The roads have become rivers. The cars flung like kayaks. We warned you and you called us alarmist. We shut down politicians’ fundraisers and you called us “too extreme.” Now catastrophe has arrived. What do you have to say?

Trek is obsessed with assuring fans that any beloved dead character or destroyed ship is one time slip, parallel dimension, or pseudoscientific improvision away from reappearing. This is emotionally stunted and eliminates all the stakes. Grow up. Accept loss. Keep boldly going.

I’d like to take this opportunity to suggest to Germany that on a national basis this might be the right time to SIT THE FUCK DOWN & SHUT THE FUCK UP about antisemitism and Gaza. You’ve done far far too much already. There are many other countries in the world, sit this one out.

If you see this, tweet a robot.

It’s high time that the President, everyone who works for him, and celebrity-worshipping political sycophants like Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 here get reacquainted with the basic principle of representative democracy: politicians are not aristocrats, they are accountable public servants.

If you see this, post a bridge.

TOTALLY NORMAL that every December in the USA (and only the USA) we have to gamble on our family’s health over the coming year (re-enroll in health insurance) and risk bankruptcy if we guess wrong. Time to place your final bets! 🎲🎲

This isn’t even a remotely plausible rumor. Just unbelievably lazy, If you’re just going to make something up that you never plan to substantiate at least put in the effort to make your unfounded accusation seem like it could be true. As rumor-mongering goes this is amateur hour.

ANY version of MacArthur Park. It’s just so pretentious & the lyrics are trying too hard. Jimmy Webb wrote much better lines than “Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, 'Cause it took so long to bake it, And I'll never have that recipe again.”

Tweet your favorite Star Trek character.

But are you this old?

What is a sci-fi movie that you think more people need to see? Lapsis (2021), directed by Noah Hutton. A movie for our moment.

If you see this, roast a probot.

Favorite movie you like because of your father? 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dad took me to see it in a theater when I was much too young to understand any of it or to stay awake for most of it but I never forgot what I saw and I've seen it countless times since.

Using a GIF or image, post a weird movie have you seen waaay too many times? 🎥🖤

It was generous of SNL to help Nikki Haley turn her resist dogwhistle into a joke last night.

So what’s the plan here? No news, journalism, criticism, or human-made art? That’s the utopia?

I watched a fun movie about a doddering emperor whose regime depends on resource extraction from a desert hinterland and who not-very-covertly supports a brutal counter-insurgency. It was nice to escape into fantasy for a bit.

Write a Star Trek script using only 5 words: Robot rights? Yes/No/Maybe.

Time for a Churchill thread? Time for a Churchill thread. Let's do this. Why I think Churchill was a chief villain of World War 2. /0