Pat @Pat@qoto.org

Finding the luscious insinuation of deceit so alluring
She walked.
In search of an ark, a chalice, a vault…
A holy gray hill.
Surmount the suspicious tremors
That question this realty but
The reality check has bounced.
That cup is empty, gone inane
That whining water has turned toon to lip
Don’t give me any.
A million-strawberry alarm clock
Into a puppy hamster, suckling a tea ring.
So many heaped on that gray hill
Block the shinning from that city
On that hill.
Turn a blue pot into a pig
So all that were, are seven trees.

#poem #poetry #mastoprompt #crypto
#smallpoem #doesnt #rhyme #teardrop

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #flyingcar #car #technology #puppet #future #past #string #theory #propaganda #puttputt #EV #oil #1960s #sarcasm #FTW

Retro SciFi of the Week…

Supercar (1965)

Here’s a short, two minute clip from a 1960s TV series about a flying car. Of note here are the use of virtual actors and references to string theory – way ahead of its time.

(I doubt if you’ll be able to find this series anywhere, it's not well known and you probably wouldn’t be able to sit through an entire episode anyway… I’m pretty sure this is the worst SciFi of the Week I’ve done so far, but I couldn’t pass up the metaphor presented here regarding the promotion of putt-putt cars.)

#TruthBeTold #suicide #45 #hitler #bunker #racist #rotten #orange

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The truth is…

Trump didn’t commit suicide. It wasn’t suicide.

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

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Dyslexic’s summary of the January 6th hearings…

“I thought he was a patriot, but it turns out he was just a parrot.”

#jan6 #jan6th #hearing #congress #insurrection #patriot #parrot

(Image Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0, by TapTheForwardAssist)

@icedquinn

(Responding to icedquinn comment about $40 chicken)

I think our democracy is more important at the moment than inflation.

Even more important than either of those is ONE MILLION people dead, who didn't need to die. And nearly 1,000 more people die each day in the US who would still be alive if not for the evil people in the government who are mishandling the pandemic. That is the number one problem that needs an immediate response and accountability.

Also, I'm vegan, so high-priced chicken is not a problem.

#covid19 #pandemic #masks #respirators #n95 #fauci #cdc #virus #vax #vacciné

Here's Dr. Fauci in 2020 talking about COVID-19. He said more than 20,000 cases per day was unacceptable.

Now we're having about 200,000 cases per day in the US...

Crickets.

@icedquinn

Agree. The US is not a democracy, it's a hypocracy.

Of all of the wars we have gotten involved with during the past few decades, the one in Ukraine is probably the most legitimate in terms of supporting our values. Ukraine was moving rapidly towards democracy and away from authoritarian Russia. So it actually makes sense to support them with a few billion (compared to the trillions we wasted in Afganistan and Iraq.)

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #luddite #technology #silent #future #past #mediator #propaganda #nazi #naive #socialism

Retro SciFi of the Week…

Metropolis (1927)

This film fell into the public domain in the US in 1953 when its copyright lapsed. More than 50 years later the US Supreme Court declared that it was back under copyright (retroactive to 1996), which of course is illegal to do in the US. Notwithstanding the court’s impotent proclamations, the film will indisputably be in the public domain at the end of this year. You will likely be hearing more about it at that time. It may remain under copyright in other parts of the world because Fritz Lang lived so long.

A decade after this film came out, Hitler exploited the sentiments expressed by the workers depicted in this film to implement socialism in Germany and take away the freedom of those very workers (and nearly everybody else’s freedom too).

A while ago I did a #TruthBeTold that referenced this film but I don’t think anybody understood it at that time (or only partial understood).

(Socialism and Nazism are just about the worst ideas ever and inevitably lead to the loss of liberty and justice.)

#TruthBeTold #music #band #radiation #earth #space #satellite #spacecraft

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The truth is…

The Van Allen Belt is a #band of radiation (actually two or more bands) that hold charged particles within Earth’s magnetosphere in space.

Other bands may be created from time to time.

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(image from: www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/1960120621; by Anirudh Koul; cropped; CC-BY-NA_2.0)

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The butler did it.

Another oil industry hack.

I just blocked someone on qoto for retooting (as an image) a racist twitter message.

#electric #cars #EV #electriccar #green #energy #fuel #gas #oil #driving #science #renewable
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If you don’t like high gasoline prices, then you actually want more people driving electric cars, even if you don’t drive one yourself.

Every driver who drives an electric car is someone who is not competing with you to buy gasoline, and not creating more demand which drives up the price of fuel.

So please encourage more people to drive electric cars, so the price of fuel will go down.

(image: wikimedia commons; CC-BY-SA-4.0; attribution Adrian Grycuk)

#simultaneity #relativity #startrek #chess #spacetime

3D chess is actually 4D chess (unless all of the moves in a game are made simultaniously).

@tanweerdar@mstdn.social

(Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar)

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#monster

We're just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out
You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team

Oh, BTW, which one’s Pink?

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#monster

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- Electric fields
- Brownian motion
- Polarized polymers
- Face velocity and particle mass
- Sub-micron melt-blown fibers

The science behind how an N95 mask can filter out virus-sized particles while allowing nitrogen, oxygen, and argon molecules (air) to easily flow through the respirator’s fabric.

This is an advanced webinar (even though they call it basic) by the company that makes the equipment that NIOSH uses to test N95 masks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtxEklVsAU

Correction...

That should be $2.63, not $2.68.

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I just filled up my car. It cost me $2.68.

That's $2.68 total, not $2.68 a gallon.

I drive an electric car.

#gas #gasoline #oil #price #gouge #ev #saudi #opec #electricCar

Younger folks probably didn't learn this in school, but in 1998 President Bill Clinton was impeached for getting a blow job in the oval office.

#US #history #USPol #blue #dress #monica #clinton #potus