Disney's Merlin with evil Madam Mim who has changed into a crocodile
It reminds me of Disney's Sword in the Stone, when Madam Mim duels with Merlin
She chooses dangerous animals like tigers and crocodiles, but Merlin is much smarter
He eventually changes into a bacterium and infects her, winning the duel
Anyway, Pete Hegseth is Madam Mim
For more than a decade a we warned about Christian nationalism, insisting that we take them seriously, we were dismissed as alarmists.
Don't do that here.
Well... that was a mess of a movie. Casting was better than the script (+) but science was atrocious (-) and continuity was closer to an existential thought experiment than anything rooted in emperical reality (-).
Still waiting for a Twister level hurricane movie but would watch again.
Friday night movie night. Giving Thrash on Netflix a try. Cat 6 hurricane + last second evacuations + bull sharks = this should be a hot mess
Interesting (and probably a 1A violation) repurposing of the Faith-Based Offices.
When these got started, a major emphasis was building external partnerships. Now they've turned inward towards proselytizing.
If your toaster starts working like this website today, report it to us on SaferProducts.gov.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
The fights this has caused in my household. ISO standard or bust.
There’s “Just War doctrine” …
then there’s “just war” doctrine.
Tulip bulbs. Just replace "AI" with "tulip bulbs" and that will tell you where we are.
1. Keep an eye on the local newspaper for updates
www.mvariety.com
2. Reminder that Saipan got hit HARD by a typhoon in 2019. That one (Yutu) was devastating and barely got noticed in stateside media
www.civilbeat.org/2019/01/from...
Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now peaking at Category 5 strength and is likely to make landfall on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in about 36 hours.
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a US territory. They're going to need all the help they can get after this storm.
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
I’m so mad, he didn’t deserve a space mission OR an Olympics
LET ALONE the America250 event
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
Not for the first time, I am begging for a dishy history podcast series on the Avignon papacy.
Joining the Crusades to fight the False Pope for Pope Leo because Deus Vult
How is there no movie on the Avignon Papacy? I want to learn things people!
Now I'm making plans to visit a library for Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile by Edwin Mullins .
Talk to anyone working in the sciences in the U.S. right now… ask them how they are. Chances are they are depressed:
facing cuts from granting agencies that will make it impossible to do their work, a growing realization that their work is not valued and thus probably will not have any impact…
Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.
"Don't write your graduate thesis on religion and space" they said.
"That's a ridiculous topic, and it's extremely niche, and you'll never use that knowledge in the real world" they said.
HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW, HATERS?!
If you wouldn’t like it if another country did it to us but you are ok with us doing it, you are just a bully.
Ugh... he should know all this too. He was a representative for Tulsa during our historic 2019 floods. Literally photos of him, Gaynor, and Pence doing pressers and visiting damage 🤦
2026: when every day is the final dinner scene from “Don’t Look Up”
It shouldn't have to be said, but destroying whole civilizations is wrong, genocide is wrong, war is wrong.
Given what happened last year & the fact that family members of Marines are being grabbed off of military bases, every wildland fire IC should be asked what they intend to do should ICE show up in fire camp. If you can't answer that you'll tell them to go pound sand, you shouldn't be an IC. 1/
Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.
