They’re gonna get uber-librul Nancy Pelosi to cut the ribbon at the ceremony!

I wake up, feed the cats, take my supplements including a concentrated CBD paste, then stretch and meditate in my darkened room with a sleep mask, sitting in a relaxed but yoga-like position, with knees bent and the soles touching, hands nested on my belly, my back straight but with support.
Then I stay there, watching my breath, getting distracted, returning to my breath, getting distracted again, etc., for around seventy minutes!

When I come back out, I make my morning coffee.
I have been meditating every day for the past seven years. I used to do forty minutes, but right now I’m really enjoying the really long sessions, so I go with it.

It gets to a point that if I move my arms, even with eyes closed and a sleep mask on, I can perceive the movements like the ghostly shadow of the change, as if the body is also “seen” by another movement-based sense, and it manages to imprint itself a bit into the optical system. I don’t know quite how to put it into words, and it happens every single time, it’s happened hundreds of times.

Meditation is like a low-key, healthy and daily psychedelic experience. It’s beautiful, one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life.

Hail Eric!

The Cat With No Name!

Queso Casita

Pray with me.

i VoTeD oNcE tWeNtY yEaRs AgO aNd NoThInG hApPeNeD!
Say super geniuses who’ve figured out how not to blame their own mediocre self-centered inertia.

If Democracy has indeed failed in the US, it is because of soundbite-driven, intellectually lazy and dishonest about it, holier than thou, lazy, impatient and easily-angered nonvoters, as easily manipulable as the rabid, bigoted right wing.

boolean root beer float

Pico de gallo is also the name of a street stand fruit cocktail in my town in Mexico.
Chunks of jicama, orange and… there’s another one I’m forgetting.

You sprinkle salt and powdered chili on top, then squeeze the juice of a large lime on top. It’s all eaten with a toothpick, you spear the chunks of jicama, orange and the other one.

The blues singer character Mississippi Gary from The Kids In The Hall comes to mind:

I got the blues so bad, I can’t even close my eyes… I gotta call a friend on the phone and tell him - “Buddy, come over and shut my eyes for me, I got the blues”.

This is the mechanism that makes Cepheid stars regularly and predictably change intensity

Doesn’t it also make the Cepheid noticeably swell (then deflate) in circumference? Or does it maintain the same basic size, and it’s just storing magnetic bubbles of hot plasma like a halo, before bursting and releasing all that accumulated material?

Freedum moisturr!

The dynamics there due to sheer gravity, magnetism and levels of energy/radiation that are utterly alien to our daily experience.

If they wanted to use the term “deeply wrong discrepancy”, maybe they should have gone with the difference between the universe’s expansion predicted by quantum vacuum energy and the actual, much slower observed rate of expansion.
By “much slower”, I mean that the theory and the observations differ by something like one hundred and twenty five (!!!) orders of magnitude.

Echoes of - “The internet is not a dump truck, it’s a series of tubes”.

Refusal to cancel attacks on Ukraine and democracies worldwide shows kremlin does not want peace.

we might just as well die

Because it’s not what you expected?
I can assure you, whatever you expected is just as strange and absurd as this.

Let me put this in another way:
To think that time might have not existed, then started up at some point, breaks my brain.
To think that time might go on for infinity in the past, with no starting point, also breaks my brain.

Last seen in 1980

Right around the time when the so-called “greatest” generation and the silent generation electorally told liberal Democrats to go fuck themselves and die, over several consecutive elections in which the baby boomers sleepwalked just like all the non-voting idiots of today.

This one looks like it’s REALLY looking down on you, with intense disapproval. And it’s got a big nose.

Frida?