Kira
@spaceforestart.bsky.social
they/them, fae/faer | artist, trekkie, nonbinary, lesbian, chaotic good, fey trickster. eastern european. norse heathen. anarchist.
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in attempt to keep my head above water I visited newly open moomin cafe in my city. they have vegan rolls and some neat drinks, like this pine tea, I like it here.
January 19, 2026 at 8:46 PM
in attempt to keep my head above water I visited newly open moomin cafe in my city. they have vegan rolls and some neat drinks, like this pine tea, I like it here.
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Kyiv is freezing. Consider donating if you can: pomagam.pl/a7emy8
Ciepło z Polski dla Kijowa | Pomagam.pl
Ciepło z Polski dla Kijowa🇵🇱🇺🇦<english version below> Piszemy do Was, bo sytuacja w Kijowie wymaga natychmiastowej reakcji. Termometry w stolicy Ukrainy pokazują 17 stopni poniżej zera, a w tym mrozie...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Kyiv is freezing. Consider donating if you can: pomagam.pl/a7emy8
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People praise Ukrainians’ resilience as they party in snowy yards beneath freezing high-rise buildings. Obviously, people are doing their best to keep morale up and not go insane, but nobody should have to live like this. Those people should be comfortable in their warm homes.
January 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
People praise Ukrainians’ resilience as they party in snowy yards beneath freezing high-rise buildings. Obviously, people are doing their best to keep morale up and not go insane, but nobody should have to live like this. Those people should be comfortable in their warm homes.
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Whelp, I was already making a video essay on it and was going to release it tomorrow, but because Stephen Miller had to open his fascist mouth about Star Trek, I added to it and released it today. So enjoy me clowning on conservative assholes terrible Star Trek opinions - youtu.be/3HOzBtDUlbo
Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
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January 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Whelp, I was already making a video essay on it and was going to release it tomorrow, but because Stephen Miller had to open his fascist mouth about Star Trek, I added to it and released it today. So enjoy me clowning on conservative assholes terrible Star Trek opinions - youtu.be/3HOzBtDUlbo
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Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
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think of all the cool art we’re missing out on because creators are constantly fighting to survive economically, fighting against corporations trying to automate creation, battling online trolls, nagging to get paid for work completed, learning to be being social media marketers, learning to be publ
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
think of all the cool art we’re missing out on because creators are constantly fighting to survive economically, fighting against corporations trying to automate creation, battling online trolls, nagging to get paid for work completed, learning to be being social media marketers, learning to be publ
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I want to cosign & underline this. Art takes effort. Even the worst art you've ever seen. There's a pretty high floor: a minimum amount of effort it takes to end up with a finished result. Every work of art is a testament to someone's passion to see it through.
Aaaaaand, guess what AI gets rid of.
Aaaaaand, guess what AI gets rid of.
What I hate most about gen Ai is how it takes away the effort. When I saw art before, I knew that even if it shitty and bad, i could tell that there was someone who worked hard to make it happen. It’s why shit like The Room got popular, because you could see the earnest effort on display.
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I want to cosign & underline this. Art takes effort. Even the worst art you've ever seen. There's a pretty high floor: a minimum amount of effort it takes to end up with a finished result. Every work of art is a testament to someone's passion to see it through.
Aaaaaand, guess what AI gets rid of.
Aaaaaand, guess what AI gets rid of.
I'm very very good at watercolour, which is difficult medium to master, and my colour game is on point.
Artists, I think we're all too comfortable sharing our imposter syndrome.
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
I'm very very good at watercolour, which is difficult medium to master, and my colour game is on point.
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There’s just no subtlety or smarts to transphobic thought and its a mistake to assign it any. Its a very base and banal thing. Just the manifestation of belief in the base structures of patriarchal heterosexual society and that people should know their place in it
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 AM
There’s just no subtlety or smarts to transphobic thought and its a mistake to assign it any. Its a very base and banal thing. Just the manifestation of belief in the base structures of patriarchal heterosexual society and that people should know their place in it
it must've been tough for him to work on because almost everyone is wearing pants
January 14, 2026 at 7:35 AM
it must've been tough for him to work on because almost everyone is wearing pants
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one of the things a lot of technocrats don't get about Star Trek is that the future of Star Trek?
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
He does not want Star Trek. He wants to co-opt the aesthetic of Star Trek to sell his techno-feudalist futurist wet dream. Star Trek hates men like him.
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 AM
one of the things a lot of technocrats don't get about Star Trek is that the future of Star Trek?
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
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This! If Musk or Bezos or Altman or Bill Gates truly wanted to make Star Trek real, they could do it right now by spending all their wealth to help dismantle this capitalist colonial system.
one of the things a lot of technocrats don't get about Star Trek is that the future of Star Trek?
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
He does not want Star Trek. He wants to co-opt the aesthetic of Star Trek to sell his techno-feudalist futurist wet dream. Star Trek hates men like him.
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
This! If Musk or Bezos or Altman or Bill Gates truly wanted to make Star Trek real, they could do it right now by spending all their wealth to help dismantle this capitalist colonial system.
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A section of an upcoming script I'm doing on reactionary pop culture grifters like Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker.
![(2 of 4) And it’s especially ironic given that Hollywood, until its recent rightward pivot in response to conservative cultural backlash as we see playing out now at companies like Paramount perhaps best exemplified by their hiring of Bari Weiss to turn their news arm into basically conservative state propaganda, was more than happy to performatively include diversity for profit. It’s also why so much of the reactionary “criticism” aimed at the Star Wars sequel movies, or more interestingly, Star Wars: The Acolyte or, more recently, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, isn’t about their actual flaws. But what's interesting in both those latter cases is why they were so specifically targets of ire. Both Acolyte and Academy are shows that highlight not only a more diverse cast but, even more interestingly, actually centered, with varying levels of quality mind you, perspectives from marginalized communities within those francises that are more willing to question liberal institutions - like how the Jedi in The Acolyte are framed as essentially space cops for the Republic [clip of this] or how in Starfleet Academy, many of the young main character actively question and challenge the concept that Starfleet is an inherently good liberal institution by virtue of its legacy of progressivism alone, but instead an institution that needs to change and be held accountable for its past harm and attempts to create a homogenized Federation culture that subsumes diversity rather then uplifts it, something that other recent shows like Strange New Worlds did not do (and “shockingly” did not get as much intense backlash for). [clip of that]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cpwg5fkxgedy7ocka5smtxvb/bafkreiaof3ohkj2nnbroyf77332ljjcxxpjvrdhxpnabrmbdivjidxrcf4@jpeg)
![(3 of 4) Instead, legitimate critiques of these shows were selectively weaponized by grifters to construct a narrative of victimhood, one where a supposedly “woke” Hollywood is imagined as actively hostile to straight white men. [clip of that] This is where I’m reminded of Sarah Z’s excellent video on “sacrificial trash,” which looks at how shows or films with real, obvious flaws—often ones that are more aesthetically inclusive or more openly questioning of state power—are singled out and have their flaws amblifeid in order to treat them as symbolic failures aand reasons why “wokeness” and including maraganlized perspectives in storys beyond them being a token side character is “bad storytelling” actually. Even when those stories ultimately end up reaffirming the goodness of institutions through reform that they gesture toward critiquing, as we saw with Star Wars: The Acolyte or Star Trek Discovery, they’re framed as proof that inclusion itself is the problem. This pattern is especially pronounced in long-running franchises that historically centered the perspectives of white liberal men. As those franchises tentatively widened their scope, they became ideal targets for right-wing grievance narratives. And that’s why projects like Starfleet Academy are increasingly being preemptively attacked by grifters: as Hollywood itself grows more conservative, there are fewer opportunities left to convincingly sell the story that “woke Hollywood” is out to destroy traditional values.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cpwg5fkxgedy7ocka5smtxvb/bafkreiag2gseths4gpjczswxvk5iw2cvdrktqit2xjtwrpvyf57a57fpam@jpeg)
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
A section of an upcoming script I'm doing on reactionary pop culture grifters like Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker.
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I totally support people not wanting to give Paramount money and won't watch Starfleet Academy. But when talking about it, remember, Academy was mostly made before the Skydance merger & the creatives on the show don't necessarily support David Ellison but can't speak out about it due to their jobs.
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I totally support people not wanting to give Paramount money and won't watch Starfleet Academy. But when talking about it, remember, Academy was mostly made before the Skydance merger & the creatives on the show don't necessarily support David Ellison but can't speak out about it due to their jobs.
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If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
ngl, 2025 was he worst year for making art since 2006-7 when I was in the deepest depression pitt and recovering from abuse, and I hate it. but despite everything, I think it's geting better and I intend to make way more art in 2026. there's lot of new art in my head, waiting yo be released
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
ngl, 2025 was he worst year for making art since 2006-7 when I was in the deepest depression pitt and recovering from abuse, and I hate it. but despite everything, I think it's geting better and I intend to make way more art in 2026. there's lot of new art in my head, waiting yo be released
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!
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January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!
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Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...
#books #literature #language
www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...
#books #literature #language
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.
www.openculture.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...
#books #literature #language
www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...
#books #literature #language
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January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
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To be honest, I actually struggle a lot with this episode these days. Not that it isn't a masterpiece, or that Visitor and Yulin aren't giving astonishing performances. But it starts a trend where it feels like the onus of reconciliation is put on the Bajorans rather than the Cardassians. (long 🧵>>)
On its birthday, with one image, what's your favorite DS9 episode?
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
To be honest, I actually struggle a lot with this episode these days. Not that it isn't a masterpiece, or that Visitor and Yulin aren't giving astonishing performances. But it starts a trend where it feels like the onus of reconciliation is put on the Bajorans rather than the Cardassians. (long 🧵>>)