John Bailey

I interpret your tweet/comment as claiming subject literacy and wanting serious engagement. Instantly block bots, trolls, deliberately thick, false info spreaders, parades of fallacies, tribal bumper-sticker comments, & 4th-grader-level nonsense.

Gapers did this. Gapers are continuing to do this. Our society will continue to kill and sicken our children - and damage their brains and immune systems - until the Gapers either stop gaping or stop exhaling.

People will say anything to pretend it isn't real - or that it doesn't apply to them. (Google "psychological denial"). In the meantime, FILTER YOUR COVID HOLE. thesicktimes.org/2026/07/10/sto…

For some reason <blinks twice> this seems relevant today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@citynightcap I don't know this location.

@Isucceed Where is it

@LauraMiers Gapers caused this. Gapers are continuing to make this worse. Gapers will continue making everything worse as long as they keep gaping, or as long as they keep exhaling. This is mechanics.

A trip down memory lane... Nothing to see here, I’m sure.

"Sudden, unexpected deaths" are no longer "unexpected" - by anyone who can pass 9th grade biology, and who has been paying attention. Such events are in MEASURED FACT becoming increasingly common. People who aren't idiots or in pathological denial know why.

@leftyvegan @mattvanswol Lindsey Graham celebration dinner = ?? Mitch celebration dinner = ?? DJT celebration dinner = ??

@mattvanswol How do you know he was healthy? All I know is...

I’m sorry, but Lindsey Graham dying out of the blue like this doesn’t make any sense at all. We have him on camera yesterday looking perfectly healthy. None of this is making any sense…

@mattvanswol Did he have drinks with Putin? Or, maybe Putin just bought him a drink? Or, maybe he got DVT from his long flight - and threw a clot - due to all the vascular damage he's accrued from COVID infections.

@histories_arch The first transpolar commercial airlines used a modernized version of this navigational instrument to ferry passengers between the W coast of the US and Northern Europe.

For over a thousand years, historians thought the Viking "sunstone" was nothing more than a myth, until the ocean gave up its secret... The Norse sagas repeatedly referenced a mysterious object called a "sólarsteinn" or sunstone, a navigational tool so powerful that Viking sailors could locate the exact position of the sun even on the most overcast and cloudy days. For centuries, scholars debated whether this was real technology or simply folklore embellished over generations of retelling. Most assumed it was legend. They were wrong. In 2013, marine archaeologists excavating a British warship that sank near the Channel Islands in 1592 made a stunning discovery buried among the wreckage. Alongside navigational instruments including a pair of dividers and a slate, they found a rectangular chunk of translucent crystal. Testing confirmed it was Iceland spar, a remarkably pure form of calcite with extraordinary optical properties. The fact that it was found stored alongside other precision navigation tools was not a coincidence. Iceland spar possesses a property called birefringence, meaning it splits a single beam of light entering the crystal into two separate beams. When you hold the crystal up toward the sky and slowly rotate it, the two beams will vary in brightness independently until, at one specific angle of rotation, they become perfectly equal in intensity. That precise angle points directly toward the sun, regardless of whether the sun is visible to the naked eye. Cloud cover, fog, and even twilight conditions cannot defeat it. Researchers from the University of Rennes in France conducted extensive testing and published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Their experiments demonstrated that Iceland spar could locate the sun's position with an accuracy of within one degree, even under completely overcast skies. For Viking navigators crossing the North Atlantic toward Iceland, Greenland, and eventually North America, this accuracy would have meant the difference between a successful voyage and sailing hopelessly off course into open ocean. The Viking Age spanned roughly 793 to 1066 AD, and during this period Norse sailors were completing oceanic crossings that would not be replicated by other European cultures for another 400 years. Historians had long puzzled over how they achieved such consistent navigational precision without magnetic compasses, which did not reach Europe until the 12th century. The sunstone appears to be a significant part of that answer. What makes the Channel Islands find especially compelling is that the 1592 shipwreck is far outside the traditional Viking era, suggesting that knowledge of this navigational technique survived and was still being used by European sailors centuries after the Viking Age officially ended. The crystal was not a relic or a curiosity on that ship. It was working equipment. The sagas specifically describe King Olaf consulting a sunstone on a cloudy day to verify the position of the sun, with a separate observation then confirming the stone's accuracy. For generations this was dismissed as poetic invention. Science has now confirmed that every element of that description is physically possible and practically achievable with a simple piece of Icelandic calcite. The Vikings were not lucky explorers stumbling across new lands by accident. They were sophisticated navigators armed with technology so elegant and effective that it required no moving parts, no maintenance, and no power source beyond the sky itself. 📷 : the original calcite crystal alongside Elizabethan navigation dividers next to a cannon Alderney Museum #archaeohistories

@AMJ_Reviews is a propaganda outlet spewing COVID disinformation. It does NOT "primarily affect the lungs" - you totally-out-of-date anti-science minimizing propaganda hacks. COVID minimizers are trash. bmj.com/content/392/bm…

@cwebbonline I think he actually said: "Someday, the US will have a president-for-life". You know it's his intention.

The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people. The White House belongs to the American people. Every president is just a temporary tenant.