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S7E14: Chimera

Sound on, naturally.

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Can't tell if this bugs me or is genius. A lot of names get pronounced very differently depending on the character. I'm used to shows having consistent pronunciation of character names, places, etc like in Star Trek, Game of Thrones, etc. In the show, though, it's all over the place sometimes.

e.g.

• Admiral Souther: Sowther / Suther (The character himself pronounced it "Suther" so I assume that is the correct pronunciation)
• Klaes Ashford: Klaus / Klace
• Marco Inaros: In-are-ohs / Inner-ohs

Does anyone know if that variation was intentional or just accidental? I could see it either way. If intentional, it does lend some realism since this is common IRL and may also help highlight the differences in dialects between the Earthers, Martians, and Belters.

The only instance that actually, flat-out bugged me was how the same lieutenant on the Agatha King pronounced the admiral's name as "Suther" in one episode and "Sowther" in another. This is despite working closely with the admiral himself and should know how to pronounce his name correctly.

Edit: It's also kind of genius how Avasarala mispronounces his name. She always talks and tells stories about him like they're long-time best friends but admits later they barely ever spoke and that he didn't really like her.

Delicious grilled corn is here. Political memes are ---> That Way --->

S2E09: The Weeping Somnambulist.

2x05: Home

Yeah, I know it's just Drummer being awesome like that. I just liked that little callback at the end.

It’s difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.

It would be easy to wallow in this mess—to doomscroll as the world washes away.

But on this anniversary of the United States of America, I believe we are not without hope. It may feel like America has been careening along the highway of enshittification since the turn of the century, but the thing about driving on highways is that you can always take an off-ramp. The truly remarkable thing about this country is its ingenious ability—through elections, immigration, freedom of speech, and economic mobility—to constantly remake itself.

We need to become makers once again, working against the rage, the despair, the grifting, and the misinformation wherever we find them. And we can. Based simply on what I’ve seen as a journalist over the last quarter century, reasons for hope remain. It can be useful once in while to gather these reasons about us as armor against despair.

They're trying really hard to make their AI-plagiarized slop "news" site happen. You'll see posts linking to primestories24 [dot] com but they're AI slop regurgitating likely legit news articles. Every "reporter" has some generic profile that is most likely the system prompt used for everything they "write".

If you see a post to that domain, report it as spam. The accounts all look similar to this:

• @Bellar36@beehaw.org
• @Belinda42@lemmy.wtf
• @tatyana43@piefed.ca
• @Graham43@sopuli.xyz
• @Belinda43@fedia.io
• @belinda35@piefed.social
• @PrimeStories247@lemmy.ca (First ban-evasion alt)
• @PrimeStories24@sh.itjust.works (Original account)

This list isn't comprehensive.

Update: They are now using sockpuppet alts to vote/boost their posts. Just found @Babrah28@ttrpg.network that way and, surprise surprise, it was registered the same time as the latest batch.

Note: Technically the above is violating rule 7 if you consider spambots to be members. I don't, but if this is a problem, let me know, and I'll remove that part.

The domain was registered in May of 2026 and is roughly when these accounts started popping up.

   Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
   Registrar URL: http://hostafrica.com/
   Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:29Z
   Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registrar: Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
   Registrar IANA ID: 664
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6465850088
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: DAN1.HOST-WW.NET
   Name Server: DAN2.HOST-WW.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned

Admins, I'm aware Lemmy is severely lacking in moderation capability, but one thing it does have is domain blocking. That prevents posting to those domains and it now seems to prevent links to those domains from federating in.