Adrian Tchaikovsky is the science fiction writer you need to read right now And there's a good place to start

Why we need to read @aptshadow.bsky.social now!

open.substack.com/pub/stranges...

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball WASHINGTON—Shocking Truth Social followers with a graphic insult to a nebulous opponent, President Donald Trump escalated a feud with an unclear adversary Monday by posting an AI video of himself fuck...

“The president is clearly enraged at somebody, but the clip provides far too little context to know who exactly is meant to be targeted,” said political analyst Allen Mueller

Somewhere S or W of Tessalit, Mali (which is where the band Tinariwen is from; the music resembles the landscape.)

#flightsimulator #MicrosoftFlightSimulator2024

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An image with a black background. The planet Uranus is a glowing orb near the center surrounded by rings. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the right half. The patch is whitest at the center, then fades into blue at it expands from right to left. A thin outline of Uranus is also white. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. There are faint orange and off-white smudges, some oval, some circular, that are background galaxies scattered throughout the image. Several bright blue point sources closer to Uranus are the planet’s moons. There is also a bright star at the left of the field, with 8 diffraction spikes.

The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears light blue with a large, white patch on the right side. On the edge of that patch at the upper left is a bright white spot. Another white spot is located on the left side of the planet at the 9 o’clock position. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet.

At center is the planet Uranus, a blue globe with a large white spot occupying most of the planet. It’s surrounded by a series of rings that get brighter as you move outward. Beyond the rings are 14 moons appearing as points of light. The moons vary in brightness with the brightest, Miranda, just above 9 o'clock.

The planet Uranus appears as a smooth, bright cyan disc at the center, its atmosphere reveals soft, hazy tones of blue. Surrounding the planet is a vivid reddish glow, forming a diffuse halo that contrasts strongly with the cool blue of the planetary disc. Encircling Uranus are several thin, concentric rings, visible as pale grey arcs. Subtle variations in brightness can be seen across the planet\u2019s face, with slightly brighter patches near the limb, hinting at atmospheric structure.

uranus seen by the webb telescope

Fun fact Ron: Two people are dead in Minnesota because ICE ASSASSINATED THEM

US border czar says immigration crackdown in Minnesota will ‘conclude’ Tom Homan says that Trump has backed ‘significant drawdown’ in the state, where two US citizens have died

The Trump administration said it is ending its deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota. They’re framing it as Minnesota agreeing to cooperate, but most of their statements are false. It’s Minnesotans standing firm and refusing to back down. The resistance only grows. Minnesota strong 💪

Justice isn’t ICE leaving Minnesota.

Justice is ICE being held accountable for murdering Americans.

Fight for Minnesota.

So, this won't spread and you'll be fighting for
your OWN community.

Minnesota is America.
Minnesota IS OUR Community.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Cuboctahedron - Wikipedia

As a shapes person, I would say a Cuboctohedron is trying really hard to be a 3D hexagon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubocta...

(There's always the fallback plan: Hexagonal Prism. But that's less fun!)

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Same thing every time:
1. Reframe the victim as the villain

2. Make the state the injured party

3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)

4. Expand blame to an entire out-group

5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting

20-30% water!?

Western Tasmania #msfs2024 #flightsim

Direct Energy Tansfer ✔️

Cherry blossoms(?) across the landscape - Japan, N of Miyako

(Is this realistic? The colors are so cool!)

#msfs2024 #flightsim #japan

The lunar eclipse as seen above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, during the early hours of March 14, 2025. A white to orange to red gradient sweeps across the Moon from the top left to the bottom right of its full disc. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna

The solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon in Mare Crisium by the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander. The Sun's corona shines as a bright circle around the dark disc of the Earth. A "diamond ring" flare glows at the five o'clock position against the darkness of space. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

eclipse from earth | eclipse from the moon

I spent a lot of time in my book breaking down WHY this is happening — it’s *content meets community*

- A lot of people don’t want “politics” or “news”, they want to be entertained…comedy, culture

- They want to feel like they’re listening to someone relatable, who talks like them, is like them.

Bubble chart of follower counts for top right-leaning versus left-leaning online shows

As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Last night's eclipse from the perspective of the moon. dang.

Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Rocks and sand. A shadow of a butte darkens the left. More buttes are in the distance; we’ll see more of them later. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Just past sunrise on Sol 4476, the Mars Curiosity Rover used MastCam to take a large mosaic of the surroundings. Here’s my favorite part, looking towards the future drive path and boxworks.

flic.kr/p/2qRrYD1

Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Mine would have turned it like this one. It was awesome in the clear skies here (minnesota)

The flight sim rig
#flightsim #msfs2024

Japan, Niigata. (Look at those skies)
#flightsim #msfs2024