The world seems a bit like the Funhouse hall of mirrors where every social media outlet has a distorted picture of what's going on.

Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon,
With the old Moon in her arms;

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's a small mercy that Rush Limbaugh is a rotting corpse, because otherwise he would certainly be given a position within the current administration.

France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie at...

Amid all the bad news, here's some good news.
newatlas.com/energy/franc...

Thanks for calling Mr. Lay to my attention. So many good stories that might serve to inspire us for the work ahead. Makes one wish we had a real History Channel putting out quality work about folks like this.

Write a one sentence tragedy...

After a series of unfortunate events, the citizenry found their fate at the whims of a madman.

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YouTube video by ESOTERICA The Greatest Book on Magic, Witchcraft & the Occult - Martin Del Rio - Disquisitionum Magicarum

I'd like to recommend a youtube channel called Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge.

Esoterica: Where we explore the arcane in history, philosophy, and religion.

I found this episode especially pertinent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lv...

Do all the things you'll never regret...generally that means be kind, be generous, and be open to adventures.

I hear that Trump and friends plan to shrink the US sphere of influence down to North America and pull back troops from everywhere else…no more “policeman of the world.” Is that why he’s focused on Greenland and Canada and Mexico, because it’s “our” sphere?

There's so much mischief afoot, it's hard to keep abreast.

If I ask my Trump supporting family members to stop watching Fox News, there's no where I can suggest they tune in. They won't switch to CNN or MSNBC. I won't watch there either, so can't blame them. What to do?

Frankly, it came as a huge shock to me. People I never would have expected have left me so disappointed.

'Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting To Be Known' 💫💙💫💙💫💙💫

To raise the standard of living world wide, we need unlimited energy. Energy for desalination provides fresh water, energy for propulsion lifts us into space and makes the sky no longer the limit. Nuclear fusion energy puts us in a whole new manifold.

Do we have a choice but to wait? The first commercial plant will go live in the next decade in Virginia. Need to push for more now.

That's a bit pessimistic. In the long run, it's the best hope for humanity and the planet.

It's important that we bring nuclear fusion energy on line as soon as possible.

#RadioFreeAmerica

Every decision Trump makes will be to serve his own interests, not the good of the country. Assess every action and policy accordingly.

It would be helpful if people would educate themselves on the need for a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy. Fusion offers a potential long-term energy source that uses abundant fuel supplies and does not produce greenhouse gases or long-lived radioactive waste.

False colour JWST NIRCam image of a nearby star forming region in front of a deep back ground of colorful galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.

I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.

NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be power, laziness, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever. 💕

The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.

But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

Today would have been MLK Jr's 95th birthday. May his memory be an inspiration for us to keep fighting for equal rights for all and against the coming fascism that threatens to tear us apart.

Watching clips of the Hegseth confirmation hearing and this came to mind...Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat.
Dirty little birdie feet.
French fried eyeballs rolling down a dirty street,
And me without my spoon.

Religion won't solve the world's ills.

If you need religion to be a good person, then consider you may not, in fact, be a good person but rather a bad person on a leash.

I've see religions destroy people's lives too frequently to believe in any of it.

It is an artifice of control and greed.

Reality? You can't handle reality. I mean, as a whole our species is barely sentient.