Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!

Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Bugs Bunny dressed as a matador

Founder of Antifa

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!!

This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

Photo of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet making a move from the side of a tree. If you look closely, you'll see a small bit of red at the center of its head.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
#birds 🪶

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

Right now, we are at Phase 1 of a mass movement. This means building strength, winning hearts and minds, and making room for people that have never been active to wander in and participate.

The optics matter! Friendly protests are good!

poster for a 1972 eco-horror movie FROGS shows a giant frog with a human hand dangling from its mouth.

They know no mercy—only the Law of the Pond.

Nice video editing 😂

Mysterious boxwork terrain on Mars.

"Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why we see such pronounced ridges & hollows in this area of Mount Sharp."

[ quote from a Curiosity blog entry older than the one linked below. All are here: science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-... ]

"Looking for a spot to go rock climbing 🧗‍♂️?
I've got just the thing for you: admire these stunning cliffs on Mars photographed by the Curiosity rover. The one in the center is ~39m high, and with Martian gravity being low (1/3 of Earth's), it'll be easier to climb!"

The Fog (1980)

Watched The Fog (1980) tonight, and on this viewing it jumped out at me to wonder if one the origins of this project was Carpenter's disgust with all the Bicentennial hoopla and wanting to make something explicitly about how America's historical charm is founded on historical violence.

Every day RFK Jr wakes up and associates a new thing with autism. Tomorrow it will be tonsilectomies and the day after that it will be if your mom ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

bubble dance party

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

This pic covers about a tenth of one degree square. The full moon—which is actually far smaller to our eyes than a dime held at arms length—is about half a degree wide, covering more than 20x that much of the cosmos at any given time.

It is recommended to expand and zoom the image, for max 😍😱🫣✨

Nor that I have any illusions about passing with it into posterity
because I know the people will one day tear it down.
Nor that I wished to erect to myself in life
the monument you’ll not erect to me in death:
I put up this statue just because I know you’ll hate it.

(Translated by Donald Walsh)

"Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium" — Ernesto Cardenal

It’s not that I think the people raised this statue to me,
because I know better than you that I ordered it myself.

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was my 2013 Subaru Outback.

If I had listened to the cynics, Calgary wouldn't have bike lanes, or a new library, or East Village, RiverWalk, the Peace Bridge, downtown office conversions, or even community gardens. My advice? Use the well-being of future generations as a guide and march confidently passed the naysayers.

Platy rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

MAHLI image of some platy rock material taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover this week on Sol 4676. The field of view is only a few inches across. White balanced color.

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A mosaic of nine black and white images capturing the boxwork structure on the slopes of Mont Sharp in Gale Crater.

Impressive view of the boxwork terrain captured two days ago by Curiosity

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#Mars Oct. 5, 2025 - Sol 4680 🧪🔭
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

The biggest injustice was this brilliant film not getting a theatrical release, run don't walk and watch it in its proper glory on the big screen!