Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

One detail that #StarTrekDS9's "Past Tense" predicted for the year 2024 is that men and women would wear dark eyeliner at formal events. You can see this during the cocktail party in part 1 where Chris Brynner (only here) and all the party guests wear dark eyeliner.

1. Carrying luggage with midlegs
2. Larvae wearing swimsuits
3. Feeding on more expensive plants that aren’t their usual fare

We've been placated by "tax breaks" and encouraged to build "generational wealth" for so damn long we never realized:

These things don't matter to anyone but the upper class.

Form feet and leggies

Form pawbs and body

And I'll form the blep

life is too complicated, we should all just curl up in sunbeams as cats intended

When I worked as research assistant on season 2 of #StarTrekPicard, I came up with some ideas for visual references to what California was like in the summer of 2024 in #StarTrekDS9's "Past Tense". None of it was used in the end but here are my suggestions.

TIL Diners Club still exists https://www.dinersclub.com/

Transgender kids have a right to privacy from parents, U.S. court rules

"In a 3-1 opinion, the court upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Manchester School District student. She sued after inadvertently discovering her child had asked to be called at school by a name typically associated with a different gender."

#News #LGBTQ+ #HumanRights #Legal #Parenting #Politics

https://globalnews.ca/news/10727259/transgender-kids-right-to-privacy-parents-u-s-court-rules/

I've had a few folks ask me how I make https://www.thestopbits.net load so quickly.

It's a boring answer: it's tiny.

There's almost nothing you download when you visit. There's no JavaScript and we use whatever font you have as the default.

It's not a trick, it's just how things used to be. It has to load on a 28.8 modem, so on your modern machine it's going to feel zippy.

Modern websites can feel zippy too.

And only one of these groups tends to survive a horror film.

I have a lot of issues with the world, but it does make me happy that we all just seemed to agree to treat the Muppets like real people.

People like to think about racism as if it's full of malicious intent. But often it's much more banal. Most of the time it's nothing more than "if somebody has to get hurt, let it be them. Because who's gonna complain about that am I right?"

NEW: A federal judge in Texas issued a revised order on Friday significantly increasing the nationwide limits placed on the Biden administration in implementing its Affordable Care Act healthcare nondiscrimination rule.

This evening, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texas-judge-expands-nationwide-1557-rule-limits

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at https://BlinkingGuy.com

im a linux girl, in a windows world
life's fantastic, kernel panic

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

Now i can have all the long hair i want, so ill keep it even if its a pain to maintain lol