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maker of firmware, music, art; adherent of science; dreaming of trees; he/him California Institute of the Arts, 2008 https://bluestarfolly.bandcamp.com/ Ventura, CA, USA
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If you haven't watched Andor, it's time to start. The show is incredibly prescient given the shit-show unfolding around us

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Other countries: “We will now provide dental care to millions of citizens because they were unable to access it before” The United States: “We have removed fluoride from the water and added back lead and sewage. The only FDA approved toothpaste will be raw beef tallow.”

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

there's a scene in Conspiracy, a movie about the Wannsee Conference where the Holocaust was planned, in which one Nazi asks everyone in the room with a law degree to raise their hands almost the whole room does you should not be framing your objections to this regime in terms of what is legal.

movie u have watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode no star wars star trek or LOTR)

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anyone else exhausted from all the constant trauma

Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.

Well, my likelihood of retiring or ever owning a house has dropped from low to effectively zero. At this rate, I won't be able to pay rent by the end of the year This is even worse than I expected, and I expect things to be terrible

People didn’t vote for this guy because they liked his economic policies. They voted for him because he gave them tacit, then explicit, permission to be the worst version of themselves they could be.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

Who woulda thought the Antichrist would end up being an idiot?

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

Given the current state of things the world, any companies pulling April Fools nonsense today will earn themselves a lifetime boycott

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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

We live in a cartoonishly evil country

I'm sorry, but what the actual fuck?

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

This is the kinda thing that gets you a general strike.

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A Friendly Reminder….

Look Mike. We can either tax the rich, or eat them. Your choice

Increasingly noisy in my brain today, need to arrange some wilderness time

"Every action we take to help pollinators also helps us because our fate is directly tied to their health," said Center senior scientist and Endangered Species Codirector, @savelifeonearth.bsky.social.

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What a front cover...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but no one is coming to help us.

Questions like this are why I've stopped listening to NPR news

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

Methinks the lady doth protest too much

I absolutely hate this timeline... I just want to focus on my art and music, and gardening with Laura, but instead we have to contend with idiots generating endless mountains of unnecessary bullshit, fueled by gleeful spite and proud ignorance