the view from my back yard, 6:37am

the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult

Good thing Trump’s new HHS Secretary RFK Jr is an advocate for raw milk. That pasteurization stuff that saved hundreds of thousands of kids from bovine tuberculosis and other diseases is all deep state nonsense. 🙄

About to drop $525 to get this guy to make a video denouncing sexual assault and send it to Pete Hegseth.

Wish me luck.

They have no idea that tariffs will make everything more expensive

Livestream starting in a few minutes 👇

[commercial for stones] are you tired of killing 2 birds with your bare fuckin hands

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

If the Matt Gaetz report exonerated him, he would not have resigned from Congress to avoid it.

Black hole shoots a plasma beam through space. Captured by NASA

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

Facts

go.bsky.app/EtLAGWd

Hi! I made a starter pack for corporate law academics - and it's not just law professors. It includes history, sociology, politics nerds, too. Enjoy!

Seems lots of new people joined Bluesky over the weekend, so I'm re-upping this starter pack I created of people working on democratic innovations for a more participatory and deliberative politics.

Still room for others to be added, so give me a shout if I missed you.
go.bsky.app/LX11yEA #polisky

Like a princess 👑

Night vision photo of owl mid-flight, talons extended, about to attack a fully grown deer at least 5 times its size

this owl just inhaled a pound of cocaine

Bluesky 👍

Threads 👎

My dog is infinitely optimistic that TODAY will be the day that I just inexplicably hand over my entire hamburger.

This feels like we’re in one of the Jurassic Park sequels where a lot of us were like “hey let’s not try this again because last time the dinosaurs got loose” but other people were like “well, maybe the dinosaurs won’t get loose this time.”

“yOu NeEd tO gRoW oUt Of GaMiNg”

Listen…

I don’t drink
I don’t smoke
I BARELY do cocaine

Pretty sure I could do plenty of worse things with my time and money than playing video games

Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

Several bright-white, bluish, and orange stars shine with diffraction spikes, interspersed throughout dark dust. Particularly dark regions of gas and dust are seen near the lower left.

A dense cluster of bright stars. The core of the cluster is to the left and has a distinct group of blue stars. Surrounding the core are a multitude of stars in warmer colors. These stars are very numerous near the core and become more sparse, as well as more small and distant, out to the sides of the image. A few larger stars also stand in the foreground near the edges of the image.

star clusters are so beautiful ✨

Monsters walk among us — and they're watching Netflix at 1.5x speed. Netflix lets you watch shows at super speed. Our modern appetite for content might mean we've stretched our brains to watch faster. But is that good?

Right now people are looking for some group to blame, some underexamined cohort that acts against their own interests, people whose moral reasoning has been obliterated by new media technology.
I found them: they’re the ones watch Netflix at 1.5x speed www.businessinsider.com/netflix-spee...

Lmao the doors are blowing up again and I'm getting a lot of questions. A short FAQ:

I love bookstores

14,029,858

Good morning, Bluesky. There are 14 million of us now, and seemingly more on the way. That's pretty cool. Welcome if you're new, and I hope you enjoy your piece of the sky.

every pundit will try to lecture to u about what the country chose

but u know rejecting fascism and bigotry is always the right choice

Every post election (even ones we win!) seems to be like, "Democrats did poorly with these groups; how do we reach out?" and not nearly enough "these people are our loyal coalition; how do we reward them and make them more socially powerful?"

Fanart of the protagonist from Persona 3 Reload. He's cel-shaded with solid black and brandishing his evoker, lazily pointed upwards as if he's just shot with it. There's a bullet hole in the top left corner of the image, and the centre of it acts as the eye for Thanatos, who appears as a shadow in the background, his white-gloved hand curling round the protagonist in the foreground. The primary colours present in the illustration are CMYK, the colours that make up everything in printing, in an attempt by the artist to represent "The Fool".

reload💥