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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 4h

Ongoing Laneway research: Geese seem like a good band with good songs, but I have to query the decision to find their lead singer at a Thom Yorke soundalike contest.

Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday I was feeling like I was ready to be done with Fallout 4 (I found my kid, hurray; he's a monster, boo), but it looks like I'm close to an ending, so I guess I'll keep going.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 6h

We also have a Target with identical branding, but they're separate companies which developed independently. (Thank you to the Americans who don't yell at me when I mention going to Target at a time when you are boycotting your version.)

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I can more easily see Kirk/McCoy and Spock/McCoy co-existing, but ALSO I don't find men interesting enough to invest any energy into it.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 7h

I just feel like our chronic inability to be interested in Kirk/Spock is letting the fandom down in some way.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 7h

The twist is gonna be that the comms buoy is from the Enterprise herself, and they've been timey wimeyed. Done, saved you 45 minutes.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 8h

GOOD NEWS we have finally recorded Antimatter Pod's episode about "Amok Time", BAD NEWS we ship Kirk/T'Pau now

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 9h

Escapist Routes is up! Featuring my thoughts on Task, Slow Horses, and another episode of the fake morning show where I unpack my thoughts on The Morning Show.

Escapist Routes #31

violence against penguins

escapistroutes.beehiiv.com

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

Right, I am not entirely convinced Star Trek fandom deserves her.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

LET'S GO

I'm a hypocrite because I want to complain about the entirely het romance we see, but ALSO I need to register that I'm very open to shipping Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti, with the understanding that I will probably regret saying this come January.

Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 10h

Try this one. It works for me. Someone shared it. www.youtube.com/watch?si=l6A...

Official Trailer | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | NYCC 2025

YouTube video by Star Trek

www.youtube.com

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

BLESSINGS UPON YOUR HOUSE

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

Look, I didn't want to be a hater, BUT it's SO DULL

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, it’s been confirmed? I’m kind of glad, I do want the new characters to stand on their own.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10h

I heard a rumour that Mary Wiseman is only in one ep of SFA because she’s super busy with theatre work, and that’s sad if true, but ALSO, good for her.

Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 11h

Tilly!! Finally seen in the latest #StarTrekStarfleet Academy trailer! 🤩

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Reposted by Liz

TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 11h

STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY premieres January 15 on Paramount+.

#StarTrek

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 11h

This video IS available, and the clip is inoffensive, so big wins all around.

TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 11h

Here's the first extended clip from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds Season 4, coming in mid-2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dig...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Clip | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

www.youtube.com

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 11h

“The uploader has not made this video available in your country” is a very avant garde approach! Love seeing them try new things!

TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 11h

Here's the new extended trailer for #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy, just out from #NYCC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDD...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

www.youtube.com

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me, God? Is it too late to return my eyes? And nose?

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Dale still disappears if we come close. And if I go visit him in his hiding spot, Colin is RIGHT THERE to stop me. The dynamic is like if Dale was a footballer who did something unseemly on a night out, and Colin is hiding him from the press and telling him not to speak to the cops.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to tidy my room, but unfortunately the cats are asleep on my bed. It's their room now.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Oooh, Matlock season 2 is about to start, I wonder if there's any behind-the-scenes goss...
News from the last 48 hours: one of the actors was fired and escorted off set after assaulting a co-star, who is now being mocked on socials by his wife for "ruining their marriage"
Me: WELP.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, it’s the season to hang the festive Christmas challah…

A hand holding a Christmas ornament that looks like a loaf of challah

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

I assume the discourse is about the NYC mayoral election, and Cuomo ordered something like a rainbow bagel with cheese and bacon, while Eric Adams, despite dropping out, manifested himself in the room to declare that the bagel is the New York of bread products.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

I don't fully understand WHY there is bagel discourse today, but I'm wearing my pickles shirt in its honour.

A stout white woman with curly hair and glasses grinning as she wears a black t-shirt emblazoned with the word "pickles" and a variety of images of pickles, both in jars and loose.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

All the bagels around me are heavy egg/bacon/hash brown deals, so I've settled for toast. FOR NOW. On Monday, the CBD bagelists will be UNDER ASSAULT.

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