Mike Noordijk

RIP Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, I hope you and Hercules Shipwright are together wherever you've flown to. @johnfinnemore.bsky.social

I hope someone loves you the way the microfiber cloths love the fuzzy bath mat

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

@marcelias.bluesky.social just blocked me for politely asking him to address the Mothership fundraising situation. Blocking for asking that question is not reassuring me!!

When Mark Duplass, Kyle Chandler, or Ron Livingston is in a movie I'm watching, it often takes me a while to figure which one I am seeing

Pass it on:

NO KINGS. NO DUKE.

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

(C) @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

This made me weepy

Everyone pack up and go home, I've found the best possible tourist trap gift shop purchase.

Thank you Jaden Akins. 💯 effort every minute for four years. #msu

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

@peters.senate.gov please resign now. Take your payment, or cowardice, and please get out so we can have a senator who puts Michigan, and the United States, and democracy first. Ambitious staffers, if you plan to have any sort of career in the Michigan Democratic party, the time to jump ship is now

Gary Peters' voicemail isn't allowing messages this morning. My message is: snap out of it and lead our resistance, or resign and let someone willing and able to fight replace you. @peters.senate.gov

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

Anti-boat bias in the spelling bee #spellingbee

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

@raskin.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social

It's Miles Lewis-Skelly's world, we are all just living in it. @arsenalfc.bsky.social @arseblog.com

Among other reasons why you want a neutral civil service: it will be important to have a comprehensive investigation into this crash by competent professionals who don’t owe their personal allegiance to Donald Trump, and whose primary concern is not protecting his poll numbers.

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

We have a legitimate snow-shoveling-heart-attack amount of snow

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

@rpietz.bsky.social R-dizzle!

This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least. If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal

When dogs are happy and feeling loved they make little grunting sounds, barely audibly. In revisionist etymology these sounds shall be called "gruntles", and will now be the new original source of the word "disgruntled". That is all.

I am willing to concede that singing "You are my dumbshine, my only dumbshine" to my offspring may not have been optimal parenting, even if it was funny.