Notices by Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)

@kris @mattl

I like this one. Is it for a book about CSS with a salmon on the cover..?

@mattl
Kitcat.studio as a more commercial alternative to filmfreedom.net.

And I got narya.net a long time ago, when most people didn't know the reference. I had a big open hardware infrastructure project planned, but it never got very far. But it's a 5 letter domain name! So I can't let it go!

@youronlyone

The good news is that we are probably decades if not centuries away from being able to do that!

@youronlyone
I'm pretty sure they're both "you you". Which then diverge from that point. We're just not used to that concept. Or ready for it, probably.

Lincoln Project ad targeted at government agents who are following illegal orders from the Trump Administration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVUcb9lQBh8

It is well-established in US law that it is no excuse that you were "just following orders". Not when you're violating human rights.

You have a *legal responsibility* to refuse -- and resign, if necessary -- rather than follow an illegal order.

@evan

To me it seems weird to force people to vote. I'm not even sure how you really can do that.

But I do wish we had more incentives and fewer barriers, so that more people would vote.

("We" being the USA in my case).

Saw this in an earlier post, thinking it might be fake or mislabeled, etc. So I checked for a source.

This is Reuters. Can't get much more "real news" than that. Also covered by CNN, etc.

Somebody organized this. Inside a detention camp, hoping to appeal to our sense of shared humanity.

I made a B&W friendly version, attached below. Might use it on a sign. It's a powerful image/message, I think.

"SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison"

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sos-migrants-held-texas-fear-notorious-el-salvador-prison-2025-04-30/

15 years ago, Stephen Colbert gave us "So You're Living in a Police State".

YouTube's suggestion algorithm decided I needed this today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd7P78w8cdA

Sometimes the algorithm is kind of right, I guess.

@darnell

A bit late for that life lesson, I'm afraid.

I don't think he's going to recover from the reputation he has earned.

I'm afraid for Tesla and SpaceX, which otherwise seem like good companies. Tesla started an EV trend which will continue without them, but losing SpaceX will be a big loss to our civilization if it goes.

@evan

Depends on the blog.

@brooke

The castle sets are my favorite thing about this movie, I think. Some of them are just amazing. Very Hieronomous Boschian, IMHO.

They must have been wild to build.

#Monsterdon #Krull

@darnell

I hate it, but it seems very possible.

Greenland is very large on the map -- especially a Mercator projection. This feeds Trump's absurd and simple-minded ego.

Yet, the total population of Greenland isn't much more than a small US city.

It's the cheapest of the invasions he's floated.

This will make it a very tempting move to pet Trump's ego. Who will oppose it? Hegseth..? 🤦

He yearns to imitate Putin, and Putin of course, would love the whataboutism it allows.

@darnell

It also fits the P2025 pattern of pitting powers against each other -- just like they're breaking the US government by creating a constitutional crisis, this will allow them to pit NATO nations against each other -- a never tested condition -- to break the alliance.

This would help to clear the path globally for imperialist authoritarians, whose number of course, Trump aspires to join.

Ego, ego, ego. It's all part of his megalomania.

Evil bastards are hitting me where I live now.

Anyway, you can still get these comics. I made sure to save local copies. I probably should mirror some of this stuff.

https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

I only found out about this cover of "Burning Down the House" by Tom Jones and the Cardigans yesterday. It's from 2003, though. It's very good -- both the performance and the video, although I'm still partial to the original Talking Heads version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuldgIOelY

@evan
Yeah. Those are very doable. I'm in North Texas.

Austin was pretty nearly ideal. I could've made it to that one if I'd planned for it.

@evan

I'm willing to drive a bit, but I have to plan things like that pretty far in advance.

Leaving the country, getting on a plane -- those things are usually beyond my budget.

@evan

It really depends on the ad. Some are well-made and fun to watch.

But to watch basically anything they want to shove in front of my eyeballs, stealing a minute of my finite lifetime..? That's going to cost.

#Monsterdon

It's nice that Doctor Who is on the case, I must say! :tardis:

@darnell@one.darnell.one @darnell@flipboard.com

I mean, there would be a certain truth to that, were it in any way relevant to anything he were doing.

But everything he's doing is systematically sabotaging and undermining the country. We're being stripped and beaten and left for scavengers to consume after we're too weak to fight them off.