Martin Kerstein

Comic. [Two people in a hot air balloon] PERSON 1: 0 mph... 0 mph... Ooh, 1 mph with that last gust... 0 mph... 1 mph... 1 mph... *2 mph!!!* PERSON 2: *Yessss!* [caption] Breaking the hot air balloon level-flight airspeed record

Airspeed

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Keeping the specter and threat of a Trump third term alive keeps all these cowardly and complicit Republicans in line. The Republican Party is the Trump party now, and there's nobody who really knows what happens to that party once Trump himself is gone. The only way for Republicans to delay that reckoning is to keep Trump in power, or threaten to do so, for as long as he's alive. The people around Trump will be threatening a third Trump term for as long as other Republicans believe that threat is credible. It is their only way to hold on to power.

“Why Has Trump Been Flirting With a Third Term?: Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.”

Great article. Read it in full here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

But here is the heart of it:

I am watching Gen V, and the most fucked up thing is that there is zero difference between the current government and Vought.

From threads - Washington state's gov addressing rising issues

Cascadia confirmed 👍🏻

YouTube video by Gojira Gojira - Liquid Fire (LYRIC VIDEO)

This day calls for some Gojira. youtu.be/8PNz5YJnNfY?...

*John Carpenter sighs, gets out the synth*

Sure Colin, sure 😆

Option 3 feels the most Halloween, but option 1 is probably the most comfortable to fly?

This might be my favorite JWST image from the nearby Universe so far. You’re seeing the late stages of evolution of a star like the Sun, after it’s exhausted its nuclear fuel. This is a transient phase where it’s ejected its outer gas layers, which are then irradiated by the hot stellar remnant.

Subconscious band-name generator-node just kicked up Luke Warm and the Spurts. While I was feeding the pets. It’ll do that.

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy.

He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Guillermo del Toro is a treasure. And spot on.

Yuuup.

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity.

Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Captain, my captain.

Happy birthday!

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.

This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

Simpsons meme: don’t make me tap the sign and the sign says, “Fascism-lite” isn’t a strategy to defeat fascism but it’s very effective in normalising it.

Every single day, damn it.

Cover of Merriam-Webster's All Caps dictionary, a red background with a white circle and text for people who are mad.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.

This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

I will repost this forever.

Remind me what usually happens when a right-wing populist builds an extrajudicial, unconstitutional private army

Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.

Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

This is an incredible read that illustrates the corrosive stupidity that seems to infest every single part of this administration

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

Planetary Rings

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🎵 There goes my rookie, watch him as he goes 🎵

Berkly Catton's NHL debut is here and it's real #SeaKraken