Hugh J. Martin III

A: it's one of a kind. B. a room with at least two egos and the checkbooks to back it up. 😎👍🤷‍♂️

Comet C/2023 A3 framed by the ISS Canadarm, SpaceX Crew Dragon and the sunlit rim of Earth near orbital dawn.

It's fun and feels smart to make sweeping statements about the political consequences of a presumed outcome ("MAGA will fracture as Trump enters quagmire" or "Quick win will silence Trump's critics") but war is a runaway train and we just don't know where it will take us.

Free, Little Feat, Los Lobos, Emerson Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, Gary Moore, The Smiths, The Cult etc etc. I have been lobbying for years for Free and Little Feat.

While everyone was cheering chainsaws at CPAC, a tax economist put $342,195.63 — his entire life savings — into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldn’t cut federal spending. His edge? He knew how the US government works better than the DOGE believers. His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because “they didn’t seem to understand what they were buying.” He made $128K. Turns out knowing how the federal budget actually works was a better edge than a chainsaw.

The ACAB crowd likes to say cops chiefly serve corporations & the rich. Never quite understood that one. We spend most of our shift where the crime is, which means policing low to moderate-income neighborhoods & arresting everyone from burglars to shooters. A decent number of these criminals' victims live in the ragged margins. Not too many knifings at the racquet club.

Between this and flying his girlfriend around in an FBI jet it's as if an aging frat boy is running the most powerful federal law enforcement agency. Party on dude.

So all the people who used to subscribe to get the mundane info stopped subscribing leaving newspapers with a much smaller audience that really wants news. This is one often misunderstood or overlooked reason for the decline of local newspapers.

You no longer need newspapers to find mundane information like Little League tryouts, Kiwanis meetings, milk price ads. Newspapers' indexing function (find it here) has been replaced by search engines, AI. And the info is published on websites, social media, email newsletters.

True.

Was leaving the office after a long day and passed a colleague who said, "Straight home." "Straight home." I've heard that a hundred times on the job. It's one cop's way to remind another of the things that can sink us--drinking, gambling, infidelity. A large greasy pizza at 2 AM. I've been going straight home for 24 years. Well, except for the pizza.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

All That You Need - Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett youtu.be/_XYKKUL2eqA?si… via @YouTube

@simon_schama The students were indifferent to the slaughter of people their age at the Nova Music Festival, choosing to side with the killers. So why expect anything except indifference when young people are slaughtered in Iran?

one of the most stomach- turning qualities of many of the students who encamped and marched for Gaza is their inhuman indifference to the catastrophe that has befallen so many of their own age who have been slaughtered by the blood- boltered tyranny of Khameini and IRGC

Daryl Hall & Charlie Starr - One Horse Town youtu.be/QJ4SN6I0V2k?si… via @YouTube

“I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country.” — @RossDouthatNYT

Muddy Waters 🎶'Cold Weather Blues'

The weather and orbital mechanics cooperated, giving us a great @Space_Station pass over @NASAKennedy for the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal! I got a long lens (1600mm) set up in the WORF (Window Observational Research Facility) window in the lab and got a few nice shots of SLS (Space Launch System) on the pad as it is getting ready for the test. It has also been a beautiful full Moon (this shot from the Cupola yesterday). Go Artemis II!

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation. This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with a new purified extract: it was called insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom became a place of joy and hope. In the early 1920s Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under the directorship of John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip insulin was purified, making it available for the successful treatment of diabetes. In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1. Banting and Macleod earned a Nobel Prize for their work in 1923. Photo Credits: Library and Archives Canada

Summer morning by British marine artist Montague Dawson #Sea #Ships #RoyalNavy