derek
@derky.bsky.social
i like to be a gay little bike person and I think plants and rocks are cool and I have several very good cats
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derek
@derky.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Pretty sure bsky image compression will absolutely cook this, but I got really into plant phylogeny for the past few years and made a phylogenetic tree with basically every commonly known seed plant on it. Will be breaking it up into legible chunks in the replies if you would like to check it out
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Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value
Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon."
arstechnica.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value
If a deeply unpopular woman with uninspiring policies managed to win the popular vote less than a decade ago, I don't see why we should be all defeatist about someone with much higher favorability, more charisma, and a much more sellable political vision
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
If a deeply unpopular woman with uninspiring policies managed to win the popular vote less than a decade ago, I don't see why we should be all defeatist about someone with much higher favorability, more charisma, and a much more sellable political vision
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Hydrogen is a nightmare material to handle and store. Leaks super easy, damages a lot of materials, is extremely flammable, has super low density, and has to be stored at either high pressure or near absolute zero. Plus generating it is super inefficient. Almost any other alternative is preferable.
February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Hydrogen is a nightmare material to handle and store. Leaks super easy, damages a lot of materials, is extremely flammable, has super low density, and has to be stored at either high pressure or near absolute zero. Plus generating it is super inefficient. Almost any other alternative is preferable.
Something missing from this headline is that the police chief appears to be a personal friend of the victim's husband and seemingly was able to easily intervene with just some phone calls. So if anything, this is just a reminder that the cops do have some power to help us, they just don't want to
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Something missing from this headline is that the police chief appears to be a personal friend of the victim's husband and seemingly was able to easily intervene with just some phone calls. So if anything, this is just a reminder that the cops do have some power to help us, they just don't want to
You've heard of "measure twice cut once" but may I interest you in "measure 10 times cut 3 times and ooh fuck it still looks bad"
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
You've heard of "measure twice cut once" but may I interest you in "measure 10 times cut 3 times and ooh fuck it still looks bad"
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Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
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Border Patrol shot someone south of Tucson this morning. Three gunshot wounds. No other details atm.
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Border Patrol shot someone south of Tucson this morning. Three gunshot wounds. No other details atm.
I would assert that socialists generally have a good understanding of liberalism, while liberals generally have a poor understanding of socialism, and you can tell that this is the case because it's never the socialists claiming that we agree 95% of the time
It also reduces it to just different policy positions etc but the reality is if you are a scientific socialist, a materialist and you are talking to an ideological liberal you are generally talking to an idealist. There are fundamental incompatibilities at the foundational + epistemological level
A thing that’s occurred to me over the years is that liberals saying “we agree on 95% of stuff” really downplays the importance of what’s disagreed on. A chud probably agrees with me on like 30% of stuff, like groceries should be cheap or we should get to die on a mattress, and so on
January 26, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I would assert that socialists generally have a good understanding of liberalism, while liberals generally have a poor understanding of socialism, and you can tell that this is the case because it's never the socialists claiming that we agree 95% of the time
I've seen 1 star reviews for laser calling it an example of medical racism lol
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I've seen 1 star reviews for laser calling it an example of medical racism lol
practically anyone on here who cares enough to be part of this convo and lives in a swing state did do that; our warnings that she would lose if she didn't stop supporting genocide and border fascism proved both practically and morally correct though
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 PM
practically anyone on here who cares enough to be part of this convo and lives in a swing state did do that; our warnings that she would lose if she didn't stop supporting genocide and border fascism proved both practically and morally correct though
(arizonan imagining a gunfight) I'm getting a lot of 'OK corral' vibes from this
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 PM
(arizonan imagining a gunfight) I'm getting a lot of 'OK corral' vibes from this
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When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...
God. Cheese. Burger.
An exercise in ecstatic American theology
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
Good thing everyone only owns two electronic devices; otherwise adobe's device limit would be really fucking stupid and annoying
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Good thing everyone only owns two electronic devices; otherwise adobe's device limit would be really fucking stupid and annoying
I like that the speckling pattern kinda looks like film that's been exposed to radiation
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I like that the speckling pattern kinda looks like film that's been exposed to radiation
i like his funky little hat
January 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
i like his funky little hat
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i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.
"If you're explaining, you're losing." –Senator Ruben Gallego on the "Abolish ICE" debate.
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.
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i have to quote this because i need you to experience it without context
this is genuinely incredible
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
i have to quote this because i need you to experience it without context
Even if the plume doesn't get lit up, I think the engine(s) should still be visible in the dark
January 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Even if the plume doesn't get lit up, I think the engine(s) should still be visible in the dark
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My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
January 9, 2026 at 3:44 PM
My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet