John Morris

I'm sick of Musk of all people talking about which immigrants are damaging the US.

He's become the richest man here by exploiting US workers, poisoning and polluting US communities, and even infiltrating the US government to steal our data and stop investigations into his businesses.

Neighbor shot four times on our street corner this morning, right after I got back inside with the dog. Don’t know his condition. Very shaken up

What's the statute of limitations on suing the whole women's apparel industry over inadequate pocket size? Because I still hold them responsible for that time my phone took a dip in a public toilet and was gone forever because my front lady pocket was only 2.5 inches deep

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I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

"It is?" Frodo asked, "Why are we wasting time on this old ring then?"
"It seems we have overreacted. Drinks at the Prancing Pony?"
"Your treat, old man!" Frodo laughed before remembering his burden, "What should I do with it?"
"Oh, just drop it anywhere." Gandalf said dismissively, "The DOW's up."

For what it's worth I once got into a HUGE argument with Marco Rublo (at Birmingham Rotary Club)'as he said there were "too many Professors of Roman History" in his talk and I told him his law degree would exist without them and he started yelling and his face turned purple w rage. Even then a fool.

A photo of Frodo speaking with Gandalf in the Mines of Moria: "I wish it had not happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But the Dow is over 50,000."

Actual footage of me when I meet someone with Deloitte on their resume

YouTube video by The Planetary Society Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image

Today is the 36th anniversary of the pale blue dot picture. Yesterday we did a journal club about a classic Sagan paper and my grad student BP ended by sharing this video. I’d heard the more polished pale blue dot speech so many times but I find this one to be more human

youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...

Bruh they got my 65 year old white bread southern mom ready to join an Underground Railroad, I think they fucked up

“what cool shit can I do as Mayor? oh, I can marry people? awesome, let’s do it”

once again the constant theme of “New York is great, New Yorkers are great, isn’t this great?” comes through

if one of these guys happens to murder me one day please know, and promulgate, that it’s because i got the better of him

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

A tiger made out of snow with blue stripes created with food coloring in a yard.

A derpy snow tiger birthed on Valentine's Day, 2017. #caturday

Which itself just an abstraction of fear of death.

i am convinced that the space fascination in most of transhumanism is simply refusing to confront that resources are finite

I find it very funny when AI guys say that the purpose of human life after the singularity will be space exploration, when that’s something meatsacks are extraordinarily poorly suited for

Mamdani needs to hire her on in some capacity, this is the energy New York City needs

I just saw an elderly couple in this movie theater buy two individual tickets to two very different movies, high five, and then walk in opposite directions down the hall. Happy Valentine’s Day to true love

A rich kid who attended elite private schools, landed a job at a elite coastal media institution because he wrote for The Crimson at Harvard, then went on to have a 20-year career at another, and defends billionaires and corrupt right-wing politicians all the time? Salt of the earth.

I will never not find it amusing when people with rich parents, degrees from top universities, and decades-long careers at major media institutions in major east coast cities rant about "coastal elites", who are just liberals of any class, education level, and geographic location within the US.

Dark oystercatcher chick facing the camera, spread down against the rock, as a watchful parent with bright orange bill and red eye-circle looks over it.

NZ shorebird and seabird thread.

I'm going to go ahead and post some shots before carefully editing and sorting; I'm already falling hopelessly behind.

Let's start with a variable oystercatcher chick and parent. 🪶

Art of a cute tiger holding a heart with many hearts trailing behind

Happy Valentines Day!

#valentines

I talk to my dogs all day, we have long conversations.
But then I say good afternoon to a random crow just once and they look at me as if I'm crazy!

A black and white cat sits on a red surface, looking off to the side, with a bookshelf filled with books and figurines in the background.

It’s #Caturday, so I wanted to try something a little different.
If you’re posting your cat today and feel like it, I’d love if you could add a little love for Luna. She’s a my kitty who needs surgery, and the support has meant everything.
Even just sharing or mentioning her helps 💛
#CaturdayForLuna

If no one else is going to point it out, I am. Elmer is a meat breed bull. Those two adorable calves have been purpose-bred to be beef, the little heifer will never follow in her mother's hoofprints. She's going to live on the range pumping out more beef calves. The little brother is hamburger.

I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow.

If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.

Photo of a sketch on a green cloth with 2 ink flacons, 2 pens and a brush arount it. The sketch is a blue landscape with high trees and a river. In the middle of it stands a little samurai silhouette and somewhere hides a cat. Indian ink on paper

Daily sketch 🪾🥷🐈‍⬛️

Can you spot the cat ?

#art #artsky #ink #sketch

I, too, owned a copy of Dorling Kindersley's 'Star Wars Incredible Cross-sections' showing you the inside of every ship, but *even then* I knew that the other kids who liked Star Wars did not want to hear about it.