DS9 Dump

“Temporary stitches” all stitches are temporary if you have a pair of scissors and aren’t a coward

Dana just posted some old art of hers!!!

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

Thinking serenely about the time I proposed that in the world of Star Trek, extremely online Klingons are loosely organized into violently opposing camps based on whether they consider it appropriate to post fanfiction where someone behaves dishonorably

gender to me is like a car i dont really want one and society would be much better if it was not structured around it. but i got one because it helps me get around and sometimes its fun to make it go fast

my fave game i imagine they play on ds9 is who’s gonna carry the odo bag this mission. do they draw straws? is it on rotation like a chore wheel? is it like an annoying punishment or does everyone lowkey want to be the one to carry their backpack buddy and throw him dramatically to reveal that it’s NOT a random satchel but in fact goo man

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

Being autistic and having social interactions is just that episode of Deep Space Nine where O'Brien gets suspicious of everyone on the station because they're treating him differently and acting like replicants only for him to find out HES THE REPLICANT.