Here's a fun late night scientific rabbit hole for you to process.

Robin Williams warned us about Donald Trump. We didn’t listen.

Here's a momentary injection of science for your feed.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

I agree! The Trump-Epstein files it is.

Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex. Brick by fucking brick.

Well that's... Interesting. I'm sure that'll sit unpaid and/or perhaps pocketed in some foreign personal account somewhere. Sigh.

Apparently you can now buy an official 50 cent roll of 2025 pennies for $9.95. No. Really.

Here is, once again, my complete lack of shocked face.

It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.

Much like The Shitgibbon, Hawley is an opportunistic chameleon. Except, while he's more intelligent, he has no spine. So while I was surprised he initially voted for it, I'm not at all shocked that he flipped.

...*WOMP WOMP*... Once again, The Shitgibbon is denied.

I heard a good point. If that officer felt “threatened” by that lady such that he had to kill her, he is too fragile to be a cop.

People mag

And it goes without saying that every Democrat must withhold their vote on the CR until there are seismic changes to the way DHS operates within the US. I would rather we have no government than this foul dictatorship.

I HAVE YET TO HEAR AN HONEST STATEMENT FROM KRISTI NOEM ABOUT ANYTHING.

This is a fun little court order.

Turn off CBS. Listen to the @dailybeanspod.com.

Russia has dispatched a submarine and other naval vessels to escort an oil tanker formerly known as Bella 1, now reflagged as Marinera under the Russian flag, which is being pursued by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Atlantic as part of efforts to enforce sanctions and block sanctioned oil shipments.

Most Americans can't even find Venezuela on this map!!! VERY BIGLY SAD!

“Trump declared ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ another moment that will stand for ages as an embarrassment to the U.S. and raises the question yet again of whether the commander in chief is cognitively stable enough to be ordering the invasion of other nations” {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I think the world needs be a little more Muppet (in a good way) 💕 youtu.be/Up3Yic78IMA?...

Sorry for the long wait. I was quite busy the last 2 months securing a new 'base' for Flashes with @eurosky.social - account hosting and data processing outside of the US as sovereign social media infrastructure in Europe. There will be news coming out of that one in Jan 2026. The Android alpha...

I'd make a pun about being Sofa King done with 2025, but you'll probably wish I'd couched it differently.

...And now for some archeology & history...

I am saddened to hear this. I always enjoyed talking to Tim. Nice guy, especially in the early, Cold War days of the industry.

Have a little science for your New Year's Eve.

You know that banger from high school you loved & heard on the radio at the store? Yeah, that means you're old now. You're welcome. :)

"A growing body of polling shows Americans, mostly on the left but increasingly on the right, are beginning to reject the government’s special relationship with Israel."

Can't believe I have to say this, but it's 2025 still and apparently this is how this year has gone: IF YOU HAVE MEASLES PLEASE DON'T GET ON A PLANE. patch.com/new-jersey/n...

While I've known some obscenely talented photorealists, there's an increasingly valid observational point here.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Merry Happy Joyous Dreadful Whatever you may celebrate.

Here's my complete lack of shocked face. However, that might make for some interesting testimony for the ICC if they ever manage to arrest him.

...LimeWire? Wow. Now there's an unexpected callback for a vehicle to do that.

If the fascism isn’t enough to keep you away, take it from a former Tesla owner: mine tried to kill me. I was going 70+ using cruise control when it slammed on the breaks because it saw a shadow. I found out later it happened because Musk ordered them to shut off a radar system I paid extra for.

The group Project Citizenship told radio station WGBH, “officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

Apparently there's now a birthdate requirement on here. That's as amusing as me getting carded for alcohol. Sure, okay. Lol.