It's Friday 13th, but not to worry: Good thing I got Chinese food earlier this week. My cookie had this fortune:

indeed. "when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her." stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...

NRDC will see them in court. And we will win.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Boy this is a pisser. @digikey.bsky.social shipped me two power supplies instead of one. I called them and returned the second power supply and they have *invoiced* me for the second part even though they have received it. This is punishing a customer for reporting their error. Really bad job.

Building stuff is sooo much fun. It's almost more fun when it's tiny. Source is at github.com/tdunning/sma... #hamradio #electronics

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

The Republican Party is committing mass suicide because its elected officials are too personally cowardly to break with the old man.

Worked a Super Bowl ICE Patrol shift for vendors by the stadium, with Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County ✊🏻 👀🧊📲 408-290-1144 We keep us safe! Abolish ICE! Chinga La Migra!

We *definitely* need more protest songs. share.inquirer.com/f6RYLE

If only our papa czar had known what was happening, he would have done something. For sure.

This is so bad. Getting people to make up fake prizes to give himself is gross, but basically extorting the military to prop up his wife's failure of a film has serious implications.

Here is a superb watercolour landscape demo by Dutch artist Edo Hannema @edowatercolourart.bsky.social Whole painting done with a hake brush! #art #watercolor #winter #landscape #painting Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMn...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

view of Greenock cut with low winter sun

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

We have to stop this.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Finished this watercolor of La Jolla Cove as birthday gift for friend I knew from my time there at UCSD #art #watercolour #marine #painting

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

Bezos, Musk and Thiel should read up on the history of Michael Khodorkovsky. Once he barely crossed Putin, his wealth largely evaporated (#16 on Forbes list back when $15G was a lot) to "only" about $200M and he spent nearly a decade in the gulag. They are playing with fire. #gulag #oligarchs

Hmm... some days the magic works and some days it... uh ... Googled "man tree" to find out the command options for the "tree" command. Got this. It's kind of correct. www.alamy.com/stock-image-...

That's also why this is my permanent pinned post: bsky.app/profile/kath...

Excellent reckoning from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

Something good for your day: Beautiful, flowing watercolor by Tetiana @taqa.bsky.social #art #watercolour #floral #painting #color

And happy day-after-next-day-after-birthday in advance!

The engineer inside me asks how they get the table into the dishwasher after dinner.

Wisteria, waiting for the end of winter. #photography #nature #art

Thanks probably to the LockPickingLawyer, a search on Amazon for "lock picking practice lock" now brings up Master padlocks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jz...

Thread of the Day 🥇

TO SANTA CLARA CITY COUNCIL: GROW A SPINE AND PROTECT IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. ICE has threatened to terrorize the Superbowl! Join our fight to get host Santa Clara city to adopt a sanctuary policy against ICE on our streets! #IceOutOfTheBay

Lovely winter watercolor by Edo Hannema @edowatercolourart.bsky.social Notice how he shows distant trees & how he handles light throughout this snowy scene #art #watercolour #landscape #painting Video demo shows his process including the drawing. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegX...

I keep wanting to want an IDE in Julia, but the REPL is annoyingly good and it keeps undercutting my desire. When working on a package, I wind up using emacs and REPL. Shades of 1988. I even pay for a subscription to the Flexible Julia plugin for JetBrains, it's just hard to feel the need. #julia

#BlueSkyArtShow #clouds Wishing you all a good Saturday

the protests are feeling more spontaneous and organic and abundant which, to me, seems like a strong sign of sea change

Just to check that something in the world still works the same, I verified that you can still get into the tardis at Earl's Court station (on Google maps)

The Onion never misses

This is a really cool thing! Standalone Julia apps! Julia in a callable (by non-Julia) libraries!

The book “Practical Julia” contains many working examples in #physics #biology #statistics, and more. I’ve never enjoyed scientific #programming more than after learning #julialang. From simulation to data visualization, it’s a joy to work with. lee-phillips.org/juliabook/pr...

I have updated my toy project to make an SMA based oscilloscope probe based on building the first version. Links to the github, to a place you can buy the boards (for <$1 each!) and more below. #hamradio #electronics github.com/tdunning/sma... oshpark.com/shared_proje...

"“The FCC is now a political arm of this administration,” she added" - Commissioner Anna Gomez Hypocrisy (pronounced GOP) is alive and well, however

A watercolour sketch: Cafe couple (this is from last summer, not England in January!) #watercolorpainting #portraits #peoplewatching #lightandshadow #artistsonbluesky #figurativepainting #watercolour #Canterbury #EnglishSummer #coffee #cafeculture #figurestudy #sunshine

Wow. San Francisco right now (Fri Jan 30, 2026). Tens of thousands on the streets supporting a national strike and economic shutdown. A huge anti-ICE, anti-Trump message being sent from the city. (🎥 Rachel Ziegler)

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

This is sooo important. The single big reasons that the Minnesota protests had a big effect and the earlier LA protests did not are the impressively nonviolent nature and the huge turnout in neighborhoods by ordinary people. We need to repeat that model over and over across the country.

Do not protest at night under the cover of darkness. Video is our greatest weapon. We must bear witness, so what’s happening needs to be seen. Do not damage or destroy property. That’s how authorities manufacture “just cause” to crack down. Don’t fuck this up for the rest of us. Please. Thank you.

Yesterday I found out that QR codes work when inverted. Who would have known they got that right?!

W.i.p. (but almost finished) I hope my fellow artists in the US will find a bit of solace in creating art during these turbulent times with sad situations.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free