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Podcaster, writer, Cubs fan, space geek, Beacon of restraint & self-sacrifice in a squall of car-crazies.
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Well that worked out

Say no. Don't be that guy.

fundamentally every microblogging site will always find itself split between people going "I LIVE TO FIGHT ON THE COMPUTER" and the ones going "huh, I don't"

Trump's weirdness doesn't get more outrage, because at this point Trump supporters strip out the audio of whatever Trump is saying and replace it in their heads with what they want to hear, like Homer Simpson watching a movie in his head when he's bored. /1

Today in History: 273 people killed in American Airlines Flight 191 at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/t...

For #MemorialDay a thread of places America's fallen rest, or the missing remembered worldwide. Over 130K fallen buried & thousands more memorialized by ABMC in 26 cemeteries & 32 monuments across 18 countries. Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium

The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Jupiter Weapon By Charles L. Fontenay from Amazing Science Fiction Stories in March 1959, which might introduce the idea of a reverse Turing Test. Listen to the whole story: dwarf.ly/FtX

This is a vital read to get past the buzzwords associated not only with the technology involved but the politicians that talk about it with no clue of what is involved www.bbc.com/news/article...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Russia-Ukraine peace talks are a farce. Failed in Turkey for the same predictable reason. Russia pretends it’s interested in peace. US pretends that too, to pretend Trump is a peacemaker. And Ukraine pretends he is, to show (yet again) that Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace. My latest:

The first challenge is to find her purse...

New on @heardtell.bsky.social we're talking congress as the center of American political dysfunction, and who to blame for it Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6b1R... Watch YouTube youtu.be/ayAKd2sq6pQ Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell...

Even the Pope couldn't save them

I guess we're saluting officers from other countries now?

Wow

Post a robot that’s not from Star Wars or Transformers

Finished the inks on my first #indiecomic and now adding colors. #scifi #digitalart #MercysEclipse

Latest @heardtell.bsky.social @four4thefire.bsky.social talks college cheating w/ChatGPT, AI skepticism, & learning life lessons Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/17ZE... Watch YouTube youtu.be/jy9n4YRC3Mk Substack open.substack.com/pub/heardtel...

May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring, will be bright in the sky on Sunday night — despite it being a “micromoon.”

"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State" - U.S. constitution abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

I worried that Trump was lying about an India-Pakistan ceasefire—it sucks that no one can trust what the White House says unless it’s confirmed by others—but it turns out he was just lying about US involvement.

Well played

Well there's a new thing I didn't know I had to be worried about

The recently elected Pope Leo XIV is just like us, playing games and watching movies in his downtime. https://bit.ly/42Y7clC

BREAKING: The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV will be formally installed as pope at a Mass on May 18 and will preside over his first general audience on May 21. Follow AP's live updates.

Cardinal Robert Prevost (center, blue shirt) visited the flagship @AureliosPizza location in Homewood in August with friends and family. Who could've imagined what would happen less than a year later! wgntv.com/news/robert-...

We have a Pope who knows the number for Luna Flooring

This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Golgotha Dancers By Manly Wade Wellman. It was first published in Weird Tales October 1937, and it is indeed a weird one. But also a fun one. Listen to the whole story: dwarf.ly/itCU3eo

First photo of the new Pope Mobile

Chicago Papal vestments... auditoryanthology.threadless.com/designs/da-p...

Cubs or White Sox?

Well, at least we don't have to worry about Pope Leo meeting with the Angel of Death any time soon

Some Cardinal just leveled up

Phone: "Your fingerprint cannot be recognized. Please use a different finger" Me: "I've got a finger for you"

The fighter jets refuse to live in captivity anymore. It's inspiring, really