Okay, this is a strong contender to replace jq for me. Piping JS functions on the command line to filter JSON? That's what's up.

https://fx.wtf

Finding more reasons to like Starship Troopers every watch. #starshiptroopers #nokings

I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor.

But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.

The solarpunk thread I posted yesterday (https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114670279088355579) elicited some interesting reactions, with at least one commenter suggesting that punks and anarchists can’t *possibly* contribute anything constructive or beneficial to civilized society.

So today this cartoon seems appropriate…

#History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth #SolarPunk

@TheOregonian @oregon-state-beavers-news-TheOregonian OSU bats are on fire tonight!

Oregon State baseball vs. Florida State Seminoles in Game 3 of Corvallis Super Regional: Live updates
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2025/06/oregon-state-baseball-vs-florida-state-seminoles-in-game-3-of-corvallis-super-regional-live-updates.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Oregon State Beavers News @oregon-state-beavers-news-TheOregonian

This is a wonderful story about the restoration of the Klamath River after the removal of four damaging dams.
#water

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/klamath-river-trip-dam-removal

What looks like apathy is often risk management.

What looks like disengagement is a cost-benefit calculation.

I wrote about the collapse of civic belief - and why cynicism isn’t a crisis of morality.

It’s a failure of systems.

https://www.theindex.media/the-market-for-hope-is-in-recession/

Watch: Oregon softball pitcher’s throw hits clump of dirt in mid-air
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2025/05/watch-oregon-softball-pitchers-throw-hits-clump-of-dirt-in-mid-air.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Oregon Ducks News @oregon-ducks-news-TheOregonian

Wait, Trump's big bullshit bill passed(the house) because the old as fuck Democrats had three vacant seats due to dems literally dropping dead instead of passing the torch to the younger generation.

Lort

#DNC #Trump #Medicaid #BigBeautifulBill #BigBullshitBill

In case you needed a playbook for responding to would-be dictators. From the NYT:

"The funny thing is that there’s a playbook for overturning autocrats. It was written here in America, by a rumpled political scientist I knew named Gene Sharp. While little known in the United States before his death in 2018, he was celebrated abroad, and his tool kit was used by activists in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and across Asia. His books, emphasizing nonviolent protests that become contagious, have been translated into at least 34 languages."

“I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb,” a former Lithuanian defense minister once said of Sharp’s writing."

"A soft-spoken scholar working from his Boston apartment, Sharp recommended 198 actions that were often performative, ranging from hunger strikes to sex boycotts to mock funerals."

“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are,” he once said, “and people are never as weak as they think they are.”

"The Democrats’ message last year revolved in part around earnest appeals to democratic values, but one of the lessons from anti-authoritarian movements around the world is that such abstract arguments aren’t terribly effective. Rather, three other approaches, drawing on Sharp’s work, seem to work better."

"The first is mockery and humor — preferably salacious."

"Wang Dan, a leader of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, told me that in China, puns often “resonate more than solemn political slogans.”

"The Chinese internet for a time delighted in grass-mud horses — which may puzzle future zoologists exploring Chinese archives, for there is no such animal. It’s all a bawdy joke: In Chinese, “grass-mud horse” sounds very much like a curse, one so vulgar it would make your screen blush. But on its face it is an innocent homonym about an animal and thus is used to mock China’s censors."

"Shops in China peddled dolls of grass-mud horses (resembling alpacas), and a faux nature documentary described their habits. One Chinese song recounted the epic conflict between grass-mud horses and river crabs — because “river crab” is a play on the Chinese term for censorship. It optimistically declared the horses triumphant."

http://nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/authoritarianism-democracy-protest.html

I call this aesthetic "Victorian Japanese French Provincial Medieval Hunting Lodge chic".
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8-Grove-St-8B-Minneapolis-MN-55401/1913645_zpid/

@Thayer

@grickle - great cartoons
@SmudgeTheInsultCat - humor
@georgepenney - delightful accounts of people watching
@dgar - edit: good humor, often (right you are, Sir!)
@medieval_illuminations - serving up whimsy

Follow hashtag groups of interest to find folks on your wavelength. Such as:
#HashtagGames
#Caturday
#HootinTootinTuesday
#CatsOfMastodon
#Bloomscrolling
#Art
#SpeakHisName and #Discworld for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Explore and have fun! 🛶

As progressive ridge-trough pattern shifts toward more persistent ridging, rising heat in CA and the Southwest. Plus: my thoughts on the breaking news that NWS offices covering CA's entire Central Valley are no longer operating 24/7. #CAwx #CAfire

https://weatherwest.com/archives/43392

Whoa. A security cam in Myanmar captured an earthquake fault rupture live. This may be the first ever caught on camera?

Watch the fence-line on the right. And note the power-line tower behind it.

👀

More on earthquake ruptures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_rupture

#Earthquake #Myanmar #FaultRupture #Geology

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
https://thetoyinsider.com/products/mastodon-stuffed-toy/

@targetdrone “Enshitification: Clippy’s Revenge”.

@wonderofscience The boxes aren't moving, it's the strobe lines that are directional. If you zoom in you can see them change along with the line shading.

It's a great optical effect, though. And — if you blink your eyes very fast when viewing it the effect is gone.