Erwin

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

first car made entirely of hitler particles

I would say read the room, but I feel like maybe that's exactly the problem here

Male Vermilion Flycatcher

The sun finally made an appearance this morning… ☀️🪶🌵 (ID in Alt-text)

NATO really doesn't seem to get they're in war and that they need to win it sooner than later.

YouTube video by Sunrise Aotearoa World's first sunrise, daily. Relax and watch the day dawn: 10 October 2025.

I've got a YouTube channel with well over 1,000 sunrises from the local beaches over the past 6+ years.
But I have to say, last Friday's sunrise had got to be in the top 10 of those.
If you want 45 minutes of beauty, watching the sun rise in real-time, here's a link: youtu.be/YXV7x4gkZtM?...

YouTube video by ITSUKA JAPAN 【かわいい！】日本初・廃線高架上の列車型レストランを体験。引退サンダーバードが“未来行きレストラン”に変身｜京都「FUTURE TRAIN KYOTO DINER & CAFE」

between @gaijinmommy.bsky.social and @crowbar.wtf, I cant decide who would find this unusual cuisine experience more interesting- Kyoto's FUTURE TRAIN RESTAURANT youtu.be/vJDgkyWdphg

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

As a coral reef ecologist by training, this is the single-greatest heartbreak of my otherwise blessed life: the extinction of the greatest ecosystems on earth, in our lifetime, with full knowledge it would happen, because humans love fascism & tat more than life 💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So, now the war is over, when does Netanyahu go on trial?

Green and pink aurora borealis in very narrow stripes

Also of note is this single-second exposure. When the lights are bright enough to shoot that fast, you get to see how complex and delicate Lady Aurora's ball gowns really are.

(All of these are processed in Snapseed directly from the jpeg because I am horribly sleepy deprived after last night 😂)

The aurora borealis (northern lights) as two distinctive shapes over a mountain. One purple spike into a more diffuse green wave. Both very clear and strong.

Welcome back to the 'don't look now but the sky's doing weird shit' part of the year

A White-breasted Nuthatch doing a floof at me because I am taking photos and not offering peanuts. (I did offer peanuts after this photo.)

Aurora panorama (from last Monday). This image was featured on the local weather channel.

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

Libertarianism is when state censor sad

Libertarianism

I've yet to see this properly analysed from a psychological point of view. Obviously RFK is a nut, but there's also a broader pattern in the GOP ranks that seems deeply peculiar, of wanting positively to welcome the threat of disease and death. It feels like a collective psychosis.

From 1910-13, Adolf Hitler lived in a men’s shelter in Vienna. Voluntarily unemployed. A real loser. He spent his time in the common room ranting about politics and philosophy and city planning.

These people are all crazy losers. Most of them end up amounting to nothing. A handful are just lucky.

1 year ago today i seen and captured the Southern Aurora a G4 geomagnetic storm triggered by a powerful coronal mass ejection, Southern Highlands NSW, Australia.

#nature #Aurora

Harper looking sad

Don’t worry, Harper. It’s almost #Caturday

One thing that the last few months have done is shown us with clarity is who among us would have hidden Anne Frank & her family and who would have turned them in to the Nazis

The circumcision tylenol autism bullshit out of MAHA feels like we're a week away from yet another overt "it was secretly the Jews!" full blown Nazi moment that the media will pretend isn't that.

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

Kōmeitō quits the coalition A guide for the perplexed

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Photo of CD booklet of PJ Harvey's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island Records)

#pjharvey #musicsky

TT 442: Brief Overview: Thelonious Monk on Record October 10 is Sphere's Birthday

Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

Neon lights a Nobel Prize
A leader speaks, a leader dies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set you free

- Cult of Personality

Photo of booklet of original CD release of Vivid.

Living Colour - Vivid (Epic)

Original 1988 CD release.
#livingcolour #musicsky