Mastodawn

A lot of people are correctly noting the galling hypocrisy of US conservatives who spent decades fetishizing gun rights and specifically the insurrectionary theory of the 2nd amendment suddenly justifying a man’s public, summary execution on the grounds that he was (legally, non-threateningly) armed when he encountered police.

And I get it. They are hypocrites. The hypocrisy is galling. I get it.

But I am begging you to move rapidly past this realization to a place where you never, ever take this people seriously for even the tiniest moment. Everything they say, every single thing, is said instrumentally to achieve their goal of power in that particular moment. There are no principles. They will not feel shame when caught in the discrepancy. Do not waste time on it, do not entertain it, do not debate it, do not lend it credence as an idea that warrants a serious and considered rebuttal.

Do not take them seriously ever again.

A. Kirwan Jan 23

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apophis Jan 23

@zrb @winter this tbh

most slop i read, if a human being wrote that i'd be even angrier at them

A. Kirwan Jan 23

Really cool JWST photos of the structure in the Helix Nebula. NIRCam ftw

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/intricacies-of-helix-nebula-revealed-with-nasas-webb/

#nasa #jwst #helixnebula

Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed With NASA’s Webb

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own Sun and planetary system.

NASA Science

A. Kirwan Jan 21

Ursula Jan 21

Pasing, München. #APuddleADay #MuenchenInPfuetzen #MunichInPuddles #puddle #puddlereflection #Muenchen #Munich

A. Kirwan Jan 21

I wonder if there's a Venn diagram for the people complaining about Star Trek being "woke" and the "I used to like Rage Against The Machine until they got all political" people

A. Kirwan Dec 7

Landsil Dec 7

I took this one because of how trees lean over the bridge and everything reflects nicely.

📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5
🔭XF18-135mm

#Photography #Monochrome #BlackandWhitePhotography #BlackandWhite #Fog #UKCanals #Cabals #Bridge #Reflections

A. Kirwan Nov 25

XKCD bot Nov 24

#xkcd No. 3172
Date: 2025-11-24
Title: Fifteen Years
Alt text: "Want to feel old?" "Yes."
https://xkcd.com/3172/

A. Kirwan Oct 3

Lady Laura

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Comic by DarkNoodle

A. Kirwan Sep 21, 2025

Alan Bucknam Sep 20, 2025

I’d like to know why no one in the states has adopted the bar/hardware/bike store model that they have out in Dingle, Ireland.

A. Kirwan Sep 12, 2025

Mx Jay Baker Sep 11, 2025

We're in an era of Late Capitalism where open fascists are canonised as part of this counterrevolution to the gains we made, where instead of Trans Rights and Black Lives Matter, the capitalist class and their spokespeople demand that only far-right lives matter, in accordance with their vile narrative. It's a sadly inevitable authoritarian strategy to protect an economic system that has never been so unpopular.

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