Morjax

Morjax

@morjax.bsky.social

Leave the world better than you found it. Advocate for your values in the world. @osg.bsky.social ⚜️, @HarisenDaiko.bsky.social #Taiko guy with 2.3e-6 acres of facial hair. Mostly harmless. He/Him.

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Coming to CONvergence 2026 #CVG2026? Here's where I'll be: Thu: 🥤Secret Soda Panel 7:00-8:00 Hyatt 2 Northstar B Sat: 🥁 @harisendaiko.bsky.social preview show 11-11:30 Hyatt 6 Gymnasium Sun: ✨️✨️Harisen Daiko 12:30-2 MAINSTAGE✨️✨️ (Hyatt 1 Nicollet Ballroom)

I did the thing and cast my #Vote early today (secret Pizzamas shirt in tow #DFTBA)! Make sure you have a plan to vote as well!

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Weird Story real quick… A year ago my friend Bria and I released a cute little app that installs an easily distractible bean on your phone. If you use your phone less the bean can knit more and then you can trade in the stuff they knit for decor for their house. SINCE THEN............

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Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Micah@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

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Human rights policy and laws arose out of the well-established and highly-practical premise that we cannot protect our people unless/until we are willing to to protect all people.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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Kansas gets to choose in its Senate race between a Methodist pastor whose congregation donates tens of millions to help the local poor, and an incumbent who sues vulnerable people into the jailhouse to recover 18 percent interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

nytimes.comRoger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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"Sony’s argument is that because digital copies of games are not a finite resource, and that because multiple people can buy a digital copy of the same game, that means nobody actually ‘owns’ it – if they did, nobody else would be able to have it." Ok Sony, so pirating isn't theft. I'm with you.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

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This cat is Very Smol and I cannot stop looking at her

Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social

Annnnnnd.... IT'S A GIRL!💗🖤 A+ from the veterinarian! She's 1.18 lbs 😭, 6 weeks (so no shots yet). Eyes, ears, heart, lungs ALL GOOD FeLV test *negative* 🎉🍾 She did have fleas, got flea treatment, de-wormer (because...probably) & probiotics. Vet v surprised she was in such good health! ‼️1/2

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“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

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Quit poisoning your family! Get an induction cooktop! (If for whatever reason -- you rent, you're tight on money -- you have a gas cooktop you can't replace, check your ventilation & make sure you're always using your fan.)

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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This is so lovely and poignant. And in the last few seconds you can see some cool geometric distortion from refraction in Earth’s atmosphere.

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social

In case you missed it: that moment when the Artemis II crew captures the Earthset from a window of the Orion capsule. In the background, astronaut Reid Wiseman can be heard commenting: "Dude. No. Way." Just posted on the NASA Image and Video Library: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... #Artemis 🧪🔭

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The more I see this kind of stuff, the more angry all the "don't worry, Trump can't steal the midterms" posts make me. Elections in the US are very often close. You don't have to do a lot of fuckery around the margins to make a big difference.

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Don't make her furrow her brow! She'll do it!

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

New statement from Sen. Susan Collins on the Maine ICE shooting: "While the investigation of the Biddeford shooting is not yet complete, it raises sufficient critical questions that I spoke with DHS Secretary Mullin last night and urged him to cease all non-urgent vehicle stops."

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This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.

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Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

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had a dream about godzilla last night. I was desperately racing to save my children as buildings collapsed and the storm surge rose. the meaning is clear: watch out for godzilla