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NCSU Meteorology Alum.

Software engineer by day 🖥️📱, Mechwarrior by night🤖💥

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Turhan Bey was the Centauri Emperor in a Season 2 episode of #Babylon5. The Emporer was originally supposed to be unnamed, but he was eventually given the name "Emperor Turhan." He was loved by the entire cast and appeared as a Minbari in Season 5.

#Svengoolie
A picture of Turhan Bey playing Emperor Turhan of the Centauri Empire in an episode of "Babylon 5" A photo of Turhan Bey playing a Minbari in an episode of "Babylon 5"
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I've seen this observation before from Steve Jobs at Apple's WWDC in 2003.
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
Image of a Warhammer battlemech miniature for the tabletop game "Battletech."
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A four-panel comic. The first three panels show a bartender saying “We are not a nazi bar. We just didn’t ban nazis. Then all the nazis started coming here because nobody else would allow them. Now they’re our best customers and nobody that isn’t a nazi wants to drink here.” Last panel shows exterior of the bar with the signs “X” and “Twitter”
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Lazy Sunday morning. #cats
An orange cat sleeping on someone’s legs.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"The Squire of Gothos" is a very good story, IMO. A fun episode with a great guest star hamming it up in William Campbell.
#MeTVStarTrek
William Campbell as Trelane in the Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos."
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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"MOMMY! DADDY! YOU ALWAYS STOP ME WHEN I'M HAVING FUN! I DON'T WANNA COME HOME!"
#MeTVStarTrek
Trelane, "The Squire of Gothos" in Star Trek, pleading to stay on his planet.
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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"Let's play hide and seek."

#MeTVStarTrek
Kirk talking to Trelane from the Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos"
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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And 70+ years later, another omniscient being would put a Captain of the Enterprise on trial.
#MeTVStarTrek
From the Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos:" Trelane as an English judge.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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EVERYBODY LEAN!!!
#MeTVStarTrek
From Star Trek: Crew members on the bridge of the Enterprise leaning as the ship changes course.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Well, that's seven more years of bad luck, Captain.
#MeTVStarTrek
A mirror shatters after it was shot out by captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos."
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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"I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose." - Mr. Spock, "The Squire of Gothos"

#MeTVStarTrek
Spock from Star Trek: The original series in the episode "The Squire of Gothos"
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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🎵 Don't stop believin'!
Hold on to that feeelin'!
Streelight peopoooooooaaaaaaal!
Pope Leo holding a microphone with his eyes closed.
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Tonight's #MeTVStarTrek may be about a proto-Q!
Image from Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos," showign Kirk staring at Trelane, the Squire of Gothos.
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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CLEAR THE AIRLANES!!!

Do you like vampire movies?
Do you like westerns?

Well, tonight you get BOTH as #Svengoolie presents "Curse of the Undead!"
Movie poster for the 1959 movie "Curse of the Undead" with two men and a woman tending to an unconscious man on a couch.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Share a TV Series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
#Babylon5
The cast of "Babylon 5" season 2.
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Meanwhile, dudes read/watch manga/anime like this:
A poster for the anime "Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls" showing various human/monster girls.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Norman, OK at 10:45 pm. The bright white on the horizon is light pollution, but the red hue is still visible to the naked eye.
#Aurora
Photo of a red hue in the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I used to think of myself as a "libertarian." Then, in 2017, I started thinking of myself as a "classic liberal.

Now... well, here's @jvl.bsky.social echoing my current thoughts:
Screenshot of a passage in the quoted article that says: Back in June of 2016, David Frum made a profound prediction about American politics: [W]hen you tell people in the country, that the only people who deal with the problem you care about are the fascists, they are going to say: “Who are these fascists of who you speak, and what is their phone number?”6 I wonder if the same might be true of socialism. If people look around at what Tesla Capitalism has wrought and are told that any attempt to reform it would be “socialism,” then perhaps they will say, “Who are these socialists of who you speak, and what is their phone number?”
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Tonight's #MeTVStarTrek features a princess, a white rabbit, and "Oh, Jimmy Boy."
An image from the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave" showing Dr. McCoy with a crew member dressed as a princess.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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But Flerkins are cute!
Image of a flerkin, an orange cat that has many jawed tentacles coming out of it's mouth, then they disappear back into the cute cat.
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Until next year...
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social : Why did I think of Lily?
Cartoon of a cat with an angel cat floating on one side, and a devil cat on the other. Devil cat says “Interrupt his zoom meeting! He’ll be so embarrassed!” Angel cat says “Interrupt his zoom meeting! Everyone else on the call will love it!”
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#IronChef Chen doesn’t know the challenge he’s drawn.
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Came home feeling tired. Changed into my pajamas and laid down on the couch. Within less than a minute, I get Sasquatch keeping me warm.
An orange cat laying over a person’s leg.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM