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I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

in america, our legislative branch is on vacation right now. that’s not a joke or a euphemism, they’re on spring break. not a single person in america believes that they’ll do anything.

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Doomscrolling has made me unmotivated to do long-term work, so to force myself to be doing *something* besides doomscrolling: n² likes = n obscure software engineering concepts/principles/memes I find super useful

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

it is from some points of view quite funny that we've had years of debate as to whether they'd be any good at predicting elections and it turns out they cannot even predict stuff in the actual physical world that's already actually happening

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

this livestream is like listening to a youth pastor who went to space camp wtf

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. annual Hunky Jesus extravaganza in Dolores Park, the festivities began by canonizing three locals on the stage where the pageants would take place later. I was one of them and my saint name as you can read here, is Esperanzapedia.

Trump rarely swears publicly, and I’m struggling to think of a time he’s done so in writing. That sort of change is one of the first things I was taught to ask about when doing cognitive assessments.

It’s a crime that in a society which goes crazy for sriracha and hot sauce that Sambal Oelek isn’t available in every supermarket

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

It’s low key extremely freaky how seemingly nobody in the administration seems to have the weight of responsibility impact them in any way. There’s sort of an animal panic when their self-preservation is at stake. But no “man, every decision I make impacts who lives and dies worldwide” reflection.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

This is so, so well-articulated.

if I had to choose between being an astronaut on Apollo 1 and being an astronaut on a spaceship running two versions of Microsoft Outlook I would choose Apollo 1 every time

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

lately I have been appreciating the irony that Bluesky was low key supposed to be a kind of anti-woke Twitter (eg motivated by Jack's sincere regret over banning Trump) but then Twitter became the anti-woke Twitter and the main reason people came here is the powerful demand for a woke Twitter

hell yeah

It's funny. One things writing A City on Mars convinced me of us that human space flight is fundamentally about politics (and often the politics of international power). It's very hard to make the case that it's good for science, given the cost. But I still find human space flight very moving.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

ahhhh looks like the old Pretend To Be A Famous 193-Year-Old Tortoise's Veterinarian And Say He Died And Then Solicit Crypto Donations Through Social Media scam i've seen it a million times

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

This is one of those things where if you don’t know anything about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”, and if you know a little about Bob Dylan you go “how could Bob Dylan do this?” and if you know a lot about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

and i found a cd of these low res ones and some of them look cool

If you don't know Wallace Stevens' 'Of Mere Being'... explore and enjoy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!

FBI reported 1700 arrested "child predators" in 2025. That's around 1/200k. There have been now 7 pardoned J6ers arrested for sex crimes against kids, out of 1600 J6ers total, around 1 in 230. You can play w the denominator a bit (135M adult males) but it's still around 350x the rate

I forgot that today is the day to make this joke oops

"the US or China"

LFG

this is like, literally the exact kind of thing that kicked off the revolutionary war. i'm trying to find a way to be goofy and say i'm exaggerating but taxing shipments in order to pay for expensive foreign wars was literally the flashpoint lol

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Aaron Judge on pace for 648 strikeouts, which would be a new record

It’s big ball chunky time

“Get out of the room? I wish I could help you. I’ve been trapped in here for thirty years. That picture frame seems a little off-kilter, though, don’t you think?”

Stunning 4,600 year-old silver bracelets with inlaid semi-precious stones in the shape of butterflies! 🦋🦋🦋🦋 They belonged to Egyptian Queen Hetepheres. From her tomb at Giza. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c. 2613-2494 BC. Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

I have thought about this section from that one substack multiple times since Sat & how—in merely just providing the minutes of a Trump press conference as is—it paints a devastating picture of Trumps unfitness & thru that acts as a massive indictment of a news media that has refuses to be so plain

The lesson here warrants repeating, with stories like this, until people get it: Surveillance is surveillance. No matter who builds it for what ends, others may use it for their own.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Nuremberg style trials is the ground floor for how the monsters who brought this about should be punished, for every single one of them. Not even one ICE officer or cabinet member should be allowed to escape persecution for these crimes against humanity.

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a hugely underrated aspect of parliamentary systems is the snap election. far superior to impeachment, which was a dumb design to start with and straight up does not work anymore