Jacob Dickinson

Easy to find on Bluesky, where there’s less cheesecake but I don’t waste as much time blocking the willfully deranged.

[Frank Frazetta @frazettagirls]

“I have to work from the unconscious just to let the brush start pulling things out of me that I didn’t know were in there. I use accidents and go with a focal point and instincts. I just flow” -Frank Frazetta

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@sarrah_bellus Anyone who saw this idolatry of royalty should have known he was unfit to be president long before he got on the escalator. This is not American.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Trump removed Obama’s portrait from public viewing, but we can share it here for everyone to see!

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@Acyn Guess they’re blue now, is what she’s saying. 😂

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@SnibblingAbout @suchnerve Good point! THEY could be the clueless ones. Or brilliant, and disguising themselves as clueless. That’s just what a nameless bunch of evil conspirators would do, after all.

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@Pko65_ @suchnerve “Weirdly distorted” = “It’s late and any analytical geometry skills I may have had lie concealed by the dust of ages, so that’s as precise as I’m gonna get.”

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@Pko65_ @suchnerve An ellipse is symmetrical about both its short and long axes. Compress a circle by the same proportion (e.g. 25%) along either axis, and you get an ellipse. But here, that percentage increases as you go from south to north. The shape is only symmetrical about one axis.

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@suchnerve It gets worse! Yes, any three points on a plane define a “perfect” circle! But note also that our rage baiter has drawn that circle on a Mercator projection. When projected on the approximately spherical planet we actually live on, this circle will be weirdly distorted.

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@Saganismm I enjoyed most of them, but the most lasting impression was the first one, from “Intelligent Life in the Universe,” co-authored by I. S. Shklovskii and plugged by the “Whole Earth Catalog.”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Ok, this is hysterical. 😂😂

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@DanPietsch @MAstronomers If you mean “degrees Kelvin” is proper syntax and “Kelvin” is not, just “Kelvin” is actually OK. Search turns up several abstract reasons, and one legalistic one: a change by the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), in 1967.

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@briantylercohen “These men and women?!” Sounds pretty DEI to me.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

stealth nationalization

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@OJoelsen @MalcolmNance Get ‘em while you can.

[Jacob Dickinson @JJLDickinson]

@CrusaderKansas And maybe take advantage of their newly freed-up time to review apostrophes?