truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

i for the life of me cannot get them to stop exploring the space

I don’t work in tech so I don’t know if it’s even true that, as some claim, “10% of programmers do 90% of the work.” But even if it were, and even if you could generalize that, losing 10% of air traffic safety, or food safety, or cancer research doesn’t just mean less revenue, it means more death.

just lying on the couch asking myself why i feel so anxious, what a stupid question!!!!!

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

I suppose it sorta makes sense that early humans traded off fur coats and physical strength for big brains that allowed us to create clothes and tools and now we’re apparently trading off those big brains for the ability to use hallucinatory auto-complete to write reports for us.

Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst.
V838 Monocerotis by Hubble.
🔭 🧪

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

Democracy doesn’t mean whoever wins a slight plurality in the national vote gets to rewrite every American institution to satisfy their own whims. The president is not an elected king. If we let him become one, the project of American democracy is over.

My fellow transes: Whatever you can do that is not endlessly staring at this, do that as often as possible. Go to the park or the movies. Read a book. Take up a solo journaling game. Start running. Go to a weird museum. Just log off every so often. Please.