Carl A. Lorentzen

politically erect

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

@WUTangKids C.R.E.A.M.

[cow @cowincrisis]

the grass on the other side of the fence is the same. i just checked.

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

the future. together. now.

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Over the weekend, the UFC announced this rendering of what MMA cage matches on the White House lawn should look like on June 14. 1/2

[Michelle from Canada 🪶🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🕊🎨🐈 @RavenCreative2]

@WUTangKids

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

Women, what is stopping you from dressing like this?

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Mourning dress, 1895-1901. Estate of Simone Valsecchi.

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

Pains me to hear Cheryl David calling this being "Honey"

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

RFK Jr. doing totally normal things

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

yeah i'm not so sure about that

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Landry on Fox News: Greenland Loves and Welcomes the United States

Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, told Fox News that his trip to Greenland was a great success and that, contrary to media reports, the Greenlandic people love and welcome the United States. According to Jeff Landry, Greenland also holds enormous oil potential that could ease dependence on the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump’s special envoy to Greenland and Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, has returned to the United States, where he recently appeared on Fox News to discuss his experiences in Nuuk.

“My trip was fantastic. I met a wide range of people, spoke with people on the streets, visited people in their homes, and discovered many common traits between Inuit culture and the Cajun culture of Louisiana.”

—Sermitsiaq

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Putin was presented with a painting in China.

First of all, Xi Jinping is depicted as almost twice the size of Putin.

Secondly, Xi is walking ahead, while Putin follows behind him.

Thirdly, Xi is looking forward, while Putin is looking at him.

Fourth, Xi appears calm and confident, while Putin looks like he’s trying to catch up — more of a companion than an equal.

And overall, it makes it pretty clear who the “big brother” is and who the “little brother” is.

A very strong piece of trolling.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Every time you lazily order a $39.95 electric toothbrush off Amazon, the profits go to this guy.

[Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now) @book_historia]

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

four days before hamas brought hell into gaza, the alleged open air prison.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

A photo of Gaza on October 3, 2023 — just four days before the horrific day that changed everything.

[love drops @lovedropx]

Me and my friends getting left behind by AI

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

@ChurchofSatan Mazeltov

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

50 light-years from here is a dead star made mostly of diamond. Two-thirds the size of Earth. As heavy as the Sun. The biggest diamond ever found on our planet was 3,100 carats. This one is 10 billion trillion trillion carats.

Diamonds are absurdly common in space. Wood is the cosmic miracle.

Carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe, after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Squeeze it hard enough and it turns into diamond. Inside Neptune and Uranus, the pressure is so extreme that methane in their atmospheres comes apart, and the carbon falls as diamond rain. Some of these diamonds could grow up to a meter wide. Lab experiments confirmed it in 2017, and a 2024 follow-up showed it can happen on smaller, Neptune-like planets too. Those are among the most common types of planet astronomers find outside our solar system.

Take PSR J1719-1438 b. A planet 4,000 light-years from here, twice as dense as lead. As heavy as Jupiter, but less than half its size. Probably mostly crystalline carbon. A diamond planet, orbiting a tiny dead star that spins 10,000 times a minute.

And nanodiamonds are everywhere, even in meteorites that land on Earth. They make up about 3% of the carbon in those rocks.

Wood is harder. It needs lignin, a natural compound that turns soft plant tissue into hard wood. Lignin first appeared on Earth about 385 million years ago. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Trees have only existed for 8.5% of our planet's history.

For tens of millions of years after lignin appeared, plant matter built up in Earth's swamps faster than it could fully break down. Most of the coal humans have ever burned was once those plants.

Wood needs everything: water, photosynthesis, an oxygen atmosphere, complex life, plants with veins, and finally the chemistry to build lignin. Diamonds need just two things: carbon and pressure.

So far, every place we have looked in the universe has carbon and pressure. Only one place we know of has trees.

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

@mralistairgreen this won't cut it this time, you've gone too far, alistair!

[alistair green @mralistairgreen]

Heading to Epsom with the knights Templar auditors group 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Carl A. Lorentzen @CALorentzen]

@AMAZlNGNATURE damn, i'm not even sure most humans would find the solution.