I’ve always wondered. Thanks for the data.

*taps mic* Hi, there! I’ve lived all over the country, wet, dry, hot, cold, and high humidity will not only kill your ass dead faster than anything else, it will suuuuuck the entire time you’re dying. Your low resting heart rate won’t do shit when your sweat is a marinade instead of a coolant.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

User knguyenpoetry: Re: current events, I guess I could shut off the electricity and water and stop buying groceries and cancel our WiFi and then tell everyone in my household that I "saved them a ton of money" and that statement would be objectively true but that does not mean anyone wanted it or that we'd be better off for it. User harborsandhavens: So smart! And then in a few months when everyone smells to high heaven and the toilets and yard are overrun with waste, you'll have to concede and turn the water back on. Except now there's a fee to restart it, the pipes have rusted and need to be replaced, the floor is permanently damaged from toilet overflow, and the odor will never go away. Woohoo...eliminating "waste."

It’s easy to say the justice department doesn’t decide what’s constitutional, but if nobody enforces the Constitution, do we even have one?

This is presidential

Lies are a loyalty test for Donnie. When he tells a whopper, he wants to know that you are willing to humiliate yourself for him. Like the 2020 election. And now with Russia. He needs you to believe Ukraine is the aggressor. He's made a deal with Putin.

“Donald Trump barely knew of Pearl Harbor, was ignorant about the basics of geography and complained the US constitution was like reading “a foreign language”, a new book reveals.”

In 2012, IBM researchers achieved a breakthrough in molecular imaging using non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM). They attached a carbon monoxide molecule to the microscope tip, allowing them to visualize individual atomic bonds within a nanographene structure. This method provided an unprecedented level of clarity in mapping molecular structures. The image confirms quantum mechanical predictions about bond lengths and electron density, aiding advancements in nanotechnology, chemistry, and materials science. Scientists can now directly observe molecular interactions that were once theoretical, leading to innovations in drug development, materials engineering, and quantum computing. This technology continues to refine our ability to study matter at the smallest scales, opening new frontiers in atomic-scale engineering.

IBM researchers used an atomic force microscope to capture one of the first real images of a molecule, revealing the intricate structure of nanographene at the atomic level. This image provides a glimpse into the world of molecular bonds like never before. 👀

🔬 SeriouslyScientific.com/YouTube

Scary but also a fascinating bit of 🧪.

A dwarf bearded iris with medium blue beard, maroon standards, and maroon falls with paler pink plicata edging.

We’re gonna need more palate cleansers and I wish it was garden season so here is Dwarf Bearded Iris “Cat’s Eye”, a 2002 introduction by Paul Black.

Tipping point: the threshold past which a system becomes unstable and, with perturbation, can fail.

Metastable: the system passes the tipping point but still appears normal.

Rate-induced tipping point: when changes are too rapid, the system can't adjust, so it fails.

#ClimateChange🌎🧪

A tabico cat with a white chin and paws and collar tags. She appears to be in a carpeted space capsule.

Palate cleanser.

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

What is law

Trump is assaulting his own legitimacy Defying the courts could bring a steep cost.

"If Trump proceeds in open defiance of the courts he'll risk turning the huge asset of a politicized SCOTUS into a liability. More importantly, Trump may call into question the legitimacy of his own authority — legitimacy SCOTUS lent him through rulings it bent over backward to issue in his favor."

Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.

For the visual learners...

They aren’t staffers. They have no security clearance and DOGE is not a government department.

BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.

CONGRATS!

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Look, this is bad for democracy and all, no doubt. But I also can’t help but notice that NYT’s many years of pandering to Trump and shaping coverage in his favor failed to prevent them getting kicked out of the Pentagon press room.

‘1984’ is upon us

Yes, it is illegal to do this.
What I wonder in this new America is, will anybody enforce that?
Can anybody, anymore?

Or not long enough.

I’ve been wondering this nonstop.

This failure was not caused by the current admin’s recent layoff of safety officers and investigators. But said action will make effective evidence-based remediation unlikely to impossible.

‘In a video shared on Instagram on January 26, Snoop Dogg addressed the backlash, saying: "For all the hate, I'm going to answer with love."’
Sir it’s not hate it’s disappointment.
I wonder who he thought his fanbase was.