An impressive – or alarming – amount of creative energy is expended in describing the simple fact that people are different ages. … These generational labels feel like an even weaker brand of woo – as generic as horoscopes, simultaneously bland and insulting. What are they for? The endless stratification seems mainly an opportunity to deepen our hostility against one another.

• Emma Beddington, Spitting wisdom from all the way back in 2021

I’m definitely part of somebody’s water cooler chat as “some guy out in his pajamas taking photos.”

The difference 10 minutes makes.

(If you think I’m posting too many sunsets, make it ok for yourself by pretending it’s part of a “challenge.”)

Got to see sun’s laser light show while putting out the trash last night.

I realize part of what I’m grieving is the distance between the now and the then. There are just so many years between me and that young kid watching Star Trek with his family: an hour each week we shared together that felt easy, safe, and happy. And Patrick Stewart was at the center of that.

• Ethan Marcotte, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound

My sister and I always discuss TNG as a workplace fantasy with Picard as the best boss you could ever have: patient, understanding, and willing to be wrong. A characterization only possible with Sir Patrick Stewart embodying those traits.