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What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.

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Kira Nerys's relationships are so funny. Imagine your boss is a messenger to the gods. Your boyfriend is a cardinal, then your next boyfriend is the prime minister. You have personal beef with the pope. Hitler wants to fuck you. And you end up dating a mall cop.

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Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -

why are your legs so long?

I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?

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hot latin space pilots

Poe Dameron, Starfighter Corps

highly skilled hothead with authority issues

still General Organa's best operative

Star Wars: The Force Awakens et al

Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American

Cristobal Rios, La Sirena

likes cigars, dislikes people

Star Trek: Picard

Santiago Cabrera, Chilean

Cassian Andor, anything that moves

builds a rebellion from scratch

dies for a sunrise he'll never see

SW: Rogue One, Andor

Diego Luna, Mexican

Erica Ortegas, Enterprise

soldier, smartass, swordswoman, wingwoman

surfs a wave on a black hole

ST: Strange New Worlds

Melissa Navia, Colombian-American

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I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

inherently dangerous

uninhabitable

empty

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

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Wait- this was written two years ago, but the Rebels find out about the Death Star because DEDRA WAS ACCIDENTALLY ADDED TO THE SIGNAL CHAT?????

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Kleya Marki in Andor 2.10 Make It Stop

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Having made two polls about the finales, I wondered… what about pilot episodes?

On one hand, they’re rough, haven’t found their footing, and characters can be wildly different and inconsistent to who they end up becoming.

But on the other hand, it’s the start of a journey! They have no idea what’s to happen! Who they’ll befriend/fall in love/hate! And you have three or four or seven series to look forward to watching, and witness highs and lows! Here we go again!

TOS and ENT both finally included because I’ve watched both and I didn’t have the heart to not include them. (But seriously, no spoilers past 1x03 of Enterprise, please!) Haven’t seen future shows, so they’re not included. Didn’t include AOS because I’m only curious about TV mediums this time around, tbh.

Which pilot is your favourite? Which first episode left the best impression on you and made you excited to watch more?

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If I ask nicely who will rb this telling me what is the last song u listened to 🥺

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The ice cream boss can be seen in footage saying: "You're killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here."

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Started out as a kiss how did it end up like this?

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Cowboy Bebop TV Series (1998)

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ERICA ORTEGAS - STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS S2E8 Under the Cloak of War

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