“Silence will certainly save us. Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy.”

Sure, it takes a process of billions of years that spans the cosmos for the nuclear fusion process inside stars to create the preponderance of elements we have today. But what if we light some on fire and blow them up? That'd be cool!

So folks in the US worry about what chips made in China might secretly do since the Chinese government has sway over the chip makers. Now, a US government that is leaning heavily fascist is taking a stake in Intel. Do you trust it not to put spyware in to monitor, say, your speech? I know I don’t.

Next Arlington Astronomy Night is Saturday (August 2nd) - we'll be looking at the Moon! Now there's a Facebook event for it. Wow! www.facebook.com/share/1AuyhU...

I have this strange desire to go to Montreal and eat here… can’t really say why…

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

I hear trump is going to the Vatican this weekend. Well, I can finally think of one felon/rapist who actually should not be allowed back into the country.

The thing I like about Hillary Clinton is that she tells it like it is.

When you hear stories about people being detained for “reasons”, these are not isolated events. This is a pattern and it is happening over and over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025.... Who will be next? You? Me?

Happy Purim to those who celebrate…

My apologies to the rest of North America (and everywhere else too). It’s small comfort that a lot of us are strongly opposed to what is happening given that as a nation we voted for this imbecile. But a lot of us didn’t. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Source: galleryz.online/i-stand-fo-1...

This is a time when large employers need to push on the government. They don’t even have to do it in moral/ethical/humanitarian grounds. It is in their own self interest to not have all their employees out sick throughout next winter.

This says a lot.

Too bad HHS is now so ill equipped to deal with the epidemic of senators with missing spines.

Proud of the URJ (The Union for Reform Judaism) for joining this lawsuit. The same protections that were lost covering places of worship also need to be restored to places of learning and hospitals.

The UN needs to rally the nations of the world to speak up loudly about how awful trump’s forced displacement plan is. We should be treated as pariahs on the world stage as long as he keeps this up.

Retribution, much?

This systematic removal of things trump doesn't like reeks of Newspeak.

Seems like Elon is willing to sacrifice a little cash from government funding to protect his own charger network. Oh, and of course he doesn't care if he kills the Earth a little sooner.

Thank you @joshuamalina.bsky.social for your beautiful words to kick off our super-early tu b’shvat seder! If you’re ever in Boston for tu b’shvat, consider yourself invited. I’d like to think this was a cameo first for you. We were all delighted. Some good fruit for thought there. #cameo #dvar

The @wsj.com calls it “the dumbest trade war in history”.

Stay strong, Canada! Stand up to bullies and don’t give in.

Karoline Leavitt’s only qualification is Trump likes how she looks and lies on TV.

Pardon my initialism, but W the actual F? The commercial airliner / military helicopter crash was caused by DEI?? Could be straight out of 1984.

A few days ago trump made it legal for ICE agents to raid schools. Imagine the impact on a child (and other children in the class) of a gestapo-like seizure from what should be a safe place of learning. Glad Massachusetts is advocating for as many roadblocks as possible.

By way of @kerrith81.bsky.social …

Ordered some XC ski wax from Amazon. They suggest I also buy nitrile gloves, shop towels, and … maraschino cherries.

Just realized that there’s also an Alexandra Petri who writes for the NYT. But not humor. For a moment there I was really confused.

Impressed with the iPhone camera -- with a dark sky, the unaided iPhone 16 Pro managed to spot the Orion Nebula. This was me just holding the phone as well - no tripod. The Orion Nebula is the blurry part in the "dagger" that descents from the classic 3-star belt.

Sunset from Waikoloa Beach. 16° (F) at home this morning.

I haven’t seen, and know very little about, “Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”. But thanks to Wikipedia, I now understand it: “The film was announced in June 2021 and development was fast-tracked to prevent New Line from losing the film adaptation rights for Tolkien's novels.”

@cmelissinos.bsky.social You’ve probably gotten a hundred links to this, but curious about your thoughts. Glad to see that indy game creators get a shoutout, and Nintendo too, but this captures a lot of what has bothered me about the game industry recently. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Well, if the Indigo Girls were on bsky, I’d tag them, but still had a great time at the concert.