Ms. Atoz (she/they)

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I have a very healthy obsession with Star Trek. Pour one out; perimenopause ruined Earl Grey for me. In an independent Scotland, I might be able to DM with friends but until then... Longer form on Star Trek:

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Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· 3d

Nice.

Edited screenshot of Caelen's YouTube thumbnail to focus on the black bar that reads: Premieres in 69 minutes
8 August at 18:00

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· 15d

This week's brief perusal of FB served me this. I will never understand how HLew has been paid, consistently - for at least 15 years - for wrong statements. Pterry might not be huge in the US, but there's absolutely nae danger of him ever being forgotten.

Screenshot of a promoted post on Facebook, from The Atlantic magazine.

The test of the post reads "Terry Pratchett, one of England's funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, Helen Lewis wrote in May." The article is then linked.

Photo credit to Martyn Goodacre/Getty

The image is a large white box with the article title and subheading, then the byline, all in black text. It reads "I am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett -- One of England's funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history -- BY HELEN LEWIS

Below this is a black and white photo of Sir Terry, sitting on what looks like a hotel bed. He's wearing a pair of light-colour trousers and a darker shirt that's quite loose and reads as 90s/2000s style. The look is smart casual. He's got his legs crossed and his hands are on the bedspread, so he looks a little like his upper body is leaning forward. The famous hat is nowhere to be seen, sadly.
Pterry is looking at the camera with a neutral expression. He is mostly bald and has a full beard and moustache. The moustache is the darkest of his hair that's visible, and appears to be salt and pepper. He's wearing round, wire-framed glasses.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jun 18

4 panel image to be read from top left to bottom right.

First panel: black text on white background that reads "Not everyone is going to think I'm funny and pretty and that's okay."

Second image: the magnificent and redoubtable Lwaxana Troi; Daughter of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed - inspecting herself in a mirror while wearing a red gown that has a very low drape in the back and is holding red feathers to her head to see how they look.

Third image: Lwaxana turns so her front is facing the camera, though her face is turned to look at someone who is out of frame to the right. She is bringing the feathers down and away from her head.

Fourth image: black text on white background that reads "They're wrong though."

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jun 15

Meanwhile, as a non-parent I'm wholly incapable of caring about children; or indeed other people. I hate the "as a parent" laziness with the fiery passion of 10,000 stars.

Screenshot of text that reads: Sir Kier said he will "call time on a system that's failing our kids", adding: "How we keep kids safe online is one of the biggest debates of our time. [Highlighted by me, in blue] As a dad, I know every parent wants their child to grow up safe and happy.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jun 15

Which bit is too broad?

Screenshot from un.org that shows the UN's definition of genocide.

Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about it's physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· May 22

Still shot of the Enterprise D alongside a comet (I think the episode was Masks?) with the new title card "Oh No, Riker Is In Holodeck Five Again"

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· May 2

Aside from the creepiness of gendering his iteration of the plagiarising compliment machine as feminine, I have significant doubts that Dawkins knows Scots language or Scots Gaelic well enough to have any idea if an LLM can write poems in them.

[...] hypothetical questions was: "Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge." In 1950, there was no chance that a computer could accomplish this -- not was there in the foreseeable future. Most human beings (to put it mildly) are not William Shakespeare. Turing's suggested evasion, "Count me out on this one; I never could write poetry" would indeed fail to distinguish a machine from a normal human. But today's LLMs do not evade the challenge. Claude took a couple of seconds to compose me a fine sonnet on the Forth Bridge, quickly followed by {here I have highlighted in green} one in the Scots dialect of Robert Burns, another in Gaelic {end highlight}, then several more in the styles of Kipling, Keats, Betjeman, and -- to show machines can do humour {highlighted} -- William McGonagall.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· May 1

Full Rommunism now! #DS9 #MayDay

Screenshot from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode 'Bar Association'. In this scene, Rom quotes Marx by saying "Workers of the world, unite! All you have to lose is your chains!” to his very capitalist boss (and brother) Quark.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 30

👀

A screenshot of my timeline; at the top is a posy from user Velma R👀t (Velma Root?) @colorbombvelma.bsky.social where they shared a link to an eBay listing for an enamel pin that depicts the TOS USS Enterprise encountering a large green space hand in the episode Who Mourns for Adonais? Their comment is "If I won the lottery there would be signs"

Directly below is a post from The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social quoting a Riker Googling (@rikergoogling.bsky.social) post that asks "how do energy beings masturbate". The Orion's response is "they use their giant green hand"

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 26

I'm high send help

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 21

Number 6 is sending me. It's so vague it's meaningless.

The back of the campaign mailshot, which lists "ReformUK's plan to fix Scotland" in 6 bullet points.
1 - Cut Income Tax: Realign Scottish income tax into three bands and reduce each band by 1p below England's, to allow hard-working Scots to keep more of what they earn.
2 - Cut Energy Bills: Reform UK will abolish VAT on Britain's domestic fuel costs and save £200 on your energy bills. Make the most of North Sea oil and gas industries.
3 - Put Scots First: Stop illegal immigrants being housed in hotels and give Scots priority in their local communities, with law and order restored.
4 - Save NHS Scotland: Shorten waiting lists and accelerate GP access by reducing waste. Ensure the NHS is free and effective for the people of Scotland.
5 - Rebuild Scotland's Economy: Cut red tape, invest in infrastructure projects and create an economy that can provide Scots with well-paid jobs.
6 - Build Our Future: Aim to make Scotland the most successful nation in the UK.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 21

"...the SNP has carried on as though they had a God-given right to govern Scotland." Nigel. Buddy. Pal. I realise it's a rare achievement for you, and you don't understand Scotland in any way (or like us) but we have this thing called voting. You might have heard of it?

Photograph of a ReformUK election campaign letter sent to me, making a bunch of claims about Scottish politics, as if Farage et al. care even slightly.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 20

A brightly light photograph of a cross-stitch; black fabric in an embroidery hoop and the pattern is text that reads "ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE VENGABUS IS COMING - IT IS COMING FOR THEE"

'It is coming for thee' is in thread colours that give it the 3D glasses effect, so in the photo it looks off-white and a bit fuzzy, compared to the harsher white of the first part of the text.

The photo is from the Etsy listing for the pattern, designed by OddlySpecificXStitch and the finished object in the photo is by buyer Rose Hartley, who added it to their review of their purchase (they gave it 5 stars)

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Apr 4

As we'll undoubtedly get more Wes Streeting jumpscares over the next few weeks, can I ask that people consider editing screenshots in this manner? Use the alt text to say who it is, in case it's a different horrifying transphobe underneath! If someone could write a script to automatically do this..?

A screenshot of a post - the user shared a link to a BBC News article with the headline "Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis"; above this is their commentary (slightly cut off while editing, sorry about that) as follows:

'Considering Streeting's well stated belief [that] autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today'

Below the URL to the article is the thumbnail photo to go with the piece; it's a photo of Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Downing Street, but because seeing his face pop up on my timeline honestly gives me a nasty fright every time, I've freehand written "CUNT" repeatedly over his face to obscure it, in black and red.

Screenshot of a post in which the user has linked to a short article Wes Streeting wrote, that was posted on thepinknews.com, infamous 'queer' 'news' site. The headline of the piece is "Wes Streeting: 'Every trans person deserves safety and respect'. He's a lying liar who lies, by the way. He uses being gay himself to claim some empathy trans kids. I'm not sure if he was alive for the repeal of Section 28, but he's carrying on like he wants it reinstalled.

Anyway; the Bluesky user wrote "Wes Streeting writes for PinkNews. Not a belated april fool." This post was published on April 3, 2026.

The thumbnail photo pulled from the PinkNews article is a portrait of Wes Streeting's head while he's speaking at an event. The background has been edited to be light blue on the left of the photo and light pink on the right, in an obvious nod to the trans flag.

Over his face, I have edited the photo by freehand writing "CUNT" repeatedly to obscure most of his features, using green, yellow, blue, red and magenta. Each word is at a different angle, the better to cover him and avoid a Wes Streeting jumpscare when I share the screenshot on.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Mar 22

Soooo... The main body of the Tory party, to the right of a centre right party? I suppose that does put you at the centre, if you also dismiss everyone on the actual left as loony outliers.

Screenshot of part of a paragraph, from the linked Observer drivel.

"Let's define "centrists" as a tribe that runs from David Cameron's Tories on the right, through most of the Liberal Democrats and then takes in the former Blairites in the Labour party." is highlighted in pink.

The paragraph continues: "This is a scattered tribe, marooned in legacy parties that do not have the energy either to thrive or doe. The era of binary politics, characterised by a Conservative party and a Labour party which each commanded a..." but that's not the focus here.

Also; recent by-elections have returned the Greens and Reform as the real competition; clearly the electorate wants a form of binary politics where parties stand in opposition to each other.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Feb 27

Listening to Behind the Bastards about Epstein, a quote from Martin Amis' interview of Roman Polanski from 1979 has been rolling around my head. "Everyone wants to fuck young girls." Meaning children. Minors.

Screenshot from the Wikipedia article titled "Roman Polanski sexual abuse case"; white text in a black background, except where something is hyperlinked then it's blue text.

[...] In 1979, Polanski gave a controversial interview with novelist Martin Amis in which, discussing the case, he said "If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But ... fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!” [38] [39][40][41] In 1983, Polanski told journalist Clive James that "I like the girls of that age. And because the girls of that age, for some reason like me." [...]

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jan 23

Every time I hear news from either side of the Atlantic, this quote from Where The Axe Is Buried (by Ray Nayler) comes to the front of my mind again. It might seem a bit doomer, but in context it's not. I think it's more about how what went before is gone forever and there's no way back to it.

An e-reader screen: dark grey text on a light grey background. The first two paragraphs are highlighted.

"Once the regimes had been emptied of ideology -- once power became about power alone -- there was no breaking them. They had no morality. They did not become disgusted with themselves and turn away from killing. Their will did not break, no matter how many protesters they had to arrest, beat or kill. They had no conscience, so they were not stung by guilt.
The only thing they feared was the loss of their own power. They understood the simple rule, proven time and again: to hold on to power, never give up power.
The regimes had learned, from watching how other autocratic systems were toppled, that compromise was death. They made no reforms. They promised nothing. They simply jailed, beat, harassed, and killed as many people as was necessary.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jan 1

From an article in The Independent about what's going to be cringe in 2026. I'd argue it's been cringe to use ChatGPT (and other similar chat bots) since about 30 seconds after they launched - but no-one asked me.

[Header] Using ChatGPT

As the AI tsunami that nobody asked for continues to rage unabated, I predict that authenticity and anything with the unmistakable mark of being human-made will command a premium. On the flipside, fessing up to consulting ChatGPT [this is in red, as it links to another article] - especially when you could have just googled or, let's face it, [italics] engaged your brain for five minutes [end italics] - is going to become just a little bit shameful.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jan 1

If you see this, post a random image from your device.

A screencap of 4 middle-aged women - The Golden Girls - sitting around their kitchen table.

From the left: Blanche is labelled Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Dorothy is labelled Star Trek: The Next Generation; Sophia is labelled Star Trek (the original series) and Rose is labelled Star Trek: Voyager.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Dec 25

Search your name and "glamour shot" I swear this is the first image that came up

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Dec 23

B&M near me carries a Ukrainian chocolate brand called Millennium, and this felt like the perfect celebration of starting HRT and gender-affirming healthcare.

Photograph of a light purple-wrapped chocolate bar. On the left it reads 'Millenium®️ chocolate factory' in gold block capitals under a 6 pointed star with embellishments; 'Peanuts Caramel' in a handwriting style font and 'Milk Chocolate' at the bottom.

In the centre, a shiny gold square with a darker purple frame: VERY PERI in large dark purple block capitals with 'Chocolate' in a flourishing italic script.

On the right end of the bar: a photographic rendering of the chocolate within, broken into smaller pieces and with peanut halves and chips of solid caramel scattered around.

Now I've written all that, it really sounds like a fine example of "graphic design is my passion" but I promise it's not that bad!

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Dec 21

Here's one of 2 screencaps from trekcore, zoomed in. The lighting isn't brilliant, but if those aren't cucumbers I reed to re-evaluate all the salads I've eaten in the last 40 years.

A cropped part somewhat fuzzy screencap from trekcore.com, from the DS9 pilot episode Emissary.

The shot in question pans past this extra who is in a full-face alien prosthetic, as he 'plays' a percussive instrument that resembles thin stones stacked up, or a tall water feature (but with no water). In each hand is a whole cucumber, maybe even still in the shrink-wrap plastic film covering.

Acting, eh?

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Dec 19

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go Yippee ki yay, motherfucker.

The advertising poster for the Bruce Willis movie Die Hard.

Text at the top, white on black, reads:
Twelve terrorists. One cop.
The odds are against John McClane...
And that's just the way he likes it.

The image is the iconic Bruce Willis in a white vest, holding a black gun with both hands, in the typical "I'm leaning against a wall around the corner from the bad guys who I'm listening in on" pose. He's maybe pouting very slightly?

Then at the bottom, another black area with text, all white except for DIE HARD in red: Bruce Willis and the movie production information that's always printed on the posters.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Nov 21

I've saved this because it seems to get more and more true. Lying in bed seems to have put my back out to the extent I could barely walk for 2 months last year.

An Extra Fabulous 4-panel comic strip.

First image, top left: stylised blond-haired white guy in tan trousers and a red shirt stands slightly bent, with his left hand against a mail box and his right hand on his back, pain lines radiating from his back. His face has a downturned open mouth and scrunched up eyes. The chat bubble reads "Ah shit I looked in the mailbox weird and threw out my back".

Second image, top right: the guy is in the middle ground of the image, standing on green and with the shape of houses in the background. In the foreground is the side of a very large red car (or truck) and a very small child following his ball into the path of the vehicle. The child is wearing a purple shirt, grey shorts, red shoes and a pink baseball hat, backwards. The kid's eyes are pointed at the black and white ball and their tongue is sticking out in a fairly universal signifier of concentration. A heavily emphasised bubble comes from the vehicle reading "BWOM"

Third image, bottom left: the kid goes under the wheel of the vehicle; the bubble - in the same style as the previous one - reads "CRUNCH". I don't know how to describe the drawing, except to say that the kid is pretty comprehensively squished (in a non-gory way; this is a comic comic)

Fourth image, bottom right: the kid runs across the grass past the guy who's still standing by his mailbox, completely unharmed and still focused on their ball, much to the guy's seeming envy.

At the very bottom right, the artist has signed it ZMS and written the name of his strip, extra fabulous

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Oct 16

"You know what? Some people are less worth than others. You can tell by the money they have and how they spend it." "Haha fat/poor/disabled/immigrant (delete as applicable) people.” "Enterprise is my favourite Star Trek series - and everything since then sucks. Bring back Berman."

Grey background with white centre justified text that reads:

You've been kidnapped

(In smaller writing)
Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media to pretend everything is alright.

What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Sep 4

Either I'm far too online, or the photo editor at the Independent feels a certain way about Linehan and his campaign of bigotry... He can't even claim to be ordering five beers here.

A photo credited to Reuters of anti-trans bigot Graham Linehan, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court. He's facing charges of harassment and criminal damage against a young trans woman.

In the photo, one of the most divorced middle-aged white cis straight men in the world is wearing a white shirt (open at the neck, no tie) and a grey suit jacket, open. Behind him are a plate glass window and automatic door, which reflect buildings in sunlight. Linehan's expression is probably meant to be a smile, but it looks more like a gurning approximation of whatever a black soul; wizened by years of focused hatred and emptiness, would think a smile is. His right arm is raised in what is described in the Independent's photo description calls a "gesture": straight arm and all fingers extended. I don't think he has a heart to go out to anyone - not that Elon Musk does, either.

He's pleaded not guilty, btw; even though Sophia recorded the harassment on the day of the criminal damage, and video of him throwing her phone across the road exists and will likely be entered into evidence.

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Aug 15

Saw this on Tiktok, and it occurred to me that the lad who was meditating might be on to something here - the arrest might not be safe enough for a conviction, and given how many cops it took to lift him, maybe more protesters could find their zen in the crowd?

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Aug 15

From Wikipedia (I can still access it!):

Screenshot of mostly white text of a black background, from the Wikipedia page 'Harry Potter influences and analogues':

"In a 2000 interview with BBC Radio 4, Rowling revealed a deep love of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book Lolita, saying, "There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabokov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing." [26]

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· Jun 9

Wake up, babe. A new* gender test just dropped. *Old. Very old. Monstrous Regiment was first published in 2003

Photograph of printed text that reads:

"A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman."

It is a quote from Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Ms. Atoz (she/they)@kinelfire· May 8

It's just past Spouse and my 3rd anniversary, but could I suggest Bubblebots?