Notices by Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)

@silverwizard @foolishowl But then you do need to have the characters behave in believable ways, rather than just pushing them around to keep things exciting for Sweeps Week

Have got three free months of Paramount Plus via my car insurance, which couldn't have come a moment too soon: Battlestar Galactica has delighted me enough, I feel – can't wait to get back to DS9 and other Star Trek stuff

The final straw was Cally shooting Boomer at the end of S2E4. I literally sat there saying "No, she didn't. She didn't do that." It just felt cynically plot-driven rather than character-driven

Then I read ahead and saw that a bunch of characters are later revealed – gasp! –  to have been Cylons all along (including Tyrol and Tigh), and like: nope. If you're going to end up doing that to me, I'm out.

The Star Trek franchise will never let me down with terrible character and plot decisions like that, no sir-ree /jk^∞

Quite impressive how BSG manages to fall even more egregiously than Star Trek into the USian sci-fi trap of "It is the year 4985, and humanity is still organising itself according to the basic structures of the United States Constitution"

"It is the year 4985, and queer people still don't exist. No, not even Starbuck, how could you even *think* that?"

@AnarchoNinaWrites Ye gods, no wonder he won, these people are absolute *saps*, the easiest marks in existence

@AnarchoNinaWrites But! But! He has “🏳️⚧️ Ally” in his bio! I guess “terms and conditions apply”…

Happy new year, everyone. In the immortal words of Enver Hoxha, which have never felt truer than they do now: “This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year.”

@goatsarah @james @taylorlorenz Turns out “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was more a statement of intent than a warning

Looking for "quiet queer" events, and found a board game night that takes place in London each month. But it's for "women and non-binary people" – which I assume means, as usual, "girl enbies", not "boy enbies". <sigh>

@AnarchoNinaWrites Yeah I read some centrist newspaper writer yesterday saying “fascism was 90 years ago, we live in a very different world” – as if the Trumpists weren’t being *completely open* about their fascistic intent. But like you say: they don’t generally wear uniforms (yet), so it can’t be fascism…

On a call with a tech vendor at work, and The Guy keeps talking about “the [ProductName] Activity Centre”, and all I can think of is THIS

@esvrld Yup. And Trump spending $60m on “Kamala is for the they/thems” ads makes it a shoo-in that the centrists will also decide the Democrats need to definitively repudiate trans rights (sorry, “the more outlandish progressive causes”, to quote one newspaper columnist this morning)

Oh you know, just our “socialist” prime minister laughing and joking with a homophobic fascist while planning to emulate her policies, no biggie, everything’s fine

But as someone pointed out on here recently, Meloni has learnt the key lesson that, as long as you’re “well-behaved” in your foreign policy, you can be as fash as you like domestically and no other country will give a fuck

OK, looks like Philippine English already solved the “gender-neutral alternative to ‘sir’ and ‘madam’” problem :heart_nonbinary:

@AnarchoNinaWrites The constant hypervigilance as you sort people, conversation by conversation, into one bucket or another is exhausting in itself. Like, is this “nice but clueless” cis friend burbling about “women’s fears” and “irreversible changes” because they are in bucket 4 but being crass and (educatably) ignorant, or because they are secretly in bucket 2 (or worse) but keeping it civil? (A situation I often call, “last Thursday evening”)

@ryanc Whereas whenever British people go to houses in the US, we’re like, “Waste disposal units! Mixer taps! Air conditioning! Ridiculous! What’s *wrong* with misery, anyway?”