So, it's the day after July 4th. I'm hearing a lot of weariness out there, and also a lot of weariness-of-weariness. People sound scared, unhappy, and pessimistic, and also tired of feeling that way. (1/??)

"grime cannot be sullied" —lily

Based on what I've read so far, I think it's likely that the Prarieland proceedings could be remembered as one of the major American right-wing show trials, with particular resemblance to both that of the Chicago Seven in 1969 and the Haymarket Affair in 1886.

I'm really disappointed in this story from the BBC regarding the Prarieland trial—it strikes me as needlessly sympathetic to the administration's narrative, to the extent of being arguably misleading or obfuscatory. I wonder why. www.bbc.com/news/article...

just so everyone knows @townmap.bsky.social and i may be offline for a few days (moving in!! finally!! 🐬)

The phrase "it's time for the mime to mime imbibing lime wine" appears to leave Google lost and wandering.

lily and i had a long rambling conversation earlier starting from the place that "do'urden" would be a great name for a golden corral/jim's type restaurant (but not a luby's type, that would take it down a grim path)

"In 1999, near the height of the dot com boom, The New York Times approached Krugman to write a bi-weekly column on 'the vagaries of business and economics in an age of prosperity'.⁽¹³⁷⁾"

the ultimate expression of "Music Box", 8 minutes of Sparkling... please listen!!

Mary's Apartment

IN THE COMING DAYS multiple unseen RPGs, 3D Rooms, and even Secrets.. yes dig through our HDDs with us and let's see what we find!! please consider donating so we can actually end up in a place to finish more of this stuff, and not just end up stranded in texas where zoe won't have healthcare!! wow!

in the next couple days going to post the fabled "Bessttsy's City RPG"... are you ready to ramble

features a physics-enabled fridge and roaches

Umm, howdy folks!! 🐹Lily and I are having a fundraiser from our hotel room in Minneapolis-St. Paul! We're going to post a lot of rarely- or never-before-seen work here in the coming days mega-hyper-alert-x68000.cicadamarionette.com

My mother just had a stroke. I need to go see and take care of her for a bit. I had money set aside for it but a good chunk of it just got gobbled up cuz I forgot to cancel automatic payment on one of her (formerly our) important bills. I made a mistake. I am sorry. ko-fi.com/bachelor_sof...

Woke up and learned my bank account is overdrawn and that I need to be out of this place by tomorrow and I do not currently have anyplace to go. If anyone can help or knows a place I can crash it would be appreciated. I’m told I’m a pretty ok, pretty quiet, pretty cute venmo.com/u/bsoft

please help these cool folks out!!

EMERGENCY please share widely!! we're a trans couple who have had really bad luck with housing the last couple years and need to find a place by April 1st, it would be a true miracle if we can just find a place. WE ARE WILLING TO PAY!! spinnylights.net/hyper_alert/

it understands nothing

Daphy Michel’s death is heartbreaking. She should never have been left alone & vulnerable, far from her family & support system after her release from federal custody. Our community is demanding answers. No one should ever be put in this kind of position. migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

is it just me, or does the british media actually /want/ the u.s. to go to war in iran? am i crazy? like, every single major newspaper to a T? they all seem quietly thrilled at the idea? bit of longing for when the uk could call a lot of shots there? that's not just for brexiteer types i guess??

NO. WAR. STOP. NO.

MLK, Jr., National Cathedral, Washington, DC. March 31, 1968

Right now I am dealing with seizures, fucked vision, difficulty walking, and I can’t hear out of my left ear. Last one will be fixed soon hopefully but it still stinks! Also I am overdrawn and unemployable. So that is why I am constantly begging. Plz forgive, many thx ko-fi.com/bachelor_sof...

i often think of bush jr.'s presidency as the outblown then-as-farce to his dad's first-as-tragedy; at the same time i guess this kind of event really shows that sometimes even the farce gets a then-as-farce…worth noting that bush sr.'s administration also kidnapped a powerful south american perhaps

new little interactive toy - Captive Princess Simulator cmoorhen.itch.io/captive-prin... pretty self explanatory

i feel like the state of the culture right now is one in which like, e.g. einstein publishing work on the theory of relativity would not lead to headlines like "lights all askew in the heavens" but rather the public would just say "uh okay 🙃 personally i prefer 19th-century physics" and then move on

i feel so sad and angry at all the immigration stuff going on. it hurts everyone. immigrants in the U.S., people in other countries, everyone in the U.S. itself, just for the sake of meaningless, pointless racism and xenophobia. i wish i had something more productive or insightful to say, just upset

a landscape in utah

YOU TOO can experience visions of the underworld, if only you'll join me...

apropos of relatively nothing, i think a nice way to think about (in Ruby) the syntax of `alias` and `alias_method` is as analagous to `def`; e.g. `alias_method :inspect, :to_s` is like saying "here we define a new method called 'inspect' that's just an alias of 'to_s'"

one upside of using vim is that when your cat walks on your keyboard it's particularly crazed 😂 as you can see this single line comes out to 3,539,131 characters (approx. 3.5 MB of text)

No, HIPAA does not protect these records. Here's why, from my preprint.

Working on getting a copy of this up on SSRN this week now that I'm back from vacation. Incredibly relevant. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

The DOJ subpoenas to providers of gender affirming care wanted the therapy notes, social security numbers, and addresses of patients. This is an unprecedented and disgusting violation of medical privacy. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

finally getting this going

stampede of roaches

DO YOU NEED ART IMAGES FOR YOUR PROJECT???? YOU MAY USE ME!! HERE I AM!! LOOKING PENSIVE, FEELING MELANCHOLY, PLANNING A ROBBERY, THINKING OF FRIENDS!!!!

do y'all know what i'm talking about? i know "extraordinary rendition" hasn't been in the media much since like, the 2000s, but i do think that tendency has an awful lot in common with the current style of deportations, both in terms of the diplomatic mechanics and the u.s. executive mentality

if anyone wonders where the u.s. executive picked up the impulse to skirt around the courts by unilaterally throwing people it's afraid of into holes of state in more conveniently repressive countries, or how it built up the connections to do this quickly and easily, i can't help but recall…

i think this would make for a lovely design on a trivet or potholder

re last rt, lily and i did the aquarium zone for that game, v fun project ^^ iir she did most of the 3D models and textures, and i did most of the animations and materials/shading, as well as the audio…we did everything together tho ultimately, it was very side-by-side collaborative

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