he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Care block all the fascist government accounts?

Rewatching Star Trek Picard s2e4 "Watcher" Lands a whole lot more like a gut punch this time around.

Morning! I'm happily laughing my way through How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of The Catholic Church's Biggest Names by Kate Sidley

Just needing to talk about how VERY MANY CATS data has as a Cambridge guy in All Good Things (part 1). Like… so many cats. I realize very few people follow me here, but… seriously. It’s a lot of cats.

Morning! I saw Born with Teeth yesterday so I’m rereading Tamburlaine because I can’t remember it. For those who are able, Born with Teeth is outstanding and well worth watching.

Morning! I started Man Up by Cynthia Miller-Idriss last night. I man need to read it in chapters with breaks because it’s both important and also so. damn. upsetting.

Currently in bed with a headache after having yesterday agreed to the Natural History Museum’s Highlights Tour. CURSE YOU, PAST ME!

Sunny day in London, so I probably won’t get much reading in. On the other hand, I’m reading Stone & Sky by Ben Aaronovitch, so maybe I’ll go read that out in the sunshine!

Morning Womble! Expecting more thunderstorms today, which will make for a nice afternoon of comfort reading! My daughter and I are "book club" reading Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fanoglio. Super fun so far!

Me since January 20th

Hello! I’m currently in Seattle and the weather is drop dead gorgeous. Like sheer stunning 83° and pure sun. Honestly, too much sun for my mayonnaise skin. So I’m in the room reading Lower Decks comics because I’ve just recently learned that you can buy them for the iPad!

Black Water Sister Finished it a few weeks ago, but have finally thought enough about it to review. Who are you when you stuff all your pain, trauma, fear, abuse, and lack of self-worth deep into the core of yourself so no one can ever see it?

Okay, I’ve got a limited reach so share as you will. I have purchased a pair of Strange New Worlds boots and now need a new wardrobe of “not too on the nose” outfits so I can wear the boots every day. I don’t want to stomp around in a uniform, but I wanna feel like I could. Suggestions?

When they ask how old I am, I'm gonna start answering 'failed at Duck Hunt' old.

Rewatching Trek Discovery and the episode titles are a total roller coaster! "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" "Despite Yourself" Total whiplash of highbrow and perfectly normal. Kinda like the show?

Well in the dog days of summer, husband and I have been reading one historical object a day while we sip our gin & tonics. A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor

Just following orders.

“We won’t go back.” ‘View from the entrance to the Rohwer Internment Camp where my family and I were sent. Circa 1943.’

@seanferrick.bsky.social can we talk about how many times characters in SNW have blue eye shadow because 1) I'm too lazy to make a list and 2) it seems to happen a lot as in episodes.

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga. I'm going to the Basque Country in September and I have a tradition of reading a book for or about each place I visit, so Obabakoak it is!

New Sumerian myth just dropped

Morning! I’m in Denver, Colorado and it’s just plain gorgeous. I’ve been idly reading Black Water Sister by Zen Cho, but since it’s so lovely outside I expect it to take me some time.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid well.. Decker. To have that much verve for life? Hell yeah.

This is wonderful, on par with www.tumblr.com/library-graf...

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

As a childhood abuse survivor, yes. That sexual abuse has bled into every piece of my life. Even after a decade of therapy, a successful set of careers, a loving marriage, healthy children—after all of that good life—the dehumanization of that abuse still lashes me some days, sometimes.

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

Also, this sweater is amazing!

I have just received a BLUE ALERT about a suspect who injured a cop. In Alvarado, TX. 2 and a half hours away from me. Same alert sound as an emergency weather alert message about flooding that has killed 119 people and counting.

My husband was forced to go to an evangelical Christian middle and high school, but his parents couldn't pay, so he and his best friend, the other poor kid, worked off their tuition as janitors. Pulled out of class all the time.

If you believe Star Trek isn’t progressive, you’re soft in the head.

"I'm coming up against a spiritual struggle today, something people less privileged than me have had to deal with for their whole lives, which is how to live among millions of evil people. I should define what I mean by that." www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...

Happy 4th, everyone. Surprise new Hounds release. You will want to hear this one.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This is a concentration camp. Call it Alligator Auschwitz, because that's what it is. This is America. Never forget and never forgive the people who allowed this to happen.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

James K. Polk!!!

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971

Time to pick a side, America. Is this the future you want for us?

Who needs an #ArtBreak? This painting by Criselda Vásquez has rightfully resurfaced in recent days: art as social dialogue, & all that. "The New American Gothic" (2017, Oil on Canvas) reframes Wood's 1930 classic around the reality of work at the heart of US society. (@crisssvasquez on Instagram)

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise. @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social makes this easy:

every company from june 1st until june 30th

I stepped on rake tines and the handle flew up to smack me in the face. I got a black eye. It was straight out of a cartoon.