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NO KINGS NO THRONES NO DOMINIONS

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Vesa Lehtimäki flickr page

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Pallas Athena. middle of 2nd century. Novel. Casa de Pilatos. Seville. spain

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STAR WARS (1977)

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the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs

the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years

the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and

humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

like imagine you're the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who've barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others' guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

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𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐲🎃𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥

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#cozy victorian autumnal

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Autumn’s Portrait

https://www.instagram.com/autumndailyposts/

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Opinion: the highest praise for a book isn’t always "I couldn't put it down"

Sometimes the highest praise is "I had to put it down so I could deal with my thoughts and feelings for a bit"

And that’s why Terry Pratchett's Night Watch is the best book ever written.

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Mt. Tahoma, Washington (2023)

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Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia image credit: Eric Long/Smithsonian Institution                          National Air and Space Museum

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Most people don't care for video games that simulate their day jobs, but engineers love coming home at the end of the day and playing engineering sims because every engineer has that little voice in the back of their mind that says "okay, I know this would be both wildly unethical and probably illegal, but what if".

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The approximate size difference between the Constitution-class (refit) U.S.S. Enterprise and the Millennium Falcon.

This reminds me of a friendly argument I had with a buddy in high school. He was super-hyped after seeing Star Wars and had written a fan fiction crossover between the two Star Wars and Star Trek (The Original Series; this was long before even Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released. Lawdy, I'm old....).

The story wasn't too bad, except that he had the Falcon dwarfing the Enterprise. It took me awhile, but I finally convinced him of his error.

He went on to have a very long career as a professional entertainment journalist, and has written several books about each franchise.