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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m utterly befuddled by this woman; somehow she hates the idea of trans women so much that she’s now closely allied with Posie Parker, a woman who hates women, hates suffrage, has advocated for the removal of women’s rights for years, and shares closely held opinions from just right of Goebbels.

    Somehow Jo has become so utterly single-minded, she’s paired with the antithesis of all the other things she believes in (and still claims to believe as justification of her anti-trans nonsense).












  • It’s only one page long and reads

    “I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. “Also I’m a god now”






  • There were loads of overt Star Wars references in this episode which was fun.

    • Music queues were distinctly more John Williams-y.
    • Scene transitions hidden behind ships travelling past the screen.
    • Scariff style forcefield over one planet.
    • Tatooine like architecture.
    • Tatooine cantina shape and style to the bar.
    • A masked bounty hunter with an unintelligible language is actually an undercover ally.
    • The weather station is reminiscent of the Endor shield array.
    • Attacking a technological foe with sticks and war cries was similar to the Ewok battle in RotJ.

    Some folks had a good day when they signed all that off.



  • You can quit work and starve. You can quit school and get in a little bit of trouble. I don’t really see the equivalence here.

    Children have lots of rights in this analogy, in fact in a great many places, they also have a right to be cared for by the state that adults don’t. Statutory service provision routinely is written in protection of children.

    Weirdly, most people don’t have a right to take out and use their phone when working, and given that’s the thread topic it’s a decent sized hole in your argument. I worked a high-wage and technical role, white collar as it gets, and you know where my phone was when I was meant to be concentrating on my work, in my pocket. Know what would happen if I was fucking about on it when I had something important to do? Disciplinary, HR, threatened loss of livelihood. If you’re arguing you’re not being treated like adults, I have bad news for you.

    Look, you’re not some oppressed underclass of unperson and your myopic determination to cast yourself as such is a genuine insult to people living under actual hardship.