i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

If ICE truly were targeting "the worst of the worst" and not, you know, deliberately brutalizing innocent families with children, they'd rush to correct all the stories like this one, apologizing and insisting it's not what they're really doing. They don't because this is deliberate. This is it.

Nothing hits harder than the thomas the tank engine beat at the end of chiquitita

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

A fresh look at the Helix Nebula captures new details of the cycle of stellar life and death

This dude on TikTok is trying to help his wife get a job, so he wrote a song. I've had this stuck in my head for the past couple of days. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fQQP8S/

New ALMA astronomical survey reveals teenage years and “growing pains” of new worlds www.tcd.ie/news_events/... Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

as trump keeps beating up on renewables, a new analysis shows that we can basically offset data center emissions simply by boosting wind and solar a little bit more:

Yutu - 2013-01-13 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/DKD5Cp

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure why

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Every episode of TOS was about racial discrimination, every ep of next gen was about Riker encouraging bisexual orgies, every episode of DS9 was about revolutionary politics, and every episode of Voyager was about an adult catman hosting a morning cooking show, so, alright, not all of them but most

Mysterious discovery! New instrument uncovers a huge bar-shaped feature in the Ring Nebula: www.universal-sci.com/article/new-...

I love Star Trek, but one little quibble I have is that (earth-based) Star Fleet uses lots of multicultural names for stations and ships to try to convey that Earth and humanity were united in their time. But they never really bothered to coach the actors in how to pronounce them.

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

Recently rearranged my consoles that resulted in the N64 being right in my line of vision when gaming. Can’t help but notice, man, that’s a sleek looking console!

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success

"A woman who lives in Ross' neighborhood in the Minneapolis suburb of Chaska, Minn., tells PEOPLE that she was shocked to hear the news — particularly because she was under the impression he was in an entirely different field of work."

Understanding that Star Trek: First Contact is one of the single most influential works of fiction on my worldview is critical for "getting" me

New Star Wars movie idea: 12 Angry Men, but it's all Wookies and no subtitles.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Very funny that the guy who turned the east wing of the White House into a pile of rubble one Friday is criminally investigating the federal reserve chairman about a building renovation

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

KO'ing everyone's 401k the week they started bragging about murdering citizens in the street on camera is the behavior of people who are on actual drugs. Not metaphorically, it's the behavior of people with underlying mental illness on uppers and steroids who are starting to feel cornered.

Timeline cleansing

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own

Okay, online hivemind: What are the lowest hanging fruit for quick fixes for safe streets in Seattle?

Saw a post theorizing you now encounter more people listening to things on speakers in public spaces because Apple banning the headphone jack did not result in people switching to Bluetooth headphones, it resulted in people abandoning headphones. I'm on an airplane RN and. Thinking about that. Hard.

Well, there IS a reason - the Christofascists have finally taken over our government, a project they've been working on for decades. And they want absolute rule, the billionaires running the show, with fundie Christian sharia law for us serfs. It's a bad reason, but it's a reason.

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

Just. F***ing. IMPEACH.

the best part of traveling is a bunch of adults watching youtube videos on their phones on the external speakers because every person in this country is as smart and self-aware as an ipad kid now

it is your DUTY as a parent to be basic and cringe. if your child says "6-7" and you do not say, loud enough for their friends to hear, "8-9?", causing profound silence and intense discomfort, you are neglecting your responsibilities. being cool is for kids. your days of being laughed WITH are over

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

“They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation.”

In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.

Love when I watch old episodes of The West Wing and they show senior staffers using MSN Explorer. I’m like “hmmmmm really? The White House would have used MSN as their ISP?” 😂

Fascinating bit of history in this thread

This is the energy I want to bring into 2006

i just saw a clip from that new stranger things and those "kids" all have fuckin mortgages. oldest teenagers in history. they went to inspect a message that appeared mysteriously from another dimension and one of them put on readers

My response to anything over the next two weeks

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.

If you all need me, hit me up on MSN Messenger. I'll be browsing VCLart and maybe do some Unreal Tournament. Hit me up or IRC later tonight. #Anthrochat. I'll be around until 8-ish. See you online 💜

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5