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I do not understand why the Harris campaign has made a bigger point of this. They're letting the opposition get away with saying they'd be better for the economy.

In 2014, Tim and I went to the 25th Anniversary Miata Reunion, and got Bob Hall, Mark Jordan, and Norm Garret to sign the first ever (1989) Miata brochure. Unfortunately, we missed Tom Matano. Cindy and I rectified the matter yesterday.

We interrupt tonight's doomscrolling to bring you this image of the Triangulum galaxy (M33) that I took last night.

OH "The turkeys just voted for Thanksgiving."

Today's history lesson. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

Color me shocked.

The Flaming Star Nebula (C 31), imaged several days ago.

Perceived yellow is actually white. How can we make this type of color illusion? psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/Akiyo…

This hellsite (the platform formerly known as Twitter) bitches at you if you don't have two-factor authentication set up and then tries to make you pay them to enable it. I have never seen 𝘢𝘯𝘺 other website engage in this malodorous behavior.

This makes about as much sense as choosing me to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. politico.com/news/2024/11/1…

This was entirely predictable. Trump (a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated rapist) should never have been eligible to run. Our institutions have failed us.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” ― John Adams, Letter to John Taylor (1814)

Poor babies. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. Perhaps they should not have voted for him. npr.org/2024/11/17/nx-…

As relevant today as the day it was written, and as beautiful. Let us hope that we have a competent leader again someday, and that they can undo some of the damage the our president-elect has done in the past and will do in the future.

If only this could’ve been foreseen!

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” ― H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major (1916)