Kelsey Atherton

A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?

no strategy just vibes

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OK, but what if that was too calm and you really also needed to make sure that the mirror universe is not fun fillers in 24 episode seasons but essential character for multiple captains

need to finish (babies disrupt TV completionism, rough) but it played like Bad Batch/late season Clone Wars when the worked out all the bigs and could make weird worlds to tell short stories (this is a complement I swear)

you know Prodigy working foreshadows this

Disco was also constantly in search of a theme, "oh we're professors on Space Ship School?" is a slam dunk to explain to anyone vs "okay it's a prequel about the klingon war but there's a mushroom engine and the mirror universe wants it and then next season it's Space X Files & then it's Year 3000"

also appears to be a cheatcode for building the world; the cast is new to it too, and the wizened adults and modulating reaction for their charges and the audience.

Tilly's guest spot is the first time I've wanted to pick up Doscovery since setting it down at Season 4!

there was some tweet in twitter that was about Danny Ocean talking to Rusty and Linus about the proper way to simp, and while I've never refound the post, the tone always seemed right. Take the layup, make the basket.

it's weird that this show works, right? Paramount a mess, Post-Burn should be a full disaster of a setting reset, the other Nu-Treks that work are nostalgia and meta plays while the ones carving new territory struggle. And yet!

this was me on Ep 8 bsky.app/profile/athe...

The JDAM drops again; but now I know
That twenty decades of 'democracy'
Were vexed to nightmare by a rasping TV,
And what slop feast, its manliness generated at last,
Slouches towards X again to be born?

Bombing bombing in the burning gulf
The Francis can barely hear the Fukuyama
History falls apart the end cannot hold
Mere tragedy then farce is unleashed upon the world
The tide of darkness rises
world war warcraft two takes shape
the best lack all agency while the worst are all mememaxing

I know I know, "loose posts make ghosts"

you'd think for how maha these guys are they'd be more concerned about seamen retention

hey hey Hegseth man / how many carriers did you feed to Iran

"subway takes" no. no no no. subway gives. the subway gives us so much

if you recognize the Swole Hutt from hos previous appearance in canon you're welcome to sit in "I swear some of this is good but no not that" purgatory with me

As penance for making art as timeless as Andor, Disney is required to make at least four mid-at-best Stars War

"I Got A Golden Snitch" [Tommy Gnosis Version]

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

Buffalo Return: New Herd Report Shows More Than 25,000 Buffalo On Tribal Lands 1,500 Buffalo Returned To Tribes In 2025 The InterTribal Buffalo Council, which represents 89 member nations, has spent decades rebuilding buffalo herds after federal extermination campaigns and land ...

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Buffalo Return: New Herd Report Shows More Than 25,000 Buffalo On Tribal Lands

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Protect Our Elections. No Pardon for Tina Peters. Tina Peters tried to undermine Colorado's elections to help push Donald Trump's Big Lie. A jury of her peers found her guilty. Now there are reports that Governor Jared Polis is considering pa...

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Colorado governor signal he'll commute sentence of election denier. Pressured by President Trump, Gov. Jared Polis said he is considering the release of Tina Peters, the last high-profile 2020 election meddler still imprisoned. His fellow Democrats are outraged.

File this under "Why establishment Dems keep losing."

If you won't act like an opposition party, we'll replace you.

Albuquerque city council just mostly gutted a long-in-the-works planned zoning change that would have greatly expanded the amount of housing options permitted in most of the city, expanding options and lowering costs. Gotta prioritize brutality against those with nothing I guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.

The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly.

Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs.

By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.

Kelsey Atherton’s Barbenheimer This is a guest post by Kelsey Atherton. Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work [...]

"If Barbie is the post-war wake of consumer impulse in Pax Americana, and if Oppenheimer is an attempt to frame the creation of an epoch-defining weapon as a war-winning necessity, Asteroid City instead treats both realities as fait accompli."

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Kelsey Atherton’s Barbenheimer This is a guest post by Kelsey Atherton. Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work [...]

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