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Renee Nicole Good is the one whose reputation should be protected, whose death should be marked by flags across the country being lowered to half-staff, who should be getting tearful tributes and acknowledgments from politicians and media figures. These are the people we ought to honor.

Vince Zampella was the absolute best to ever do it. Literally. His impact across publishers, studios, franchises and genres was unmatched. Commercially and creatively he was an absolute juggernaut. A tremendous loss for this industry, and to those who were close to him. Rest in peace.

Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard are winning their races for Georgia PSC by double digits. Though there are only 7% of precincts reporting, several organizations have already called the races for the democrats.

YESSSSSSS

New York City map of which areas voted for Cuomo and which for Mamdani.

New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.

Being so utterly busy has forced me to take a break from social media, but honestly Blue Sky is still pretty chill. It doesn’t shove fear content into my face; there are genuinely good people promoting good causes on here.

An inflatable dinosaur skeleton costume at a no kings march giving a thumbs up.

Marching

Thank you all for standing up for what’s right. You’re fighting for every current and future student around the world. It’s so nice to see that we’re not alone, thank you.

Hundreds of UVA faculty, staff, and students showed up to fight for academic freedom and demand that UVA rejects Trump's Compact!

It's still January.

One thing about me is that I do absolutely suck at listening to stories about weird, apparently paranormal things that happened to you.

100% intolerable “that was definitely a drone” and “you can stop worrying about your past lives because they don’t exist” shit.

The brands haven’t gotten here yet…soon

BOOOO NOOOO BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK!!! This image is fake. Let’s not let fake science accounts thrive on Bluesky!!!

riso with red blue and yellow 🧼

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

As well as seeing the ISS, you can see all of the naked eye planets in the sky tonight apart from Mercury

Venus sets early in the evening
Saturn is a bright ocre colour in the south
Jupiter is incredibly bright high in the east.
Mars rises around 8.30 pm with the moon rising an hour later.

🩷💙 #jinx #arcane

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Lowkey Apple Arcade (if you have an iPhone) has a lot of high quality stuff, ad free, micro transaction free, and I think the devs get paid well (afaik)

Hello, It’s a special edition of We’re Here. I’m trying to get my head on straight right now, which I’m sure is the case for you. I remember realizing after the assassination attempt that there was a rationality to my scrolling…I felt like my picture of the future was no longer relevant, and I desperately wanted to have my new one put in place. Of course, scrolling in the hours after a big event doesn’t tend to provide that relief, but it makes sense that I wouldn’t know what else to do. Today, I see people scrolling for similar reasons. Those of us who did not want a second Trump term (it’s a very large majority, but if that’s not you, I’m still glad you like the newsletter) are trying to figure out a bunch of things at the same time: How exactly did this happen? Who should we blame? (whether voters or strategy or candidate or party) What do we do now? I am not a political scientist, so I cannot answer those first two questions for you. I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting analysis coming out of all of the people who think about this stuff for a living and we will never know exactly who was right. But I do have a couple of suggestions for the third thing. First, I’d ask that we all accept that it is normal to mourn an imagined future. I have had this feeling many times in my life, and it is never nice. So, grieve. That is human. Second, do things. I don’t know what those things are, but do things. This morning Katherine said to me, “The trees and the sky and the squirrels and the stars just go on, and that’s what we’ll do.” This reminded me of this bit of an essay on living under the shadow of nuclear war written by C.S. Lewis: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking abou…

From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:

The arc of history is long and it bends off to the side a bit, it’s always been like that and history would prefer you not mention it because it makes them a bit self-conscious.

When someone says “the president is not a dictator” and you say “maybe soon though” I worry that that’s a akin to “obeying in advance.”

No. The president of the US is not a dictator. Even if he would like to be, we will not allow it.

Anyway, gonna keep making videos which hopefully bring a little joy into the world, and I'll keep on teaching you how stuff works so you're empowered with the lessons of our technological past and not just the black box future we're currently stuck in.