Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

My trio of Burning Giraffe drawings inspired by those featuring in Salvador Dali's work. "the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster"

As we resist Trump’s tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.

You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.

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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

BREAKING: The National Basketball Players Association issues statement on ICE killings in Minnesota. “[W]e refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Time to spend one zillion dollars at DreamHaven Books!!! I buy almost all my new giant art books and pulpy used books from them. Also I secretly sign books there whenever I stop in for a treat.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

The bot accounts are out in force today, friends with a random assortment of fake people, and trying to befriend anyone dumb enough to accept any connection that makes their count go up. Blockblockblockcblock….

Hey, Seattle-area folks! The cross-lake Line 2 will be up and ready for riders at the end of March! www.soundtransit.org/crosslake

A good thread gathering together about the clergy-led protest today at the MSP airport.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Hey, folks, can I both commit capitalism and get a bit personal for a moment? I wanna talk a bit about the upcoming Kickstarter for the fourth edition of Mutants & Masterminds. (I'm probably gonna be doing a LOT of this for the next five weeks, so now's your time to mute or unfollow me.)

Still the standard lack of bath, but this time I can’t say they shorted us on room.

A thousand times this. I want to follow your passions, but I have no desire to track your marketing.

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

Some adventures are more fun to read about from a distance.

Now that I’ve realized the iOS keyboard doesn’t have a Tab key it’s the only key I want to use.

I'm sharing this for @nikchick.bsky.social , but the rest of you can enjoy it as well.

In case you would like to admire the US National Science Foundation mural which has been removed. sayostudio.com/scientific-i...

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Was reminded of this earlier and I really just need you all to see it.

#StarTrek Fonts: The Thread This thread is going to cover the official typefaces used for on-screen titles and marketing materials etc. Not in-universe graphics, alien scripts or any of that. Feedback and corrections welcome! Please check ALT text for additional context. 🧵 [001/???]

Devastating new CNN poll on the anniversary of Trump’s first year in office: voters think he’s made everything worse — crime, free speech, health, global security. Literally every promise. www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

me again

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂 A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍 🧵⬇️ (1/5) #Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org

Among the reasons Starfleet Academy makes me smile is that its future location at the foot of the Golden Gate is right where I spent so many hours with my kid in reality at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Per aspera ad astra, young one.

Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up

Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought about by polycrisis. “I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me — now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive.” [theguardian.com]

I assume this whole sequence is occurring inside the Cerritos holodeck during a Lower Decks misadventure, so it's less of an absence and more of an omnipresence.

All I remember is the name of the song I was listening to in a dream last night: “Dracula Can’t Be Everywhere”.

This afternoon's wild listening: THE SEVEN SIDED DICE, a board game-themed psychedelic folk-rock children's musical from 1978. "Seven is the number of the seven sided dice. "Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. "Spin the dice the game’s begun..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkp...

This is a great price for one of my top 10 favorite books on game design.

"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l... Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't. Recommended, in an extreme way.

I gotta tell you, I think this is the year that the Harlem Globetrotters might go all the way.

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.

HAPPENING NOW: Tens of thousands have filled 5th Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday (Jan 11) in a massive anti-ICE protest. New York showed up! 👏👏 (🎥Hands Off NYC)

It's wonderful when buying a physical copy of a game provides a free PDF, but sometimes I just want to learn your game without adding bulk to my already overloaded shelves. Please offer a PDF only option as well.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI