SARA LANCE & AVA SHARPE LEGENDS OF TOMORROW | S03E12, The Curse of the Earth Totem

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Hello there Rachel & Shela omg

TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

I was thinking about the end of that one #StarTrek episode where Spock mind-melds with Kirk and makes him forget his dead android girlfriend. And… what if that happens at the end of every adventure, and we only see it one time?

What if Spock mind-wipes Kirk every time they come back to the ship? Maybe this is how Kirk stays so chipper and able to go blow up another god-computer. He literally can't remember all the shit he's dealt with before.

It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.

youre telling me a ham fisted this metaphor??

picked a bunch of mandrakes the other day

Rejoice! April is a *banner month* for science fiction and fantasy. I loved all four of these books about winged cyborgs, shapeshifting monsters, and people fighting for liberation in space. My latest SFF book review column is up at the @washingtonpost 👀📚🚀

Gift link: https://wapo.st/4aMrKk1

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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I just saw that Trina Robbins passed away last week. She did so much for comics, and was such a wonderful presence in the field. I was so grateful to get to get to know her — she always had such thrilling stories to tell and was so generous.

She will be missed.

Thing I just said to my cat: "Well, I have written one good sentence today, so now it's time for lunch."

Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your  prison owning donors depend on

Question: Are you a top or a bottom?

Top: I'm a top.

Side: Let's conceptualize this question with a hermeneutics of power knowledge. We recall Judith Butler's observation that "which pleasures shall live and which shall die is often a matter of which serve the legitimating practices of identify formation that take place within the matrix of gender norms." Gay sex escapes the procreative expectation, but in the reproduction of these norms still adheres to the same performance principal. Under this discursive prison sex can never truly be about mutual pleasure. While some say our pleasure possibilities are hindered, I invert the accusation that yours are limited by an unimaginative phallocentric philistinism.

Vers: A hypocritical invocation of Butler when your argument is based on the presupposition of a prediscursive original desire, a flagrant departure from the Foucauldian tendency which Butler follows, and their further claims on the futility of trying to imagine a queer culture fully independent of heterosexuality. Your critique further ignores the treatment of anal sex as the defining sin of homosexuality and its place within a serophobic signifying economy. I implore you to read Leo Bersani's exploration of the topic, Is The Rectum A Grave.

Bottom: Did I really make it that obvious? Dhdhdjdjfjf

What Women Want is an utterly bizarre film, and it's hard to believe it became a smash hit just a quarter century ago. Mel Gibson gains the power to hear all women's thoughts, and uses it to... commit plagiarism and become a better corporate shark.

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[ID: Two lesbian pride icons. The first one is of Marcille facing right, she's smiling and wearing her hair in two braids. The second one is of Falin facing left, smiling with her eyes closed. End ID]

Star Trek: Discovery I "Face the Strange"