Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • There’s a guy I know of who keeps bees, and while there are some people nearby who get pissy at him every time they see a bee, most people love how well all the flowers and gardens grow nearby and understand why they do.

    This past year I went to someone’s house nearby and their tree was blooming, but didn’t look nearly as good as usual. And then I noticed I couldn’t hear any bees.

    When that tree has flowers, it’s filled with so many bees you can hear it buzzing from the road about 300m away.

    Now silence.

    I haven’t seen a bee around where I live in over a year. And I’m outside a lot in the spring and summer. Usually I get a few buzzing over me when I’m out in my hammock, but I have yet to hear one this year. I’m hoping they’re just “sleeping in” a bit but I fear I already know the truth…



  • My parents outsource their Lawncare to me, and I have been taking the huge patch of clover near a corn field and transplanting it around their yard. Just cutting a shovel ful of dirt out and swapping them, and watering the area.

    No idea if it’ll work the way I want it to, but I guess I’ll see if it spreads this summer.

    I’d love to go to my in-laws and use a big seed spreader to throw clover and other native plants around, but that would just lead to them killing it all and hiring a lawn company to replant Kentucky bluegrass or something lame like that.


  • I keep telling people to let clover grow, and half the stuff that’s supposedly bad for their lawn is actually good for a healthy patch of dirt but someone invented a problem so they could sell the solution.

    I’ve actually had landscaping people knock on my door and explain that half my lawn is weeds and they can take care of it for me on a 6 month contract or whatever bs…

    Like Bruh my lawn is carefully cultivated to grow all natural native plants, specifically with the intent of boosting local insect and pollinator activity, there’s a reason this half-are is the only place you see butterflies.

    I’m not about to let some punk in headphones and a “Lastname Lawncare” t-shirt flatten all of this to 1/2in of plain green uniform grass. That’s boring as shit. And bad for the environment. And boring. as. shit.









  • we’re very far from that.

    As usual, the only thing keeping humanity back is… Humanity.

    Petty differences and ancient squabbles that turn deadly over the years has turned humanity into crabs scuttling around a bucket.

    We have the capability to feed, house, and clothe everyone on the planet. We have the capability of electrifying every industry on earth.

    The only things keeping us from doing so are “it’s expensive” or “the logistics are too complex”

    All of which sounds to me like children whining “it’s too haaaaaard” when told to clean their room.

    By no means am I saying you are wrong, we are very far from all that. It’s just our own fault.



  • A few years ago I purged my face book profile with a script that edited every post with lorem ipsum, and then deleted the content.

    It was embarrassing seeing posts from 10-15 years ago. Jesus christ I was an idiot. I still am, but I was then too. (thanks mitch)

    In 2022 I did the same to my reddit account.

    Same reaction.

    Although it was interesting to see my comments go backwards from “burn the system to the ground” to “we need to make a compromise and reach across the aisle” and then from “all religions should be allowed to die” to “Yay Jesus”

    Like I said, I was a big dum

    Oh god I would hate to see my YouTube comment history from my first account…