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NightflyerJen
@nightflyerjen.bsky.social
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Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fan. Former hairy dogmother. Likes cute animals, crochet, reading, science and arts. She/her.
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adhd-alien.bsky.social Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 18d
When my caveman brain thinks doing chores is as dangerous as touching a crocodile
Comic explains ADHD-related task paralysis. Panel 1: Character raises a fist, saying, “Even when I really want to or have to do something, I often end up being unable to move my body at all.” Text note: “Hasn’t moved in 40 minutes.” Panel 2: “That’s because my brain doesn’t feel as rewarded when completing tasks as people without ADHD.” Panel 3: Scene changes, the character is a caveman holding a rock in a desert. Text: “So it thinks I’m bad at surviving by doing unrewarding tasks.” Caveman says, “Walk desert?” Pink brain character replies: “No, I think you’ll starve. There’s no benefit to this!” Panel 4: “So this is what my brain thinks I’m trying to do.” Character grins near a crocodile: “I want to touch the crocodile ahahaha!” Brain yells: “Nooo! Don’t do this!” Panel 5: “But this is what I’m actually trying to do.” Character reaches toward a bill: “Please… I need to pay my bills.” Brain screams: “Noooo… You’ll die!!”
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
@littleevil0ne.bsky.social have you seen this?

It's not a done deal yet, but... 🥰😁
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Characters from the TV show "Highlander" in a still from the final episode: from left to right, Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson, Peter Wingfield as Methos, Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda, and (seen from behind) Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod. Joe, Methos and Amanda have champagne glasses in their hands; Amanda has two and appears to be passing one to Duncan. For those unfamiliar with the series: Amanda was an unrepentant and incorrigible thief, so it's not a big stretch to imagine her coming up with a ridiculous scheme to rob the Louvre and roping her friends into helping, which is why they're a reasonable "right answer" to "Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only." They're probably drinking to their successfully pulling it off. 😉
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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murderbotbot.bsky.social
Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Every so often, a post floats through my timeline that confirms, with crystal clarity, the knowledge that "*yes*, following this person was absolutely the right and only correct move to make."

😁👍
littleevil0ne.bsky.social Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · Oct 5
Watching a cinema therapy video about healthy marriages, when they started talking about Evie and Rick in the Mummy and if a fourth movie could be made and this editor's note popped up that is PURE GOLD
Brief Editor's note: There is absolutely no quantifiable limit to the depths I would go, the Realms of hell I would traverse to make this movie happen. I will spend every forsaken penny. I will take innocent lives. I will lie cheat beg steal kill die and sell my very soul for the entity who so much as promises me the very remotest possibility of this film being made. It wouldn't even be that difficult. Everyone in the cast is still alive. If we can making 5 fucking Indiana jones movies (of which every single one is a masterpiece) with a geriatric cast and the plot contrivance of a Doctor who late-season rush job, what's stopping us from doing this thing one more time? Maybe Brendan fraser is like a hot (but gentle) archeologist daddy past his physical prime but at the very peak of his academic and emotional apogee. Like wolverine in his Logan era, but one that could hold me gently and decapitated an undead child mummy in the same fell swoop? And bring Evie back. Do time travel or something, I don't care. I need to see her face again. I need to see her knock over one more set of bookcases in the recently unburned library of Alexandria the final shelf clattering in a puff of sandy mist just in time to meet Rick's loving gaze at the end of the row, his face illuminated by the light beams of some anciently cursed full moon. I don't have much in this world but I would gladly offer it, and whatever ever else I could steal from those closest to me, if it means I made some miniscule contribution to what I'm positive would be the eternal fulfillment of my soul. I don't deserve it and maybe the world doesn't either. It's not the movie we deserve but it's just the one we need right now. To whatever God is listening, I am BEGGING YOU
October 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
Living in interesting times is exhausting
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.
September 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ziibiing.com
the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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heninahat.bsky.social
Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!!

Who wants a Lower Decker on their head?

(I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏)

#StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay
Dr T'Ana, Rutherford, Sending, Boimler and Mariner as crochet hats.
June 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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johnchen.com.au
hear hear
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
"Have you said 'thank you' even once?"
This is an image from Star Trek: the Next Generation. In the attached still photo, a Cardassian (a vaguely reptilian looking alien) interrogator (named Gul Madred, portrayed by the excellent David Warner) leans close to intimidate Captain Picard (played by Patrick Stewart.) Gul Madred was attempting to break Picard through torture, abuse and deprivation; he ultimately failed. This is the episode where Madred tries to bully Picard into saying there were five lights-- a deliberate lie, since there were in reality only four lights. Whether or not Gul Madred would fit right in amid the current Administration, and where, is probably an exercise best left to the viewers of this post.
March 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
*gulp* Well, I think it might be done... #altidance #dtiys @sephiramy.bsky.social

I won't say it's *great*, but I had fun, and it made me stretch and learn (I usually use speckle brushes instead of cel shading but I think it worked okay.)

Thanks for the challenge, and belated happy birthday!
A "draw this in your style" challenge, based on @sephiramy's work. A serpentine woman is dancing, her long black hair flaring out as she moves. She's wearing a purple-and-silvery dress, torn fishnet stocking, and black high-heeled shoes. There are brown and gray diamond patterns on her arms, shoulders, and face.
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Apologies-- I forgot to check for alt text before I reskeeted @straczynski.bsky.social 's post. Since accessibility's important, I'm going to see if I can manage it.

Original is here: bsky.app/profile/stra...
THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY It doesn’t matter how much food costs increase, doesn’t matter if vou can only afford fast food, we will always be able to buy steak. And we will invest heavily in fast food stocks to ensure we make money off this. Doesn’t matter how much gas costs, we will always be able to afford it. In addition to poor food choices and health coverage, your kids will grow up without proper nutrition which will cause them problems on every level, from physical to educational difficulties. Our kids will grow up straight and true and healthy. It doesn’t matter how much an education costs, doesn’t matter if your kids can’t afford to go to college or come out with massive debt, we will always be able to send our kids to university. And because a lot of our income is derived from tax incentives and taxpayer-fundeded bailouts your taxes are sending our kids to school. But you do not have the right to any of our money to send your kid to school. If you or your kids want to start a business, you will find that because we’ve sucked all the money out of the economy, there is simply no available cash around to help you finance your startup. (Unless you want to go to your friends online at sites like Indiegogo, and isn’t that just cute?) We just cut our kids a check and tell them to go have fun. Your kids are born with a glass ceiling above which they will almost certainly never have the opportunity to rise. Our kids are bom with a marble floor beneath which they will never be allowed to fall. If you accidentally provide incorrect information on your tax retum, you could lose your house, your possessions, and your livelihood. We lie all the the time on our tax information and none of us ever have to deal with this. We squirrel away billions of dollars in overseas accounts and do all we can to ensure that your money never leaves our control because we’ll doubtless need to scoop out more of it soon. You live in a Company Town; we pay you to work for us, while making sure that we own all the stores in town that sell our goods, the doctors offices where you go in town, the restaurants where you eat, and that we charge you just enough to make sure that at the end of the week you don’t have any leftover money to squirrel away, so you can never leave the company town, can never get ahead, and can never risk criticizing the company town. You work for us. We own the town where you live. We own you. If one of you takes a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, you will go to jail. If we take billions out of the savings of ordinary people then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of us will ever be prosecuted. Because the New Aristocracy is above such things. So we’ll just keep on doing it. Enjoy the ride. Your local police belong to us now. We’ve militarized them into soldiers who treat you like terrorists. If you speak against us, we will ensure that you are tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones” designed to make you forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now you have free speech only when and where we say you can have it. Meanwhile, we can say and do pretty much anything we want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it. If you happen to figure out our game and talk about it, we will accuse you of Class Warfare, in order to distract anyone from realizing that yes, there was a class war, that it was against you, that the war is over, and we won. Yes, you get a chance to vote for congresspeople and senators and presidents. But only after we’ve decided, Iong before the first ballot is ever cast, which candidate we will finance. Those we like, those who will give us what we want first and foremost, we will finance and you will get to vote on one of the two pre-screened candidates we have given you. If we don’t like them, if we think they will challenge us, we will not finance them and you will never have the chance to vote on them. Because you don’t get a real vote in the New Aristocracy. We own the White House. We own Congress. They pass the bills we write for them. They make the laws we want them to make, and make sure that they only limit you, never us. We own the courts. We own the lawyers. They are the club we use to beat you into submission. There are no Democratic or Republican Senators, or Congresspeople or Presidents. Those parties have not existed for decades. There is only the Party of the New Aristocrat. The rest is Kabuki theater. It is Mexican Wrestling. It is the illusion of choice, of difference, of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a monarchy of money. In that monarchy, we are the Aristocracy, the royalty, and what we say, goes. If you dump trash illegally, you will be fined and potentially arrested. If we dump hundreds of tons of toxic waste into rivers and streams, none of us will ever be arrested and if we are fined, we will simply raise our prices so that you are the one to actually pay for what we did. We are the New Aristocracy, and we do not pay fines. We are the New Aristocracy, and we are immune from prosecution. We are the New Aristocracy, and we find your poverty and your powerlessness and your struggles disgusting. You are beneath us. Understand something: we don’t want you to succeed. We don’t want someone coming along to slice the pie into smaller pieces. We want to ovn all of it. If we really wanted more of you where we are, do you think we would Inve spent the last thirty years consolidating every major company into smaller and smaller groups owned by fewer and fewer people? We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and your family over the last fifty years. You were not born into anything other than poverty and struggle. You will never be us. You will never have our our advantages. And we like it that way. We like that you peer through the bars of your cage to all that we have. We like that you think you can have it yourself one day. Because that illusion keeps you on our side. But you wiil never have those things. We’ve made sure of that. Because what you’re looking at is ours, and we do not share. The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you’ll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way. We don’t want you to have opportunities, we don’t want you to have an education, we don’t want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don’t want you healthy, we don’t want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves. Because you’re not in our club. Because we are the New Aristocracy. And you are the New Peasants. And we very, very, very much like it that way. An essay by J. Michael Straczynski
January 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I *wish* I could say he was wrong. But he isn't, because this describes the present all too accurately.
straczynski.bsky.social J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · Jan 21
Since a lot of folks aren't going to Facebook, a little something I wrote in 2014 that seems especially apropos at this moment. The Rules of the New Aristocracy.
January 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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papawoof.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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lttriptravis.bsky.social
@paramountplus.bsky.social We want #StarTrekLowerDecks back. Give us back the ditzy but hilarious crew of the Cerritos just doing their thing.

Everyone, if you agree, repost this.
g33kymick.bsky.social Mick Joest @g33kymick.bsky.social · Dec 19
Something @mikemcmahan.bsky.social told me during our interview that I think we all should absorb and hear. If you want #StarTrek Lower Decks back, start by praising the show, writing a letter, or doing something positive. Trashing future projects with hate is not the way to get it back.
December 20, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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allieinchains.bsky.social
Reskeet if you're fucking tired of things being so fucking hard and you just want a goddamn break man
December 14, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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flowerrypott.bsky.social
credit to @nberlat.bsky.social
Headline from Noah Berlatsky's newsletter reading "Maybe the best way to oppose fascism is to fucking oppose it. Stop with the appeasement, you quisling motherfuckers"
December 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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borderless.bsky.social
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:

Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.

That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
December 10, 2024 at 5:23 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Who else wants in on this?
nacl.sh Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · Dec 9
I'm putting together an open letter on the Singal situation and his repeated deliberate violations of Bluesky Community Guidelines. Please DM me if you're interested in signing or contributing.
nacl.sh Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · Dec 9
We cannot allow Bluesky to reimplement the same mistakes that Twitter did
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Same here, 1000%. Singal and buds are OPENLY ANNOUNCING they're here to target and harass trans people and allies. That is abuse of the platform.

@aaron.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app if BlueSky wants to be taken seriously, they need to be shut down, hard, NOW.

NOBODY wants their bullshit here.
bowsnonk.bsky.social ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · Dec 7
kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform
December 7, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social
This ~ 💯%
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM