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Seeing the usual In-Love-With-Failure and/or disruptors saying don’t take or post photos.

If you’re saying this: THERE IS MORE THAN ONE KIND OF PROTEST.

Don’t take photos at a direction action were laws may be violated, of course. But this isn’t that kind of protest. This is a LOUD AND VISIBLE protest, where showing massive numbers is the entire point, and having lots of sources posting massive numbers is more critical than ever.

A flood of sources is important, because the more A.I.-generated images are used to flood the zone, the more many sources of photographs matter. We have to out-flood their flood.

Now, if you are taking photos, don’t take close-ups without permission! That’s always true. But I advise that you DO take and post WIDE AREA PHOTOS which INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO COULD FIT IN AT A MAGA RALLY.

Middle-aged white men in particular.

MAGAts don’t give a shit until it’s them. If you see someone and think “yeah, they look like they could be someone at a Trump rally,” include them in the shot. That’s what they need to see.

You want to scare Trump, make it look like he’s losing “his people” to opposition rallies in your photographs.

No time to rewrite this better, I’m out the door. See you on the streets.

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vvalkyri

John Tester on the Senate markup of the Reconciliation that includes selling 3 million acres of public lands. Except Montana, to get Zinke vote. That's around the size of Connecticut. And recreational and hunting use of public lands is a huge economic driver especially for small business.
Are you in an outdoorsy social media group? Make sure they know about this.
(I am listening to it oon1.8 speed, and it's about as fast as I usually talk if I'm a little excited.)

https://www.youtube.com/live/-Z24G0kcpIY

Trying to rush myself out up to MayDay so that I've gone somewhere before working on the apartment today. Eric Swalwell was fire and funny: https://www.youtube.com/live/KkenuPMgAbA

There's a lot to worry about today, and part of why I failed to go to bed last night is probably that. Trying to tell people to have situational awareness and I'm worried that what with a number of states calling up guard or emergency things will be far more tense with police than in the last several months.

And then there's the horrific news out of minnesota.

Got to get in the shower.

solarbird

Today’s the day. It’s not too late to get out there. In Cascadia, most protests haven’t even started yet. If you can’t do the mornings, some protests start late – Lake Forest Park’s protest starts at 4:30 in the afternoon.

So find your local No Kings protest and show up. More different protests are better, not worse; one huge protest is easy to crack down upon; a dozen across the same area is impossible.

All protests right now are important, but today’s is particularly important.

Get out there. Go.

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james_davis_nicoll

Ten books new to me: 4.5 fantasy, 1 horror, 1 mystery, 3.5 science fiction, of which only two are identified as series.

Books Received, June 7 to June 13

Poll #33251 Books Received, June 7 to June 13

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

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Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (March 2026)
15 (45.5%)

The Swan’s Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story by Roshani Chokshi (January 2026)
10 (30.3%)

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney (June 2025)
19 (57.6%)

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins (January2026)
2 (6.1%)

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (September 2025)
17 (51.5%)

Red Empire by Jonathan Maberry (March 2026)
1 (3.0%)

The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O’Keefe (June 2025)
10 (30.3%)

The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode (April 2024)
8 (24.2%)

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (January 2026)
4 (12.1%)

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (June 2025)
16 (48.5%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
23 (69.7%)

vvalkyri

There's over 2,000 listed NoKings.org events for the 14th, everywhere except dc. *

Which is amazeballs. It's actually closer to 2200.

Bad enough that the right wing crazies have finally gotten around to noticing there's a distributed protest movement and are acting threatening.

But I'm also seeing a number of states that have activated guard or emergency

And I'm seeing how a couple nights ago a bunch of people got arrested because they were prevented from leaving an area until after curfew.

And so the distributive protest movements have been absolutely remarkably unspicy.

I'm worried that's about to change. Maintain situational awareness and maybe do more of that protest prep than we have had any need for so far.
AltNPS essay on how did it escalate so fast

Meanwhile, also, I'm feeling really guilty for not going out to MayDay tonight since I've managed to stay up till nearly 4 for no apparent reason. And I haven't gotten much at all useful done on the apartment ahead of maintenance. Might still manage to get out to some of DC Joy day, which free DC put together deliberately to be somewhere far away from the parade.

* This is what 50501dc is doing: https://50501dc.com/event/louder-than-lies/

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250613.html

Rubin's Galaxy

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250613.html

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: pleased

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: cynical

marthawells

* Interview with Sue Chan, the production designer:

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/murderbot-designing-a-future-world-that-doesnt-look-like-alien/

“I started out by taking the most ancient societies on each continent – Etruscans, Asian, European, and African cultures,” Chan tells us. “I looked at the most fundamental motifs and gathered them into a bible, then asked my team to imagine 100 generations from now, when the diaspora of Earth have chosen to live together in society. How would they evolve a unified set of symbols? A language that really honours where they came from.”

This informed the alphabet that can be seen in the decoration painted across the otherwise grey, corporate habitat the PresAux crew are leasing. At the same time, acknowledging how much of the crew is queer and polyamorous, the colours of the rainbow are also entwined into their decorations.

“All of that is mashed up but it has a fundamental logic to it,” says Chan.

* Interview with Akshay Khanna (Ratthi):

https://squaremile.com/style/akshay-khanna-murderbot-actor-interview/

I’m incredibly excited for people to watch Murderbot on Apple TV+. Sci-fi has been my favourite genre by a country mile forever, and being on a show like this has always been a career goal of mine. Frankly, I had too much fun filming that show, and getting paid to do it constantly felt like I was getting away with something on set.

And the show is just so good. I can confidently say it’s fantastic – and if you don’t like it, then I would gently tell you that it’s OK to be wrong sometimes.

* Interview with Sabrina Wu (Pin-Lee):

https://www.autostraddle.com/sabrina-wu-interview-murderbot/

And then once I got the role, I read the books and I was legit just blown away at how funny the books were. I just haven’t seen such a dry sarcastic sensibility with this kind of hero sci-fi stories. And then I also just really liked that it was in the tradition of I felt like Octavia Butler, where it’s like, “oh, this is a queer imagining of the future.” So I don’t know. I just thought it was a really sweet, funny, different world. I also, obviously every comedian who becomes an actor, their dream is to get to work on something with action to move beyond an It’s Always Sunny kind of comedy. I believe there was already an opportunity for me to be in a spaceship and shoot guns, and it just made me happy that it was genuinely funny source material.

* Video interview with Tattiawna Jones (Arada) and Tamara Podemski (Bharadwaj):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NllgfEekw9s

* And a video interview with Noma Dumezweni (Mensah)

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

* and a video interview with Noma and David Dastmalchian (Gurathin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=361cKOujISE

* And a video interview (with a transcript) with Alexander Skarsgard, Jack McBrayer, and Paul and Chris Weitz:

https://collider.com/murderbot-alexander-skarsgard-jack-mcbrayer-creators-paul-weitz-chris-weitz/

* And there is a profile of me in The New Yorker (!!)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/do-androids-dream-of-anything-at-all

lauradi7dw

The claim in this article is that the Better Bus program routes for Lexington will finally be implemented by the end of the summer. I have been living in town since the late 1980s and there has never been service on Sundays. If this really happens, it will be amazing, worth trading for not having a bus come to my nearest stop much in the middle of weekdays.
https://lexobserver.org/2025/06/12/lexingtons-mbta-bus-service-to-expand-in-august/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=d73cb0db17-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_13_02_55&utm_source=Lexington+Observer&utm_term=0_-d73cb0db17-644144057

lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25836428-komarr-audio-on-sale-today

At Downpour.com -- Blackstone's web sale site --

https://www.downpour.com/komarr?sp=12495

I believe the sale is today only...

Ta, L.

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james_davis_nicoll

The embittered Martian aerialist and the nonconformist live a thousand-plus years apart, in different solar systems. What, then, connects them?

A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3102/

[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

https://xkcd.com/3102/

sovay

Current events currenting as they are, I appreciated reading about Gertrude Berg and hearing the news from Spaceballs: The Sweatshirt.

spatch came home with T-shirt swag for the latest Wes Anderson film and it is almost parodically minimalist with its screen-print of Air Korda.

I enjoyed Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence (1958) so much that I am mildly horrified to discover that of the one film and three television adaptations to date, none appears to be simultaneously faithful to the novel and good. It doesn't push its interrogation of the amateur detective as far as Sayers or Tey, but it does care about what the question of justice looks like when the first fruits of a well-intended posthumous exoneration are neither closure not catharsis but instant rupture down all the fault lines of resentment, distrust, disappointment, and malice that the open-and-shut obviousness of the original investigation glossed over. Was justice even the spur to begin with, or just a belated alibi's anxious sense of guilt? The plot wraps up like its dramatis personae all had somewhere else to be, but until then it hangs out much longer in its misgivings than many of Christie's puzzles. Some of its ideas about adoption and heredity have worn much less well than its premise, but I liked the scientist explaining that his work in geophysics is too technical to afford him to be absent-minded.

In all the studio-diorama aesthetic of the video for Nation of Language's "Inept Apollo" (2025), the shot of the Tektronix 2205 made it for me. I grew up with a 2465.

Current Music: Nation of Language, "Inept Apollo"

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250612.html

On April 20, 2023 the shadow of a

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250612.html

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: contemplative

lauradi7dw

I was about to post a thought here that felt monumental when I thought it but seems goofy when typing it out.
My little stable of faithful readers doesn't need to be burdened with a self-revelation about socks.
Also, is it rude to reach out to a friend who was part of a group apartment in the late 1970s to ask a question about a conversation from the time? Arthur was another one of the friends in that apartment, and I'm not reaching out to ask him.

solarbird

Find your local No Kings protest and show up. More different protests are better, not worse; one huge protest is easy to crack down upon; a dozen across the same area is impossible.

If you’re new at protests, show up at the Event Attendee Pre-Mobilization Mass Call today, 5pm Cascadian/Pacific, 8pm Eastern.

If you’re military or ex-military or military family, here’s extra information for you – 4pm Cascadian/Pacific, 7pm Eastern.

Turn out. Show up. Be there.

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