TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

Hungary?????

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

'View of Kiso Mountains and River in Snow' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Found on Mastodon. This cartoon pretty much sizes up the #GreenlandTariffs situation. (Wish I could give credit to the artist.)

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.

Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.

"The most hated French. Ms. Motion, Clear for action if you please then drum the men to breakfast. With the wind gauge we'll catch them by noon on their stern quarter. UP TOPGALLANTS AND ROYALS!" (I couldn't think of any British Umas. Fine Motion is Irish. So, close enough.)

Remember when some middle schoolers got the intellectual jump on Huffines, so then he yelled at them and someone recorded it?

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

amazing. Incredible. Art being made in real time.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

THE REAL GRAPS ARE BACK! RIGHT NOW! twitch.tv/kitsabrefang

Something I forgot to show off, messing around with GMK Godzilla!

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

growing up i liked guns n roses but as I got older I realized all my favorite songs of them were their covers and that the OG versions were usually better

woke up early to support bf getting minor surgery but they postponed it, been reading all day trying to get ahead in class

Apparently the AI bros are on another round of "Hatsune Miku is AI, checkmate luddites" so this is just a reminder that the singer behind Miku was paid and still earns royalties, and beyond that, Miku is nothing more than a MIDI soundboard with advanced pitch converter options, it is not genAI.

Paipai Ponpoi Puwapuwa Puu! Heavy Machine Gun appear!

They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

the last stroke makes you nut but that doesnt mean the first stroke was useless. success is always a result of continuous effort, failure and improvement

The custom (not law!) of placing a hand on a religious text when making an oath is rooted in the idea that the person adheres to that faith and therefore would never lie with their hand on its main text. That's why you don't force Muslims to swear on a Bible, or Christians on the Koran.

The really dumb stuff they get so excited about is sometimes welcome just because this dynamic is so funny:

But lil Marco is concerned that this can only happen in Europe

"All she could remember of that dreadful time was seeing a huge shadow with burning eyes filling the sky. She was passed from hand to hand. Foreign soldiers appeared, disappeared, and sometimes reappeared. There were days, or it may have been weeks, of travel."

You should read this book.

because from my vantage point, the white house does not have a win condition. like so many past occupiers, it seems to believe that a sufficient show of force will deter opposition. but like most occupations, the only thing you get with more force is greater resolve.

donald trump experienced a level of what was, for him, humiliation equivalent to death when obama lightly mocked him back in 2011 and we all are going to pay for it

NEW: Three top U.S. Catholic clerics — Cardinals Cupich (Chicago), McElroy (Washington DC) and Tobin (Newark) — have issued a joint statement railing against recent U.S. foreign policy moves regarding Ukraine, Venezuela, and Greenland.

Imagine investing the world economy in data centers just to get beaten by a girl with a box of pencils.

Urgent call to action, Texans: we need to write to our State Board of Education members and tell them NOT to adopt the proposed required reading list they’re considering at the the end of the month. It is BAD. I wrote about why here: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/call-to-ac...

Throw away the freaking spy robots in your house.

Rabbit, Sweden, 15th century

North Carolina - Senate Polling: 🔵 Cooper: 48% 🔴 Whatley: 24% TIPP / Jan 16, 2026

still thinking about how NSPM-6 is classified - something Congress could mandate they be briefed on at any time!

Went to Anime Impulse LA and was treated to viewing an official suit in motion, from Kamen Rider Zeztz #KamenRider #Zeztz

FFT inspired landsknecht sketch:

recorded this last week

ICE abducted a man in minneapolis on january 6. by january 14, he was dead in a concentration camp in texas. victor manuel diaz was 36 years old. they say he did it to himself. ICE murdered him.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

Im sorry I ever doubted you