JP Babb

Aaa! I had an open panel for 4S 2026 (the conference for the Society for Social Studies of Science) approved. My topic, I shit you not, is called “Beyond the Torment Nexus: Science Fiction and the Conditions of Possibility” Submissions are open until April 30th! 4sonline.org/meeting.php #4S #STS #SF

Image from The Simpsons of Barry White saying "I love the sexy slither of a lady snake. Oh, baby."

Tim Burton's "The Golden Pot"

I would also like to express my contempt for the very polity that created that office.

ThEy'Re ThE vOiCe Of ThE wOrKiNg ClAsS

I can’t help but remember that an attempted regime change in Tehran was like the fantasy position of the fringiest group in Dick Cheney’s Circle 20 years ago

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

If you hate refugees so much, stop fucking creating them.

So many innocent people are about to die to service the egos of the worst people on Earth.

If he got pummelled in an election, they'd just blame him not going hard enough against trans rights.

The "Fuck Your Feelings" crowd seem to have developed a remarkable case of the vapours over this one.

They don't even use code words; they're just out there like "Hey, who's up for a pederast orgy?"

Roddenberry promised that the future would offer freedom from the past, but he did it as man who was inescapably a product of his own historical circumstances.

I was just having a conversation today about the contradiction of Gene Roddenberry saying "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" while, at the same time, declaring one of the major axes of diversity in humans to be regressive nonsense that we should get rid of.

It's an inconvenient fact to people like Yglesias who ultimately just really, really, really want to shove trans people under the bus.

Literally Yglesias claimed that the Labour party was floundering because it didn't go all in on fracking, a complete non-issue in the UK. The goalposts move even as public opinion, allegedly, remains static.

All of these "popularism" guys seem to assume, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that public opinion isn't a moving target and that today's polls are an absolute, eternal and infallible guide to public opinion.
Of course, they're only pretending to be this stupid.

Come for spite, stay because it's legitimately good!

This one literally made me laugh until I couldn't breathe.

Pleased to note that the FoxTrot guy has gone the polar opposite direction of the Dilbert guy.

We have the chance this year to not only take back the House (or if we're dreaming, even the Senate), but to primary the hell of a lot of D losers and shift the party significantly to the left. We have the chance to lean on ALL of our reps to actually do something.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

I'm going to go on the record as saying that the last few episodes of Starfleet Academy has been top tier for the Star Trek franchise, and the relentless negativity toward the series online really pisses me off.

We need everyone to acknowledge that the entire billionaire demographic is waging a war against the people.

Yeah, you're nearing 1780s France levels, frankly.

I know it's easy to get cynical about history repeating, but I honestly believe that we wouldn't be seeing the scale of mass resistance now on display in Minneapolis if *someone* wasn't paying attention to history.

"Cynical" in the sense of actually being cynical, or "cynical" in the sense of being an extreme idealist annoyed at a world that refuses to correspond to ideals?

All of this is only happening because 30 years of neoliberalism have caused everyone in a position to stop it to believe in nothing at all.

This estimate is years old, isn't it? If the IDF is accepting it now, it must be an order of magnitude higher.

New sleep paralysis demon just dropped.