The epitaph for America reads “6-3.”

Squiggle Golf

https://squigglegolf.com

#webGames

Ah, the crazy days of the XX century. Now if you tried to buy a passenger seat for a clock, they'd deny entrance over RealID or insist it was a bomb.

https://spacedaily.com/d-a-1971-experiment-flew-four-atomic-clocks-around-the-world-on-commercial-airliners-first-heading-east-then-heading-west-and-when-the-clocks-were-brought-home-and-compared-with-sta/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@farside_bot/116724046701941583

I don't remember this scene in the original text... 😆

This is one of the more interesting answers I have read in an advice column.

The question:

"I’m 21 and anxious about the future. How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble?"

For anyone stressed about the state of the world, the response is worth consideration.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/anxious-about-future-take-care-without-living-in-bubble

#books #bookstodon

Started re-reading "Lonesome Dove" yesterday after 40 years.

I read this one summer when i was in college; I have heard people describe books as "transporting them away" ... this was one of the few times I experienced that.

Although I know how the overall story goes, every page is filled with scenes and characters I had forgotten - it is like reading it new again.

McMurtry was a genius.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b6ee5fb3-46eb-472d-ab77-32efef35734e

@chu

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones

I found this poem to be dark yet uplifting

My plan with #rss https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/04/my-plan-with-rss.html

This hits hard.

On this Tax Day, I have a joke about trickle-down economics, but 99% of you will never get it.

Will Hollingsworth is his name

Give him a listen

Talking against a #dataCenter proposal in Ravenna, #Ohio

Speaking eloquently on how he trained the #AI that replaced him, bad #regulations, lying #techBros...

Witty, passionate, persuasive

Will is a #citizen in the finest sense of the word

"I am not a cynic when it comes to #technology. I am believer in #community. I believe that a drop of clean #water for a Ravenna child is worth more than a billion #AI generated images"

👏 👏 👏

#investing #farming #money

5 years ago invested in 3 diff farms thru Acre Trader.

Different locations, different crops.

Was getting decent distributions yearly. They were projected to be held for 10-12 years.

But in the the last week - all were purchased. The purchase prices was way under the projected.

I think some billionaire(s) just went on massive farmland acquisition.

If one had been sold, I would not think that much about it. But all three in 4 days?

Maybe no other investments look safe?

“America is great. Make America greater? I’m down. But MAGA, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks? A lot of them are these really weird, f-cking uninteresting, unintelligent people.” - Joe Rogan
—
How the tables have turned.

#mlb #baseball

Baseball opening day is tomorrow!

In honor of that, you may be asking...What if a pitcher could throw a baseball at nearly the speed of light? I know I have wondered that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI08o-IGYk&t=194s

Spoiler: it would *NOT* result in an out!

I watched "Project Hail Mary" this weekend with my 13 year old son. We both loved the movie!

But on way home, he asked me questions about relativity and time dilation. I though I understood it, but found I could not explain it to him ... which means I did not truly understand it.

Came across this video, and it is the best explanation I have seen. Highly recommend it if you want to wrap your head around special relativity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator - Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ @doctorow @pluralistic

Every year around this date, we lose an hour, and scientists still don’t understand why.

Some think it's a gravitational vortex that warps space-time. Others believe we are living in a simulation that needs to be rebooted once a year.

Some even claim we didn't lose any hour at all - that it is just a conspiracy of the elite to confuse and exhaust us. They claim the resistance is organizing to expose this fraud by the end of the year and give back our "lost hour".

Me? I just enjoy the mystery and show up late for appointments.

Handled.

@FrostBank@twitter.com | #sponsored

For the first time ever Claude is the top free app in the US App Store. There’s been no better marketing than the U.S. military trying to force the company to use its AI to fight wars and spy on Americans.

It’s also notable that AI apps and Threads are the most popular apps on iOS.