Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

'Serenity'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jessica - Jun 24, 2022 8:12:27 am PDT #15849 of 29851
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Late last night I started getting a fever and chills very late in the evening last night, and guess who has Covid?

Oh no! I am so sorry.

Separately, SCOTUS did it.

I feel like I can't breathe right now, I am in such a state of shock and horror. Not shock as in surprise, just...well it was nice having civil rights for a while, wasn't it?


Steph L. - Jun 24, 2022 8:22:27 am PDT #15850 of 29851
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

sj, I hope the symptoms are short-lived and you recover quickly.

Separately, SCOTUS did it.

I feel like I can't breathe right now

Same. I'm numb and I can see the panic attack on the horizon.


Scrappy - Jun 24, 2022 8:56:00 am PDT #15851 of 29851
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Heartbroken about this court. Damn Mitch Mcconnell to hell.


Jesse - Jun 24, 2022 8:59:12 am PDT #15852 of 29851
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Less devastating but still annoying news: Nathan Fillion says Joss was always fine with him! [link]


Steph L. - Jun 24, 2022 9:08:23 am PDT #15853 of 29851
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Nathan Fillion says Joss was always fine with him!

Aw, dude, no.


Jessica - Jun 24, 2022 9:22:52 am PDT #15854 of 29851
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Nathan Fillion says Joss was always fine with him!

Well I feel better, don't you?


sj - Jun 24, 2022 9:34:06 am PDT #15855 of 29851
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I’m on Paxlovid. Damn the literature included is scary. I should probably not have read it.


Dana - Jun 24, 2022 9:43:12 am PDT #15856 of 29851
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Nathan Fillion says Joss was always fine with him!

Of course.


DavidS - Jun 24, 2022 9:52:25 am PDT #15857 of 29851
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On the one hand, I've already become terribly disillusioned about this country and my fellow Americans.

OTOH, I also feel like this is undemocratic unpopular right-wing coup that doesn't represent the interests or will of the American people.

I would really like the Democratic party to go to war with the Republican party, and that doesn't mean socialism, Bernie Bros. Just defend the country itself from the Christian Nationalists who are not the majority but are eager to shape the country in their image.

The choice is not between Biden (wants to play nice with Republicans) or Bernie (socialism for white people without any sense of intersectionality). I would really like to see somebody like Klobuchar's centrist stance that will vigorously protect women, civil rights and voting rights.

Clarence Thomas has already declared in his opinion that the court should "revisit" (rescind) gay marriage. The right to privacy basis that at the core of Roe are also at the core of gay rights and interracial marriage and contraception.


Steph L. - Jun 24, 2022 10:03:11 am PDT #15858 of 29851
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Clarence Thomas has already declared in his opinion that the court should "revisit" (rescind) gay marriage. The right to privacy basis that at the core of Roe are also at the core of gay rights and interracial marriage and contraception.

He explicitly named the SCOTUS cases that decided the right to contraception, the right to same-sex marriage, and the right to same-sex activity/relationships -- but he neglected to name Loving v Virginia, which decided the right to interracial marriage. Convenient for his own interracial marriage, no? How can that motherfucker believe he's exempt? Does he not get that there is a substantial amount of people who are cheering Roe v Wade being overturned who *also* would be very happy to to back to when he was considered 3/5 of a person?