SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
I know it's a lot of promo today, but:
1) it's bandcamp friday, when artists get max $ from the platform
2) that money isn't going to me; the album is a rent relief fundraiser
3) the EP opens with a clip from an Octavia Butler interview that flows into one of the best 24 bar verses I've written:
“Gender Goals” a comic by Jey Pawlik, is done in mint greens and choppy black lineart. Narration: As a kid I watched The Last Unicorn a LOT. A young Jey with long hair is sitting in front of an old CRT TV watching The Last Unicorn. On the screen The Unicorn ponders “What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean that we have all vanished. We do not vanish. There has never been a time without unicorns.” The TV scenes are done in a cool blue colour with a static texture overlayed on top.
Jey’s mum pokes her head in with a “!!” and is excited about this development. She flutters around little Jey and says “OH! You’re watching the unicorn movie again? Something CUTE?! Something GIRLY?! Ohhh~ I’m so happy!” much to little Jey’s annoyance. The background behind them has turned from Jey’s usual green to purple with a floral pattern.
Narration: But it wasn’t the unicorn I liked best. The movie now shows The Unicorn and Schmendrick the Magician walking together. The Unicorn says “You may come with me if you like. Though I wish you’d asked for some other reward for having freed me.” Schmendrick responds “Well, I thought about it. But you could never have granted my true wish.” The Unicorn says “No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician.” Read the rest on ohjoysextoy.com
Young @jpawlik.com was drawn to The Last Unicorn for reasons they couldn't explain and that their mother and friends definitely misunderstood. In a time before they had the vocabulary to talk about their gender, at least Jey had Schmendrick.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/gender-goals...
Strong recommend if you are interested in cosmology. The videos are succinct – most around 6 minutes long – and the explanations are satisfying. Same goes for the "Quantum 101" videos.
Also a weird thing to say when you've just gone to war alongside Israel and literally no other countries.
Mr. "No stupid rules of engagement" Hegseth is also in almost the same breath saying "We, of course, never target civilian targets" so apparently he is just too stupid to know what a rule of engagement is.
While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...
No no, this is the international standard for near earth asteroid measurement, as described in the 1 April 2024 bulletin of the european space agency here neo.ssa.esa.int/documents/d/...
Note particularly which half of a giraffe is being referenced.
I have to agree with these recommendations. If you want to get something multicultural, frugalfrigate.com/book/9781623... the storytelling math series has a bunch of good ones from diverse cultures with solid elementary math content.
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2026 - A year of delightful survival craft projects that will maybe some day be part of the B roll for an absolutely GRIM documentary
If you keep going through the alphabet, you can do jk in trans colors.
This is such a poetic description
of this phenomenon!
I appreciate you sharing a clip that shows you just listening.
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
“In the strait … a beautiful word, strait, they really don’t like their LGBTQ over there, they don’t call it a bae, a bay, it’s a strait… really we should be allies, fighting for strait, but they don’t want to give us the strait”
I saw four angles at the four corners of a global tetrahedron. @bencollins.bsky.social
There were the 60 degree angles of the equilateral triangles. And then the mystical dihedral angles. And at the center we could find the bond angle of methane.
Oh never mind, that was angels. My mistake.
Ok and then the next player can make anything positive, or you can play a 1 or a run starting with 1?
bsky.app/profile/c0nc... looks small and weird to me!
I was going to make a joke about how this lesson plan definitely wasn’t in the book of scripts the teachers were supposed to be using for curriculum.
But it’s just too sad that there are actually places where teachers like these would not be allowed to create this kind of experience!
Siri voice: A plan for how to exit the bar after you’ve had a few too many.
I got mine at well past that age, via Kaiser
I don’t understand the last part of the zero special play.
Cool game! Should get speedy and give a bunch of quick practice
I like to go camping. I’m pro-tent.
Oh right, I always forget that having friends and hanging out with them is a hostile act :P
Seriously, I’m super grateful that you keep an awareness of folks with that mindset, and do all the work you do to offer some hope and help to them.
They don’t know what virtue signaling is either! I think they meant to say dog whistle?
This was the first story I wrote that I would really consider “mathfiction” (published 2022)
Yeah. It’s a sad view of education as training you into the right responses to be a member of the elite and reap the benefits, rather than learning to think and communicate more clearly.
Also on the “skills” point, pretty sure humans need both thinking skills and things to think about.
Right, it’s also for saying “mmm, Plato” while nodding sagely when other people cite them so you can look smart, too!
