#MythologyMonday Beautiful illustrations of stories from Celtic mythology - John William Waterhouse's painting of the tragic tale of Tristan & Isolde, and Margaret Jones' illustration of Cai & Bedwyr riding the Salmon of Llyn Llyw [from Culhwch and Olwen] in the Mabinogion ...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

I’d say they should fight but you know they’d just cheat

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h ago

"Anthropic model accessed voter information" Yes the info is publicly available (for a fee) but "the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic." www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)

I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves

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Victorian Psycho is an interesting book, and a quick read. I think I wanted it to be something it has no interest in being, and it's certainly decent at what it's trying to be. Perhaps I will watch the movie to see how it compares.

this guy is very dear to me

Deviled Egg 🐾 🔜 Furpoc@hucklebutting.bsky.social · 5d ago

📿 Went to dunkin this morning and caught sight of this and nearly died on the spot laughing.

Fucked up: I'm so used to not having heat in the house that now it's persistently too warm, because I'm not the one setting the temperature. I kind of miss being lightly chilly until the real cold hits and the suffering begins.

[spooky voice] Abdul El Sayed will use SHARIA LAW to take rights away from WOMEN. [upbeat voice] We should use Christian law to do that

Oh hey, it's asexual awareness week. I hardly ever talk about being ace[spec], but I am, hello. If you also are, I hope you have a nice week.

I'm not some campist who's going to say we should all accept what's coming to us but we are at war with them and the way we still treat it as surprising that means they're at war with us is a little silly

I mean that seems like a likely thing for a country at war with the US to be doing

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 3d ago

Uggh www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

all voters *will* be assigned a fursona at the polling booth. sadly, because our election infrastructure is woefully outdated, they will all be mid-to-late 2000s sparkledogs

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3d ago

a friend in Dallas got this gem of a political text today. The PAC, Texans for Common Sense PAC, is funded by Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC, of which a GOP mega donor named Tim Dunn, who you may have heard of, is a major funder of.

If James Talarico loses next month blame it all on me. I live in New York and have nothing to do with Texas, but I have ignored his what I estimate is approximately 433 texts asking me for money. So.

This is such a good point that I would've never noticed on my own. I constantly see quotes and praise for celebrities talking about trans people and/or organizations but so rarely see any uplift of actual trans individuals.

kidd bandit@kiddbanditpro.bsky.social · 2d ago

we’ve been clamoring for trans representation for years, and now we’re finally out here creating our own opportunities, it feels like most media outlets are more interested in spotlighting cis celebrities supporting trans people than actually covering the trans artists and athletes doing the work.

Still New Bedford is a queer place.

It is possible - desirable, even - to pay close attention to the things they say they want to do or try to do without jumping to the conclusion that it will work. That's how they want people to think. "They are omniscient and can do anything" is how weak, insecure bullies want to be seen.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

I understand the freakout here but honestly this one reads as a sign of weakness to me a) peltola is going to win by more than the second dan sullivan's margin b) this argument is pathetic, and if their strategy is 'throw pathetic shit at the wall and hope something sticks' I'm less worried

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Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Quite possibly my most extreme Liberal opinion I share with no less an authority on the subject than Frederick Douglass

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11mo ago

False again - "There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are eternal, universal and indestructible. Among these is the right of locomotion; the right of migration" migration is not a privilege, it is a right older than the state

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece

you deserve to get through this

I'm not clear on the timing of culture panic right wing discourse, but it's wild that (from my perspective) there was a rash of "How dare children go no contact with their parents" followed IMMEDIATELY by examples of some major reasons people might go no contact.