Al Petterson

@eyelessgame.bsky.social

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NOT "AI", "Al". I do TTRPG, astronomy, inclusion, politics, mathematics, music, economics, history, SF. Dad & grandpa. Him. Frustrated by stupid. Angered by evil. I assume you're frustrating. Don't make me angry.

Fox's "The Five", with chyron "LIBRARIES TURNING INTO DRUG-INFESTED, SEX DENS"
Danny Glover as Mal in Silverado.
stock painting of jesus christ as a white man
A "2001"-worthy shot from Artemis, of the crescent Earth behind the crescent Moon, with the caption "We thought we were tired of space exploration - turns out we were just tired of the billionaire assholes doing it"
It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. Indeed he is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream. In which no doubt you will see our good fortune and our hope.
Zendaya, sitting on the bed between her two boyfriends, from the movie "Challengers"
That midwit meme but with "Just vote for Democrats" on both sides and this dude's post in the middle.
A graphic, twice, showing the 34 periods of US recessions from the 1850s to 2022, notable immediately for the dramatic reduction of frequency and severity after WWII. The second image has the three eight-year periods of the Kennedy-Johnson, Clinton, and Obama administrations circled, all three of which were characterized by the three longest periods of growth uninterrupted by recession anywhere in history. My caption "I've circled the Kennedy-Johnson, Clinton, and Obama administrations. Notice something?"
us map highlighting iowa
Shot/chaser meme by "mohu" on Threads. Image on the left is the hilarious AI-generated bullshit by the White House yesterday of a penguin carrying a US flag walking away, hand in flipper with shitler, across a snow field toward ice-covered mountains, apparently Antarctica but intended to be Greenland. Image on the right is the same penguin returning alone, holding the flag and a shovel, saying "It's done."
Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's smoking skeletons, captioned "Luke, it was their own fault; all they had to do was comply"
A December-blooming gladiolus in my backyard.