DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
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“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
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“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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Feb 18, 2026
American Idiocracy
Brace for #Trump’s brave new world of 1.7°C global warming
“If you have stopped paying attention to global warming, you may soon be in for a nasty surprise.
A paper by Columbia University predicts that we will have our first taste of a 1.7C world as soon as next year – a shock big enough to intrude on everybody’s consciousness.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/17/trump-is-pushing-the-world-closer-to-climate-catastrophe/
#globalwarming #Climatechange #Idiocracy
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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
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“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
@drrjv@vmst.io
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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Feb 17, 2026
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
A new ruling from the #Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes.
All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this.
The National Institutes of Health has orders to devote every whiteboard in every conference room to this pressing question.
In the Oval Office, under the gold leaf, the president and his advisers are making a big list of possibilities:
https://wordpress.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c05517f80432a9d59ecf8013&id=653d7a7953&e=73433809b0 #idiocracy #giftlink #science #environment #satire
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Rooted resident of Wisconsin (purplest state in the USA) informing my worldview and just about every art object I've ever created. Even though my work finds its way into public and private collections, I still hear a lot of, "My 5 year old can do that." What can I say? Folkified Poprageousness! # Art # Music # FolkifiedPoprageousness # Wisconsin # USA
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CM Thiede
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Rooted resident of Wisconsin (purplest state in the USA) informing my worldview and just about every art object I've ever created. Even though my work finds its way into public and private collections, I still hear a lot of, "My 5 year old can do that." What can I say? Folkified Poprageousness! # Art # Music # FolkifiedPoprageousness # Wisconsin # USA
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Jan 31, 2026
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All this BS to prop up an artificial digital world that's completely unnecessary. #Idiocracy
“Water is very local,” Conrad Reddick, a utility commissioner in Illinois, said at a November meeting of regulators. “The fact that it is a very, very, very tiny part of the global consumption doesn’t really matter if you need more than we have in the area.”
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