I've had the song One Night in Bangkok stuck in my head for the past several days.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

Happy Earth Day to those who celebrate.

Fruit shouldn't be this disappointing.

So far today I've had an apple that was kind of bitter and now I'm having an orange and it to isn't that sweet. WTH.

In a nutshell. 😊

The dogs were probably wondering why there were given such weird toys to play with.

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

My crappy camera on my phone trying to capture a present moon and Venus right out my window.

Blazing sunset over the Hudson River.

Cover of the movie poster edition of Project Hail Mary featuring Ryan Gosling.

Ok look. I read it but I lent my copy to someone so I'm never seeing that again .. my train read home.

Back on the train, homeward bound!

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Tim Curry in costume as Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. His eye makeup is dramatic and his face is framed with his pink rubber gloves.

Tim Curry — Mick Rock, 1974

Ew. Rumor is it's supposed to snow here tomorrow.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

yay. rain.

I of course meant to go to be and hour and a half ago... and instead I'm watching things like this.

😀#lalalalala #aroundtheworld #atouchofclass #petekonemann YouTube video by Big Merla

youtube.com/shorts/4vbMg... You're welcome.

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong by the Spin Doctors. Kicked off the decade.

Closing Time by Semisonic for closing it out.

Whatever—the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it’s other humans.

We brought the fight against Flock ALPR’s straight to their headquarters in Atlanta yesterday with @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @18millionrising.bsky.social @deflockatlanta.org & other local community members!

FlockOut.org -Time to start a campaign in your city!

It's surprisngly rare to find cats in their original packaging.

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What a slog to get this word!

Was double checking the tree and realized I'd accidentally attached a "gr-gr-gr... grandfather" who apparently also died when he was 7 years old. I had the name correct. Wrong person. But for a brief moment that 7 year old managed to also have 11 kids.

I think she also mentioned that on the Houston, We Have A Podcast interview with the whole crew before the mission... iirc.

NASA's Artemis II News Conference with Moon Astronauts (April 16, 2026) YouTube video by NASA

www.youtube.com/live/_43Ei9e... Christina Koch answers the question if NASA should honor the original mission statement of sending the first woman and POC to walk on the moon. Noted it would be *harder* to pick a crew that didn't include women or POC. 36 minutes in.

The Seven Democrats Who Joined Republicans in Opposing Measure to Block Arms Sales to Israel Arms sales to Israel split Senate Democrats, as conflict in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza deepen divisions in the party.

time.com/article/2026...