Author of The Acts of Androkles and The Land of Broken Roads. Black metal enjoyer, devout Christ-follower. Opinions my own and also correct
Brigham City, UT
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Third book is out today! Time for you to start the series. amazon.com/Subtle-Powers-Fan…
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I'm sick of the theater-kid antics from some on the terminally online Right.
Democrats have spent decades building durable institutions, cultivating relationships, expanding networks, and developing strategies to turn political energy into electoral victories.
And what are those that claim they're going to "replace the GOP" doing?
Arguing over who will be their "Christian Prince" that will lead America after they forcibly overthrow the government...
The Left has an army of social media influencer-activists. The Right have influencer-entertainers and conference speakers. The Left produces results for candidates. The Right produces revenue for influencers.
We either get serious, or we make peace with being perpetual backbenchers.
You know a human wrote this because an AI would not get it so wrong
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Life Was Unexciting. His Work Is Anything But.
D.J. Taylor’s new book is part biography and part critical study of the writer behind “The Lord of the Rings.” nytimes.com/2026/11/05/books… via @NYTimesBooks
Hey @DavidJohnButler get your 3d printing guy to make Hapax Press Monster can holder/coolers. Grok can't quite get the logo right but you get the idea
I've never watched one of these before. This was pretty cool. youtube.com/watch?v=LukkI0FV…
So when is @bandcamp going to implement a "complete your collection" feature to go alongside the full discography purchase option?
Record high vote count for governor and senator, in a midterm. You have to admire the audacity as much as the execution
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Official Election Administration and Voting Comprehensive Report buried all the way on page 193 of the document shows Texas processed 2,900,357 new valid voter registrations between 2022-2024 without proof of citizenship
Documented proof of citizenship like birth certificate, passport and naturalization papers is not required at the time of voter registration in Texas
56.5% of Texas voter registration were classified as “new valid registrations.”
This is extremely suspicious that 55% of Texas voter registrations were “new”
Dear people in a movie who need to dramatically draw blood for some magical purpose: slicing your palm is about the stupidest way to do that. Do the forearm or something, moron, not the part with all the nerve endings that you use all day
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There's a saying on American social media:
"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."
I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.
So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.
"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)
"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)
"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)
"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)
"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)
"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)
"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)
"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)
"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)
"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)
And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.
"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.
The people running toward it.
There are always so many."
So, America.
You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.
We're not imagining you.
We're remembering you.
The problem with the electorate "sending a message" to their party, is that the people who are left because they were in a safe district are going to double down and insist they were right all along, and continue to fight the people from battlegrounds whose message resonated, but was contingent on execution
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The campaign is having a strong run up to the last 48 hours.
At $59,500 now. $500 short of adding interior illustrations.
If you have been thinking of backing it, 5 backers buying the trilogy now gets us to the next stretch goal.
Back the campaign here:
kickstarter.com/projects/hap…
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
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If you homeschool and you have access to Grokbot you might want to pay attention to this post.
My 5 year old has struggled with one thing above all others and that is reading. She has had no trouble "learning", but freezes up whenever she has to actually do anything like reading.
She has worried so much about how she'll look if she gets it wrong, I haven't been able to make any progress with her. In kids it usually shows up as guessing fast just to get an answer out, freezing or saying "I don't know," avoiding hard tasks, getting upset over small mistakes, or only wanting to do things they already know they can do.
Since I don't want to worsen the anxiety or make the prospect of learning unpleasant I have taken it very easy and let her guide whether she wants to continue when shegets like that hoping that she'll just get past it, but that hasn't helped as much as I had hoped.
I decided to try something new since she is fascinated by the voice feature of grok bot. Just absolutely loves the female british voice. So I gave it some ground rules. Her age, what I wanted to get out of the lessons with matha nd reading, but that the overall goal was to make getting past this mental block the success rather than actual reading or correct answers.
On day one she guessed wildly before reading the word "dig," and then she wanted to say "sit" for "sat." That looks like she was rushing to give an answer rather than sounding the word out, which is a sign of wanting to be right. Since then I have seen a dramatic shift. From struggling to read simple three letter words to comfortably reading long and sometimes complex sentences.
She asks for one more problem when I think she's tired and want her to stop, because she is having "fun" now. She picks hard topics, she asks smart "why" questions. A kid who's afraid of being wrong usually doesn't do those things.
In four days Evelyn has gone from sounding out single three-letter words with help, to reading full and sometimes complex sentences on her own, including vowel combinations and multi-syllable words. For a 5-year-old, I am pretty happy with what she has accomplished in just 4 days.
Grok bot is a big part of it. I have asked for interactive lessons so it finds images of things that are bing discussed like planets, cloud formatiuons, animals etc. Sometimes it draws bright colorful images with letters and numbers for math lessons, but above all it stays engaging. I have had it incorporate reading and math into every subject so those are being reinforced regularly while she is learning about whatever she wants. In the morning she selects from a list of topics, and we do 15-30 minute sessions of whatever she chooses.
If she suddenly gets interested in something else along the way we can just go learn about that instead.
Grok bot proposes simple science experiments, hands on art lessons and more and we are only 4 days in so we are just scratching the surface!
To be clear, I am not just handing her a tablet with access ot AI and walking away. I sit with her and we do everything together. Grok Bot isn't replacing me it is my teacher's aide.
I just wanted to share in case anyone else is home schooling, looking to home school or just having challenges with teaching their child. It is a great tool that can be customized to suit your child.
