I bet the Moon Quakers looked up at their black sky & wondered why the Earthlings decided to return. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

My car gets ~18 mpg. 😭

Recently watched Altered Carbon again. In an age where the poor openly worship the ultra-wealthy & the ultra-wealthy openly buy presidencies & presidents openly grift, the warnings against runaway capitalism & its corruptive properties hits... a little bit harder.

I mean I just assumed, being that Exodus is a made up story, that the characters in the story were made up too. 🤷🏼 youtube.com/shorts/3xEVT...

Explain your username The way of Stu. Stulosophy. Phil is kind of a dick. I'm kind of a cool guy. Philosophy bores, stulosophy excites. Scientists hate philosophy but love stulosophy. Philosophy gives you existential anxiety, stulosophy gives you... well, also that. But better. Somehow.

Existentialist me: "What if I don't wake up?" Nihilist me: "It doesn't matter."

Is this men's thalidomide? Here's the crazy thing: it's not even a drug. Skull & facial deformations occurred in the offspring of male mice who were fed popular antioxidant supplements N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) & selenium. We all ought to be more skeptical of the money-grubbing "health" industry.

"...patience can change even the grumpiest hearts. Sometimes all it takes is a little kindness..." This was said about a parrot, but of course it's true with humans too. I try to remember that "hurt people, hurt people" when someone is mean towards me, so kindness is never a wrong response.

Yeah I bet you care about robot ethics now, huh? youtu.be/OINt7DMpwy8

"I will make a confession to you ... after 10 years of the insanity & the cruelty & the horribleness ... I will admit that what I'm thinking is these people are fucking stupid & they're not reachable." youtube.com/shorts/TTpeK...

I long for the day that we never need to make memorials for dead soldiers ever again. Will humanity ever choose to stop being pawns to the tiny portion of old rich men?

"I know this church is true." – Me, when I was Mormon "Beware the knowers. They are afraid of what they do not know." – Charles Bukowski

Vietnam Memorial. The wall of names is huge. Looking at it as I walked through, all I could think about was the mountains of blood spilled. The lives ended too soon. And for what?! For a few powerful people to have more power & a few rich people to be richer? It made me sick. And sad.

Don't get too excited. The "reboot" is in the form of a limited series comic book & isn't a reboot at all. It's actually a continuation of the original series set in the same universe. Still gonna try & get my hands on it though! www.cbr.com/greatest-ame...

Visited the Pentagon Memorial.

I'm visiting D.C. this week. Here's a mall entrance to the Ritz-Carlton where Monica Lewinsky was interrogated by the FBI... so I've been told. #weirdtouristfactoids

I've considered the idea of moving to a foreign country after retirement. Germany just jumped up a few spots on my list. youtube.com/shorts/-PqO9...

Author of The Last Neanderthal: "Contact with different cultures ... causes their values to collapse. This is how humans disappear: when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed." It makes me wonder, if space aliens ever did visit us... english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A recent survey suggests that as many as a quarter of Americans believe that Bigfoot exists. And one may ask, "Who cares? What does it harm?" Because a populace willing to believe in absurdities can be convinced of anything. Even to make a moronic egotistical fascist dictator wannabe our leader.

"Once you start kneeling & praying, it's hard to get back to standing & thinking." – Cleon XVII (Foundation, S2E8) America's current rulers have certainly found this fact to be quite... useful.

A reminder that high school dropout conspiracy theorists who think particle colliders will destroy the planet have equal power to choose our leaders as the PhD researchers who use particle colliders to advance humanity's knowledge about the universe. youtu.be/v0O1TZm7rWY

A Neanderthal man met an unfortunate, drawn-out death. But his ancient misfortune resulted in his remarkable preservation, a boon for today's scientists. www.iflscience.com/neanderthal-...

Allegedly, some 73,000 humans have already signed up to complete tasks on behalf of the robots in exchange for cash. The robot war is already won without a single shot fired thanks to late-stage capitalism & psychopathic billionaires. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Research found that cannabis usage in older adults (ages 40-77) was associated with larger volumes in several brain regions & better cognitive function." medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

Also, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise

Truth. Facts. Reality. Or as conservatives like to call it, "liberal propaganda".

I tend to focus on religion, but our addiction to absurdity infects all aspects of our lives.

I went under anesthesia recently & I've thought about how it's essentially temporary death. And to be honest when I was temporarily dead, things weren't so bad. And to be honest again, when I woke up part of me was glad I did. But also honestly, if I hadn't I would've never known that I didn't.

Protesters are being paid to not buy tickets to see the Melania movie

Some people believe the Earth is flat. Some believe that ancient Americans were shipping copper to Europe circa 2,500 BC. Make up any absurd thing. The crazier the better. People will believe & follow you because most humans just don't give a shit about what's true.

If you're Gen Z & feeling a little picked on, just remember: it's the older generations who were dumb enough to vote for Orange Asshole Scumbag TWICE. www.upworthy.com/gen-z-techno...

Conservatism spent decades utilizing organizations like Fox News & talking heads like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Rogan etc. All of whom specialized in fallacious arguing, thus cultivating a following of America's dumbest people who could be easily manipulated into voting for a kakistocracy.

"The Other Wise Man" is a story made to promote a single scripture passage: Matthew 25:40. What you do to others, you do to Him. I think of that story every time I see a hateful, bigoted Christian nationalist.

Dan McClellan (@maklelan.bsky.social) is the strangest, uh, non-believing believer(?) I've ever come across. Also, a great scholar whose work I greatly appreciate! youtube.com/shorts/YoJ8b...

"She said she had encountered, 'unhappy people...'" They want to end her life to stop her from making things better. Misery loves company & I keep forgetting just how far people will go for love.

"The universe is not governed by individual perception. It matters what's true." – Captain Ed Mercer (The Orville)

Being Gen-X means having access to modern technology without the burden of having grown up with it. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

God exists only within one's mind. Few things support this truth more than God telling horny men to sleep around. youtube.com/shorts/HyDFK...

What's the difference between legality & unenforced illegality? If our leader is allowed to break the law without consequence, we're already in a dictatorship. To accuse him of breaking the law is meaningless so long as those responsible for enforcing the law refuse to do so.

1 in 5 GOP seats flip to Democrat, 0 flip to GOP. They fucked around with fascism & now, slow but sure, they're finding out. Watching conservatism (a political philosophy I consider wholly irrational) take a hit warms my heart every time.

Yeah they had to change the definition quite a while ago because apostles were getting depressed about feeling unworthy when Jesus never appeared to any of them.

What she said is, "I actually know someone who prayed for someone who only had a partial limb & it grew." But what I heard is, "I know someone who told me a story about praying for someone with a partial limb & it grew."

"If we stay the course, we are dead! We are all dead!" – John Connor

It's such a strange thing that conservative fans of Star Wars see themselves as heroes of the rebellion, completely blind to the reality that they are the loyalists to the empire that Star Wars so heavy-handedly warns us against.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." MAGA are traitors.

Surviving cancer put everything in perspective. When you've been that close to death ... losing a movie role doesn't seem like the tragedy it once did. "The main cause of death is birth." – Jeff Speakman youtu.be/TQ0BsX7PNd4

None of us were born who we are. We become who we are because of what happened to us & what was done to us.