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   Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 10:35:35 JST Jyoti Mishra

   Anyone on here who's been to #DestinationStarTrek in London or Brum?

   I miss meeting other #Trekkies in person (#Covid situation permitting, of course).

   It's made me realise how great the old cons were and how I took them for granted.

   #StarTrek

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 10:35:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jyoti you look so cool! I don't have a lot of paraphernalia but I've got a Spock tattoo

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 10:46:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jyoti whoa. This is an Essay. I might need a minute.

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 10:46:08 JST Jyoti Mishra

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     WOAAHHH! THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME!!
     oh myyyy!!!

     :pensive_party_blob: :ablobblewobble: :ablobcatrainbow:

     And thank you. I was shy dressing up at first but got into it properly. I love it now!

     Would you like to read my essay on #StarTrek and the need for utopic visions? ?

     OF COURSE YOU WOULD:

     https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2016/09/08/happy-50th-birthday-star-trek/

     #SociologyOfStarTrek #MediaStudies #Sociology #Utopias #Dystopias

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:06:31 JST Jyoti Mishra

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     hehe, it's from when I did my degree in #Sociology, #Film and #AmericanStudies. I wedged #StarTrek in everywhere I could!

     Also, growing up on Trek was a gateway to me becoming an actual #Marxist in my teens as both posit a future utopia. The beloved #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism that you also find in #IanMBanks #CultureNovels

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:06:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jyoti I love the Culture novels!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:35:19 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jyoti we'll get there! I know it. Glad to be working on the dream with people like you.

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:35:20 JST Jyoti Mishra

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     Look, it's late and I'm a silly old fool but...

     ... my entire life, I have worked in one way or another to try and make the Trek / Culture future come true. And now I'm chatting to you, on a platform based on something *you* created that is a seed of that future. I find that incredible.

     #TheFederation / #Fediverse / #Culture is sooo close, so damned close. The free association of sentients as equals, beyond all our ridiculous, pernicious -isms.

     We need our dreams!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:46:18 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jyoti I know, right? I'm glad though.

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 11:46:19 JST Jyoti Mishra

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     Isn't it weird that we only know each other because of
     #FairchildSemiconductor ?

     :ablobcool:

     I stg, that company has a lot to answer for...