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just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

This is a massive win for independent animation, and for foreign animated films. This entire film was made in Blender, an open source free program. This is animation history right here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-hundreds-of-millions dollar contracts at fed and state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that repeatedly delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

submitted 23 hours ago • 52 comments

A lesser-known power of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' is where it comes in its collection. Spoilers, but I suspect you know how 'The Lottery' ends. It's famous for a reason. But this is important: Jackson arranged the collection it was named after, and she chose the arrangement. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Curious if they can identify the far-left policy and messaging that they think was the problem in 2024.

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

✌️A book cover should never be under 500 dollars. There is no good enough excuses for you to go lower than this.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Trilobite encounter. Ceraurus species in sterling silver on the left, bronze on the right. One of my earliest experiments that worked; both have a liver-of-sulfur patina, but as you can see, if you time it just right, silver will pick up an incredible blue. #sciart

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994. Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

One of the reasons why Elon Musk isn’t officially involved in anything is that if he were, he would be subject to conflict of interest rules that would prevent this kind of grifting self-dealing.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

submitted 40 days ago • 117 comments

Good morning

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

bro r u even flaneurmaxing yet. bro u gotta get ur weltschmerzcore vibes pumping. bro where's ur fin de siecle ennui. bro do u even drink vast quantities of absinthe of dubious provenance in darkened dens of vice and write reams of tortured poetry

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Holy shit it's still not cute to make fun of evil Nazi shitfucks by implying they are gay, trans, effeminate, women, or that being fat has anything to do with how fucking evil they are THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

My mom highly recommends you read and subscribe to @michaelianblack.bsky.social. (I recommend it as well)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I believe Musk and DOGE disbanded 18F because we stood in the way of their "procurement capture" operation. We get the government out of wasteful contracts. Musk wants that money back for himself. Explanation by @anildash.com of procurement capture: www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

“You have been asleep since November,” said Frog. “Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

your reminder that i'm currently tracking changes to the homepages of 1,373 federal domains since february 4 and if you need any historical data about changes made to a particular domain since that date, i'm happy to provide it.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

By order of Hegseth: “Kristen Geist, the first woman to graduate from the Army's grueling Ranger School, has been erased from some of the service's social media and its publicly accessible media database, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS.”

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

Backing this up: the @altnps.bsky.social account is BlueAnon Hashtag Resistance grift.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 1 day ago • 3460 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 1 day ago • 680 comments

Also a monster that made 1. My original agent say “thanks I didn’t need to sleep” 2. The original editor say “I need to create this in a D&D game so I can see it killed 3. A multiple hugo/nebula nominee say it was the grossest thing they encountered in 60 years of reading SFF

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If you work or worked for CISA, please read this from @swiftonsecurity.com infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecu... You are appreciated, and we are sorry for what’s happened to your hard work.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

There's a lot of darkness in the world right now. We need more light. Starting today, I'm going to try to post a picture of my and @lweiss.bsky.social's Sheepadoodle, Poppyseed, every day. She brings us a lot of joy; hopefully she'll make you smile too. #PoppyPic

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This, so much. If an abuser wants to yell at you, even the very act of not giving them a reason enrages them.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Besides being adorable tactical assault possums, ALMOST ALL ARMADILLOS ARE BORN AS IDENTICAL QUADRUPLETS. (sorry, I have to shout this) It's a quirk of their reproductive system called polyembryony, an adaptation to an incredibly small implantation site in the 'dillo uterus.

submitted 299 days ago • 43 comments

literally every time I talk to friends

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

i don’t think the average republican in congress understands that by removing all of the normal pressure valves and methods for relief, they are directing all of the pressure at themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

I hope the protesters are okay.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

If this does happen, my predictions: - Google & Meta will have ad policies forbidding states from telling the public they’ve got flu vaccines available* - GOP congressmembers will reintroduce the Cooper Davis Act bill with vaccines added to it * Previously: www.justice.gov/archives/opa... )

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I was blown away by the annotated version of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. The book is great, of course, but the annotations were as enlightening as a museum tour from a knowledgeable docent. What other annotated versions of books offer the same delightful experience? https://amzn.to/4knNE2g

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Hell yes; I've been waiting for iron-air production to ramp up. This really could be a game-changer.

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After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

submitted 1 day ago • 665 comments

To my younger and older followers on here: take advantage of this! You do not have to be in Brooklyn to do so and its worthwhile. Especially if you live in a state that censors queer and black books. ❤️👇🏾

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

submitted 2 days ago • 449 comments

This is the cutest fucking thing I've ever seen

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This is a new one... My flight is delayed because, and I quote, "The system shows that no one is on the plane." #marygoround

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

If i had a nickel for every time Robby Benson played a dude hoping to make a captive woman fall in love with him, I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it is weird it happened twice. #Severance

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MY GIRL LOAN TRAN IS IN THIS

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

I blogged my recent lasercutter-letterpress learning! If you've seen photos here, jump past those for a what/how/why writeup re:lasercutting wood to make printable letterpress blocks. W/thanks @ryancordell.org for advice, & the BriarPress.org forum users for sharing useful printing info. #DHmakes

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The time of the white horse prophecy is finally here 🥲

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I love this definition of mutual aid. It’s so much more than just giving money.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments