Poor tucker, trump messed up his push for white supremacy and made it even more broadly unpopular

My first article for New Bloom Magazine is out today! After having contributed photography I'm excited to dip my toes into the written form. Thank you @brianhioe.bsky.social for the opportunity!

All these years of progressively further rightwing and less representative congressmen can be reversed for at least one cycle if we all vote YES

Fight back!!

I see a wall of text reeking of desperation

Hell yeah!

Good point about the potential brand destruction. I'm guessing chunky frames are on their way out for regular people

Good reminder!

Sweet, sweet rain!

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Very rarely do I interact with large accounts, only leads to trouble

Oh, this may actually be an adult, these are tiny sneks (I'm used to seeing large black rat snakes)

Yeah, it didn't have any signs of being a venomous snake so I let it be after I took pictures of it. It's exciting, I've not seen one of these before!

Like, something that gives honeysuckle and porcelainberry a run for its money is a force to be reckoned with

Juvenile brown patterned snake on a shovel, about 8 inches long

Close up of juvenile snake, coiled up and acting very threatening

Anyone know what type of snake this is?

Pink azalea flowers completely filling picture

Electric blue flax flowers

Spring colors!

Timberrrr!

Not gonna say everything I really think in public but man, there are some people really invested in being pro cop. Appreciate so much the community members standing up against this bullshit

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

Well, it is a screengrab from X

I am most curious how effectively Magyar will be able to dismantle the patronage networks and other corrupt institutions over the coming years. If the accountability is thwarted, they'll be right back where they started. (I hope they learned from the way the US has not properly dealt with Trump)

Lol, I've been slowly going through year by year and deleting most old photos

Numerous six-petaled purple flowers on a vine dense with foliage

Clematis in full bloom! If it wasn't for the heavy coating of pollen over everything I'd be enjoying the outdoors a lot more 🤧

Woah! Yeah, block to remove followers would be hugely useful on this site

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

Still celebrating over here!

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I am glad and relieved have the Orban name exit the world stage

Music to my ears

That's some impressive turnout!