kralcttam ☕️

kralcttam@mastodon.social

Waiting patiently for our dumb future. Economics, chess, sarcasm. GenX, so oh well, whatever, never mind. Atlanta metro, north Georgia, USA.  Carl Sagan was right.   Header image of hand with book from Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS <a href="https://www.lemuriabooks.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.lemuriabooks.com/</a>

Posts

Post #3885247
Midsummer, when the smoke from the wildfires blocks the heat from the heat dome.
Post #3761035
#SilentSunday
Post #3522101
When mastodon gives me a 503
Post #2265691
Everything is nice and calm as Iran considers the U.S. peace proposal. It&#39;s a good thing the U.S. Administration likes to lay low and be calm over the weekends, we wouldn&#39;t want any psychotic self-dealing lunacy on a Saturday.
Post #2265690
So the younger generation can’t topple Magnus Carlsen yet. #chess
Post #2265689
When I go jogging I look so awful that people yell encouragement at me. “Don’t give up! You got this!” I’ve been jogging for 20 years.
Post #2265688
I’d appreciate the dead mice my cat brings to my porch more if hantavirus wasn’t all over the news.
Post #928147
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. “The most fossil fuel-friendly government in recent U.S. history has shown us all just how risky reliance on oil and gas can be — and taught the world that true energy security lies in accelerating toward a cleaner, electrified future.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/oil-crisis-iran-electric-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.240k.MpkE9q5FNDiG&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share
Post #747186
If we want ICE out of the airport and the TSA funded, don’t fly. Don’t buy a plane ticket.
Post #712542
“The Treasury Department on Friday temporarily lifted sanctions on Iranian oil that is currently at sea, authorizing it to be sold to most countries…lifting the sanctions would add about 140 million barrels of crude to the oil market.” So at $100 / barrel, that’s $14 billion. Or in Shahed drones ($50K) that’s 280,000 drones.
Post #113272
My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather. This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released. You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.