Union Pacific 8647

4014 viewing advice: catch it in motion, working uphill, sun behind you, to see the vapor and lubricants all over the machinery.

100 yds after a crossing allows you to hear both whistle and machine. Hard to take in the whole from close up, so I now stand 50 yards from track.

Can’t easily choreograph fights between batters or runners and fielders, as the distances in baseball are so large. Not intimate like wrestling.

Most baseball is about pitches, or watching balls bounce or fly around, with long stretches of no action.

Blowing up oil refineries in a city of 10 million people that is already suffering climate-crisis-induced water shortages and ecological catastrophe is breathtakingly evil.

I don't know if journalism programs include a course on the history of the press and celebrities as useful idiots for criminals and grifters like Musk, Ivar Kreuger, and the Krays, but they damn well should.

It was a great racket: Type everything Musk says into a glowing article, researching nothing beyond what an analyst or two, all lazy sycophants, tell you in a 3-minute phone call.

Peppy and cheap. Editors loved it as well.

Useful idiots for a grifter.

BOFA HQ stinks of sulfur and echoes with the screams of its victims being killed and fed to cacodemons and Medieval devils.

If it were merely Satanic, it would be an improvement.

My mom did this when I asked her if she had any tips on teaching my 7yo how to read. She sent me her ChatGPT results….
Mom I’m asking you because you’ve done it before 🫠

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY HEARS AUNT FRITZI SNEEZE IN THE NEXT ROOM …ACHOO P2- NANCY: ARE YOU GETTING A COLD, AUNT FRITZI? FRITZI: YES--I'M GOING TO BED P3- NANCY SUDDENLY HAS AN IDEA. P4- NANCY IS AT FRITZI’S BEDSIDE WITH WITH A BOTTLE OF MEDICINE AND SPOON NANCY HAS A VERY DELIGHTED EXPRESSION ON HER FACE NANCY: REMEMBER HOW DELICIOUS YOU SAID THIS WAS WHEN I HAD MY COLD ? FRITZI DOESN’T VERY HAPPY WITH THE PROSPECT OF TAKING THE MEDICINE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 07,1964

The real heroes?

People who write “raises the question” instead of “begs the question,” and “uncharted territory” instead of “unchartered.”

You are loved and appreciated.

Odd to see NYT covering this.

Is there reason to believe these airstrikes are a threat to email servers or email security protocols?

Calculated Risk comments section in
the aughts was a guilty pleasure. Let’s play “Guess the TLA”!

Half of it was indecipherable, so I usually
scrolled down looking for keywords like “Mad Max.”

I think tactical nuclear weapons are on the menu. He has already called Iran crazy fanatics who want to nuke people, so the projection box has been checked.

Home Depot pulled up ChatGPT to answer my question about tree guards. I could not summon a polite way of saying “I’ll ask somebody else.”

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 By Lauren Kent, CNN Published 5:33 AM EST, Wed Feb 4, 2026

= CN Politics Subscribe For Rubio, who is widely viewed as Vance's chief rival for the 2028 nomination, a prolonged conflict threatens to jeopardize the goodwill he's accumulated from overseeing a string of successful gambits abroad.

CNN last month. CNN tonight

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Trump has also tried to overthrow the United States government. Can’t say he hasn’t been forthcoming about his intentions.

But they said 'injecting bleach' was going to be the final straw?
Tariffs? Staging a coup? Making fun of that disabled reporter, that was surely going to do him in? That 'grab them by the p***y', wasn't that finally going to stop him? What he said about 9/11? His terrible performance in Home Alone 2

They’ll blame Kamala Harris and the DNC, “for not explaining to me, personally, how a vote for her would suit my personal brand and get me laid, while also apologizing for everything she and Joe Biden did to the Palestinians since 1948.”

Honestly, if it doesn't end this week or maybe this month, if that's even possible, it has to be his effective end. And if it doesn't, it's because our system has been effectively rigged for his pleasure.

“The reason why fools and knaves thrive better in the world than wiser and honester men is because they are nearer to the general temper of mankind, which is nothing but a mixture of cheat and folly.” -Samuel Butler

And let’s be honest, we’re flexible on the “reopen the Strait of Hormuz” part.

"i am!" i said
to no one there
"it sounds like you're quoting lyrics from neil diamond. would you like me to play it for you?" asked my smartchair™

the solution to this oil spike is drilling in national parks

Hit a freight head-on at combined speed of 84 mph.

I don't have a model of cognition which explains that level of fail. Severe intoxication was ruled out, leaving astounding stupidity as the only plausible explanation.

There is no such thing as an idiot-proof design.

Be right back. Got to ask neighbors something.

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

Chatsworth 2008. Texting engineer passed 3 signals in 2 mi., each giving sufficient warning: "advance approach" (flashing yellow), "approach" (yellow) and red. He called out the first signal, made multiple throttle/brake inputs.

How do you fuck that up?

There is no such thing as idiot-proof.

The Life and Sad Ending of Prince Andrew.