Me in my Bluesky bubble www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgn...

let me know when The Pope starts quoting the Gray Mouser

Learning Brian Train’s “China’s War, 1937-1941” from @gmtgames.bsky.social . Played through the tutorial with the Playbook. Now to play against the bot, Sun Wukong (孫悟空), named after the character from Journey to the West. #COIN #Wargames #Boardgames

Making soy/pecan milk as an experiment. #AmCooking

The 1/72 Bloch 152 is nearly done, just need to add the wheels and some weathering. The absurdly fine photoetch gunsight snapped while I was removing it so I made one from the thinnest Evergreen I had at hand. And cousin Yanni came to visit! #bastillebuild #histscalemodels

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Tanith Lee sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lee_ta... died on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: George Barr, Dawn Wilson, Kinuko Y Craft and Ken Kelly):

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

‘We didn’t mean to demonise all trans people’ - columnists who failed to specify which trans people were acceptable

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

Aerotitan sudamericanus: a new portrait of the Patagonian azhdarchid pterosaur. Aerotitan is known only from a very fragmentary fossil of a partial rostrum, so this depiction is largely speculative… but was fun to do. #SciArt

time to play the world's riskiest game: eating noodles in a dress shirt

I do think "false flag" is one of the most destructive phrases ever invented. It's like a cognitive virus. The proportion of actual, documented false flag events to events that have been called false flags must be 1:1000 if I'm being generous

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

oh hey yet another race where the smart move to crowd out the fash is to rally behind the progressive polling third

eat shit polis

Preserving for posterity, because that whole thread might get nuked from orbit. I just felt that, as somebody who's actually earned a degree in the development of Jewish and Christian belief, and who has done volunteer work with those accused of demonic affliction, this needed to be said.

"We could confiscate 90% of your wealth and you would not experience a material change in your life."

UPDATE.

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), Japanese-American artist and educator, known for her abstract wire sculptures #womensart

“You have a fake job where you don’t actually do anything” says the vice president of the United States

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

In today’s mail, a flyer from non-profit “Coalition for Literacy” headlined by an endorsement of Antonio Villaraigosa for Governor. Info on the web about this organization is pretty minimal. Low budget & unpaid execs per ProPublica. Per Emerson poll of 5 days ago, he’s 7th, at 4%. Odd. #CaPol

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

I have no opinions on Carvana as a business, but if they somehow manage to destroy car dealerships, they will have done more good for this country than most institutions could ever dream of.

Perfect "cut to the chase" breakdown of the latest Great American Swindle, from @adamkinzinger.substack.com. Use this simple paragraph if anyone in your circle shrugs this off as too complicated or just another thing politicians do. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-t...

If I still posted on Twitter I'd explain why there are no cop cats

I'm not a shimmer and sparkle kind of guy, but I can't get over this Birmingham Pen Company Glasswing Butterfly Twinkle fountain pen ink I sent my daughter. Here, at two different angles.

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Person in front of me on the plane is reading The Subtle Art of Folding Space by @johnchu.bsky.social and I am courageously NOT hollering at them about it like a weirdo 😤

I wonder how many of the aggrieved right wingers actually read either the Iliad or the Odyssey? It was not part of my High School education in the 1970s. And in college, I was in Engineering school, where I chose Japanese literature as an elective, rather than “Great Books.”

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 17,1944

I have a suggestion open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

Made pour over #coffee with water that was cooling down, rather than held at temp. Temp was 174F (79C) when the coffee was finished. Surprisingly drinkable. I am not going to run a DOE on temperature of pour over. But I think this process has more margin than coffee nerds assert.

Bumper sticker seen yesterday, “You’re so close You might as well get in” The best anti-tailgating sticker ever. Not commenting on effectiveness, but it made me laugh when I saw it.

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Akar Bharadvaj: "Chalice of Poison: The Story and Setting Behind the Game" insidegmt.com/chalice-of-p...

Had an oddly specific dream about work. An AI assistant had reviewed my PowerPoint and noticed that my test example had not covered all possible faults in a CMOS logic gate. My coworker agreed that this was much more useful than Copilot.

M: I made bilions selling software that lets people go on the internet. E: Great. Thanks. Good on you. M: Now I have some ideas to share about the future of civilization. E: Huh. Cool, I guess. Have you run them by anybody? M: You're not listening! I sold software so people can go on the internet!

Roe V. Wade

lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

Seen yesterday: a car with a vanity license plate “XLB XLB.” Clever. XLB = Xiao Long Bao, Shanghai style soup dumplings.

Ted Kaczynski's work on environmentalism should earn him the support of podcast bros everywhere

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

Japan Sumo Association mascots Hiyonoyama and Akawashi are a pair of sumo-wrestling birds. Hiyonoyama, a yellow chick, is a trainee sumo who dreams of one day achieving the top rank of Yokozuna. The stealthy Akawashi is a hot-tempered red eagle.