this counts as a spinoff

ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA

i will owe heated rivalry my LIFE if it means more CHECK PLEASE

Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.

To all my new followers: I appreciate the sentiment, but I cannot overemphasize how poor a source I am for trans issues in the U.S. 90% of the time I am going to be talking about this, the webcomic I make. If you're into complex, longform queer narratives though, then hooray!

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A daily preventive pill can be invaluable for people at risk for HIV. But some doctors don't know much about prescribing them. And billing headaches are common. Here's how to overcome those hurdles. n.pr/49mT6i6

Saturn's equinox, when the rings also "disappear" from view, occurs only about every 15 years. 2025 was the year for this. The next one is in Jan. 2039. This image is also up for the planetary science image of 2026: bsky.app/profile/spac... Taken on: Oct. 2025 Credit: Natan Fontes #SciComm 🧪

Status report, "A Tale of Peter Morwood: The One With l'Escalade." (Who did I mention this to the other day? Not sure how to search my notifications.) (argh) Anyway: www.tumblr.com/dduane/80312... #GNUPeterMorwood

I don't know what's going on but I am seated for it

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Decided to stay up to watch the latest episode of Heated Rivalry and holy fuck. They did not pull their punches with this week's episode! Pardon me while I go try and process this before bed.

don't claim it. doesn't matter that it's free. Don't.

Once again unable to travel without dreaming of a single nationwide pubtrans transit app, an inconceivably luxurious mirror universe where I can load tenbux and use it no matter where I am instead of downloading 10 different apps with 10 different balances and making 10 new vectors for info theft

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

none of the ai slop commercials these companies churn out will have even one-tenth of the cultural impact as the folgers incest commercial and i think that's beautiful

this was generated without the use of any sort of intelligence, artificial or otherwise. #art #artist #salty

We partnered with five artists from the Destiny 2 community to create this suite of Wanted Posters featuring the most notorious characters in Renegades. Learn a bit more about the history and motivations of these outlaws in this new blog post. 🪙 bung.ie/48L8vHw

as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me: notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted

Happy Metroid Prime 4 Day to all who celebrate. Next year, I will draw Samus on her cool bike. That's a promise.🫡

I bet this'd be pretty solid it followed the Smallville formula where pretty teens have a monster-of-the-week adventure, then emotional resolution over a pop song montage, then it goes like eight years longer than it should. Also there's a sex cultist on the cast, and it's not the one you'd guess

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…

Still mad about this

✨️December✨️

It’s World AIDS Day!! Remember those we lost. Uplift those living with HIV. Learn about protection both barrier and PrEP now in pill and injection forms. Stand up and speak out for government action! #HIV #AIDS @mswmedia.com @butthonestlypod.bsky.social

For folks who are newer around here, thanks for following! This is my deal; I make a free to read webcomic about love and grief and cultural expectations of masculinity through my transmasc lens ✌️ #KeepingTime

That canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.

Tabachoy

Stress mode

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

this sucks! dubs have defined so many series for US-based fans. i've already seen at least one report of replacing an *existing* dub with an AI one. the idea of not just having shitty bad dubs, but the loss of good old ones, is awful.

RUNNING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

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Good behaviour

sometimes a band is made up of an exasperated airport dad (he's also the youngest), a charismatic but problematic guitarist, and a drummer who just wants everyone to get along -- and I think that's beautiful #KeepingTime #webcomics 🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com 🎸Start from the beginning

Good ol Wizardmon! 🧙🏽‍♂️ Such a great #Digimon in the original series 🥲

. @gabesayshello.bsky.social and I did the thing

Quote with a 10/10 album

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

A meaningful story on YALSA's blog The Hub. Book bans are a terrible form of censorship, but this interaction between a librarian and their teen patron is so lovely. It's short and sweet. Give it a read. 💕 @yalsa.bsky.social www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2025/...

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Routine

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL HOW STUPID THIS WOULD GET