#  @ScottHe69960638 Scott Herring Scott Herring posts on X about yellowstone national park, in the, toys, los angeles the most. They currently have [--] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [----------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [----------] [#](/creator/twitter::1421228787128160257/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] -21% - [--] Month [------] +122% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1421228787128160257/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +66% - [--] Month [---] +166% - [--] Months [---] +34,200% ### Followers: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1421228787128160257/followers)  - [--] Week [--] +16% - [--] Month [--] +34% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1421228787128160257/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [mlb](/list/mlb) **Social topic influence** [yellowstone national park](/topic/yellowstone-national-park) #16, [in the](/topic/in-the), [toys](/topic/toys), [los angeles](/topic/los-angeles), [national park](/topic/national-park) #150, [the north](/topic/the-north), [money](/topic/money), [the first](/topic/the-first), [scott](/topic/scott) #2779, [the world](/topic/the-world) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@hw97karbine](/creator/undefined) [@blackthursday](/creator/undefined) [@rodeoprofessor](/creator/undefined) [@famedcelebrity](/creator/undefined) [@ancaesthetics](/creator/undefined) [@fistedfoucault](/creator/undefined) [@panzerfunster](/creator/undefined) [@eclectellect](/creator/undefined) [@guyfromsanmateo](/creator/undefined) [@legatesilva](/creator/undefined) [@readacted](/creator/undefined) [@bstondentious](/creator/undefined) [@clambakestank](/creator/undefined) [@christopherrufo](/creator/undefined) [@xanterraparks](/creator/undefined) [@ultimawolf9](/creator/undefined) [@walterkirn](/creator/undefined) [@lizaadamczewski](/creator/undefined) [@st2station](/creator/undefined) [@jonathanfired](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "They're worried about Covid too which tends to hurt their claims about CWD. They don't understand that. But CWD partakes of science fiction. It's a prion disease; it's caused by misfolded proteins that because they aren't alive can't be killed" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1958643030065664162) 2025-08-21T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Look up "kuru" (add "New Guinea" to the search if necessary) and prepare to be weirded out. CWD is similar to kuru. People--again in my limited social circle--are not capable of thinking rationally about it. It may be that no one is" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1958643031349108956) 2025-08-21T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Did they maybe use things like this to organize a library No books: a library was a collection of scrolls. Were the scrolls stacked with the dual bust as a support to keep them from rolling off the shelf en masse Presumably this is the "S" part of the library. Seneca and Socrates back to back Roman 3rd century AD Neues Museum. https://t.co/VlEXvkamqL Seneca and Socrates back to back Roman 3rd century AD Neues Museum. https://t.co/VlEXvkamqL" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1958683826693235039) 2025-08-22T00:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The city is its own restraining device. It keeps emotions blunted and tamped and pounded down to a level at which the carnage can never (or rarely) break out--everyone is too stunned to feel the outrage they ought to. I don't think this is even controversial. Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres unspeakable carnage a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death - Cioran Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size I marvel that riots do not break out everyday:" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959822440114327838) 2025-08-25T03:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's just the way the city has always been--Babylon and Carthage and Rome too. New York City especially Manhattan is striking this way. The chief effect I feel visiting there is claustrophobia. It's a plush interesting entertaining.maximum security prison" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959822442613916039) 2025-08-25T03:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Let's talk more about books you discover when you are young which is what I was really talking about in the post quoted below. An interesting kind of book--actually a special kind amazing life-altering riveting--is the one that you read at the perfect moment. This is a post that went viral today. To clarify what he's talking about is single experiences that ruined your life for a long time. In his case it was films from the 1990s that depicted bourgeois life as oppressive. I'm talking about books here though so. This is a post that went viral today. To clarify what he's talking about is" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959835410789769509) 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It is the book you discover during the exact year in your life when it makes the greatest impact; one year earlier one year later and it would not be such dynamite. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas which I read when I was turning [--] was a book of that kind" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959835412232646880) 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The effect it had was horrible really catastrophic--but it didn't feel that way at the time. I read On the Road by Jack Kerouac at 19: add another year and I could not have taken it seriously but [--] was perfect. Others: The Magus by John Fowles age [--] perfect" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959835413457277051) 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut [--] perfect. The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain [--]. Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey [--]. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee [--]. Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell [--]. Moby Dick Herman Melville 35" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1959835414749135238) 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "One thing I've been telling my students is that your generation (Zoomers) is going to have to think way the hell outside the box where job career and general life plans are concerned. That crazy ambition you have to move to Guam to do whatever is not as crazy as you think" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1960942559301177532) 2025-08-28T05:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I'm traveling in Yellowstone and so perked up when I saw this. The Bombardier snowcoaches in the video are of an earlier type. The hotel concessionaire here was still using Bombardiers until relatively recently. Here are the old-style coaches on their last trip [----]. Bombardier B12 snowcats on a wolf-hunting trip in the early 1950s https://t.co/5Os1BR8QMM Bombardier B12 snowcats on a wolf-hunting trip in the early 1950s https://t.co/5Os1BR8QMM" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1962014923774673294) 2025-08-31T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And here is a parody of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man done by some of the last of the old-time Bombardier pilots: Snowcoach Man" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1962015626823942409) 2025-08-31T04:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This is all very goodthinkful. Grades are high because the students evaluate the professors. The other misbehavior also comes from the students being in charge. Its no coincidence that as grades have gone up civic friendship between people with different views and backgrounds has gone down both on campuses and in the nation at large. Students are so confident in their beliefs that they verbally assault professors and guest lecturers https://t.co/VhUlVkIYdp Its no coincidence that as grades have gone up civic friendship between people with different views and backgrounds has gone down both on" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1962729602851446848) 2025-09-02T04:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Expecting "civic friendship" when the students are in charge and their fees are required to keep the business afloat is similarly goodthinkful. Building a sane university would require Western Roman Empire-style collapse. At some point in the reclamation period to follow maybe" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1962729604386562087) 2025-09-02T04:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FamedCelebrity On the summit of Bunsen Peak in Yellowstone National Park the rangers keep a logbook. Ferociously demanding chipmunks hang out there and demand a constant flow of treats and people draw pictures of them in the logbook. This has been going on for many chipmunk generations" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1963057708518801566) 2025-09-03T01:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "6. I listened to Rush for thirty years. I remember. His attitude toward the environment was that it was a resource dump. His attitude toward corporations and "capitalists" was that they need to be allowed to do whatever they want. That ethic has been a catastrophe" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965243943668576564) 2025-09-09T02:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "7. It led to psychopath billionaires shredding the constitution. George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg are "capitalists" and they are not your friends. The only reason Trump is back in power is that the billionaires were frightened by the way the wheels were coming off the clown car" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965243945065349156) 2025-09-09T02:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "2. SFGate calls it an "eco-style resort project a collection of deluxe cabins set across [---] acres with access to amenities such as an outdoor movie theater pool and hot tubs. It has been hailed as an economic and tourism engine for the area east of the city of Joshua Tree."" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965261224729579965) 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "3. Liberals I have talked to like it because it's "sustainable." They also look forward to staying in this dump. This is why I say (I'm hardly the only one) that liberals don't actually care about the environment any longer. Let's look at the Ofland Resort a little more" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965261226549936588) 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "5. What it is really is just slop the architectural equivalent of a student essay written with ChatGPT. If these were house-trailers (there are plenty nearby inhabited by the families of young Marines) the clientele would be sneering their faces off" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965261230496776667) 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "6. I tend to think actually that the architecture is intended to be ironic at some level. But note the solar panels. Note that Joshua Tree right across the hill from Los Angeles is a New Age destination. Liberals are the intended customers" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965261232442945819) 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "7. This is Ofland's other resort in Utah. It's not for Mormons. SFGate says it's near "Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks." It "has earned praise from the Washington Post Architectural Digest and theNY Times mostly for its stylish look and easy access to parkland."" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965261235118899239) 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine "Oh you the song the girl's song / You fly out trailing the bright sun / And to a soldier at a distant border / Send him cheers from Katyusha."" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965683270374580299) 2025-09-10T07:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@UltimaWolf9 @Anc_Aesthetics That was the job I had in the 1980s. I was a "General Retail Assistant." At Toys R Us. I put Barbie dolls on the shelves. It was fun and in fact I would have put it on my profile if Xwitter had existed because I was such a loser. I mean I was beyond pathetic" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1965938993562005976) 2025-09-11T00:42Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "A little rabbit education for you. Two features serve to identify her as female. First the roll of fur and flesh under her chin the dewlap is female. Second the digging behavior which they seem to do just recreationally but which serves them well when the little ones come" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1966744340803227778) 2025-09-13T06:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "No it's that you're not a politician. Someone on X recommended though that we stick Netanyahu in a cowboy hat and make him pray to the side of Bass Pro Shops. That was thoughtful" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1969245066033070350) 2025-09-20T03:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine I found it disconcerting when Samuel Eliot Morison in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II referred to "the development of the LSD" as a weapon of amphibious warfare. Turns out its a ship (Landing Ship Dock). They're not a trippy as I thought" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1970758178326679855) 2025-09-24T07:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The bear was like Robin Hood or the Viet Cong. He was everywhere and nowhere. He ignored the traps the wardens put out and seemed even to know what they were. His scat (the photos) had garbage in them. He broke into a coffee kiosk. I never found out if he consumed any coffee" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1976533800856469676) 2025-10-10T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In the end the wardens caught up with him and shot him; they honestly seemed to have no choice. On the local Facebook page someone wrote that he was "murdered by Gardiner." There's another political symptom: in Los Angeles I would say that person is an animals rights leftist" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1976533802374791424) 2025-10-10T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine And so they gradually destroyed themselves. The best US pilots rotated home to train others often over their objections. The best Axis pilots stayed in combat until they were dead" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1976980436162428936) 2025-10-11T11:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "1. William Briggs may be interested @FamedCelebrity. Is it right for me to rain on their parade The Bronze Age Pervert coterie is having fun--I should let them right I can't. There is no connection between the full moon and human behavior. None at all. Do this: Full moons make people crazy lunatics stocks pump car accidents increase rash behaviors rituals times of cleanse and purging Full moons make people crazy lunatics stocks pump car accidents increase rash behaviors rituals times of cleanse and purging" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1978057664929182125) 2025-10-14T11:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Here's the North American equivalent (my brother's photo--he has professional equipment and the skill to use it). A herd of wild European Bisons wandering through primeval Biaowiea Forest (NE Poland). https://t.co/tY96uHZMHx A herd of wild European Bisons wandering through primeval Biaowiea Forest (NE Poland). https://t.co/tY96uHZMHx" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1979024092821885103) 2025-10-17T03:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Taken in the Gardner River canyon in Yellowstone National Park in [----] AD but it could have been [----] BC or any time long before that. This is a bull bison [----] pounds of very bad attitude. They injure people every year and the injuries are astounding. Bison have been roaming North America for over [------] years. Some of their oldest fossils have been found in the crystal clear springs and sinkholes of Florida with bison fossil hotspots along the Wacissa and Aucilla Rivers. https://t.co/VH3XM60Tzu Bison have been roaming North America for over [------] years. Some of their oldest fossils have" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1978043758991331680) 2025-10-14T10:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@hw97karbine They remind me of the Bombardier snowcoaches we used to have in Yellowstone in the winter" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1979147405703680420) 2025-10-17T11:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "And another challenge: without summoning any help what do the four photographs depict The autumn-scene-with-fly-fisherman is tough but I think I've got it. We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed River in the lower [--] (700 mi) with a volcanic hotspot at its headwaters. The volcanic https://t.co/fyjsgR2Xev We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1979290767375098295) 2025-10-17T20:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I should follow up on my challenge. The images clockwise from the fish: a Yellowstone cutthroat Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Basin the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley (or the Lamar) and Pilot Peak. We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed River in the lower [--] (700 mi) with a volcanic hotspot at its headwaters. The volcanic https://t.co/fyjsgR2Xev We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1979986899654901771) 2025-10-19T19:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine DDT Germany had access to it from the original developer the chemical company Geigy in Switzerland. The US manufactured it under license and the forces in places like New Guinea and the Philippines used it a LOT once they were able to" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1980225987674845315) 2025-10-20T10:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Orwell I should note was a socialist. That's hard to tell from his two most famous books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (spell it out as words: he intended the title be spelled out not written "1984"). Nevertheless "democratic socialist" is about right" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1981193753693213082) 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's hard to describe his exact political position but it would be approximately the kind of socialism that evolved in Europe after the Second World War. He wanted to abolish public schools for instance. He fought with the anarchists during the Spanish Civil War" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1981193754838257952) 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Right wing Americans read Nineteen Eighty-Four and think he's on their side.but not quite" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1981193756025188720) 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "My Bible when I was a teenager: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are certain books that you find at exactly the right time in life that mesh with every aspect of your being. This was mine and it was incredibly destructive. Fear and Loathing illustrated. @walterkirn https://t.co/PhqK54nQfc Fear and Loathing illustrated. @walterkirn https://t.co/PhqK54nQfc" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1981591854241231034) 2025-10-24T05:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@lizaadamczewski (Coming late to this but here it is anyway a modified illustration from my forthcoming book). A raven at Tower Junction Yellowstone National Park" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1981727700105470154) 2025-10-24T14:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@St2station The first time in many years that I've read an entire article (most of it anyway) in the Wall Street Journal. Thank you for the public service" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1982141480266248397) 2025-10-25T17:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I care less and less about people's political opinions. They're lame. This one is a fine example. The poor are enormously overweight--it's the distinctive fact about them. They need the opposite of food antimatter food negative food mirror-universe food.or a diet maybe. Best TED Talk ever. https://t.co/Ytpej8ulV1 Best TED Talk ever. https://t.co/Ytpej8ulV1" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1983033070585557337) 2025-10-28T04:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Nor do they need food in Africa. This is a chart of historical famines. The ones you remember in Biafra Bangladesh Ethiopia Somalia were part of a final wave in the 1970s-90s. Everyone everywhere needs to update their political opinions and they're not interested in doing so" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1983033072502386964) 2025-10-28T04:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RodeoProfessor In my new Yellowstone book I have a section on CWD. I have elk and mule deer on my lawn in Gardiner (the north entrance to Yellowstone NP). They're never not in the area. As you know we have ungulates coming out of our ears and I never see sick animals" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1983815130975760669) 2025-10-30T08:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RodeoProfessor I don't see how the prions can fail to be moving through the Greater Yellowstone herds. They get together on that refuge in Jackson Hole and slobber all over each other.and I wish someone could tell me what's really going on. How now mad cow (this is my backyard)" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1983816451728535659) 2025-10-30T08:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jonathanfired We must redouble our efforts. Anyone who opposes us is racist against the earth" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1983846737891750400) 2025-10-30T10:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Wrath of Gnon is a traditionalist account filled with praise for the Middle Ages. The post below fits the theme that the traditional natural earthy past is the best. The walls of this hotel are adobe so of the earth earthy. Here's the problem: A [----] Portuguese resort hotel Vale Palheiro Earth Resort in Aljezur. All buildings are rammed earth. https://t.co/o6CxEefKd8 A [----] Portuguese resort hotel Vale Palheiro Earth Resort in Aljezur. All buildings are rammed earth. https://t.co/o6CxEefKd8" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984191166947237988) 2025-10-31T09:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "1. My son and I had a rule visiting Yellowstone: if we crossed a river on a footbridge we couldn't go all the way until we saw a fish. There are so many fish in Yellowstone that we had no problem. Until we were going home and should have been on our way to the airport already. They hate to see a fatty trout rippin heaters They hate to see a fatty trout rippin heaters" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984309866228261055) 2025-10-31T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "2. We crossed the Firehole after seeing a fish and made a last-minute tour of Biscuit Basin. We found a little girl's barrette on the boardwalk. We picked it up and carried it back to throw out so that it didn't end up in a hot spring. Halfway across the river we got stuck" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984309868979683543) 2025-10-31T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JDVance While everyone else is spazzing over the religious issues herein I have the English professor's take. The first sentence of the last paragraph mistakes "reek" smell strongly for "wreak" a verb usually used with "havoc." It tells me two things: What a disgusting comment and it's hardly been the only one along these lines. First off the question was from a person seemingly to my left about my interfaith marriage. I'm a public figure and people are curious and I wasn't going to avoid the question. Second my What a disgusting comment and it's hardly been the only one along these lines." [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984532131977314736) 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "One these are the thoughts of a human not AI--minor mistakes will in the future be a blessed mark of human-ness (a computer would have caught the error). Two he may have been dictating to a 20-something assistant who did not know the difference" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984532133550149679) 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's the kind of mistake undergrads make all the time another mark of the claps of civilization" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984532134699364757) 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Everyone here in Los Angeles Dodgers country sends it's thanks to Japan for helping give our team a world championship. Arigat 70-1.0 70-1.0 [--] thank you for the support 70-1.0 70-1.0 [--] thank you for the support" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984854764396691567) 2025-11-02T05:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@kazuaki_kishida Everyone here in Los Angeles Dodgers country sends it's thanks to Japan for helping give our team a world championship. Arigat" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1984855158086648324) 2025-11-02T05:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "I managed to establish myself as a writer against all odds but I'm not trying to live doing that and nothing but. Around [----] I made just barely enough to live on as a freelance writer (although that was a different world: the financial crisis wiped out all those jobs). The neighborhoods where Mamdani won arent the working-class strongholds of the twentieth century. Theyre something newer stranger: enclaves of educated precarity. These are not blue-collar districts where people punch clocks and belong to unions. Theyre zones of The neighborhoods where Mamdani won arent the working-class" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986270183783276793) 2025-11-06T03:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "An adapted raven. He/she hung out all winter at Tower Junction in Yellowstone National Park. Ravens are so common that we treat them like pigeons or rats and they don't deserve it. For one thing they are natives. https://t.co/qpg8P9SlG0 https://t.co/qpg8P9SlG0" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986306808647233728) 2025-11-06T05:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FistedFoucault The answer to your question is No. No one in Iowa knows anything about Romania or Hungary unless they're from there. They might have a vague memory of the Solidarity movement in Poland but that was a labor union and you also have to be [--] to know about it" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986966725511029170) 2025-11-08T01:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "A fun juxtaposition (if you're into that kind of thing) happened on @FischerKing64. He had this repost from @Anc_Aesthetics lamenting the lack of support on the right for its own foot-soldiers. And RIGHT below was this: The biggest weakness of MAGA is we have no patronage system. Our guys make money with X monetization and small dollar donations from supporters thats it. Its frankly pathetic that [--] years later some of the biggest MAGA voices are in the wilderness with zero support. This is The biggest weakness of MAGA is we have no patronage system. Our guys make money with X monetization" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986986702603493723) 2025-11-08T02:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Here is the patronage system for the GOP. They are filled with sympathy for any reptilian creature on Wall Street who gets in trouble and their purses are always open for that sort" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986986704620884391) 2025-11-08T02:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "You joke but this is how the first settlers to the upper Yellowstone valley lived. Near the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park is a 10'x12' pit lined by rocks. It had some kind of roof but that was the first residence of the first homesteader family. https://t.co/9JrX2khzTR https://t.co/9JrX2khzTR" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1986994395711938914) 2025-11-08T03:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FistedFoucault The Celine Dion/Marcel Dionne connection--terrifying. (He was our hero in Los Angeles during the excitement-free period of the 1980s)" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1987305356650029548) 2025-11-08T23:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "INCREDIBLE The ASTONISHING COWARDICE of the kids who write this stuff up for Yahoo News. A bobcat is about the size of a cat-cat--a tomcat let us say the kind howling at another tomcat outside your house right now. They are not dangerous at all" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1987448539094700399) 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I am torn. I like it when people are afraid of wildlife. The more afraid they are the further away they will stay from the national parks or any outdoor area. On the other hand we want these areas to have a fan-base. It is fun to see them shiver at least" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1987448541221155089) 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And the abject wretchedness of Reddit is always funny" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1987448542848557481) 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Empty_America Yellowstone National Park July [----]. She had two years to live" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1987460280801169768) 2025-11-09T10:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Midcentury modern architecture again. This is the inspiration behind Mission [--] architecture in the national parks the big project launched under Pres. Eisenhower in [----] to upgrade park infrastructure by the time of the 50th anniversary of the Park Service in [----]. It's really unusual to see more than one MCM building near each other. Oral Roberts University appears to have at least a dozen. It's really unusual to see more than one MCM building near each other. Oral Roberts University appears to have at least a dozen" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1988561155388838058) 2025-11-12T10:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Elk do this especially the cows: Cervus canadensis Rocky Mountain elk the ones who make a nuisance of themselves in Yellowstone National Park and environs. That's the only other place I've heard chirping quite like this. https://t.co/IJJMjrBMhC https://t.co/IJJMjrBMhC" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989747875593806050) 2025-11-15T17:30Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "He's right. I wrote the book on at least part of this (two books Yellowstone's Lost Legend and Rough Trip through Yellowstone). This episode by the way demonstrates among other things the ultimate defectiveness of libertarianism. Libertarian anarchy destroyed the bison herds. One of the most important things America ever did in the field of conservation was recover the bison back from the brink of extinction but people who want you to hate your country and yourself never tell the second half of that story. We established the worlds first National One of the most important things America ever" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989899197735420061) 2025-11-16T03:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It required law enforcement (the Lacey Act specifically) to reverse the damage and the far-sighted work of men like Roosevelt George Bird Grinnell and Our Man in Yellowstone Billy Hofer" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989899199350264227) 2025-11-16T03:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In Gardiner on the North Entrance to Yellowstone the elk just take over the athletic field. The scene filmed here would be followed by [--] cows just walking all over the place. In the winter it's the bison. They take over the town park first then the athletic field. Defensive pass interference half the distance to the goal automatic first down Defensive pass interference half the distance to the goal automatic first down" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989902033097560076) 2025-11-16T03:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "They're the [---] pound gorilla when they do and when they're through with the field it's unusable with bison flops. It's an amazing spectacle. Seen from a distance the buffalo chips dark against the light-brown grass make the gridiron look like a World War I battlefield" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989902034867499079) 2025-11-16T03:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I probably shouldn't have used the word "libertarian." What we had in Montana in the 1880s was just anarchic violence: no government at all almost and 21st century libertarian isn't quite the same. The railroad subsidies--the railroads period--made a disastrous situation worse. @ScottHe69960638 May I play devil's advocate here perhaps in part even though I'm not a libertarian Did government railroad subsidies accelerate the destruction of the buffalo herds in the West in some way I'm asking in good faith. @ScottHe69960638 May I play devil's advocate here perhaps in part even though I'm not a" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989911129955733530) 2025-11-16T04:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Although--and a 19th century person would make this point right away--the railroad also ultimately brought the solution in the form of men who established a sane management regime. It brought that is civilization: that's how that 19th century person would put it" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1989911131432058883) 2025-11-16T04:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine In the Pacific there was an incident in which a Japanese destroyer was under attack by B-17s and did not evade because "they always miss." The ship was hit and went straight to the bottom but the officer in charge was philosophical said something like "Who would've thunk it"" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1990292104070000963) 2025-11-17T05:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How about stickers I'll put stickers on the covers of my books stickers that say "ChatGPT FREE." Put that in the center of a circle and around the circle in smaller print write "No artificial intelligence was used in the creation of this book."" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1991490494170595521) 2025-11-20T12:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "We're in full postwar bloom and everyone has a car and everyone wants to take it to Yellowstone in the summer. The railroad passenger statistics were falling daily. In that environment there was eventually no matter what going to be a great deal of paving going on" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1992065707279098088) 2025-11-22T03:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The result looked just like Los Angeles International Airport. Lots of people hated it right away but today it's old enough to be charming" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1992065708814115039) 2025-11-22T03:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This happens in small-town Montana with some regularity or at least it happens in Gardiner. In fact this is nothing by Gardiner standards. The local boomers know what they've got and when they sell it for $3 million the capitalist who bought it puts in a tenement. Everyone hates the HOA until the Super [--] Roach Motel gets built next door. Everyone hates the HOA until the Super [--] Roach Motel gets built next door" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1992154219047199103) 2025-11-22T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And Yellowstone National Park is close enough to the tenement to hit with a softball thrown from the tenement roof" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1992154220792070188) 2025-11-22T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Nor were they quiet about it. The "the veterans were spit on when they came home" comes from TV shows. I remember an episode of Lou Grant from about [----] in which a character said something like "They spit on me and called me a 'Baby burner'"" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993241034428760501) 2025-11-25T08:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "That last phrase doesn't even sound like American English. The myth were established by the TV shows which I suppose people now remember as something that actually happened" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993241035682857442) 2025-11-25T08:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I like it but.what the hell is it How did I not know about this incredible all-in-one from the '70s before Look at it It probably sounds like garbage but look at it Search the web for 'Rosita Commander Luxus' to see more including videos of it in operation. How did I not know about this incredible all-in-one from the '70s before Look at it It probably sounds like garbage but look at it Search the web for 'Rosita Commander Luxus' to see more including videos of it in operation" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993250248362541330) 2025-11-25T09:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FamedCelebrity It's the smell. A lot of the scientists at my campus haven't been in the shower all week. They've been in the lab yes--they're good scientists--but it hits you hard" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993258466597843190) 2025-11-25T10:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Few people will know the story behind the photograph. That's Orwell's adopted son Richard; he and his wife adopted him as a baby. Orwell's wife died (in surgery in what sounds like an anesthesia accident to me) and that's why Orwell is walking Richard alone. @feelsdesperate https://t.co/Ns7I5Tvkj3 @feelsdesperate https://t.co/Ns7I5Tvkj3" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993547081882173737) 2025-11-26T05:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And for our listeners--President Jackson is supposed to have said "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it after the Supreme Court decision in that case. The quote is probably apocryphal. @ScottHe69960638 There's apparently no record of Gen. Frederick Browning saying that famous line other than Ryan's book (I believe it was a quotation after the title page). He appears to have supported the full plan without reservation. It's like Jackson's quote regarding Worcester v. Georgia. https://t.co/v169PXeRxq @ScottHe69960638 There's apparently no record of Gen. Frederick Browning" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993970655537320408) 2025-11-27T09:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Again for our listeners: the newspaper publisher Horace Greeley a mid-19th century superstar is credited with the "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it" line. It came up because the decision was about a southern state's rights vs. federal authority. @ScottHe69960638 I think Greeley reported that line [--] years after the fact. At the time the administration was doing what it could to make the case moot by arranging a pardon of Worcester and the other minister by the GA governor before the case came before the Supreme Court again. @ScottHe69960638 I think Greeley reported" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993975459156205849) 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "That was the central issue of Greeley's era. We still have the phrase with us because it serves a need. We behave every day as if judges have an army and a police force at their command but in fact they have power mainly because we grant it to them" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993975460632608879) 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Accuracy is less important than usefulness for a phrase like this. I wrote about this phenomenon yesterday. When a word or phrase is useful it's "selected for." It fills an empty space in the language and can in the digital age be propagated very rapidly indeed" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993975461848993872) 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Black_Thursday_ I looked this up. The word apparently is "splinter" the CIA according to the NY Times who reported it in [----] in this story. This appears to be the locus classicus for the JFK CIA quote. From tiny acorns do great paranoic oaks grow I guess" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1993989019324277115) 2025-11-27T10:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The fact that he thought we should feel "pity and fear" at the fall of the tragic hero simply because he is a king and better than us is.strange alien not something modern people will feel. If Melville was in conversation with Plato he was in fact talking to a recreation" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1994181108439642163) 2025-11-27T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "He created a mid-19th century version of Plato in his head. Plato did not answer: a mid-19th century fictional Plato answered. It's a conversation but it's also a violation of the original that is inevitable whenever we "converse" with ancient Greeks" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1994181110159245823) 2025-11-27T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I should try to remind myself (I always forget) that we need to do what's being done in the thread below: when we ask "What if" about Vietnam and the early US involvement we need to try to look at it as it appeared to the major actors AT THE TIME. @ScottHe69960638 Tbh I think there was something peculiar about the JFK assassination but unfortunately it's simply become a Rorschach test of a sort that people use for projection purposes. At the time it should be noted that JFK stated that he did not want American combat involvement. @ScottHe69960638 Tbh I think there was something peculiar about" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1994256367092179080) 2025-11-28T04:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I'm presently at [---] probably a little worse after the holiday but that will come off in time. In time; all in good time. Let us not be distracted--let us keep our focus on the femmes. At this rate they will catch me in three years. [--] years ago this was national headline news. In [----] it is even worse: the average American woman now weighs a staggering [---] pounds. https://t.co/8CK4j1gUoj [--] years ago this was national headline news. In [----] it is even worse: the average American woman now weighs a staggering [---] pounds. https://t.co/8CK4j1gUoj" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1994756909711462492) 2025-11-29T13:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "When you get past a certain age you can brag about having been present for historical events. This is one of my less impressive ones. I'm like the Elvenqwest guy in Lord of the Rings (which I never have seen in its entirety) who says "I was there That day [-----] years ago." I remember watching these on the news. Fun times. I remember watching these on the news. Fun times" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995023017752268920) 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "".during the first Reagan Administration--I was THERE." I worked at Toys R Us in Burbank. We never had very many Cabbage Patch dolls in [----]. Retailers were blindsided by this thing and our first question actually was "What ARE these things"" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995023019673260109) 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The ones we got in [----] were bought by employees (and we heard rumors about a black market--but no internet so rumors were hard to confirm). It was a whole year later all the way up in [----] and into [----] that we had scenes like this" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995023020818407425) 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I was working in the video game/computer booth with the easily-stolen stuff that we kept in a cage in the back a cage we called The Cage. We put the Cabbage Patch dolls in the cage because they were easily-stolen too and so for about two years I was the Cabbage Patch guy" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995023022076592234) 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Another charming scene. This looks to me like a Cabbage Patch Preemie which came out the next year and which I recall they had trouble with from an early version of the Thought Police (it trivialized low-birth-weight disorders something like that). Not a problem here. @RetroNewsNow We managed to get one for our daughter in Tokyo back in [----] https://t.co/OdUig8RK4d @RetroNewsNow We managed to get one for our daughter in Tokyo back in [----] https://t.co/OdUig8RK4d" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995026825102450862) 2025-11-30T07:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guyfromsanmateo It's very Eighties. Sears was a classier operation I think. Toys R Us was just near-anarchy. And I didn't get a gold "5" when I passed five years although the stock options did happen in there somewhere" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995056726039830812) 2025-11-30T09:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "As Lieutenant Dunbar says "The strangeness of this life cannot be measured." For my whole life until a couple of years ago I would have regarded this statement as either very-far-left nonsense or conspiracy theory nonsense. Now There is no such thing as a 'war crime'. It's a fiction that was created at Nuremberg to craft a narrative about the war after the fact. When Noam Chomsky asked one of the Nuremberg judges what constituted a war crime the judge replied "whatever they did that we didn't do". There is no such thing as a 'war crime'. It's a fiction that was created at Nuremberg to craft a" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995354492905353591) 2025-12-01T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Now I agree. The more you read about the treatment of Japan by the Army Air Force the more you see the barbarism of it. I don't have an alternative course for them to take and if I had been an Air Force officer I would have done just what they did" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995354494436274659) 2025-12-01T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Even if they did this in the moonscape Tony Soprano drives through on his way home during the opening credits--the industrial death-zone along the New Jersey Turnpike I believe--even then it would be a bad idea. Suggesting that in no location on earth is it a good idea. If this has to happen in NYC at least its happening in downmarket outer borough locales and not in Manhattan. 😮💨 https://t.co/AdDHqZcjoP If this has to happen in NYC at least its happening in downmarket outer borough locales and not in Manhattan. 😮💨 https://t.co/AdDHqZcjoP" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1995724914762944911) 2025-12-02T05:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "More algorithm-courting. We used this image on the cover of Strange Yellowstone. It's a tree in Yellowstone NP that a dendrochronologist I know sampled. He discovered to his surprise that it's [----] years old. It's growing from a crack in a big mass of volcanic rock" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996099728526975303) 2025-12-03T06:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's a juniper a drought-tolerant species and the rock kept it from burning in the inevitable forest fires that will have blown through the area every couple of hundred years" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996099732071170268) 2025-12-03T06:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "An extra soft box. Toys R Us would have been a lot more fun with this fellow on duty in my Cabbage Patch aisle. 📸 johnson.wan.54 https://t.co/G6rrFZ41MK 📸 johnson.wan.54 https://t.co/G6rrFZ41MK" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996123964230496711) 2025-12-03T07:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Humans didn't even have eyeglasses when they made this. Spiral finger ring Hellenistic period 2nd century BC. Museum of Cycladic Art. https://t.co/qytcA0RCd8 Spiral finger ring Hellenistic period 2nd century BC. Museum of Cycladic Art. https://t.co/qytcA0RCd8" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996141582702252396) 2025-12-03T08:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Just north of Yellowstone National Park way up in the hills is the old mining camp of Jardine and above Jardine is the parking lot where everyone parks in the winter to ski. Next to the parking lot is the Jardine cemetery. In a light-snow year you read the tombstones. There's a natural tendency for people to try to one-up each other in every endeavor and that includes declinism/doomerism. I'll consider arguments that the peak of Western civilization was in 1990s or even as far back as [----] but I think saying it was in 1913-14 is ridiculous. There's a natural tendency for people to try to" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996855183364837801) 2025-12-05T08:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine The PR literature during the Vietnam War said that the steam catapults could launch a Cadillac a full mile through the air" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1996897595969704342) 2025-12-05T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "She "is" the spirit of the US breaking free of oppression. It was only later that various .other "meanings" were plastered over her giant green body. At her feet are broken chains the chains of the British Empire. If you wanted to you could see her as an invitation to revolt" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1997809552381866118) 2025-12-07T23:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements ".but to revolt specifically against European empires. She would then be the most leftist thing imaginable an inspiration to people like Ho Chi Minh. The French in giving us this thing did not intend that meaning at all" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1997809553560539426) 2025-12-07T23:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guyfromsanmateo That's Vivek Ramaswamy on stage isn't it It looks like Vivek Ramaswamy" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1998058180056842724) 2025-12-08T15:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "We need a word for this phenomenon: when you stumble across something you haven't seen in decades and it unlocks a flood. I was a senior undergrad when I was flipping channels and saw this exact fragment. I just looked it up. In Search of Troy https://t.co/gvfDpoW3n9 In Search of Troy https://t.co/gvfDpoW3n9" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1998629557843407243) 2025-12-10T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In Search of the Trojan War a BBC series "presented" by Michael Wood. I know I saw this as a rerun on Channel [--] PBS in Los Angeles in [----] because I had a little doodle based on this scene in my notebook for that semester. It's about oral poetry Homer reciting the Iliad" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1998629559428853872) 2025-12-10T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine I remember seeing this as a kind of filler on The Wonderful World of Disney in Los Angeles in about [----]. Is it Disney Looks like it and that explains why I saw it then as a nine year old" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1999591778215952573) 2025-12-12T21:26Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@hw97karbine I've always wondered how reliable and user-friendly those PPSh-41s were. It would be neat if someone here had fired one. The Thompson drum magazines had problems (especially the 50-round version) with jamming fragility weight etc. Did the PPSh-41 drums work better" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1999616063978504528) 2025-12-12T23:03Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@hw97karbine It's an officer's staff car but I am otherwise sadly ignorant. Ferrari Alfa Romeo" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/1999736553929896230) 2025-12-13T07:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "I don't mind being what the Hip Hop kids online call an "oldproon" but the online slang does get past me. I read this as a "real chopped University of North Carolina" and I am only confused. My socials are suggesting Nu Metal Dragon Ball Z edits they know I'm a real chopped Unc My socials are suggesting Nu Metal Dragon Ball Z edits they know I'm a real chopped Unc" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000169890288992538) 2025-12-14T11:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "For '80s kids it's Robotech (Superdimensional Fortress Macross in Japan) and the cheesy melodies of singer and song-stylist Lin Minmay. American animation had fallen on such hard times that Japanese animation--which had not--was a revelation. Epic. I remember as a kid making my dad take me to an FYE store at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton to get Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz on DVD. I still have it today. Epic. I remember as a kid making my dad take me to an FYE store at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton to get Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz on DVD. I still have it today" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000208563248021893) 2025-12-14T14:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Even the repackaged juvenile anime that we got through Harmony Gold's Robotech aired during weekday afternoon cartoons on broadcast TV was mind-blowing. This was an era in which Disney no longer made animated movies--too expensive and they had a bad tendency to bomb" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000208565248700669) 2025-12-14T14:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "All these photos were taken in the vicinity of Gardiner Montana the town on the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Both species are members of the deer family. How do you tell them apart Size and color" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000765070457143793) 2025-12-16T03:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements ".what [--] weeks So a youngster is a turn-of-the-20th-century schoolmarm at age [--] years [--] months but turns into a total hammerhead at age [--] years [--] months And my school is not a party school at all. I can only imagine what the drunkenness is like elsewhere" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000914917839528372) 2025-12-16T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "At Florida State say or Washington State (where they had a Beer Riot when I was a grad student). So how to reconcile with the clear statistics cited here Remember one other Decaying Empire fact of life: statistics have never been more worthless" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2000914919194288492) 2025-12-16T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "More about Yellowstone animals. People arrive not knowing what to expect and when they see a solitary elk in the distance they slam on the brakes thinking this to be an unusual event. It isn't. One place to see them is the town mentioned in my previous tweet Gardiner" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2001197538687197517) 2025-12-17T07:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This is the view out my back window and if you spend the night in Gardiner maybe out your hotel window. Gardiner--which is vying with West Yellowstone Montana for Tackiest Town in the West--is the little burg on the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2001197542613074366) 2025-12-17T07:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The tallest peak is the Grand Teton. The one to the left is the Middle Teton (with the South Teton further to the left and out of view). In front is Teewinot Mountain one of the best names for a mountain I know. All are inside Grand Teton National Park. What you fail to defend the world will take. But what you guard becomes your legacy. https://t.co/R6ivOfrEYF What you fail to defend the world will take. But what you guard becomes your legacy. https://t.co/R6ivOfrEYF" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2001518541095473375) 2025-12-18T05:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "People who live near Yellowstone National Park commonly never go in the park. There are multiple reasons but the two most important are first that the park is surrounded by many millions of acres of national forest so "Yellowstone" is much bigger than just the park. This is probably the answer to overtourism - more charges but the locals get in free. The effects of this policy should start to be reported by late summer. This is probably the answer to overtourism - more charges but the locals get in free. The effects of this policy should start to be reported by late summer" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002251081804362142) 2025-12-20T05:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "When I was a grad student in the 1990s this photo went around as an email joke (the word "viral" was not in everyone's vocabulary yet). The tag line: "Would you buy stock in this company" Today in [----] Microsoft took its first staff photo. https://t.co/CxLQzzJKiD Today in [----] Microsoft took its first staff photo. https://t.co/CxLQzzJKiD" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002257149435797860) 2025-12-20T05:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I have a thing for gas stations. Obviously having worked in one as a 20-something inside Yellowstone National Park has something to do with that but there is more to it a.gas station aesthetic where freedom and escape from the humanoid crowd go together with this: Youve been driving all day its getting dark and you really need gas. You need to piss maybe smoke a cigarette. Its not the prettiest stop but you better take advantage of it now. [--] more miles across South Dakota for the next chance. https://t.co/TR2h1RKWI2 Youve been driving all day its getting dark and you really need gas. You" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002279704364236990) 2025-12-20T07:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Anc_Aesthetics I know nothing about this guy except that he's Vivek's opponent and his name has a terrible significance. Mostly he's not Vivek: https://x.com/CaseyPutsch/status/2002433902523056334 [---] years later this flag has new meaning. Ohio home. America First. Reject Vivek We save our State here and NOW. https://t.co/mCyNcGzBkW https://t.co/bNB2fbtbZi https://x.com/CaseyPutsch/status/2002433902523056334 [---] years later this flag has new meaning. Ohio home. America First. Reject Vivek We save our State here and NOW. https://t.co/mCyNcGzBkW https://t.co/bNB2fbtbZi" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002445795224916426) 2025-12-20T18:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@slipsilv3r Locally sourced fruits suspended in an aspic of emulsified heritage red berries accompanied by an artisanal dairy foam with a cane sugar infusion. (I stole that from Reddit of all places)" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002499813347385538) 2025-12-20T22:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@LegateSilva They just print money now. I'd be willing to take the inflation hit and just print $1.3 billion. The hit won't exactly be crippling" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002818655357481134) 2025-12-21T19:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@verg59803 @adamscrabble Is it revealed to be the final frontier" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002893976249254095) 2025-12-22T00:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Same location as before: the Gallatin National Forest north of Yellowstone National Park--really the middle of nowhere except that if you hike about [--] miles from where I was standing you cross US Route 89" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002916376948998515) 2025-12-22T01:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@LegateSilva When the US was building up forces in Saudi Arabia preparing for the Persian Gulf War I visited an elderly couple who were watching a story about it on CBS News. The tone of the story was "THE WORLD IS ENDING." The couple was terrified--but they could NOT turn it off" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2002926355592446256) 2025-12-22T02:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@curtis_yarvin ACLU NLG attorneys yes but what about PNG (Papua New Guinea)" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2003219599307997267) 2025-12-22T21:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine Hera's sacred geese; they work on Germans same as Gauls" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2003239078654070813) 2025-12-22T22:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@romanhelmetguy The scene after Odysseus slaughters everyone: Matt Damon surveys the carnage and says "Cleanup Aisle 3"" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2003640147615896038) 2025-12-24T01:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The "official" Christmas tree at Mammoth in 2019" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2003921277514613042) 2025-12-24T20:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Did I post this at Thanksgiving I should have but maybe it evaded my attention. Here it is anyway" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2004382369554534440) 2025-12-26T02:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "When the Los Angeles Kings first went to the Stanley Cup Finals all the NHL fans in Los Angeles came out of hiding. Someone (a billionaire a name you'd recognize if I remembered it) said "Before this being into hockey was your secret. It was like being into roller derby." This might be the greatest sports highlight of all time. https://t.co/hV7BCLfmfI This might be the greatest sports highlight of all time. https://t.co/hV7BCLfmfI" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2006989799169855889) 2026-01-02T07:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RodeoProfessor David Quammen wrote about it in a long article in The Atlantic back when the Atlantic was good in [----]. The article is "The Bear Slayer" and it became a chapter in his book Monster of God. You can probably get the article through your university library. Look at it sometime" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2007404437170696542) 2026-01-03T10:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In honor of Toys R Us my longtime employer I should keep an eye on my store cats all year round. These guys would have made the Barbie aisle enormously easier to deal with. https://t.co/2GSixniRn2 https://t.co/2GSixniRn2" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2007863207776628883) 2026-01-04T17:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The vehicle is a [----] Chevrolet Suburban Carryall. I've seen that sticker--that image of Old Faithful is in use in "retro" artwork all the time now and that's a real 19XX sticker. Some family was just driving this thing around North America and I'd like to have been along" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2008017395676250146) 2026-01-05T03:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Of course someone could have found the stickers on eBay and applied them to an old vehicle--but you don't do that to a vehicle like this. One guesses it was parked in a barn in the classic way" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2008017397215584683) 2026-01-05T03:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FistedFoucault That's the band that was playing at The Station nightclub in West Warwick RI on the terrible night of February [--] [----] when the sparklers set the roof on fire. O the irony that a song of such hope should lead to such a tragic outcome" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2008750621340692713) 2026-01-07T04:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "That's an Atari [----] he's playing in the "1980" frame the third one. It's running Space Invaders. This is the most depressing thing I've seen so far this year. Keep up the good work. This is the most depressing thing I've seen so far this year. Keep up the good work" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009145377803653142) 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I handed out about ten thousand of these things--my first job at Toys R Us was in the "security booth" where we kept the video games. I developed a prejudice against them that has served me well ever since" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009145379665924390) 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I don't hate them--but when I've been playing one for more than ten minutes a voice in my head tells me that I'm wasting time. It's very useful. I did get into that security booth in time to experience the video game crash of [----] in the most intimate possible way" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009145381536538713) 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Playing catch-up with older posts: the volcanism of the Azores is up my alley because the Azores is a hotspot. A geologic hotspot is a location on the mantle of the earth that stays put. While the continents and the seafloors move around above them the hotspots don't move. Everyone knows about Darwins theories of evolution from his famous finch work but few know about his contributions to geology and that many of the ideas central to modern oceanic volcanism were thanks to his Beagle expedition in the 1830s. His volcanic work was completed on his https://t.co/Dokmdt8GjH Everyone knows about" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009210289636741504) 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "They remain one of the earth's deeper mysteries literally: we cannot see what is happening underneath a hotspot and instead have to rely on second-hand evidence like earthquake waves. We can track the motion of the earth's tectonic plates in part by hotspots" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009210291419263048) 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "As the tectonic plates (also "crustal plates:" you're sitting on one) move the hotspot keeps erupting and the eruptions draw a line across the plate. We see this in Hawaii where the visible State of Hawaii is merely the youngest of a long line of eruptions" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009210292593738187) 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Azores are another such location number [--] on this map of the earth's hotspots; another still is Greater Yellowstone number [--]. You can see its path in the volcanic badlands of Idaho and elsewhere proving that hotspots do NOT always create a tourist wonderland" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009210294208483371) 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "When I applied for National Park Service jobs for the first and last time in June [----] I was struck by this truth: I stood no chance of landing one of these jobs but would have been a shoo-in if I were a veteran. Amplifying an opportunity for veterans to get into federal wildland firefighting work on our federal public land. Ive had dozens of students over the years go this route and fall in love with the life. Contact on the flyer. https://t.co/AnPyKclhgX Amplifying an opportunity for veterans to get into federal wildland firefighting work on our federal public land. Ive had dozens of" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009219581014110584) 2026-01-08T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "All the skills the application asked for--ability to use a radio experience with firearms experience with firefighting ability to render first-aid etc--were just the kind of skills you learn in the military. I was working in Yellowstone National Park at the time" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009219582695977318) 2026-01-08T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This question causes trouble in Yellowstone National Park. People show up there having heard that the present-day Yellowstone wolves are "different" somehow. They may have heard that the wolves living there before [----] were Canis lupus irremotus. Are Canadian wolves different from US wolves This is a great question and the answer isnt static. We used to treat grey wolves as [--] different subspecies (which means something similar to a dog breed). In recent years weve lumped them into whats called a single taxonomic Are Canadian wolves different from US wolves This is a great question and the" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009607646220058843) 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The conclusion is that the wolves transplanted to Yellowstone from Canada in the 1990s are wrong somehow. I am a layman but have been watching this situation unfold close-up for thirty years now. My thought: wolves are highly mobile more than you can imagine" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009607649164480851) 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Yellowstone wolves have turned up as far away as the Grand Canyon--the one in Arizona. They can furthermore live in just about every environment in North America. When they show up in a new environment they begin to evolve. Literally. They evolve the way Darwin described it" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009607650422788430) 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "A Yellowstone wolf track. The ski is about three inches wide" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009608276946940163) 2026-01-09T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This was maybe [----] and the cars were still in use incredibly as transportation. The roof had also rotted out on both so the interiors were full of leaves and open to the rain" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009804134657208534) 2026-01-10T01:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Twenty years later the past came calling. A car rally rolled into my service station at Old Faithful and one of them a TR3 needed help with a wheel. The spokes were coming apart. It was the only time I ever had to let a customer do all the work on a wheel" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2009804136188162478) 2026-01-10T01:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Here's an unpopular opinion. The theory expressed in this thread is that on the night Ted Kennedy drove his car into the water with Mary Jo Kopechne he needed one of these Amphicars. Obviously it would have helped. But in the end he didn't really need one. @ScottHe69960638 LBJ had an Amphicar. He liked to scare unsuspecting guest passengers by driving straight for the water. https://t.co/FtRzViFmrn @ScottHe69960638 LBJ had an Amphicar. He liked to scare unsuspecting guest passengers by driving straight for the water. https://t.co/FtRzViFmrn" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2010208098003411017) 2026-01-11T04:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@redaction St. Petersburg and Cam Ranh Vietnam. (We need two cities people would recognize and that are outlandishly distant). Tarsus as in "Saul of Tarsus" and Pyongyang" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2010674920347632055) 2026-01-12T11:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "A coin issued by Emperor Hadrian. The animal on the reverse is supposed to be a bear. I thought it was an opossum at first" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2010681358121836767) 2026-01-12T11:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Hey there's another job I had in the 1990s: I ran the cash register and key-board for the valet parking lot at Universal Studios. Yes we charged for what ought to be a free service. We parked the Humvee belonging to Urkel. A strange sight seeing him drive that thing in. https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2010966863983817037) 2026-01-13T06:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RedPilled1788 @zoomergirls__ Red hot" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011050908202012674) 2026-01-13T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "We're going to cover all my old jobs at @CatWorkers -- here's Toys R Us. Station master Mikan inspects his merch. https://t.co/lPTuAloim8 Station master Mikan inspects his merch. https://t.co/lPTuAloim8" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011312593789731198) 2026-01-14T05:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Here's Universal Studios Hollywood. It's actually pretty much in Toluca Lake but that doesn't sound especially impressive. https://x.com/CatWorkers/status/2010819400006348958 https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF https://x.com/CatWorkers/status/2010819400006348958 https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011312595161248107) 2026-01-14T05:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@hw97karbine And that sailor's name Jack Nikko" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011345554950025230) 2026-01-14T07:52Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "The source here is _An Archaeogastric Study on the Basic Food Sources and Their Values Consumed in the Roman Army_ published in [----] in a journal with an odd name Tourism Academic Journal (Turizm Akademik Dergisi in Turkish and maybe not an ideal translation). Roman soldiers and their daily protein intake "A soldiers daily consumption of smoked meats cheeses boiled or fried pork beans and lentils is estimated to be approximately [-----] grams of protein." https://t.co/FQSSoWW80B Roman soldiers and their daily protein intake "A soldiers daily consumption of smoked meats cheeses boiled or fried" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011381509064966209) 2026-01-14T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It does look legitimate. These guys were eating everything in sight--but then they were hiking [--] or [--] miles with what was it [--] pounds on their back and when they got where they were going they didn't rest. They built their new home first" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011381510964650113) 2026-01-14T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And amplifying some more" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011401342896816421) 2026-01-14T11:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "These are all the Grand Canyon the northern one. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone that is. We have more than one of them" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011401345698587065) 2026-01-14T11:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "You can call this Schrdinger's Climate. Climate change simultaneously causes earth to spin both slower and faster. Climate change is therefore a branch of quantum mechanics where outcomes both happen and dont happen depending on which scientist is looking. Climate change simultaneously causes earth to spin both slower and faster. Climate change is therefore a branch of quantum mechanics where outcomes both happen and dont happen depending on which scientist is looking" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011665898894213462) 2026-01-15T05:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "One thing they did was supply wrap parties. It's customary to have a party at the end of a movie production with plenty of alcohol (this was the 1980s; do they still do that). Budweiser would give the production company.let us say [---] cases of beer" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011686940656173239) 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In exchange one bottle of Budweiser was expected to appear in the film with the label toward the camera. We broke up my girlfriend and I before I ever found out if actual money changed hands but it must. Watch Spielberg movies of that era. It's like a Toys R Us exploded" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011686953817948344) 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Carol Anne's room in Poltergeist is like that; money must changed hands in that case. My girlfriend was mainly handling the booze accounts; Jack Daniels was another and again they provided the alcohol for the wrap party and one bottle appeared on screen" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011686955667636242) 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "She and I went to all these gawd-awful 1980s horror movies and scanned the film looking for the product. We had to be attentive because the corporations involved always wanted a report right away and this was the era when movies were in theaters. Slasher films especially" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011686956829458939) 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Do rabbits dream of electric bleep https://t.co/NENgjl0O0l https://t.co/NENgjl0O0l" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011715416830460390) 2026-01-15T08:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Read_Acted An app called Friend In Need. Say you sign up for a social event you find you cannot face. You go but then Friend In Need rings your phone with an emergency that requires you leave right away. You hold the phone so others can hear and the AI voice screams and sobs incoherently" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011754253048828363) 2026-01-15T10:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I like the anvil. I wonder how much. Every workshop needs a cat. 📸 wafflebeaver https://t.co/0zvvit9F6q Every workshop needs a cat. 📸 wafflebeaver https://t.co/0zvvit9F6q" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2011961036874580224) 2026-01-16T00:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It was a stupid thing to do because the trail is five miles long (believe it or not it starts at the Mammoth Hot Springs junkyard). It was long enough that the weather turned and the sky opened up. The earth there is glacial debris held together by a kind of silt" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012066661629903033) 2026-01-16T07:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The silt turns into lube grease when wet. The photo above--that's as close as we got to the fall we were hiking toward Undine Falls an easy stop on the highway not so easy for us. A mile into the return trip and we were carrying what cross-country skiers call "stilts."" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012066664997920891) 2026-01-16T07:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I thought I recognized the date. The night of January 16-17 [----] I was probably drunk. I was working in Death Valley at the hotel complex at Furnace Creek and it was not a happy life. But it got interesting the next day when I got up stumbled to the employee cafeteria" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012373474002501972) 2026-01-17T03:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "In my little Gulf War memoir below I note how I was completely fooled by the news media. They told me that the awesome Iraqis would defeat or at least brutalize the pathetic US military. It was propaganda and it was silly.but I believed it. https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012373474002501972 I thought I recognized the date. The night of January 16-17 [----] I was probably drunk. I was working in Death Valley at the hotel complex at Furnace Creek and it was not a happy life. But it got interesting the next day when I got up stumbled to the employee cafeteria. https://t.co/LKqtATdrAV" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012377944048505073) 2026-01-17T04:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I quit that Death Valley job when the ground war was about to begin because it was impossible to follow in the desert. I went home to Burbank and moved into a room in my mom's house a room with a TV. On the night after what I realize now was the Battle of [--] Easting" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012377945780707667) 2026-01-17T04:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Referring again to that style at the bottom: they put up a bunch in Bozeman Montana over the last ten years or so and during a shopping trip there last summer my mom noticed something about them: they absolutely never plant trees on the property. https://t.co/dq8UJcyK5j https://t.co/dq8UJcyK5j" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012385949616144427) 2026-01-17T04:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "To be sure things aren't so pretty up in the national forests around the park. This might be too inside baseball but during the Biden admin there emerged a cottage industry of consultants (NGOs) whod be paid huge sums of money to give sensitive cultural information to redo these signs in multiple languages. The process took years it was exactly This might be too inside baseball but during the Biden admin there emerged a cottage industry of consultants (NGOs) whod be paid huge sums of money to give sensitive cultural information to redo these signs in multiple languages. The process took years" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012480334194217346) 2026-01-17T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I think I took these photos because the artist pressed to depict a 4-wheel-drive vehicle chose the Willys Jeep of the Second World War. Apparently there were no ATVs in his world" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012480337633329253) 2026-01-17T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Checking in on Goma-chan and she is flat. I repeat Goma-chan is flat 🐰💕 # https://t.co/BuBX9iBHTQ 🐰💕 # https://t.co/BuBX9iBHTQ" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012748052252279275) 2026-01-18T04:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Movie screenplay idea: having taken control of Greenland the Trump administration sends a scientific survey--which discovers a lost colony of Vikings uncontacted since the 13th century. Plot complication: the Vikings regard the scientists as demons. Why is Greenland Danish Turns out it was about converting its inhabitants away from Catholicism. He figured what if there was a lost world of medieval Viking colonists dwelling somewhere in Greenland But most importantly if these Norsemenstill existed they were probably Why is Greenland Danish Turns out it was about converting its inhabitants away" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013080982287417763) 2026-01-19T02:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I am sure the present nightmare ordeal is no longer necessary and is there just as a job program. Think about it: is a gang of [--] or [--] Arab guys ever going to succeed in hijacking an airliner with box cutters ever again.or whatever it was they had that day" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013084375202619744) 2026-01-19T03:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "There are a million better things we could be doing. We are now in year six of Trump. Why has no one had this idea For one thing it would never occur to Trump himself. Has he ever flown commercial in his entire life He may never have even once. He has no idea what it is like" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013084376637067467) 2026-01-19T03:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The toy industry term for items like the one this fellow knocks around is "plush." It's not the "stuffed animals aisle" it's "plush." When you get a bunch of it in one place it wants to burn; even in this day and age the stuff is incredibly flammable. Ah this post is really nice I think Ill look at it- Automatic timeline refresh: https://t.co/q8o4QmwTwE Ah this post is really nice I think Ill look at it- Automatic timeline refresh: https://t.co/q8o4QmwTwE" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013086843487551945) 2026-01-19T03:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I realized looking at this that most people don't live in this environment and that I could add something by explaining. When you see a bunch of authors like this for a piece of "science" this vague-minded and unsubstantial what you're seeing is a small-scale jobs program. Look at this preposterous pile on of authors. Unless they can show what maybe one lady gave a hurried birth because she was being chased by a wildfire it's all nonsense. https://t.co/HXxXSQHkG4 Look at this preposterous pile on of authors. Unless they can show what maybe one lady gave a hurried birth because she was being" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013153647820210369) 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Let's say you're the lead author on in an affair like this. You get a call from a friend who is about to lose her job at Dismal Seepage State University but might keep it if she had more publications. Adding her to your study as an "author" costs you nothing that I know of" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013153649388835069) 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "So you do it. Maybe she helps with the proofreading or something like that. Maybe not. Hence we have a kind of "author inflation" in academic life. When you see forty-two authors as here--that's what I counted--they might or might not be "authoring" anything" [X Link](https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2013153650735009840) 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@ScottHe69960638 Scott Herring
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"They're worried about Covid too which tends to hurt their claims about CWD. They don't understand that. But CWD partakes of science fiction. It's a prion disease; it's caused by misfolded proteins that because they aren't alive can't be killed"
X Link 2025-08-21T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Look up "kuru" (add "New Guinea" to the search if necessary) and prepare to be weirded out. CWD is similar to kuru. People--again in my limited social circle--are not capable of thinking rationally about it. It may be that no one is"
X Link 2025-08-21T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Did they maybe use things like this to organize a library No books: a library was a collection of scrolls. Were the scrolls stacked with the dual bust as a support to keep them from rolling off the shelf en masse Presumably this is the "S" part of the library. Seneca and Socrates back to back Roman 3rd century AD Neues Museum. https://t.co/VlEXvkamqL Seneca and Socrates back to back Roman 3rd century AD Neues Museum. https://t.co/VlEXvkamqL"
X Link 2025-08-22T00:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The city is its own restraining device. It keeps emotions blunted and tamped and pounded down to a level at which the carnage can never (or rarely) break out--everyone is too stunned to feel the outrage they ought to. I don't think this is even controversial. Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres unspeakable carnage a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death - Cioran Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size I marvel that riots do not break out everyday:"
X Link 2025-08-25T03:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's just the way the city has always been--Babylon and Carthage and Rome too. New York City especially Manhattan is striking this way. The chief effect I feel visiting there is claustrophobia. It's a plush interesting entertaining.maximum security prison"
X Link 2025-08-25T03:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Let's talk more about books you discover when you are young which is what I was really talking about in the post quoted below. An interesting kind of book--actually a special kind amazing life-altering riveting--is the one that you read at the perfect moment. This is a post that went viral today. To clarify what he's talking about is single experiences that ruined your life for a long time. In his case it was films from the 1990s that depicted bourgeois life as oppressive. I'm talking about books here though so. This is a post that went viral today. To clarify what he's talking about is"
X Link 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It is the book you discover during the exact year in your life when it makes the greatest impact; one year earlier one year later and it would not be such dynamite. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas which I read when I was turning [--] was a book of that kind"
X Link 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The effect it had was horrible really catastrophic--but it didn't feel that way at the time. I read On the Road by Jack Kerouac at 19: add another year and I could not have taken it seriously but [--] was perfect. Others: The Magus by John Fowles age [--] perfect"
X Link 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut [--] perfect. The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain [--]. Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey [--]. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee [--]. Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell [--]. Moby Dick Herman Melville 35"
X Link 2025-08-25T04:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"One thing I've been telling my students is that your generation (Zoomers) is going to have to think way the hell outside the box where job career and general life plans are concerned. That crazy ambition you have to move to Guam to do whatever is not as crazy as you think"
X Link 2025-08-28T05:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I'm traveling in Yellowstone and so perked up when I saw this. The Bombardier snowcoaches in the video are of an earlier type. The hotel concessionaire here was still using Bombardiers until relatively recently. Here are the old-style coaches on their last trip [----]. Bombardier B12 snowcats on a wolf-hunting trip in the early 1950s https://t.co/5Os1BR8QMM Bombardier B12 snowcats on a wolf-hunting trip in the early 1950s https://t.co/5Os1BR8QMM"
X Link 2025-08-31T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And here is a parody of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man done by some of the last of the old-time Bombardier pilots: Snowcoach Man"
X Link 2025-08-31T04:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This is all very goodthinkful. Grades are high because the students evaluate the professors. The other misbehavior also comes from the students being in charge. Its no coincidence that as grades have gone up civic friendship between people with different views and backgrounds has gone down both on campuses and in the nation at large. Students are so confident in their beliefs that they verbally assault professors and guest lecturers https://t.co/VhUlVkIYdp Its no coincidence that as grades have gone up civic friendship between people with different views and backgrounds has gone down both on"
X Link 2025-09-02T04:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Expecting "civic friendship" when the students are in charge and their fees are required to keep the business afloat is similarly goodthinkful. Building a sane university would require Western Roman Empire-style collapse. At some point in the reclamation period to follow maybe"
X Link 2025-09-02T04:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FamedCelebrity On the summit of Bunsen Peak in Yellowstone National Park the rangers keep a logbook. Ferociously demanding chipmunks hang out there and demand a constant flow of treats and people draw pictures of them in the logbook. This has been going on for many chipmunk generations"
X Link 2025-09-03T01:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"6. I listened to Rush for thirty years. I remember. His attitude toward the environment was that it was a resource dump. His attitude toward corporations and "capitalists" was that they need to be allowed to do whatever they want. That ethic has been a catastrophe"
X Link 2025-09-09T02:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"7. It led to psychopath billionaires shredding the constitution. George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg are "capitalists" and they are not your friends. The only reason Trump is back in power is that the billionaires were frightened by the way the wheels were coming off the clown car"
X Link 2025-09-09T02:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"2. SFGate calls it an "eco-style resort project a collection of deluxe cabins set across [---] acres with access to amenities such as an outdoor movie theater pool and hot tubs. It has been hailed as an economic and tourism engine for the area east of the city of Joshua Tree.""
X Link 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"3. Liberals I have talked to like it because it's "sustainable." They also look forward to staying in this dump. This is why I say (I'm hardly the only one) that liberals don't actually care about the environment any longer. Let's look at the Ofland Resort a little more"
X Link 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"5. What it is really is just slop the architectural equivalent of a student essay written with ChatGPT. If these were house-trailers (there are plenty nearby inhabited by the families of young Marines) the clientele would be sneering their faces off"
X Link 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"6. I tend to think actually that the architecture is intended to be ironic at some level. But note the solar panels. Note that Joshua Tree right across the hill from Los Angeles is a New Age destination. Liberals are the intended customers"
X Link 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"7. This is Ofland's other resort in Utah. It's not for Mormons. SFGate says it's near "Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks." It "has earned praise from the Washington Post Architectural Digest and theNY Times mostly for its stylish look and easy access to parkland.""
X Link 2025-09-09T03:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine "Oh you the song the girl's song / You fly out trailing the bright sun / And to a soldier at a distant border / Send him cheers from Katyusha.""
X Link 2025-09-10T07:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@UltimaWolf9 @Anc_Aesthetics That was the job I had in the 1980s. I was a "General Retail Assistant." At Toys R Us. I put Barbie dolls on the shelves. It was fun and in fact I would have put it on my profile if Xwitter had existed because I was such a loser. I mean I was beyond pathetic"
X Link 2025-09-11T00:42Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"A little rabbit education for you. Two features serve to identify her as female. First the roll of fur and flesh under her chin the dewlap is female. Second the digging behavior which they seem to do just recreationally but which serves them well when the little ones come"
X Link 2025-09-13T06:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"No it's that you're not a politician. Someone on X recommended though that we stick Netanyahu in a cowboy hat and make him pray to the side of Bass Pro Shops. That was thoughtful"
X Link 2025-09-20T03:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine I found it disconcerting when Samuel Eliot Morison in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II referred to "the development of the LSD" as a weapon of amphibious warfare. Turns out its a ship (Landing Ship Dock). They're not a trippy as I thought"
X Link 2025-09-24T07:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The bear was like Robin Hood or the Viet Cong. He was everywhere and nowhere. He ignored the traps the wardens put out and seemed even to know what they were. His scat (the photos) had garbage in them. He broke into a coffee kiosk. I never found out if he consumed any coffee"
X Link 2025-10-10T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In the end the wardens caught up with him and shot him; they honestly seemed to have no choice. On the local Facebook page someone wrote that he was "murdered by Gardiner." There's another political symptom: in Los Angeles I would say that person is an animals rights leftist"
X Link 2025-10-10T06:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine And so they gradually destroyed themselves. The best US pilots rotated home to train others often over their objections. The best Axis pilots stayed in combat until they were dead"
X Link 2025-10-11T11:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"1. William Briggs may be interested @FamedCelebrity. Is it right for me to rain on their parade The Bronze Age Pervert coterie is having fun--I should let them right I can't. There is no connection between the full moon and human behavior. None at all. Do this: Full moons make people crazy lunatics stocks pump car accidents increase rash behaviors rituals times of cleanse and purging Full moons make people crazy lunatics stocks pump car accidents increase rash behaviors rituals times of cleanse and purging"
X Link 2025-10-14T11:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Here's the North American equivalent (my brother's photo--he has professional equipment and the skill to use it). A herd of wild European Bisons wandering through primeval Biaowiea Forest (NE Poland). https://t.co/tY96uHZMHx A herd of wild European Bisons wandering through primeval Biaowiea Forest (NE Poland). https://t.co/tY96uHZMHx"
X Link 2025-10-17T03:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Taken in the Gardner River canyon in Yellowstone National Park in [----] AD but it could have been [----] BC or any time long before that. This is a bull bison [----] pounds of very bad attitude. They injure people every year and the injuries are astounding. Bison have been roaming North America for over [------] years. Some of their oldest fossils have been found in the crystal clear springs and sinkholes of Florida with bison fossil hotspots along the Wacissa and Aucilla Rivers. https://t.co/VH3XM60Tzu Bison have been roaming North America for over [------] years. Some of their oldest fossils have"
X Link 2025-10-14T10:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@hw97karbine They remind me of the Bombardier snowcoaches we used to have in Yellowstone in the winter"
X Link 2025-10-17T11:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"And another challenge: without summoning any help what do the four photographs depict The autumn-scene-with-fly-fisherman is tough but I think I've got it. We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed River in the lower [--] (700 mi) with a volcanic hotspot at its headwaters. The volcanic https://t.co/fyjsgR2Xev We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The"
X Link 2025-10-17T20:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I should follow up on my challenge. The images clockwise from the fish: a Yellowstone cutthroat Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Basin the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley (or the Lamar) and Pilot Peak. We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the most interesting volcanic ecology is found in Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed River in the lower [--] (700 mi) with a volcanic hotspot at its headwaters. The volcanic https://t.co/fyjsgR2Xev We usually think of Hawaii when we think of volcanoes but I tell my students the"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine DDT Germany had access to it from the original developer the chemical company Geigy in Switzerland. The US manufactured it under license and the forces in places like New Guinea and the Philippines used it a LOT once they were able to"
X Link 2025-10-20T10:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Orwell I should note was a socialist. That's hard to tell from his two most famous books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (spell it out as words: he intended the title be spelled out not written "1984"). Nevertheless "democratic socialist" is about right"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's hard to describe his exact political position but it would be approximately the kind of socialism that evolved in Europe after the Second World War. He wanted to abolish public schools for instance. He fought with the anarchists during the Spanish Civil War"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Right wing Americans read Nineteen Eighty-Four and think he's on their side.but not quite"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"My Bible when I was a teenager: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are certain books that you find at exactly the right time in life that mesh with every aspect of your being. This was mine and it was incredibly destructive. Fear and Loathing illustrated. @walterkirn https://t.co/PhqK54nQfc Fear and Loathing illustrated. @walterkirn https://t.co/PhqK54nQfc"
X Link 2025-10-24T05:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@lizaadamczewski (Coming late to this but here it is anyway a modified illustration from my forthcoming book). A raven at Tower Junction Yellowstone National Park"
X Link 2025-10-24T14:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@St2station The first time in many years that I've read an entire article (most of it anyway) in the Wall Street Journal. Thank you for the public service"
X Link 2025-10-25T17:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I care less and less about people's political opinions. They're lame. This one is a fine example. The poor are enormously overweight--it's the distinctive fact about them. They need the opposite of food antimatter food negative food mirror-universe food.or a diet maybe. Best TED Talk ever. https://t.co/Ytpej8ulV1 Best TED Talk ever. https://t.co/Ytpej8ulV1"
X Link 2025-10-28T04:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Nor do they need food in Africa. This is a chart of historical famines. The ones you remember in Biafra Bangladesh Ethiopia Somalia were part of a final wave in the 1970s-90s. Everyone everywhere needs to update their political opinions and they're not interested in doing so"
X Link 2025-10-28T04:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RodeoProfessor In my new Yellowstone book I have a section on CWD. I have elk and mule deer on my lawn in Gardiner (the north entrance to Yellowstone NP). They're never not in the area. As you know we have ungulates coming out of our ears and I never see sick animals"
X Link 2025-10-30T08:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RodeoProfessor I don't see how the prions can fail to be moving through the Greater Yellowstone herds. They get together on that refuge in Jackson Hole and slobber all over each other.and I wish someone could tell me what's really going on. How now mad cow (this is my backyard)"
X Link 2025-10-30T08:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jonathanfired We must redouble our efforts. Anyone who opposes us is racist against the earth"
X Link 2025-10-30T10:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Wrath of Gnon is a traditionalist account filled with praise for the Middle Ages. The post below fits the theme that the traditional natural earthy past is the best. The walls of this hotel are adobe so of the earth earthy. Here's the problem: A [----] Portuguese resort hotel Vale Palheiro Earth Resort in Aljezur. All buildings are rammed earth. https://t.co/o6CxEefKd8 A [----] Portuguese resort hotel Vale Palheiro Earth Resort in Aljezur. All buildings are rammed earth. https://t.co/o6CxEefKd8"
X Link 2025-10-31T09:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"1. My son and I had a rule visiting Yellowstone: if we crossed a river on a footbridge we couldn't go all the way until we saw a fish. There are so many fish in Yellowstone that we had no problem. Until we were going home and should have been on our way to the airport already. They hate to see a fatty trout rippin heaters They hate to see a fatty trout rippin heaters"
X Link 2025-10-31T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"2. We crossed the Firehole after seeing a fish and made a last-minute tour of Biscuit Basin. We found a little girl's barrette on the boardwalk. We picked it up and carried it back to throw out so that it didn't end up in a hot spring. Halfway across the river we got stuck"
X Link 2025-10-31T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JDVance While everyone else is spazzing over the religious issues herein I have the English professor's take. The first sentence of the last paragraph mistakes "reek" smell strongly for "wreak" a verb usually used with "havoc." It tells me two things: What a disgusting comment and it's hardly been the only one along these lines. First off the question was from a person seemingly to my left about my interfaith marriage. I'm a public figure and people are curious and I wasn't going to avoid the question. Second my What a disgusting comment and it's hardly been the only one along these lines."
X Link 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"One these are the thoughts of a human not AI--minor mistakes will in the future be a blessed mark of human-ness (a computer would have caught the error). Two he may have been dictating to a 20-something assistant who did not know the difference"
X Link 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's the kind of mistake undergrads make all the time another mark of the claps of civilization"
X Link 2025-11-01T08:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Everyone here in Los Angeles Dodgers country sends it's thanks to Japan for helping give our team a world championship. Arigat 70-1.0 70-1.0 [--] thank you for the support 70-1.0 70-1.0 [--] thank you for the support"
X Link 2025-11-02T05:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@kazuaki_kishida Everyone here in Los Angeles Dodgers country sends it's thanks to Japan for helping give our team a world championship. Arigat"
X Link 2025-11-02T05:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I managed to establish myself as a writer against all odds but I'm not trying to live doing that and nothing but. Around [----] I made just barely enough to live on as a freelance writer (although that was a different world: the financial crisis wiped out all those jobs). The neighborhoods where Mamdani won arent the working-class strongholds of the twentieth century. Theyre something newer stranger: enclaves of educated precarity. These are not blue-collar districts where people punch clocks and belong to unions. Theyre zones of The neighborhoods where Mamdani won arent the working-class"
X Link 2025-11-06T03:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"An adapted raven. He/she hung out all winter at Tower Junction in Yellowstone National Park. Ravens are so common that we treat them like pigeons or rats and they don't deserve it. For one thing they are natives. https://t.co/qpg8P9SlG0 https://t.co/qpg8P9SlG0"
X Link 2025-11-06T05:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FistedFoucault The answer to your question is No. No one in Iowa knows anything about Romania or Hungary unless they're from there. They might have a vague memory of the Solidarity movement in Poland but that was a labor union and you also have to be [--] to know about it"
X Link 2025-11-08T01:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"A fun juxtaposition (if you're into that kind of thing) happened on @FischerKing64. He had this repost from @Anc_Aesthetics lamenting the lack of support on the right for its own foot-soldiers. And RIGHT below was this: The biggest weakness of MAGA is we have no patronage system. Our guys make money with X monetization and small dollar donations from supporters thats it. Its frankly pathetic that [--] years later some of the biggest MAGA voices are in the wilderness with zero support. This is The biggest weakness of MAGA is we have no patronage system. Our guys make money with X monetization"
X Link 2025-11-08T02:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Here is the patronage system for the GOP. They are filled with sympathy for any reptilian creature on Wall Street who gets in trouble and their purses are always open for that sort"
X Link 2025-11-08T02:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"You joke but this is how the first settlers to the upper Yellowstone valley lived. Near the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park is a 10'x12' pit lined by rocks. It had some kind of roof but that was the first residence of the first homesteader family. https://t.co/9JrX2khzTR https://t.co/9JrX2khzTR"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FistedFoucault The Celine Dion/Marcel Dionne connection--terrifying. (He was our hero in Los Angeles during the excitement-free period of the 1980s)"
X Link 2025-11-08T23:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"INCREDIBLE The ASTONISHING COWARDICE of the kids who write this stuff up for Yahoo News. A bobcat is about the size of a cat-cat--a tomcat let us say the kind howling at another tomcat outside your house right now. They are not dangerous at all"
X Link 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I am torn. I like it when people are afraid of wildlife. The more afraid they are the further away they will stay from the national parks or any outdoor area. On the other hand we want these areas to have a fan-base. It is fun to see them shiver at least"
X Link 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And the abject wretchedness of Reddit is always funny"
X Link 2025-11-09T09:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Empty_America Yellowstone National Park July [----]. She had two years to live"
X Link 2025-11-09T10:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Midcentury modern architecture again. This is the inspiration behind Mission [--] architecture in the national parks the big project launched under Pres. Eisenhower in [----] to upgrade park infrastructure by the time of the 50th anniversary of the Park Service in [----]. It's really unusual to see more than one MCM building near each other. Oral Roberts University appears to have at least a dozen. It's really unusual to see more than one MCM building near each other. Oral Roberts University appears to have at least a dozen"
X Link 2025-11-12T10:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Elk do this especially the cows: Cervus canadensis Rocky Mountain elk the ones who make a nuisance of themselves in Yellowstone National Park and environs. That's the only other place I've heard chirping quite like this. https://t.co/IJJMjrBMhC https://t.co/IJJMjrBMhC"
X Link 2025-11-15T17:30Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"He's right. I wrote the book on at least part of this (two books Yellowstone's Lost Legend and Rough Trip through Yellowstone). This episode by the way demonstrates among other things the ultimate defectiveness of libertarianism. Libertarian anarchy destroyed the bison herds. One of the most important things America ever did in the field of conservation was recover the bison back from the brink of extinction but people who want you to hate your country and yourself never tell the second half of that story. We established the worlds first National One of the most important things America ever"
X Link 2025-11-16T03:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It required law enforcement (the Lacey Act specifically) to reverse the damage and the far-sighted work of men like Roosevelt George Bird Grinnell and Our Man in Yellowstone Billy Hofer"
X Link 2025-11-16T03:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In Gardiner on the North Entrance to Yellowstone the elk just take over the athletic field. The scene filmed here would be followed by [--] cows just walking all over the place. In the winter it's the bison. They take over the town park first then the athletic field. Defensive pass interference half the distance to the goal automatic first down Defensive pass interference half the distance to the goal automatic first down"
X Link 2025-11-16T03:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"They're the [---] pound gorilla when they do and when they're through with the field it's unusable with bison flops. It's an amazing spectacle. Seen from a distance the buffalo chips dark against the light-brown grass make the gridiron look like a World War I battlefield"
X Link 2025-11-16T03:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I probably shouldn't have used the word "libertarian." What we had in Montana in the 1880s was just anarchic violence: no government at all almost and 21st century libertarian isn't quite the same. The railroad subsidies--the railroads period--made a disastrous situation worse. @ScottHe69960638 May I play devil's advocate here perhaps in part even though I'm not a libertarian Did government railroad subsidies accelerate the destruction of the buffalo herds in the West in some way I'm asking in good faith. @ScottHe69960638 May I play devil's advocate here perhaps in part even though I'm not a"
X Link 2025-11-16T04:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Although--and a 19th century person would make this point right away--the railroad also ultimately brought the solution in the form of men who established a sane management regime. It brought that is civilization: that's how that 19th century person would put it"
X Link 2025-11-16T04:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine In the Pacific there was an incident in which a Japanese destroyer was under attack by B-17s and did not evade because "they always miss." The ship was hit and went straight to the bottom but the officer in charge was philosophical said something like "Who would've thunk it""
X Link 2025-11-17T05:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How about stickers I'll put stickers on the covers of my books stickers that say "ChatGPT FREE." Put that in the center of a circle and around the circle in smaller print write "No artificial intelligence was used in the creation of this book.""
X Link 2025-11-20T12:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"We're in full postwar bloom and everyone has a car and everyone wants to take it to Yellowstone in the summer. The railroad passenger statistics were falling daily. In that environment there was eventually no matter what going to be a great deal of paving going on"
X Link 2025-11-22T03:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The result looked just like Los Angeles International Airport. Lots of people hated it right away but today it's old enough to be charming"
X Link 2025-11-22T03:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This happens in small-town Montana with some regularity or at least it happens in Gardiner. In fact this is nothing by Gardiner standards. The local boomers know what they've got and when they sell it for $3 million the capitalist who bought it puts in a tenement. Everyone hates the HOA until the Super [--] Roach Motel gets built next door. Everyone hates the HOA until the Super [--] Roach Motel gets built next door"
X Link 2025-11-22T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And Yellowstone National Park is close enough to the tenement to hit with a softball thrown from the tenement roof"
X Link 2025-11-22T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Nor were they quiet about it. The "the veterans were spit on when they came home" comes from TV shows. I remember an episode of Lou Grant from about [----] in which a character said something like "They spit on me and called me a 'Baby burner'""
X Link 2025-11-25T08:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"That last phrase doesn't even sound like American English. The myth were established by the TV shows which I suppose people now remember as something that actually happened"
X Link 2025-11-25T08:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I like it but.what the hell is it How did I not know about this incredible all-in-one from the '70s before Look at it It probably sounds like garbage but look at it Search the web for 'Rosita Commander Luxus' to see more including videos of it in operation. How did I not know about this incredible all-in-one from the '70s before Look at it It probably sounds like garbage but look at it Search the web for 'Rosita Commander Luxus' to see more including videos of it in operation"
X Link 2025-11-25T09:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FamedCelebrity It's the smell. A lot of the scientists at my campus haven't been in the shower all week. They've been in the lab yes--they're good scientists--but it hits you hard"
X Link 2025-11-25T10:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Few people will know the story behind the photograph. That's Orwell's adopted son Richard; he and his wife adopted him as a baby. Orwell's wife died (in surgery in what sounds like an anesthesia accident to me) and that's why Orwell is walking Richard alone. @feelsdesperate https://t.co/Ns7I5Tvkj3 @feelsdesperate https://t.co/Ns7I5Tvkj3"
X Link 2025-11-26T05:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And for our listeners--President Jackson is supposed to have said "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it after the Supreme Court decision in that case. The quote is probably apocryphal. @ScottHe69960638 There's apparently no record of Gen. Frederick Browning saying that famous line other than Ryan's book (I believe it was a quotation after the title page). He appears to have supported the full plan without reservation. It's like Jackson's quote regarding Worcester v. Georgia. https://t.co/v169PXeRxq @ScottHe69960638 There's apparently no record of Gen. Frederick Browning"
X Link 2025-11-27T09:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Again for our listeners: the newspaper publisher Horace Greeley a mid-19th century superstar is credited with the "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it" line. It came up because the decision was about a southern state's rights vs. federal authority. @ScottHe69960638 I think Greeley reported that line [--] years after the fact. At the time the administration was doing what it could to make the case moot by arranging a pardon of Worcester and the other minister by the GA governor before the case came before the Supreme Court again. @ScottHe69960638 I think Greeley reported"
X Link 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"That was the central issue of Greeley's era. We still have the phrase with us because it serves a need. We behave every day as if judges have an army and a police force at their command but in fact they have power mainly because we grant it to them"
X Link 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Accuracy is less important than usefulness for a phrase like this. I wrote about this phenomenon yesterday. When a word or phrase is useful it's "selected for." It fills an empty space in the language and can in the digital age be propagated very rapidly indeed"
X Link 2025-11-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Black_Thursday_ I looked this up. The word apparently is "splinter" the CIA according to the NY Times who reported it in [----] in this story. This appears to be the locus classicus for the JFK CIA quote. From tiny acorns do great paranoic oaks grow I guess"
X Link 2025-11-27T10:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The fact that he thought we should feel "pity and fear" at the fall of the tragic hero simply because he is a king and better than us is.strange alien not something modern people will feel. If Melville was in conversation with Plato he was in fact talking to a recreation"
X Link 2025-11-27T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"He created a mid-19th century version of Plato in his head. Plato did not answer: a mid-19th century fictional Plato answered. It's a conversation but it's also a violation of the original that is inevitable whenever we "converse" with ancient Greeks"
X Link 2025-11-27T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I should try to remind myself (I always forget) that we need to do what's being done in the thread below: when we ask "What if" about Vietnam and the early US involvement we need to try to look at it as it appeared to the major actors AT THE TIME. @ScottHe69960638 Tbh I think there was something peculiar about the JFK assassination but unfortunately it's simply become a Rorschach test of a sort that people use for projection purposes. At the time it should be noted that JFK stated that he did not want American combat involvement. @ScottHe69960638 Tbh I think there was something peculiar about"
X Link 2025-11-28T04:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I'm presently at [---] probably a little worse after the holiday but that will come off in time. In time; all in good time. Let us not be distracted--let us keep our focus on the femmes. At this rate they will catch me in three years. [--] years ago this was national headline news. In [----] it is even worse: the average American woman now weighs a staggering [---] pounds. https://t.co/8CK4j1gUoj [--] years ago this was national headline news. In [----] it is even worse: the average American woman now weighs a staggering [---] pounds. https://t.co/8CK4j1gUoj"
X Link 2025-11-29T13:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"When you get past a certain age you can brag about having been present for historical events. This is one of my less impressive ones. I'm like the Elvenqwest guy in Lord of the Rings (which I never have seen in its entirety) who says "I was there That day [-----] years ago." I remember watching these on the news. Fun times. I remember watching these on the news. Fun times"
X Link 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"".during the first Reagan Administration--I was THERE." I worked at Toys R Us in Burbank. We never had very many Cabbage Patch dolls in [----]. Retailers were blindsided by this thing and our first question actually was "What ARE these things""
X Link 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The ones we got in [----] were bought by employees (and we heard rumors about a black market--but no internet so rumors were hard to confirm). It was a whole year later all the way up in [----] and into [----] that we had scenes like this"
X Link 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I was working in the video game/computer booth with the easily-stolen stuff that we kept in a cage in the back a cage we called The Cage. We put the Cabbage Patch dolls in the cage because they were easily-stolen too and so for about two years I was the Cabbage Patch guy"
X Link 2025-11-30T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Another charming scene. This looks to me like a Cabbage Patch Preemie which came out the next year and which I recall they had trouble with from an early version of the Thought Police (it trivialized low-birth-weight disorders something like that). Not a problem here. @RetroNewsNow We managed to get one for our daughter in Tokyo back in [----] https://t.co/OdUig8RK4d @RetroNewsNow We managed to get one for our daughter in Tokyo back in [----] https://t.co/OdUig8RK4d"
X Link 2025-11-30T07:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guyfromsanmateo It's very Eighties. Sears was a classier operation I think. Toys R Us was just near-anarchy. And I didn't get a gold "5" when I passed five years although the stock options did happen in there somewhere"
X Link 2025-11-30T09:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"As Lieutenant Dunbar says "The strangeness of this life cannot be measured." For my whole life until a couple of years ago I would have regarded this statement as either very-far-left nonsense or conspiracy theory nonsense. Now There is no such thing as a 'war crime'. It's a fiction that was created at Nuremberg to craft a narrative about the war after the fact. When Noam Chomsky asked one of the Nuremberg judges what constituted a war crime the judge replied "whatever they did that we didn't do". There is no such thing as a 'war crime'. It's a fiction that was created at Nuremberg to craft a"
X Link 2025-12-01T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Now I agree. The more you read about the treatment of Japan by the Army Air Force the more you see the barbarism of it. I don't have an alternative course for them to take and if I had been an Air Force officer I would have done just what they did"
X Link 2025-12-01T04:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Even if they did this in the moonscape Tony Soprano drives through on his way home during the opening credits--the industrial death-zone along the New Jersey Turnpike I believe--even then it would be a bad idea. Suggesting that in no location on earth is it a good idea. If this has to happen in NYC at least its happening in downmarket outer borough locales and not in Manhattan. 😮💨 https://t.co/AdDHqZcjoP If this has to happen in NYC at least its happening in downmarket outer borough locales and not in Manhattan. 😮💨 https://t.co/AdDHqZcjoP"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"More algorithm-courting. We used this image on the cover of Strange Yellowstone. It's a tree in Yellowstone NP that a dendrochronologist I know sampled. He discovered to his surprise that it's [----] years old. It's growing from a crack in a big mass of volcanic rock"
X Link 2025-12-03T06:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's a juniper a drought-tolerant species and the rock kept it from burning in the inevitable forest fires that will have blown through the area every couple of hundred years"
X Link 2025-12-03T06:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"An extra soft box. Toys R Us would have been a lot more fun with this fellow on duty in my Cabbage Patch aisle. 📸 johnson.wan.54 https://t.co/G6rrFZ41MK 📸 johnson.wan.54 https://t.co/G6rrFZ41MK"
X Link 2025-12-03T07:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Humans didn't even have eyeglasses when they made this. Spiral finger ring Hellenistic period 2nd century BC. Museum of Cycladic Art. https://t.co/qytcA0RCd8 Spiral finger ring Hellenistic period 2nd century BC. Museum of Cycladic Art. https://t.co/qytcA0RCd8"
X Link 2025-12-03T08:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Just north of Yellowstone National Park way up in the hills is the old mining camp of Jardine and above Jardine is the parking lot where everyone parks in the winter to ski. Next to the parking lot is the Jardine cemetery. In a light-snow year you read the tombstones. There's a natural tendency for people to try to one-up each other in every endeavor and that includes declinism/doomerism. I'll consider arguments that the peak of Western civilization was in 1990s or even as far back as [----] but I think saying it was in 1913-14 is ridiculous. There's a natural tendency for people to try to"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine The PR literature during the Vietnam War said that the steam catapults could launch a Cadillac a full mile through the air"
X Link 2025-12-05T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"She "is" the spirit of the US breaking free of oppression. It was only later that various .other "meanings" were plastered over her giant green body. At her feet are broken chains the chains of the British Empire. If you wanted to you could see her as an invitation to revolt"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
".but to revolt specifically against European empires. She would then be the most leftist thing imaginable an inspiration to people like Ho Chi Minh. The French in giving us this thing did not intend that meaning at all"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guyfromsanmateo That's Vivek Ramaswamy on stage isn't it It looks like Vivek Ramaswamy"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"We need a word for this phenomenon: when you stumble across something you haven't seen in decades and it unlocks a flood. I was a senior undergrad when I was flipping channels and saw this exact fragment. I just looked it up. In Search of Troy https://t.co/gvfDpoW3n9 In Search of Troy https://t.co/gvfDpoW3n9"
X Link 2025-12-10T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In Search of the Trojan War a BBC series "presented" by Michael Wood. I know I saw this as a rerun on Channel [--] PBS in Los Angeles in [----] because I had a little doodle based on this scene in my notebook for that semester. It's about oral poetry Homer reciting the Iliad"
X Link 2025-12-10T05:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine I remember seeing this as a kind of filler on The Wonderful World of Disney in Los Angeles in about [----]. Is it Disney Looks like it and that explains why I saw it then as a nine year old"
X Link 2025-12-12T21:26Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@hw97karbine I've always wondered how reliable and user-friendly those PPSh-41s were. It would be neat if someone here had fired one. The Thompson drum magazines had problems (especially the 50-round version) with jamming fragility weight etc. Did the PPSh-41 drums work better"
X Link 2025-12-12T23:03Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@hw97karbine It's an officer's staff car but I am otherwise sadly ignorant. Ferrari Alfa Romeo"
X Link 2025-12-13T07:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I don't mind being what the Hip Hop kids online call an "oldproon" but the online slang does get past me. I read this as a "real chopped University of North Carolina" and I am only confused. My socials are suggesting Nu Metal Dragon Ball Z edits they know I'm a real chopped Unc My socials are suggesting Nu Metal Dragon Ball Z edits they know I'm a real chopped Unc"
X Link 2025-12-14T11:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"For '80s kids it's Robotech (Superdimensional Fortress Macross in Japan) and the cheesy melodies of singer and song-stylist Lin Minmay. American animation had fallen on such hard times that Japanese animation--which had not--was a revelation. Epic. I remember as a kid making my dad take me to an FYE store at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton to get Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz on DVD. I still have it today. Epic. I remember as a kid making my dad take me to an FYE store at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton to get Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz on DVD. I still have it today"
X Link 2025-12-14T14:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Even the repackaged juvenile anime that we got through Harmony Gold's Robotech aired during weekday afternoon cartoons on broadcast TV was mind-blowing. This was an era in which Disney no longer made animated movies--too expensive and they had a bad tendency to bomb"
X Link 2025-12-14T14:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"All these photos were taken in the vicinity of Gardiner Montana the town on the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Both species are members of the deer family. How do you tell them apart Size and color"
X Link 2025-12-16T03:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
".what [--] weeks So a youngster is a turn-of-the-20th-century schoolmarm at age [--] years [--] months but turns into a total hammerhead at age [--] years [--] months And my school is not a party school at all. I can only imagine what the drunkenness is like elsewhere"
X Link 2025-12-16T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"At Florida State say or Washington State (where they had a Beer Riot when I was a grad student). So how to reconcile with the clear statistics cited here Remember one other Decaying Empire fact of life: statistics have never been more worthless"
X Link 2025-12-16T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"More about Yellowstone animals. People arrive not knowing what to expect and when they see a solitary elk in the distance they slam on the brakes thinking this to be an unusual event. It isn't. One place to see them is the town mentioned in my previous tweet Gardiner"
X Link 2025-12-17T07:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the view out my back window and if you spend the night in Gardiner maybe out your hotel window. Gardiner--which is vying with West Yellowstone Montana for Tackiest Town in the West--is the little burg on the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park"
X Link 2025-12-17T07:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The tallest peak is the Grand Teton. The one to the left is the Middle Teton (with the South Teton further to the left and out of view). In front is Teewinot Mountain one of the best names for a mountain I know. All are inside Grand Teton National Park. What you fail to defend the world will take. But what you guard becomes your legacy. https://t.co/R6ivOfrEYF What you fail to defend the world will take. But what you guard becomes your legacy. https://t.co/R6ivOfrEYF"
X Link 2025-12-18T05:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"People who live near Yellowstone National Park commonly never go in the park. There are multiple reasons but the two most important are first that the park is surrounded by many millions of acres of national forest so "Yellowstone" is much bigger than just the park. This is probably the answer to overtourism - more charges but the locals get in free. The effects of this policy should start to be reported by late summer. This is probably the answer to overtourism - more charges but the locals get in free. The effects of this policy should start to be reported by late summer"
X Link 2025-12-20T05:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"When I was a grad student in the 1990s this photo went around as an email joke (the word "viral" was not in everyone's vocabulary yet). The tag line: "Would you buy stock in this company" Today in [----] Microsoft took its first staff photo. https://t.co/CxLQzzJKiD Today in [----] Microsoft took its first staff photo. https://t.co/CxLQzzJKiD"
X Link 2025-12-20T05:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I have a thing for gas stations. Obviously having worked in one as a 20-something inside Yellowstone National Park has something to do with that but there is more to it a.gas station aesthetic where freedom and escape from the humanoid crowd go together with this: Youve been driving all day its getting dark and you really need gas. You need to piss maybe smoke a cigarette. Its not the prettiest stop but you better take advantage of it now. [--] more miles across South Dakota for the next chance. https://t.co/TR2h1RKWI2 Youve been driving all day its getting dark and you really need gas. You"
X Link 2025-12-20T07:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Anc_Aesthetics I know nothing about this guy except that he's Vivek's opponent and his name has a terrible significance. Mostly he's not Vivek: https://x.com/CaseyPutsch/status/2002433902523056334 [---] years later this flag has new meaning. Ohio home. America First. Reject Vivek We save our State here and NOW. https://t.co/mCyNcGzBkW https://t.co/bNB2fbtbZi https://x.com/CaseyPutsch/status/2002433902523056334 [---] years later this flag has new meaning. Ohio home. America First. Reject Vivek We save our State here and NOW. https://t.co/mCyNcGzBkW https://t.co/bNB2fbtbZi"
X Link 2025-12-20T18:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@slipsilv3r Locally sourced fruits suspended in an aspic of emulsified heritage red berries accompanied by an artisanal dairy foam with a cane sugar infusion. (I stole that from Reddit of all places)"
X Link 2025-12-20T22:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@LegateSilva They just print money now. I'd be willing to take the inflation hit and just print $1.3 billion. The hit won't exactly be crippling"
X Link 2025-12-21T19:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@verg59803 @adamscrabble Is it revealed to be the final frontier"
X Link 2025-12-22T00:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Same location as before: the Gallatin National Forest north of Yellowstone National Park--really the middle of nowhere except that if you hike about [--] miles from where I was standing you cross US Route 89"
X Link 2025-12-22T01:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@LegateSilva When the US was building up forces in Saudi Arabia preparing for the Persian Gulf War I visited an elderly couple who were watching a story about it on CBS News. The tone of the story was "THE WORLD IS ENDING." The couple was terrified--but they could NOT turn it off"
X Link 2025-12-22T02:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@curtis_yarvin ACLU NLG attorneys yes but what about PNG (Papua New Guinea)"
X Link 2025-12-22T21:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine Hera's sacred geese; they work on Germans same as Gauls"
X Link 2025-12-22T22:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@romanhelmetguy The scene after Odysseus slaughters everyone: Matt Damon surveys the carnage and says "Cleanup Aisle 3""
X Link 2025-12-24T01:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The "official" Christmas tree at Mammoth in 2019"
X Link 2025-12-24T20:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Did I post this at Thanksgiving I should have but maybe it evaded my attention. Here it is anyway"
X Link 2025-12-26T02:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"When the Los Angeles Kings first went to the Stanley Cup Finals all the NHL fans in Los Angeles came out of hiding. Someone (a billionaire a name you'd recognize if I remembered it) said "Before this being into hockey was your secret. It was like being into roller derby." This might be the greatest sports highlight of all time. https://t.co/hV7BCLfmfI This might be the greatest sports highlight of all time. https://t.co/hV7BCLfmfI"
X Link 2026-01-02T07:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RodeoProfessor David Quammen wrote about it in a long article in The Atlantic back when the Atlantic was good in [----]. The article is "The Bear Slayer" and it became a chapter in his book Monster of God. You can probably get the article through your university library. Look at it sometime"
X Link 2026-01-03T10:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In honor of Toys R Us my longtime employer I should keep an eye on my store cats all year round. These guys would have made the Barbie aisle enormously easier to deal with. https://t.co/2GSixniRn2 https://t.co/2GSixniRn2"
X Link 2026-01-04T17:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The vehicle is a [----] Chevrolet Suburban Carryall. I've seen that sticker--that image of Old Faithful is in use in "retro" artwork all the time now and that's a real 19XX sticker. Some family was just driving this thing around North America and I'd like to have been along"
X Link 2026-01-05T03:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Of course someone could have found the stickers on eBay and applied them to an old vehicle--but you don't do that to a vehicle like this. One guesses it was parked in a barn in the classic way"
X Link 2026-01-05T03:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FistedFoucault That's the band that was playing at The Station nightclub in West Warwick RI on the terrible night of February [--] [----] when the sparklers set the roof on fire. O the irony that a song of such hope should lead to such a tragic outcome"
X Link 2026-01-07T04:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"That's an Atari [----] he's playing in the "1980" frame the third one. It's running Space Invaders. This is the most depressing thing I've seen so far this year. Keep up the good work. This is the most depressing thing I've seen so far this year. Keep up the good work"
X Link 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I handed out about ten thousand of these things--my first job at Toys R Us was in the "security booth" where we kept the video games. I developed a prejudice against them that has served me well ever since"
X Link 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I don't hate them--but when I've been playing one for more than ten minutes a voice in my head tells me that I'm wasting time. It's very useful. I did get into that security booth in time to experience the video game crash of [----] in the most intimate possible way"
X Link 2026-01-08T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Playing catch-up with older posts: the volcanism of the Azores is up my alley because the Azores is a hotspot. A geologic hotspot is a location on the mantle of the earth that stays put. While the continents and the seafloors move around above them the hotspots don't move. Everyone knows about Darwins theories of evolution from his famous finch work but few know about his contributions to geology and that many of the ideas central to modern oceanic volcanism were thanks to his Beagle expedition in the 1830s. His volcanic work was completed on his https://t.co/Dokmdt8GjH Everyone knows about"
X Link 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"They remain one of the earth's deeper mysteries literally: we cannot see what is happening underneath a hotspot and instead have to rely on second-hand evidence like earthquake waves. We can track the motion of the earth's tectonic plates in part by hotspots"
X Link 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"As the tectonic plates (also "crustal plates:" you're sitting on one) move the hotspot keeps erupting and the eruptions draw a line across the plate. We see this in Hawaii where the visible State of Hawaii is merely the youngest of a long line of eruptions"
X Link 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Azores are another such location number [--] on this map of the earth's hotspots; another still is Greater Yellowstone number [--]. You can see its path in the volcanic badlands of Idaho and elsewhere proving that hotspots do NOT always create a tourist wonderland"
X Link 2026-01-08T10:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"When I applied for National Park Service jobs for the first and last time in June [----] I was struck by this truth: I stood no chance of landing one of these jobs but would have been a shoo-in if I were a veteran. Amplifying an opportunity for veterans to get into federal wildland firefighting work on our federal public land. Ive had dozens of students over the years go this route and fall in love with the life. Contact on the flyer. https://t.co/AnPyKclhgX Amplifying an opportunity for veterans to get into federal wildland firefighting work on our federal public land. Ive had dozens of"
X Link 2026-01-08T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"All the skills the application asked for--ability to use a radio experience with firearms experience with firefighting ability to render first-aid etc--were just the kind of skills you learn in the military. I was working in Yellowstone National Park at the time"
X Link 2026-01-08T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This question causes trouble in Yellowstone National Park. People show up there having heard that the present-day Yellowstone wolves are "different" somehow. They may have heard that the wolves living there before [----] were Canis lupus irremotus. Are Canadian wolves different from US wolves This is a great question and the answer isnt static. We used to treat grey wolves as [--] different subspecies (which means something similar to a dog breed). In recent years weve lumped them into whats called a single taxonomic Are Canadian wolves different from US wolves This is a great question and the"
X Link 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The conclusion is that the wolves transplanted to Yellowstone from Canada in the 1990s are wrong somehow. I am a layman but have been watching this situation unfold close-up for thirty years now. My thought: wolves are highly mobile more than you can imagine"
X Link 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Yellowstone wolves have turned up as far away as the Grand Canyon--the one in Arizona. They can furthermore live in just about every environment in North America. When they show up in a new environment they begin to evolve. Literally. They evolve the way Darwin described it"
X Link 2026-01-09T12:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"A Yellowstone wolf track. The ski is about three inches wide"
X Link 2026-01-09T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This was maybe [----] and the cars were still in use incredibly as transportation. The roof had also rotted out on both so the interiors were full of leaves and open to the rain"
X Link 2026-01-10T01:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Twenty years later the past came calling. A car rally rolled into my service station at Old Faithful and one of them a TR3 needed help with a wheel. The spokes were coming apart. It was the only time I ever had to let a customer do all the work on a wheel"
X Link 2026-01-10T01:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Here's an unpopular opinion. The theory expressed in this thread is that on the night Ted Kennedy drove his car into the water with Mary Jo Kopechne he needed one of these Amphicars. Obviously it would have helped. But in the end he didn't really need one. @ScottHe69960638 LBJ had an Amphicar. He liked to scare unsuspecting guest passengers by driving straight for the water. https://t.co/FtRzViFmrn @ScottHe69960638 LBJ had an Amphicar. He liked to scare unsuspecting guest passengers by driving straight for the water. https://t.co/FtRzViFmrn"
X Link 2026-01-11T04:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@redaction St. Petersburg and Cam Ranh Vietnam. (We need two cities people would recognize and that are outlandishly distant). Tarsus as in "Saul of Tarsus" and Pyongyang"
X Link 2026-01-12T11:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"A coin issued by Emperor Hadrian. The animal on the reverse is supposed to be a bear. I thought it was an opossum at first"
X Link 2026-01-12T11:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Hey there's another job I had in the 1990s: I ran the cash register and key-board for the valet parking lot at Universal Studios. Yes we charged for what ought to be a free service. We parked the Humvee belonging to Urkel. A strange sight seeing him drive that thing in. https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF"
X Link 2026-01-13T06:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RedPilled1788 @zoomergirls__ Red hot"
X Link 2026-01-13T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"We're going to cover all my old jobs at @CatWorkers -- here's Toys R Us. Station master Mikan inspects his merch. https://t.co/lPTuAloim8 Station master Mikan inspects his merch. https://t.co/lPTuAloim8"
X Link 2026-01-14T05:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Here's Universal Studios Hollywood. It's actually pretty much in Toluca Lake but that doesn't sound especially impressive. https://x.com/CatWorkers/status/2010819400006348958 https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF https://x.com/CatWorkers/status/2010819400006348958 https://t.co/lWE9KjhoAF"
X Link 2026-01-14T05:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@hw97karbine And that sailor's name Jack Nikko"
X Link 2026-01-14T07:52Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"The source here is An Archaeogastric Study on the Basic Food Sources and Their Values Consumed in the Roman Army published in [----] in a journal with an odd name Tourism Academic Journal (Turizm Akademik Dergisi in Turkish and maybe not an ideal translation). Roman soldiers and their daily protein intake "A soldiers daily consumption of smoked meats cheeses boiled or fried pork beans and lentils is estimated to be approximately [-----] grams of protein." https://t.co/FQSSoWW80B Roman soldiers and their daily protein intake "A soldiers daily consumption of smoked meats cheeses boiled or fried"
X Link 2026-01-14T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It does look legitimate. These guys were eating everything in sight--but then they were hiking [--] or [--] miles with what was it [--] pounds on their back and when they got where they were going they didn't rest. They built their new home first"
X Link 2026-01-14T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And amplifying some more"
X Link 2026-01-14T11:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"These are all the Grand Canyon the northern one. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone that is. We have more than one of them"
X Link 2026-01-14T11:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"You can call this Schrdinger's Climate. Climate change simultaneously causes earth to spin both slower and faster. Climate change is therefore a branch of quantum mechanics where outcomes both happen and dont happen depending on which scientist is looking. Climate change simultaneously causes earth to spin both slower and faster. Climate change is therefore a branch of quantum mechanics where outcomes both happen and dont happen depending on which scientist is looking"
X Link 2026-01-15T05:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"One thing they did was supply wrap parties. It's customary to have a party at the end of a movie production with plenty of alcohol (this was the 1980s; do they still do that). Budweiser would give the production company.let us say [---] cases of beer"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In exchange one bottle of Budweiser was expected to appear in the film with the label toward the camera. We broke up my girlfriend and I before I ever found out if actual money changed hands but it must. Watch Spielberg movies of that era. It's like a Toys R Us exploded"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Carol Anne's room in Poltergeist is like that; money must changed hands in that case. My girlfriend was mainly handling the booze accounts; Jack Daniels was another and again they provided the alcohol for the wrap party and one bottle appeared on screen"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"She and I went to all these gawd-awful 1980s horror movies and scanned the film looking for the product. We had to be attentive because the corporations involved always wanted a report right away and this was the era when movies were in theaters. Slasher films especially"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Do rabbits dream of electric bleep https://t.co/NENgjl0O0l https://t.co/NENgjl0O0l"
X Link 2026-01-15T08:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Read_Acted An app called Friend In Need. Say you sign up for a social event you find you cannot face. You go but then Friend In Need rings your phone with an emergency that requires you leave right away. You hold the phone so others can hear and the AI voice screams and sobs incoherently"
X Link 2026-01-15T10:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I like the anvil. I wonder how much. Every workshop needs a cat. 📸 wafflebeaver https://t.co/0zvvit9F6q Every workshop needs a cat. 📸 wafflebeaver https://t.co/0zvvit9F6q"
X Link 2026-01-16T00:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It was a stupid thing to do because the trail is five miles long (believe it or not it starts at the Mammoth Hot Springs junkyard). It was long enough that the weather turned and the sky opened up. The earth there is glacial debris held together by a kind of silt"
X Link 2026-01-16T07:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The silt turns into lube grease when wet. The photo above--that's as close as we got to the fall we were hiking toward Undine Falls an easy stop on the highway not so easy for us. A mile into the return trip and we were carrying what cross-country skiers call "stilts.""
X Link 2026-01-16T07:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I thought I recognized the date. The night of January 16-17 [----] I was probably drunk. I was working in Death Valley at the hotel complex at Furnace Creek and it was not a happy life. But it got interesting the next day when I got up stumbled to the employee cafeteria"
X Link 2026-01-17T03:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"In my little Gulf War memoir below I note how I was completely fooled by the news media. They told me that the awesome Iraqis would defeat or at least brutalize the pathetic US military. It was propaganda and it was silly.but I believed it. https://x.com/ScottHe69960638/status/2012373474002501972 I thought I recognized the date. The night of January 16-17 [----] I was probably drunk. I was working in Death Valley at the hotel complex at Furnace Creek and it was not a happy life. But it got interesting the next day when I got up stumbled to the employee cafeteria. https://t.co/LKqtATdrAV"
X Link 2026-01-17T04:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I quit that Death Valley job when the ground war was about to begin because it was impossible to follow in the desert. I went home to Burbank and moved into a room in my mom's house a room with a TV. On the night after what I realize now was the Battle of [--] Easting"
X Link 2026-01-17T04:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Referring again to that style at the bottom: they put up a bunch in Bozeman Montana over the last ten years or so and during a shopping trip there last summer my mom noticed something about them: they absolutely never plant trees on the property. https://t.co/dq8UJcyK5j https://t.co/dq8UJcyK5j"
X Link 2026-01-17T04:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"To be sure things aren't so pretty up in the national forests around the park. This might be too inside baseball but during the Biden admin there emerged a cottage industry of consultants (NGOs) whod be paid huge sums of money to give sensitive cultural information to redo these signs in multiple languages. The process took years it was exactly This might be too inside baseball but during the Biden admin there emerged a cottage industry of consultants (NGOs) whod be paid huge sums of money to give sensitive cultural information to redo these signs in multiple languages. The process took years"
X Link 2026-01-17T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I think I took these photos because the artist pressed to depict a 4-wheel-drive vehicle chose the Willys Jeep of the Second World War. Apparently there were no ATVs in his world"
X Link 2026-01-17T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Checking in on Goma-chan and she is flat. I repeat Goma-chan is flat 🐰💕 # https://t.co/BuBX9iBHTQ 🐰💕 # https://t.co/BuBX9iBHTQ"
X Link 2026-01-18T04:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Movie screenplay idea: having taken control of Greenland the Trump administration sends a scientific survey--which discovers a lost colony of Vikings uncontacted since the 13th century. Plot complication: the Vikings regard the scientists as demons. Why is Greenland Danish Turns out it was about converting its inhabitants away from Catholicism. He figured what if there was a lost world of medieval Viking colonists dwelling somewhere in Greenland But most importantly if these Norsemenstill existed they were probably Why is Greenland Danish Turns out it was about converting its inhabitants away"
X Link 2026-01-19T02:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I am sure the present nightmare ordeal is no longer necessary and is there just as a job program. Think about it: is a gang of [--] or [--] Arab guys ever going to succeed in hijacking an airliner with box cutters ever again.or whatever it was they had that day"
X Link 2026-01-19T03:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"There are a million better things we could be doing. We are now in year six of Trump. Why has no one had this idea For one thing it would never occur to Trump himself. Has he ever flown commercial in his entire life He may never have even once. He has no idea what it is like"
X Link 2026-01-19T03:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The toy industry term for items like the one this fellow knocks around is "plush." It's not the "stuffed animals aisle" it's "plush." When you get a bunch of it in one place it wants to burn; even in this day and age the stuff is incredibly flammable. Ah this post is really nice I think Ill look at it- Automatic timeline refresh: https://t.co/q8o4QmwTwE Ah this post is really nice I think Ill look at it- Automatic timeline refresh: https://t.co/q8o4QmwTwE"
X Link 2026-01-19T03:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I realized looking at this that most people don't live in this environment and that I could add something by explaining. When you see a bunch of authors like this for a piece of "science" this vague-minded and unsubstantial what you're seeing is a small-scale jobs program. Look at this preposterous pile on of authors. Unless they can show what maybe one lady gave a hurried birth because she was being chased by a wildfire it's all nonsense. https://t.co/HXxXSQHkG4 Look at this preposterous pile on of authors. Unless they can show what maybe one lady gave a hurried birth because she was being"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Let's say you're the lead author on in an affair like this. You get a call from a friend who is about to lose her job at Dismal Seepage State University but might keep it if she had more publications. Adding her to your study as an "author" costs you nothing that I know of"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"So you do it. Maybe she helps with the proofreading or something like that. Maybe not. Hence we have a kind of "author inflation" in academic life. When you see forty-two authors as here--that's what I counted--they might or might not be "authoring" anything"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
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