Grant Burningham
@granteb.bsky.social
Former journalist / Utahn.
4 of 6 of my previous meals have been pumpkin pie and ice cream.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
4 of 6 of my previous meals have been pumpkin pie and ice cream.
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Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
Just checking on Utah's precipitation and ...
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just checking on Utah's precipitation and ...
The shortest story on being middle-aged in the world: For sale, road bike, under 200 miles.
August 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The shortest story on being middle-aged in the world: For sale, road bike, under 200 miles.
this happens, and then we test our own (restarting nuclear tests are in Project 2025) www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Russia warning as Putin close to first nuclear bomb tests for 35 years
The world waits as Russian President Vladimir Putin considers giving the green light to nuclear bomb testing at the former Soviet Arctic site in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago
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August 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
this happens, and then we test our own (restarting nuclear tests are in Project 2025) www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Kinda crazy the pioneers got here today. They must have been freaking the fuck out that they didn’t have any crops in the ground.
July 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Kinda crazy the pioneers got here today. They must have been freaking the fuck out that they didn’t have any crops in the ground.
kinda weird Trump's people campaigned on creating this scandal?
July 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
kinda weird Trump's people campaigned on creating this scandal?
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@landdesk.bsky.social explains the Colorado River Compact of 1922 open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...
July 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@landdesk.bsky.social explains the Colorado River Compact of 1922 open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...
Can't escape the feeling that if the Simpsons murders happened today, OJ would have a podcast and be running for Senate by 2030
July 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Can't escape the feeling that if the Simpsons murders happened today, OJ would have a podcast and be running for Senate by 2030
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“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing.
Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
(1 of 2)
Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
(1 of 2)
June 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing.
Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
(1 of 2)
Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
(1 of 2)
"because masks make men cruel ..."
June 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"because masks make men cruel ..."
I was first introduced to Brian Wilson via a documentary on the theremin I saw at Sundance in 1993. youtu.be/FUozR7EZMRI?...
Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) discusses theremin and Good Vibrations (1990)
YouTube video by LUNAR
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June 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I was first introduced to Brian Wilson via a documentary on the theremin I saw at Sundance in 1993. youtu.be/FUozR7EZMRI?...
I'm taking a continuing ed class at the U of U and had to login using my security questions — who the hell was my hero when I was 24? Vonnegut? Andrei Kirilenko? Teddy Roosevelt? Who?
June 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm taking a continuing ed class at the U of U and had to login using my security questions — who the hell was my hero when I was 24? Vonnegut? Andrei Kirilenko? Teddy Roosevelt? Who?
Best iced coffee recipe: 2 shots espresso, add a couple ozs of cold water and a generous squirt of chicory syrup. Shake in a tumbler filled with ice until it's foamy and serve over more ice.
May 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Best iced coffee recipe: 2 shots espresso, add a couple ozs of cold water and a generous squirt of chicory syrup. Shake in a tumbler filled with ice until it's foamy and serve over more ice.
Mug Brunson but don't breathe on SGA
May 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Mug Brunson but don't breathe on SGA
This summer, I've decided to read all 19 books that are banned in Utah schools. First up, "Damsel," by Elana K. Arnold.
May 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This summer, I've decided to read all 19 books that are banned in Utah schools. First up, "Damsel," by Elana K. Arnold.
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Why didn’t the liberals and the anti-Nazi conservatives unite to stop Hitler? The answer will not make you feel great about today’s Democratic Party.
May 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Why didn’t the liberals and the anti-Nazi conservatives unite to stop Hitler? The answer will not make you feel great about today’s Democratic Party.
"... if this is your first conclave, you have to fight."
April 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"... if this is your first conclave, you have to fight."
Is this whole administration made up of people who swerve their cars to hit turtles?
April 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Is this whole administration made up of people who swerve their cars to hit turtles?
My daughter is home sick and I made her watch a Nova on Rome and write an essay. Here's the final line:
So the Colosseum is a blood house, and the reason for it was political power, as the Romans watched millions (sic) of people die, do you think they ever thought, "What if that was me?"
So the Colosseum is a blood house, and the reason for it was political power, as the Romans watched millions (sic) of people die, do you think they ever thought, "What if that was me?"
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My daughter is home sick and I made her watch a Nova on Rome and write an essay. Here's the final line:
So the Colosseum is a blood house, and the reason for it was political power, as the Romans watched millions (sic) of people die, do you think they ever thought, "What if that was me?"
So the Colosseum is a blood house, and the reason for it was political power, as the Romans watched millions (sic) of people die, do you think they ever thought, "What if that was me?"
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🌊 For the Border Chronicle, I translated Mexican writer Diego Rodríguez Landeros’ essay about the history of dams and water in Sonora. Very timely as the Río Sonora faces a proposal to build three new dams. Read here: t.co/y6CA0spHFW
https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/telling-the-stories-of-sonoras-water
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April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
🌊 For the Border Chronicle, I translated Mexican writer Diego Rodríguez Landeros’ essay about the history of dams and water in Sonora. Very timely as the Río Sonora faces a proposal to build three new dams. Read here: t.co/y6CA0spHFW
The same people who told Donovan Mitchell he needed to learn black history told the Sundance film festival it needed to leave.
March 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The same people who told Donovan Mitchell he needed to learn black history told the Sundance film festival it needed to leave.
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” Margaret Atwood
March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” Margaret Atwood
the only thing i can think of to post today is an existential scream
March 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
the only thing i can think of to post today is an existential scream
10 years ago, a science fiction writer wrote a horrible future where everything goes wrong on the Colorado River. Today, it still seems plausible. @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social www.sltrib.com/artsliving/a...
What happens if we break the Colorado River?
Author Paolo Bacigalupi imagined a horrible future in which water management goes wrong in the West nearly 10 years ago in “The Water Knife.”
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June 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
10 years ago, a science fiction writer wrote a horrible future where everything goes wrong on the Colorado River. Today, it still seems plausible. @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social www.sltrib.com/artsliving/a...