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SAY HIS NAME JULIAN BAILEY Age 43 Washington, DC Shot by U.S. Marshals February 11, 2026 We demand answers. We demand accountability. We demand JUSTICE. Our family is grieving this unimaginable loss. We are asking for love, prayers, and support from family, friends, and the community. Balloon Release Details will be announced soon. #JusticeForJulian • #SayHisName #JulianBailey • #JusticelnDC Family & Friends of Julian Bailey

Julian Bailey, 43, is the man who was killed by U.S. Marshals in DC earlier this week.

This is a message from his family.

#JusticeForJulian

Book cover of Splatterpunks, edited by Paul M. Sammon

I was thrilled to come across a cheap <$20 copy of this classic collection, which I usually see online for $80-100. I’d always gotten the impression that it was important but also kind of dated, so hard to justify shelling out the (for me) big bucks. Indeed a bit of a mixed bag so far, but still fun

Doom engine depiction of a corporate board room. The chart on the wall reads “Replace employees with demons,” with two lines corresponding to “evil” and “profit” going up over time

Photorealistic depiction of every company currently “looking at ways to supercharge our workforce with the power of AI”

Doom engine depiction of a corporate board room. The chart on the wall reads “Replace employees with demons,” with two lines corresponding to “evil” and “profit” going up over time

Photorealistic depiction of every company currently “looking at ways to supercharge our workforce with the power of AI”

#doom escape from planet X map07 wip

A digital pixel artwork of a super-deformed Cacodemon, confusingly looking at a brown clipboard bearing the CacoCo. logo.

An icon that a friend recently commissioned from me for their tool, CacoCo.

#doom #pixelart #digitalart #cacodemon

Post a banger, not in English?

Not a big ask when I’m on an Italian prog kick lol. But a good excuse to post this monster from 1973, one of my all time faves, which I only recently learned is about the Palestinian struggle (impressively, a popular cause for 70s RPI bands)

youtu.be/zy9B2xCW8ts?...

Rightmost column got knocked out real quick tho

Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

alert: Boppin' is back

It’s about time the world got back to boppin’

Yooooooooo 😂

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Happy Bandcamp friday, go buy music from independent artists

1/ This has me thinking a lot about the corrupt funding that flowed into academic institutions because the job of upper administration in the U.S. has been begging for money in the face of public funding cuts. In human-subjects research it's unethical to build new scholarship on knowledge ...

An unseen person carrying a pistol stands in a lake of some sort. Before them is a grid of identical metal cubes, stretching on into infinity. The sky is pitch black, save for a faded white cross in the distance, as mist gathers around it.

ive been having a recurring dream about a doom map; heres a recreation of its opening room

all miserable events do naturally beget their like

IMAGE: a stylized cell phone with flames coming out of it. TEXT: Delete the Starbucks app off your phone. Seriously. Starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history. We have the power to tell them union-busting is bad for business. Don't shop at Starbucks until they do better by their baristas!

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders.

Our call to action is simple:

📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp

bit.ly/deletetheapp

A knight on a white horse stabs a lance into a green dragon's chest while it breaths fire.

A yelling wizard holds a psychedelic orb.

A barbarian stands at the foot of a path winding up into a mountain cave, while a winged humanoid stands against the moon at the mountain top.

A knight's horses rears back, away from a green humanoid dragon that appears to be pointing a weapon at it.

1970s/80s fantasy black light posters, artists uncredited

A few recently cleaned up automaps from the wip megawad #doom

My daily news diary for January, including: An IU Trident A price tag An empty vaccine syringe Three X logos A bag of money A peace protest sign A shattered ice cube Rama Duwaji's pointy black boot A Venezuelan flag A memorial candle for Renee Good An outline of Greenland A taco The Federal Reserve building A Golden Globe An oil tanker A steak A champagne bottle An Iranian flag A graduation cap A trans pride heart A cell phone with text thread Macron's sunglasses A thermometer and tear gas Liam Ramos's fuzzy hat Alex Pretti's hat and sunglasses Bovino's coat A Ring doorbell A snow shovel An airplane A wind turbine A stack of file boxes A protester holding an ICE OUT sign

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.

One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.

Just discovered this lovely video for a song off of one of my all-time favorite albums. Sometimes the internet is actually pretty cool

At some point, the fact that *over* 1/3 of gaming workers were laid off last year, and the fact that over half a million tech workers have been laid off over the last 3 years, will have to be reckoned with as a society, instead of being swept under the rug anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. The Novels of William Faulkner
2. Violence and the Sacred
3. 3D Graphics
4. Social Problems
5. Film Analysis

Donate to Fueling The Resistance, organized by Fuel Resistance Minnesota is resilient but our tanks are running low. This fundraiser is to help those who work… Fuel Resistance needs your support for Fueling The Resistance

Are you outside of Minnesota and looking for another way to help defeat ICE there?

I personally know and vouch for an organizer of this fund for basic patrol expenses.

Are You Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You. We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.

🚨 ATTN North Carolina: We know recovery from Hurricane Helene is far from over.

With RenewNC, the state housing recovery program, closing applications on Jan. 31, ProPublica & @theassemblync.bsky.social want to know:

Have you applied? What’s been your experience? And if not, tell us why 👇

Mixed media art made by drawing details onto a Doom screenshot. The scene is set in a complex of temples at night. A horned cyclops in elegant clothes holds a pair of dolls hanging from a piece of string. Beneath transparent tiles on the pavement, monocular creatures with creepy smiles can be seen observing the scene above.

Anchoress Alley

#doom #pixelart