Interocitor
@interocitor.bsky.social
Clinically depressed, misanthropic, introverted, cantankerous curmudgeon. Have a day.
Working on a memoir of my legendary romantic prowess entitled…
The Walking Dud
The Walking Dud
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Working on a memoir of my legendary romantic prowess entitled…
The Walking Dud
The Walking Dud
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“What happens when this system suffers cascade failure?”
“It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.”
“Right. But what happens when it does?”
“It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.”
“Right. But what happens when it does?”
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
arstechnica.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“What happens when this system suffers cascade failure?”
“It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.”
“Right. But what happens when it does?”
“It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.”
“Right. But what happens when it does?”
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” —Donald Trump, 31 July, 2025
The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.
The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.
nbcnewyork.app.link
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” —Donald Trump, 31 July, 2025
The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.
The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.
Donarrhea
Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it.
As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.
As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.
October 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Donarrhea
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October 18, 2025
October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
October 18, 2025
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The seeds of the American Revolution were sown right here in Fairfax, where our founders said no to a king.
Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.
Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.
October 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The seeds of the American Revolution were sown right here in Fairfax, where our founders said no to a king.
Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.
Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is an excellent piece calling out Kirk’s faux Christianity. The Guardian piece is also rather good.
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#fakechristian #hypocrite #religion #religionnewsblog
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#fakechristian #hypocrite #religion #religionnewsblog
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is an excellent piece calling out Kirk’s faux Christianity. The Guardian piece is also rather good.
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"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
To analogize the state of US politics to a Monty Python sketch…
Republican Party = Very Silly Party
Democratic Party = Silly Party
What we need is a Sensible Party. Heck, I’d settle for a Slightly Silly Party.
Republican Party = Very Silly Party
Democratic Party = Silly Party
What we need is a Sensible Party. Heck, I’d settle for a Slightly Silly Party.
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Election Night Special
YouTube video by CaptainWii64
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
To analogize the state of US politics to a Monty Python sketch…
Republican Party = Very Silly Party
Democratic Party = Silly Party
What we need is a Sensible Party. Heck, I’d settle for a Slightly Silly Party.
Republican Party = Very Silly Party
Democratic Party = Silly Party
What we need is a Sensible Party. Heck, I’d settle for a Slightly Silly Party.
Next stop -- Willoughby.
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Next stop -- Willoughby.
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The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland!
Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
Finland inaugurates world’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery
Finland has inaugurated the world’s largest sand battery, a 1 MW/100 MWh thermal storage system developed by Polar Night Energy. The unit is already exceeding efficiency targets.
www.pv-magazine.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland!
Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
Separated at birth?
August 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Separated at birth?
Phil Plait is always worth a read.
Did you know astronomers commonly see objects in space moving faster than light? But seeing is not believing: superluminal motion is an illusion!
Me, for Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
🔭🧪
Me, for Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
🔭🧪
How to See Faster-Than-Light Motion
Superluminal velocities are common but illusory
www.scientificamerican.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Phil Plait is always worth a read.
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My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.
A higher resolution pic than my screenshot that captured the salute, from Alyssa Pointer (Reuters) – press weren’t allowed past the front gate for security reasons.
August 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.
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I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
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A 🧵 on "limb cooling" and how it relates to tracking tropical waves across Africa:
1) We use geosynchronous weather satellites for constant monitoring of clouds over the globe. The satellites are placed into orbit such that they rotate at the same speed as the Earth. There are several of these. 🌀🧐🛰️🧪
1) We use geosynchronous weather satellites for constant monitoring of clouds over the globe. The satellites are placed into orbit such that they rotate at the same speed as the Earth. There are several of these. 🌀🧐🛰️🧪
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A 🧵 on "limb cooling" and how it relates to tracking tropical waves across Africa:
1) We use geosynchronous weather satellites for constant monitoring of clouds over the globe. The satellites are placed into orbit such that they rotate at the same speed as the Earth. There are several of these. 🌀🧐🛰️🧪
1) We use geosynchronous weather satellites for constant monitoring of clouds over the globe. The satellites are placed into orbit such that they rotate at the same speed as the Earth. There are several of these. 🌀🧐🛰️🧪
Wow. Two solid ideas.
We deserve to dream. We will have high speed rail and veggie McRibs.
August 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Wow. Two solid ideas.
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The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.
What's wrong with Max Blumenthal?!
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.
When the only people who get nominated are incompetent, unqualified, dishonest, unethical hacks, you have to expect *some* blowback from sane people.
Also, I’d advise her to look up her fellow lunatic Tom Tuberville’s record of personally blocking any military appointment made by Biden.
Also, I’d advise her to look up her fellow lunatic Tom Tuberville’s record of personally blocking any military appointment made by Biden.
July 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
When the only people who get nominated are incompetent, unqualified, dishonest, unethical hacks, you have to expect *some* blowback from sane people.
Also, I’d advise her to look up her fellow lunatic Tom Tuberville’s record of personally blocking any military appointment made by Biden.
Also, I’d advise her to look up her fellow lunatic Tom Tuberville’s record of personally blocking any military appointment made by Biden.
“This is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed. Jesus H. Christ, Houston. We’re on the fucking moon. Over.”
Editorial: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t bomb a tiny Asian nation into the stone age?”
Editorial: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t bomb a tiny Asian nation into the stone age?”
July 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“This is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed. Jesus H. Christ, Houston. We’re on the fucking moon. Over.”
Editorial: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t bomb a tiny Asian nation into the stone age?”
Editorial: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t bomb a tiny Asian nation into the stone age?”
Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize is like Benito Mussolini nominating Adolph Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.
July 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize is like Benito Mussolini nominating Adolph Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.