Dan

@dandwig.bsky.social

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40 something Mechanical Engineer. Liberal, scared, and despairing.

Rocky beach in Greece.
SMBC Comic about using superman in the most efficient way.
Space Shuttle Discovery.
Meme: Scanning electron microscope image of a Tardigrade with an added “violin” (actually a cello). No text on the image except a scale marker 100um.
John Deere Combine Harvester, parked on a showroom floor.
Image of clothes laid out as if a person was wearing them and dissapeared, with the text "Rapture Day prank: on Saturday May 21, 2011 take some of your unwanted clothes and shoes take some of your unwanted clothes and shoes... ...and leave sets of them arranged on sidewalks and lawns around town."
Graph of US electricity generation by energy source. Showing it flattening to falling since ~2010, and with renewables slowly replacing fossil fuels since that point.
Graph of US installed electric storage capacity. https://www.energy-storage.news/2024-energy-storage-installations-surpassed-12gw/
Summary of the apparent calculation for Trump's listed "tariff rates". It's trade deficit/trade balance, and has nothing to do with tariffs on US goods.
Excerpt from Wisconsin Satutes section 12.11 In particular 1ma criminalizing "offering [...] anything of value [...] in order to induce any elector to: 1. Go or refrain from going to the polls. 2. Vote or refrain from voting."
Elon tweeting the number of "open" (not marked deceased) Social Security records. With no indication of false payments.
Elon tweeting the number of open (not marked deceased) SSA records by age. No actual evidence of payments provided.
Elon tweet showing the number of records that don't indicate death. No evidence given of how many are actually paying out.
Text of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, next to a line drawing of the statue of liberty.
Partial congressional district map of Tennessee, showing very irregular borders for Andy Ogles district.
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Section of "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett, discussing social/statistical murder. “Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”
Double door fridge with bottom drawer freezer.
Graph of UK CO2 generation, 1750-~2020. Peaking in ~1960, descending slowly until ~2010, then falling sharply.
Graph of UK electricity use. Showing a peak of ~480 TWh in 2005, down to ~340 presently.
Graph of UK energy consumption by fuel source. There is a steady reduction in coal use, being repalced by natural gas since the start of the chart in 1965. An increase in wind power is visible starting around 2006.
Villain Dr. Zachary Smith from Lost in Space.
Graph of US installed battery capacity over time, showing doubling or better every year since 2021.
Screenshot of text "All in all, the bare minimum cost of a move to Canada, including the settlement funds you need saved up, adds up to roughly $15,264 for individuals and $27,603 for a family of four."
Screencap from wikipedia describing Fox News Comentator Jesse Water's dating his second wife while still married to his first. And also his stalker like tactics for meeting the second.
A graph of childhood mortality from 1800-2020, falling sharply, except during a couple of major pandemics. Source URL is included, Statista.
Picture from the early 70s showing women in (then) modern clothing studying in Tehran.
"Bob The Angry Flower Comic" pointing out that criminalizing homelessness is less efficient than housing the homeless.
Famous Quote from Martin Neimoller: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Snip from linked website, with chorus and verse. Also a cartoon of an anthropomorphized fire sprinkler going off. Machine readable text at link.
Aurora in suburban Boston.
Aircraft Tracking Screenshot showing a Chinook helicopter having recently taken off from Asheville Airport.
Cookie monster, looking at a plate of cookies, with the above Trump quote (with "abortion" replaced with "digestion") in text.
Scatter plot of % votes for Biden and Covid Vaccination rate, by county. Showing wide variation buy positive correlation.
Screenshot of the NYT headline for their analysis of the debate, entitled "Harris and Trump Bet on Their Own Sharply Contrasting Views of America"
Snapshot of the UNB thesis publication policy from 2021, with URL shown from the internet archive. Clearly indicating a 4 year maximum publishing embargo limit.
Collection of memes, opening comic panel "Why am I living where the air hurts my face?" Remaining three panels "This is why I live where the air hurts my face" showing a large spider, snake, and alligator, respectively.
Quote by Anatole France paraphrased above.
Tweet with images of a European and American badger, describing the former as adorable and the latter as "snarling ambulatory carpets of death".
Screenshot from “Cadfael”. With Cadfael and Hugh Beringer.
Kryptonite hasp lock with hex chain.