Oldionus
@oldionus.bsky.social
Resident of the beautiful State of Oregon, spend about a third of the year in the also beautiful State of California. Humanist and Rationalist. Secular Buddhist. Amateur pianist and clavichordist.
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Oldionus
@oldionus.bsky.social
· May 14
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This colour image, combining #Hubble observations with further info by Robert Gendler & Jay GaBany, shows an incredible view of Messier 106 (M106 or NGC 4258), an intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
➡️ esahubble.org/news/heic1302/
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #astronomy #space
This colour image, combining #Hubble observations with further info by Robert Gendler & Jay GaBany, shows an incredible view of Messier 106 (M106 or NGC 4258), an intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
➡️ esahubble.org/news/heic1302/
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #astronomy #space
What an absolutely stunning image. What evolutionary purpose does the human sense of beauty serve that when we see an image like this, of beauty on the largest scales, we (Some of us, anyway) get goosebumps?
Dowd is now and always has been fundamentally disingenuous.
December 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Dowd is now and always has been fundamentally disingenuous.
Which future? After the Butlerian Jihad?
Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Which future? After the Butlerian Jihad?
Drump need to go to a camp. A camp for the criminally insane.
Jane Harman: Two resolutions asserting Congress’s constitutional authority to decide when the United States goes to war were defeated, largely along party-line votes.
That is shameful. And dangerous.
thehill.com/opinion/cong...
That is shameful. And dangerous.
thehill.com/opinion/cong...
December 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Drump need to go to a camp. A camp for the criminally insane.
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This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear.
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear.
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Extra Clean is no doubt right but man am I sick of his sanctimony. I wish he'd just shut up for a year or three.
He’s dumber than I thought
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Extra Clean is no doubt right but man am I sick of his sanctimony. I wish he'd just shut up for a year or three.
BS. It couldn't be more obvious that the tech ghouls that own the place are toadying to Trump. As per usual.
oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
"We determined it needed additional reporting."
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
BS. It couldn't be more obvious that the tech ghouls that own the place are toadying to Trump. As per usual.
Possibly the most nakedly racist policy in recent memory.
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Possibly the most nakedly racist policy in recent memory.
It's also quite a feat to completely surround with ships a country with land borders roughly three times as long as its coastline. A fact which it would surprise me not at all if Trump, who had to have the basic facts about why Pearl Harbor is historically important explained to him, does not know.
Surrounded by an armada, according to POTUS
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It's also quite a feat to completely surround with ships a country with land borders roughly three times as long as its coastline. A fact which it would surprise me not at all if Trump, who had to have the basic facts about why Pearl Harbor is historically important explained to him, does not know.
Agree. However occasionally beneficial, it's greatly outweighed by the fundamental undermining of the principle of universal quality free public education. The right to public education for everyone through high school and everyone qualified to whatever they can achieve should be guaranteed.
Charter schools are a scourge.
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Agree. However occasionally beneficial, it's greatly outweighed by the fundamental undermining of the principle of universal quality free public education. The right to public education for everyone through high school and everyone qualified to whatever they can achieve should be guaranteed.
It's also quite a feat to completely surround with ships a country with land borders roughly three times as long as its coastline. A fact which it would surprise me not at all if Trump, who had to have the basic facts about why Pearl Harbor is historically important explained to him, does not know.
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's also quite a feat to completely surround with ships a country with land borders roughly three times as long as its coastline. A fact which it would surprise me not at all if Trump, who had to have the basic facts about why Pearl Harbor is historically important explained to him, does not know.
So proud of Congressman Lieu... whom I would love to see become president one day.
The last-minute Republican healthcare "plan" does NOT extend ACA tax credits or reduce costs at all.
There's just 4 days left to extend these subsidies.
There's just 4 days left to extend these subsidies.
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So proud of Congressman Lieu... whom I would love to see become president one day.
This isn't the first time I've had reason to question the sincerity of Noam Chomsky.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This isn't the first time I've had reason to question the sincerity of Noam Chomsky.
All I an say is I grew up, in the 1950s and early 60s, in a home where two people who married at 30 and each had different ideas of what was important, and had intellectual lives of their own, tried to make a more or less traditional marriage work. It wasn't a trainwreck, but my mother wasn't happy
Good article from @aselrod.bsky.social on the promise of traditional values. They increasingly promise "happiness" to young people... conformity may leads to happiness for some, but not all. There is a plurality of ways to be happy ... Which is the point of liberalism.
The American right insists that it has the secrets to a happy life.
But what they offer is a prison ship of reactionary politics, misogyny, and contempt for anyone who doesn’t conform to their retrograde expectations.
Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...
But what they offer is a prison ship of reactionary politics, misogyny, and contempt for anyone who doesn’t conform to their retrograde expectations.
Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
All I an say is I grew up, in the 1950s and early 60s, in a home where two people who married at 30 and each had different ideas of what was important, and had intellectual lives of their own, tried to make a more or less traditional marriage work. It wasn't a trainwreck, but my mother wasn't happy
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Tell Amazon: Don’t privatize delivery or undermine USPS!
Amazon accounts for 7.5% of USPS’s sales—its number one customer. Losing this revenue stream of billions of dollars each year while fighting to compete with a growing Amazon network would be devastati...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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What strikes me isn't the right wing ideology or the incompetence, which are expected, but the outright plain old fashioned corruption, which appears to be almost universal in this regime. Almost all of them should probably be in jail.
Ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. trib.al/bxVWbrK
There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun
Every single prominent member of the Trump administration has had a very, very bad week.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What strikes me isn't the right wing ideology or the incompetence, which are expected, but the outright plain old fashioned corruption, which appears to be almost universal in this regime. Almost all of them should probably be in jail.
Abolish Elon Musk. Every day that passes I regret more and more that I own a Tesla and have to do business with a company associated with this total creep.
Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Abolish Elon Musk. Every day that passes I regret more and more that I own a Tesla and have to do business with a company associated with this total creep.
Ooh-ugh. This literally makes me feel a little bit ill. There is something deeply disturbing about this. Normal, decent people just don't act like this. It has a weird coercive, even rapey quality to it.
We need to talk about Lorde's comments re: incest and how this is a normalization of fascism in the culture. Fascists are obsessed with "purity", including blood purity. They're also obsessed with coercive control. Incest is abuse, Lorde, it's not your kink.
What Lorde said is NOT OK. And it hints at a greater problem.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ooh-ugh. This literally makes me feel a little bit ill. There is something deeply disturbing about this. Normal, decent people just don't act like this. It has a weird coercive, even rapey quality to it.
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Release $9.7 million in USAID birth control products so they can be distributed!
The Trump administration originally planned to use taxpayers dollars to burn the contraceptives—largely intrauterine devices (IUDs)—currently stored in warehouses in Belgium. In fact, earlier this sum...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This cause is important to all right thinking people - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/us...
Trump is like a petulant child. He has no clear idea what's going on in the real world, and he expects literally everything to revolve around him. As a nation, we may never live down the complete idiocy of electing this menace not once but twice.
There have been at least 19 murders in D.C. since Trump deployed the National Guard here in August. One was the murder of a Guard soldier less than a week ago.
Trump: "Washington now is, uh, no murders. It's been a miracle."
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Trump is like a petulant child. He has no clear idea what's going on in the real world, and he expects literally everything to revolve around him. As a nation, we may never live down the complete idiocy of electing this menace not once but twice.
Or, to put it another way, if you can't stand the heat....
People like her think they should get a pass, but it doesn't work that way.
People like her think they should get a pass, but it doesn't work that way.
She’s doing media to promote her book. If she wants to be left alone…
I’m not sure why anyone would urge people to ‘leave alone’ an unrepentant, public figure who acted unethically to support a politician who is contributing to the deaths of thousands, conservatively.
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Or, to put it another way, if you can't stand the heat....
People like her think they should get a pass, but it doesn't work that way.
People like her think they should get a pass, but it doesn't work that way.
This monstrous woman should be fired from whatever job she has. There is no excuse for this level of demonic inhumanity in anyone who pretends to be a public figure of any kind. It is beyond sickening.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This monstrous woman should be fired from whatever job she has. There is no excuse for this level of demonic inhumanity in anyone who pretends to be a public figure of any kind. It is beyond sickening.
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/2 Chuck C. Johnson is one of those people who make you want take God by the lapels and say “what were You thinking”? And then God would be yeah, yeah, I know, and be depressed and go lay on a couch and eat crackers in the dark for a few days
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
/2 Chuck C. Johnson is one of those people who make you want take God by the lapels and say “what were You thinking”? And then God would be yeah, yeah, I know, and be depressed and go lay on a couch and eat crackers in the dark for a few days
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I don’t know how I missed this wild story about good ol’ demented floorshitting hamster Chuck C. Johnson this summer
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Notorious far-right troll ordered to pay up to $71 million in racketeering scheme
‘I’m disappointed I didn’t break the record. But I’m pleased to be in the top 3,’ Charles C. Johnson told The Independent about the massive amount the jury awarded the plaintiff.
www.the-independent.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I don’t know how I missed this wild story about good ol’ demented floorshitting hamster Chuck C. Johnson this summer
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Let's get it on the record. If Hegseth, as is alleged, ordered the murder of civilian survivors of attacks on their boats, he is guilty of murder. Not even a war crime, as it wasn't a war, but just plain murder. There must be accountability. Even the Nazis didn't (usually) just shoot survivors.
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Let's get it on the record. If Hegseth, as is alleged, ordered the murder of civilian survivors of attacks on their boats, he is guilty of murder. Not even a war crime, as it wasn't a war, but just plain murder. There must be accountability. Even the Nazis didn't (usually) just shoot survivors.