The Constable

Bluesky has four kinds of users

RIP Walter Koenig. He had my favorite line in the legendary Futurama Star Trek episode.

Important to remember the man he's standing next to started his political career calling Obama's citizenship into question over birth certificates. That goal post has been moved such that a certificate won't protect you. They will redraw the lines until everyone they hate is excluded.

Nancy 10/24/26

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This got me thinking back to Alpha Centauri and how evocative its beautiful writing is. It's rare to see a work of science fiction take dozens of incompatible philosophies, many of which you'll disagree with, and imagine how those views might adapt to new discoveries and evolve in the future.

Nancy 10/21/26 “Sick Week” part 3

I always think about what Mac from Always Sunny said about his transformation

STARPLEX INTENSIFIES

me constantly sending Biddy Blas memes to my friend who isn’t on BlueSky.

All the Biddy Blas discourse has me remembering how I felt watching Season 1 of Andor.

People think Homer has to wait until Season 14 to unlock this, but actually through sequence breaking Homer can get it by Season 6 and rescue the Lemon Tree by himself.

I love the implication in Star Wars that speakers of Huttese understand Basic, but refuse to speak it, and speakers of Basic understand Huttese, but refuse to speak it. Just a massive passive aggressive linguistic circle jerk across that entire galaxy.

I should be able to adorn my home with 20 Master Grade Kapools, and the fact that I can't is one of the biggest indictments against society today.

Starship Troopers (1959)

Hell Yeah T'Pol art!

correct this is food for andalites.

this but with weebs

Reminds me of when I picked up and read Herodotus and within like 5 pages, his history of the Kingdom of Lydia starts with Candaules telling Gyges "Dude, my wife is so hot. No really, you have to see how hot she is. Hide in our bedroom while she's dressing so you can see!"

Anyone trying to convince you that Superman 2025 wasn’t great is doing the world a disservice. That movie is beautiful and I still find myself occasionally reflecting on specific characters and scenes and how important they are today.

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I know we’re nowhere near the Krakoa era… but we’re closer to it than we ever have been.

Don’t talk to me or my progressively smaller adult male grandpa sons again.

Post your profile pic: i’m The Constable

I’m a teacher, and this is correct and true, but it’s also a power fantasy that presupposes an ability to not be so existentially exhausted by 3pm that I spend the evening paralyzed on my couch.

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

screaming into the void about the world these people are building that we will be forced to live in

First day at my job as a falconer. Pretty excited! Weatherman says the gyre won’t be widening, so the falcon should have no problem hearing me at all!

this reminds me of one of my favorite posts about Gundam ever.

If only he had some kind of hat.

First day at my job as a falconer. Pretty excited! Weatherman says the gyre won’t be widening, so the falcon should have no problem hearing me at all!

A Hark! A Vagrant classic

A favorite things about this era of Star Trek production was that Prodigy gave us a humpback navigator in Voyager's cetacean ops. It warms my heart that we picked back up on the thread of animal personhood established in The Voyage Home and followed through to show a humpback as an equal being.

It’s also a problem I unfortunately see accelerating before it will slow down or reverse. I see it in action daily as a teacher. The prevalence and ubiquity of LLM’s have latched onto our eroding consensus on what reality and truth are, and degrade the value of expertise and shared social ideals.

Love that Sluggo's whistling in reverse here.

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities.