Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. !

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It’s a crowd of hundreds of people standing at the “world famous horseshoe curve” in Pennsylvania. They are exclusively train nerds or compliant others who were dragged along, since there is no reason to be here other than to look at trains. In the background, the Big Boy 4014 is billowing steam, about to charge up that 1.8% grade.
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It's a screenshot from CNN. A newscaster is agape at some statistics, though it's implausible that he hasn't already seen those statistics before going on the air to talk about them. The statistics: In Feb 2025, "Gen Z" polled with +10pp net favorability for Trump, and in Jan 2026, they polled at -32pp. Donald is inside the infographic. They choose a picture of him that makes him look like he just got some bad news and is pretending to know what it means and that he is tough. Six stars in the infographic signal "America." To be honest, the design makes it look like Windows 95, with the blue title bar and white text, and the color swatches that let the anchor annotate the infographic make the whole thing feel a lot like Microsoft Paint. That's fine with me. I'm just upset about the missed pun.
It's like the movie poster from TENET but it's a board in my shop with symmetric tenons on it, and it says TENON instead. Sometimes I just get an idea in my head like that and it's not even a good joke, but in order for me to make progress on my day I need to put the joke out of its misery and into yours.
An orange 3D-printed handle for a metal file, labeled “stderr”
A to-do list with messily written items; visible are: 24 cell bars Nupert clippin’ Show nupert n=18 static Patch mtx blank BORING [!]
A classic stovetop espresso maker 3D printed in glow-in-the-dark plastic (periwinkle), sitting calmly on the stovetop, which is not lit.