The first time we see a different model of Tardis.

Infotext: In the past few episodes, the authors have been laying down clues about the aliens’ travel machines. We keep being reminded of how similar they are to the Doctor’s Tardis. The machines are bigger inside than out, and they travel by dematerialising. To our eyes the control mechanisms may look nothing like the familiar hexagonal Tardis console, but the Doctor has just said that the two system designs are only “slightly different”. And now we learn that the machines’ interior dimensions can be manipulated. Many 1969 viewers would have remembered what happened in “The Wheel in Space” when the Tardis malfunctioned: the spacious control room vanished, replaced by the cramped interior of an ordinary police box.

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Infotext: Because “The War Games” takes place in so many different environments, it called for careful sound design. Take the time to listen and you’ll notice how each setting has its own distinctive background sound: the crump of the First World War guns, the crickets in the American barn, the insistent electronic chumbling of the War Room. Here the oscillating chirrup of the landing bay slowly gives way to the low hum of the travel machine.

I really hate when people mystify intelligence as some innate or supernatural ability rather than the willingness to read books and consider different perspectives. Anyone with enough time, training, and preparation could become a professor. Stop seeing knowledge as arcane rather than as a skill anyone can develop.

CONSIDER- Luffy gets turned into a cat, but it takes a while for everyone to notice because he continues to get the zoomies, punch things, and act like he’s never been fed a day in his life even though he just had dinner fifteen minutes ago.

Found that over at mastodon

Started watching Dressrosa this week.

(I’m watching One Piece for the first time thanks to my partner and we’ve just finished Punk Hazard.)

Law: “We have an alliance, then?”

Luffy: “New best friends? Of course!”

Law: “What? No-”

Luffy: “I already made us friendship bracelets.”

Law: “Wait, that’s not what I-”

Luffy: “And here’s our new team shirts! Hope yours fits, I had to guess on your size…”

Law: “How did you…?? That’s not how alliances work!”

Usopp: “It is if you’re Luffy. Now put your shirt on, it’ll look weird if we don’t match.”

Law: “…!”

Nami: *hands him a shirt with a heart wearing a straw hat on one side and the words ‘pirate besties’ on the other* “You can have yours free, but the rest of your crew owes me $25 per shirt.”

Law: *turns around to see the Straw Hats are already wearing the shirts, looking at him like he’s the weird one* “…?!?!”

This is a bit of a ramble, but:

I truly believe that Sir Terence David John Pratchett is the greatest fantasy author of the post-Tolkien era. No one has done it as well as he did - prose, characters, tone, plot, themes, humor - he was the master of all of them.

His words danced off the page, from single lines like Death’s

“LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”

To the Vimes Boots Theory or Humans Need Fantasy monologues.

His characters are some of the most richly textured I’ve ever encountered - Death and Sam Vimes and Moist von Lipwig and Granny Weatherwax, each of them feels like they were given thought and care and used to tell stories that they were uniquely suited to tell.

He controlled tone like a master, from slapstick comedy to serious satire to tense moments where you feel that, just for a second, things might not be okay.

His plots were always believable in the context of the worlds he was telling, and were always engrossing - that the metaphysical adventures of Death and co. felt as natural a fit for Discworld as the starting of the setting’s first newspaper, the solving of street crime and unraveling conspiracies and the grand re-opening of a post office is proof enough of that.

He used these plots to explore themes of responsibility, social inequality and duty to a person’s community with razor-sharp wit and a deep anger for the injustice of the world around him. He fought the evils of the world with a pen and paper, even as he died. No one will ever do it like he did, but that he did it himself might just be good enough.

He brought comfort and joy and happiness and thought and introspection to millions.

GNU, Terry Pratchett. Mind how you go.

Discworld Heritage Post

Sooo this happened on tiktok

And the comments are gold

(+Extra)

I’m crying

asexuals are queer pass it on

wow yall are still arguing in these notes huh

anyway asexuals are still queer, keep passing

#asexuals are ultimate queer#most people can accept that humans are sexually attracted to somebody gender regardless#but say you aren’t interested in sex at all and they brick like a cheap burner phone

@colorfauna inspired

Trans Texas flag for all your Trans Texas needs

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they’ve killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they’d never allow it.

Let’s do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

i only speak the truth. unless i’m lying. or doing a bit. hope this helps.

For any relocated TikTok users

• you can say sex and kill its fine
• If you don’t have a profile picture people will assume you’re a bot
• theres barely an algorithm, if you want to see cool shit reblog things instead of just liking them
• follower count doesnt matter
• tumblr fame gets you one thing and it is Yelled At
• no one knows what the fuck the nsfw policy is
• block anyone that annoys you even a little bit

And most importantly:

• post cringe

Grabbing you guys for the shoulders so tightly as I say you have to reblog things regardless of how old it is, this is the show and tell website

like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

not letting the dough sense your fear doesn’t mean you can’t also have fun btw, you just need to not freak out because, much like cheetahs, bread dough and a scared baker will form a feedback loop of anxiety that destroys both in the end

ALT

literally them

Consider- One Piece, but Luffy wears one of these at all times:

I don’t know about y'all, but just to spite Muskrat, I’m gonna insist on pronouncing “DOGE” as “Doggy”.

Me: *doesn’t watch or particularly like anime*

My Partner: *somehow tricks me into watching the longest one*

Reddit - Dive into anything

Do you feel worried that your vote won’t matter because he’s just gonna steal the election?

-> DON’T PANIC <-

Here’s a handy Reddit post about why that’s not gonna happen. Read it. Breathe.

If you want Harris to win, show up and vote.

That’s it. Vibes are good, but only Votes win elections.

Live in a heavily Red area? So do I. There are more Harris voters in Red states than you think, so it’s VITAL for us to show up and vote.

Got a MAGA family? THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED IN THE VOTING BOOTH WITH YOU. Vote Blue and just tell them what they want to hear. Your vote is secret.

Don’t know how? Start planning now. The link I’m sharing has some resources to get you started. Also- do some googling.

I need “doing transgender surgeries on illegal aliens in prison” to be the new “turning the frogs gay”

Exactly this. 2016 was a lock, remember? Hillary was absolutely going to win. 99.5% chance according to everyone. Until…

We can’t let that happen again. We have to make sure this time. We have to vote in extraordinary numbers. We have to convince people who aren’t voters to show up and vote this time.

Take nothing for granted.

To anyone considering not voting because of the Palestinian genocide, I have this to ask:

How many Palestinian people do you think you’re helping by laying back and inviting the GOP to crush you under foot? Self flagellation didn’t cure The Plague, and it won’t fix this situation either.

If you don’t like the idea of voting for Harris, I doubt I’ll be able to change your mind, but consider this: 468 congressional seats out of a total 535 are up for re-election THIS NOVEMBER. You want to make the government start actually representing the will of the people? Start there.

We’re living in frightening times, and apathy is a very comfortable state of being, but you need to act. If you don’t, who will?

Trying to mostly stay away from politics on this blog, but today there’s something I just need to say.

Kamala Harris just defied DECADES of inside-the-Beltway “wisdom” by picking Walz as her running mate instead of Shapiro. The gray-hairs were probably all telling her she had to go with Shapiro to court the independents. Instead of picking the moderate, staunchly pro-Israel guy, she went with a full-on progressive with a strong LGBTQ+, pro-choice, pro-union record.

She’s making a leap of faith here. She’s betting that progressives, young people, and marginalized people will show up for her if she shows that she’s listening. As someone who lived through several decades when progressives didn’t have a voice even in the Democratic party, I can’t begin to tell you how huge this is.

In the coming months, you will no doubt read/hear things about Harris or Walz that you won’t like. Some of it may even be true. There may well already be things you don’t like about her.

Unfortunately, the choice isn’t between a perfect candidate and an imperfect candidate. The choice is between an imperfect candidate and possibly the most disgusting man on the planet, a guy who isn’t even trying to hide his plans to destroy the US. If Palestine is your #1 issue, know that he will do everything he can to pour gas on the flames until there’s nothing left.

Harris made the choice to listen to progressive voices. If she loses because we didn’t show up for her in huge numbers, we’ll likely be wandering in the wilderness for decades more while the planet burns around us.

(Oh, and we’ll need to show up again in ‘26. Let’s not make the same mistake we made in 2010, when the left stayed home after electing Obama and Republicans won big everywhere, which led to the extreme gerrymandering we’re still dealing with in many states.)

Y'all I did NOT know this about Harris, and I think it’s really critical that we all listen and understand as we approach this election. Video at the end.

This creator’s video describes how progressive Harris was as a prosecutor – actively going against the grain to the point she was accused of being soft on crime. Accused of being a social worker, not a prosecutor. She calls it being smart on crime. She’s pushing for systemic changes to give real pathways to reintegrate incarcerated folks back into society and prevent their past from continuing to haunt them moving forward.

“Kamala’s a cop” is a catchy dismissive response usually used to shut down conversation rather than add nuance. But this kind of reform is ESSENTIAL to work towards a present and future that treats incarcerated people with value.

I fell for it in 2020 and have thought “Kamala’s a cop” without further inspection since - and I’m sobered by the realization that (you guessed it!) I’m not immune to propaganda.

A better system only follows liberal democracy, because library democracy allows for exploration of better systems. If authoritarianism takes hold, it will not allow for the exploration of better systems. We will have to fight tooth and nail just to try to get back to liberal democracy, and I suspect we could not achieve it in our lifetimes.

Harris isn’t perfect. But she’s a hell of a lot better than many leftists have led me to believe. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of harm reduction.

We can either help elect Trump and usher in authoritarian fascism, or we can help defeat him and pull things back in the direction we want to go. Not liking the choices doesn’t absolve you from participating and doing the most good you can with the options available.

I’ll link the original video in the replies. The original video has captions if you need them.

It didn’t hit me until recently that people genuinely think Kamala Harris was a police officer because of all the people who call her a cop online.

Like I think maybe it’s important people should know she was a prosecutor. She was once a district attorney and later an attorney general for the state of California. And we can discuss how related that is to police work and how tied she is to the carceral system etc etc (but for fairness would have to include her record of pushing for lowering incarceration rates through programs helping former prisoners + her office refusing to jail folks for low level weed offense). But she was never a police officer. Like people should get that clear. Kamala Harris was never a police officer. She was a district attorney. She was never a police officer.

I see posts going “Okay, I’ll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO” and “omg if that’s the best we can do I suppose I’ll support it” and I’m like…

What do you people fucking WANT?

Let’s run down how she’s rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?

• ACLU = 93% on civil liberties
• AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions
• Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights
• League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism
• NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights
• NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)
• NEA = 100% on education
• Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights

In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we’ve got a very liberal, woman of color who’s spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that’s somehow…just barely tolerable.

So I ask again…what is that you’re dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she’s pretty constrained as to what’s possible to do in this situation.

Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren’t rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.

So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren’t 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you…we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.

Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you’re a straight white man and preferably rich. There’s room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let’s not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.