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crouchingtigger.bsky.social
@crouchingtigger.bsky.social
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An excited ocelot, actually. Not really a tigger.
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volberg.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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jackpackard.bsky.social
I was really thinking that the “230 Games Released in a Week” thing was a joke… it’s not.

I’ve often said that we’re not in a golden age but a Glittering Age of art as there’s just so much of it!

Jenna does the work here to showcase a fraction of it.
thejenna.bsky.social Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 1d
NEW VIDEO ALERT:
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.

youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k
Jenna with a distressed look on her face in front of a Steam search listing of a serious of hentai femdom games. The words "an investigation" are behind her.
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Thank you, @chris.zahller.me, for pointing out the spelling error.
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
Is there no end to the awards being given to Trump?!
January 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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volberg.bsky.social
Stupid is as stupid does. Trump announces 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and Finland beginning February 1st over Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
#Caturday afternoon playtime!
A mid-play photo of a black and white shorthair cat. She is lying on her back on a blue and white bed duvet with paws outstretched toward a feather toy dangling above her.
January 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Have a boopiful #Caturday, folks!
A close-up photo of a black and white, monocular cat.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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vladvexler.bsky.social
A number of people asked for a written version of my video on Trump’s narcissism, as the video was necessarily dense.

I’ve now published that on Substack, where the argument is laid out more carefully and in one place.
open.substack.com/pub/vladvexl...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Alkaloid's Bach out of Bounds listening party is on Bandcamp right now!

alkaloidsom.bandcamp.com/merch/bach-o...
Bach Out of Bounds Listening Party from Alkaloid
Listening Party from Alkaloid.
alkaloidsom.bandcamp.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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andrechemist.bsky.social
My youngest child got to pick out a calendar for the year.

10/10. Fantastic choice.
A page of the 2026 Butts on Things desk calendar, for Thursday, January 8. The picture shows a cartoon drum set where each piece of the set has a butt drawn on it.
January 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
If you see this, post an archer
January 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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kristiankiehling.bsky.social
"the breadth of the economic collapse and the disastrous defeat in the 12-day war have shown all Iranians that the regime is no longer capable of providing them with basic economic or military security.Why tolerate a state that enriches itself but cannot fulfill the most elemental state functions?"
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:18 AM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Happy #Caturday from my sweet girl!
A monocular black and white cat with relatively impressive whiskers looking into the camera. There's a bunch of cat toys behind her in the background.
January 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
The same amount of time has now elapsed between when Raiders of the Lost Ark was released (1981) and when it was set (1936) as when it was released and today (45 years).

I find this... offensive.
It belongs in a museum!
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
I've had enough of winter weather 😠 It was -9 °C (16 °F) at noon today.
The paw prints were left by stray cats. Don't worry about them, they are staying in a heated shed a bit up the road.
The photo shows numerous paw prints in the snow on a garden path. There are some plants covered with tarp on left and right. Tree branches and bushes are covered with frost.
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Every little bit helps.
January 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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salisbot.bsky.social
My analysis of the Trump-class "battleship" is out!

(TL;DR please just build more destroyers)

www.fpri.org/article/2026...
The Trump-Class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out Over Combat Power - Foreign Policy Research Institute
After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a break before the next crisis in
www.fpri.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Great news for exploration:

Schmidt Sciences is funding the Lazuli space telescope, bigger than Hubble, that will include a coronagraph to separate the light of a planet from its nearby star. Schmidt is also supporting 3 innovative ground-based astronomy arrays. 🧪🔭

arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
Overview of the 3 m Lazuli Space Observatory and its three instruments, the Widefield Context Camera (WCC), the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS), and the ExtraSolar Coronagraph (ESC). Main properties and characteristics of the telescope and the instruments are highlighted.
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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tony873004.bsky.social
Finally! Tens of thousands of asteroids are found each year. Yet 2026 had ZERO through Jan 6.

The drought is over.

Possibly as big as a jet liner. Possibly as large as a football field. Meet 2026 AA.

Blame the Full Moon for the drought.🌕 Expect many more soon.
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 AM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
I'm back. Belated Happy New Year, everyone!
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
crouchingtigger.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, everyone! Enjoy every moment!
Logging off. I will see you in the new year.
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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sarahkirchberger.bsky.social
⚡️Breaking: Qatar just offered to sponsor one battle cruiser! 💰
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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vladvexler.bsky.social
youtu.be/qM5BXePehYs?...
Tulsi Gabbard: How Conspiracist Politics Actually Works
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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deschscoveries.bsky.social
Very cool! It should also break one Harvard astronomer’s heart to learn this is not a 20 km- diameter object. Since we’d expect to see thousands of smaller comets for each comet that big, this wouldn’t be an interstellar comet. But, turns out, it’s a smol, D=1 km, statistically likely what? COMET.
redshiftless.bsky.social John Forbes @redshiftless.bsky.social · 26d
A little 3I/ATLAS update building on @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social's nice RNAAS from last week. Given its non-grav acceleration and the rate at which it's losing mass, you can work out its size. The answer: a diameter around 1 km, very typical for comets. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 🔭 🧪
The figure from the linked paper (three panels, each a plot of some quantity vs time in days). Here's an expanded verision of the corresponding caption: Non-gravitational accelerations (NGAs) and their corresponding mass loss rates. Top panel: Non-gravitational acceleration from the JPL Small-Body Database or the final line of Table 1 in T. M. Eubanks et al. (2025). Reported errorbars are shown, and extrapolations into the future or prior to October are shown as dashed lines. The figure shows 5 lines, converging on an acceleration of order 10^-8 au per day^2 for 3I/ATLAS. Middle Panel: NGAs from the top panel are translated into mass loss rates assuming 1 km diameters, with ζ = 0.5 and ρ = 0.5 g cm^−3. Additionally the JPL Dec 17 solution for other diameters (0.5 km and 2 km) are shown as dotted lines. Data points are from JWST (M. A. Cordiner et al. 2025), SPHEREx (C. M. Lisse et al. 2025), ALMA (N. X. Roth et al. 2025), TRAPPIST-North (E. Jehin et al. 2025), and Swift (Z. Xing et al. 2025). The plot shows a variety of data points scattered around the lines, mostly of order 10^4-10^5 g/s, with the 1 km curves passing close to the data points that measure CO2, and mostly above the other datapoints, depending on the model. Bottom Panel: CO2 production rates measured by JWST are treated as upper and lower limits, and observations where CO2 is inaccessible are shown as lower limits. Given these constraints, the range of Mdot values and hence diameters for two different reported NGA solutions is shown. The JPL solution is unable to simultaneously fit the upper limit from JWST and the lower limit from TRAPPIST-North. The plot shows the same thing as the middle panel, but with some additional interpretation, namely that some points should be considered upper limits and some lower limits. A red shaded region labelled Eubanks+ Accel shows a range of diameters from 820 to 1050 meters. A gray region labeled JPL Accel shows a diameter of 1100 m.
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
A C-list anti-vaxxer wanted to know if I was really stupid enough to believe that vaccines work by preventing disease, not infection. Yes, if “stupid” means 200 years of evidence

History class is in session. Do you know why vaccines are called vaccines?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/how-vaccin...
How Vaccines Actually Work
Vaccines prevent disease, not infection, no matter how the word "vaccine" is defined
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM