LEFT: America celebrates its 200th birthday on the Mall with Gerald Ford as president. RIGHT: America celebrates its 250th birthday on the Mall with Donald Trump as president.

Open for comment until June 15. Reminder that the triumphal arch is a symbol of imperialism & conquest; modeled on the Arch of Titus depicting the sack of Jerusalem. The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate his victories, although later altered. dadbriefs.com/p/the-arc-de...

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

Today's #PrideMonth portrait (by me) is of the incomparable Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992). Marlene was a German-American singer and actor whose career spanned seven decades. Starting out in the cabarets and drag clubs of 1920s Berlin, she soon began to star in silent movies. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network 900+ sensors tracking climate currents, fishery health, ocean carbon absorption, and coastal flooding along the East Coast. Ships go out in June to start pulling it up. Congress funded it twice after Trump

I need to take another photo when the paint's dry so it's not reflecting ceiling lights, but last week I finished a portrait of my big ol' buddy Pumpkin who passed away two years ago, age 19. #oilpainting #myart #catportrait

If your business requires me to download yet another app to use it, odds are pretty good at this point I am not going to use your business. It's like a part-time job at this point. Enough.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

My cats, long train journeys and breakfast on the Southwest Chief, California poppies and Spaaaaace (and my unistellar telescope that makes it look like I know what I'm doing)

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

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

#StarTrekTNG "Heads Will Roll" Troi leads an away team of fellow telepaths to negotiate a ceasefire between factions in a psionic war. At Guinan's 80's costume party, Worf and Riker can feel it coming in the air tonight. Transporter chief: Diane Duane.

First Tumblr's mad scientists + #lotr fandom brought us the Eyestalks of Legolas - www.tumblr.com/sepdet/77955... Then Ent Palm Trees became the new Winged Balrog debate (the comics are great) - www.tumblr.com/sepdet/81693... Now I'm adding my humble contribution: The Prototaxites of Cuiviénen.

Has anyone ever told him he's part of the American government?

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Okay, this is what I came here to repost. Diane Duane is usually one of the helpers, but she could use some extra support right now, both on a personal level and a more pragmatic one. Here's her ebooks store: ebooks.direct

Why is the ghost of King Stephen haunting the US Consumer Products Safety Commission (although I suppose technically at age 5 William Marshal was no longer a baby)

oh honey (gives mr. bag head a gentle Fandom Auntie hug and slips him the cbd cream)

Wow. The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

If Babylon 5 was as big as Star Wars I imagine we would had gotten books with pages like this. As an artist, I can try making them reality in a way. I hope you enjoy! Babylon 5 is a great show with an expansive expanded universe. It is great stuff. #babylon5 #scifiart #spaceship #scifi

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Anna’s hummingbird looking his best. That’s his job. 🪶

So anyway, latest #oilpainting from my #artclass - a Titian study, and WIP portrait of my late, great housemate Pumpkin using same technique (underpainting light/shadow, then glazes of translucent color on top which appear slightly luminous bc light passes through instead of bouncing off)

I am once again asking

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

That's our baby, she's iconic 🫰 And couldn't be possible without a strong European team! Arianespace: launch service provider. Arianegroup: prime contractor and design authority. @cnes.fr: oversees Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and is responsible for developing the Ariane 6 launch site.

More #histmed. @theguardian.com has changed the image accompanying their review of this new book on the Black Death, & explain the prior one was leprosy. But they don't acknowledge the source of the corrected information! Folks, this info comes from scholarship. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

The Trump administration is still trying to sell the Forest Service “reorganization” as a good thing. The U.S. Forest Service Facebook made a video and just posted it. Something tells us the 10,000+ comments on every post they make about this isn’t sitting well. Keep making Pretti Good trouble!

I see so little AI here because I've followed real artists, and real artists tend to want to see AI server farms burn.

War Crimes Challenge: I tally z least 8 war crimes as defined by international law the US helped draft and signed on to; what do you get? Bonus Round: Which Crimes Against Humanity has he committed (Article 7)? ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat... www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

It's my birthday. And this is the first thing I'm doing now that I'm fully conscious and up to speed on the psychopath's latest war crimes as legally defined by the Geneva Accords the US helped draft. (Article 8.) Please, do the same.

new NASA gallery up. Trying to keep it together: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

My new favorite photo

Oh, wow. So many other worlds visible in the background of the Artemis II view from eclipse, peeking out of the haze of the solar corona. Thanks @tunctezel.bsky.social for labeling!

My personal highlight for yesterday's historic #artemis #lunarflyby : During Victor Glover's vivid reporting on the "scifi" solar eclipse, my cat Luna — who'd been scared, silent, and hiding under the bed when I adopted her and her mom a year ago — came over and started yelling at me for attention😅

I guess you can love someone to the moon & back.

What this also means: We should be grateful for our atmosphere 👀

They also posted this one Artemis didn't get closer than 4000km Block em

The way I balled 😭 hearing message from #Artemis II pilot Astronaut Victor Glover. 🫶🫶 #MoonFlyBy

Deadline for comment TODAY- March 23 - STOP Trump from razing remaining old growth trees of Oregon, ignoring risks to endangered species, and "maximizing" timber production in national parks/forests (ie letting private corporations pillage public lands) birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...

The Antarctic has passed a tipping point. But let's burn more oil & build data centers.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

I tend not to log onto BlueSky because I never used it enough to learn its filtering functions, and I don't always have the strength to face the Horrors. And then I return and immediately rant about the Horrors, because of course, I am horrified. M🍑M🍑M🍑. That's all.

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

i am sad and dealing with severe eye discomfort thanks to covid-aggravated autoimmune issues and my pharmacy sneaking me a generic that is NOT THE SAME. If this has set off a flareup so my t cells are attacking my cornea again, I will be PISSED. Anyway here is my cat being cute to cheer me up.

@dr999.bsky.social @kenbentley.bsky.social Not sure if David's still in charge of Fifth Doctor range, but Sarah Sutton confessed at #Gally1 last weekend that she enjoys true crime tv. Might raid actors' tastes for story ideas, eh 😉? Although you had Mistpuddle Murders, but that was fantasy crime.