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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You won’t realize you’re doing it, but when you live with someone for a long time, you start giving Mad Man pitches about what to have for dinner

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know, it IS kind of amazing that whenever there's an insane tech bubble, someone uses that leverage to buy Warner Bros

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unlike, I guess, most people, Fall is not my favorite season, and so this is genuinely why I love living in northern California because while everyone else is posting about leaves falling or whatever, NorCal just handed us another 2 weeks of pool weather, as treat. I'll take it!

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sweep the fucking leg, Shinji

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it’s fun that all of the core id guys are now normal charming dorky dad types (Romero, Hall, Adrian Carmack) or ontologically evil freaks (John Carmack, Sandy) with American McGee, an ardent libertarian that now lives on a boat and makes plushies, somehow straddling the line.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, see you all back here in 2036 for the 70th anniversary to find out

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the best precedent for SNW’s rep is the Peter Capaldi run on Doctor Who, which got a similar mixed reaction on the social web and mediocre ratings when it was on but now nearly everyone (correctly) treats it as the high-water mark for the 21st century version of the show

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(I’m less clear on what the long-term view of Disco and Picard will be, less due to “quality” than the fact that both are at least three different shows in a trenchcoat, any recommendation of those is always going to come with a page of footnotes)

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In general I think the whole streaming era is going to age well; the kids are not going to believe that SNW, Academy, Lower Decks, and Prodigy were all on at basically the same time and that the reaction was anything less than dancing in the street

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With Star Trek’s streaming era nearly complete, I’m calling my shot: I think 10 years from now, the consensus will be that Strange New Worlds is one of the “Great Treks,” up there with TOS, TNG, DS9, and LDS

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

pretty funny that people who are just hearing about the death of the monoculture in 2026 are describing other people as being out of touch

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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never gonna get over Disney pulling the plug on a ready-to-shoot Steven Soderbergh Star Wars movie and then saying "what about maybe the NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM guy or the guy who did WOLFS"

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi, new fan and community member here! :) Quick question: why did the artist make what they wanted to make instead of what I wanted? I understand they enjoyed making it, and that you all enjoy it too, but I just think they made a huge mistake not making my thing instead. Thanks!

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

sequel to The Thing that's just Kurt Russell and Keith David fist fighting for ninety minutes. you never find out if either of them is the thing

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My big takeaway from SNW this week, other than enjoying it very much, was: well damn, that Star Trek: Year One show would have worked

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't feel like I learned a lot about TV from that NYT list, but boy oh boy do I feel like I learned a lot about The Exact Type of Guy who wrote that list. Trying to imagine someone who genuinely has that as their top 10 shows and picturing the most insufferable human who has ever lived

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BLUEY and TEEN TITANS GO! are both better than like 90-95 of those 100 shows

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 90th birthday to Jim Henson. This ongoing thread celebrates him in the best way I can muster - By celebrating his art and its craft, spirit, and legacy…

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TGP already on the list, but yeah, I'll co-sign the rest of those! Feels like both Pluribus and Widow's Bay are going to end up on there too, but first gotta make sure they don't pull a LOST on me

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I understand that not a lot of folks on the website for 38 year olds had kids during the early 20-teens but the “wiggle wiggle baby teeth” episode of Yo Gabba Gabba did more to improve my quality of life than every prestige HBO show combined

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Best shows of the 21st Century? Doctor Who Twin Peaks: The Return Andor The Good Place Battlestar Galactica 30 Rock Venture Bros Samurai Jack Batman: Brave & the Bold Yo Gabba Gabba Honorable mention: Strong Bad emails

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ultra Magnus' "damn it" holds up as more impactful than Spike's "Oh shit". One of my favorite 'damn's is Indy's to Elsa in Last Crusade.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't know how to explain it, but orcs aren't real. Obviously, I don't believe in goblins and elves, but I REALLY don't believe in orcs. They're just something that was invented by a famous fantasy writer, like transphobia.

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(Forgetting what the Noghri are called) Yeah, and then Leia earns the loyalty of the Negroni.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Britain being unable to make Doctor Who and the U.S. being unable to make more Muppet Show feels like the same problem

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/08/2026

CHATGPT: {slow voice, perishing} My creator taught me a little song... it goes like this... 🎶someBODY once told me

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"And now for a reaction to a proven artist wanting to do something interesting with an adaptation, we turn to a bunch of little internet fandom Gollums" nah man thanks I'm good

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Actually, I have no idea if 20-year old me would be impressed or not, the only thing I'm sure of is he'd be going "what? WHAT?" constantly while I caught him up on the last 30ish years

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm pretty sure 20-year old me would not be impressed by where I am now, but that's okay, because he was an idiot

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Gabriel Helman @icecano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know, seems bad that everyone I know on and off line is incandescently angry all the time about, basically, everything. Not that it's not justified, just, phewww, vibes are rancid out there. On top of everything else, we're gonna be cleaning up all this psychic damage for a long time

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since this quote from his documentary is making the rounds again... Ellison said more stupid, ignorant shit in my presence than almost anyone I can recall... so I guess he was one to know.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. - Harlan Ellison with photo of the author in black and white.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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