Reader of Sci-Fi & Sci-Fan, lover of old lace, occasional wearer of leather, dabbler in oil painting, inhaler of cannabis, and former #QueenOfTheNight. Banner: Sensation White 2013 in TO, ,Canada. I took the shot after 7 hrs on the dance floor.
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475 South Korean nationals taken into custody by Trump‘s immigration authorities because they had the audacity to be WORKING in a $7.6 billion plant that’s the biggest economic development project in the history of Georgia. If you’re South Korea, would YOU continue to invest in a place like this?
Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/
I'm so freaking bloated rn I look like a pregnant person a month overdue.
This attitude blows up rockets and kills the crew. We *know* this because we've seen it happen. This is the consequence of letting a fool who understands nothing about NASA to lead it.
Can Tylenol sue this quack? Because it seems they should sue this quack
i mean, this is essentially Elon Musk's approach to transhumanism
Donald Trump reportedly said in a private meeting while in office: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An anti-vaxxer brought up vaccines. I asked her why she did not believe in vaccines. Response: "Just look at the data RFK Jr has." She brought up the polio vax. I asked her if she believed the polio vax was effective. She said she didn't know because she doesn't know anyone who had polio. 🤷♀️
No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone
Here we see an excellent test of how willing the broadcast media are to kiss the fascist ass.
They all understand that Trump's dick won't suck itself.
The day that “Duty, Honor, Country” died. West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ANY broadcaster that agrees to this should be shut down.
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
⚠️ DOD conducting training exercises in Houston through September 19th “Residents may hear noise or see helicopters in the day and evening hours during the exercises.”
It’s possible they’re conducting training in an urban area in a red state with a supportive governor in preparation for actions in blue state cities like LA, Chicago, and NYC.
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
How many more warning do American elites and masses need?
"I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it 🎵🎵
Sometimes, the Internet is worth it.
Prayers.
Make it happen, Bluesky! Thank you to all my teachers and mentors who sponsored me and put their name next to mine!! Dream lab, coming right up!
The USTA is making a huge mistake in having the divisive and felonious president attend the finals of the US Open. I could not be a bigger Carlos Alcaraz fan but I won't watch tomorrow because I don't want a sport I love to be associated with ol' piggy eyes. #NoVamos
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
The gentleman from Kentucky is right.
@diedrichbader.bsky.social two waterfalls at the same time!
20,000 years ago, some of our ancestors might have been sitting around a fire in a cave in what is now Lascaux, France, and watching as the flickering flames made these reindeer heads appear to come to life. (On the theory of firelight animating cave art: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...)
The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.
Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies This is a really, really ominous development (AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.) gazette.com/military/air...
I really can’t bring myself to say out loud what this means. It’s horrific.
Let’s get this done. We all agree!
🇨🇦 CANADA We need to WAKE UP! 👇
Air siren all clear 🙏 The air raid alert lasted 7 hrs 32 min
Calling Black Children this…. UNACCEPTABLE
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
Virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority. Impulsive, petty, highly motivated thinking, and disconnected from consensual reality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Moreover, we must destroy ICE & smash fascism.
Evil fucking fascist pieces of shit.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
I'm hearing series of loud explosions Kyiv is under missile attack After almost 8 hrs drone attack
Sorry, but not on substack.
Watching a documentary on 🇺🇦 scientists who worked on 🇺🇦 station in Antarctica when the war began. They volunteered to stay an extra year, but others managed to come from Ukraine & replace them. Many then went to the frontlines, lost limbs, had to retire but continue working as scientists RESILIENCE
Obviously, if you're at the Open and see any protests, be sure to film them and put them on social media.
image similar to link card below is image accompanying my autoethnographic vignette that opens the draft chapter most recently sent to my advisor & discussed on Friday. She commended my image selection & disxn. Doom Playground is so iconic (semiotic anthro sense) of Nuclear Museum for me.
"he pulls a knife, you pull a gun" is in fact the correct strategy for dealing with these chuds. don't back down--escalate.
Oh myyy…
Get your seasonal COVID and influenza vaccines: -for YOUR health -for health of those around you -as a fuck you to fascism & RFK Jr et al I don’t care if you do it for spite (*glances at dissertation writing*), just do it (if you can, access, healthy for you, etc).
Same, and yet I constantly get offered a “super generous” $100 for one of my sweaters. It’s OK to admit you either can’t afford something or don’t want to pay for something. That’s not my problem or my fault, and I’m not devaluing my time or experience so you can pay me SHEIN wages.
Air raid siren 🚨 in Kyiv 😾 Ballistics threat
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
This is objectively hilarious.😅
Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology
![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifzhfymde7cyrv2i7fu7e2v33veporn5rsywwi2rqdgswkxpj6xre@jpeg "Click to view full size")
absolutely stunning advance in human medicine and biology and we should be pouring money into mRNA tech and RFK Jr et al have instead eviscerated funding, research, & programs whilst spewing bonkers bullshit & lies. In that alone RFK Jr has already maimed & killed (near to mid future) millions.
AMAZING! Long live HOPE!
It is analytically & otherwise important that Trump doesn’t seem to care about what happens after him.
This strain is potentially the worst one and RF "Brainworms"K Jr limits access to it. Last time, it was the healthy that transmitted it to everyone else you idiots.
There is no defense policy no national security no public health no rule of law no valid or constitutional government so long as Trump et al are left in power.
The opposite of 'defense' is 'offense.' America is going on offense, and the entire planet should be very, very alarmed.
Looking especially/mostly ar national/congressional
Mass protest remains absolutely necessary and not sufficient. A diversity of tactics by a diversity of folk across places and time. AND Dem party has failed miserably in this moment and often actively collaborated so…is there an opposition of the Democratic Party? Or is it part of problem?
Those colours tho!💖
And people wonder why a hand knit or crocheted blanket can sell for $2500.00, considering both materials and labour costs. One of my shawls that takes about 60 to 75 hours to make I wouldn't sell for less than $750.00.
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
rome apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1913
We are. It’s all happening right out in the open.
Sometimes, when I'm watching old Doctor Who, like 4th Doctor old, I find myself wondering what happened to this or that character the Doctor meets. In this case, it's what happened to Vira after the end of "The Ark in Space."
That’s exactly what this feels like!
It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
Oleksandr Hordiienko, head of the Kherson Farmers’ Association and regional council deputy, was killed by a Russian drone strike in Kherson region yesterday. Oleksandr was a well-known farmer and public figure.
I work with a lot of sick dogs. We save 100s but we also lose some. It never gets any easier. Here are some important lessons I've learnt along the way...
He turned the White House into one of his clubs and there was a time Americans would have run that kind of president out of town with pitchforks.
oranges, painted by james marion shull, 1911
Trains are both mentally and in reality the easiest escape route. The major stations are in city centers. There’s no security. If you live close enough and time it right, you can be on a train heading out within 30 minutes. Unless Trump wants to keep us. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/last...
ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya. For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks! Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF... Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
The "Angels Detachment" evacuated four #Ukrainian Defenders from Russian-occupied territory, where they had been hiding for more than three years. Among those evacuated were a marine, three National Guard soldiers, and a hospital medical worker who had helped hide Defenders.
It's obviously murder. We're not at war with Venezuela. The US has no jurisdiction to kill people in international waters for maybe committing crimes or being on the boats of people who might be committing crimes.
And it goes on seemingly without end. The country is drowning in the violence of increasing ignorance.
If you’re white and you view the police as inherently helpful, then this sort of thing sounds like a great idea and one that is totally feasible.
FFS
It's important to understand that many people at the top of US journalism genuinely aren't interested in American history or politics. So that's not their skill set. What they do care about it, and are good at, is going to fancy DC parties.
Washington Post editorials are now a dumbed down version of Wall Street Journal editorials, which are no great shakes to begin with…
Not that long to wait, I think.
Last week was so fun when we thought he was dead
About 700,000 Russian troops are stationed on the territory of 🇺🇦- Ukrainian Defense Intelligence According to Andriy Yusov,a representative of the Defense Intelligence of #Ukraine,this figure includes not just regular troops,but also support forces, security services,& the National Guard of Russia
Troll level: Master.
Some music for your Saturday RS youtu.be/_8XCdJB9RkQ?...
When you're a librarian You must do everything by the book But when you work in a bookstore You must do everything "Buy the book!" RS
This is Delta's current website. You have other options.
This is precisely why Delta Air Lines recently relabeled "The Gulf of Mexico" as "The Gulf of America" on its route maps. All in the cause of promoting stupidity and screwing customers.
Now with alt-text. This is another Very Bad Thing & of course unconstitutional.
When I need someone to defend traditional values, I always choose the guy who dumped his wife to hook up with his research assistant
Well, well, well... I do turn up in the most interesting places, now don't I? 😂 ❤️
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.
Keep in mind that to these people anybody practicing any religion other than their version of christianity “devalues and demeans the christian faith.” This is a declaration of the further establishment of a State Religion (or at least acting like it when convenient).
Russia keeps up its human hunts on Ukrainian civilians, making living targets out of people