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

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A. Kirwan Jan 21

@spocko I wanna know who was calling him Daddy

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A. Kirwan Jan 21

@zrb I think Canada's PM hit the nail on the head with his "the old order was all built on lies but we went along because it benefited us and now we're all in trouble" speech:

https://www.businesstoday.in/wef-2026/story/rules-based-order-was-a-lie-canadas-mark-carney-says-old-order-is-not-coming-back-rebukes-us-at-davos-2026-511961-2026-01-21

‘Rules-based order was a lie’: Canada’s Mark Carney says old order is not coming back, rebukes US at Davos 2026

WEF Davos 2026 Recent crises in finance health energy and geopolitics have exposed the dangers of deep global interdependence said Mark Carney

Business Today

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