Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙

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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, so we're all just doing the best we can. Queer book lover, PNW Progressive, 🏳️‍🌈 queer af + Asexual, cat parent, Trekkie, knitter & collector of yarn, INFJ 💙 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💙 #TheOpposition 🚫 TERFs 🏳️‍⚧️ She/they

Cast photo from Star Trek:The Motion Picture, 1979.
Early sections of my Farpoint shawl: the gray point that echoes the Starfleet delta, dark gray rows & science-blue with stars worked in. Above the blue is a black band all ready for rank pips-it will have 3, for Lt. Commander Beverly Crusher. 💙
"I Voted" in English & Spanish encloses a circle with an abstract scene of mountains, water, & a yellow sun at the top. Curling around the bottom is #WashCoVotes
Striping sock yarn in a gray, purple, black & lime green repeat in a cake is connected to a Sockhead hat in progress that's really just 2x2 ribbing atm.
Janet MacLachlan as Lt. Charlene Masters, on the bridge of the USS Enterprise holding a padd and a stylus
A small urban pond is full of Canada geese, otherwise known as Cobra Chickens, and more are lounging on the bank & the green hillside beyond. The day is gloriously cloudy & cool - the perfect Fall day in the PNW!
Almost deserted Rose Quarter in Portland OR.
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher sits at her desk in Sickbay
Star Trek TOS Stonn frowns in Vulcan
A cute gray cat with yellow eyes pokes his head out of a cat-head-shaped entrance to a triangle house with scratching pads on the sides.
Gray cat curled up & sleeping inside a triangular house with scratching panels on the two visible sides.
Black cat laying on tan carpet playing with a red toy, a red & white floody ball near his back foot.
The paradox of tolerance explained. The paradox disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone doesn't abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.
Two adult Muscovy ducks sitting on and near an old knarled tree. A yellow fluffy chick is nestled between the roots in front of the mother duck.
Lt. Reginald Barclay standing in the holodeck looking awkward.
Sleek black cat sitting on a windowsill beside black curtains looking oh so innocent. Trees & sunshine are behind him outside.
Captain Kirk & Mr Spock sit shoulder to shoulder on a San Francisco bus in the late 20th century. Behind them is a window with purple graffiti.
A black t-shirt with the words Space Hippie in blue surrounded by blue stars, and a gold Star Trek delta as the "A" in the word space
Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher sitting at the desk in her office.
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher sitting at her desk in sickbay.
How to Instantly Feel Better handout: Overthinking: Write; Tired: Nap; Anxious: Meditate; Sad: Exercise; Stressed: Go for a walk; Angry: Listen to music; Lazy: Reduce screen time; Burn out: Read
A pair of Canada geese glide across a small pond behind their four fluffy babies.
Two Canada geese standing beside a stream that meanders past light green shoots and trees just starting to set leaves.
A line drawing of the horseshoe theory which says the far right & the far left have more in common than either group does with centrists.
Hands Off Hillsboro, OR crowd.
A grid comparing the quality & cost of life in Canada vs in the US. Canadians are by far better off.
The Paradox of Tolerance. Tolerance is a social contract and anyone who violates it is no longer covered by it. Tolerance for intolerant people leads to fascism.
The Paradox of Tolerance. Tolerance is a moral contract & if you break it, it no longer covers you. Moral people cannot tolerate the intolerant.
Martin Sheen as the US President, holding a baby as a human shield to avoid being shot, from the movie Dead Zone.
An incomplete but obvious line of pavement salt/de-icer outside the library side door.
Minister Alora from Majalis smiles at Captain Pike from the transporter pad.
A snip of the URL bar on a browser on an NYT article. The document icon beside the US Flag in the right corner is highlighted--click that and you're past the paywall.
Ensign Ro, a Bajoran woman, and Commander LaForge, a human man, stand facing each other, palms together.
A snip of the vote roll call regarding the 2-3-24 senate Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Russell Vought) for OMB Director. In the 51-46 vote, all Democrats & Bernie voted No and all Republicans voted Yes; 2 Rs and Fetterman abstained. Motion passed.
A Romulan commander is smirking.
A beautiful Black Illyrian woman with a small, but proud, smile. She's standing in front of a round official seal and holding a book.
A Ktarian woman looks haughtily into the camera.
Tribbles in various shades of brown fill a clear cylinder and sit on the table nearby. A tiny white one is peeking out at the top of the pile.
An alien with four arms is wearing a hot pink dress & standing at an organ making jazz hands.
Hemmer, the Aenar chief engineer of the Enterprise under Captain Pike, looks sideways while wearing a black leather jacket over his uniform.
Tolerance as a social contract, with pictures of Nazis, circa WWII
The Paradox of Tolerance explained as: tolerance is a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.
Jadzia Dax leans toward her ex wife Lenara Kahn, who is sitting at a console.
Soren is in sick bay about to ask a question.
Two Muscovy ducks eating dinner at the park.
An Orion woman sitting on a statue of an animal.
Horseshoe theory of politics: far right & far left are more similar than moderates on either side.
Commemorative Coke bottles for all presidents since 2005 (Bush); all are regular Coke except TFG's for 2025, which is Diet Coke.
A black cat and a gray cat snuggling on a lap covered in a red blanket.
Two Muscovy ducks are eating a meal of wild bird food on the grass at the park. One is bronze with a greenish tint to its feathers & the other is black with a white barred pattern on its back.
Riker is handing Picard a small green box, inside of which is a Ressikan flute.
A black cat lounges on a white mantle in front of a plain white wall. Reflected in the glass fireplace shield, a colorful array of cat toys is strewn across beige carpet.
The bridge crew of the SNW USS Enterprise is in the captain's quarters looking suspiciously at their Orion Hurricanes, the bottle of Orion delaq, and Spock's arms that don't usually do that, as they realize they are two-dimensional.
Keiko and Miles O'Brien at their wedding.
Kareel Odan.
A bare tree with white bark stands on the bank of a pond. The yellow marginal grass to the left is lit golden by the afternoon sun.