My pleasure! It kind of reminds me of Snow Crash in that it’s really fun and adventurous but also made me think deep thoughts.

Cory Doctorow has a novel “Walkaway” which is basically “what if society but FOSS”. It’s really good!

To answer your question, while it has a lot in common with anarchism I don’t think anyone benefits from trying to fit it into a predefined political box. It’s something new.

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weird how many hoops you are willing to jump through to discourage anyone talking about the gays in a positive way 🤔

protip next time you want to LARP as a non bigot, don’t call it “nutrek” that’s a dead giveaway

man it’s just crazy all the boxes that have to be checked in order to celebrate lgbt representation! its like the bar is set impossibly high! ugh! so crazy.

Obviously you are not a bigot and think representation is a good thing too! thats why it sucks that everything has to be just so perfectly aligned in order to celebrate it! ugh!

Stop with the whattaboutism. First of all, it’s literally an interview with the actor about their character.

Secondly, declaring that articles about queer characters can only be allowed to exist if they include some unrelated “both sides” criteria is a clear attempt to silence queer voices.

Don’t feed the troll, there is no need to allow yourself to be put on the defensive justifying why an LGTBQ character exists. The person you’re replying to needs to make the case for why shouldn’t matter (but they can’t because the reason is they are bigoted).

A lot of people didn’t give a fuck about Uhura being on the bridge, but that is not a reason to NOT include her character on the bridge. Just because you don’t consider yourself bigoted does not mean that gay characters should not be celebrated for breaking new ground.

Uh… why shouldn’t they?

Oddly mature of you in this day and age to recognize that instead of publish an hour long youtube rant on the topic

does anyone actually care about a gay character on Star Trek in the year 2026?

According to Karim’s recent AMA here, yes, a lot. I’m old but I have to imagine it’s a lot harder being a queer kid in 2026 than it was a decade ago!

Also, I assume that many of the Klingons we’ve seen on Star Trek over the years were gay. I think he’s just the first Klingon which was identified to the audience as gay.

Also yes, the headline makes it clear this is Star Trek’s first gay Klingon. Not the Klingon species’ first gay.

Labubus are basically gambling for kids. I’m not sure they’re sending the message they want to be, here.

I too get bored with things I don’t even watch.

Damn dude you picked a bad time to give up.

Another great episode with good performances all around. SFA is setting the bar exceptionally high. I’m excited to see what the finale has in store.

I appreciate the narrative structure of the season

Something the other new series (and a lot of “prestige” television of the past decade) struggled with… but SFA is absolutely nailing.

I enjoyed Discovery’s Breen arc, but I agree that I enjoyed the concept of the Breen more as a mysterious fringe-species.

You can’t stop me Kurtzman 😈

I want the Borg to assimilate Khan from another timeline where he is a Gorn

You should check out SFA!