Firdarrig

We need politicians like this in Colorado.

There has seldom been a better time to read my book. (Because you can have it for free, apparently.)

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears?

They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

"The right people," always means the people who look like you, talk like you and think like you. Fascist fuckery spoken out loud again.

I didn't even know you could *buy* those anymore. Wow. I can immediately recall both the smell and the taste.

Bubo the mechanical owl from the Ray Harryhausen film, Clash of the Titans

Happy Superb Owl day to those that celebrate it

They don't have any feathers.

This is truly incredible.

Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.

What the diseased genitalia in fucking acid is this?

I'm pretty sure you'll get the Post when you wrestle it out of Bezo's cold, dead rocket.

I don't think the odds are as bad as he says, but y'know, one in six is still pretty f'in bad. Humans are weird.

[A hand explodes through the snow and ice holding a keyboard. It is the CPSC social media person. With frozen fingers and half-open eyes, they type...]

The shutdown has ended. CPSC will resume all normal operations.

The revolutionary art that is produced through AI is art that is being *allowed* to exist.

Ponder why, perhaps.

For art to be revolutionary, it needs to be built on skills that are inherent to the artist. If you take fancy paints away from a painter, they can still paint. Break a musicians instrument, they can still hum.

Whoever owns the tools, owns the art. Words, songs, paintings or sculpture, if all of your skill depends on billion dollar machines owned by the worst modern colonizers, Western Billionaires, you are at their mercy. They own you and they own your art, because they can take it away in a blink.

This came up in another discussion:

In terms of decolonization and AI, the questions I would ask are, "Who owns the tools? Can you do this work with tools you could own?"

Does this chicken fucker think the hologram doctor from Star Trek is real?

📢 Join the nationwide shutdown this Friday, January 30th. 

Do your part and help us SHUT IT DOWN for just one day this Friday to say enough is enough & that we want ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE‼️

Go to nationalshutdown.us to learn more and vote no to ICE funding.

Saying it out loud.

Trump’s increasing weakness makes it more critical than ever that all collaborator Dems be primaried. If we get fair elections 🧿, they will happy coast to victory on that alone and deliver nothing.

Best case, that lands us back here again in a few years with the fascists wiser from the setback. 3/

I am more and more convinced we need a series of massive, rolling strikes across the US. Days where half the population doesn't work or buy *anything*. I'm not sure if we're strong or organized enough to make this happen.

An orange and white cat laying on his back in my lap looking very silly. His front legs are spread wide as though offering a hug (that is a trap, do not fall for it). His bottom half is completely obscured by his ridiculously fluffy tail.

Who needs a Floof hug?

Today feels like a good day to spotlight the recent appeal made by Kurihara Toshio, one of the preeminent Japanese reporters on the war memory beat, to journalists covering war today.

Its drawn from his research on the failures of Japan's media establishment in the 1930s:

apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman

Bloom County all the way.

This is where we are. Seriously, be afraid.

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles, each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: all set against a black background. A central band delineated with white lines contains white ‘s’-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me

#Archaeology

It's three weeks after the deadline to release the Epstein files.

Ah! I follow now.

Either I've misunderstood something or you're missing what Shep and I are talking about. Unity Harbor looks like an organization to find housing in the US, which I deeply respect as a mission, but both of us were talking about there not being a way to get out of the US as it burns around us.

Yeah, right there with ya. Oddly enough they don't want former Ren Faire shop managers either.