Feedback on an article about why a conspiracy theory about the Titanic is bullshit.

“Uhh, it’s not a theory, it’s a story”

I fucking hate the Internet.

Here is an article I wrote about the conspiracy theory that the sinking of the Titanic was an elaborate insurance job.

Today I had another meeting with Alice and Bob. I assume it was encrypted.

This is, of course, the same joke I made last time I had a meeting with Alice and Bob. But if it’s going to pop up in my head every time, I don’t see why I should live with that alone.

There are rumours swirling right now, but nothing concrete announced. Just rumours right now, albeit from more credible folks than usual.

The Doctor’s conversation with Davros in Remembrance of the Daleks is remarkably concerned with erectile dysfunction.

Pleased to share the final full line up for 2025.ffconf.org

It's a day that you'll come away from inspired and full of ideas.

I won't believe the Doctor Who series 10 soundtrack news until that email from Silva Screen hits my inbox...

Oh dear what a shock I never saw this coming at all.

Software people!

Samsung devices have this huge custom time input widget. It looks like even Chrome on Samsung uses this time picker.

Can this be disabled? appearance: none seems to be ignored.

Well I wasn’t going to say it

RTD must go, if true.

Kinda fitting that “bro”mine is toxic, volatile, and highly dangerous.

Kinda fitting that “bro”mine is toxic, volatile, and highly dangerous.

Off to the great candlelight supper in the sky.

So close to 1 million views on this! My (hot) wife keeps checking in on it and if it crosses that threshold then I'll do a fun live stream with an exciting announcement 👀

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Once again, it’s clear the government does not understand what it is asking for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big Digital ID protests in Liverpool. I am happy about this.

Anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and climate change denier Piers Corbyn speaking at that protest. Less happy about this.

Kirk: The Klingons don’t take prisoners, Saavik.
Kruge (about 2 weeks later): I want prisoners!

In fact that’s unfair. Maybe it’s just that later studio executives and producers took the wrong message from the success of ST2.

They look at 2 and see Khan and the Mutara Nebula. When the real emotional core of that film is the relationship between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Which continues in 3.

But the ST movies keep telling non-ST-type stories, because ST2 (produced and storylined by someone who didn’t understand and hadn’t seen ST) was so popular.

I think ST3 is far more in keeping with what the original series of ST was, which so often was about the characters and their relationship to each other than it was about defeating a villain.

Kruge, Sybok, Chang, Soren, Borg Queen, Ru’afo, Shinzon, Nero, Khan again, Krall. And the films chase action-adventure, especially ST6 and later, even when ST isn’t really an action-adventure show.

In many ways, ST2 was one of the worst things to happen to ST, because it became the archetypal “good” Star Trek movie, when it’s arguably one of the least Star Trek-y films.

ST rarely had the big singular villain. But post ST2 (4 notwithstanding!) they insist on this singular villain character.

It’s about the emotional fall out of Spock’s death. It’s how Kirk and McCoy especially deal with it. It’s about Kirk trying to do the right thing by his friend.

What it’s not is big space dogfights and action. But then ST rarely was about those things.