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I genuinely love looking up some random production detail for some random TOS episode and just ending up at
Leonard Nimoy objected to the script's directive that Spock "kayoes" Negative Kirk on the head, so he improvised the neck pinch on the spot and demonstrated it on William Shatner for director Leo Penn.
I was looking up unrelated ST lore detail on Wikipedia and ended up at this:
Spock possessed the ability to project a unique form of energy through his fingertips. Nimoy explained the idea of putting his hand on his neck and shoulder to Shatner, and they rehearsed it. Nimoy credits Shatner's acting during the "pinch" that sold the idea and made it work on screen.
I feel I should also mention the occasionally immaculate "no and" energy on the set as well, particularly with these two. I've heard about it in various contexts, but I think my favorite has to be Roddenberry's ham-handed attempt at making William Shatner and/or Leonard Nimoy of all the cast members vehicles for his product placement.
This was a much more collaborative era of TV in general when it comes to actors, and Roddenberry had personally headhunted both of them in the first place, he'd worked with Nimoy before TOS, he knew perfectly well what kind of prima donna artistes he was working with, and he still tried it after having stepped back from the show for ages. I knew all that, but!
I was searching for an unrelated factoid about "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (the episode in question) which led to the old blog of the director, Ralph Senensky, who recently died (the last TOS director remaining, at 102 years), where he had a series of genuinely fascinating posts that are basically his memoirs of the episodes he directed (interesting, his baby as far as TOS is concerned was "Metamorphosis", which he felt combined the best work of himself, Jerry Finnerman, William Shatner, and Gene L. Coon all in a single episode). He also had left some great and informative comments/replies to mostly random people, so I'm glad it's still up.
Anyway, I've read several versions of the big conflict over the IDIC in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" but Senensky's is pretty great. The context is that Gene Roddenberry suddenly decided to actually get involved in the show again for ~merchandising~ purposes, and insisted on adding a full-on product placement ad in the episode for the IDIC pin he had designed to sell as merch. Shatner and Nimoy's artistic sensibilities were so bitterly offended that they threw giant tantrums about the idea until the scene was modified to arise organically out of the actual plot and character dynamics. But Senensky's account is peak Everyone:
Our first day of filming, Tuesday, July 16th, arrived, and I was greeted with a mutiny on the Enterprise. Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy had very strong objections to a portion of the scene we were scheduled to do that day and were refusing to film. Since the objection was to dialogue involving a piece of jewelry that Gene Roddenberry had designed, he was summoned to the set. (I have since learned that Leonard Nimoy first phoned producer Fred Freiberger to tell him of the problem. When Freiberger refused to take any action, Leonard called Roddenberry.) The morning was spent in a round table war with the six characters involved in the scene plus Gene and me. But the battle was strictly Bill and Leonard vs Gene. Bill and Leonard felt Gene was using the scene as a promotional commercial for a pin he had designed; the pin was part of Leonard’s costume. Gene vehemently denied these accusations, but the guys were adamant in their refusal to be a part of something they considered to be commercially oriented. The final result of the long morning’s angry combat was that Gene agreed to rewrite the scene.
This is where the IDIC comes from, incidentally, and why it doesn't really track with, um, anything we hear about Vulcan culture in TOS outside this episode. There really is some genuinely great world building in it (and it's a genuinely great episode), but ... well. Good for them, honestly.
#really funny considering all the commercials shatner's done since then lmao
So, I was morbidly curious even before I posted this last night about how long it would take before someone brought the commercials up to suggest that being in commercials that make no pretense to being anything else is somehow at odds with having artistic principles about product placement in ambitious projects that very much are not commercials. I had guessed it would take around a day, but it looks like it was less than half of one.
Even at the time, Nimoy and Shatner weren't arguing that they were too good for commercials, but that Star Trek was. Commercials or no commercials, neither of them budged on that point at any era of their lives, even long afterwards. This incident was basically the beginning of the end of their respect for Roddenberry and they were still pissed about it many years later. Nimoy wrote that it influenced his complete falling out with Roddenberry (and he's generally described as the more hostile to Roddenberry of the lead actors), while in 2008, Shatner summed up his opinion of Roddenberry as:
After the first thirteen episodes writer/producer Gene Coon was brought in and Roddenberry became the executive producer, meaning he was more of a supervisor than working on the show day-to-day. After that his primary job seemed to be exploiting Star Trek in every possible way.
I genuinely love looking up some random production detail for some random TOS episode and just ending up at
Leonard Nimoy objected to the script's directive that Spock "kayoes" Negative Kirk on the head, so he improvised the neck pinch on the spot and demonstrated it on William Shatner for director Leo Penn.
I was looking up unrelated ST lore detail on Wikipedia and ended up at this:
Spock possessed the ability to project a unique form of energy through his fingertips. Nimoy explained the idea of putting his hand on his neck and shoulder to Shatner, and they rehearsed it. Nimoy credits Shatner's acting during the "pinch" that sold the idea and made it work on screen.
I feel I should also mention the occasionally immaculate "no and" energy on the set as well, particularly with these two. I've heard about it in various contexts, but I think my favorite has to be Roddenberry's ham-handed attempt at making William Shatner and/or Leonard Nimoy of all the cast members vehicles for his product placement.
This was a much more collaborative era of TV in general when it comes to actors, and Roddenberry had personally headhunted both of them in the first place, he'd worked with Nimoy before TOS, he knew perfectly well what kind of prima donna artistes he was working with, and he still tried it after having stepped back from the show for ages. I knew all that, but!
I was searching for an unrelated factoid about "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (the episode in question) which led to the old blog of the director, Ralph Senensky, who recently died (he had been the last TOS director remaining, at 102 years old), where he had a series of genuinely fascinating posts that are basically his memoirs of the episodes he directed (interestingly, his baby as far as TOS is concerned was "Metamorphosis", which he felt combined the best work of himself, Jerry Finnerman, William Shatner, and Gene L. Coon all in a single episode). He also had left some great and informative comments/replies to mostly random people, so I'm glad it's still up.
Anyway, I've read several versions of the big conflict over the IDIC in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" but Senensky's is pretty great. The context is that Gene Roddenberry suddenly decided to actually get involved in the show again for ~merchandising~ purposes, and insisted on adding a full-on product placement ad in the episode for the IDIC pin he had designed to sell as merch. Shatner and Nimoy's artistic sensibilities were so bitterly offended that they threw giant tantrums about the idea until the scene was modified to arise organically out of the actual plot and character dynamics. But Senensky's account is peak Everyone:
Our first day of filming, Tuesday, July 16th, arrived, and I was greeted with a mutiny on the Enterprise. Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy had very strong objections to a portion of the scene we were scheduled to do that day and were refusing to film. Since the objection was to dialogue involving a piece of jewelry that Gene Roddenberry had designed, he was summoned to the set. (I have since learned that Leonard Nimoy first phoned producer Fred Freiberger to tell him of the problem. When Freiberger refused to take any action, Leonard called Roddenberry.) The morning was spent in a round table war with the six characters involved in the scene plus Gene and me. But the battle was strictly Bill and Leonard vs Gene. Bill and Leonard felt Gene was using the scene as a promotional commercial for a pin he had designed; the pin was part of Leonard’s costume. Gene vehemently denied these accusations, but the guys were adamant in their refusal to be a part of something they considered to be commercially oriented. The final result of the long morning’s angry combat was that Gene agreed to rewrite the scene.
This is where the IDIC comes from, incidentally, and why it doesn't really track with, um, anything we hear about Vulcan culture in TOS outside this episode. There really is some genuinely great world building in it (and it's a genuinely great episode), but ... well. Good for them, honestly.
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@scam-alerts, are you really out here claiming randos in a message on tumblr might be trustworthy to send money to? When you can see the link in the message goes to gofundme, which doesn't pay out in Gaza?
Are you really out here trying to tell me that gazavetters is a trustworthy vetting source when it's been proven time and again @gazavetters are scammers????
Are you on the internet in the year of our go fuck yourself 2026 acting like Gaza scamming isn't one of the most successful tumblr scams of all time that was based on making people fear they'd be called racists or baby killers if they didn't assume every single rando in their inbox or messages was totally trustworthy??
"We don't call them scams, so you shouldn't either." No. That's not how that works. I call a scam a scam. You don't want to call it a scam, that's up to you. But it's real fucked up that you are here saying you're an authority on scams acting like Gaza scams are some rare thing or that MOST Gaza posts AREN'T provably horseshit.
Did I step on your scam? Is that what this is? Are you running this scam while running a so-called scam-alerts blog, and you're mad because you're worried my posting these messages could lose you money? Because that's what it feels like. Why fucking else would a so called scam-alert blog be trying to talk someone out of calling out a deeply suspicious scam that we all learned years ago is not trustworthy?
If a rando shows up in your inbox asking for money, they are most likely scamming, and the bigger the sob story, the more likely the scam.
Why are you on the side of making it easier for scammers, especially fucking gazavetters?
One of the co-mods of scam-alerts offers drawings to anyone who donates to any of the vetted campaigns she lists here:
So, someone who runs scam-alerts got into my replies to say gazavetters is trustworthy when it's very well known at this point that gazavetters ISN'T trustworthy and that I SHOULD trust randos asking me for cash when they have link that I know DON'T WORK IN GAZA.
And they just happen to be doing something so nice like drawing stuff for people who give money to supposedly valid campaigns that are very likely not valid at all because gazavetters has been proven to be scammers. And, if gazavetters is as crooked as we know it is, this person might very well be pretending like they're not getting a kickback from those donations to encourage further donations that they are very likely getting a cut from.
In short: I think this person who helps run scam-alerts is running a scam with gazavetters to get a payday off donations to the so-called verified list that has been proven repeatedly to be completely untrustworthy. This is my opinion based on the circumstances.
So, yeah, I stepped on their scam and I am wondering if maybe the account that messaged me was them working the scam, and then I posted about the bullshit of it, and rather than shut the fuck up, a terrible effort was made to try and keep it seeming legit.
every leftist acting like they don’t understand how antisemitism could be racism “because Judaism is a religion” are lying through their teeth. we spent the last 2 decades plus fully understanding Islamophobia was racist.
Which is hilarious because they are also using the antisemitism inherent in Christian sects like Catholicism and evangelicalism to demonize their political opponents… as if they weren’t already raised in it.
saw a youtube thumbnail in which someone described "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" as a Nazi comedy. And idk what kind of shorthand they were doing or if it was clickbait but excuse the fuck out of you. Eglantine Price did not use the Star of Astaroth to further her witchcraft education to animate a museum full of historical armor to fight the Nazis just for some youtuber to call it a Nazi comedy.
"Chicken fat" is an ancient cartoonist term for unimportant details in the art.
PANEL 1: Woodstock from Peanuts is standing on the window. The empty cardboard box the Magic Wishing Ball came in has the slogans: "Fun!" "Amaze your friends!" "Irony!" and "Fake true love!"
PANEL 2: The cat on the sofa has two heads. In a table in the background, a mouse stands a bowl of nuts, holding up a knife and fork.
PANEL 3: Beaker from The Muppets is peering in the window.
PANEL 5: The character in the framed picture on the wall (last seen in panel 2) is climbing out of the frame. One of the flowers in the carpet pattern is smiling and smoking a joint.
PANEL 6: A bird flying outside the window has Groucho Marx's face. A tiny Harpo Marx is peering out from behind the throw pillow. The corpse of Micky Mouse is lying under the sofa (we can only see his hand). The figure from the framed picture on the wall is now standing on the sidetable. (He has a letter on his shirt in every panel he appears: The letters spell out W O R D.) The three books in the lower shelf of the side table are entitled "Who Cares?" "Irrelevant" and "Unimportant." And Itchy (from "Itchy and Scratchy") is also on that shelf.
i tend not to take museum photos of things unless i think i can take a good one, and this was in a glass case so it had a lot of glare, but the sargent exhibit at the met has the only know photograph of madame x before he repainted the shoulder strap and seeing that for the first time in my life made me feel like my body was made of static
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Every once in a while I think about how my very anti-Israel coworkers last summer would talk about Zionist Jewish students behind their back and about how they needed to get educated about the conflict, but then I would tell them basic level facts about antisemitism and Judaism and they wouldn’t know it. Like I mentioned off hand that the Soviets used to persecute Jews under the guise of “anti-zionism” and a FUCKING PROFESSOR was like “oh, I didn’t know that” and it’s like, you’re not going to convince these Jewish students to stop being Zionists because the instant you open your mouth about Judaism they’re going to realize you don’t know shit about fuck.
And before you think “what’s the big deal” I need you to know. I was working with mostly RELIGIOUS STUDIES students. We are so fucked
I think that’s why it’s been so hard for me to concentrate on academic work this past year. I’ve come to realize how fucking dumb educated people are. They don’t know shit and they aren’t better than you. I’ve watched my professor mother radicalize via instagram videos this past year. What are we doing what is it all for
#1 thing to know about academics: most of them know jack shit outside their immediate field, and some don't even know that much within it. This is for several reasons, including many fields being deeply complicated, some fields facing institutional capture of various kinds, and conspiracies in general having a moment for really sucking people in atm.
I honestly suspect (anyone choosing to screenshot this who doesn't show you the whole thing, which will include the phrase "I love strawberry jam" in the last paragraph because I don't trust you fuckers) that a large part of this is to do with how, 10-15 years ago, we started seeing the concept of trigger warnings.
Trigger warnings are NOT A BAD THING. They're a good thing. But they rapidly went from stuff like "please tell me if there's discussion of CSA in this unit before we study it so I can prepare myself due to severe trauma" to "the above, but also I may choose not to do the work and to substitute something of equal relevance" to "the above except it's not severe trauma, it just makes me really uncomfortable" to "you are triggering me by saying things I don't like."
And when we hit that point, a lot of teachers just....gave up. Already overworked, underpaid, disrespected, and distrusted by a progressively more authoritarian government, villainized and vilified by the media, they just hoped to keep their jobs.
And that is why there are now school districts in Florida that have decided they're not going to teach the Holocaust anymore because it "triggered" their Muslim students who didn't like hearing that Jews aren't evil overlords actually and felt "left out" that the Holocaust was taught in US history but Islam wasn't. It was "traumatic" to them that Holocaust denial was a lie. And I would love to tell you I made this up for shock value, but it is a real case really happening in the summer of 2026.
The term "trigger warning" rapidly went from good use to misuse to abuse, and the people who were teenagers when that was happening are grad students and MAs now. Bad actors took a great concept and exploited it to the point it became useless except as an anti-intellectual weapon. And that, in my opinion, is part of why we are here. And I like strawberry jam.
Meagan Morris got sentenced to 50 years - for protesting at a concentration camp.
The judge said they were trying to discourage people with similar ideologies with these sentences. All I can say is that if genocidal tyrants are going to lock people up for 50 years because they fight against genocide, that doesn't mean we will stop fighting against genocide. It just means there's no reason to hold back.
Happy birthday to bisexual poet, professor and activist June Jordan!
Born in New York on 9 July 1936, June used her poetry and essays explored issues of race, class, gender and sexuality. She is best known for her celebration of Black English or AAVE, encouraging young Black writers to use their own voice and idiom, rather than conforming to white standards.
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I have little to no sympathy for the wives of major GOP figures but I think it’s hilarious how openly and brazenly they hate their husbands and they barely bother to pretend to care. The party of family values.
it's very funny to me that the advice in the notes divides cleanly into two camps:
Actually actionable advice (break it down into smaller pieces, leave and come back later, find somebody to do it with you so you aren't doing it alone)
People who are Jared, 19 and just say something that's fundamentally a variation on "just do it scared"
Warning: advice that "you have to leave your comfort zone to grow" is meant for people who are IN their comfort zone the majority of the time. If you rarely/never feel comfortable and safe, you actually need to get more comfortable and safe before you can grow 👍
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