it’s once again time for me to share one of my favorite paintings since i’ve been made aware it’s the feast day for the beheading of St. John the Baptist by @simonknott.bsky.social

Crisis in Japanese politics: With virtually no letters left in the roman alphabet following the AKB/HKT/NGZ run in the early 2010s and the spate of party mergers over the past 25 years, the collapse of the CRA would mean that further opposition groups will require flag semaphore to name themselves.

Opposition CDP Quits 3-Way Merger Plan with CRA, Komeito

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)--The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan informed the Centrist Ref…

nippon.com

Just keeps being relevant

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”

the other problem with all the practical stuff (tracking a few trillion in hardware is not a simple task, particularly when a lot of that hardware is designed to get blown up) aside for a moment is that the bean counters just straight up do not agree how to book depreciation on military hardware

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4d ago

the issue with the audit is traceability everyone knows where all the money is going (if we didn't the appropriators would raise holy hell), the problem is being able to account for every dollar throughout the entire life cycle of that dollar, through depreciation and ultimate disposal

If you’re in the US, expect maps on your phone to start showing you “Lake America” soon, now that the US Geological Survey has updated the GNIS. The USGS is a fabulous resource for spatial data in so many ways. And now it has to implement this stupid shit, for the most spiteful of reasons. Gross.

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

the dawn of the internet: this will lead to a vast expansion of knowledge and ideas the reality: the dumbest people alive have found each other and are all going “exactlyyyy”

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h ago

I think the problem is that there is a internet monoculture now for dumb guys where they all say the same dumb stuff but back in the day you’d have bespoke dumb guy opinions like how your uncle thinks Buddy Holly faked the crash

I think about this map of 4 generations of a UK family, shrinking from 6 miles in the early 20th century to the end of the street

Berserker Coach@berserkercoach.bsky.social · 3d ago

fucking THIS your kids are on their phones because you won't let them fucking DO anything anymore.

"Steve Bannon was the CEO of a company that did RMT for World of Warcraft gold back in the 2000s which introduced him to the neckbeard gamer community and he realized he could harness it for nefarious ends and that eventually became Gamergate" is a flashbang moment for a lot of people

Insipid Twaddle@insipidtwaddle.bsky.social · 22h ago

The WoW gold-farming to Donald Trump throughline is one I still struggle with.

thou wouldst be seiz’d by the leopard

This is what happens when you post a hot take. Not even once.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · yesterday

Reminder - table top fire pits like this are dangerous. If you have one at home, toss it. If there is one at your vacation rental, don't use it.

a. all utility websites should look like this b. lol at the bold red text "IF SHIT STINKS CALL US"

Narrative violation alert: "The plan would reduce bills by $79 million a year, saving the average residential customer about $100 a year. It also calls for freezing rates for three years. I&M says the plan is made possible by increased revenue paid by large customers including data centers."

I&M announces electric rate cut plan enabled by data centers

Indiana & Michigan Power on Wednesday filed a rate cut plan with state regulators that the utility says would save the average customer $100 a year, and the plan would freeze rates for three years.

wvpe.org

Just your regular reminder that #WellsFargo is a garbage institution. Our one-branch credit union doesn't have a SWIFT number and my daughter needed one to receive the funds from her (UK) educational savings account, so she opened a Wells account.

the sopranos is an excellent portrait of Trumpist governance avant le lettre

finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 2d ago

sopranos reputation: gritty drama about managing the mafia in the modern day. sopranos in reality: uncle junior is good at oral sex but he doesnt want his girlfriend to tell anyone so the other mobsters dont think hes a faggot

I'm going to run a group - Painting the OEIS. Please share your favorite sequences and why. I'll share what art I do with any of them. #oeis #mtbos #mathArt

Since the semester starts in a few days, I thought I'd share a link to the web app I've been working on: divisbyzero.github.io/impossible-o.... It lets you design your own impossible objects! Anyone can view and rotate them in a browser, but you can also download the OpenSCAD file to generate a

if he goes in the bunker next year and says that Congress isn't Congress, we can go in there and take him out of it, and at that point he is just a man

And you are *absolutely* not supposed to ask how they got that big. Just always was that way, I guess. By contrast, as an American, the reason the USA is really big is that we did a bunch of imperialism and settler colonialism, which was bad.

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d ago

There is somehow a prevailing school of thought amongst both tankies and really serious think tank guys that China and Russia being geographically large is a fundamental law of the universe and any deviation from that risks consensus reality as a whole

I think a valuable counterfactual is Lula da Silva. He’s extremely skilled, leads a competent party, & *barely* beat Jair Bolsonaro, the only world leader that matched Trump in sheer malignant incompetence

There’s no one weird trick to beating reactionaries for good. “The (real or imagined) gender roles & demographics of 30 years ago” will always have a constituency whatever they are

Theo Gerome@hotcornerharbor.com · 2d ago

And Bolsonaro Jr. is still polling single digits behind Lula IIRC, even after his dad faced formal punishments

Are states really cutting Dolly Parton’s reading program?

I was recently approached for a recruitment opp in Canada. The research $ was less than the grants I currently have (that I could not transfer) & top of the salary scale significantly less than I make, in a city 2.5X my current cost of living. Non-starter unless the gestapo were kicking my door down

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · 2d ago

Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”

I absolutely love trans people

Stuff like this always reminds me of the target in one of the Killing Eve books who's a Milo-ripoff who gets blown to bits by an explosive charge in his massive dildo he uses to sodomize himself, dressed like Eva Braun.

🛰️ Lunar traffic is already real: ISRO moved Chandrayaan-2's orbit early to dodge NASA's LRO. The Moon's uneven gravity funnels orbiters into tight lanes — collision risks will only grow. Our explainer on centralised traffic coordination: www.openlunar.org/blog/registry-info #openlunar

Moon missions need their own Wikipedia and beyond. Open Lunar is building it. — Open Lunar Foundation

Open Lunar Foundation is building the Lunar Registry, a community platform to share information about Moon missions as well as privately coordinate orbital traffic to reduce collision risks and build trust between competing entities.

openlunar.org

Donald Trump heard that "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" and showed how far you can run with it