Blueshifted
@observer-effect.bsky.social
I've retired from skiing and misc tech work. I create art using energetic media, invent new tools for use, and for the pure joy of learning. Humor, love, juggling and constant burning curiosity keeps me going. Idiot savant.
Afghan girls spinning and playing in a wartorn school. This is a picture which has haunted & inspired me for a couple of decades. From National Geographic, it captures so much in one photo. One of the positive thoughts it inspires in me: how adaptable and strong our kids are. They are resilient! <3
By the way, the state of Vermont was an independent nation for almost 10 years longer than the Confederacy (1777-1791) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont...
Vermont Republic - Wikipedia
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M.Johnson and members said a prayer, and then voted to take $1 trillion out of Medicaid. What was their prayer?
New England being lowest doesn't surprise me, but there are some odd things: Mississippi is among the lowest?! New Mexico is SO extreme compared to its neighbors. And Alaska being that high is trippy.
www.alternet.org/trump-mobster/ --- The article mentions the "casual butchery" of people. Such slaughter is now nearly pornographic for Maggots.
How Trump's love of murder has made the US government worse than the Mafia
President Donald Trump's has made "casual butchery of the innocent" a common occurrence in his administration, according to a new analysis from The i Paper, which further argued that his conduct is, i...
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Being proactive, and dividing the nation before it reactively and violently breaks up? Sounds safer. History is a harsh mistress, America *will* break up at some point, but it doesn't have to be a horror show. This map is obviously a bit silly in many ways, but interesting thought material.
We are a classy nation now eh? Apparently this was inspired by a display at a Hilton hotel the head Maggot saw. Aesthetically the Peoples House is now getting to the "meeting room in a dying Reno casio". Crooks get ripped off by crooks, I'll bet it is cheap fake guilding - but they/we paid millions
What could go wrong? 😇 Its been clear for decades that we'd get here, but it is still wild to see. We could get incredible good out of this bio-tech. (Of course, a lot of movies also start this way!) phys.org/news/2026-07...
World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these...
phys.org
*- We never finished the Civil War -* And now we pay. And I don't mean we should have killed more people, I mean we should have helped guide the rebuilding of what they saw as a new sovereign nation. Sure there are spots of sanity in all of the Maggot heavy areas, but its mostly madness.
Such lists do not exist, info is compartmentalized in Intel agencies worldwide. Standard and common sense. The main Maggot *will* leak stuff. You know it. And you should talk about the fact that anybody who still supports him is a traitor.
Looking at this I had a realization. There are two smaller companies on this list where if either died it would hurt every one of the others. And if both died it would devastate most of them. Which two?
The "freewill" defense of evil is a way of dodging the big questions.
I like coherent photons much more than drunken ones.
A screen grab from a Faux live-stream: I've had many a mood about our country, as I imagine most of us have. Proud, angry, glad and mad. And I've been sad about the state of things here before. But now? Its a deflating, end of story, kind of sadness now. We are a carnival of violence and stupidity.
"Pump and dump". It has worked a dozen times in past weeks, trillions of $ have changed hands. The returns are starting to shrink though. So I would imagine just some kind of final insane move pretty soon.
Watergate was childsplay. Hunter would have been wonderful to watch mock and belittle this cartel.
youtu.be/riqkA3HKHB8?... My favorite juggling style right now (I'm not in his league), it is very much a solo format. Non-jugglers are only interested in "how many balls can he/you juggle"? And folks keeping 14 balls up in the air? It is very cool, but it is a different style. This is mostly 3-4
Falcore-Juggling
YouTube video by badwux
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It does. Look at all the chaos, and it is one thing that could fit them all. I think they have incredible dirt on him and family, and hold huge loans of his, and have lots of plain old henchmen all over the world.
On June 6, 1944, young men ran through artillery & machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy to defeat fascism and free a continent.. To honor the heroes of D-Day isn’t just to remember what they did.. It’s to remain vigilant against the same hatred, authoritarianism and fascism..
Oh please, in my lifetime -- just one little Carrington Event sized burst! It would be a lot more exciting today than it was in 1859.
We are a s*ithole nation. There are millions of great people in America, but we let the bullies take over the playground. History is very clear on how these imbalances always. Always. *Always* leads to disaster.
Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.
Toon's that are funny because we know they are true.
