Ira Langdon

Juice xkcd.com/3308/

The bureaucratic hurdles involved in accessing government benefits are often demoralizing, argues Annie Lowrey, the author of the new book “The Time Tax.” “They want to humiliate you, or they are willing to humiliate you, so that you can feed your kid,” she says on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of its planned Aug. 30 launch. The Cape at night before a launch feels indescribably electric

All is Well Erica Hawkes n.d.

Some shots from the International Space Station taken on May 30th and June 3rd. Glaciers in British Columbia flic.kr/p/2shjjpe Landforms on Mongolia/China border flic.kr/p/2shjjpp Caucasus Mountains flic.kr/p/2shjjnf Sunrise flic.kr/p/2shdQrj

Julie Mehretu, Empirical Construction, Istanbul, 2003 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136997

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136541

NGC 4826 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iEerHS

Cardinal

Just posted my latest podcast episode - my chat with the Clicks Communicator founders. We got into fav BBM memories, why a physical keyboard makes sense in 2026 and what the plan is for software (unlocked bootloader??) Did you grab a Clicks preorder? youtu.be/yHFjcHZ1cN0

Back to Shinny Alex Janvier ~ Densuline 1984

a piece from my calligraphy professor Carl Kurtz. September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"

Gadgets are back crackberry.com/clicks-commu...

Trans people were not born in the wrong body. They were born in the wrong society.

Meet Pebble Round 2 - the most stylish Pebble ever $199 on rePebble.com

an orange cat

It would suck to get on a Starfleet ship but be assigned quarters that are on the mid-way edge of the saucer, so your windows are just... normal and not crazy-slanted at all. Boring!

During Christmas, a time when so many people are spending time with family for the holidays, I always notice that a disproportionate number of service industry workers who are covering those days tend to be queer. It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

I feel that every time

1. New Zealand's right-wing govt has banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers in a major concession to its far-right flank. The move was to be announced by the health minister, but the far-right NZ First preempted it, calling it a "win in the war on woke." Subscribe to support our journalism.

pigeon pouches will be debuting in the shop update THIS FRIDAY! 🕊️

BUT WHAT IF IT IS

Kazimir Malevich, Samovar, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135938

The loud part out loud

The appetite for overriding fair systems in pursuit of partisan ends worries me. Maybe it was necessary here and now, but if carried forward into matters like the filibuster, I worry what Republicans will do if we open these doors for them.

We are so back

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Mindblowingly cool breakthrough - we made it so all existing Pebble watchfaces/apps now automatically scale up to fill larger and higher resolution Pebble Time 2 display!

I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

Ezra Klein: "I’m not going to tell you I am absolutely sure Democrats should shut the government down. I’m not. At the same time, joining Republicans to fund this government is worse than failing at opposition. It’s complicity." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social is a great metaphor and description of what I think has happened to the Internet, and our overall "consumption" of information, no matter how nutritious or empty the calories of information we consume are. youtu.be/9euKCrTyMEc?...

Georges Vantongerloo, Construction of Volume Relations, 1921 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136603

William Crutchfield, Beached City, 1972 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116944

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

9. Right now, one party has not joined the anti-trans policy escalation. If that fragile dichotomy collapses—if Dems too decide that trans people can be sacrificed—the result will not be a lesser evil. It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse.

Roy Lichtenstein, Pistol, 1964 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135671

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

We're really proud to show off the final design for Pebble Time 2*! It's quite a bit sleeker and imo more awesome looking than the original design for Core Time 2 we showed off in March. I hope you like it!

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

Exceedingly happy to see BLeeM take the reigns of campaign 4. I love Matt Mercer and Critical Role, and Brennan is going to crush it stepping into his shoes and letting the forever DM be a player for a campaign.

Richard Pettibone, Frank Stella, "Sinjerli III," 1968, 1969 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135364

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.