cpericardium:

kominfyrirkattarnef:

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

lonelyroommp3:

exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator’s narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight

chili-mac-and-cheese:

Jean-Luc Picard is such a hodgepodge of character traits. He enjoys classical music. He is a horse girl. He never takes sick time. Has been stabbed in the heart by a 7 foot tall drunkard. He hates kids. He has an enemies to besties arc with God. He stumbled across the latest common ancestor of humanoids everywhere. His favorite activity is looking at old stuff, but it used to be horse riding and before that it was ships in bottles.

Also he has a 5-digit kill count at a minimum and turned into a literal propaganda machine for a hot minute.

threedollarsdotcom:

scientists are hard at work exploring each others bodies

One of these days I have got to get to a healthy psychological state

purplespacekitty:

been thinking a lot lately about the existence of Sisko’s Creole Kitchen and what it means for 24th century Earth.

because on one hand, narratively, it’s an important piece of establishing the character of Benjamin Sisko - it tells us where he comes from and what kind of family raised him. the family restaurant situates him in a particular historical and cultural context by showing us that the Creole food he cooks on the station is something he and his son quite literally inherited and is part of a continuation of Creole culture in New Orleans centuries ahead of the here and now. it is the antithesis of Star Trek’s usual watered-down and whitewashed approach to various Earth cultures, where established characters of color are stripped of their culture in order to fit into the homogeneous Human.jpg box Star Trek likes to put its human characters in to contrast with the aliens of the week - all under the guise of equality. textbook allegorical storytelling. what sets Sisko apart from this tendency is that he is not just a Starfleet captain who happens to be Black, he is explicitly written as a Black American captain whose identity and family history is deeply rooted in the legacy of his ancestors. on this hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a vessel of cultural preservation.

and on a sort of different hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a very clear example of community-based food sovereignty on a post-capitalist Earth. on this Earth, Joseph serves his patrons without any expectation of compensation for his and his kitchen staff’s labor, which means that he’s likely not paying for anything that allows him to keep running the restaurant. might seem a bit contrary to the whole concept of a restaurant, but that’s what i’m trying to get at, here.

in a future where every starship and probably most homes are equipped with replicators that can create pretty much anything for you, farms and restaurants and even the act of cooking might seem a bit redundant. so why continue those traditions at all?

well, the concept of a restaurant in the world of today is, essentially, to eat a meal that you don’t have to prepare for yourself, as well as for chefs to share cultural ties through food and creativity with others. it’s both a time-saver for consumers and a platform for culinary art. but it also commodifies food, the act of cultivating it, the act of consuming it and the act of making it.

in a post-scarcity society, where, presumably, no one is required to work long hours at the expense of their physical and mental health just to keep a roof over their head, everyone should, in theory, have enough time to put as much effort as they choose into preparing their own food. of course, cooking is not everybody’s particular love or strong suit, so the appeal of restaurants as access to good, fresh food remains.

the fact that Sisko’s even exists is indicative of, once again, the act of cultural preservation and also of the necessity of establishments that feed their surrounding communities through a labor of love. the best reason to cook is because you love doing it and Joseph clearly values culinary artistry and the cultivation of fresh ingredients, so he must not only be supporting those who come to his restaurant but also those who fish, rear livestock, grow produce and those who help prepare them to be served. in this way, his restaurant could be a very direct system by which he keeps other foodways alive. and, again, presumably - because none of this is based on a system of currency or capital and food is not a product but a facet of the community - it’s plausible and, in fact, necessary that all of this is done on the terms of those involved. so on that hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a cornerstone of food sovereignty on 24th century Earth.

lebagelgirl:

zvaigzdelasas:

*referring to uranium* its natural man its good for you its from nature

This too is discworld

supersinss:

He loves the Simpsons. He has ADHD. He won’t stop fidgeting. He’s a top military commander. He knows what an accretion disc is. He doesn’t understand wormholes but goes through them daily. He was killed countless times by a guy named Baal, as in bocce. He was a prisoner of war. His hair changes every season. He hates clones of himself. He’s married. He’s divorced. His best friend is his coworker is his brother is his life partner is his son. He’s the sassiest man alive. He was in black ops. An alien race named a ship after him. He likes doing crosswords, wrong. He doesn’t know what that has to do with filming a plant! He loves dogs. He misses being outside. He grills charred meat. He likes fishing. There are no fish in his pond. I didn’t say his name but for crying out loud, he popped into your head, didn’t he?

boycritter:

boycritter:

the annoying thing about weightlifting is that you have to lift weights that are a little too heavy for you if you want to get stronger. and you have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone in order to keep building muscle. fucked up.

thank god this same principle doesnt apply to any other skill you want to improve at! that would really suck.