I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

FFS. A blockade is an act of war. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

When I am emperor of the world, there are gonna be a lot of changes.

Hey @juliusgoat.bsky.social the Film section made me think of you: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

President Joe Biden gave some of his best remaining years to save this country. It took less than a year for Trump to put this country back in the dumpster. Re-electing a known disaster is sheer lunacy. Welcome to Jonestown USA.

We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing. www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...

This isn’t like inventing cold fusion. America knows how to meaningfully curb random gun violence and mass shootings. We just choose not to. Because our revealed preference is that we prefer mass shootings to meaningful gun control. This is who we are. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...

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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

Be yourself. Be helpful if you can. Be insufferable if you have to. Be as dark as you wish. Be the reason a forest is considered haunted. But most of all, be kind and stay weird.

My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist. p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Revenge of the bunnies. I warned Kirby to stop pestering them.

Being rejected is oppression to those who intend to be oppressors.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

I completely missed that Kagi's Orion browser is now out of beta and released to everyone. I've been using it as my main browser on the Mac for a while and it's great. And next up: the Linux version. blog.kagi.com/orion

Killing unarmed civilians is the same war crime for which Lieutenant Calley was convicted during the Vietnam war. Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.

Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.

Can you celebrate #Thanksgiving if you're feeling hopeless or despairing? A meditation on gratitude in tough times. www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...

listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable

Probably how we domesticated the first pet rabbit… trapped in the dog’s crate.

@drjackbrown.bsky.social Please analyze MBS’s body language on the Oval Office especially regarding his reactions to the questions about the murder.

@lsstuk.bsky.social and @vrubinobs.bsky.social need your help to train our computing systems to sort through the tens of millions of alerts we will detect every night during the Vera C. Rubin Observatory #LSST survey. www.zooniverse.org/projects/ebe... #capturethecosmos

A reminder: as your premiums go up, the Insurance companies are making record profits and paying themselves bonuses: consumerfed.org/press_releas...

New capybara just dropped (Commissioned)

Check out this ebook on BookBub! www.bookbub.com/books/on-tyr...

Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches. It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.

I have no idea what’s happening here. That’s the dog’s crate, by the way.

Hey @kithrup.bsky.social I just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying Digital Divide by @kbspangler.com. You gave it away last week and I had three books already started but I can't put this one down.

SNAP exists because politicians take campaign contributions from large corporations in exchange for letting those corporations pay a poverty wage so low that it must be subsidized with taxpayer money, paid by middle class workers barely getting by—all so 700 billionaires can have a few extra billion

The frame that says Democrats care about Americans, so when the Trump administration deliberately hurts millions of Americans that puts pressure on Democrats to make unrelated political concessions and does not put pressure on the Republicans who control every branch of the government, is so warped.

This is correct. His cult keeps saying “well, he was elected president, he doesn’t have to follow the rules now” but the correct attitude is “well, he was elected president, and therefore he has to follow the rules.” He even swore an oath to do that. Honest!

The Republican Party is a Nazi bar. Anyone who stays there—from a registered voter to the top of the ticket—is implicated by that. Every policy, every idea, every action, every vote: It’s for the Nazi bar.

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

The gospel singers for the opening act of the World Series last night, took liberties with the American national anthem and I am here for it.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

"And it feels like another failure of the American system that someone can destroy an entire wing of the White House without notice." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

Tell your normie friends that it’s fucked up that the US government is building concentration camps and that if we don’t stop this now it only ends in one place.

A couple photos I took in May of the Kennedy Garden and the East Wing which satellite imagery shows are now destroyed.

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

Boycott any corporation donating to his monstrosity that’s ruining the White House.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

He is a temporary inhabitant of People’s House! How in the world is he allowed to make such wholesale, permanent changes?! Are there no rules against such a travesty?

MAGA Bullshit about paid protesters…

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak! But media elites find that boring.

"Brown liquid." You're going with "brown liquid." You put all your heads together and the best you could come up with was "brown liquid." Paper of record, indeed.

I am not Christian but this pleases me immensely.