Hal 10000
@hal10000.bsky.social
Pennsylvania Astronomer, writer at Ordinary Times, maker of YouTube videos, caretaker of two kids and two dogs.
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Hal 10000
@hal10000.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The main side effect vaccines have on children is that they live to be adults.
In all seriousness, this seems to be a government endorsement of the techbro belief that AI can replace scientists and that you can just ask it for the cure to cancer and it will have it by Wednesday.
That's not how the universe works.
That's not how the universe works.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In all seriousness, this seems to be a government endorsement of the techbro belief that AI can replace scientists and that you can just ask it for the cure to cancer and it will have it by Wednesday.
That's not how the universe works.
That's not how the universe works.
ICE delenda est
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ICE delenda est
This would be the Dershowitz, the 87 y/o who had a conniption fit because a guy wouldn't sell him a pierogi, and Loesch, who turned the NRA into a MAGA subsidiary with her first of truth bullshit and justified the shooting of Philando Castille.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This would be the Dershowitz, the 87 y/o who had a conniption fit because a guy wouldn't sell him a pierogi, and Loesch, who turned the NRA into a MAGA subsidiary with her first of truth bullshit and justified the shooting of Philando Castille.
OK, biography time. She looks very young. When I was that age, I slept on a futon for years. It was no less stupid. I got a bed because ... wait for it ... my girlfriend insisted. I still sleep on the floor about half the time (on a pad, with a blanket) when I'm in my own house.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
OK, biography time. She looks very young. When I was that age, I slept on a futon for years. It was no less stupid. I got a bed because ... wait for it ... my girlfriend insisted. I still sleep on the floor about half the time (on a pad, with a blanket) when I'm in my own house.
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Trump wasn’t involved, couldn’t have known, isn’t at fault for the awful Ukraine plan negotiated by his envoy, VP, and son in law?
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
Just sent out this free piece. When the stories of the 28-point plan were first written, too many people went into overdrive to try and make excuses for Trump (He was not informed! He was not involved!). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
We Seem Intent On Making Excuses For Trump Until He Destroys Us
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Trump wasn’t involved, couldn’t have known, isn’t at fault for the awful Ukraine plan negotiated by his envoy, VP, and son in law?
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
Wife adds that she's noticed couples where the woman is struggling with a bunch of luggage and the dude is standing there with just a backpack not helping.
My fellow dudes ... WTF?
My fellow dudes ... WTF?
Ladies, if a guy doesn't respect you enough to dress decently -- not even formally, just decently -- for a date, find a new guy.
I've noticed this in restaurants, too. The woman is dressed nicely, and the guy looks like he just came in from softball practice. It's like watching a classy girl take her broke, dim-bulb brother to dinner, except it's people on a date.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wife adds that she's noticed couples where the woman is struggling with a bunch of luggage and the dude is standing there with just a backpack not helping.
My fellow dudes ... WTF?
My fellow dudes ... WTF?
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
Most likely scenario: Trump Oil becomes his new business”.
I be wrong by the time I finish this sentence, but I still have my doubts we'll actually go to war. Trump likes to rattle the saber and bomb random countries but this would be a step beyond his usual Foghorn Leghorn approach to foreign policy.
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Most likely scenario: Trump Oil becomes his new business”.
OK. Which of you mfers showed him "The Wrath of Khan"? Fess up ...
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
OK. Which of you mfers showed him "The Wrath of Khan"? Fess up ...
Wine
Hope
Sex
We really are becoming the Roman Empire.
Hope
Sex
We really are becoming the Roman Empire.
the first 3 words you see will define your 2026 😭
Money
New car
Pussy
Money
New car
Pussy
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Wine
Hope
Sex
We really are becoming the Roman Empire.
Hope
Sex
We really are becoming the Roman Empire.
*looks around*
Er .... I regularly sleep on the floor.
Er .... I regularly sleep on the floor.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
*looks around*
Er .... I regularly sleep on the floor.
Er .... I regularly sleep on the floor.
Ladies, if a guy doesn't respect you enough to dress decently -- not even formally, just decently -- for a date, find a new guy.
I've noticed this in restaurants, too. The woman is dressed nicely, and the guy looks like he just came in from softball practice. It's like watching a classy girl take her broke, dim-bulb brother to dinner, except it's people on a date.
The other week in London an American couple sat behind me. The woman was dressed normally. The man was wearing… a baseball shirt. I thought wt actual fk. And then he didn’t know how to behave, obv.
(I couldn’t understand why the woman didn’t come alone and let him go off to monster trucks etc)
(I couldn’t understand why the woman didn’t come alone and let him go off to monster trucks etc)
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Ladies, if a guy doesn't respect you enough to dress decently -- not even formally, just decently -- for a date, find a new guy.
Video of my face in 1987.
Today's volcano Hayli Gubbi (Ethiopia) eruption seen from space
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Video of my face in 1987.
I thought I'd heard her name before. She's the one who claimed Trump killed bin Laden.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I thought I'd heard her name before. She's the one who claimed Trump killed bin Laden.
There's an effort in our city to get people to let leaves lie but I can't talk the wife into it. But in order of not bad to worst it goes:
letting leaves lie >> raking them >> electric blowers >> gas blowers >> I dunno, nuclear weapons?
letting leaves lie >> raking them >> electric blowers >> gas blowers >> I dunno, nuclear weapons?
A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There's an effort in our city to get people to let leaves lie but I can't talk the wife into it. But in order of not bad to worst it goes:
letting leaves lie >> raking them >> electric blowers >> gas blowers >> I dunno, nuclear weapons?
letting leaves lie >> raking them >> electric blowers >> gas blowers >> I dunno, nuclear weapons?
I be wrong by the time I finish this sentence, but I still have my doubts we'll actually go to war. Trump likes to rattle the saber and bomb random countries but this would be a step beyond his usual Foghorn Leghorn approach to foreign policy.
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I be wrong by the time I finish this sentence, but I still have my doubts we'll actually go to war. Trump likes to rattle the saber and bomb random countries but this would be a step beyond his usual Foghorn Leghorn approach to foreign policy.
I would love to see some some Republicans do this. Oddly enough, I think the person most likely to would be MTG, who is currently in the "who wants to live forever?!" phase of her political career and has been oddly uninsane lately. For brief periods.
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I would love to see some some Republicans do this. Oddly enough, I think the person most likely to would be MTG, who is currently in the "who wants to live forever?!" phase of her political career and has been oddly uninsane lately. For brief periods.
True, but ... any list that includes films going back to the silent era and isn't 90% stuff made in the last 30 years has a step up over every other post in this genre.
(Of course, very few good comedies come out anymore, but that's a different segment of my personality disorder.)
(Of course, very few good comedies come out anymore, but that's a different segment of my personality disorder.)
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
True, but ... any list that includes films going back to the silent era and isn't 90% stuff made in the last 30 years has a step up over every other post in this genre.
(Of course, very few good comedies come out anymore, but that's a different segment of my personality disorder.)
(Of course, very few good comedies come out anymore, but that's a different segment of my personality disorder.)
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow, so ...
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow, so ...
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow, so ...
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow, so ...
Mad Emperor Tiberius the Flatulent is mad. Keep wondering who will be his Sejanus. Vance would be a candidate but he's clearly Nero.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mad Emperor Tiberius the Flatulent is mad. Keep wondering who will be his Sejanus. Vance would be a candidate but he's clearly Nero.
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I wish Secretary Duffy would concentrate on keeping the skies safe and leave the moral hectoring to me. I'm better at it.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wish Secretary Duffy would concentrate on keeping the skies safe and leave the moral hectoring to me. I'm better at it.
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Appealing the dismissal instead of re-indicting is a way to kick the can down the road and avoid a lot of short-term humiliation over the other flaws in the case.
Leavitt: “We believe the attorney in this case, Lindsey Halligan, is not only extremely qualified…but she was in fact legally appointed. And I know the DOJ will be appealing this in very short order.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Appealing the dismissal instead of re-indicting is a way to kick the can down the road and avoid a lot of short-term humiliation over the other flaws in the case.
Well, maybe, but that kind of starts with being the kind of guy women want to have families with.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well, maybe, but that kind of starts with being the kind of guy women want to have families with.
OK, Duffy is a doofus, but please do not start acting like dicks on airplanes thinking it's an act of resistance.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
OK, Duffy is a doofus, but please do not start acting like dicks on airplanes thinking it's an act of resistance.