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I remember getting chills the first time I saw this picture.

Postcard of a fake paperback book, a Paperback Paradise science-fiction novel. ‘Come Be My Friend’ by Zorgo the Red, author of ‘Kissin’ Myself’. Please come over I got a big TV and snacks. My house is fun and I am funny. Come on by. Image of a giant red devil and two tiny astronauts running away.

Come be my friend…

I won Biggest Bestest Bust, since we stuffed my bra with all the socks we could.

Apparently, most people did not attend parties as a teenager, where the girls would draw the boys names out of a hat to pair off and dress them in drag, before holding a drag queen beauty pageant.

This reminds me of the work of Wilhelm Reich. The Mass Psychology of Fascism probably addresses it most directly, but that’s one I haven’t read.

It’s like watching a loved one with paranoid schizophrenia, convinced there are sinister forces working against them, when the enemy is their own mind. Except the them is us, hurting ourselves.

In the absence of any credible external threat, America’s conspiratorial nature has turned inward and we’ve declared war on ourselves.

I love Alice Glass. I used to be a fan of Crystal Castles as well, but after learning about why she left... now I always skip those songs when they come up.

“We’ve both see war ravaged cities. Sure, you did a tour in Afghanistan, but me, I’m from Portland.”

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my former technological optimism, and what happened over the years to sour those visions. Reading this opens another perspective on that time, and shows that not everyone was hoodwinked by the sales pitch.

I must confess, I was a Raver type, technolibertarian cyberhippie utopian. Please forgive me, I was a teenager in 90s Silicon Valley. Some of us grew out of it.

Excellent thread, providing a peek into how we arrived at our present moment of tech billionaire capture of society.

Loved Magister Ludi, even tho it took me about a year and a half to read it. I’d read a section, then have to put the book down for a month or two to digest what I’d consumed. When I finished it, I felt like I had lived two or three complete lifetimes.

I wonder if the preference is genetic?

Pure THCV is weird. A lot of cannabinoid isolates (CBD, CBG, CBN) are just a white powder. THCV is more of a purple tinted glass.

Excellent analysis of fascisised monarchist hyper neo-liberalism and its convergent rise across the western world.

I kinda wish I was subscribed to Disney+ just so I could cancel my subscription

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.

So great to rediscover a band you haven’t thought of in 20 years or so. Blasting Switchblade Symphony tonight!

We attempted to create pseudo-fossil mimics by deploying abiotic vesicles (supplied by David Deamer) into a mineralizing hot spring. I took some lovely photos of the products with an optical microscope.

ALH84001 loomed large over my undergraduate research project. “Morphology is not a sufficient indicator of biogenicity,” was the sentence drilled into me by my professor.

Image collected by WATSON on the Perseverance rover of "Cheyava Falls," a rock on Mars containing potential biosignatures

I've been asked a few times over the last few days what I think the chances are that the "leopard spots and poppy seeds" on Mars will turn out to be actual evidence of life. People are naturally skeptical given the history of possible signs of life on other planets. Strap in: long thread ahead...

Kinda cool to think about my life trajectory, from actor performing Timothy Leary monologues to chemist in a lab testing psilocybin.

Active Constituents of Psilocybin Mushroom Edibles This case series evaluates the active constituents of unregulated psilocybin mushroom edibles.

I was not involved in the research, but here’s some of the cool stuff that happens in the lab where I work.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If there's one thing I wish I could get every earnest liberal to understand, it's that, from the point of view of an authoritarian psychology, efforts to persuade, to "reach out" & "find common ground," are *viewed as evidence of weakness*.

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - Astrobiology A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
astrobiology.com/2025/09/nasa... #NASA #Mars #Astrobiology

Great discussion on the exercise and expansion of Presidential power. I’m only about halfway thru, but recommend it to anyone seeking historical context for our present moment.

I noticed this video in my YouTube feed last night. I was busy at the time, but excited for the watch. I should check it out now!

This is why I continue to have hope for finding life on Mars. If life did manage to get started on Mars (granted, a big if), it is likely still there buried beneath the surface, safe from sterilizing solar radiation.

A poster with a person of indeterminate gender shaking stars from their fingertips, with this text: For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both And works of love or enmity fulfill.

As long as socially constructed gender norms have existed, there have been people who refuse to be constrained by them, and those people have been a force for liberation.

We have prepared a new poster drawing on centuries-old art and poetry to celebrate this.

crimethinc.com/posters/for-...

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