KnitWit

joined 2 years ago
[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Port Jackson Sharks: Am I a joke to you?!

Mouth of a Port Jackson Shark from the underside

Port Jackson Shark egg, look super badass.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With the way some members of the SC keep going out of their way to say which keywords will work to have them rule a certain way, doesn’t matter how error filled the briefs are.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Its splicing the golden idol from cpac however many years ago and an image of them blessing the real trump in the white house (or somewhere) from his first term.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Agreed, that’s kinda what I’m getting at. This whole term has been with the understanding that the narrative has become fully divorced from the reality. Scary times.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 117 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The fact that these problems are present at the beginning stages show that this was always the intended result. Obviously none of this is shocking, but it does amaze me that they don’t even have the patience to pretend that it was ‘a good plan that went sour along the way’. Shows that if you have half of the nation fully captured then optics don’t even matter anymore.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Saw a quote the other day from a FEMA worker that said the guy in charge basically won’t be reached so Noem (his boss) is on in Texas instead. And she is well known for only showing ip for photo ops as opposed to actually helping. So it sounds like all levels above the actual workers who want to help are a complete disaster.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Goes on to describe exactly what everyone thinks. Totally worthless article, although at the end Scott Bessent compared Trump to Bobby Knight, which yeah, checks out.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Always interesting when the true believers get burned.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

She caught his eye wandering.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I’d call frogger a platformer, but the water aspect is only aesthetic. So disagree with OP on that but for different reasons.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That’s not a part of this article.. this article starts with the first paragraph, followed in paragraph 3 and five, which all do more to disparage the forecast than mention an uthing about lack of dissemination (who the person you’re quite would be referring to. This is another hit piece disguised as something else.

Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people…

“The original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8 inches in the Hill Country,” said Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd at a press conference Friday. “The amount of rain that fell at this specific location was never in any of those forecasts.”…

Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic flash flooding happened because the skies “dumped more rain than what was forecasted” on two of the river’s forks….

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is a matter of storms being able to supercharge themselves due to global warming. Don’t let people reframe this against the NWS. It is like Hurricane Erick the other week that jumped to category 3 out of nowhere, storms are being rapidly supercharged. This flood broke all sorts of records, so to phrase it as the previous commenter did is unfair.. In the near future, their ability to even predict as well as they did will degrade though, at which point you will hear more of ‘they never knew what they were talking about anyways.’ This lays the groundwork for that.

9
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by KnitWit@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
 

Does this book ever pick up? I’m about a quarter of the way in and so far ‘The Adventures of Mary Sue As She Looks For A Date’ is just not doing anything for me. I remember tears ago hearing of it and thought it’s political world building, but so far it seems to be nothing more than ‘theater kids rule the world but- no touching.’ It seems like it wants to dive into the politics, but then again very other page it derails itself itself with ‘those damn eyes.’

Idk, I guess I’ve probably already made up my mind, but would be interested to know if it ever gets out of its own way.

 

Saw two shooting stars pop up while watching the comet last night, one of them showed up in the exposure I was taking at the time.
Canon R8 w 13s exposure, iso 8000, f7.1; cropped.

 

Was surprised to be able to see it this far south, in canyon of the ancients so super remote.

Taken on a Canon R8 24mm wide lens, iso 1600, 15 second exposure, f5.0; no post processing.

view more: next ›