The complete Calvin and Hobbes boxed set. It’s a really funny classic comic strip that will make a reasonably literate kid laugh. And the artist snuck in a lot of subtle leftist thought-seeds throughout.

Oscar Wilde.

Could you give him a gentle loving pat from me and to tell him that someone on the internet loves him even if we’ll never meet? Because that’s a highly lovable face.

Even when he’s lucid, he insults people, is mean on purpose, and dismisses legitimate concerns and issues people ask him about.

The perfect embodiment of the Democratic party.

I don 't think it’s a scam, but it’s a great way for the developers to build a huge database of customer habits that they can sell to marketing companies.

Ever play Universal Paperclips?

I want to lathe an election-night-speech mixup into existence. Biden loses, the prepared victory speech is loaded into the teleprompter by mistake, and he reads it enthusiastically thinking he’d won because he’d forgotten he actually lost.

All our mining companies ought to be stripped of their mining rights to anything anywhere, the companies nationalized, and the former senior management automatically placed under human rights violations investigations - for starters. Our mining industry is a horror show, domestic and abroad. Name a human rights violation, and they’ve all done it. Brutal union busting, dumping waste into watersheds, beatings and murders of environmental activists, it’s all there. But it flies under the radar because of our bullshit “niceness” reputation overseas.

A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.

Union-

Trust-

Absolutely, I keep telling people this. It’s really just a matter of making extensive use of the like and not-interested buttons. The algorithm is scary good. One’s main feed can easily be a sea of socialism and anticolonialism pretty quickly and consistently.

When it comes to getting the masses on board, we need to go where the people are. Lenin didn’t demand that people visit him in some academic office on his timetable, he went out to meet the workers in their own gathering places, and when it fit their schedule. We need to follow Lenin’s example, not just in what he advocated, but also in how.

I found a magical artifact of incredible power. Only the greatest of lesbians are able to wield such a fearsome weapon.

“My family has been here since the 19th century and we have indeed helped build this country.”

Sounds pretty recent there buddy. I think we ought to follow the standards of the zionists, and only allow people who are descendants of the dominant ethno-religious groups 2000 years ago in the geographic area now known as “Canada” to make policy decisions.

I’m okay with a little elder abuse, so long as the victim is someone who spent his adult life making life hell for the working class.

Mr. President, could you draw a clock set to that time, please?

Their first instinct was to deliberately create a deadlock situation?

It’s actually oddly poignant.

You know I’m right. Jadzia was just a standard overachieving top-of-their-class type of Starfleet officer, like dozens we’ve seen before in great detail and thousands more in passing. The only interesting thing about her was the worm. Jadzia didn’t matter, just Dax.

Ezri was what every long-running series needs, a shakeup of main cast interactions. Babylon 5 is a masterclass on how to not only deal with real-world-complications cast changes but to actually turn them to one’s advantage in allowing for fresh character interactions and new dramatic tensions. DS9 never really managed that trick, except for Ezri, so it got really stale in terms of main cast character drama towards the last few seasons. It was also so refreshing to see a Starfleet officer who is having a more-or-less-permanent existential crisis but is also rooted in her new post. Ezri felt very relatable, someone suddenly completely out of their depth for reasons both out of their control and permanent. We don’t watch Ezri talk technobabble. We feel Ezri trying to keep a mental grip in the face of crazy circumstances. We all know what that’s like. Ezri mattered, not just Dax.

I think a lot of the Lower Decks writers were influenced by Ezri episodes. There’s a nervous directness / earnestness / outwardly-brave-inwardly-panicking in a lot of Lower Decks characters that’s very Ezri-like. Ezri would totally fit in on the USS Cerritos.

Also, I loved seeing her explain to Worf why the Klingon Empire was (a) fucked, and (b) deserved it.

DS9 mirror universe

Fucking first of all, DS9’s mirror universe?

Back to the topic.

We need to determine what effects the mirror universe has on attractions and libidos. Does it actually reverse them on some arbitrary scale, or does it somehow reduce inhibitions? Considering I’m already very centrist-bi and high on the slut scale, then this has a significant ramifications. Would I become plain old gay or straight, and also a prude? Or would I just let my dick do even more thinking than it already does for me?