TL Jordan
@dulcedemon.bsky.social
Writer, gardener, science nerd, meteorology zealot, volcanology fan, lifelong botany student, locksport novice, Elder Scrolls and Magic the Gathering junkie...
I share science news. I love cats. Writer of blog feature Cinematic Distractions.
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I share science news. I love cats. Writer of blog feature Cinematic Distractions.
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TL Jordan
@dulcedemon.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Cinematic Distractions
My holidays would have been incomplete without the now annual viewing of Akira Kurosawa’s festive and oddly cathartic for me personally…
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Jealousy mars a painting, tuneful miners get lost, a smuggler carries trouble to NYC, a pair of siblings find their accommodations lacking, the telephone is ringing, and the train has left the station headed for another movie list 📽️
Cinematic Distractions:
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Cinematic Distractions:
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How much control could a cat actually have over its tail. Like would you be able to Siberian Fox a breed of cat with prehensile tails?
Somewhere out there right now is a cat with the most dextrous tail of any cat.
Somewhere out there right now is a cat with the most dextrous tail of any cat.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How much control could a cat actually have over its tail. Like would you be able to Siberian Fox a breed of cat with prehensile tails?
Somewhere out there right now is a cat with the most dextrous tail of any cat.
Somewhere out there right now is a cat with the most dextrous tail of any cat.
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"You pay me $1 a day for a month. You spend $30. You pay me $0.50 a day for 5 months. You spend $75. Which one is cheaper?"
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"You pay me $1 a day for a month. You spend $30. You pay me $0.50 a day for 5 months. You spend $75. Which one is cheaper?"
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Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
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It is readily apparent that most lawmakers in the United States have never been poor; do not know any poor people; have never actually had a conversation with a poor person; and have no clear understanding of how poverty actually affects people’s health and opportunities.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It is readily apparent that most lawmakers in the United States have never been poor; do not know any poor people; have never actually had a conversation with a poor person; and have no clear understanding of how poverty actually affects people’s health and opportunities.
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The audacity. The sheer mitigated gall to say that to us, rather than walking down the hall and saying this to Tim Kaine or the Nevada contingent or that raging asshole John Fetterman. The arrogant ignorance is astounding.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The audacity. The sheer mitigated gall to say that to us, rather than walking down the hall and saying this to Tim Kaine or the Nevada contingent or that raging asshole John Fetterman. The arrogant ignorance is astounding.
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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God they hate disabled people so fucking much
Hemp is defined as <0.3% delta-9 THC in dry weight. The minibus adds a ban on “any intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products which are marketed or sold as a final product or directly to an end consumer for personal or household use,” and sets a limit of 0.4 mg THC per container.
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
God they hate disabled people so fucking much
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This is an UNDERSTATEMENT
(real rescue heads know)
(real rescue heads know)
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is an UNDERSTATEMENT
(real rescue heads know)
(real rescue heads know)
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Billionaire ballroom builder crypto grifter and Gatsby party thrower Trump dismisses affordability concerns as “a con job by the Dems” and lies that “costs are way down”
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Billionaire ballroom builder crypto grifter and Gatsby party thrower Trump dismisses affordability concerns as “a con job by the Dems” and lies that “costs are way down”
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Screwing peasants in the same way repeatedly for 35 years and calling them idiots as your defense is definitely a choice.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Screwing peasants in the same way repeatedly for 35 years and calling them idiots as your defense is definitely a choice.
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These people have exactly one strong impulse and it's to immediately throw cold water on any indication that their own base is getting angry or making demands. They fundamentally see their purpose as telling anyone thinking about standing up for themselves to knock it off and be quiet.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
These people have exactly one strong impulse and it's to immediately throw cold water on any indication that their own base is getting angry or making demands. They fundamentally see their purpose as telling anyone thinking about standing up for themselves to knock it off and be quiet.
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
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Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.
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this literal physical machine is where I played burning crusade with my college friends, and they've got it on display at a fucking museum 😭
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
this literal physical machine is where I played burning crusade with my college friends, and they've got it on display at a fucking museum 😭
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Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit
Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit
Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s
Donald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5m verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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Millions of active, engaged people, who literally less than a week earlier won massive and unexpected victories across the entire country, have now thoroughly learned the lesson that they don't fucking need dem leaders.
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Millions of active, engaged people, who literally less than a week earlier won massive and unexpected victories across the entire country, have now thoroughly learned the lesson that they don't fucking need dem leaders.
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
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A great book I loved as a kid: Paul de Kruif's The Microbe Hunters.
A history of the beginning of microbiology and absolutely fucking *wild* experiments they did.
Interns capturing rabid dogs, collecting their saliva, using mouth pipettes on the deadly saliva while testing it, etc.
A history of the beginning of microbiology and absolutely fucking *wild* experiments they did.
Interns capturing rabid dogs, collecting their saliva, using mouth pipettes on the deadly saliva while testing it, etc.
January 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A great book I loved as a kid: Paul de Kruif's The Microbe Hunters.
A history of the beginning of microbiology and absolutely fucking *wild* experiments they did.
Interns capturing rabid dogs, collecting their saliva, using mouth pipettes on the deadly saliva while testing it, etc.
A history of the beginning of microbiology and absolutely fucking *wild* experiments they did.
Interns capturing rabid dogs, collecting their saliva, using mouth pipettes on the deadly saliva while testing it, etc.
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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