BC Holmes

BC Holmes

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One part Pip; one part Estella

Trek nerd. Queer 🏳️‍⚧️. Programmer and pro-grammar. IDIC means Black Lives Matter and trans rights!

I'm not going to read your Substack article.

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I was out-of-town when this dropped yesterday. Jim, Michael and I were talking about "one and done" aliens: the alien species that we've seen in the show in only one episode, but which have potential for many more stories. continuingmissionsta.com/2024/07/19/c...

Continuing Conversations 137—Bringing Back One-and-Done Star Trek Species into your STA Games! -continuingmissionsta.com Incorporating Star Trek One Hit Wonders into your Star Trek Adventures Games! BC Holmes joins Jim and Michael to discuss those one-off, obscure alien species that have popped up in 55+ years of Sta…

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Nicholas is Al Pacino-ing his way through the election

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JFC I want to firebomb this place just reading the fucking headline

This is being presented as 'feelgood' and charming, when it is actually the most dystopian thing I've seen in quite some time. And that's a high bar to clear. www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Can't get enough of my voice? I'm on Writers Not Writing, talking about all the things I do when I'm not, well, writing. #writing #podcast

‎Writers Not Writing: Writers Not Writing, Episode 84 with Rachel A. Rosen on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Writers Not Writing, Ep Writers Not Writing, Episode 84 with Rachel A. Rosen - Jul 15, 2024

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“The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers were exposed in a massive data breach” www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/b...

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

Just a few of my unpopular opinions: - If you eat at Chick-fil-A, you're a homophobe - If you read the New York Times or The Guardian, you're probably a TERF - If you still post to, or regularly read Xitter, you've a fascist - If you vacation in Florida, you're probably all of the above.

since Pamela Paul has written *yet another* anti-trans NYTimes op-ed, time for me to re-up my uber-critique of this genre of articles – no paywall, please share widely! juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…juliaserano.medium.com NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

This is especially sad, given that we also lost Sue Johanson a year ago. The show "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson" was very much in the same spirit as Dr. Ruth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Joh...

Dr. Ruth “defended abortion rights, suggested older people have sex after a good night’s sleep and was an outspoken advocate of condom use … In the 1980s, she stood up for gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic and spoke out loudly for the LGBTQ community.” apnews.com/article/ruth...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96apnews.com Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.

Sue Johanson - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

My almond milk has apparently been recalled. There are a bunch of instructions about which specific products and batches are part of the recall. I'm particularly keen to understand the part that says "product code contains 7825". recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-rec...

Various Silk and Great Value brand plant based refrigerated beverages recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes - Canada.carecalls-rappels.canada.ca

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This is a very fitting outcome for a plantation.

Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt started now under Black ownershipwww.npr.org The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811 uprising can inspire a new generation to fight racism.

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Time for an economics lesson.

One of the recent #StarTrekAdventures books dedicated a chapter to RPG safety tools. I think that's pretty cool. They had a sample checklist that people could go through to talk about stuff that might be fraught in a game. Naturally, I added support for that checklist to the character creator.

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"Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media knows how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the republic. So for the most part they don’t."

Oh, this is good. This is very good.

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

After the show, head honcho guy ran up to me as we were heading down the incredibly over-packed stairs of the theatre, so wax enthusiastically about the show, and partially because I was avoiding offering up opinions on the show, I started telling him about my Princess of Wales story.

I saw _Wicked_ last night. Mirvish production; Princess of Wales theatre. My first time seeing this show. It was a work event: my company's head honcho guy is apparently a big fan of the musical and had a bunch of tickets bought and handed out to us employees by lottery.

I saw _Wicked_ last night. Mirvish production; Princess of Wales theatre. My first time seeing this show. It was a work event: my company's head honcho guy is apparently a big fan of the musical and had a bunch of tickets bought and handed out to us employees by lottery.

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“Biden admin says it opposes gender-affirming surgery for minors” Yeah, that’s it. I’m done. Happy pride you useless fucks. #uspol #TransRights https://19thnews.org/2024/07/white-house-statement-gender-affirming-surgery-minors/#uspol #TransRights https://19thnews.org/2024/07/white-house-statement-gender-affirming-surgery-minors/

White House says it opposes gender-affirming surgery for minors19thnews.org The administration’s message expands on a response to The New York Times and Fox News. It also stands at odds with Biden’s prior broad support for gender-affirming care.

Pondering: should Canadians be pressuring our government to be ready with an emergency American refugee program? How bad does it have to get before we enact such a thing?

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Literally saw a TikTok awhile back where someone was interviewing tattoo artists, asking "What's the most stereotypical Millennial tattoo?", and two different artists answered "Harry Potter tat cover-up."

I love Rok-Tahk sooooo much!

If you need to take a break from *gestures wildly* (and that is an okay thing to need and to do), I implore you to watch the new season of Star Trek: Prodigy on behalf of my spiritual child Rok-Tahk.

So why can't Biden order the official assassination of Justice Alito?

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Researchers Ask Why Surgery Regret is So Low for Trans Patients, What Can Be Learned — Assignedwww.assignedmedia.org Dr. Harry Barbee answered our questions about the direction of research into trans patients’ post-surgical regret, and how other areas of medicine might benefit from understanding the unusually lo...

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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Please keep sharing!! We've got 30% to raise in 6 days--it's tight but we can do it!!

⚔️✨6 DAYS LEFT✨⚔️ to back IRON BARGE on kickstarter! Thank you to everyone who's pledged and shared the project! We knew this was a big goal to make this book and pay our team their asking rates. We're trying to make this last push count! www.kickstarter.com/projects/meg...

IRON BARGE Book Onewww.kickstarter.com MOUSE GUARD meets MAD MAX in a dangerous journey through post-apocalyptic Las Vegas!

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GOOD NEWS! You can now buy fresh milk that will outlast Rishi Sunak's career.

I've been working at a client site: they give me their own laptop and force me to use their software choices. One of those choices is Outlook. Normally, I use macOS Mail, but usually connected to an Exchange server. Oh my god, is Outlook bad.

I just got an email from Mayor Chow's team. She's talking about council debates and new partnerships with the province regarding things like the Science Centre. I think the conversation should be about Province of Toronto. But that's just me. thebeaverton.com/2024/06/onta...

Ontario Science Centre closes after roof in danger of collapsing under weight of Doug Ford's bullshitthebeaverton.com TORONTO – After standing for 54 years as a testament to midcentury architecture and a source of memories for generations of young people, the Ontario Science Centre was announced to be closing today, ...

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This is true, by the way.

Does one implore a person to put on "their big NB pants?" Is there a version of that figure of speech that works for non-binary folks? Like, "I understand you're having difficulty making a decision, but you need to put on your big NB pants and decide!"

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Facebook often fails to take appropriate action when hackers take over users’ accounts. So some people have taken Meta to small claims court to get their accounts back. www.engadget.com/how-small-cl...

How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotlinewww.engadget.com Frustrated Facebook and Instagram users are heading to small claims court in a last-ditch attempt to get help from Meta.