Rayleigh Lord
@blueskyscattering.bsky.social
Physicist. I know why the sky is blue.
No person with even a modicum of integrity can remain a Republican, not any more. The GOP has abandoned its professed principles in fealty to Trump. Crooks, liars, and idiots are all that remain; why are you still there?
May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
No person with even a modicum of integrity can remain a Republican, not any more. The GOP has abandoned its professed principles in fealty to Trump. Crooks, liars, and idiots are all that remain; why are you still there?
I never considered using “what are your thoughts about suspension of habeas corpus” as a pick up line before, but here we are. I think it might be a very strong indicator one way or the other.
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I never considered using “what are your thoughts about suspension of habeas corpus” as a pick up line before, but here we are. I think it might be a very strong indicator one way or the other.
Best internet meme I’ve seen in a whopping long time. IYKYK.
March 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Best internet meme I’ve seen in a whopping long time. IYKYK.
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This seems to be holding up quite well.
Take a look at the rogues' gallery leading the Republicans. No honest person can be a Republican, not anymore. If you are not one of the crooks running the party, you have to be lying to yourself to justify supporting them.
March 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This seems to be holding up quite well.
MAGA neighbor was telling me about her trip to the Gulf Coast. She kept calling it the Gulf of Mexico; in front of children! Where do I report this crime? The FBI? Maybe ICE? Or just the sheriff, he's a good MAGA type. Calls himself a constitutional sheriff.
February 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
MAGA neighbor was telling me about her trip to the Gulf Coast. She kept calling it the Gulf of Mexico; in front of children! Where do I report this crime? The FBI? Maybe ICE? Or just the sheriff, he's a good MAGA type. Calls himself a constitutional sheriff.
Noticed that the world map in the elementary school down the street still shows the historically correct Gulf of Mexico. When will the Governor of Utah mandate updates to all school maps? What a waste of money that unfunded mandate will be. Ignorance is strength!
February 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Noticed that the world map in the elementary school down the street still shows the historically correct Gulf of Mexico. When will the Governor of Utah mandate updates to all school maps? What a waste of money that unfunded mandate will be. Ignorance is strength!
NATO has been a bulwark against threats to democracies for my entire life, and decades before I was born. Now we are switching sides? We've always been at war with NATO? Ignorance is strength!
February 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NATO has been a bulwark against threats to democracies for my entire life, and decades before I was born. Now we are switching sides? We've always been at war with NATO? Ignorance is strength!
I concur. I've had the same thoughts myself.
Someone suggested that they're tuning us out bc "we're using "Nazi" too much".
So I'm proposing that those in Utah start calling them Gadianton Robbers and see if that makes any of them blink.
So I'm proposing that those in Utah start calling them Gadianton Robbers and see if that makes any of them blink.
February 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I concur. I've had the same thoughts myself.
Sometimes integrity means doing what is right when no one will see. Other times integrity means doing what is right in the face of opposition. Having integrity means doing what is right regardless. I thank and praise those with integrity, now more than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sometimes integrity means doing what is right when no one will see. Other times integrity means doing what is right in the face of opposition. Having integrity means doing what is right regardless. I thank and praise those with integrity, now more than ever.
I'm wondering when we'll see an executive order forbidding external communications from the Bureau of Labor Stats. No inflation report means no inflation, right? No report of decreasing employment means all is well, right? Just like with no bird flu reports; ignorance is strength.
February 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm wondering when we'll see an executive order forbidding external communications from the Bureau of Labor Stats. No inflation report means no inflation, right? No report of decreasing employment means all is well, right? Just like with no bird flu reports; ignorance is strength.
Historically when the debt ceiling was reached, Treasury would pay debts owed in a first-in first-paid sequence, since they had no way to prioritize some invoices over others. I'm betting Musk is going to be able to prioritize payments. Debt first, then favorites. No money for others until budget.
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Historically when the debt ceiling was reached, Treasury would pay debts owed in a first-in first-paid sequence, since they had no way to prioritize some invoices over others. I'm betting Musk is going to be able to prioritize payments. Debt first, then favorites. No money for others until budget.
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A mirror big enough to expose the hypocrisy, hate, and division being sown by those at the highest levels of our government.
February 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A mirror big enough to expose the hypocrisy, hate, and division being sown by those at the highest levels of our government.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
February 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
The Venn diagram of people that deny the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and people that flatly deny anthropomorphic climate change may not be a perfect circle; but it isn't far off.
December 21, 2024 at 6:08 PM
The Venn diagram of people that deny the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and people that flatly deny anthropomorphic climate change may not be a perfect circle; but it isn't far off.
(3/3) Justice Robert Jackson in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, Majority Opinion, item 3 (US 1943).
'Tis truly sad that so many voters seem to disagree.
'Tis truly sad that so many voters seem to disagree.
December 15, 2024 at 10:39 PM
(3/3) Justice Robert Jackson in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, Majority Opinion, item 3 (US 1943).
'Tis truly sad that so many voters seem to disagree.
'Tis truly sad that so many voters seem to disagree.
(2/3) One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
December 15, 2024 at 10:39 PM
(2/3) One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
(1/3) The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
December 15, 2024 at 10:39 PM
(1/3) The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
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Where's the romantasy writer starter packs?? Should we make some? #writingcommunity
November 22, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Where's the romantasy writer starter packs?? Should we make some? #writingcommunity
Nothing say "good time" like 25,000 geo-scientists wandering loose on the streets of DC! American Geophysical Union annual meeting at the Washington Conference Center in DC, December 9-13, 2024. See you there maybe.
*holds up sign* "Will do geophysics for food"
*holds up sign* "Will do geophysics for food"
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Nothing say "good time" like 25,000 geo-scientists wandering loose on the streets of DC! American Geophysical Union annual meeting at the Washington Conference Center in DC, December 9-13, 2024. See you there maybe.
*holds up sign* "Will do geophysics for food"
*holds up sign* "Will do geophysics for food"
Take a look at the rogues' gallery leading the Republicans. No honest person can be a Republican, not anymore. If you are not one of the crooks running the party, you have to be lying to yourself to justify supporting them.
November 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Take a look at the rogues' gallery leading the Republicans. No honest person can be a Republican, not anymore. If you are not one of the crooks running the party, you have to be lying to yourself to justify supporting them.