History forms when order breaks. In this case, NGC 660 is wearing its history at an angle. Long ago, a collision yanked its outer arms away from the core, leaving a warped galaxy, which still manages to hold itself together. Image credit: my tiny telescope (about 15 hrs) #science #astronomy 👩🏾‍🔬🔭

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

My story isn't a simple "debunking" of the rightwing narrative; rather, it's a piece I was reporting already about how Seattle's police chief appears to have issued a directive in a vacuum, alarming cops and helping set of a right-wing media firestorm aimed at new Mayor Katie Wilson.

Yesterday was my late grandfather CLR James's birthday! I have two things to share, to honor his memory. The first is a recommendation! To help you understand our current political moment, you should grab his book on Moby-Dick. It's a remarkable treatise on American xenophobic authoritarianism.

Awful, devastating news. A lot of people knew @patrickdane.bsky.social far better than I did, but I’m very grateful to have crossed paths.

Any Boston area frands here on ye olde internet? I’ll be in town next Tuesday the 13th until Friday the 16th for work. My free time will be very limited, but should have time Tuesday evening and Friday morning/afternoon before my flight back.

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

when google docs keeps trying to complete my sentences for me

Me, when I turn on my morning alarm on the last day of break.

Not sure how bad the deepfake problem is? Read Stella's farewell thread. This is an extreme form of remote sexual harassment that can now be used to target anyone, regardless of platform, in seconds. Despite news stories focusing mostly on CSAM it's still unchecked and rampant on Twitter.

Out here starting a war because someone made fun of them

What was that site that had the map of states you’d visited that separated out lived vs extended stays vs short visits vs drove through? Tried to look it up and just got a bunch of adware garbage knockoffs 😐

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

Getting my website hosted by PHL was an early triumph in my baby level designer phase.

had to wait until the servers weren't so overloaded, but I'm proud to announce that Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is out now! there's a standalone version that works like a game for those who don't own quake too! www.slipseer.com/index.php?re... this was a tremendous group effort, I couldn't be happier!

this also adds more evidence to the theory that what separates ZM from other dems is that he can't have that "I could be president someday" parasite growing in his brain

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

"Everything bad is the fault of Palestinians for not dying more quietly and politely" is about the most revolting and inhuman ideology I can imagine, so obviously it's what every emoji-salad back-to-bruncher has been screaming on here all day, loaded to bear with the worst puns you've ever seen.

Chuck Schumer out here like

new Quake map: One Need Not Be A House, a large non-linear concrete bunker island / brick brutalism map that I made for Quake Brutalism Jam 3 (single player mega mod with 77 modernist levels)... download link + full design notes here: www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/one-...

The "no worries if not!" opposition party.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

I don't think you should be able to bet on war crimes. That's just my opinion.

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

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Carpetbagging ghouls.

it’s a search for venezuela. they also have at least one open source intel account pulled up in this one

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Next stop on the War Tour: Trump to Fox: “Claudia Sheinbaum is a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. “She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico. “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

UK and EU politicos are such unbelievable toadies that they're being outflanked by the New York Times

Talk to your kids about Top Ten #Nebrasketball

Indiana football and Nebraska basketball are both undefeated on January 2 and (about to be) top 10 in their respective sports. We are in the upside-down.

It's Jan. 2 and Indiana football and Nebraska basketball are both undefeated.

GBR!!! 🌽

DOWN GOES SPARTY NEBRASKETBALL STRIKES AGAIN 🌽🌽🌽🌽

this is so embarrassing. loving one’s country is literally not the job of an independent press

everyone's parents: You will get more conservative as you age me at 46: legalize all drugs, abolish prison for all nonviolent offenses, and force the politicians with the lowest approval rating to participate in The Running Man once a month

This was my favorite part of her fantastic speech. Affordability is more than a math problem: it creates the space for doing what we are all trying to do - build thriving, real, living relationships and lives that mean something. Congratulations Mayor Wilson!

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

One time, at a convention, a man asked me if I would draw a woman he happened to have photos of ...without her clothes on. So obviously I said NO and my entire weekend was ruined. Which is the only correct response. This post is about AI.

vibe in seattle today

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

It’s 2026 which means I have a book coming out this year!!!!!! It’s for everyone who is curious about the cosmos 🙏🏽 Please preorder (from indies!) because it helps authors a lot — some places are having a sale right now like @loyaltybooks.bsky.social (code CHILL10) as well as your physical B&N 🌈 💙📚