government-civilised-society

#StarTrek

This sucks so much. I kept telling numerous people " #discord is NOT a forum, it is an IRC app, stop building your communities in it around stuff that needs to be found with a search engine and archived, it's a bad idea for numerous reasons including the overpopulation of server topics in an app that has a 100 server limit" but nobody listened. I hate being right.

We're about to have yet ANOTHER internet library of alexandria situation assuming this shit retroactively applies to existing stuff.

Goths 🦇

This WWF calendar only has pictures of animals

Where the heck are the wrestlers

Organized labor is having a resurgence in America.... MSNBC's Ali Velshi discusses the power of organized labor with SAG-AFTRA convention delegate and actor Jeri Ryan (@JeriLRyan), plus writer & director Eric Haywood, one of the WGA's 2023 negotiation committee members: https://mastodon.social/@JeriLRyan@mastodon.world

#unions #labor #sagaftra #startrek #film #television #America #news

"my child is fine" "ma'am, your child is coarse"

Trans girls, here’s your reminder that there is a whole market of push up and padded bras and shape wear and everything created for and marketed to cis women. Don’t be embarrassed about wearing the same shit they wear to get the body shape you want and to feel attractive

#StarTrek

There are three main types of stroopwafels.

Igneous, the most common, are formed by melting a sticky filling and pouring it between two waffles.

Sedimentary stroopwafels are commonly encountered at the bottom of a large container of igneous stroopwafels.

The rarest form is the metamorphic stroopwafel, formed by subjecting igneous and/or sedimentary stroopwafels to extremes of heat and pressure until they fuse together.

Say what you will, but what is really the most optimistic thing about TNG, more so than the poverty-less and money-less utopia, is when somebody goes to the captain and says "this weird, unbelievable thing happened to me" and they believe them.

Reg says he sees a creature in the transporter beam and rather than saying "Reg, you well-known anxiety haver, you're imagining things!", they take the transporter apart, twice, to find out.

Beverly says she hears voices at night and has an overwhelming sense of deja-vu, and the captain doesn't say, "my, what an overactive imagination you have! Sleep more and do yoga!", he instructs the crew to sweep the entire ship with sensors, from top to bottom and starboard to port, until they've figured it out.

THAT is a world I'd like to live in.

#StarTrek #TNG

Do not go gentle into that good crab.