“Some senior aides and U.S. diplomats who manage Middle East affairs were told little to nothing about plans for the war. They learned the bombing had started from social media and news reports.”
Arrggghhhhhhhh
Unfortunate timeline combo.
800 billion stars captured in one frame. This is Sombrero Galaxy captured by Hubble. 31 million light-years away from us.
The list of reasons why stymying the urgent—and inevitable—clean-energy transition is foolhardy, dangerous, and immoral is miles long.
The list of reasons to invest and accelerate it is zillions of miles long.
Top notch 💯
Those of you who do long-form reporting are familiar with the week I’ve had:
1. Turn weeks of reporting into a draft.
2. Realize the spine doesn’t work, there’s confusing duplication, and it’s time to get a fun, relaxing job at a zoo.
3. Restructure the whole damn thing. Again.
4. Keep going…
Fairly certain that “We” is not the same one in “We the people”
That egg of yours is … persistent.
two people one helping the other out of a car. they are stylishly dressed. the Eiffel tower is in the background
George Hoyningen-Huene. Paris, 1934
“For that play to be associated with bombing human beings makes me sick,” Bell told The Washington Post. “I don’t want anything to do with images like that.”
The wrong people are in charge of marketing there/everywhere. Launch “The Patrick Agency” immediately.
The children always suffer the most in war—during the conflict and forever afterward, long after the people who started it are gone.
The famous bout at Caesar’s Palace. Enjoy!
Speaking from late middle age: It's (apparently) all good from here! Via great piece, "The Happy Map," by @alv9n.com at @puddingviz.bsky.social
Being a wunderkind is overrated. Not that I was one, but what does someone have to look forward to in life if success comes too early?
Signed,
President, Rationalizers Club of America
Thor's Helmet, taken from my balcony
Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) is an emission nebula in the Canis Major region, visible only for a short period during the winter season. It also remains quite low on the horizon, right in the middle of the light-pollution belt. These are nearly 21 hours of integrated exposure. 🔭
#Astrophotography
Half a century later: Same hairstyle, same hubris.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Here's the second Trump threat to use nuclear weapons to destroy Iran, and neither have been properly reported in that context. But it's crystal clear that's what he's thinking about/threatening.
That sounds like a threat to use nuclear weapons.
John F. Kennedy walking through the White House Rose Garden with Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria on October 15, 1962. The day before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and, one must note these days, when it was still the Rose Garden and not paved over to resemble a country club patio bar.
Until recently I didn’t do a lot of the “social media,” so, a question:
Is it normal to spend six hours a day sobbing while watching animal rescue/transformation videos? Because recently that’s about where I’m at, and wondering if it’s just me.
[BLOWS NOSE, WIPES EYES]
Okay, back to it!
If only there were, oh, I don’t know, some kind of “alternative” energy sources that were cheaper, cleaner, and easy to install/deploy everywhere?
Oh well, that’s just a silly fantasy. Stop it with your crazy talk, Bill!
“a new breed of large-scale holding centers”
Huh. It’s almost like that’s a euphemism for something, can’t quite think of the phrase, must check history books.
Well, at least you have to spend less time dealing with them.
“A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.”
"Sure, this is the day of my daughter's wedding, AND we scheduled it on #Caturday, but still."
