Charlie Thomsen

Ah, an intellectual battle between a stochastic parrot incapable of true thought, designed in a laboratory to satisfy the whims of the far-right, and Grok.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

No, no, it's not fair when Democrats punch back, no, think of our norms, our poor norms

So we have the Texas Democratic legislators in Chicago, Gov Abbott is threatening their arrest, Sen. Cornyn is asking the FBI to do something...and now this.

'how best can we spread our cheeks'

Like many, I prefer A. Nitpicking, the transition from purple to yellow is a bit abrupt & lighter yellows de-empahsize high values. My variant:

99% 0.01 90 #fefcf4
85% 0.06 150 #b3d9b9
70% 0.11 210 #30b1c4
55% 0.16 270 #4e68ce
45% 0.21 330 #8f008a

LCH & hex values from oklch.com#0.7,0.1,35,100

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

#gischat #ssta

Inflammation during viral infection can rouse dormant cancer cells Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate them has been discovered.

🚨 New study: In mice, Covid & the flu triggered dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs to wake up. Inflammation might fuel metastasis

The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From the top of gov to your local town council, the American people shouldn't have to question the integrity of their elected officials.

New Jersey voters would do well to look into their county & town.

Reminder: those county chairs didn't support Kim's run last year.
Connected? #DemVoice1

painted daddy @appasglock my neighbor was giving me shit for not taking the stairs down 3 levels into the basement parking lot and I was like, "I'm taking the elevator because there's no cameras in the stairwells." and the realization on his face reaffirms that men know nothing.

What's interesting is that dudes will chime in to say a victim lacks situational awareness and in the next breath, if a woman takes precautions, is paranoid.

I’ve always believed that the political destiny of great nations has often turned on weak men’s reaction to the equivalent of “Jenny laughed when I asked her to the Spring Formal”

MAGA: I think we should close the borders and cage children for vaping

Liberals: Well, I think that as well actually

MAGA: *indecipherable, eating Monopoly pieces*

Liberals: Just don't eat the money, which I love and will defend the existence of at all costs

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…

Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)

A cloudburst has struck Dharali village in Uttarkashi district, causing major damage and swallowing an entire village. Visuals show water and debris impacting construction. Rescue operations are underway with Army, CRP, ITPP personnel, police, NDRF, and SDRF dispatched to the site. The Gangotri Dham Uttarkashi Cloudburst: Dharali Village Devastated, Rescue Operations Underway | India Today News

People who live near seasonal rivers need to warned that they are at HIGH risk of experiencing floods and mudslides during extreme precipitation events!

You must get a very good understanding of water flows and how those would impact you!

youtu.be/6kztBr9iTgU...

From another viewpoint. I feel so very sorry for the people caught up in this and those who had to witness it!

Fascism, in the short term at least, is cathartic, it gives identity and purpose. Fascism provides meaning, it sorts worries and hatreds into convenient boxes (woke, DEI), fascism is admin for the desperate and terrified soul. For a lot of people, it feels *good*. More people than many realise.

the issue was never that conservatives couldn't gain access to elite spaces; the issue is that once they got there they didn't receive the level of deference and respect they felt they deserved

On the Move - GEOSCIENTIST While Earth’s geographic north pole is fixed, the magnetic north pole moves in tandem with Earth’s constantly shifting magnetic field. Depending on where on Earth you are, the magnetic field moves a r...

Earth’s magnetic north pole has recently moved at unprecedented rates. Ciarán Beggan (@bgs.ac.uk) discusses where it may move next, and the implications of such movement for our navigation systems and research.

geoscientist.online/sections/fea...

#Geoscience #Space #Earth #Geomagnetics #Geology

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"

From July 2024:

"And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

bit.ly/3B4B1qy

Chinese government has 'final say' in Dalai Lama reincarnation, Tibetan official says The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama's directions, a Chinese Communist Party committee official for Tibet said on Tuesday.

“The central government has the indisputable final say in the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.” -the central government www.reuters.com/world/china/...

He literally cheated an election i'm losing my mind. And the patriot act resulted in the largest loss of rights in US history.

another story for the “forecasting and warning for flash floods is really hard” file

@patrickcanning.bsky.social, now that everyone is getting harmed, is class action tort likely to succeed?

Interesting story, but why use AI slop to illustrate it? (Almost always a deal-breaker for this human.)

"If a cyclist makes a mistake, he dies. If a car makes a mistake, he also dies."

This Dan Donahue video is so good. I love his point that a lot of cyclist hate comes from drivers being mad they have to drive everywhere. I don't think that's the reason for *all* the hate, but it's a factor!

"August vacation period"

The American mind can't comprehend.

Patch of preserved, incredible smooth (glassy!), glacially polished surface on granitic bedrock of Acadia Mountain, Acadia National Park.

Four crescentic gouges (7-yr old pointing at three, and one in the far-right edge of image), which are moon-shaped chips removed from rock by subglacial erosion, preserved near the summit of Acadia Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine. These gouges, which are types of chatter marks, point in the direction of the former glacial flow direction.

Glacially molded island (one of the Porcupine Islands off of Bar Harbor). This ‘Roche Moutonée’ is a ‘ramp-and-pluck’ landform, with ice flow in the direction of the gently ramping side to the steeply ‘plucked’ side.

The scales of glacial erosion, as exemplified by a few #geological observations at Acadia Nat’l Park over the last couple of days:

1. Glacial polish (micron-scale).
2. Crescentic Gouges (cm- to m-scale).
3. Roche moutonnée (km-scale, in this case).

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#earthscience