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Yes, though she also says her mom was the only other Klingon on the colony she was raised on. It gave me the immediate impression like she lacked cultural exposure, even if she was taught *of* said culture.

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Coming away from DS9 having seen the likes of Worf, Alexander, Martok, Kang and many others, it's quite disappointing the writers took what seems like the easiest route for quick-n-dirty characterization. I don't suppose it's an accident that B'Elanna is the only woman among those characters.

"This makes my death an honorable one." Girl, your mom was the only Klingon you knew growing up, did all this stuff get internalized and stay buried just in case some evil scientist split you into wholly human and wholly Klingon individuals?

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"This ep is weird" could apply to almost every episode of Voyager I've seen so far, but "Faces" is definitely up there!

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Wait, so B'Ellana is split into two people and her Klingon half just... starts speaking Klingon intermittently like other Klingons do? Despite her not having that cultural exposure? This ep is weird, but the makeup effects are rad.

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What a hilarious headline, asking a hypothetical question that can be answered with a simple "politely ask them to take their shoes off."

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026

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As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

X still has an outsized influence for its size but only for an ever shrinking and sadder group of people so now I have to seriously hear about someone we made fun of for a bad orgy flow chart being at the center of the eyes wide shut cult but for people that pretend to know about computers.

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Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik @hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.

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Feeling hollow and bitterly angry today. Positivity feels in such short supply for me.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a similar vein, I learned earlier this year that "philistine" was disparaging against Palestinians. Easy enough to remove from my vocab after that lesson.

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Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Wizards of the Coast actually *does* collaborate with Harry Potter, people should rightfully boycott it, and Magic as a whole. But look. Folks. People are speculating hard about a Brandon Sanderson collaboration. That should be met with the same energy as a JK Rowling one.

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Screaming into the void, "why are you still going to the nazi bar?" every time I see a friend post a link from the nazi bar. This goes double when I see trans people there. What the actual fuck do you gain from this?

Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thinking I might reach out to my anthropology prof about her class on sex and gender. I figured out a few things about myself since we last spoke.

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If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.

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It's a story about genocide survivors who've been enslaved and made to become gladiators for corporations that are functionally dynasties and oligarchies. They represent sponsors who provide them the tools and boons they need to survive. The subtext is practically screaming at the reader to notice.

I read through the series earlier this year. The early books are a bit awkward to go through bc they were written as serial fiction, but that's not as present in later stories.

besides, FBC literally begins with "federal". I'm not prioritizing feds over civvies, ever.

my personal favorite so far was an altered item that enthralled a bunch of people. there's a minigame to save them, but each time you flub it someone dies. I don't know how dialogue changes if you save them all or most die, but failing to save two people still broke my (and Dylan's) heart.

Just because Dylan works *with* the bureau doesn't mean he's *of* it. They go so far as to collar him even though Pope acknowledges it's unnecessary given his willingness to help. No coincidence that you can lie about an anomaly's nature in one side quest to protect it from study and/or capture.

Not only that, going from "beloved, brand new leader" to "hated, familiar anomaly" lets us more directly engage with the Bureau as an element of oppressive governance.

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So little discussion outside Bsky* Then again it could just be the game is too new and people are still figuring things out. I feel that, given dualism was such a central theme of the first game, that people would be more open to the sequel being more overt with it.

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There's so much trans allegory in Control Resonant it hurts that I'm seeing so little discussion of it online. Dylan's been framed by everyone in power at the FBC, but anyone who spends time with them in-game comes to realize quickly those were half-truths if not outright lies.

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Controlling the narrative around how we speak of arts with both an intellectual and prurient appeal is intentional. It allows discrimination and suppression of art that's produced in and by marginalized communities. These are works that can garner sympathy for the marginalized; they don't want that.

There's also the fact that American courts have tried to label pornography as "obscene", or even "not art". The way we speak of art as somehow separate from pornography in American English is the result of prudish conservatives controlling the narrative. They want to separate the inseparable.

I'd like to think folks would know better, especially given Sucker Punch is a dev from here in the PNW (where the art and history of local tribes is part of our grade school education). I would've hoped someone, anyone would've spoken up on what a callously racist casting choice Baker was.