underscore_magazine - on the carcosa metro The residents of this vast city drift through the dim, cavernous stations of our underground, lost to each other but not directionless. There are no tickets, no faregates. Nobody jostles; nobody runs....

In case you’d like to read my story “On the Carcosa Metro,” here it is. (I must say, I am happy with the way this one turned out.)

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I wish I knew who the artist was.

20/20 ARRIVAL by ABBA

As an old punk/goth/whatever, I’m tempted to dismiss Arrival as a guilty pleasure, but that would undervalue the pleasure it brought me as a kid.

“Dancing Queen” and “Knowing You, Knowing Me” are classics. What’s your favorite ABBA song?

#MusicSky
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#Arrival
#Disco

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Because I’m done with
Sad Wrath and
Angry Greed
in 2025 ✌️

we make the idea of #adoption easy to swallow by pretending that adoptees are “orphans”. if we confronted the truth, then maybe we would perceive the cruel absurdity of forcing a person to decide whether they can even know, much less have a relationship with, *their own family.*

Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do? Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’.

Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’

https://go.nature.com/3Tn7GgO

Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.

Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)

The Trump regime is out of control.

"Coffee House Chronicles: The Movie" is an LGBTQ+ comedy film that takes place over two busy days in L.A.

Available on these streaming platforms: #primevideo
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Review: 'Mid-Century Modern' a Gay 'Golden Girls,' But Also a Valentine to a Golden Age of Sitcoms | EDGE United States Review: 'Mid-Century Modern' a Gay 'Golden Girls,' But Also a Valentine to a Golden Age of Sitcoms

Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, and Linda Lavin move into a house in Palm Springs… no, really. 'Mid-Century Modern' is Hulu’s chaotic new answer to aging with gay panic and perfect lighting. #MidCenturyModern tinyurl.com/mr6p3s34

'A Nice Indian Boy' - A Welcome Addition to Queer Cinema

MOVIE: Queer love, family drama, and a Bollywood wedding—A Nice Indian Boy is a heartfelt win for LGBTQ cinema. Don’t miss this vibrant new film from Roshan Sethi.
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Andrew Ahn on 'The Wedding Banquet' and Queering Tradition Andrew Ahn discusses how he empowered his actors to make the characters their own and what he hopes audiences will take away from the film.

Read our interview with Andrew Ahn about THE WEDDING BANQUET, empowering his actors to make the characters their own, and what he hopes contemporary audiences take away from his spin on the material.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

How a mouse watching 'The Matrix' helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

The real problem about science isn't about loss of trust. It's about not having a voice, a counter. @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Whai if the 300,000 scientists supported by NIH stood up? Or even half of them. Instead of <1%

The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts could mean 4 million deaths HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programs are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

IN FOCUS | The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

New Trump order would punish states for combating climate change The order directs the government to "expeditiously" take action to "stop the enforcement of State laws" designed to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions.

The order, experts warn, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change.

Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans to a brutal Salvadoran prison. They were accused of being gangsters, but couldnt see the evidence against them. This is the story of one—Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay make-up artist, who is innocent: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process * US politics live – latest updates The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he’d like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US. “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror. Continue reading...

Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Sundance 2025: A Gay and Trans Festival Recap (LIVE UPDATES) Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival of the best LGBTQ+ cinema and beyond. ⬇️

Google Maps 3D of the Palisades before and after the fire.

Trump directing the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold migrants in US illegally President Donald Trump says he’s directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.

BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.

Data science education lagging in the U.S. A lack of dedicated courses and integration of data science concepts across curricula is hindering a growing need for data literacy, a recent report finds.

Data science education lagging in the U.S. #EdTech
#edusky #TLSky #teachers #education #educators

The Attack on Trans Rights Won’t End There Once legal rights begin to fall, they fall for everyone.

The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.”
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“I was beaten, crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gauge my eye and all these people were just pardoned by Donald Trump, who says that they were the real victims, that they were the patriots. I don’t understand how anyone can believe that.” Harry Dunn

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.

Third-party voters and those who sat out the election: Is this what you wanted? You knew the Muslim ban president was no friend to Gaza when you told everyone not to vote for Kamala, right?

Trump Tower Gaza is where Trump’s head is at!
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Photo of Downtown Los Angeles and text that reads "LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund"

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund is now taking applications. This fund aims to support artists and arts workers who were impacted by the devastating Los Angeles fires.

Check eligibility requirements and apply now through February 18 at 5 pm PST at cciarts.org.