I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Pls someone in Kauai run Luke Evslin out of the house. This nincompoop is literally proposing to allow people to buy as second homes state funded public housing. Worst damn housing chair in Hawaii history. He literally want us to pay for people's vacation homes.

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j

in keeping with the Green admins’ approach to affordable housing (slap the “Affordable” label on something that isn’t) just an fysa you can prolly get a better rate if you just join a credit union.

A court has allowed Kamehameha Schools to move to the "Complete Gift Approach," making pre-school through high school completely tuition-free. Read more: https://www.khon2.com/local-news/court-green-lights-free-tuition-at-kamehameha-schools/ 

For DTS, the record-breaking day representing the ever-growing presence of Skyline as an alternative to solitary driving: https://www.khon2.com/local-news/skyline-sets-record-ridership-number-with-nearly-13k-riders-in-one-day/ 

My son sent me this

“It is appalling to see how quickly human beings are willing to assume the worst about another human being. It is also appalling – and clarifying – to see how many people abandon their beliefs to follow partisan politics.” —Jane Clark Scharl

Not only does means testing make much of the social net almost regressive trapping folks in poverty, not only do they erode popular support for social nets, they also are a grift! 🥰

Lease negotiations continue despite the company issuing a mass layoff notice earlier this month.

I finally understand why Jefferson said, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots..." We know now that when patriots respond with non-violence, fewer people die, and the ones who do will never be forgotten.

“When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.” - Thomas Merton

Do your part folks.

Media keeps describing Pretti as a “protester” - “why bring a gun to a protest” - but he was something much more akin to a community-based first responder for ICE sightings. He likely wasn’t expecting to get beaten in the street by them or have any violent encounter. Just observe and alert.

Worth noting the support the administration has shown for allowing citizens to be armed and carrying. It's not a crime. He didn't draw on them. They just shot him for legally being armed.

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

Can a painting save you? Yes, if you're looking rightly, argues the illustrator Sean Rubin in this essay for @plough.bsky.social: "If education is about learning to see rightly, there is no better way to learn how to see than by looking at art." www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Chip in if you can to support transparency in state legislative decisonmaking.

Would have been fun to come up with a cool post or two to mark Citizens United's 16th birthday, but I've been cranking all day on ways to make sure it'll be irrelevant by the time it turns 18. This also seems like worthy work. Check out my big CAP report that lays out the legal strategy:

RW Christians: we’ll l see a boom when people see a religion that practices its tenets Also RW Christians: When we saw you hungry, we took away more of your food; When we saw you thirsty, we poisened your water; When we saw you as strangers, we imprisoned & shot at you.

I inked the Little Guy. #art #eattherich

Another sunny watercolour painting. Somewhere in France! #art #watercolours #painting #sunny

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Jeez what happened right around that inflection point in 2015/16 in American culture

Onipa’a

If Asian countries are to break out of the middle-income trap, they must solve the problems that plague their cities—namely the dysfunctional ways urban areas are governed

#OtD 17 Jan 1893 a coup d'état took place in Hawaii, organised by United States. A republic was briefly declared, and the island was annexed by the US five years later: the first of many overseas imperialist conquests by the nation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8879...

This is something worth reflecting on. In Hawai'i we are fortunately fairly insulated from the effects of national politics. Yet there is more attention from locals on this app on Minneapolis than on anything they can actually do much about in Hawai'i. 🩳🧵

appropos of nothing a quote: A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'

The State Dep't Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs today posted that detaining people "for 'liking' posts online shows how paranoid [an] illegitimate" regime is, referring to "political prisoners." On Friday, a fed'l judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit over State taking similar actions in the U.S.

Bishop Barron is a very gifted communicator who always leaned a bit traditional but was not always publicly Like This™. He seems to see some opportunity in our current political situation for a future triumphal Church that I find simultaneously unlikely, misguided, and distasteful.

ʻOnipaʻa! www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/01/17/t...

One of the the two exhibitions debuting with the newly-renovated Flight and the Arts Center at the National Air and Space Museum this July is devoted to one of the first artists to smuggle art to the moon...

Truly unreal and tone deaf. Barring praises Trump’s “religious liberty day” as Bishops of the US have had to dispense Catholics from Sunday Mass for fear of being rounded up by ICE.

5 facts about the economy they took: Hawaiʻi before the illegal overthrow: https://www.khon2.com/local-news/5-facts-about-the-economy-they-took-hawai%ca%bbi-before-the-illegal-overthrow/ 

A march honoring the 1893 overthrow is planned. Here’s how and where to join in remembrance and resistance 👇 https://www.khon2.com/local-news/how-where-to-join-the-march-to-honor-1893-overthrow-with-remembrance-resistance/ 

Another example of Green admin not doing much more than really, really good PR.

Bill 9 passes and prices fall hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 🤔🤔🧐🤨🤔🤔

ummm I think Jesus already claimed that title thank you very much.

Do you know a college student who might be interested in writing, publishing, regenerative farming, and Christian community? This June, Plough is offering its 4th annual #internship, combining book and magazine editing and hands-on agriculture. Find out more below and help us spread the word!

Sent this new image of my ʻamaʻu fern to my boss, and this is the photo they sent back. xD They're the same photo. xD

Conservative Catholics, for years: Women have a Special Genius that is receptivity to others & others’ suffering, our essentialist gender views are not sexist because we value that genius so much. 🥰 Right wingers today: Toxic maternal empathy is a threat to the nation & must be forcibly suppressed.

It really do be like this sometimes

‘Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. … I refuse the prison of “I” and choose the open spaces of “we.”’ Toni Morrison

The Green government is deeply dysfunctional and itʻs just shocking to me heʻs cruising to reelection.

LLMs are statistical averages that inevitably focus on the densest part of the distribution. They capture popularity. Which makes them problematic in applications that require novelty, like science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...