Imagine being so fragile in your own sense of self that you make up enemies to make yourself feel better. It’s not the racist stuff that gets him off, but the attention it garners. Richest man in the world, yet also the most psychologically impoverished & alone.

When do they start recommending clothing patches to signify citizenship status or other undesirable groups?

This is what happens in cults

Just, going to drop this...over, here. Seemed timely. Sorry for the video quality. IYKYK

Here and in the afterlife.

Live free or die.

Surely someone can tell when this newspaper photo appeared. It is right under McConnell’s hand in the supposed proof-of-life photo.

Either way, not a great sign of ‘brain health’

Then, he will die upholding his solemn oath to the Constitution to protect it from 'all enemies, foreign and domestic.' 216 years ago, Revolutionary War hero General John Stark expressed it well -- 'live free or die.' People of honor understand. Cult members don't.

Not hateful so much as pathetic. In her flawed reasoning, it is better to lick the boots of one's oppressor than to have the dignity and morality to say 'no.' She is like many Germans in 1930s living under Hitler's rule -- they cared not because they benefitted from the oppression of others.

Where one experiences periop mini strokes & what is 'disconnected' makes a difference in delirium incidence -- moving beyond total volumetrics. 🧪 Infarct‐related structural disconnection and delirium in surgical aortic valve replacement patients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

There’s a train scene that’s worth the ticket price alone.

Too pretty not to share. But, more specifically, what you are looking at is a 3D-model of the regional impact of chronic ischemic microvascular changes in the brain. Most of these changes occur near the lateral ventricles and impact subcortical brain regions, like the caudate. 1/n 🧪

Hypatia’s death marked both the end of classical Alexandrian scholarship and a turning point in the long conflict between pagan philosophy and Christian ecclesiastical authority. When science is publicly diminished & demonized in favor of autocratic whim, we are all Hypatia.

There, the mob stripped Hypatia naked and murdered her using ostraka, which can either be translated as ‘roof tiles’ or ‘oyster shells.’ Damascius adds that they also cut out her eyeballs. They tore her body into pieces and dragged her limbs through the town to a place called Cinarion, 7/n

A committed Neoplatonist, Hypatia held that reason and contemplation were pathways to an ultimate divine intellect. She was unusual among ancient thinkers in teaching men and women alike, and in earning the respect of the city's Roman prefect, Orestes - a friendship that would prove fatal. 5/n

Hypatia wrote authoritative commentaries on Diophantus's Arithmetica, Apollonius's Conics, and Ptolemy's Almagest. Though none of her texts survive in their original form, scholars believe she substantially revised and expanded her father's editions 3/n

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." - attributed to Hypatia. Daughter of Theon, one of Alexandria's foremost mathematicians, Hypatia was raised inside the Musaeum, an intellectual complex surrounding the great Library of Alexandria. 1/n 🧪

It has only been 18 1/2 weeks since the cold-blooded, state-sanctioned execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. His murderers still have yet to be brought to any sort of justice. Complacency is cowardice. Complacency is tactic collusion. Complacency is the death of our Constitutional rights.

Received this today. The antipathy science is being subjecting to is so shortsighted. How else are billionaires & corporations going to profit from public funding of early R&D pipelines, ideas & talent?

Oh, the grand irony of a malignant narcissist rendering a reflecting pool unreflective.

Honoring those who took a solemn oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. #memorialday #democracy not #dictatorship

US Constitution Amendment 14: Section 4 The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or… 1/n

Remember the Maine!

Bingo. Anyone who voted for Trump should be forced to wear that albatross around their neck for the rest of their lives.

Carrying on the Asian tradition of scholar objects, I have more than a few tchotchkes on my desk that I enjoy looking at. One is this ocean jasper sphere that I found at a rock shop in rural NC, but I seriously doubt it originated from NC. @fossillocator.bsky.social anyway to know the origin?

How did MIT students put a police squad car on the top of the Great Dome in 1994?

Arguably, Groux's second masterpiece derives from this period in the 1914 etching "Les Voyants" (The Seeing), in which the march to victory is blocked with danger & death. I firmly believe that this etching and a few others in this series touch upon what would have been known then as 'shell shock.'

In 1889, Henri de Groux (1866-1930), a Belgian painter and sculptor finished his masterpiece, “Christ aux outrages (Christ attacked by the mob),” at the age of 22 yrs.

Physical age = 96 yrs. Age of spirit = forever young. Well-being emanates from inside when one embraces the absurdities of life. #superager #levity