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  "Absurdity is baked into the premise" -- silly fun (which I really needed today), and they managed to work in some character development.

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  Neat episode, the technobabble solution was even more technobabble than usual, but it was nice to see Chapel have the key insight. "The inertial dampeners & grav plating are acting up" might even be a novel plot obstacle in Star Trek's long history

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  Watched the trailer for Toy Story 5 (shame on Disney+ for ranking a trailer for an unreleased movie in the search results), and there's a whole platoon of the space toy acting together. The question raised though, is "what is the proper plural?"

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  [saw the pink and purple lawnmower toy outside kiddo's daycare] First thought: Ugh, do they have to gender segment everything in kids toys? It's not like real lawnmowers come in pink… Second thought: I would totally have bought a pink lawnmower instead of orange given the choice 🩷

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  Just finished The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by C.M. Waggoner -- delightful little fantasy comedy, strong Terry Pratchett vibes.

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  Just finished Slow Gods by Claire North; it deserves the positive chatter it's getting. The Shine and the binary suns are Star Trek-level blunt analogies for current affairs (but well rendered regardless), the focus on one central/peripheral character lets the plot arc while maintaining a realistically ambiguous closure, and I personally found the protagonist's musing on identity as socially constructed versus intrinsic relatable in this time of transition.