Pretty cool that Stross saw the hellspawn tech bros coming from such a long way back… “We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of colour schemes for your safety and comfort!” — The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1) by Charles Stross

100% #BookSky

Mother Color

Sexual offender laws are intended to protect all citizens not just to punish offenders. The public is not protected when any offender is not punished.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #TraitorKrasnov

In case you need any more motivation to hold the most corrupt "president" in U.S. history accountable. #Register&VOTE 🌊

I saw JD Vance campaigning in Maine for Republican Paul LePage for a House seat. Doesn't he know how Vance's recommendation worked for Orban in Hungary? Maybe he is the Democrats secret weapon. Everything he endorses turns to dust.

JD: “C’mon man – just let us use stock manipulation & insider trading indiscriminately”

In case anyone needed to remember that “He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings (persons) with inherent rights. “Grounded in Te Ao Māori teachings and Polynesian values, the Declaration recognizes whales as both ancestors and sentient beings.”

When the Speaker of the House claims he can’t live off his $174K salary, what are minimum wage American workers and fixed income Americans supposed to do?

BREAKING: Minnesota has INDICTED ICE officer Christian Castro in the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. 4 counts of assault & 1 count of lying. This is the SECOND ICE officer charged by the Hennepin County DA. No charges yet for the murders of Good and Pretti. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Because “I’m not a scientist” is a shield, and “I’m basically a gynecologist” is a weapon.

A Super El Nino is coming. And they cut all weather research and disaster assistance in the same year.

SQUEAKER Johnson Wants The House Members To Be Able To Trade Stocks, Since Their Salary Is So Meager........

Hugely stoked to present the latest, FROTH ERA, a quartet of Travis D. Johnson, DJ ANY WAY, & C.P. McDill with {AN} EeL - It's an album of depth & breadth & daresay, Real human vivaciousness. I'm tickled pink y'all, Come Kitchy Kitchy Coo with us @subvertworld www.subvert.fm/an-eel/froth...

No one in this regime will face federal criminal accountability unless we reform the Supreme Court first. That's what folks should be running on. That should be the lesson of the Jack Smith prosecutions: it doesn't matter who the AG is.

“Eros’ mode of takeover is an education: it can teach you the real nature of what is inside you. Once you glimpse that, you can begin to become it. Sokrates says it is a glimpse of a god (Phaedrus 253a).” — Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

We're All Standing With Ted Lieu....

Absolutely fuck you, Amazon. When I bought this device there was no mention of my purchase being time limited at your discretion. It does not require software updates, so the only "support" necessary is that kindle books are available in a format that can be sent to it. This shouldn't be legal.

Good riddance.

Trump yesterday: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." Vance today: "I don't think the president said that." "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, '1984'

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Wildergoose - Drones for a River @wildergoose.bsky.social "Mutant field recordings overdosed on synths." #ambientnoise wall; bio-industrial #music getmusic.fm/l/E18gbU

“The novelist Eudora Welty says of her mother: ‘She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.’” — Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Subvert the dominant paradigm.

What's up? Subvert, that's what! Check it out: for the first time, all my music, all on one page. Subvert is a co-operatively owned music distribution service and store. This is a great step toward artistic autonomy, so I hope like fuck people pay attention and check this shit out. @subvertworld

Maybe they can call and ask about the gold sneakers; oops, they can't.

Correct. Apparently they are incapable of critical thinking skills. 🙄

His campaign promises literally got eaten alive.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Penguin Random House has started adding Bluesky as an option of where readers get book recs when they send out their Reader's Lounge surveys. We're slowly getting there 🙂‍↕️ 💙📚 #booksky

This phrase makes me giggle like a squeaky balloon: "his Mephistophilean chin."

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

CNN’s Harry Enten: “Trump's ballroom is very unpopular: More people believe in ghosts (39%) & telepathy (29%) than support it (28%). The ballroom is such a political problem as it reinforces for Americans that Trump has the wrong priorities (67%), and they disapprove of him on govt spending (67%).”

05-06-26 GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE - Last 72 Hours 5 shootings, so far, today www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours

A massive win for astrobiology. NASA's Curiosity rover has identified diverse organic molecules, including nitrogen compounds, in ancient Martian lakebeds. This suggests Gale Crater once possessed the essential chemical precursors for life as we know it.

America's gun psychopathy continues: *167* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 1 person killed and 4 wounded, in Pflugerville, Texas: cbsaustin.com/news/local/o...

Guy Venables