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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 21/06/2026

Quick look at the artist renderings of the ballroom confirms the concerns.

A screenshot from The Backrooms movie, showing a yellow room with fluorescent lights and weird angles. A man stands looking at a pile of mismatched furniture in the middle.

Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 08/04/2026

Y'know what @workingfamilies.org, I'm good. Been following and supporting for a while, but this is unacceptable. Count me out 👋

Message from Working Families Party that reads:
"Ross,

We wanted to send a quick follow-up to our endorsement of Graham Platner's campaign for Maine Senate.

TOMORROW, WFP and our friends at Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) are hosting a virtual roundtable Q&A with Graham. And we want to see you there!"

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 28/02/2026

Gotta say, I'm not a fan of my coffee mug matching my reaction to checking the news with my coffee...

White coffee mug with a picture of a fox, and words surrounding it to say, "Oh for fox sake"

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 01/02/2026

Stunning flip, and I want to make this point clearly: turnout and mobilization beats ad $$, especially in local races. Get your folks to show up, and you too can flip double digit trump districts 💪

Results of the District 9 race in Texas State Senate, showing Taylor Rehmet winning by more than 14%. The voter turnout percentage of 15.37% is circled in red.

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 07/01/2026

All huge men should watch out, AI is playing I'm On Observation Duty looking for anomalies... but seriously this is gross and wildly dangerous tech to deploy

Huge man from I'm on Observation Duty in an amphitheatre classroom

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 15/11/2025

"Not many clouds out today, so as we go let us Praise the Sun"

A player in Dark Souls in the Praise the Sun pose

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 21/10/2025

Now look botanists, I'm not gonna tell you how to do your jobs, but y'all might need some QA in the naming department 😂

Sign in front of some plants that reads "Hairy Balls Milkweed"

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 18/10/2025

We had a good turnout at the #NoKings in Baton Rouge, great vibes overall. And of course since it's south Louisiana, we had inflatable antifa crawfish 🦐⚜️

Three people dressed up as crawfish during the No Kings march in Baton Rouge

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 30/09/2025

Oh cool so the Cajun Clown just wants military in the two largest cities in Louisiana that just happen to have a larger proportion of black residents compared to the statewide ratio cool cool, yeah def not racism

2020 Census data for Louisiana population by race, for the state, East Baton Rouge Parish, and Orleans Parish, with red boxes around white and black population numbers per area respectively.

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 05/04/2025

Baton Rouge showed up today for the Hands Off protest

Demonstrators listen to speakers at the Hands Off protest on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge

Demonstrators hold up signs and flags at the Hands Off protest on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 24/03/2025

Mangosteen is the best fruit, and I will die on this hill

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 31/01/2025

Also seeing weirdness around CDC data availability now. I went to the NCHS Data Query System: nchsdata.cdc.gov/DQS/#nchs-home The site says DQS application is "experiencing technical difficulties". I click the bottom left link to see the data on CDC, and I get a privacy warning from my browser 🤔

Screenshot of the NCHS Data Query System site, with a message at the bottom that reads "We're sorry, but the National Center for Health Statistics Data Query System application is experiencing technical difficulties. The team is working to resolve the issue, please click 'Try Again'. If that does not solve the issue, please check back later.
Required data resources were not retrieved"

Screenshot of a browser tab attempting to connect to https://data.cdc.gov/ with a red warning icon and a message saying "Your connection is not private"

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 22/01/2025

We had rabbit tracks outside our door this morning 🐰

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 06/12/2024

So this is my first bird painting, like ever. Y'all... birds are hard. I have huge respect for artists who draw and paint birds regularly. This lil guy is called a Bananaquit, and with a name like that I had to give it a shot. #art #birdart #birds #birbs #artsky #nature #digitalart

A digital painting of a Bananaquit, a bird with a yellow belly and a dark gray head and wings, with a white stripe above its eye. The bird is standing on a branch in front of a muted green background. Art by Ross Young.

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 06/11/2024

I appreciate the clarity of vision from TPM's morning memo talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Text from screenshot:

It was loud and clear. The campaign was fought directly over the issues of democracy, rule of law, basic decency and respect, and protection for the marginalized. Those principles and values lost and lost badly.

You might be taken aback by me finding silver linings in this result but I do think there are two of them. First, the dark path ahead was chosen clearly and unequivocally: With 51%, Trump is on track to win a majority of the popular vote. Second, Trump will win without undue reliance on the quirks of our 18th century anti-majoritarian constitutional structure.

There is clarity in that result. This is who we are. Not all of us, but a majority of us. It presents a stark picture of America in 2024, without sugarcoating or excuse. It makes it harder to fool yourself about the task at hand, which is an enormous cultural one more than a political one.

Donald Trump's win isn't the product of a constitutional quirk. It's not the result of a poorly conceived or executed campaign by Kamala Harris. It's not a messaging failure or a tactical error or a strategic blunder. Other broader dynamics at play - like a post-pandemic revulsion toward incumbents or an anti-inflation backlash - are too limited in their scope and specific in their focus to account for the choice that was made: Donald Trump. It would be a category error to ascribe our current predicament to a political failure.

If politics is merely a reflection of culture, then we get to see that reflection clearly and sharply as the sun comes up this morning. If you don't like what you see, don't blame the mirror.

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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 30/10/2024

The 5yo wanted to paint pumpkins over the weekend. When I asked what I should paint, she said "Whatever you want!" So I made a Kirby pumpkin 😁 Happy halloween y'all 🎃 #kirby #pumpkin

A pumpkin on a counter painted with Kirby's face

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