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Darin Najem

@darinnajem.bsky.social
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Just plain and simple Bajoran man from STO that loves Star Trek, Star Wars, Avatar, AvP, Dune, vintage science-fiction, film studies, comics, literature, modern art, writing fan ficion, gaming, virtual photography, human rights, the list goes on and on.

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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just FYI, on Fcb, there's a page called "Star Trek the Original Series & Movies". Recently, one of the moderators published a post celebrating Stephen Collins, triggering a controversy. Majority of commenters resisted the idea of celebrating a #StarTrek actor with a serious criminal past.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great: —Off-Hour —A Case of Chiaroscuro —Tomorrow's Enterprise —Orders of Magitude Good: —Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass —Level-Five Transporter Accident —Once La'An a Time —Valles Marineris Still sorta cool: —Human Best Friend —The Griffin Incident Bad: nothing, really 🖖
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Kenneth Nørgaard @kennethnrgaard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The American Age Is Over A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/earths-gre...
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'Earth's Greatest Enemy' Delivers A Penetrating Insight Into The Heart Of Our Dystopia
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm grateful for having such high quality Trek on TV, but sometimes I'm a bit sad it's not addressing painful contemporary issues more. After an episode where a decorated military leader plans to commit a war crime, while euphemistically calling it a 'military deterrent', I can't complain anymore.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I haven't studied the audiovisual properties or bonus contents of those disks, I just mean to say that the graphic artist did an outstanding job on this new collection.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Along with Peacemakers by Una McCormack this is my most wishlisted upcoming #StarTrek novel. Can't wait. 🖖
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Indivisible Hawai’i Statewide Network @indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
7 in 10 Americans don’t want data centers in their communities. Towns are fighting back. Big Tech’s response? Sue them and build anyway. To hell with that. Our water. Our electric bills. Our towns. WE get a damn say. #stopdatacenters
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Okay, at risk to be branded doomer and 'end is near' false prophet again, I will share it with a comment that this is becoming an increasingly valid concern, especially after that hugging face incident.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh wow! That's almost undeservedly brilliant edit. Makes me want yet another rewatch of #VOY.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I bet all the naysayers that kept complaining for the whole month that #StarTrekOnline is not doing enough to celebrate and commemorate the 60th anniversary feel super embarassed right now, because THAT 👇 is awesome!
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Certain Trek fans watching the soap opera episode...
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's nobody on the planet those anti-woke bigots hate more. Thank you, Alex Kurtzman, for tormenting fascists and forcing them to boil in their toxic misery whenever watchin a new Trek episode and happy birthday!
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Activists have been pointing out for decades that law enforcement in US regularly uses forced interrogation techniques to gain fake confessions so they can close their cases. Will somebody finally start listening now when #ICE does it too?
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary of the global premiere of #StarTrek! (Yes, it's today, actually)
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GeekFilter 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @geekfilter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Alternate version of my #StarTrekSNW poster for "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass". I had a lot of fun with this one!
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A short, badly-paced, narratively incoherent video of bunch of talking heads, bragging about how they kicked ass in a made up war is the "best Star Trek"...? What the actual F. We truly are living in the days of delusions.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I had lots of fun watching Chronitons Through The Hourglass. In an embarrasing kinda way, but with lots of laughter nevertheless. Not one with general appeal, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. They walked the fine line between hommage and mockery and dug something authentically emotional out of it. #SNW
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Carl @listeningtofilm.net · 03/09/2026
“Give us money so we can tell you the story of all the things we didn’t do with the money you gave us last time” is a hell of a sales pitch
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a note to all the "I'm gonna pirate HP so that Rowling won't see a dime of my money" talk — Don't, pls. ANY consumption of it is unethical. Even pirating it, talking about it, reviewing it, seeding a torrent, whatever. All that is still spreading it, platforming it. Boycott must be absolute.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Geopolitical unrest, huh? Well that sure is one term for it. I call it full blown fascist takeover. Smart move, Netherlands, btw.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh yes, that's a whole another level of cosplay. Worth of sharing.
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Star Trek Online @playstartrekonline.com · 03/09/2026
Star Trek will be 60, and we're throwing a party to celebrate! Join developers and voice actors of STO, alongside artists from the shows and games that make Star Trek enduring. See the next update for Star Trek Online, and our new roadmap! www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/…
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#Yiannopoulous: "If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump" Um... since when is 'having no clue' a good excuse? The dude is a total moron. Like many others. He's lucky he didn't get FAFOed more than that. Zero sympathy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sounds like Trump chose that hill to die on and thus that is the target area where all his enemies should fight him on. It it makes Trump so agitated, clearly people fighting data centers hit a nerve. It makes me respect them even more.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
EU would be definitely better with Iceland in it and the world needs more unity these days, more than ever. And that comes from a person that respects independence as one of the greatest values one can have. Still. Iceland's decision will be respected. Hopefully, they will remain at least allies.
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vomitgoblin.bsky.social @vomitgoblin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Idk how anyone can listen to these people talk so casually about people dying and not think they're some of the most evil assholes on the planet. Truly just no empathy whatsoever, anyone not in their immediate circle is trash to be thrown away.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
US has paid $34 million for Trump's redo of the Reflecting Pool US is sending $500 thousand to help Nepal flood victims
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A whole chapter of cinema history is closing along with that studio. So underappreciated by most of the audience and industry alike, yet, I'm sure adored and celebrated in the film history books yet to be written. Thanks for all the dreams come true, literally, Phil Tippett.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I liked it when I saw it first. It's a good episode in technical terms. But I don't really approve of the underlying message that sticking out is wrong and everybody should fall in line of uniformity. I much prefer #StarTrek that embraces the quirkiness of its characters. Like #SNW lately.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not what I expected. At all. Which si good. But instead of my own words, I will share the wisdom I discovered in this vid, which I found quite illuminating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WUc... (beware SPOILERS for #SNW season 4 episode 5)
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Why the Star Trek Puppet Episode Is the Most Important One of This Era #startrek
YouTube video by Mr. Know-It-All
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
71 Senegal men arrested for having gay sex in ‘unnatural acts' crackdown ➡️ bit.ly/4fMea52 📷 Getty
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yes, a gross injustice no matter who it happens to. But, at the same, if you support Trump, then you support injustice, then you support denial of basic human rights, and if you do that, I'm not sorry if it turns and bites you back. I'm not saying he deserved it. He didn't. Just that I'm not sorry.
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That sounds like something out of a horror movie. #DHS #ICE #torture #humanrights #immigration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed
Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 01/08/2026
A Maryland man won ‘teacher of the year.’ Then ICE grabbed him at an airport
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A Maryland man won ‘teacher of the year.’ Then ICE grabbed him at an airport
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret won a teacher of the year award this month right before federal immigration enforcement agents arrested him for allegedly overstaying...
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That was exactly my thought when it ended. Providing explanation, even a technobabble one, would take away the mystery and diminish the horror of it. Hauted houses don't have causes. They just are. Same with haunted starships. Would be a mistake to give it a scooby-doo treatment in the end. #SNW
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh, I guess the private prison contractors are running out of slave labor again and need to replenish numbers from somewhere. So since overstaying VISA is such a capital crime, why not to target those folks for indefinite imprisonment, wait, sorry, they call it "detention". (Same thing, though)
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/07/2026
Izzy Aly was arrested in December at the Philadelphia International Airport as he flew home to Florida from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-approved visit to Egypt to handle his recently deceased father’s estate. 6 months later, he has been released.
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Izzy Aly Spent 6 Months in ICE Jail. Now He’s Fighting to End Detention.
Immigration policing “is not something to stay quiet about, even as one of the intended targets,” says Aly.
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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump sees this headline, turns to Stephen Miller, and says, “I’ll have what he’s having.”
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Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections — Guardian US
Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition
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Puppet News @puppetnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I have lost track of the amount of time expelled trying to understand why fascists liked Star Trek but now think its woke. I was thinking how could they not see the messages! Pridebrary explains it really well. I understand it now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyrl...
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Why Fascists Love Stories That Hate Them
YouTube video by PrideBrary
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Idk, all those years of watching #StarTrek TOS, and rewatching and rewatching, it always seemed kinda silly, you know, that trope of idolatry of a computer god, whole populations controlled by a machine and all that, reliant on it in every way. How odd an idea, right? These days I'm not so sure...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 07/07/2026
“Who do you believe? Them… or Benjamin Netanyahu?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social names the UN officials, human rights and aid groups, prominent Israelis and medical orgs that have accused Israel of committing war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and starvation - all in 60 seconds. zeteo.com/subscribe
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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Rutte is such a coward. Enough said.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 06/07/2026
The emergency meeting was surreal and its topic unthinkable: Is America now a threat? When Europe realized there was no going back. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4y8s4pb
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