Matt Sidor

post-workout pizza break

Name two characters you think are the same person 👀😂

#StarTrek #WalterKoenig

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.

"Don't be evil."

J-SAR, my own design for a science mission I'd like to see: flying a weather radar around Jupiter to study the dynamics of its atmosphere. (Made with Blender)

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

it can matter to you because it matters to, say, katherine (or orin or john or whomever else). it can matter to you because other things that matter are easier to engage with amidst joy than amidst misery. it can matter to you because nothing awaits you in the divine for resisting your own joy.

when I am walking past all the parked cars that for some reason are closer to the airport than the train station, I do NOT want to be honked at because a golf cart carrying three people wants to drive at 20 mph down the path

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

said “good morning” to my neighbor at 1:00pm

Two anti-LGBT initiatives are on the ballot, the state is settling lawsuits by allowing foster parents to discriminate against queer kids, and Seattle's NPR affiliate is inviting the board chair of an organization aiming to ban gay marriage onto their Friday chat show. Things are going great.

There is no hate like Christian love.

Washington state can no longer require foster parents to provide an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ children and youth, according to a settlement the state reached with a religious couple.

Astronomers discover the 1st ever green star, a cosmic zombie just in time for Halloween This stellar corpse is feeding on planetary debris 326 light years away. Sodium in its extreme atmosphere absorbs orange light, giving it a ghastly green glow. The universe is beyond strange. ✨🧟

Decrying 'premeditated road violence,' Toronto bike riders successfully blocked crews from removing Bloor Street bike lanes for at least one night #SEAbikes #Seattle

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

An early Space Shuttle concept was to rendezvous with Skylab and use a space tug called the Teleoperator Retrieval System to boost it into a higher orbit. Ultimately it was cancelled. (The Shuttle would be farther away, but I fudged it a little) (Blender + NASA public domain)

Tuesday

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

Hubble found a strange chemical signature around a white dwarf that may be a second generation planet forming from the material expelled from the dying star. TESS data might show a Jupiter sized world orbiting nearby as well. Even dying stars birth new worlds. 🔭✨🤯

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Happy second birthday to the Overlook Walk, a piece of infrastructure that I can't imagine Seattle without at this point.

The one thing keeping wikipedia resilient against invasions of aislop is the gatekeeping territorial nerds

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

Twenty years in Seattle. Couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

Recap: The Non-Adventures of Wonderella has been back after a five-year hiatus. Rita's Wonderella now. Dana caused a global pandemic and got cancelled. Everything else is as dumb as before. I update when I can. First return strip: nonadventures.com/2025/01/02/u...

Reminds me of my old invites for urbanist nerd outings in Portland Graphic design is my passion

Take action now against two harmful initiatives that will be on the Washington ballot in November! You can help by sharing this video, donating to No Hate in Washington State, or telling someone the truth about these initiatives. nohateinwastate.org

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

my husband sent me this when I shared the article with him.

Hilarious that in the week there was an uproar about pilots being Furries, we got M’Ress in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

This dog does not just obey commands, it solves problems like a toddler would, testing strategies until one works.

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

Shero

This is extraordinarily well written.

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)