My new hair and my general style have me looking like an American agent in a foreign country with nothing but problems to cause.

ICE doing GWOT style midnight raids on apartment buildings and pulling out every person is fucking horrifying, but not even surprising anymore. The sheer human tragedy these monsters are causing is hard to read but its not surprising, Foucaults boomerang brings the war on terror home.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

lyrics are from “air corps lament” by dick jonas

Another piece of Mare Ignis fan art, but done in the style of a cold war era MIC advertisement

Can whoever is in charge of the PID controller for inflation please increase the dampening? The system here is obviously underdamped /j

VIPER'S NOT DEAD

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on

this is entering a little into the realm of "making up a guy to get mad at", but I also sometimes think about this passage in @iwriteok.bsky.social's "after the revolution", about the influence of a left-wing poaster in the lead-up to the dissolution of the US (ch. 6 here atrbook.com/book/page/2/)

i’m genuinely pleading with you to read this entire article

A peaceful 621 and her plushies <3

Gavin Newsom as the chairman of the truth and reconciliation commission would go incredibly hard

I don't think Gavin Newsom should be President but DHS Secretary sounds great. I trust him to oversee partisan purges.

The Chinese century isn't going to be based on an invasion of Taiwan or the belt and road or a new generation of stealth fighters. It'll be based on Chinese leaders politely asking us "please be normal, just for a little bit, so we can do business".

It infuriates me--INFURIATES me--that the new queer kids have forgotten how much we suffered and how much these victories actually mattered. They want a material concern for marriage? Your partner's body! Your own body! Your remains! Your property! Your dog! Fuck! Fuck me! It makes me so angry!

as a mathematician I should be allowed to kill one computer scientist a day

a sense of scale

Megastructure scale posting time !

Political lesbianism is something I find very interesting about second wave feminism. It's incredibly interesting that as we find our culture regressing and rights won by the second wave of feminism being fought anew we are seeing it make a comeback. Some very interesting sociology going on here.

The light of my life actually!!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I absolutely fucking love seeing art with my build it makes me so happy to see the representation :3

I am building myself an electric metal melting furnace just so that I can make my partner an anniversary gift. I'm operating at levels of butch lesbianism that many cannot even comprehend.

Andy Beshear is probably the best example in modern politics today of a Christian who believes in compassion as a guiding belief of the faith. Compassion is something that is hard to come by in the world these days and I feel like a platform of compassion could be uniquely successful especially now.

This shit is insane. The most prominent anti-trans quislings in the party are straightforwardly secular (Gavin Newsom believes in one thing and it's himself), and one of the most prominent trans rights defenders (Andy Beshear) does so in expressly religious terms!

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years

renfaire fit is basically together and I am really happy with how it came out. (ignore the jeans my renfaire pants are in the wash)

sword finished. I am not super happy with the paint job but it's a placeholder because I eventually want to cast it and it looks decent from a few feet away.

finished up all the leather working for my renfaire sword. got the final model of the sword pieces on the printer and after they run I just need to laminate them in foil for the sword to be done.

Blade Runner vibes

somewhere under the moon

finished up my shield for the renfaire, I'm very happy with how it came out.

made some extremely good progress on my buckler for my renfaire costume tonight. I'm not super experienced with woodworking and my metalwork was eyeballed and a bit sloppy but I'm still happy with it.

I have come to believe that the universal language of the great works of humanity is linear algebra. circuits: linear algebra heat transfer: linear algebra structural engineering: linear algebra machine learning: you guessed it, linear algebra. the world we live in is built on matrices.

Groyper Occupied Government

Trumpism has made me more loyal to the *idea* of America, warts and all, not less. Because I realize we are losing something that is worth preserving. An imperfect, often deadly imperfect Something. But that Something has been the hope of the world and could be again.

welp, fuck. there goes a lot of the hope that I had that I would be able to squeeze in under the wire and get it changed. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but it still really fucking sucks and hits like a gut punch.

khmer redneck

wrote up the latest on U.S. passport gender marker changes, which State is now processing in compliance with last month's injunction: www.them.us/story/state-... @aclu.org urges class members who need one to apply ASAP in case a stay is sought + granted; apps for a correction are free

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

No one is coming to save us except for ourselves.

We had our beer hall putsch in 2021 and because of inaction and unwillingness to kill the fascist movement in the crib we now have our Nuremberg laws. The funding and legal framework for a genocide has been put into place. This is an immensely dark day and it is going to be a horrifying few years.

Gotta be honest, I have never felt such a wave of absolute gut wrenching, stomach dropping gnar I did just now, as the notif of the budget bill passing came though

Relistening to the audiobook of Project Hail Mary now that the trailer is out and damn it's fucking perfect and Ryan Gosling is the perfect actor for it. the movie is going to be perfect holy shit

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

Paraphrasing what an old school LANL weapons physicist told me about Livermore and the Soviets: "Sure, the PLA are the competition, but CENTCOM is the enemy."

AI is so ass