a Dory ashore

Pathetic on all three accounts.

Swank

Three different rockets on pads at Cape Canaveral at once, two of them two different crewed spacecraft! Is that a record?

Artemis 2 for Moon (39B), Vulcan with Space Force satellite (41), Crew 12 to ISS (40). And SpaceX has two Starlink waiting for pad 40 as quickly as they can turn it around.

Monsieur Idol

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Kathleen Walters worked at the IRS for years before resigning over an order to share data on immigrants that her legal team said would actually break the law. “If you lose a job, you can get another job,” she says. “But if you lose your integrity, it is very hard to get it back.” theatln.tc/onXe8Ee4

Maine’s top federal judge orders ICE to release woman arrested without warrant Francoise Makuiza was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Jan. 23 while leaving her neighborhood for work.

Maine’s top federal judge orders ICE to release woman arrested without warrant * Free to access

Gold prices hit fresh records on rising worries about geopolitics, tariff threats and a possible US government shutdown. Gold climbed above $5,100 an ounce Tuesday before retreating a bit. Gold was just over $2,000 an ounce only two years ago. u.afp.com/SBDK

“new twist”

Filed under: Things That Quiet The Mind

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "i cannot see the end of this bullshit"

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

Fake advertisement for Draft Kings in a print copy of The Onion. In the front of a photo of a house with a foreclosure sign, it reads: "Draft Kings Earn a free $10 toward buying back your house."

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

Because they "sold" US?

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Outrageous style. Good on you, Greenlanders.

Hoping you can check out from work for at least 24 hours straight.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I’d like to see some legislation developed around the phrase, breaking news

“Snow: Missing”

Magic

Perfidy sounds like it may as well be a card game played with jokers that was invented in the 1830s.

I forgot that I had not yet posted my Northern light photos from last night. I lucked out and had another fantastic viewing. I didn't have a fancy camera this time and it was so cold I hated taking my mitten off to take a picture, but I got a few.

Many of you have become drama-addicted doomers, and you seem to think it's important for the rest of us to join you.

Yes, things are bad. But change is within our power. Grow up. Act like sober, responsible adults in a democracy instead of cynical, all-is-lost teenagers.

Now get off my lawn.

/5x

Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

Also, this image is increasingly giving off ai fumes

Despite being remote and thinly populated, somehow Maine remains two degrees of separation from… whatever, whoever. A heavily forested, frosty wormhole-to-topic.

Most certainly, yes.

Almost 20 years ago, I warned we were heading toward a world where states invade each other at will, and that America had an obligation to restore the higher bar for going to war. Not gonna say I told ya so, but...well, okay, I will.

There's a reason I chose these quotes to open the book.