Komodo Rodeo

Good catch. I’m going to have to re-watch TOS.

There are blue Orions with antennae?

https://lemmy.world/post/27648440 This post from yesterday feels especially relevant given the context of this one, but it makes for uncomfortable reading, so I’ll leave its reading to your individual discretion.

“A common practice in prisons known as ‘V-Coding’ is to purposefully house transgender inmates alongside particularly violent inmates…”

Please more Andorian content, please more Andorian content, please more Andorian content, please more Andorian content…

Arrest, and imprisonment of any sailing crews caught engaged in the activity, or with pirated catch in their ship’s holds. Along with these measures, immediate scuttling of their vessels in question would quickly deplete the stock of boats illegitimately engaged in the type of fishing which is depleting entire wild stocks.

Nations should band together and establish realistic limits, and coordinate to enforce them rather than imposing impotent fines. Vessels registered to nations which refuse participation or decline to abide by the rules laid out should be engaged as hostile entities both in and outside of member nations naval territory. Some of the coordinated pirate fishing is roughly equivalent to strip mining, the damage may take decades to heal, if at all still possible.

As it is, the oceans are set to fill with jellyfish over the next few decades due to anticipated overall temperature increases, and lack of predation by other sea creatures. If fish stocks face this additional competition on top of the already ludicrous figures of harvest, the entire oceanic food web may face collapse.

Fucking really, Quakers? I mean honest to God, what’s next, MI5 rendition of Catholic nuns on charges of sedition?

Holdup, someone Roseanne’ed it?

Peak content, I busted my sides laughing so hard that I think my neighbours might have heard me.

The Mastadon link is a revelation, I haven’t seen any duplication of content, but TBH I haven’t invested a fraction of the time there as here. The Federation is a great idea, although it’s going to take a little while for me to wrap my head around all of the ins and outs of the patchwork framing.

It sounds as though there’s a lot more to these new setups than I had initially thought, this might take a bit of reading just to pin down the basics. Thanks for the detailed response, much appreciated, those links are going to come in handy.

Interesting, I’ll keep it in mind.

Quick question for you. I signed up to Mastadon a while back, have been endeavouring to use it more regularly, and have been trying to sign on to as many local or often-subscribed orgs (on other media platforms). What I’m finding is that remarkably few of them are on Mastadon, and often those that are have been using them as a kind of alt-Twitter content splash with little engagement.

Are the actual active profiles/communities sort of walling themselves off from bots and bad actors in the way that you’re describing? Invite-only groups whose activity isn’t seen by non-members, or even accessible when searching for related tags/topics? Have I been casting about looking for content like someone looking for people in a neighbourhood where everyone is inside with the curtains drawn, or is there actually low engagement on Mastadon overall?

I’ve been using it for what seems like forever, but getting fewer and fewer relevant results over time for some reason. Switching to &udm=14 has been helpful, but I’m still uncertain about it: https://udm14.com/

Am I mistaken in saying that the new Reddit/Lemmy format of forum is to message boards, as message boards was to BBS?

RIP D&D campaign’s chat service 😬

Spoiler alert:

Holdup… is that a Star Fleet insignia on your ringfinger? 🖖

“What this show needs is more Operations Chiefs who built ships in bottles as boys, and can sling some daerts. I’m counting on you, Meaney.” -Berman probably