B. Scott Andersen (NE1RD)
@bsandersen.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, failed writer, budding photographer, avid reader, amateur radio enthusiast, and Chicago Cubs fan forever. Loves Sandy, cinnamon, and cats.
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If we are facing Marines on the streets of our cities fighting our own citizens, it is time to revisit The Posse Comitatus Act.
The military is trained to kill people and break things, neither of which is a good thing on our own soil.
The military is trained to kill people and break things, neither of which is a good thing on our own soil.
June 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If we are facing Marines on the streets of our cities fighting our own citizens, it is time to revisit The Posse Comitatus Act.
The military is trained to kill people and break things, neither of which is a good thing on our own soil.
The military is trained to kill people and break things, neither of which is a good thing on our own soil.
Visited Symphony Hall in Boston last night with friends to hear the music of Star Wars. In 1977 I had destroyed my knee and was hobbling around after surgery looking for cool places to hang out in the heat of the Illinois summer. Saw Star Wars 13 times in theaters just to keep cool. Great memories.
May 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Visited Symphony Hall in Boston last night with friends to hear the music of Star Wars. In 1977 I had destroyed my knee and was hobbling around after surgery looking for cool places to hang out in the heat of the Illinois summer. Saw Star Wars 13 times in theaters just to keep cool. Great memories.
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I'm starting to believe that the people in charge don't actually know what made America great in the first place.
I'm starting to believe that the people in charge don't actually know what made America great in the first place.
First Black woman to head Library of Congress fired by Trump over DEI concerns — USA TODAY
Carla Hayden has championed books by diverse authors. 'We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people,' White House spokeswoman said.
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May 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I'm starting to believe that the people in charge don't actually know what made America great in the first place.
I'm starting to believe that the people in charge don't actually know what made America great in the first place.
My 401k is going down the drain. There are no adults in the Oval Office. My stomach hurts.
Here is a kitten.
#kitten #401k #idiots #recession #stockmarket #trump #tariff #shutdown #insanity #mismanagement #exasperation
Here is a kitten.
#kitten #401k #idiots #recession #stockmarket #trump #tariff #shutdown #insanity #mismanagement #exasperation
March 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My 401k is going down the drain. There are no adults in the Oval Office. My stomach hurts.
Here is a kitten.
#kitten #401k #idiots #recession #stockmarket #trump #tariff #shutdown #insanity #mismanagement #exasperation
Here is a kitten.
#kitten #401k #idiots #recession #stockmarket #trump #tariff #shutdown #insanity #mismanagement #exasperation
I’ve already canceled my Washington Post subscription. This makes me want to cancel it again.
March 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I’ve already canceled my Washington Post subscription. This makes me want to cancel it again.
Self portrait in infrared of me eating ice cream.
February 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Self portrait in infrared of me eating ice cream.
My love of Tom the Dancing Bug knows know bounds, but here he echoes a recent post from me!
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February 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My love of Tom the Dancing Bug knows know bounds, but here he echoes a recent post from me!
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Remember when Bush said, “Kuwait should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal so Kuwait could have kept almost all the land. But, you know, Iraq should get to keep the land it captured. Tough luck for the Kuwait.”
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah, me neither.
February 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Remember when Bush said, “Kuwait should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal so Kuwait could have kept almost all the land. But, you know, Iraq should get to keep the land it captured. Tough luck for the Kuwait.”
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah, me neither.
Our society suffers from a lack of empathy. Trumpers happily made life hell for others, only to be dismayed when they were hurt. That lack of empathy saw Trumpers regale in belittling people and seeking retribution for imagined slights. Now they'll reap the whirlwind.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
One federal worker who regrets their vote for Trump says ‘I wish I could take it back’ | CNN Politics
An important government office housed in an old Pennsylvania mine is being targeted by Elon Musk, but employees of the facility are refuting his claims. CNN’s Gabe Cohen reports.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Our society suffers from a lack of empathy. Trumpers happily made life hell for others, only to be dismayed when they were hurt. That lack of empathy saw Trumpers regale in belittling people and seeking retribution for imagined slights. Now they'll reap the whirlwind.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
All must be rewritten in NEW SPEAK.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
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Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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February 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
All must be rewritten in NEW SPEAK.
I'm coming off of the worst head cold I've had in years. Not COVID, not the flu, just a stupid head cold. It kicked me to the curb for two weeks.
Now, like Rip Van Winkle, I awaken and suddenly remember why I stopped watching the news. {sigh}
Anyway, here are some cats: Sisters Muon and Neutrino.
Now, like Rip Van Winkle, I awaken and suddenly remember why I stopped watching the news. {sigh}
Anyway, here are some cats: Sisters Muon and Neutrino.
February 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm coming off of the worst head cold I've had in years. Not COVID, not the flu, just a stupid head cold. It kicked me to the curb for two weeks.
Now, like Rip Van Winkle, I awaken and suddenly remember why I stopped watching the news. {sigh}
Anyway, here are some cats: Sisters Muon and Neutrino.
Now, like Rip Van Winkle, I awaken and suddenly remember why I stopped watching the news. {sigh}
Anyway, here are some cats: Sisters Muon and Neutrino.
Floor of Bath Abbey in the UK taken August 16, 2014. Most Americans have trouble imagining a thousand year reign. The British think about their roots going back to the Romans.
It's lovely country, and I hope to return if only to take in more museums and cathedrals, and take more pictures.
It's lovely country, and I hope to return if only to take in more museums and cathedrals, and take more pictures.
January 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Floor of Bath Abbey in the UK taken August 16, 2014. Most Americans have trouble imagining a thousand year reign. The British think about their roots going back to the Romans.
It's lovely country, and I hope to return if only to take in more museums and cathedrals, and take more pictures.
It's lovely country, and I hope to return if only to take in more museums and cathedrals, and take more pictures.
“Not only [Lewis's] most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in this country.”—The New Yorker
Read this book a few years ago and cannot recommend it highly enough. A book, sadly, for our times.
#fascism
#democracy
#satire
#america
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Read this book a few years ago and cannot recommend it highly enough. A book, sadly, for our times.
#fascism
#democracy
#satire
#america
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January 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Not only [Lewis's] most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in this country.”—The New Yorker
Read this book a few years ago and cannot recommend it highly enough. A book, sadly, for our times.
#fascism
#democracy
#satire
#america
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71d...
Read this book a few years ago and cannot recommend it highly enough. A book, sadly, for our times.
#fascism
#democracy
#satire
#america
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71d...
From 50+ years ago: a parade in my home town. This was one of the first rolls of film I ran through my father's rangefinder Olympus camera. Check out the old cars!
October 1973.
#35mm
#photography
#parade
#float
#slidefilm
October 1973.
#35mm
#photography
#parade
#float
#slidefilm
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
From 50+ years ago: a parade in my home town. This was one of the first rolls of film I ran through my father's rangefinder Olympus camera. Check out the old cars!
October 1973.
#35mm
#photography
#parade
#float
#slidefilm
October 1973.
#35mm
#photography
#parade
#float
#slidefilm
Small distraction for children at the Lowell Spinners baseball games. A swing with rainbow lights glows in this long exposure.
Even simple scenes can be interesting if you think about framing and exposure.
#photography
#longexposure
#colorpainting
Even simple scenes can be interesting if you think about framing and exposure.
#photography
#longexposure
#colorpainting
January 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Small distraction for children at the Lowell Spinners baseball games. A swing with rainbow lights glows in this long exposure.
Even simple scenes can be interesting if you think about framing and exposure.
#photography
#longexposure
#colorpainting
Even simple scenes can be interesting if you think about framing and exposure.
#photography
#longexposure
#colorpainting
Subscription cancelled. For Riveting Storytelling I’d rather read a novel. At least it would be entertaining.
scoop: The Washington Post today is unveiling a new mission statement that has been in the works for months
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
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January 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Subscription cancelled. For Riveting Storytelling I’d rather read a novel. At least it would be entertaining.
The boys of summer. July 13, 2013 in Edward A. LeLacheur park in Lowell, MA. The Lowell Spinners were members of the single-A New York Penn League, one of the oldest leagues in the country before it was shuttered in 2020.
I miss those summer nights with my scorebook and a cool drink.
I miss those summer nights with my scorebook and a cool drink.
January 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The boys of summer. July 13, 2013 in Edward A. LeLacheur park in Lowell, MA. The Lowell Spinners were members of the single-A New York Penn League, one of the oldest leagues in the country before it was shuttered in 2020.
I miss those summer nights with my scorebook and a cool drink.
I miss those summer nights with my scorebook and a cool drink.
I've been clicking "like" on a lot of birds. Just sayin'
#photography
#birds
#birding
#naturephotography
#photography
#birds
#birding
#naturephotography
January 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I've been clicking "like" on a lot of birds. Just sayin'
#photography
#birds
#birding
#naturephotography
#photography
#birds
#birding
#naturephotography
I have, with great sadness, cancelled my Washington Post subscription.
I’m not angry; I’m disappointed. It was a good paper. I was happy to pay for access to it. I depended on it for the straight story.
But trust is both hard-earned and easily lost. It didn’t have to end this way.
I’m not angry; I’m disappointed. It was a good paper. I was happy to pay for access to it. I depended on it for the straight story.
But trust is both hard-earned and easily lost. It didn’t have to end this way.
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I have, with great sadness, cancelled my Washington Post subscription.
I’m not angry; I’m disappointed. It was a good paper. I was happy to pay for access to it. I depended on it for the straight story.
But trust is both hard-earned and easily lost. It didn’t have to end this way.
I’m not angry; I’m disappointed. It was a good paper. I was happy to pay for access to it. I depended on it for the straight story.
But trust is both hard-earned and easily lost. It didn’t have to end this way.
January 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Here I am with my niece's cat "Hanks" while operating in a ham radio contest (yes, amateur radio operators compete). Hanks was pretty good about not pulling on cables so long as I reached over and gave him a rub once in a while.
Great cat (the best). We miss him.
Great cat (the best). We miss him.
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Here I am with my niece's cat "Hanks" while operating in a ham radio contest (yes, amateur radio operators compete). Hanks was pretty good about not pulling on cables so long as I reached over and gave him a rub once in a while.
Great cat (the best). We miss him.
Great cat (the best). We miss him.
Our New England tradition continues. First accumulation of snow today and nobody seems to remember how to drive in the white stuff.
January 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our New England tradition continues. First accumulation of snow today and nobody seems to remember how to drive in the white stuff.
Friendly neighborhood raptor. This exquisite specimen has been hanging around for quite a while keeping the rodent population down.
One day I was cooling my heals on the deck when he swooped down and pounced on a critter in the brush. What a show!
[Corrected spelling]
One day I was cooling my heals on the deck when he swooped down and pounced on a critter in the brush. What a show!
[Corrected spelling]
January 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Friendly neighborhood raptor. This exquisite specimen has been hanging around for quite a while keeping the rodent population down.
One day I was cooling my heals on the deck when he swooped down and pounced on a critter in the brush. What a show!
[Corrected spelling]
One day I was cooling my heals on the deck when he swooped down and pounced on a critter in the brush. What a show!
[Corrected spelling]
Metal sculpture near Portsmouth, New Hampshire lighthouse.
January 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Metal sculpture near Portsmouth, New Hampshire lighthouse.
It isn't enough for Merrick Garland to release the Jack Smith report, we all must READ IT. I'm sure I don't know, or have forgotten things.
I'd like to believe my BS sensor is working, but there is nothing like knowing what the actual story is when you hear GOP nonsense.
I'd like to believe my BS sensor is working, but there is nothing like knowing what the actual story is when you hear GOP nonsense.
January 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It isn't enough for Merrick Garland to release the Jack Smith report, we all must READ IT. I'm sure I don't know, or have forgotten things.
I'd like to believe my BS sensor is working, but there is nothing like knowing what the actual story is when you hear GOP nonsense.
I'd like to believe my BS sensor is working, but there is nothing like knowing what the actual story is when you hear GOP nonsense.