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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 4h

Never self-diagnose (even if you have been told outright by several medical professionals), never take online quizes (even ones suggested by medical professionals)… Anyway, my partner scored 99% on an autism quiz—I laughed because 99% autistic is a funny idea—then I took it and got 100% 🙃

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 6h

Getting a lot more “we swear! It’s definitely worth it to pay full price!” ads these days…

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 6h

I feel this thread in my bones… … but… Corporate, especially like HR departments and the like, their in-house posters have been very much like this forever and a day. That potluck on the third floor on Tuesday for Cindi retiring… it was very much like these, a clear antecedent slop.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 21h

Look, Matalas made terrible trek, and he’s wrong for the job now, but he’s right about this: “TNG was: the stories came to the ship, the ship came to the stories, but it was mostly people in the ready room and conference room, people having incredible conversations. It was great stories and drama.”

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 21h

Wait, people like it because it’s high concept 2001? I thought we all liked it BECAUSE it was goofy as fuck. Reliably pretty ok (and occasionally great, and sometimes yikes) tv is valuable not in those individual eps but in the overall body of work.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters"

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I programmed guardrails into my ai so it won’t hallucinate!” Uhhhhhh… no you didn’t. In fact, not only is that not a thing that you did, I’m pretty confident you are quite lost on the meaning of every noun and verb in that sentence.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Questioning if someone is cheating is the downfall of the relationship” I mean, kinda, but usually it’s more whatever made you question on the first place that’s the destruction.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“no hate towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like A Crown of Blank & Blank stories as A Kraft of Mac & Cheese and I cannot stop thinking about it” I enjoy this quite a bit, but also I really love that THE exemplar is the very much teen fantasy A Song of Fire & Ice.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do love jokes purpose-built for me specifically.

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Wilde Butch @wildebutch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Methods matter Position matters Leveraging public transphobia to punish a small trans account is bad Regardless of the reason Regardless of how justified you feel Commit to living your ethics or else they're just an aesthetic

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Rin Stedecore is on their Rimworld bullshit again 🔪 @stedeco.re · 28/09/2026

can't sleep still thinking about dev patel as james bond "rin aren't you a lesbian" I HAVE EYES

Dev Patel looking fine af in grey slacks and a grey suit jacket (but it's long? like a regular jacket?) and a white shirt that has a tasteful V neck, just a little. He has his hands in his pockets and is looking at the camera with mild interest, a sort of "hey man, 'sup" look on his face. I want to bite him.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I forgot that Dune was actually about moons.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cool. Leftists & progressives of various stripes all have to live in the world and dine with people who’d like us dead or don’t even think of us as people, while many right wingers can live in their bubbles never breaking bread with us who support their rights.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s genuinely important for people to understand the difference between them liking something and it being good (or as importantly, not liking it therefore it’s bad).

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big fan of Rings of Power here. Despite my affection and some great stuff in there, it’s uh…. not a good show. It’s sometimes a fun show, but having a lot to love doesn’t mean it actually works. It’s junk food with aspirations.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yo, remember “fake geek girls” and how that was bullshit? Why can we never apply these kind of terms when… you know… it matters: if you’re “writing” with ai, you ain’t writing—you’re a fake nerd, an absolute dork.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When did YouTubers forget the rule of thirds? Like, it seemed fit a whole like they’d gotten over their obsession (naivety) with absolute dead-center framing… but here we are, back where we started.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Generally, sure, but tell that to kid-me having a huge crush on him. (That’s Alexander Siddig el-Tahir el-Fadil el-Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim el-Mahdi to his friends, maybe?)

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Who do you think I am, the mayor of New York?

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look, I skeet for myself because it’s a compulsion and an outlet and live journal is long gone and I don’t need anyone to actually see my skeets let alone like them, but this is an absolute banger and if you are one of my 900 followers and don’t fucking love this dumbass skeet, maybe unfollow me?

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look, the sequel trilogy isn’t good as a trilogy, it’s two perfectly fine movies and one of the best produced worst movies ever, so any scrap of overarching theme is… ephemeral. But… it’s funny to me seeing people dunking on the mouse not having a plan. Like the original trilogy had a plan lolol

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What if we kissed under the cuth pube?

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“At the end of the day” hits me this way, even though it’s not one ai tends to use… it has that feeling for me nonetheless. Gently even. Maybe crucially.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A character appears in the background as a reference? Not a spoiler. Something that happens in the plot? Usually not a spoiler. Unless there’s a mystery, a twist, a secret, or some other piece of information the story is specifically withholding from you—it’s not a spoiler!

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Lesbian Sheldon Cooper @campyalien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like people complain about it but I love used books with their spines all broken in. I love books that feel well loved. I love books that have been around

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was an incredible exhibit of Walter Wick (the I Spy and Can You See What I See books) at the Norman Rockwell museum and there was only lightly a little tying the two artists together out of the way in a small room in the basement. (Location, sure, but actual artistic connections!)

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"How will I sell my work without the network effects of the Nazi platform," says the name-brand author on the bestseller list who has enjoyed both an established readership and critical acclaim for decades

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Batman respectfully and somewhat frustratedly about to confess.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People are clowning on him aging more than her, but… it’s Trek. We can pretend two ships that look nothing alike are the same, we can pretend two Saaviks who behave entirely differently are the same, and time travel has happened a lot… so transporter accident age up or an O’Brien years of hell or… 🤷‍♀️

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And another thing, I'm not bothered. Please don't put in the newspaper that I got bothered

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s so fun that our reality is like 7 million variations of the twist ending (or horrifying introduction) in every sci-fi allegory which is the moment everything changes (or starts to) because everyone can see how plainly evil it is, it’s simply self-evident it cannot be permitted to continue.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean it’s not news or anything, but in case anyone was looking for proof that he’s not just a liar, a cheat, and charitably a “sex pest”, but also… a genuine idiot.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has anyone ever come through the mostly dull Voyager episode titles (so many interchangeable single words, I mean not SVU bad but still bad) and given them classic TOS (or occasional TNG) style titles?

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So… 🙏 … y’all need to really think about what you want to consider a “spoiler” because a lot of this shit… isn’t.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite famously, a bunch of distracting stuff shoved around the edges of a movie tends to :: checks notes :: … deepen the emotional connection to the film? Look, if I had silly glasses, I’d try Star Wars on them. It’s like a BIG screen EXPERIENCE. But it better JUST be the movie.

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ErsatzEmpress 🏳️‍⚧️ @ersatzempress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

me when my 12 bags make a really funny joke

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We all do this a lot: self-selecting the interesting people and those we care about as “everyone” even though we know better. Like I’ve got time to waste on someone who doesn’t have at least a little depression or anxiety?!

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The music in Once More With Feeling IS good, of course, and the music in Subspace Rhapsody is fine, but I couldn’t tell you what the story was, and that’s not because I wasn’t paying attention lol, it’s just so slight and felt about on par with everything else in SNW.

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’d definitely be more interested if it was the intended 2d (like this art), but Lasseter notwithstanding, this needs to be more than a pastiche for anyone to care. Like… I love the same stuff that Bird does (other than Rand, obviously), but I’m not sure yet what this is other than… more of that.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

This is ridiculous. If the team we are supposed to be rooting for is advocating for genocide, then what’s the fucking difference, you spineless twits “The anti-genocide people are why we can’t win” is the worst Liberal mantra of all fucking time

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Queer, Earl Grey, Hot @spaceshipjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yo, does anyone use hashtags regularly outside of specific art, sales, or spoilers? Like lots of people do… but is that obvious?! I see pretty much none of my mutuals using them outside those contexts, but then if I search for instance SNW: lots of folks using hashtags (not art, sales, or spoilers)

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