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#Babylon5 S01E19 A Voice in the Wilderness: Part 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Big ship is an earth heavy cruiser. They want to take control of the tech found on the planet below. Sinclair upset because this warship is trying to take control of Babylon 5. Alien in bay is over 500 years old and has been running the planet underground power and defensive systems. Ambassador and her teacher, another ambassador, and the alien go to planet. Ambassador teacher volunteers to run the machine by plugging himself into it - sacrificing his life. Garibaldi finally gets ahold of old girlfriend on mars. He is giddy with happiness only to be told by her she is now married and expecting her first child. Overall one of the best episodes of Babylon 5 in season 1 so far.

#Babylon5 S01E18 A Voice in the Wilderness: Part 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Planet the station orbits has a powerful energy beam shooting out of it. Planet was supposed to be inhabitable and empty. Investigation starts. Mars colony rebels against earth government. Minbari ambassador has an old teacher visit. He’s unhappy with homeworld changes and wants to commit suicide (which is apparently normal when you’re old but he’s just on the edge of the age?). Garibaldi depressed about not calling some girlfriend on Mars and now there is a communication blockade. Investigation of planet results in finding an old port 5km below the surface. Alien is found asking for help while being integrated into the wall. Alien brought to station. Something starts to come through jump gate and episode ends.

#Babylon5 S01E17 Legacies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Huh. Two episodes in a row about telepaths. Young pickpocket hits puberty, and her powers are extremely strong. Many want her to join their ranks, and ultimately, she chooses to join the Minbari, an alien superpower that almost wiped out humans in a long war.

#Babylon5 S01E16 Eyes ⭐️⭐️⭐️
First time posting for this show. Maybe I should do it more… I find it interesting how Babylon 5 has a very negative view of telepathy. Really think #StarTrek did a better job dealing with this via Betazoids.

It’s honestly really hard to believe the huge fines the EU gives tech giants isn’t purely a money grab when every other action they do concerning tech giants is sucking up and doing tech giant bidding.
https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim/116419253325354979

Phone number formatting should be system configurable like dates. I don’t care that parsing is a hard problem. 😤
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116416217286978150

Random figures I saw in some shops. Didn’t buy anything. I think the 1974 #Godzilla is cute. Wonder what happened that year…

Last day I’m in #Japan so weather is perfect. Rained every other day.

Finally finished my tax preparation and submitted estimated withdrawals to Feds and States (year of moving). My tax person will file an extension because apparently sending everything the day it’s due is late? Sheesh! 😂

Enjoying #Japan at the moment. Quick trip to Fukuoka with wife.

Stumbled across this and the #cringe is just too much not to share.
https://apple.news/AF2QiVa_WRB2Erkck-zLUeg

Burned about 4-5 days making posts with audio look cool in my Mastodon app (soon to be on TestFlight). These simple distractions are probably not what I should be focusing on. It's like adding a new dining car to a train when the brakes still don't work. Anyhow, here is a blog about making audio look cool:
https://www.createwithswift.com/creating-a-live-audio-waveform-in-swiftui/

Ah the first editor I always disable on a new install. Because vim ftw 🙌 https://floss.social/@9to5linux/116370150652448706

Vacation mode activated. Going to Korea and Japan for 3 weeks. This is being “paid for” via purchasing critical medicines I need in Korea that are basically unaffordable in the US! 😑

I like how the #NASA for #ARTEMIS graphics look like someone put this together on an old Sun Blade 1000 with simple OpenGL 1.5 that existed on Solaris 10. Gives me the feels!

Ah wonderful. Just a 20-30% electric rate hike because war. #Hawaii
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/04/trumps-war-in-iran-is-about-to-show-up-in-your-electric-bill/

Enjoying how so far this entire #MLB season has been non-stop exposure of how awful umpires have been. Just over and over again. If some knows of a video of all the different ABS packed into 1 video… plz share!
Couple of examples I found linked…
https://youtube.com/shorts/sSmaDLmBgu0
https://youtu.be/9nwFpo2DMSw

Very cool developments in physical #mail from #USPS. For the first time, 8% surcharge for fuel costs through Jan 2027. Reads to me like it will only impact packages since stamps are priced the same.
https://apple.news/AWX3wQKVrTMK-V-BPeDokEQ

Hello Pirates, so can I #bittorrent all I want now without using a stupid VPN? #piracy

From link: In a statement shared with Variety, Cox Communications said, “The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion is a decisive victory for the broadband industry and for the American people who depend on reliable internet service. This opinion affirms that Internet service providers are not copyright police and should not be held liable for the actions of their customers — and after years of battling in the trial and appellate courts, we have definitively shut down the music industry’s aspirations of mass evictions from the internet.

“Internet service providers provide the critical communications infrastructure for millions of Americans [...] Today’s decision allows us to focus on our goals of preserving open internet access, protecting consumers’ privacy, and ensuring that broadband remains a reliable resource for the families and businesses in the communities we serve.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-rules-against-record-163512175.html

OS-X 10.0 Cheetah was released ~25 years ago. Precursor to #macOS, #iOS, and pretty much all of the OS that #Apple has now. From #Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/s/yc4qSKQSHv