Kent K. Steinbrenner

Graphic/video artist, liturgist, typographer (notices every font!); EV driver; Episcopalian; CBC fan; Mac/iOS. He/him. @[email protected]

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Nobody breaks the fourth wall quite like Julie Andrews. A single glance at the camera is enough to steal the entire scene.

[Kent K. Steinbrenner @kksteinbrenner]

@bppwhalon Who does he think he is—Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan?!? (He also erected a gold statue of himself on horseback.) I’m waiting for him to start naming months after his family, like the previous Turkmen president did, LOL... 🙄

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

I emailed Dr. Tony Fauci today to tell him how disgusted and sad I was with how he has been being treated. I told him he is a hero and has my support and my admiration.

I reminded him who I was: the “aerosol activist.” During COVID I pushed him — and pushed him, and would not let it go — until he said out loud that the SARS-2 virus travels through the air. He graciously heard me out in a Zoom meeting. He changed what he said. That is not a small thing in a man with that much on his shoulders.

So today I sent a note of thanks, and shared our latest work on the Tijuana River at the US-Mexico border. I almost didn’t send it. He is flooded right now, and I figured it might never reach him.

He wrote back within the hour. Thanked me, and told me to keep up the great work.

A man under relentless attack still made time to answer someone he owed nothing to — and to encourage her work while he’s fighting for his own name. Gracious, ethical, kind. Exactly the qualities the people going after him are trying to strip out of our society.

I stand with Dr. Fauci. He is a hero. Sad times in America continue.

[Carl Hindy, Ph.D. @DrCarlHindy]

IF I GET DEMENTIA…..
I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live. I want them to remember these things.

1a. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi Dad - it’s Amanda.”
NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? That causes anxiety.

• If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality.

• If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.

• If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.

• If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you are, do not take it personally. My timeline is confusing to me.

• If I get dementia, and can no longer use utensils, do not start feeding me. Instead, switch me to a finger-food diet, and see if I can still feed myself.

• If I get dementia, and I am sad or anxious, hold my hand and listen. Do not tell me that my feelings are unfounded.

• If I get dementia, I don’t want to be treated like a child. Talk to me like the adult that I am.

• If I get dementia, I still want to enjoy the things that I’ve always enjoyed. Help me find a way to exercise, read, and visit with friends.

• If I get dementia, ask me to tell you a story from my past.

• If I get dementia, and I become agitated, take the time to figure out what is bothering me.

• If I get dementia, treat me the way that you would want to be treated.

• If I get dementia, make sure that there are plenty of snacks for me in the house. Even now if I don’t eat I get angry, and if I have dementia, I may have trouble explaining what I need.

• If I get dementia, don’t talk about me as if I’m not in the room.

• If I get dementia, don’t feel guilty if you cannot care for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not your fault, and you’ve done your best. Find someone who can help you, or choose a great new place for me to live. With a bus and activities!!

• If I get dementia, and I live in a dementia care community, please visit me often.

• If I get dementia, don’t act frustrated if I mix up names, events, or places.
Take a deep breath. It’s not my fault.

• If I get dementia, make sure I always have my favorite music playing within earshot.

• If I get dementia, and I like to pick up items and carry them around, help me return those items to their original place.

• If I get dementia, don’t exclude me from parties and family gatherings.

• If I get dementia, know that I still like receiving hugs or handshakes.

• If I get dementia, remember that I am still the person you know and love.”

ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴀsᴛᴇ in Honor of someone you know or knew who has dementia. In Honor of all those I know and love and lost who are fighting Dementia/Alzheimer’s.

[Devin Kutner @dkdebur11]

@Unpop_Science It’s so crazy how most the world went through Covid, many places with worse restrictions than the US, yet many Americans genuinely believe this was purposefully designed & released to steal the rights & freedoms of Americans. Just the most selfish, deluded people in the world

[ChrisSawyerArt.bsky 💙💛 @HarpyFeathers]

@Unpop_Science I'm an old guy, and remember the complete and utter butthurt outrage over seatbelt laws, indoor smoking bans, and criminalizing drunk driving. Drunks regularly killed people and got away with it.

Society attempting to protect you, and other people was seen as bald-face tyranny.

[Jazzmom 2.0 🫤🇺🇸 @AJazzmom98]

@Unpop_Science A meme from 2021

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

I often see people say that Tesla is the iOS and Rivian is the Android of the car world, but I think the inverse is true. Teslas have more customization/features and Rivian has a more limited but highly polished feature set.

Rivian has fully-addressable RGB lighting but only lets you choose between 7 LED colors they’ve selected in nature and they each come with a custom soundscape. No RGB wheel selector like Tesla has. Can you think of anything more Apple-like? 😝

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

more than one hundred years ago a young man named Upton Sinclair, living in a small cabin about two miles from this house, on Rosedale Rd., Princeton, wrote a novel exposing the unspeakably filthy conditions of meat-packing in Chicago, titled "The Jungle." President Teddy Roosevelt read the novel, his stomach (which was considerable) was turned, he called Sinclair to the White House, & soon thereafter laws were passed to regulate (to some degree) the meat-packing industry.
Today we don't have a US president who can read, let alone read an entire novel; we have a US president who has deregulated industries that provide food & medicine for us, to our detriment.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Rep. Debbie Dingell on the Gordie Howe Bridge: "They're mad and they have every right to be mad. They paid for that bridge. We have been waiting for this bridge to open for a decade, and I'm as disgusted as the Canadians are."

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

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[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved.

Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.*

Details in today's newsletter: https://t.co/YHhhKRIHsB

[Kent K. Steinbrenner @kksteinbrenner]

@bppwhalon C’est or-rible, n’est-ce-pas ? 😁

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

There is no threat of “communism” taking over America. Do they realize how stupid they sound? Like they’re paranoid dumbfucks from 1954.

[Branden Flasch @brandenflasch]

Remember in school when we were taught that .gov websites were reputable sources? Not in 2026!

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I wanted to use Trump's threat to levy 50% tariffs on Canada to discuss the behavioral reasons why I believe Trump is so fixated on tariffs.
Two cornerstone objectives for Trump, especially now that he's playing out his final chapter on Earth, are greed and grandiosity. These two things, which interrelate, permeate everything he craves. He is a giant id. He wants awards, he wants things named after him, he wants $10B here and billions more there, and all of that is but a subset of what he really wants: The knowledge and belief that he can do whatever the f*ck he wants.
The legacy media always tries to understand Trump's stubborn fixations by normalizing him and asking: "What's he thinking?"
Allow me: Trump doesn't think; he feels. He craves.
And he likes how tariffs make him feel, because he can be a bully, impose his will, make and remove threats, and cause countries to do his bidding and pay him tribute arbitrarily. THEY FUEL HIS GRANDIOSITY.
How much more American consumers, businesses, and importers pay, is immaterial. None of that matters to Trump. People don't matter. America doesn't matter.
Bullying, imposing his will, being the center of attention, and threatening others, is the essence of what a malignant narcissist does.
It's like America didn't even elect a person.
It elected a pathology.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be."

[Robert Picardo @RobertPicardo]

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