A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Dallas was reportedly stopped by a gate agent who demanded a judicial warrant before allowing the agent onto the aircraft. The July 25 incident could signal a growing pushback from airlines as immigration enforcement at U.S. airports increases. https://www.thetravel.com/southwest-airlines-is-the-first-to-stand-up-to-ice-employee-blocks-agent-from-arresting-passenger/
@devopscats The first book (and maybe one or two more, by now?) is, yeah -- and maybe people will start publishing fanfic set in that universe (though many may be waiting until the entire series is available).
Although I enjoyed the books, they don't particularly fit my idea of a "Star Trek" replacement (for multiple reasons), but... hmm, maybe it can be adapted...
(Added: it might be more easily adapted into a Star Wars alternative -- which I mainly like for the off-mainstream productions like Andor... but there are possibilities there.)
Welcome to our fuzzy-logical yowling-space, @binomech! Our technomages are standing by to assist with... [checks notes] ...consuming any uneaten pizza you might have. (They're helpful that way. Kinda like cats, really.) :tootcat:
Hello! I've been on the lookout for a new home. Formerly on [many, many instances since 2018], now on toot-cat. :tootcat:
I'm a 30-ish year old guy. I really like movies, poetry, car trips where people share an aux cord, cold soups, seeing people's reactions to things that I already like, and staying up past my projected bedtime to do things that I could do at more reasonable hours.
I post followers-only almost exclusively, although I don't mind follow requests. I don't usually have much to say, but I like to reply to people. Nice to meet you!
@Ilka4You I guess the only question is whether or not the "undisclosed island" part is true -- but it would hardly make them less villainous even if so. The cruelty is the point.™ @Lana
@tshirtman @Legit_Spaghetti @Lana
Yeah, I've been saying "satire is dead" for awhile now -- it kinda depends on exaggerating bad actions in order to reveal their terribleness, but that no longer works when any exaggeration you can think of is at least highly plausible and possibly something they're already literally doing. :blobcatupsidedown: :spiral_eyes: 🔥
@clarfonthey Still, much better than joke pederasty. @rnd
(I mean, someone has to ruthlessly analyze and contextualize the humor; it ain't gonna deconstruct itself, now, is it.)
@clarfonthey I thought it was bishops that moved diagonally...
(Which piece is the Pope? :blobcatthinking:)
In honour of #InternationalCatDay this year I figured I’d reintroduce everyone to my boys.
This is Spock. He’s 13 years old. He’s been with us since he was a 13 week old kitten.
He is a ferocious and still very productive hunter. #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #ProofOfCat
@devopscats I've watched some of it -- the quality varies tremendously (which is meant to include "really quite good"). Still, if it's based on the Trek universe, Paramount owns the copyright, so nobody can sell what they've produced, much less merch (which is another workable way to fund creative work) and Paramount could choose at any point to bollix or restrict any production they don't like (and have indeed done so in the past).
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate believers and I don't assume they're bad people. My extended family includes some very kind, accepting, and progressive theists (what I sometimes call "true Christians").
I'm thinking particularly of a very dear high school friend of mine who repeated that argument (almost verbatim) from a Church authority in response to my descrbing belief in God as a crutch. (I'm not proud of how I handled that whole disagreement, fwiw; it turns out to to involve psychological complexity I'd never been warned about... I'll spare you the monologue; just suffice to say that the people saying things like that are often as much victims as anything else.)
That post makes me think of people defending their religious beliefs -- statements like "Belief in God is not a crutch; we need Him in order to exist!" and suchlike.
@Lana (...though on 2nd read, I have to think this is a satirical reference to Epstein...?)
@Lana ...and also, moving them to a location where definitely nobody outside of ICE can find them is a totally great way to protect them.
omfg these people 🔥
They *should* feel unsafe. Every billionaire should feel unsafe. Every politician should feel unsafe. Every person who has an outsized influence on a large group of people should feel unsafe.
If they feel safe, they do whatever the fuck they want, consequences be damned. They've clearly expressed no sense of empathy or compassion. It's only when they feel unsafe that they do the right thing that they should have done in the first place.
Make them all feel unsafe.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html
@hakona @maxleibman The second option postpones it until they are in the middle of something important.
