Mark Sumner 🌒
@devilstower
Author, journalist, old guy. Science, climate, space, transportation, energy, and how human selection drives the evolution of all of the above. www.unchartedblue.com
Diane Lane in “Streets of Fire.” Ellen Aim and the Attackers is also the best fake film band.
Even when posting something this ugly, Trump can’t be honest for a moment. The Venezuela kidnapping operation? War. The ongoing multinational war with Iran? “Military conflict.” Trump’s even afraid of Mike Johnson and the sycophant Congress. That’s top-notch cowardice.
Bruce Taylor, CEO of Taylor Farms which is suspected to be connected to the cyclosporine outbreak, is a big Republican donor with at least 14 recent donations >$10K across multiple states. …
“All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
What’s amazing in these posts by Cruz and Graham is that they utterly ignore what Mamdani actually wrote. It’s almost as if they think their brainless followers will just repeat what they say without even looking two lines down.
Tuesday's casualty report from Ukraine is utterly typical of the last four months. - High casuaties. Russia losing people at an unsustainable rate. - Few armor losses. Few tanks remaining. - Medium range drones are increasing used against vehicles ferrying supplies behind the front lines.
The air in St. Louis has gone beyond “soupy.” It’s like gelatin. The kind you get from boiling bones. I think it’s my bones. And they are still boiling.
For this headline, could you guess that the “side effect” was “a *lower* risk of major adverse cardiovascular events—including heart attacks, strokes, heart failure hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths?”
This Is mt entry. Based on my books. Which earned My only entry in IMDB. Not even SyFy seems to remember this show.
Trade you a monster. (Only not really, because this one’s been out of print for 20+ years and I think it’s the only copy I have.)
The tall fellow on the left is my father, in the American Sector of Berlin before the wall was built.
The storm that just blasted through Charleston, IL is like nothing I’ve ever seen. Massive tornado wrapped in baseball-sized hail that hides the funnel behind a glowing blue wall.
Trump was apparently snoring his way through game 3 when a helicopter was shot down, and the military held off telling him until the morning. Clearly the man in charge.
Trump is either narcoleptic or drugged out of his gourd. He can’t stay awake through a 15 minute press event.
One day in 1996, my agent (Yes, I had an agent) called and asked “How quickly can you write a novel?” I replied “eight weeks” because I had already done that. She replied, “Can you do it in 10 days?” …
Legends of cyclops are thought to possibly be inspired by remains of extinct elephants. Particularly the skulls.
For the last few years, the largest known dinosaur has been Bruhathkayosaurus (an amalgam of Sanskrit and Greek meaning “huge heavy bodied lizard”). Here’s a plea to whoever finally finds something larger: Just name it bigosaur. The world’s paleontologists, and 8-year-olds, will thank you.
Ten years ago, Mary Elizabeth Winstead starred in a show where government had been taken over by infectious brain worms. Turns out, it was a documentary.
24 hours later, the snake is finally outside. It literally crawled into a plastic bag and allowed me to carry it through the door. Once out it flew from the bag, demonstrating that it could have gotten free at any time.
There is a bigger time gap between the two dinosaurs in this image than between one of the dinosaurs and the cowboy.
The one nice thing about an overly warm spring is that I’m already getting zucchini. Which means it must be eaten in its most essential form. This loaf contains both Scharffen Berger baking chocolate and Ghirardelli chips. Also there’s some zucchini.
This hallway, at a hotel in Friday Harbor, belongs in a Backrooms game.
