We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Reminded once again today that basically all social media at its core is designed to trick you into thinking the time you spend staring at your computer or phone is being spent accomplishing something important

"Think I'll have any kind of special treatment?" Lifelong friends of the governor talked about ways Stitt could help Sara Polston after her sentencing. Call recordings also reveal a dismissive attitude toward the victim’s family for speaking out “It’s their 15 seconds of fame."

This is a fun idea. If you’re in LA, go fly a newspaper kite this weekend

I don’t know shit about Star Wars, but they should let David Simon direct a Star Wars series that’s basically Treme and people just hang out, talk about conspiracy theories about the empire, cook in some spaceport kitchen, have cool second line jams etc etc.

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

“Splendid weekend weather” is exactly what I want to see from NWS-Norman in May

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?

Hey #okwx is this highway traffic seen on weather radar?

“Not sure in a competitive market how much longer we can hold prices due to fuel costs.” Here are anonymized survey comments published by the Kansas City Fed about the impact of high fuel prices on industry in the 10th District, which traditionally has some of the lowest energy costs in the nation.

With all of this #okwx, I just saw a convoy of about six commercial jets overhead OKC routed through the gap in weather.

I’m making some muffins. Can anyone tell me where to find the nuts on a banana?

If this is about communities like VATSIM, glad to hear. Although it’s technically a game, a lot of folks treat it like sim training. A couple of years ago I asked FAA for access to a class to ask about VATSIM use and they didn’t even respond.

"It's a big world out here. By all means, go see it." www.oklahoman.com/story/news/s...

I want to share some videos that I think will interesting to those who read my post regularly. First, I want to remind you that these are opinions that are actually being voiced. What they suggest may not actually come to fruition but it’s interesting that they’re being said.

First monarch caterpillar of the year!!!

I saw System of Kill open for Meshuggah back in '02

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Naming my sports team the “Oklahoma City Bombers” and being shocked as the crowd pelts me with fruit

And he lives in Oklahoma www.informant.news/patriot-fron...

“The moon is just hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.” ~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

“The moon is just hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.” ~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

TIME NOW: The Artemis II’s Orion capsule + astronauts is about the same distance from the moon as OKC is from Caracas Venezuela

It strikes me now that this is a selfie, and the loss of signal happens when our Earth dips below the moon horizon

Four people are now farther from Earth than anyone has ever been, with no ability to talk to anyone back home, for around 40 minutes.

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

Words of support from Gen. Randy George from his former military academy classmate Maynard James Keenan

The decision, announced in an email to customers on Saturday, was a significant step in narrowing the public’s visibility into what is happening in the war in the Middle East.-NYT

Tonight was the first time I looked at the radar and thought “that’s about to be a tornado warning” and then heard sirens

Controllers have polled GO for launch of Artemis 2.

As you watch Artemis II astronauts climb into their capsule and start their pre-flight procedures, you can see control systems manufactured in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Frontier Electronic Systems designs, manufactures and tests several components from tip to tail that are headed to space today.

We get amazing eclipses. Call it luck or just cosmic coincidence, but the moon's apparent size lines up nearly perfectly with the sun for humans living in the current epoch.

ARTEMIS II: Just heard on the official NASA broadcast that this rocket is launching from the same pad used for Apollo 10. Apollo 10 was commanded by Oklahoma's Tom Stafford. Its mission was to only orbit the moon, just like this crew on Artemis II. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...

When the four astronauts on the Artemis II moon mission strap in, they'll be pushing buttons and flipping switches made in Oklahoma.

how do you prepare for this case not expecting Gorsuch to ask an Indian law question

I don't have any knowledge about whether there are any Oklahoma-based crews involved, but airframes can be shared based on need. I've asked.

Today I refused to let society shame me from eating a grapefruit like an orange and an orange like a grapefruit #hero #citrusrebel

A sign titled “Hall of Shame” is no longer displayed at Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge due to an executive order from President Donald Trump. The signage referred to an exhibit about the near-extinction of the American bison.

Drought rages on as the rainfall...doesn't. Bigtime fire danger today to go along with bigtime winds. Maybe (emphasis on "maybe") some rain later next week. We have all the gruesome stats in today's Ticker: ticker.mesonet.org #okwx #okmesonet

When I wake up, well, I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the one who wakes up in drought. Da-da da da (Da-da da da), Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da #okwx #okmesonet

I'm trying to land this plane

So much of domestic news in the US since last January is just reporting on the consequences of drastic policy shifts reverberating through complex systems with terrible first, second, and third order effects.

Yep. The village idiot and pub bore weren’t a problem because you could steer clear of them on a very localized basis. 🤷‍♂️

"Low morale is not a people problem. It's a leadership problem."

Simply put: I have cognitive dissonance as a political communication scholar who insists that democracy cannot survive without citizen engagement/attention. And yet I question how functional constant news consumption is for our daily lives, as it affects our ability to thrive.