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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · Nov 13

“Sometimes life itself is meaning enough.”

- Admiral Michael Burnham

#StarTrekDiscovery

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 11m

What the actual fuck? “Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.”

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 11m

An interesting way to talk about exploitation: “Though he initially believed he had arrived in Asia, his discovery opened the vast frontier and untold splendors of the New World to Europe.”

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 11m

I am honestly surprised that Trump’s Columbus proclamation didn’t perpetuate the false claim that Columbus was trying to prove the world was round.

The proclamation only vaguely mentions indigenous peoples once and implies that things went great for them.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Columbus Day, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus -- the original American hero,

www.whitehouse.gov

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

It is also interesting that they want to talk about men having control over what happens to their bodies, which is implied in these comments, but not women.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

This year just gets weirder and weirder…

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

People who intentionally move from Portland, Oregon to rural southeast Alabama or southwest Georgia are really really weird. They are MAGA batshit crazy weird. Like don’t come here. Go Idaho or better yet Russia or even better Mars.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 22h

Next it will Russia.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 22h

a cartoon character says exciting whoo

Alt: Boimler says exciting whoo

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 23h

I really want to know the context of what he was saying but I don’t think they have released the transcripts.

Either way he’s a damn fool for thinking he will be immune just because he has a lot of money.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I work for the Antichrist now. I hope the pay is good.

ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 1d

Peter Thiel recently warned that Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future...

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump had won, I would have moved to Vulcan.

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Dayton Ward @daytonward.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. NOW I can officially share some info about my next novel.

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#StarTrekPicard

Coming April 2026! Star Trek: Picard – To Defy Fate!

After waiting for a few of the outstanding ducks to get into the row with their buddies, I’m now officially able to share not only the cover but also the cover blurb for To Defy Fate, my next…

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Who else panics when they walk in the room to check on their geriatric dog and at first it looks like he’s not breathing and then he doesn’t respond to you calling his name? I just did, but he’s fine. I woke him up from a deep sleep. Sorry pup.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I miss Zora.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

The founder of ANTIFA

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

They must have extra tiny brains then.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Granted Châtelet was part of her title, and apparently Chatelet has already been established on Discovery and SNW, so in my head canon it’s named after Émilie du Châtelet.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I hope the U.S.S. Chatelet in Mack’s SNW novel Ring of Fire is named after Émilie du Châtelet.

Émilie du Châtelet in front of a book and holding a compass for drawing circles.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I love this movie too. It is very much a Trek movie with a message that has aged well.

Captain Picard to Admiral Dougherty: "How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?!"

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

a man with blonde hair is holding a cell phone in his hands .

Alt: Khan explaining how the Ceti alpha eel wraps around a person’s cerebral cortex.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Also I can understand watching a Trek series casually. But Trek novels, especially the Post-Nemesis continuity? You decided to read all those, and you still don’t get Star Trek? Really?

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Recently finished reading William Leisner’s TNG novel Losing the Peace. Excellent novel with a message about refugee crises. I took a gander at Goodreads reviews, and as I expected, people are stupid. One review starts out, “I hate when Star Trek gets preachy.” Well I guess you hate Star Trek.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Faith of the heart

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

a man is holding a hammer in front of a red curtain .

Alt: Spock smashing computer

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Neither man has a medical degree. This is just batshit crazy.