Brent Noorda
@brent-noorda.com
Slow in the head, fast in the bed. Practicer of apatheism, putteraroundism, and animinimalianism.
Wanted: Archaeologist. Must have tools to excavate ancient asphalt. No flip flops.
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Wanted: Archaeologist. Must have tools to excavate ancient asphalt. No flip flops.
The perfect cup for me. I would have bought it, except for the 100 other perfect cups in my cupboard.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The perfect cup for me. I would have bought it, except for the 100 other perfect cups in my cupboard.
Scary halloween bathroom mirror.
November 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Scary halloween bathroom mirror.
Made 400 #NoKings magnetic lapel pins, and worried that was too many--that protesteres wouldn't take them after I said they were "free if you'll wear them every day". But they were gone in a flash. Should have made 4,000. Here's a link to get your own: brentnoorda.substack.com/p/no-kings-i...
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Made 400 #NoKings magnetic lapel pins, and worried that was too many--that protesteres wouldn't take them after I said they were "free if you'll wear them every day". But they were gone in a flash. Should have made 4,000. Here's a link to get your own: brentnoorda.substack.com/p/no-kings-i...
Seeing the SpaceX rocket over our Florida skies reminded me of this very short Musk-inspired story I wrote in 2014, in this blog post: brent-noorda.blogspot.com/2014/05/rich... Still the favorite of my very-short stories.
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Seeing the SpaceX rocket over our Florida skies reminded me of this very short Musk-inspired story I wrote in 2014, in this blog post: brent-noorda.blogspot.com/2014/05/rich... Still the favorite of my very-short stories.
10 of 10/ So, as the pin says, “No Kings in America”.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
10 of 10/ So, as the pin says, “No Kings in America”.
9/ So, I think the future of America’s democracy experiment is in big danger. I think we’re dangerously close to being a monarchy, like we fought to free ourselves from 250 years ago. Socrates said that was destined to happen. I hope Socrates was wrong.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
9/ So, I think the future of America’s democracy experiment is in big danger. I think we’re dangerously close to being a monarchy, like we fought to free ourselves from 250 years ago. Socrates said that was destined to happen. I hope Socrates was wrong.
8c/ Not at least since the last world war, if ever. Do we have military parades on the president’s birthday? Never before. Do any democracies do those things: military parades on the leader’s birthday? No, but places with dictators do it all the time (e.g. North Korea, Russia, Nazi Germany).
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
8c/ Not at least since the last world war, if ever. Do we have military parades on the president’s birthday? Never before. Do any democracies do those things: military parades on the leader’s birthday? No, but places with dictators do it all the time (e.g. North Korea, Russia, Nazi Germany).
8b/ June 14th happens to be Trump’s birthday, and he has ordered a military parade on that day in Washington D.C. Do we in the USA ever spend $35 million on military parades?
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
8b/ June 14th happens to be Trump’s birthday, and he has ordered a military parade on that day in Washington D.C. Do we in the USA ever spend $35 million on military parades?
8a/ I started this about a month ago. Since then, there’s been a “No Kings” movement growing. I like to think that it’s because of me, but of course a lot of people were already thinking the same things. There will be events across the country (see nokings.org for an event near you) on June 14th.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
8a/ I started this about a month ago. Since then, there’s been a “No Kings” movement growing. I like to think that it’s because of me, but of course a lot of people were already thinking the same things. There will be events across the country (see nokings.org for an event near you) on June 14th.
7/ In short, we freed ourselves from a King 250 years ago but have been inching toward having a king, and suddenly this year swung wildly into what is way too close to saying “the king is in charge and no one can stop him”. I’m unhappy. I made the pin to wear on every shirt to show my unhappiness.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
7/ In short, we freed ourselves from a King 250 years ago but have been inching toward having a king, and suddenly this year swung wildly into what is way too close to saying “the king is in charge and no one can stop him”. I’m unhappy. I made the pin to wear on every shirt to show my unhappiness.
6e/ change law enforcement, or make executive orders based on who gave him money.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
6e/ change law enforcement, or make executive orders based on who gave him money.
6d/ (easily more than a billion dollars so far since he gained office) by licensing his name for stuff that hardly exists, giving him gifts, buying $Trump memecoins (this one may have got him close to a billion already) and he’’ll pardon people,
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
6d/ (easily more than a billion dollars so far since he gained office) by licensing his name for stuff that hardly exists, giving him gifts, buying $Trump memecoins (this one may have got him close to a billion already) and he’’ll pardon people,
6c/ Trump even does unconstitutional things that NO president has ever come close to, in using the office primarily to make money. The guy now makes decisions (which congress is not stopping him from) based on who pays him and his family money
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
6c/ Trump even does unconstitutional things that NO president has ever come close to, in using the office primarily to make money. The guy now makes decisions (which congress is not stopping him from) based on who pays him and his family money
6b/ it goes on and on. Congress is designed to stop these things, because all of the above rights actually belong to congress, but the way they are now the majority just hide there heads in the sand and say “whatever Trump says”.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
6b/ it goes on and on. Congress is designed to stop these things, because all of the above rights actually belong to congress, but the way they are now the majority just hide there heads in the sand and say “whatever Trump says”.
6a/ But this second Trump term goes way way way beyond anything before in it grabbing power. The executive orders, closing agencies that the law says he’s to run, not spending the money he’s supposed to, spending money he’s not, ignoring laws, the constitutional rights of people and institutions,
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
6a/ But this second Trump term goes way way way beyond anything before in it grabbing power. The executive orders, closing agencies that the law says he’s to run, not spending the money he’s supposed to, spending money he’s not, ignoring laws, the constitutional rights of people and institutions,
5c/ Even Biden’s term shows this in way he was actually declining in his last years but people around him hid it like they do form monarchs.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
5c/ Even Biden’s term shows this in way he was actually declining in his last years but people around him hid it like they do form monarchs.
5b/ Trump (first term) accelerated this by being an ignoramus and not even knowing any history or anything about the constitution.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
5b/ Trump (first term) accelerated this by being an ignoramus and not even knowing any history or anything about the constitution.
5a/ Over time the executive branch (executive) has been getting more and more power. This started slow almost two hundred years ago, gained more power ruing the depression a hundred years ago, and since about 2010 the presidents have really been getting more and more power.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
5a/ Over time the executive branch (executive) has been getting more and more power. This started slow almost two hundred years ago, gained more power ruing the depression a hundred years ago, and since about 2010 the presidents have really been getting more and more power.
4/ But, from history, we know that democracies are tough. None of them have lasted a super long time (the USA has lasted longer than maybe all of them before). That’s why you often here that we’re practice an experiment in democracy. Because no one’s got it perfect yet.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
4/ But, from history, we know that democracies are tough. None of them have lasted a super long time (the USA has lasted longer than maybe all of them before). That’s why you often here that we’re practice an experiment in democracy. Because no one’s got it perfect yet.
3c/ and the judicial branch (supreme court) who make sure those laws and the enacting of them does not violate the rights of the constitution. Each branch is there to make sure the other branches don’t get too much power.
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
3c/ and the judicial branch (supreme court) who make sure those laws and the enacting of them does not violate the rights of the constitution. Each branch is there to make sure the other branches don’t get too much power.
3b/ The legislative branch (congress and senate) which make the laws, the executive branch (president) who is supposed to see that those laws are followed and supervised,
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
3b/ The legislative branch (congress and senate) which make the laws, the executive branch (president) who is supposed to see that those laws are followed and supervised,