Paul Wren

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Avionics software engineer, adjunct Astronomy professor, occasional planetary scientist, former developer of @jmars_gis.bsky.social he/him #SaveOurOceans #BlackLivesMatter #SaveOurRepublic

A man in a long jacket is walking away from the camera on a barren landscape enshrouded in yellow-orange haze. He is "K" from the film Blade Runner 2049.

Actor Nicol Williamson portraying the druid advisor to King Arthur in the film Excalibur. It is a bearded middle-aged man wearing a polished silver skull cap, wearing a cape maade of animal hides and holding a lance with an ornate silver crown piece that seems to protray two serpents.

Boeing Starliner capsule returns from the ISS in orbit, lands in the New Mexico desert. Space capsule with large airbag-like cushions on its bottom hangs below three very large red/white/blue parachutes as it descends to a soft landing on the desert floor with a mountain in the background.

Black & white image of the Earth rising over the surface of the Moon. Taken in 1966 by the Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft.

The cast of Twin Peaks posing in the White Lodge. Sitting on or standing near green upholstered furniture on a floor of alternating white and black zig-zagged lines, and the background is a red velvet curtain that rises out of sight.

Cover art for the Dixie Chicks single Wide Open Spaces. Candid-looking face shots of each group member (none of them are looking into the camera) are positioned in a diagonal across the cover from lower left to upper right. It says "Dixie Chicks" in a stylized cursive font across the top left, and "Wide Open Spaces" in all caps jammed into the lower right corner.

A screen grab of my post to ICE. It shows a GIF of what looks like a sports referee blowing a whistle and pointing.

Photograph of a mostly white dog with black spots curled up and sleeping on a pink blanket next to an unidentified human. The dog's name is "Kona", and he is a Dalmatian.

Map of the western U.S. with States and major cities labeled. The state boun daries are good, but there are two Nevadas.

Two men looking at someone off camera. One has a mustache, is wearing a brimmed hat, and is pointing a revolver at the off-camera person. The other man is blonde and clean shaven. They are the actors Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker playing the titular characters Rick Simon and A.J. Simon from the TV show Simon & Simon

Cover of the comic book The Mighty Thot #366, showing a 6'6" fighting-mad Frog dressed like Thor and carrying his hammer.

Original cover art for the novel The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert. This book follows Destination:Void, whose ending saw the creation of a true self-aware artificial intelligence to pilot a damaged spaceship to a colony world. In The Jesus Incident, the new entity achieves a level of awareness that allows it to manipulate space and time, and it demands the human crew worship it.

Closeup of a serious-looking man wearing what future clothes looked like on 1960s television. He is currently asking a self-intelligent computer to stop killing humans who want to turn the computer off.

Donald J. Trump's post on Truth Social on October 8, 2025: "Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!"

Cover art for upcoming Martha Wells book Platform Decay, the 8th book in the Murderbot Diaries series. The art shows Murderbot possibly transiting a passageway within a spaceship. Murderbot is gripping an orange ladder moving along the grey walls of the passageway. There is a window behind it showing stars in space, and it appears to be in a "zero-G" environment.

Conclusion
Yes, recent speeches (particularly the UN address) exhibit growing signs consistent with dementia, per expert consensus: Escalating disorganization, repetition, and motor/behavioral changes suggest progression since 2024. This isn't definitive without medical access, but the patterns—worsening from baselines analyzed since 2016—raise serious fitness concerns for a president handling nuclear codes and global crises. Public discourse on X and in media reflects alarm, with calls for transparency. For deeper insight, monitor upcoming appearances like October policy addresses.

A shirtless man sits at a kitchen table, reading his many textual tattoos. He is the character Leonard from the film Memento, played by the actor Guy Pearce.

A young blonde woman with green eyes is staring intently at something off-camera. She appears to be using her mind to change something, and is waving her hand to focus her power. The woman is Lucy (from the film of the same name), played by Scarlett Johansson.

Jayne and Vera: A tough-looking hombre, muscled with short hair and a goatee, holds a formidable looking combat rifle. It's a Callahan full-bore auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge thorough gauge. (fictional person and weapon from the gone-before-its-time TV show "Firefly")

Image of a tweet from Elon Musk: "Low birth rate is the number one threat to the West, followed closely by migration. There will be no West if this continues."

The Android from the television show Dark Matter (on SyFy).

Cover art for the novel Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

A very attentive Dalmatian lying on an outdoor bed, likely hoping someone will hand him a treat. 12/10

A photograph of the recovered bones of an Australopithecus afarensis named "Lucy"

A generated MapQuest map centered on the Gulf of Mexico (America), but named the "Gulf of Nothin' Between the Ears" Make your own at: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

Beach in La Paz, BCS. Gentle waves caress the sand.

A 1-star review of the Gulf America on Google Maps: "I read great reviews, but there's a lot broken here. The makers of these maps decided to suddenly change the labeling on the Gulf of Mexico. It sometimes says "Gulf of America", which is confusing. The signage also changes as you zoom in and out. Also, it would be more correct to name it the Gulf of North America. It just wasn't what I was looking for... won't be coming back (to Google Maps).

Cover of the book Head First Java: A Brain-Friendly Guide by KAthy SIerra & Bert Bates

Cover of the book Beyond The Moon: A Golden Age of Planetary Exploration 1961-1978 by Robert Kraemer

Cover of the book A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me

Cover art for Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Cover to book A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by John Archibald Wheeler. Photo shows two skydivers high above the ground with the curvature of the Earth visible in the background.

Photo of Elon Musk at the podium following the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. He is aggressively biting his lower lip and raising his right arm in a salute, the arm and hand forming a straight line and his palm down.

Book cover for It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong.

Cover of the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. There is a photo of an bus abandoned in the wilderness/

The cover art for Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

Cover art for the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Cover of the book COMETS, edited by Laurel L. Wilkening. Art is a comet with a bright tail set against a dense background of stars.

Cover art for The Boys in the Boat, Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. By Daniel James Brown

Cover art for The Wager, by David Grann.

Cover art for Greg LeMond's Complete Book of Cycling. Depicts the three-time Tour de France champion riding his bicycle while wearing the yellow jersey.

Closeup of an attentive white dog with black spots (a Dalmatian) wearing a red collar while lounging on an outdoor dog bed, somewhat backlit by the Sun.

Cover art for The Meaning of the Built Environment, by Amos Rapoport

Covet art for the book Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

The Cover Art for The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield on a golf course in flowered pants, a blue shirt, and a yacht club cap, holding his arms apart yelling "HEY While We're Young!"

Artist’s conception of the Opportunity rover studying a rock on the surface of Mars

Inside an enormous warehouse that seems to go on forever, filled with wooden crates of various sizes. a lone human is pushing such a sizeable crate (large enough to hold the Ark of the Covenant) on a cart away from the viewer's gaze.

The TRS-80 Model 1 personal computer from Radio Shack: a black & white monitor, a keyboard, and a cassette tape recorder, all colored in silver and black.

Artist conception of the Europa Clipper spacecraft (featuring solar panels that span the length of a basketball court) performing a flyby of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons believed to possess a vast subsurface ocean.