Bill Hunt

A pair of tabby cats sleeping in the sun

A stray tabby cats sleeping looking very grumpy

Lettuce, peppers, and strawberries

Potatoes, beans, and more pepper plants

Official cats, bonus stray cat, and various plants in the garden! ❤️

And with the OG wendy's curved sunroom windows and those tables with the old-timey newspapers.

If you put your mind to it and work hard enough, anything is possible! 😬

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Stickers! I make stickers, and I’d like to send you some for free!

Yup! These are mine!

Also very fitting since they were originally created as a reaction to a lot of the Silicon Valley ethos I saw coming out of the early USDS work while I was serving with them, and we're seeing again with this latest incarnation.

billhunt.dev/stickers/

You've got this!!!

Fleshing Machine

Went to a local #industrial show last night. The highlight was Fleshing Machine - an electro-industrial act in the vein of Suicide Commando, Wumpscut, etc.

Check them out!

fleshingmachine.bandcamp.com/music

#IndustrialMusic #Goth #GothMusic #Darkwave

Dracula emerging from his coffin

A very Unhappy #WorldGothDay to all of us who celebrate.

Cover of the children’s book WILD MOMS: The Animal Kingdom’s Most Amazing Mothers, featuring a colorful digital papercut collage of a forest scene

Digital papercut illustration of an octopus protecting its clutch of eggs

Oh hey! My buddy Frank wrote a children’s book about amazing moms of the animal kingdom and I illustrated it. You can get a copy here! And yes there is an octopus 🐙

store.bookbaby.com/book/wild-moms

(Looking for a publisher if anyone has connections!)

#wildmoms #childrensbook #octopus

Construct, by VNV Nation 10 track album

New VNV Nation album just dropped friends.

vnvnation.bandcamp.com/album/constr...

If you are young enough that you didn’t have measles but were born before 1989, then you may have only had one measles vaccine, and not the two that are needed. There’s no known downside to an accidental third vaccination. This is why I got my MMR booster today.

via @kissane.bsky.social on a different social site:

"Mergoat Magazine has turned out to be the (print) subscription of the year for me

mergoat.com/mergoat-maga...

Southern Appalachian vengeance horticulture with a side of queer & trans everything and p.s. abolish borders"

A shirt that says "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States"

These shirts supporting the CFPB Union are fantastic! I just bought a bunch!

cfpbunion.shop

After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (Gift Article) In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.

Remember how Trump cancelled $1 billion in USDA spending on food aid, eliminating that funding to farms? Well, now food banks don’t have enough food. Impoverished seniors are going hungry while nearby farmers scale back production. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

Will special rate classes protect Va. residents from the costs of serving data centers? • Virginia Mercury Dominion's rate increase request coincides with enactment of new legislation requiring the SCC to examine whether electric utilities should separate data centers into their own rate class to protect o...

Virginia regulated power provider Dominion Energy has proposed an average $21.42/month rate increase for every resident, to cover the costs of powering data centers. Why the hell I should be paying to reduce Jeff Bezos' expenses is left unexplained. virginiamercury.com/2025/04/25/w...

Mine too!

As president I will add at least one pronoun to bio every day until the stock market gets big again.

I'm tagging @voltur.one due to his love of dandelions.

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

In my last post, I talked about what we, as consumers, must do to save our world from the shitgoblins.

Today, I'd like to start a conversation about how we, as creators, must save the world.

Let's Build Small, Together:

billhunt.dev/blog/2025/04...

my offer to america: we bring woke back

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

two stills of Wallace Shawn as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, with captions: "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "Never get involved in a trade war with fucking everyone"

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

Trump is basically pressing all the “do not touch” buttons simultaneously: mass layoffs, increasing prices, undermining consumer and international confidence. Not sure what else he could be doing to trigger a recession, let alone longer term US decline

Opinion | DOGE’s new plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration is doomed to fail Modernizing the SSA’s technical infrastructure is not a novel idea – and such modernizations have a poor track record.

I wrote about DOGE's planned SSA "modernization" for MSNBC.

"It’s like cooking a Thanksgiving turkey in 20 minutes by putting it in a blast furnace, or choosing to get measles instead of getting vaccinated against it: it sounds most convincing to the layperson who asks the fewest questions."

All three? In this economy???

Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm

May Shai Hulud clear the path before you. #SundayThoughts

Hey can maybe y'all use a meme format that doesn't feature a pedophile? Feel free to use this one.