Peter Ravn Rasmussen

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

"Three Human Skeletons", edited Polaroid photograph, dated 1977-1997, by Dutch visual artist Aat Veldhoen (1934-2018). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-F-2016-147-1971.

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

A thread worth reading.

Learn a second language while at university. When history students ask me what courses they should take (which happens surprisingly often), I tell them language – not history – courses. If you have an opportunity to go to university you should try to learn a 2nd language, regardless of your major.

You will be visited by three spirits.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

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I will not negotiate away anybody’s human rights and I will oppose any politician who thinks that is an ok stance. I don’t care what party. If you’re going to support democrats who oppose transgender humanity the entire thing isn’t worth fighting for. The line must be drawn.

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Expecting consistency from the fash is a failure to understand that the fash don't care about truth or facts.

It turns out that FUN will pack the house and have a line queued up outside. I will bet a shiny nickel that Boudicca and Vercingetorix and Leif Eriksson were fun. At least one of them, anyway. It’s a helluva power.

Why do I like to live in Copenhagen? Because it's so peaceful here.

Hell yeah 👏🏽

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

No matter how much you worked, you'll never be as tired as a cat that did nothing all day.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel. (So many movies I could choose, but it has to be RHPS.)

Not to excuse conspiratorial ideation, but it kind of feels like the right has managed to create a reflex lack of trust directed at the institutions run by them in a fraction of the time it took the right to cultivate their own distrust in liberal institutions.

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

People do what you pay them to do. You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products. You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well. You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth. And so forth. Be aware of what you pay people to do

This is super weird and downright excellent.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

You will be visited by three spirits

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Good gods, this boils my blood.

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

This is the Way. Don't give them an inch.

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

Today's episode of "A Girl and Her Fed" by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com resonates with me. This is what I mean when I say that "I am not a good man, but I can fake it convincingly". www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html