Gene Harris

Husband, father, grandpa, retired video writer-producer, choral singer-composer, Episcopalian. I like the Steelers, poker, ice cream, travel. Democrat. Hey you.

[Steve Rhodes @tigerbeat]

@JoyceCarolOates Stephen Miller’s uncle wrote about him in 2018

https://t.co/bO81548MP5

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

exciting idea for a blockbuster suspense thriller:
US President Declared War Criminal Arrested Abroad & US Shrugs OK, You Can Have Him.

(Nick Cage as the deranged deteriorating-before-our-eyes US President in the role of a lifetime!)

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@JoyceCarolOates My experience is that they'll reduce the charges but not the fine.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@RobWittman This is what you just voted $70 billion for. Shame on you.

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.

She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@KATTFAWLKS24948 @YourAnonNews I guess Pasteur's work was pointless, then.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

Plus the fiction is somewhat better.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@tcm Wow, never knew this.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@kingssingers I will show her your tweet on June 13. Thanks!

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

Loving the Cameo that @kingssingers just did for my wife Karen's birthday. She will be SURPRISED and delighted!

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@emkenobi Where's the bill proposing that when a man puts on a condom, his d**k gets cut off?

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@official_glp A, raise small, 2xbb, if bb 3 bets, shove.

Gr810r

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

I'll believe it when I see a woman Catholic priest. Until then ...

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV: “It is, therefore, not enough to state simply that men and women have equal dignity and rights; it is necessary that this be reflected in concrete decisions, such as in laws, access to employment, education, social and political responsibilities, and the way society listens to and values women’s contributions. As long as this gap persists, we cannot say that society truly and fully recognizes that women have the same dignity as men.”

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

I'd be down with that.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I came across a theory that AI is starting to make more mistakes because the internet is increasingly polluted with AI slop. The idea of AI cannibalising itself into obscurity is one of my favourite things ever. I hope it is true and I hope it becomes impossible to fix.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

What an extraordinary video.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

A Martian Eclipse

What's that passing in front of the Sun?

It looks like a moon, but it can't be Earth's Moon, because it isn't round.

It's the Martian moon Phobos.

The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars in 2022 by the Perseverance rover.

Phobos, at 11.5 kilometers across, is 150 times smaller than Luna (our moon) in diameter, but also 50 times closer to its parent planet.

In fact, Phobos is so close to Mars that it is expected to break up and crash into Mars within the next 50 million years. In the near term, the low orbit of Phobos results in more rapid solar eclipses than seen from Earth.

The featured video is shown in real time -- the transit really took about 40 seconds, as shown. The videographer -- the robotic rover Perseverance (Percy) -- continues to explore Jezero Crater on Mars, searching not only for clues to the watery history of the now dry world, but evidence of ancient microbial life.

Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU MSSS, SSI

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@danro_art @JoyceCarolOates As Paul Klee said: "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Stephen Colbert against Donald Trump!

[Andy Bloch @Andy_Bloch]

We had a church on the National Mall on Sunday paid for by tax dollars.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

@official_glp Open shove. Gr810r.

[Gene Harris @gr810r]

We are living in an upside down world that seems as if it may never be righted.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

FOX NEWS' JOHN ROBERTS: When I talked to the president this morning, he kinda surprised me because he said, 'John, I just want to tell you. I'm very serious about this. I'm serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.'

WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON ANNA KELLY: This is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo

[Leonard Pitts, Jr. @LeonardPittsJr1]

Here’s my latest on Substack. https://t.co/troefAnpMr