It feels weird that I keep backing crowdfunding game projects. It’s like gambling that we will still have a functional economy a year from now.

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

I live in the Pacific Northwest, of course the clouds roll in just in time for the eclipse.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

“As the world becomes more and more informationally opaque…” Ever since hearing this phrase about a year ago in a random video essay, it has echoed in my thoughts. A simple metaphor, crystallizing many of the problems with our contemporary world.

I’ve been listening to so much Russian music that YouTube just served me ads in Russian.

I got to do my favorite task at work today: speciation of psilocybin mushrooms by qPCR. Not a lot of demand for this test, so it doesn’t come up much, but it makes me happy my life’s path brought me here.

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/zf99kdFw9b8?...

“People will pay you to say what they already think.”

@prisonculture.bsky.social has made an amazing list she keeps available here. And “Blueprint for Revolution“ by Srđa Popović. He was one of the leaders involved in overthrowing Milosevic. The book is full of stories of effective actions taken against other regimes. It’s good for mindsetting.

I woke up with a feeling of dread and hopelessness about the state of the world. Took a walk, made some coffee. Found a short video essay that gave me a bit of hope. Thanks @damiengwalter.com youtu.be/Y8bj8XLZ0ZI?...

Why are right wing grifters all like Batman villains? | Fuentes, Candace, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones via @damiengwalter.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...

“Under late capitalism, state power is a hot potato—and now Trump is holding it.”

In all the stories—in the Bible, in Lord of the Rings, science fiction—there's a good side and there's a bad side of the same energy. So let's understand the power, the force, of “hyperstition,” and let's start putting it to use sooner rather than later.

We should have listened to the Anti-Federalists, they saw this problem 250 years ago. youtu.be/444ve4KLSgo?...

Got a serious case of the morbs today

Tech fascists believe they are going to merge with AI, live forever and colonize the universe as a species of self-replicating machines that eat the energy of the stars. We can think big, too. Anything is possible. Don't let billionaires monopolize the power of radical imagination.

I was visiting with a friend tonight and she said she’s in a good place with her poly relationship, because when her partner has date night with his girlfriend that means she gets the house to herself.

A friend described my recent musical tastes as “women who want to f@€$ you, or kill you, or both” and she’s not entirely wrong. Got any recommendations that fit that genre? #musicsky

Come be my friend…

Apparently, most people did not attend parties as a teenager, where the girls would draw the boys names out of a hat to pair off and dress them in drag, before holding a drag queen beauty pageant.

In the absence of any credible external threat, America’s conspiratorial nature has turned inward and we’ve declared war on ourselves.

“We’ve both see war ravaged cities. Sure, you did a tour in Afghanistan, but me, I’m from Portland.”

I must confess, I was a Raver type, technolibertarian cyberhippie utopian. Please forgive me, I was a teenager in 90s Silicon Valley. Some of us grew out of it.

Excellent thread, providing a peek into how we arrived at our present moment of tech billionaire capture of society.

Pure THCV is weird. A lot of cannabinoid isolates (CBD, CBG, CBN) are just a white powder. THCV is more of a purple tinted glass.

Excellent analysis of fascisised monarchist hyper neo-liberalism and its convergent rise across the western world.

I kinda wish I was subscribed to Disney+ just so I could cancel my subscription

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

So great to rediscover a band you haven’t thought of in 20 years or so. Blasting Switchblade Symphony tonight!

ALH84001 loomed large over my undergraduate research project. “Morphology is not a sufficient indicator of biogenicity,” was the sentence drilled into me by my professor.

I've been asked a few times over the last few days what I think the chances are that the "leopard spots and poppy seeds" on Mars will turn out to be actual evidence of life. People are naturally skeptical given the history of possible signs of life on other planets. Strap in: long thread ahead...

I was not involved in the research, but here’s some of the cool stuff that happens in the lab where I work. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If there's one thing I wish I could get every earnest liberal to understand, it's that, from the point of view of an authoritarian psychology, efforts to persuade, to "reach out" & "find common ground," are *viewed as evidence of weakness*.

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year astrobiology.com/2025/09/nasa... #NASA #Mars #Astrobiology

Great discussion on the exercise and expansion of Presidential power. I’m only about halfway thru, but recommend it to anyone seeking historical context for our present moment.

This is why I continue to have hope for finding life on Mars. If life did manage to get started on Mars (granted, a big if), it is likely still there buried beneath the surface, safe from sterilizing solar radiation.

As long as socially constructed gender norms have existed, there have been people who refuse to be constrained by them, and those people have been a force for liberation. We have prepared a new poster drawing on centuries-old art and poetry to celebrate this. crimethinc.com/posters/for-... 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

Social media algorithms are designed to keep us angry all the time, because anger drives engagement, which fuels advertising and increases profits. But I’m tired of anger. What do you love? What are you building? What makes you come alive?

Opposing something is easy, but doesn’t seem to accomplish much. You might be able to tear down a bad system, but without plans for something to replace it, that bad system tends to reform itself with new faces in charge. I’m much more interested in what you stand for than what you stand against.

The ideological battle of the 21st century seems to be shaping up to be “acid communism” vs “acid fascism” Yes, these are real belief systems discussed by academic philosophers, and not the midnight musings of stoned college students.

What if crashing the economy and destroying faith in government is not an accident, but all part of the plan? As a prelude to billionaire oligarchs buying up essential services for pennies on the dollar to privatize all existence.

I am begging journalists to stop platforming him. These objects are SO EXCITING and there are people doing really good science on them and he is not one of them.

I spotted an anglerfish. Didn’t think they lived this close to the surface.

Found a message during my walk today that resonated

Just to reiterate for the curious: While there's *nothing wrong* with thinking about whether some interstellar objects could be alien technology, 3I/ATLAS has had its coma clearly detected since July 3. It's very clearly, *unambiguously*, a comet. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

It’s hard to say I recommend this video because the subject matter is so horrific, but it’s a solid watch providing a peek into the darkness of our past.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

I don’t always know what I’m doing, but I just had a friend thank me for being a good example in life, and that he used to be an asshole before he met me… so I must be doing something right.

As a teenaged aspiring actor with a video camera, I made several silly little movies. If YouTube had existed back then, I absolutely would have started a channel. Now, as an adult, I’ve thought about it, but so many doubts and second guesses about my creativity, I’m paralyzed into inaction.