Dr. Timothy Pickering
@tepickering.bsky.social
astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
as a registered purple midwest state voter, i do prefer DSA-aligned candidates like AES and francesca. however, i am haunted by 2022 where a decisive number of voters either voted for both tony evers and ron johnson (🤮) or voted evers and did not cast a senate vote....
i mean, 40 years ago green bay, wi didn't even have a taco bell. now, i walk two blocks from my brother's house to a fantastic carniceria and place my order for quesabirria en español. that is mathematically an infinite improvement...
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
me and the boys waiting for y'all to finish up with that dead horse you're beating
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
nytimes.com
One of the things you get from watching tributes to Glen Hansard is that he was a musician’s musician. His peers really respected him. But also he was so kind to random people. And that seems sort of perfect. To be respected both by the people who deeply understand what you do and those who don’t.
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
BadgerNoonan@badgernoonan.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains. bsky.app/profile/scal...
no trip to green bay is complete without a stop at jake’s for some tavern style, square-cut pizza
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
classic minnesota nice response.
scott topics™️@scottpb.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is how it should be done.
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
definitely click through to the article for the full context. this happened at the campground we stayed at a few weeks ago. i saw a lot of people do really dumb things around bison, but this really looks like combo of wrong place, wrong time, wrong bison.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoA tourist was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident.
There will be a lot of conspiracies, but it may have just been Chick-Fil-A.
remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket
You have a moral obligation to speak ill of Lindsay Graham and to celebrate his death. Failing to do so now assists in them gaslighting all of us into pretending he was a good person. He was not. All of our lives are worse because of him. Dance the earth flat on his grave. Deny the lies.
Dr. Hesse Daria 👒 [bæddelstar galactica]@thatdoll.online · 3w ago"don't speak ill of the dead" damn, cause i have jokes qued up in my drafts for like 5 more of these guys
new paradigm just dropped: irritation-driven development
The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
this, but also rich people aren’t rich because of income, it’s because of wealth. wealth for the wealthy needs to be taxed like property is for us non-wealthy.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last mo.Re-upping this thread on Thomas Paine since he seems to have entered the Bluesky chat on this July 4.
if you have a stupid early flight, there are far worse places to stay the night before and far worse airports to fly out of…
there is a whooooole market ecosystem for solar panels and battery systems to plug them into. you can pretty much go nuts in terms of collection wattage and storage, but pushing back to grid is problematic. as long as you're set up to use grid as backup, just like any rv, you're fine.
🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social · last mo."there’s an entire industry that sells u a couple of solar panels and an inverter. The energy u capture goes into ur household power. U can put the solar panels in a yard, roof, anywhere that gets sunshine. It also works for renters and apartment dwellers. When u move, u take the system withu."
i mean, fok them and the Il-96's they flew in on...
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last mo.⚡️Ukraine says 'Spirit of Anchorage' is 'dead,' Russia must face reality in peace talks. "If the 'Spirit of Anchorage' even existed, it is certainly dead now," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, mocking Russia's claims about an "understanding" reached during last year's summit in Alaska.
Showing Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the same place at the same time violates the other first rule of Fight Club
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it’s take your moose fishing day here in pinedale, wy 🫎
