Ray Lee

I tend to think intelligence is a landscape. Each of us have a few peaks and, well, the rest. Regardless, IQ as a single number has always been a lie.

nothing. i work in the tech industry

My wife and I built a thing for my daughter’s 29th birthday. It came out pretty good I think.

Most white dwarf stars are indeed white. But about 1 in 30 have cool enough atmospheres to let elements adjust their shine.

IT’S DECORATIVE non-euclidean GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

Note to self, start picking persimmons

Never trust a rational man until you know his axioms, I say.

A friend told me young children aren’t hard to understand. You just take their age, subtract it from ten, and pretend that’s how many hits of acid they’re on. Miss ya, buddy

Staffer: Sir, the dog had a minor incident on the couch. Kash Patel: Did someone say dog? JD Vance: Couch? Trump: Minor?

Recently reminded life is precious, and so maybe I should skip ahead and do the fun art project I’ve been saving for later.

The MLM model in reverse: exponential help

That's funny, ESCAPE ESCAPE are the exact words that come to mind when I think about working there.

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

I should have picked up active noise cancellation earbuds a long time ago. Blessed silence

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

Back to school. ❤️

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

A belated happy birthday to maybe the greatest letter ever written.

“Equipped with an 18-meter reflector, the Eye of Sauron-1 could illuminate areas 5 to 6 kilometers in diameter for brief periods.”

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

Early summertime views from the garden. It’s nice when Nature puts on a show. Even the bunny agrees. #bloomscrolling

Past-me snuck a Sichuan peppercorn into the grinder when refilling it. Today I’m the big pwithe winner.

Star Trek: The Original Competence Porn

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

Sometimes researching this book brings me the grimmest moments of the Cold War and sometimes it brings me a telegram from Gypsy Rose Lee to ichthyologist Gloria Hollister that reads, "In the interest of science, how would you like to tint my osteological structure, babe".

Arte urbano con todas sus letras.

Oh are we talking about unnecessarily sexy advertising mascots? Because

There are a lot of weird ways to win in life but one is learning that an Irish playwright you’ve never met thinks of you first when asked who they’d want to drink with

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I finished @adambecker.bsky.social’s More Everything Forever yesterday and it hasn’t left my mind all day (and I’m usually too scatterbrained for that). You should read it if you haven’t already! Mini review below: 1/n

Turns out, much like how renewable are great for natsec, a good privacy oriented state (the opposite of a police state) is great for natsec

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

Coastal fog rolls in

@josephfasano.bsky.social

An oldie about ducks and ignoring scientific ethics.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

It’s cold outside and the road is long. Here, take sustenance youtu.be/BFul90BFjGc

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.