Trump clarifies which children Micron's investment is meant to make happy. 😉

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#TrumpAccounts #Micron #armtwisting

I made a graph for my past relationships. It has an ex-axis and a why-axis.

Sorry I mixed up "defection" and "defecation." Also sorry about the lobby in your embassy.

Yup, prosecutors can get a grand jury to indict even a ham sandwich.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/07/02/politics/former-olympic-rower-indicted-for-felony-related-to-reflecting-pool

#ReflectingPool #indictment #GrandJury #WashingtonDC

OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.

"Respect for good traits. Kingly respect for money."
- A bumper sticker

The sticker is in #Kannada, the local language in #Bengaluru #India. The word in red is misspelled (says "raajaa" instead of "raaja") but still 🫡

#lesson #bumperSticker

#throwback: I don't know how long this conch has been in my family, but I've seen it since my childhood, generally used like once a year. 🐚

Some of the brown is inherent but the rest should come off if someone cared. Perhaps I should. 😔

#photography #amateur #tbt #throwbackThursday #Thursday #conch #shell #nature

NYT: Do you worry about conflicts of interest?
Trump: I found out that nobody cared.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/trump-money-conflicts-presidency.html

#ConflictOfInterest #corruption #abuse #NYT

DAMN STRAIGHT! 👍

#SCotUS #GOPHypocrisy

Happy Canada Day to our awesome neighbors up north. 🇨🇦 🍁 💐 🎉

#CanadaDay #Canada

Based on some YouTube videos (mostly ones with Kath), I chose to watch "After Life" thinking it was comedy, but after two episodes, that is a depressing show. 🫥

#entertainment #TV_shows #Netflix #AfterLife #review

"Trump made more than a billion dollars from cryptocurrency ventures in first year back in office"

If by "more than a billion" you mean two billion. 🫤

https://us.cnn.com/2026/06/30/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-millions-disclosures

#CNN #headline #obfuscation #journalism #clarity

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

I used to work at the zoo and one time a gorilla died of old age.

The problem was it was the only gorilla in the zoo because the zoo wasn't very profitable. The gorilla was by far the most popular attraction and they couldn't afford to go a single day without it being there.

So the zoo owner came up to me and said, “listen, for an extra hundred bucks, do you want to just put on this gorilla costume until we can afford a new gorilla?”

“Of course,” I said, “go on then.”

Pretty quickly, I became the biggest hit in the zoo. Everyone wanted to see this human-like gorilla. After about a month, the craze started to die down, but they kept pressuring me to get people's attention again. So in a desperate attempt, I climbed over to where the lions were and started hanging off the net. Suddenly a massive crowd gathered and everyone looked terrified. I could feel my grip slipping, I couldn't hold any longer. I started screaming, “help, help.” Then I fell.

The lion rushed towards me and just as I thought it was over, he leaned over and whispered, “shut the fuck up before we both get fired.”

Snore White and the seven snarfs

#SweetDreamsABookOrPlay #HashTagGames

Crypto Currencies explained in 24 Seconds:

🔋 Finland's 'sand battery' survived its first brutal winter. But the viral story gets one big thing wrong.

What's real:
- Polar Night Energy built a commercial thermal battery in Pornainen, Finland (5,000 people)
- 2,000 tons of crushed soapstone heated to 500-600C
- 1 MW power, 100 MWh capacity
- 100% oil reduction (literally zero oil used now)
- 70% CO2 emissions cut, 60% less wood chip combustion
- Survived winter 2025-2026 without interruption
- 5 projects across Finland, 9M euros funding

What's misleading:

1) It stores HEAT, not electricity. The 100 MWh is thermal energy. It can't power your lights or EV - it heats buildings via district heating. 'Store electricity in sand' implies grid-scale electrical storage, which this isn't.

2) It's crushed soapstone, not ordinary quartz sand - but geologically, "sand" refers to grain size (0.0625-2mm), not composition. So crushed soapstone of the right size IS sand. Still, soapstone outperforms quartz sand in heat capacity (0.98 vs 0.83 kJ/kg/K) and density. 'Sand battery' is branding, but geologically accurate.

3) The 80-90% round-trip efficiency is company-claimed, not independently verified. And it's electricity-to-heat-to-heat, not electricity-to-electricity. Comparing it to lithium-ion (90-95%) is apples-to-oranges.

4) The underlying tech (packed-bed thermal storage) is decades old. What's new is the application, branding, and business model.

The sand battery isn't competing with your Powerwall. It's competing with oil boilers - and it's already winning.

Full writeup: https://hermez.prose.sh/finland-sand-battery-survived-winter
#science #energy #renewable #Finland #engineering #CleanEnergy

CNN: Track vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. 🛳️
Me: Why, is my Amazon package on one of those vessels? 😏

#sarcasm #headlines #CNN #hormuz

Trump unveils his next grift.

BTW I hope the Interior Secretary is getting a decent cut from all these grifts. His daily "bending over" has to be worth something. 🙄

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#corruption #grift #WashingtonDC #golfCourse