Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
*taking a deep breath to reflect upon whether I’m human or not*
*philosophical sob*
*takes pen and makes a tick*
*contemplates about whether it’s lying or not when you don’t even know the answer, or the actual answer is too nuanced and complex and doesn’t fit into a binary margin… also, they didn’t define what they mean by “robot”, thus this uncertain ambiguity makes further measurements of your answer obsolete, and it doesn’t even matter at all what you reply, because the terms are not defined. *
I love when star trek has alien characters and your first instinct is always to assume their species is just Like That whenever they do something ridiculous and then every time you meet more of the fucking, blorbogians or whatever nobody else acts like that
Spock. Jadzia. Worf. Etc. None of these people are normal for their respective cultures either it’s JUST them
That’s because Starfleet attracts weirdos!
The Federation is a post-scarcity society, so most citizens have near infinite free time to goof around with art, education, or entertainment. But what if you’re not that type? What if you’re a troublemaker, or wayyyyy too into strange bugs, or simply will not shut the fuck up about gaseous stellar phenomenon?
Starfleet’s for you baby!
Starfleet is where parents send their rowdy kids to go break stuff. It’s like year-round summer camp, but also helpful. Starfleet channels all that energy into first contact & protection.
So of course nobody in Starfleet is “normal”.
TRUE it’s because there aren’t any neurotypicals in starfleet. That’d do it
Perhaps the most-terrifying space photograph around.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.
Credit: NASA
Why did he do this
to take the most terrifying photograph of someone in space ever would be my guess
Anonymous:
Ok wait what why is the FBI investigating the orange????
Well, you see, the thing is that Donald Trump has done literally so many crimes that when the news first broke, everyone was like “but in relation to which crime though?” It now has been confirmed that the raid was about the 15 boxes of top-secret documents that Trump stole from the White House and took to Mar-a-Lago with him. The salient points to appreciate are therefore these:
Federal law does not fuck around with the penalties for mishandling classified information and/or presidential records (all of which are required to be preserved and turned over to the National Archives, even if they aren’t literal top-secret classified intelligence). If Trump is convicted of this, one of the penalties includes… being barred from holding federal office ever again. If it turns out that he was selling secrets to foreign actors, such as, say, Russia or Saudi Arabia, both of which the Trump crime cabal has close ties with, the penalty is LIFE IMPRISONMENT OR DEATH. As I said. Does not fuck around. Either way, Trumpie got (let us fucking hope) a lot of pain coming.
The amount of evidence that it takes for a federal judge to sign off on a warrant for a no-knock raid is… a lot. The same but for a FORMER PRESIDENT? Yeah. It’s a lot.
This also required the personal approval of both AG Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray. Wray is a lifelong Republican appointed by… you guessed it, Trump, after he fired James Comey in an attempt to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Pause for sad trombone noise.
Also, this proves that Garland is in fact willing to authorize operations that target Trump directly, which means that, hopefully, he isn’t afraid to charge Trump in connection with January 6.
The amount of right wing whining and crying about the pOlitciZeD jUsTICe dEpARtMenT!!!!1 is, predictably but depressingly, absolutely insane. Once again, consequences are something that are only supposed to happen to somebody else. Even if the guy in question literally tried to use the Justice Department to launch a coup to illegally stay in power and destroy American democracy. FAKE NEWS!!!
Objectively, “they even broke into my safe!” is absolutely fucking hilarious. As was the Anonymous Source (let’s be real, probably Donnie Jr.) who complained that the FBI guys just grabbed boxes and documents without “going through them properly.” WHAT DO YOU ORANGE FUCKFACE TWATWAFFLES THINK A RAID BY THE FBI ACTUALLY IS??? THAT THEY JUST STAND THERE AND ASK NICELY TO ONLY LOOK AT WHAT YOU’RE WILLING TO SHOW THEM???
In conclusion, the “Lock Up Hillary Clinton For Mishandling Her Private Emails!!!” crowd suddenly isn’t super fond of an ex-federal official getting locked up for mishandling top-secret documents.
