Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Interesting. We were there ~10 years ago and the tour guides were quite upfront about TJ "dating" his enslaved sister-in-law. 011
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Also we have very strong evidence that he doesn't believe in the peaceful transfer of power. 030
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Plus you get to throw in "That's DOCTOR Smartypants to you!" 010
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was going to say something about folks at Indivisible being legit, then realized who I was replying to 🤣 050
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Boooooo!!! We love our neighbors to the north (especially lately), but this is Iowa erasure! 110
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Actual voltage depends, in large part, on how far you are from the substation. IIRC, voltage can vary btw 110 and 125. (I had a summer job with a power company in college.) 010
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"I trained my AI on the entire internet, and now my matrices are omniscient and also sentient." 010
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'm cool w/ Republicans not showing up to fuck the country over. 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Was in Montreal last fall, and mostly got around via their excellent (and cheap!) bike share. I felt like I lived there for a week as opposed to just being a tourist. 030
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Smoking age was 16, beer and wine 18, and nobody checked. 030
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"Verify your age" My high school cafeteria in NC had a smoking section. 120
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Next hurricane to hit Mexico, they're going to sanction us for letting it form in the Gulf of America. 010
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This seems like a "little yikes" compared to Blue Origin's. 100
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Much better than my neighbor, who put a wheelbarrow w/ hosta plants in it w/ a sign that said, "FREE." Someone took her wheelbarrow. 110
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It's almost as if unprincipled power-lusters recognize game. 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I've seen it in college towns, which makes sense. But a whole province??? 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Are they shutting down their own trains to Kaliningrad? 100
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Obviously as a kid, but I remember the bicentennial being a huge celebration of a nation wildly optimistic about its future. 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Channeling the Brits in 1814 and burning down the White House 100
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026That's why you're never going to get launched into space. 020
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026To be fair, big crime spree happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Same. I liked living in a country wildly optimistic about its future. 041
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I saw someone say that if you show up, put on a Yankees hat, you're a New Yorker. I suppose it's similar in Toronto, except you don't have to wear a cap of a team the rest of the continent despises. 010
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Pretty sure my wife would disagree that it's the hunters in Bambi, for very similar reasons 020
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This from the "No love no tacos" restaurant in Marshalltown IA a few years back 020
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026And it took a fictional HBO miniseries to even introduce it to American consciousness 160
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026What a ride! However, you referred to Iowa State as Iowa: "Iowa won over BYU, 82-59" You are now banished to Wisconsin, or maybe Canada. I don't make the rules. 100
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Jefferson's admission on the walls of his memorial: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than these people are to be free." 020
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I wish they were all grift. Palantir is mildly competent at fascism. 030
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Yeah, if dude's going to use big words to try to sound intelligent, it helps to use the right big words 1270
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Just looked at DSN Now eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html and no current comms w/ Psyche, but Canberra is talking with Voyager 2, so that's always fun.eyes.nasa.govDeep Space Network NowThe real time status of communications with our deep space explorers 020
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"I made them swear" can be interpreted multiple ways... 000
Tom Tapp @tomtapp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The weekend after a freak windstorm (120+ mph!) hit Cedar Rapids, he quietly showed up with his chainsaw, asked for volunteers, and got to work. 010
