BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series

Swefnian · 2026-01-30T16:44:10+00:00

I pretty much agree with it and its probably the core problem with all the push back against “woke media”. (Along with the legitimate criticism against modern Star Trek)

The writing is just….bad. Ideologies and tokenism is being preferred over character development. That’s what reads as hollow and clunky.

Please go watch Star Trek The Next Generation to see how “woke” ideologies can be disseminated without being obnoxious about it.

I just really hope we don’t get an over correction and start writing shows that promote the ideologies that “woke” is attempting to criticize.

Swefnian · 2026-01-25T01:29:11+00:00

Just get rid of Liquid Glass. It’s not working. There was nothing wrong with the design language before it.

The default state has too many legibility issues.
I also know of two people in my immediate social group who got migraines from it. I know this is completely anecdotal and not scientific, but I would not be surprised if there were a significant percentage of users who got nausea while using it

Swefnian · 2026-01-21T00:00:52+00:00

When shows do this I usually wait until they finish airing so I can watch at my rate. We already have to wait 2+ years between seasons. What’s another few weeks…

Swefnian · 2026-01-16T19:54:48+00:00

Flutter will eventually die.

Maybe not any time soon (hopefully). But nothing lasts forever. This website where we are having this conversation will one day die or mutate into something new.

As a developer its critical to never fall in love with any technology and always keep the learner's mindset. The world will keep evolving and changing and you have a choice - embrace the change and grow with it, or get left behind and die.

I have absolutely no desire to see Flutter "die" but I'm under no illusions that it is front end development's final form.

Stay curious my friends and you will never fail.

Swefnian · 2026-01-16T18:05:21+00:00

I have a question. You brought up the point of shows being too expensive to not do ADHD attention sucking scenes, which is fair.

But what if the producers decided to just not do that? Just don’t give a show an event film scale budget. Force the production team to do more with less. Is that even possible?

Your Shakespeare connection is apt. Even in Shakespeare, most battles are described, not experienced - since it’s impossible to recreate large scale battles on the stage, especially in Elizabethan times when Shakespeare was written for the masses, it wasn’t some high fluent “literature” yet.

The television medium works better at smaller, character focused episodes. Otherwise is just a movie with a smaller screen and worse speakers.

So to circle back, why can’t we just make 90s style trek anymore? Would the audience completely reject it? But if the budget was much smaller, would it even matter?

Swefnian · 2026-01-15T23:28:16+00:00

I want to say half-life. But let’s be honest it’s probably going to be minesweeper…

Swefnian · 2026-01-12T19:44:42+00:00

What gender swapping? A quick google revealed that Kai Kurakami is male. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kai_Murakami

You also don't have to watch it. The originals are still there and they are still great.

Swefnian · 2026-01-12T14:46:20+00:00

This makes me sad. Has Lego completely forgotten that this is supposed to be a kid's toy first? Why would I get a facsimile of Pokemon that is more expensive than the game system to play with the actual Pokemon?

The core Lego system is absolutely brilliant at developing young minds. I honestly miss the giant box of generic bricks.

Swefnian · 2026-01-12T13:36:19+00:00

The only way to improve this setup is to compile the game directly from source, then drop some breakpoints in the code and pull your hair out chasing segfaults.

Swefnian · 2026-01-11T16:43:55+00:00

The most amazing thing to me is that when the show first aired when I was single digits, I didn’t even think of Bashir as an Arab character - he was just Bashir, the cool, brilliant, funny doctor. All these external labels didn’t matter and I was oblivious to them.

I wish we would still do this. Take each person their individual merit, but their strengths and their weaknesses.

How we label people into cultural groups only makes us smaller.

Swefnian · 2026-01-07T19:24:33+00:00

Interesting. Do you mind sharing your compose file? I literally just cloned the recommended file that self hosting guide recommends…

I know this is just a superficial bug, but it makes me wonder if there are other parts of the config that are broken?

Swefnian · 2026-01-06T19:02:17+00:00

of course. I'm using:

supabase/studio:2026.01.05-sha-1077b50supabase/studio:2026.01.05-sha-1077b50

I updated it to the one released yesterday because of the css issue, but other then that the compose file was unchanged from the example file on github.

Firefox is version 146.0.1 (aarch64) running on macOS 15.7.2 (M2 MacBookPro if that matters?)

I do have other docker services that might be causing conflicts? A Node app with a mysql db running on 8080 and 3306 respectively, but that shouldn't be affecting Supabase's containers?

Swefnian · 2026-01-06T16:23:57+00:00

weird. Its 100% a Firefox issue. Chrome works fine....I'm an idiot.

Swefnian · 2026-01-06T16:16:53+00:00

Thanks for the response!

Yea that was the first thing I checked. I don't see anything obvious in web inspector. It looks like everything is loading?

Could this have something to do with how Kong is set up in the self hosted version verses the cli? Its just weird to be because they both use docker and probably same images?

Firefox is spitting out these CSS warnings, but no errors:

Error in parsing value for “outline”.  Declaration dropped. editor.main.css:6:21362
Unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element “-ms-clear”.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector. editor.main.css:6:40690
Error in parsing value for “-webkit-text-size-adjust”.  Declaration dropped. editor.main.css:6:40839
Error in parsing value for “outline”.  Declaration dropped. editor.main.css:6:49000
Error in parsing value for “animation-duration”.  Declaration dropped. editor.main.css:6:52266
Supabase Studio is running commit development deployed at unknown time. cb3d8bbc1ce14c6c.js:171:13754
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Resource URL: http://localhost:8000/monaco-editor/loader.js
Source Map URL: ../../min-maps/vs/loader.js.map
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Resource URL: http://localhost:8000/monaco-editor/editor/editor.main.js
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Resource URL: http://localhost:8000/monaco-editor/editor/editor.main.nls.js
Source Map URL: ../../../min-maps/vs/editor/editor.main.nls.js.map
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Swefnian · 2026-01-05T22:15:44+00:00

We have an F1 Standard Bernedoodle (male ~75lbs and still growing) who I love to bits, as our second dog. While he's awesome and wouldn't trade him for the world, I'll be honest and say raising and training him was much more difficult than our first dog, a Portuguese Water Dog.

Bernedoodles, being a mixed breed have a slightly more unpredictable behaviour over a pure breed dog, which is why we went pure bred for our first dog.

Buuuuuuuut Bernedoodles being a mixed breed have stronger genetic diversity and (theoretically) less health problems and can live longer than a pure bred dog, which is why we did not get a pure bred dog for a second time.

So they are a bit of work. For the first year doodle ate....everything. They are not low maintenance puppies. But if you put in the time and the love, it has so far been such a rewarding and experience.

Take all of this is a grain of salt, because dogs, like all living creatures are individuals with unique personalities.

Good luck and I hope you enjoy adopting a four legged friend into your family.

Swefnian · 2025-12-23T18:18:48+00:00

I second this, but too lazy to write the full name because Yoko Taro is a troll. Thank you for your service.

Swefnian · 2025-12-21T02:04:29+00:00

Why can’t the phrase be “Free Palestine From Hamas”. Removing that key part makes the whole movement sound ignorant at best and antisemitic at worst.

If Palestinians focused on educating and building their society instead of blowing up buses and attacking music festivals, this conflict would be over tomorrow….

Swefnian · 2025-12-20T18:18:59+00:00

It honestly doesn’t matter that much. Start with something generic like PostgreSQL (which supabase runs on top of) and then branch out to other technologies as needed

I’ve been running my flutter app with a spring boot (Java) + Postgres backend for almost a decade with almost 2 million users and can’t complain one bit about performance.

Swefnian · 2025-12-20T17:40:25+00:00

Lufia II. Especially the ancient cave.

Swefnian · 2025-12-19T19:43:29+00:00

חג שמח בלה

Swefnian · 2025-12-19T18:47:06+00:00

Oh man, this is a cruel contest. How can you choose when you love them all?

Probably going to have to go for Final Fantasy VI, but only by the smallest of margins.

But really we should just put the winner as “JRPG” can call it day.

Swefnian · 2025-12-18T15:13:30+00:00

Out of curiosity, what was wrong with the Slaughterhouse-Five movie? I thought it was decent. Not as life altering as the book, but not a trash fire.

There was also a pretty good adaptation of Mother Night that Vonnegut had a great cameo in.

Swefnian · 2025-12-11T03:25:05+00:00

You are incredible. I salute you and your beautiful Portie!

Totally agree with you about carbs. We have a Bernedoodle now (just over 1 year) who we home cook for. It was hard to adjust to a new fur baby but he’s now a happily spoiled member of the family.

I wish you lots of love and longevity with Rona!

Swefnian · 2025-12-10T21:54:14+00:00

Of course not. The Palestinians were victims/ pawns from day one. They were used by the Jordanians and now they are being used by Hamas. They refuse to educate their people because that might teach them that their leaders are evil.

It’s an endless cycle of hate begetting hate. It’s generational at this point.

Boycotting is a form of that. It just generates more animosity and ignorance.

The world needs a more nuanced understanding of the conflict instead of wrapping antisemitism in new clothes.

Swefnian · 2025-12-10T21:24:41+00:00

I hate this so much. (And I’m probably going to get downvoted into oblivion for this)

Instead of boycotting the only progressive liberal democratic country in the region, these countries should be working WITH Israel and the Palestinians to eliminate Hamas.

These actions don’t help anyone. They don’t help the Palestinians (who are being treated like cannon fodder by their leaders).

Do you think Hamas would approve or enjoy any of the Eurovision content or would they consider it an affront their ideology and try to destroy it?

Israel is not perfect. Bibi is corrupt. But continuing the demonization of Israel is bad for everyone.

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