About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

I hate scroll fading, I'm not the only one, sometimes it's hard to convince people.
@db brought you the perfect "a picture is worth a thousand words", enjoy the horrible experience of trying to read this article.

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

Um...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lord-of-the-rings-jd-vance-elon-musk-politics-b2893472.html

🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"

"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿‍♂️

"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿‍♂️

"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it in the screenshot.🤷🏿‍♂️

No, it doesn't matter if Tolkien was consciously or subconsciously racist.

He wrote this stuff, and so it should be obvious why the *white* right-wing gravitates towards it.

I mean, I don't think they're suggesting that the right-wing in say, Uganda were big Tolkien fans.🤷🏿‍♂️

The white is silent.

Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h 😮

RBH-1 contains ~20 million solar masses and has left behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, as it plows ahead into the circumgalactic medium (CGM).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04166
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sees-possible-runaway-black-hole-creating-a-trail-of-stars/
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