”Dizzy Yet” 🎃, a Scrivener𓋇

“Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.” — John Cage

Smoke signals in space 💨 The Fine Ring Nebula, shown here, looks like an almost perfect circular ring — yet most planetary nebulae are either spherical or elliptical in shape, or bipolar. Why this unusual shape? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1131a/ 🔭 #flashback

"let IPs die" 🚫 "force IP into the public domain" 👉

Philoderpiton is delightful to say out loud.

RIP Walter❤️

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

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.

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

My head is hurting after a good day, grrrr. Cant find my new migraine meds :/

Swordsman

How it feels right now

Wide-field image of the Southern Milky-Way (ground-based image) Image date: 24 April 2007, 15:00 Credit: A. Fujii Source: ESA/Hubble

The global pro-democracy, anti-fascist movement just notched two major wins today, after Students List in Serbia ousted strongman Aleksandar Vučić and Brazilian President Lula defeated the son of the man behind Brazil’s Jan 6 to win reelection! In 9 days, U.S. next!

A Swedish study of over 1.2 million adults found that non-hospitalised people with diagnosed long COVID had a 14% higher risk of developing high blood pressure than those without long COVID. Researchers highlight the importance of cardiovascular follow-up and regular blood pressure monitoring.

project update on generation and simulation in the game i'm working on, tentatively titled [the coiled sun], and the new save system. a short thread:

this is what a near-sunset view on pluto looks like. we sent a spacecraft billions of miles from earth and got to see a world we’d never explored up close before.

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

www.rmpbs.org/news/science... #climate

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Mar 24, 2025) Herbig-Haro 49/50 showcases the outflow from a forming star, beautifully juxtaposed with a distant spiral galaxy, observed by #NASAWebb with NIRCam and MIRI. esawebb.org/images/weic2506a/

some space images never stop taking my breath away, no matter how many times i’ve seen them. space is art.

The repeated tonal whiplash of Kevin Can Go Fuck Himself is spectacular

for shader nerds: there is neat anti-repetition tech here. it would be fun to mess with anti-repetition shaders like this. it's a neat set of tricks. i've only ever read about them. and part of me wonders if you could use a nonsquare basis. worey distance for blend, for instance...

I am ALWAYS in the wrong racket.

Noise show tonight canceled. The venue and time change and so on was a lot. I am grateful because this migraine is limping on despite the abort, but it isn’t painful. Gonna work and chores tonight

This too is (probably) yuri

Parking actually seems like it's bad for small business because unless one has the wherewithal to build a fuck ton of parking, potential business would be lost to rate of parking turnover

@esper.bsky.social please adapt dril into a magic the gathering card

Anyone got experience with ubrelvy ? How drowsy/dizzy does it make you?

I don’t think the internet psychologically damaged us as a species. I think capitalists trying to control and monetize it did. I think we as a species created a web of speed a creativity. A breaking of walls that scared and enraged the wall builders.

Gotta get my stuff together to go and pick up this ubrelvy crud

My head feels weird on one side today, but doesn’t hurt. Am groggg 😵‍💫

it honestly sucks how everyone is expected to pretend they’re fine when asked how are you, even if your friend asks. apparently it is not cool to be honest

Telling trans people to calm down in re: anti-trans Democrats works the same way as a man calling a woman "hysterical" or "emotional." It frames any reaction the other person has as invalid, and guarantees that, if they weren't mad before, they sure are now. It doesn't work, and it's rude. Stop it.