inner machinations of my mind

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

I did not think it possible, but I have just developed even more hatred, derision, and contempt for the perpetual surveillance state.

Y’all hating on genre experimentation in SNW seem to be pretty easily forgetting the Roman, Nazi, Native American, Chicago Gangster, etc. episodes of TOS, all the holodeck and time travel, and that Robin Hood episode of TNG, the baseball and casino heist episodes of DS9, the Captain Proton episodes, and the Nazi episodes of VOY *AND* ENT… genre experimentation is a staple of Star Trek, not some anomalous artifact of “Nu Trek.”

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

Diogenes driving a mobile home into the symposium to ruin Plato’s day.

i love all the bajoran fashion we see in ds9. let me see all those alien fiber animals. what sorts of weird sheep do they have on bajor. or perhaps even plant fibers