Weird night, this evening is. The cats are all snoozing hard and no one has bothered to ask about dinner (which would've been several hours ago.) Then again, I remember the cat wars of late afternoon and, yeah, let 'em rest.

I am super enjoying playing with my photo gear this weekend as I prepare to take an initial foray into astrophotography.

Here’s a banger for your collection.

Here is one of my favorites.

I need to start a collection of stupid & absurd headlines that I would take with me were I able to travel back to the year 2000 to show people. “Yeah no, the future sucks. Things are really stupid in there.”

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

The metaphors, yadda yadda.

The legal system is not set up to handle people worth 800 fucking billion dollars. I don’t believe they’re actually is a way of coming out the other end of this unless we end the concept of billionaires.

"Whee!," I say, as I fall head-first down the astrophotography rabbit hole.

We should never again allow malicious idiots and failsons to run things.

john roberts has completed his life’s work (destroying the VRA) and it should signal the end of his corrupt council of unelected law wizards as well

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

Some nasty, dangerous storms hitting places in the US tonight. 😟

Some in Congress are so inclined. Probably won’t go anywhere but it’s a start. bsky.app/profile/macf...

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

Not long now until Integrity splashdown! #Artemis2

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment has this lovely phrase that appears to give Congress as much say as it wants in determining the fitness of POTUS. It’s not exclusively at the mercy of a sycophantic/complicit Cabinet. Should Congress ever be so inclined. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

Gibson’s “jackpot”

“gyre of enshittified escalation” I love this phrase but hate the implications.

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

dance #abstractart

Toilet cleared for all uses!

Listening to the polite comms between the Integrity crew and Houston is the ASMR I didn’t know I needed.

I love how much of the Artemis mission thus far has been focused on the toilet and wastewater removal. Toilet is currently no-go for urination and go for defecation.

Artemis is now just a smidge over 1 light-second from Earth.

I’m absolutely loving watching Artemis II live feeds. And it blows my mind that the TLI burn in less than 2 hours will determine the success of the next 9 days of Artemis’ flight. Orbital mechanics is wild stuff.

Fuck your money

Dawg America loses wars so fast now like it used to take a fucking decade but with the new kinetic leadership of Pete Hegseth we vaporize our entire strategic missile defense reserves, lose all good will and positioning in the Pacific AND destabilize the global economy in weeks not years

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

This storm is the craziest damn thing. Some places are under severe thunderstorm & tornado warnings while, tens of miles away, snow is blowing in.

I'm now a certified Wilderness First Responder. 😊 Whew! I'm exhausted but also super pumped. I really needed this confidence boost. I definitely want to keep this going to reinforce & build on what I've learned.

Day 2 of the WFR course is done and I am absolutely wiped.

I gave myself some chill time this evening, without anything study-related. My youngest cat held court in her usual evening spot, to the left of me on the bed.

study machine go brrrrrr

Online content is done! I'm officially done with the required preparatory classwork for the in-person class. Unofficially, I still have lots more reading and flash card making to do.

It's Thursday evening and I'm nearly done with the third module. Still have lots of reading to do in the next five days. And flashcards. I don't have enough flash cards. But I did take a break today to learn the basics of a new-for-me (but Viking Age old) fiber craft with my lovely new lucet.

Crappy work day. Taking a break from studying this evening. I’m 2+ online modules through 3 total but behind in the reading. Hoping to complete module 3 by Thursday so I can catch up on the reading and work on my s/s-treatment-evac flashcards.

Today was a good study day. Made some solid progress through the environmental illness content. I may or may not have purchased an EMT textbook.

This is a monumental shift in global politics, and whatever you think about Iran's government, it's probably not good for the world as a whole that the US gets away with killing world leaders it doesn't like.

Shoutout to the postal dropbox down the street that’s sporting new graffiti: “ICE out of Chi” and “Viva Palestina” on one side, “Men are bitches” on the opposite side.

One of three required online modules almost complete. Feels like a lot and I'm not sure I'll remember all this. I'm feeling a bit of stress. 🫩

The people of Minnesota vote for representatives to Congress. Minnesota Reps. and Sens. were in DC, representing their constituents, when Congress passed laws using proper procedure that allocated Medicaid funding. The president breaking those laws violates the fundamental compact of the republic.

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

I spent my weekend at home doing pre-in-person-training homework for a wilderness first responder class I'm taking next month. So many new acronyms to learn, oof.

Ugh. Do I message this cute and interesting person on Lex? Analysis paralysis.

My girl looks amazing in infrared.

I’ve never been more excited to vote in a primary. @katmabu.bsky.social @julianastratton.bsky.social

Okay, so I just bought a beautiful, hand-crafted lucet and a nalbinding needle which means, I guess, that I'm starting a new hobby. ADHD is fun, whee.

People crave stories of humans acting in solidarity. We’re all fed up with this technofascist garbage