Charles Louis Richter

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

skyrim screenshot: at the very top of the throat of the world, a pickaxe is lodges in the rock near a mineral vein. the UI offers to let you "take Notched Pickaxe"
close-up photo of two tiny kittens, one gray and the other tabby. gray is reaching out a tiny paw and meowing, and tabby is in the background hunkered down
A tiny gray kitten explores outside the carrier for the first time, while its tabby mother watches and occasionally reaches out to reassure the little explorer
Tiny gray kitten flails about and then gets a bath from its mom, all in the opening of a cat carrier.
A long black kitten about to jump in the air in his shelter cage
A slender tabby cat lies on her back getting tummy pets and looking up blissfully while two tiny kittens sleep by her side
Ten people, including three children, were hospitalized after a truck collided with at least 10 vehicles in Silver Spring on Saturday, according to Montgomery County police. The collision ended with a Tesla Cybertruck split in half, police officials said.
a tiny gray kitten and a tiny tabby kitten fight in an extremely cute and ineffective manner, scored by overly dramatic music
tiny tabby kitten places an exploratory paw outside the safety of the carrier for the first time and touches the cat bed out there
tiny gray kitten places one hesitant white-gloved hand out of the safety of the carrier and onto the edge of a cat bed
a 2-week old tabby kitten looking pensively into the future from the safety of a cat carrier lined with towels
Before his trip to the castle, Vance said he had never experienced the feeling of being small in an "infinite" universe, he writes in Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. "But here, on the banks of a river I'd never heard of, in a castle we selected as a cool tourist stop, I felt for the first time something similar: the scale of time, and how little of the life of the world we'd ever see."
A small black cat looking forlornly through a low glass pane of an interior door
A tube of pillsbury crescent rolls, the kind you pop open
the Glee meme with Sue Sylvester saying "I am going to create an ostensibly serious film that is so Naked Gun"
A slender tabby cat lies in a cat carrier, head pointed out toward the camera. She looks up with huge eyes and pointy ears. A tiny tabby kitten is tucked in the hollow behind her chin.
Black and white photo of two tiny kittens sleeping back to back on a towel. A rectangular block of light is shining in from the top of the frame, as if through louvered blinds
tiny gray kitten yawning
Mother cat and her two kittens. A human hand is petting her belly
Closeup of Gray kitten snoozing
Tabby cat curled up on her side with one kitten nursing and the other snoozing adorably
a skinny tabby cat looking over her shoulder at the camera in a backyard area full of potting soil and supplies
A simple cocktail in an old fashioned glass with a short straw and crushed ice.
Two fancy tiki cocktails garnished with pineapple wedge, lime slice, pineapple fronds, bamboo straws, and umbrellas
mark wahlberg in shirt and tie sitting on a couch and laughing with ted, a living teddy bear, who is drinking a beer
Screenshot of the USA Today page with the explosive diarrhea story from the quoted post. It begins with an unwanted AI summary of the story with a couple bullet points about avoiding cyclospoiasis and it's consequences, and then suggests: Based on your interests What did McConnell's allies state about his condition in July 2026?
johnny knoxville in a white three piece suit and red tie, surrounded by other man in white suits and also a large, unclothed, tattooed man
the bee gees, all in seventies white
Fisher Stevens walks with Desmond and Sayid from LOST through the corridors of a ship. They all have longish hair and are sweaty in a seventies way
screenshot of roy batty, in the rain, looking downward. text reads PAUSA DE HIDRATACIÓN
the water of life from DUNE, a bright blue liquid in a glass and silver bottle, with the words PAUSA DE HIDRATACIóN in impact font.
the Tom Toro New Yorker cartoon with a businessman telling stories to kids around a post-apocalyptic campfire, but the caption is "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time our star striker’s red card was suspended.”
the sky-burning finale to the fireworks, turning the sky into a haze of yellow light, behind the characters from fallout 4 hunkering down as they are about to be lowered into the vault as the bombs fall. the chyron telling you to text potus for updates is superimposed.
two cocktails. In a rocks glass, a dark cocktail with crushed ice and a pineapple frond garnish. In a tall nick and nora, a light green drink, up, with a lime wheel
A well fed black cat looks up toward the camera serenely but with determination.
A small black cat photograph from above so she looks like a black blob with two tiny stubby feet in front and a little frowny face
Bart Simpson writes repeatedly on the chalkboard "I ask for remission of the censures incurred because of the ordination I received "
jeff goldblum in his jurassic park leather jacket, open collar, and tinted glasses, about to complain about scientists being so focus on what they could do
Josie's meme, a Screenshot from 30 Rock where Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson are on Hardball, staring in disbelief as Jenna says something outrageous, except instead of Jenna now it's the "Hello, yes, this is dog" dog from the ancient meme: a giant black dog barking into a corded phone receiver held to its head by a human hand
A very small insect spins around on a table on a very close up shot. It looks like that thing baseball people do when they put their head on the end of a bat that's standing on the ground and spin around it for some reason. This little bug changes direction a few times before really getting going and spinning in one direction several times.
Close up of a gilded statuette of an angel-like figure with one finger held up to their lips. The eyes of the figure move left and right by clockwork.
aerial view of the Museum of Pop Culture (formerly Experience Music Project) in Seattle. it is a Gehry mishmash of organic forms of various colors and finishes, like a gargantuan biomechanical kaiju has been gutted and field dressed at the base of the Space Needle before being driven off on the hood of a cyclopean pickup truck, leaving only its offal to rot
aerial view of a stretch of ersatz freeway, complete with exit and entrance ramps, plus an overpass
A Costco display of a gigantic skeleton pulling itself out of a grave
Under the Washington Post logo and the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" (which is circled in red) is the text: Transparency is almost always a short-term political winner in a democracy, but it’s not always in the public’s interest. If the Philadelphia convention of 1787 had been open to the public for daily play-by-plays — to say nothing of television streaming — the delegates would never have been able to agree on the Constitution. The Supreme Court is a powerful institution, arguably too powerful. But the main reason for its outsize power is that Congress has become less effective. Televising the court would make it more like Congress.
sapper morton, in a full body protective suit, toils in his algae farm, a long and shallow pool of green liquid, surrounded by large suspended bags of more green liquid connected to he pool by tubes.
wuher in the mos eisley cantina, pointing excitedly at a new patron who has just walked into his establishment
"teenage mutant ninja turtles!" in the looney tunes logo style
view of the washington manoument in Fallout3, suurounded by devastated buildings. the reflecting pool is in the foreground stretching back to the monument, and although the color palette of this game is pretty bleak and green, it is less green than in current reality
The movie poster for Brandon Cronenberg's INFNITY POOL, but the title is now REFLECTING POOL, all the text is green instead of red, and Mia Goth's and Alexander Skarsgard's faces are emerging from a sickly green slime.
Photo of the Evergove stuck in a quite green Suez Canal
Major Nicholas Dockery, having just been humiliated by the president, forces a smile as his lungs struggle to pass enough oxygen through the windpipe constricted by the Medal of Honor ribbon Trump, in his incompetence, tied tightly around his neck rather than snap it as intended
cover art for Brimstone. a shirtless man with arcane tattoos stands before a devilish man in a sort of old timey western gambler outfit
the 3x3 grid of the brady bunch family members, but alice has been replaced by pinhead from hellraiser in the center square
snippet of text from the quoted onion article, with this highlighted, exactly as it appears: "It is the curse of Tony Sorprano. Honestly, I can’t believe I have to spell that out for people."
bobby brady of the brady bunch, in bed, terrified by the tarantula that's sitting on his chest. also he is wearing a lament configuration box on a string around his neck
a young beardless abraham lincoln wielding an axe in abraham lincoln vampire hunter
a large european hornet (bright yellow, orange, and black) nestled in the hollow of some creeping jenny leaves on the ground.
a gren and gold jumpig spider perches on the edge of a leaf of jimsonweed, with a black flowerbud rising like an ominous spike behind it
on the spiky center of a large red echinacea coneflower, a plump carpenter bee drinks nectar. it has a full saddlebag of bright orange pollen