#HashtagGames
#FightProcrastinationASong

"Right Now" by Van Halen
"Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac

@Unlikelylass

Yeah -- strangely much better than the James Blish novelizations of TOS... but that may just be because someone (no idea who), in their implicit wisdom, decided the latter should be more like short stories than novellas.

If it were me, I'd have said to turn each episode into a full-blown novel (of whatever length the author felt it deserved) -- there's a lot of background detail implicit in those stories which obviously had to be left out of the 50-minute screenplays. (That said: some of the short-story versions were arguably better than the actual episodes, even diminished as they were.)

@Harena @brooke

@Unlikelylass

Between the two of us, @Harena and I have two complete sets of those (except for Log 10, which fell victim to a bored canine in my case). ^.^

@brooke

@brooke That was the first story in the Alan Dean Foster novelizations (Star Trek: Log One) -- I remember eating through those like candy. (...if I liked candy, but you know what I mean.)

@brooke It was the best of toons, it was the worst of toons...

The voice-acting always felt kinda dead to me -- like they each recorded their lines separately. I think I heard somewhere that this was not the case, so... [baffled shrug]

@zeenix I feel like I want to tinker with the firmware -- and/or have a feed where I can monitor battery-voltage and any other relevant parameters.... :spiral_eyes:

Creative subversion of evil

@zeenix The Jackery battery died with no warning when it was still claiming over an hour of life (during a power-outage a month or three back)... maybe this is a common problem.

@zeenix I haven't tried Bluetti yet -- we've got a Jackery and an Energizer (it was on sale at Costco, don't @ me :D). I think I've heard good things about Bluetti, but I don't remember the details...

[wonders how @sydneyfalk is doing]

#research #plants #botany #UNC #Duke

'UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite their herbaria under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill.'

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2026/08/31/carolina-and-duke-to-combine-plant-collections/

@MaryAustinBooks Trump 2.1b: "pseudomonas is good for you, only wussy soyboys are afraid of it, War Minister Pete Hegseth will be requiring all enlisted personnel to drink 1 qt of Clorox daily and test positive for aliveness before being allowed to Serve our Great Country, thank you for your attention to this matter."

@rnd Agreed. It also seems worth noting that ideas which today are being called "radical lefty" by some are very much in line with the US Republican Party Platform of 1956. <.<

@rey "tranny freak" seems like a good starting idea for a t-shirt. :blobcatthinking:

@rnd Ahh, yeah, this is one of those things where a word has a pretty wide range of possible meanings, and it's not clear to me that there's really an official one (at least, outside of specific disciplines like economics or history).

My idea of "socialism" seems pretty closely aligned with your idea of "liberalism", i.e. that what ultimately matters is how people in general are treated -- evaluated by most likely outcome, using the best available data, because that's the best way to get the outcomes you want.

I agree that having the state as the only employer is problematic (making some reasonable assumptions about how that would most likely work). In a free society, people would want to have some collective control over how funds are allocated; in a society where people are "paid" for "work", that would include decisions about who gets hired to do what and how much they are paid -- or, more practically, who is delegated to make those decisions for any given project -- and projects come in all sizes...

@WizardOfDocs It looks like this one uses their data...

Does anyone know of a better answer to this question (i.e. does OpenStreetMaps have an Android app)?

@WizardOfDocs It looks like this one uses their data...

Does anyone know of a better answer to this question (i.e. does OpenStreetMaps have an Android app)?

@WizardOfDocs Also, #OpenStreetMaps is a thing and could probably use more funding....

I kind of see that as, ultimately, a defining principle of right-wing philosophy (which the Republicans began migrating towards in the late 1970s, and which the Democratic establishment seems to experience as an inescapably alluring siren call, perhaps because of all the money the sirens have contributed to the "escape Charybdis" project).