Sophie the Bear

“Swiss firm has patented, and has now inaugurated, the world’s first two solar foundries for melting down steel for reuse. Consisting of 500 concave mirrors mounted on a heliostat that allows them to track the Sun, each is focused into furnace’s chamber until it reaches 2,000 degrees Celsius.”

Sophie

This is a good one

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

You’re right about the battery, I’ve always had low energy. But *taps belly* you wouldn’t believe the amount of modem I can fit in this baby

They were misquoted. They’d never really meant “we’re just starting to milk the scandal”

I’m looking into going wireless

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

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I was surprised how many good indie restaurants had opened up last time I was up there

Totalitarianism does structurally require war. For us, it will be a war on the enemy within because Stephen Miller believes that the Third Reich’s only mistake was starting too big an external war and that if they’d kept it domestic no one would ever have stopped them.

An epic collection of lit memes?

That’s what our authoritarian administrations have always loved about forever wars

19th century Belgium sucked pretty bad in the Congo, but yes, I take your point

What’ll be your nearest metro area?

I deeply respect the temple of my soul - it calls upon my for Italian food, and I dutifully give it

I've said this before: Americans have a Action Movie conception of the President. If Trump committed treason w J6, the only way Americans would truly believe it is if Biden announced it at the inauguration and blackbagged Trump & Pence at that very moment.

otherwise it's just sparkling crimes

I reserve the right to make fun of my fat-ass self, even though it’s among the least of my faults.

I want to fund people like that. If I ever get funds.

a man is holding a baseball bat on his shoulder . ALT: a man is holding a baseball bat on his shoulder .

A hex that looks like this

He’s under cover crop

As a progressive intellectual living in Florida, I relate to this real much

Do these mooks even realize who you are?

This is gold

If I ever appear before the Supreme Court I’m gonna have notes like that for Justice Alito

The long 18th, the long 19th - we gonna have a short century eventually to get things back on track?

That sounds like a lot

Blessed is the consideration, for it shall be exchanged

I did once manage to get maybe a hundred pages into Gravity’s Rainbow. Although perhaps “into it” isn’t the right phrase