@jacktingle.bsky.social
Retired mechanical engineer, photographer (amateur), sci-fi fan
A cozy winter solstice to all this morning!
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A cozy winter solstice to all this morning!
I'm still working on a "permanent pause." After that I need to figure out what countries are currently in the third world. It changes over time, maybe?
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm still working on a "permanent pause." After that I need to figure out what countries are currently in the third world. It changes over time, maybe?
MTG's espoused goals are: America First, Secure Borders, No Pointless Wars, End Globalization, and Protect Free Speech.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
MTG's espoused goals are: America First, Secure Borders, No Pointless Wars, End Globalization, and Protect Free Speech.
Pure coincidence.
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pure coincidence.
So, there's a big Sportsball game this winter. Someone named Bad Bunny is contracted to be the halftime entertainment. I looked him up. Nice voice, good dance beats, in Spanish, which I don't understand. But some people in MAGA-land now want him deported back to his native land, the USA. What?
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So, there's a big Sportsball game this winter. Someone named Bad Bunny is contracted to be the halftime entertainment. I looked him up. Nice voice, good dance beats, in Spanish, which I don't understand. But some people in MAGA-land now want him deported back to his native land, the USA. What?
Haven't seen any rapture progress reports yet. Anyone keeping score?
September 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Haven't seen any rapture progress reports yet. Anyone keeping score?
Yo! True Christian Belivers: Congratulations on tomorrow's Rapture. Don't come back. The rest of us are looking forward to the peace & quiet.
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Yo! True Christian Belivers: Congratulations on tomorrow's Rapture. Don't come back. The rest of us are looking forward to the peace & quiet.
Thoughts & prayers to Turning Point.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Thoughts & prayers to Turning Point.
Thoughts & prayers for our MIAs: the President & Republican's spines. This should work about as well as it did for a chapel full of children in Minneapolis.
August 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thoughts & prayers for our MIAs: the President & Republican's spines. This should work about as well as it did for a chapel full of children in Minneapolis.
Congratulations, Spineless Sponges of Skydance. Paramount, Viacom, CBS, and Skydance are all on my ban list.
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Congratulations, Spineless Sponges of Skydance. Paramount, Viacom, CBS, and Skydance are all on my ban list.
I stop at a well-known arc d'or for a sausage muffin. This bluejay: veni, vidi, egressus. #birds #phootography #birdphotography #arc_d'or
July 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I stop at a well-known arc d'or for a sausage muffin. This bluejay: veni, vidi, egressus. #birds #phootography #birdphotography #arc_d'or
July 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
July 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Memo to the President:
Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can never fool Mme. Nature. [SFX: thunder]
Standard model + lambda-CDM--It's the law (for now).
Lie infrequently. There's less to come back at you.
Regards, Reality (not the TV shows)
Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can never fool Mme. Nature. [SFX: thunder]
Standard model + lambda-CDM--It's the law (for now).
Lie infrequently. There's less to come back at you.
Regards, Reality (not the TV shows)
July 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Memo to the President:
Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can never fool Mme. Nature. [SFX: thunder]
Standard model + lambda-CDM--It's the law (for now).
Lie infrequently. There's less to come back at you.
Regards, Reality (not the TV shows)
Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can never fool Mme. Nature. [SFX: thunder]
Standard model + lambda-CDM--It's the law (for now).
Lie infrequently. There's less to come back at you.
Regards, Reality (not the TV shows)
Mmmmm. Trump Two-week TACOs.
June 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mmmmm. Trump Two-week TACOs.
Trump's epitaph is on track to be, "It doesn't look like he thought this through."
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump's epitaph is on track to be, "It doesn't look like he thought this through."
"The coming call for national solidarity with Trump’s Great Patriotic War against imported Halloween costumes deserves all the scoffing it will get and more."--David Frum, The Atlantic
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The coming call for national solidarity with Trump’s Great Patriotic War against imported Halloween costumes deserves all the scoffing it will get and more."--David Frum, The Atlantic
A really good discussion of, not just the topic, but the motivation & process of science. Best for me since Bernd Heinrich's "Ravens in Winter."
www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-mult...
www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-mult...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? | Quanta Magazine
One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into wha...
www.quantamagazine.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A really good discussion of, not just the topic, but the motivation & process of science. Best for me since Bernd Heinrich's "Ravens in Winter."
www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-mult...
www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-mult...
May 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Schadenfreude is all well & good, but watching our hapless, increasingly desperate President get rolled like a sloppy drunk by China is disturbing. I knew he was ignorant, incurious, and incompetent, but the Congress is apparently terrified of his peevishness. We have deeper problems than I thought.
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Schadenfreude is all well & good, but watching our hapless, increasingly desperate President get rolled like a sloppy drunk by China is disturbing. I knew he was ignorant, incurious, and incompetent, but the Congress is apparently terrified of his peevishness. We have deeper problems than I thought.
So the US flinches, China does roughly what they did before & it's a win? The tariffs are still too darn high! ... to paraphrase.
May 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
So the US flinches, China does roughly what they did before & it's a win? The tariffs are still too darn high! ... to paraphrase.
"From the south side of Chicago...
...and it's Pope, Pope Leo 14, baddest man in the whole damn town..."
...and it's Pope, Pope Leo 14, baddest man in the whole damn town..."
May 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"From the south side of Chicago...
...and it's Pope, Pope Leo 14, baddest man in the whole damn town..."
...and it's Pope, Pope Leo 14, baddest man in the whole damn town..."
So $5000 for reproducing? Is that per year?
No?
Kids are expensive. Not interested.
No?
Kids are expensive. Not interested.
May 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
So $5000 for reproducing? Is that per year?
No?
Kids are expensive. Not interested.
No?
Kids are expensive. Not interested.
Grooming is hard when you live outside at the Parker River NWR, April 2025 #birds #photography
May 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Grooming is hard when you live outside at the Parker River NWR, April 2025 #birds #photography