Sam 🏳️‍⚧️

LOL classic Teller. I imagine he was a little jealous...

I wrote a silly song about nuclear proliferation:

Modeling the transition era...

@gork.it is this true

That's really cool. I've also been refurbishing some of my locos lately...

Dr. Strangelove mentioned!!!! <3

Meow 🫂 <3

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,. All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for. "I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to be chill and relaxed."

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

I love the custom boxcar! I'm going to paint a tank car like that and say it's full of estrodiol.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

New York Central 4-8-2 Mohawk steaming through a rustic small town

7 wooden box cars and a caboose being pulled by a brass mohawk

Just finished repairing my LMB brass Mohawk! This is my first time running a brass locomotive, and I really think it's worth it. The texture, roughness, and luster of the material makes the model feel so much more accurate. That's why I'm running it with authentic wooden box cars.

Mechahitler Jr. 💀

Have we considered the problem with TV theme songs nowadays is that they aren't minute-long introductions and show explanations.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

Suborbital LAUNCH at 2328 UTC Sep 21, probably of a Trident II missile from a US Navy submarine at about 76E 28.8N, 450 km east of Cape Canaveral, observed from Puerto Rico

Pentagon's War on Journalism Is One More Way to Hide Costs, Bad Programs and Realities of Conflict - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation By Anna Schumann The Pentagon is not generally considered a fount of free information, sometimes for good reasons. U.S. national security requires top secrets to be held closely by people who have bee...

What do new restrictions on DoD reporters have to do with Center issues like nuclear weapons and the Pentagon budget? Everything. Communications Director Anna Schumann explains why in our Nukes of Hazard blog. armscontrolcenter.org/pentagons-wa... #NukeSky

Trump tells a roomful of silent generals to join a ‘war from within’ The president delivered an unusually meandering speech to an unprecedented gathering of the nation’s top military leaders https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/30/trump-quantico-military-generals/

WSJ: Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’ President says some U.S. cities he considers dangerous should become training grounds for American troops https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-trump-quantico-military-speech-80ffabe5?mod=hp_lead_pos7

LATimes: Trump says he wants to use U.S. cities as training grounds for military https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-30/hegseth-declares-an-end-to-politically-correct-leadership-in-the-us-military

NYT: Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders The U.S. generals and admirals summoned from around the world had been given little information about the planned event. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-hegseth-military-officers.html

One of these is not the same.

"Recount familiar partisan complaints"

9. We MAY get a CR that is "clean" with no anti-trans provisions in it, but don't prematurely celebrate if we do because that is NOT the real fight. That would be "we've extended our negotiations for another month or two while we hammer out what's in the final bill."

1. There's a lot of confusion about this out there. Let me make it easier:

There are two ways to keep the government open: The full FY26 appropriations bill for the entire year, and a continuing resolution to keep it open for a few months at current levels.

Both are part of negotiations right now.

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

this is such an insanely prescient piece, jesus christ. web.archive.org/web/20160323...

woke amtrak be like:
southwest SHEif
nortHEast corridor
LGBTQIAlc-42
empire ABOLISHER
RAINBOW meteor
Pacific Surfliner

Good luck Marty! I'm also in the thick of a research project right now.

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

That sounds really interesting! Is it on your website? Can you share it?

Do you genuinely believe that getting more followers on Bluesky will make you happy?

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma.

For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

Kato guerrilla marketing is insane.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.