Dang!

Lately, politics has become the entertainment division of the oligarchic fascization complex.

It seems like it would be worthwhile to determine the actual airspeed of the object by correcting for the camera's motion ie. angular velocity of the moving background. abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/new... #GerogeKnapp

2 billion tons of coal a year has now turned into about a trillion tons of CO2 for the accumulated total. Approximate back of the envelope math: Divide a trillion by the mass of the atmosphere(~5.5 quadrillion tons) and you get 180 ppm increase. 420ppm(now)-280ppm(pre-industrial) is 140ppm.

Seems like #Idiocracy should be represented.

The simpler my life gets the happier I am. That's likely the case for others who go down the path of simplification. www.zmescience.com/science/psyc...

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

“Based on testimony — that would be based on witnesses that have come forward. But what I can tell you is just we’re told that they were that, they’ve seen things,” Luna told Rogan. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

#AI: The carney psychic of the 21st century.

"A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich." -Republican Sol Wachtler

I see a wrecking ball swinging in late January 2029. The Pedodential #Ballroom ain't exactly The Great Pyramid.

Up On The Roof 🎶When my poll numbers start getting me down And reality is just too much for me to face I'm pulled right up to the top of the stairs To get away from my splintering base On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, mean facts below can't bother me🎶 (Apologies to Gerry Goffin)

Mama mia! That's a spicy plasma ejecta!

"It may be hard to believe in the current era of declining media credibility and amid President Donald Trump's bitter condemnations of "fake news," but mainstream journalists once were trusted figures in society who could sway public opinion in a major way." www.usnews.com/news/ken-wal... #Colbert

A growing reality emerges through the fossil fog. How cheap does clean and free have to get? #sustainability #microgrids reneweconomy.com.au/it-changes-e...

We can do this. Midterm elections are coming. Start working NOW. It might be America's last chance for peaceful change.

From @bengeman.bsky.social: Ron Swanson may have hated salads, but the actor who played him likes EVs enough to be their pitchman in a new public-awareness campaign. www.axios.com/2025/07/14/r...

Disco Inferno.

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself." -T. Paine #IndependenceDay

We call it the in yo face interface(IYFI).

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century:

How it started. How it's going.

The Time Beyond (1967)A team of scientists unlocks the secrets of time travel and embarks on a perilous journey across the ages. As they leap into the distant past and far future, they encounter prehistoric creatures, unknown civilizations, and dangerous paradoxes that threaten their very existence.

Good nite #GeorgeKnapp

GIF from one of the Mars Attacks trading cards. #GeorgeKnapp

Alex Cox(Repo Man) wrote the original script for "Mars Attacks". #GeorgeKnapp

Mothman time. #georgeknapp

mds.marshall.edu/fruth_family... #GeorgeKnapp

I remember it was shocking front page headline of the newspaper when the OH highway patrol chased the UFO near Aurora OH in 1965. #GeorgeKnapp

I remember seeing First Spaceship to Venus, KingKong v Godzila, 20k Leagues and others at the Groves Theater bitd in Summersville WV. They would dim the lights and the only thing still lit was a big clock which was an ad for the funeral home. #GeorgeKNapp

On a lighter note, it has been almost 10 years of dmtalk. Good times. #GeorgeKnapp

Don't worry, baby. #GeorgeKnapp

Door hinges, notwithstanding.

"Atmospheric Warming & Planetary Wave Amplification" | I discuss our (@xuekeli.bsky.social et al) new article in @pnas.org demonstrating for the first time, an increase in incidence of the stuck & wavy jet stream patterns behind persistent summer weather extremes. michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...

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The only European country to have confidence in POTUS as a world leader is Hungary (53%) Our closest neighbors say definitively (77% for Canada and 91% for Mexico) they do NOT have confidence in him

Your Leader orders concentrated fruit drink powder in bulk.