I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.

✅ Yes, the U.S. Department of Justice removed a study from its website that showed domestic terrorism is right-wing. www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

Pacer is a light-weight keyframing and tweening toolkit for #JavaScript. We wanted something bare-bones, functional, and fun—so we built our own: github.com/stewdio/pace...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

20 years of this charming music video -- and a chance to boot up an emulator (or even vintage hardware) and check out its BASIC code for yourself. Down memory lane to 1979 -- or 2005 -- with @stewartsmith.bsky.social (h/t @davidlublin.bsky.social !)

What’s with all this Republican-on-Republican crime? Can’t these folks stop shooting each other? Put the guns down already.

20 years ago this week I created a music video for “Jed’s Other Poem” by Grandaddy. It went viral—and was the world’s first open-source music video. Here’s the full story: stewartsmith.io/work/jed #Music #MusicVideo #Grandaddy #Apple #BASIC #OpenSource

I refuse to be lectured on how to properly react to anyone's death by members of a party who willingly accept the death of women as the "price" paid to ban abortion care or the death of children as the "price" paid to allow the gun industry to sell weapons of war to almost anyone

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Yes. Yes, they are.

What an amazing write up from @stewartsmith.bsky.social on one of the coolest music videos from the early 2000s, a great example of code generated art from that era. Definitely worth a read for anyone working with visuals!

Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo 🌻

Declare your #JavaScript functions with a single ƒ character. No more typing out the full eight characters of “function.” And no more awkward-looking arrow functions either. Just crisp, clean, beautiful ƒ notation: `ƒ add( a, b ) a + b` github.com/stewdio/f-js

Trump was impeached, twice. Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

Just to translate this into the original German: this is the Wehrmacht being put in charge of judging the actions of the SS.

This is so crazy, I had to look it up. The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic. We will have to pray now. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/im...

the Lander Zohran double interviews are incredible, this is next level politics, they have the Jewish guy affirm his commitment to muslim NYers constantly while the muslim guy does the same for Jewish NYers, whoever is planning the media strategy is a HOFer

Truth Social is where POTUS announces bombing raids on nuclear sites now? NYT still has it as a a “maybe” as of 2 min ago…

“Americans are being forced to accept masked paramilitary forces stopping you anytime, anywhere—demanding to know where people are from,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “It is an assault on the idea of America itself.”

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

Happy #Juneteenth 🍓🍓🍓

Along the garden path 😊💕 #bloomscrolling #cottagegarden #garden #flowers #gardeningfeed

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government. All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families. Are the family values in the room with us?

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

My latest in Joy’s House: I’m in L.A. So I can tell you firsthand that the only crises here are ICE, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, the Fox weekend guy that’s running the Pentagon, and Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

i saw the flaming lips open for beck the year yoshimi battles the pink robots and sea change came out

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

I spoke about “Quantum Metaphors and Other Weirdness” for Futurespaces last week: youtu.be/-HJN-aNBfkw Tune in for the quirky #inspo. Stay for a love of #quantum. Includes anecdote about “hacking” Yale’s School of Art website to pay for my student loans. And subtle costume changes.

I spoke about “Quantum Metaphors and Other Weirdness” for Futurespaces last week: youtu.be/-HJN-aNBfkw Tune in for the quirky #inspo. Stay for a love of #quantum. Includes anecdote about “hacking” Yale’s School of Art website to pay for my student loans. And subtle costume changes.

Surely it's not too much to ask that everyone boycott an AI program controlled by a sieg-heiling authoritarian who can adjust the algorithms to promote whatever falsehoods he desires without leaving any record of the process. Incidentally, the same logic suggests that we should boycott X/Twitter.

Happy #Caturday.

NEW: NYC will close down the Asylum Application Help Center, which helped thousands of migrants file asylum and work permit applications. Adams officials blamed a lack of state funding; Hochul officials say city had enough money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

The U.S. is 250 years old. We should not have to constantly relitigate incredibly basic shit like “everyone is entitled to due process” or “presidents must obey court orders” like these are new or unsettled questions.

Epistemicide

I'd really love to work with a small, diverse and impactful team, or clients who need some proper frontend work/consultation etc. I know everyone and their dog is looking for work right now, but if you're especially an artist/creator/queer/NGO and alike, I would love to collab and help out RT = ❤️

Trump’s team is threatening to ARREST members of Congress for conducting oversight. That’s not democracy — that’s dictatorship. We’re not backing down and neither will you. We’ll speak up, show up, and peacefully protest to protect our rights.

Over the weekend, the Library of Congress posted this video message Dr. Carla Hayden, whom Donald Trump unjustifiably dismissed as Librarian of Congress, that makes clear how much the nation has lost. Props to whoever put it up. I hope everyone watches it.

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

*Well, they weren't just hacked, they were instantly hacked by some random blackhat dude who wanted to brag boast and strut about it to the press

On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/ #WeFeedYou