Left-to-right, top-to-bottom:

1. From the TNG episode “Darmok”, where Captain Picard has to learn how to communicate with an alien through shared danger.
2. From DS9, the decades-long Bajoran resistance to the brutal Cardassian occupation.
3. From the Voyager episode “Message in a Bottle”, where the holographic doctor has to go outside his comfort zone in order to recapture a federation starship from the Romulans.
4. From TNG, the friendship between human Geordi and the android Data.
5. From DS9, the friendship and subsequent romance between Odo and Kira
6. From Voyager, Janeway’s insistence that Borg drones are still people.

“Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person’. That’s what it says, ‘a horrible person’. We weren’t even testing for that!”

Jobs being made obsolete by new technology is one thing.

Artists having their works taken and profited off of without consent, attribution, or compensation is another.

UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.

“Flat” color schemes where you can’t even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.

Infinite scroll instead of pagination.

He’ll have to show us his Earth certificate, though.

Some species of ants invade neighboring colonies and carry away larva to work as slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant

He was already famous for inventing duotronics, and the M-5 debacle was probably classified or otherwise not common knowledge.

Generally it will work on any mortal except dwarves.

You could write to Microsoft and they would mail you a CD with SP2 on it for free.

A flea and a fly in a flue

Were trapped, so what could they do?

Said the fly, “let us flee!”

“Let us fly!” said the flea

So they fled through a flaw in the flue.

That’s not how you petition the Supreme Court.

Yet another Republican “patriot” who flunked civics 101.

The trial was already over. This was for the sentencing.

Unrelated anecdote:

Years ago I had a cheap Blackberry lookalike phone. It had a button lock feature to prevent butt dialing, but some bright spark decided that the lock wouldn’t apply to the ‘9’ and ‘1’ keys, presumably so that a user could dial 9-1-1 even if too panicked to unlock the keypad. Which just meant that it was really easy to butt dial 9-1-1…

The hands are too big.

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for “safety”, then it’s too dangerous to be road legal.

Amazon .com denied a report on Tuesday that it planned to disclose the cost that U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump were adding to its products, after the White House blasted the initial story.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house-amazon-tariff-price-announcement-is-hostile-2025-04-29/

I am tired of lies.

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say “Ni” at will to old ladies.

Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?!

You don’t need any help from me, sir.

That’s right! …