Sam

scenic moon, tho.

Literally just a Blohm & Voss airplane

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

Musk's DOGE boys took a 'sledgehammer' to the federal govt & services people relied on. Now they're getting rich off the pain they caused. DOGE was never about efficiency, it was about breaking the govt & selling it off to Trump's billionaire buddies & allies. Endless grift.

October 14, 1947: Chuck Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier flying the Bell X-1 from Muroc Army Air Field, now Edwards Air Force Base. Yeager reached an altitude of 45,000 ft. and a speed of Mach 1.06. More on the aircraft: airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east

A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."

all men are brothers, all men are fucking morons

If you’re feeling political despair, I strongly recommend going to canvass or table for a candidate you believe in. It’s fun! And they will train you before you go out and pair you with a more experienced person if you’re nervous

many states, including California, also have an option to drop your ballot off directly at a elections office dropbox or election center and avoid USPS on the way back all together, which I'd recommend if possible.

Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."

Meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/usap...

they write this damn article every election cycle and every election cycle since 1924 American Jews vote Democratic.

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

*25th Amendment Bat-signal*

A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Public reporting indicates the Trump administration is proposing a deal to give a part of the Yosemite National Park to a private developer. That land belongs to the American people. We will not allow this scheme to proceed — period.

Hey folks, are you looking for an easy way to help out on Election Day? Maybe even get paid? Consider being a poll worker. It's easy. My goal is to get 1,000 folks interested in being a poll worker. Takes ten seconds. Sign-up for more info here: www.powerthepolls.org/creator-char...

N.C. Wyeth Airmail, 1938

A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

lol www.foxnews.com/politics/phi...

Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

My opinion: data centers are massively hated because they represent the tech overlords that are getting richer and richer off our back, and are more and more out of touch. H/t to Tim Miller for bringing this up on today’s pod. What do you think?

We need a president who will run on $6 pints of craft beer coming back at the bar.

Even in detention, Parias remains a journalist. He began reporting on the horrid conditions that he and other detainees endure. Through video recorded by his visitors and accounts relayed to other reporters, Parias exposed the worm-like creatures in drinking water and roaches in the cells.

NASA is using a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study one of Earth's least understood weather phenomena: wildfire generated storms. https://cnn.it/4wWG1pf

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

ICE has detained or deported more than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty U.S. service members. How can our service members focus on their jobs while their loved ones are being ripped away from them? This is unacceptable and unpatriotic.

Back in early 2025 a bunch of centrist Dems got spooked by Trump's win, turned on their base, and decided voting for Laken Riley was the smart political move. Next time, try just having a moral compass and acting on it consistently!

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars

Here’s a PDF. Worth a few minutes of your time. users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

I cannot emphasize enough how much we should all get the fuck off of X. This includes every politician and progressive group.

Myst (1993)

Solving "how far could you throw a floppy naan discus" numerically is one of the hardest possible problems in fluid dynamics btw, two-way fluid structure interaction at high Reynolds number. Multiple PhD theses and maybe an entire research group worth of papers there.