Paul Saffo
@psaffo.bsky.social
Futurist with a past
www.saffo.com
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A ghost walking by daylight...
251106 07:58 37°30'
251106 07:58 37°30'
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A ghost walking by daylight...
251106 07:58 37°30'
251106 07:58 37°30'
Venus and the dawn moon this morning
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Venus and the dawn moon this morning
Observation from a journalist friend who has been a DC insider for many decades:
August 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Observation from a journalist friend who has been a DC insider for many decades:
This morning's shy moon. People get all excited about seeing transients like eclipses but forget that astonishing beauty like this appears every day over their heads if they would just look up.
August 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This morning's shy moon. People get all excited about seeing transients like eclipses but forget that astonishing beauty like this appears every day over their heads if they would just look up.
Wow! I had no idea one could buy ICE in 600 lb bags!
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wow! I had no idea one could buy ICE in 600 lb bags!
From the Kent Monkman exhibit "History is Painted by the Victors" at the Denver Art Museum. If you are anywhere near Denver, don't miss it!
July 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
From the Kent Monkman exhibit "History is Painted by the Victors" at the Denver Art Museum. If you are anywhere near Denver, don't miss it!
After today's takedown of Senator Alex Padilla, the US Secret Service has decided to update its uniform patch. New version below.
June 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
After today's takedown of Senator Alex Padilla, the US Secret Service has decided to update its uniform patch. New version below.
The DHS has just put up this nifty retro-McCarthy-era poster on their Twitter page. Be sure to share and above all respect it and under no circumstances deface or parody it, because that would be wrong!
June 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The DHS has just put up this nifty retro-McCarthy-era poster on their Twitter page. Be sure to share and above all respect it and under no circumstances deface or parody it, because that would be wrong!
Friendly neighbor dropped into my office this afternoon to say hello - and wouldn't leave! I think they were trying to give me advice on a geopolitical scenario I was busy writing!
June 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Friendly neighbor dropped into my office this afternoon to say hello - and wouldn't leave! I think they were trying to give me advice on a geopolitical scenario I was busy writing!
"She looks so lifelike..."
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"She looks so lifelike..."
The new digital globe at Stanford University Libraries Rumsey Map Center. It can display hundreds of maps including Mars and the Moon - and yes, that is a handheld digital magnifier!
May 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The new digital globe at Stanford University Libraries Rumsey Map Center. It can display hundreds of maps including Mars and the Moon - and yes, that is a handheld digital magnifier!
Why, look! It's the Anti-Christ!
May 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Why, look! It's the Anti-Christ!
News from the Vatican!
April 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
News from the Vatican!
The only way to make last week's "Dire Wolf" announcement or today's Blue Origin launch more ridiculous than they already were would have been to have a space-walking dire wolf floating outside the capsule...
April 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The only way to make last week's "Dire Wolf" announcement or today's Blue Origin launch more ridiculous than they already were would have been to have a space-walking dire wolf floating outside the capsule...
Mischa has informed the rest of her pack that she now self-identifies as a Dire Wolf, and all future requests for photos and pawtographs must be made through her Hollywood agent...
April 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Mischa has informed the rest of her pack that she now self-identifies as a Dire Wolf, and all future requests for photos and pawtographs must be made through her Hollywood agent...
a very bold dusky-footed woodrat raiding the bird feeder today...
April 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
a very bold dusky-footed woodrat raiding the bird feeder today...
And what's with the bullish*t soldiers with automatic weapons at the bottom of the jet stairs? For god's sake, he is on a secure air base! Just more Big Man cosplay...
March 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
And what's with the bullish*t soldiers with automatic weapons at the bottom of the jet stairs? For god's sake, he is on a secure air base! Just more Big Man cosplay...
Elon Musk's cartoonish megalomania on full display. Section 10 "Governing Law" in the Starlink Terms of Service (emphasis added - and I would so love to meet the lawyer who was assigned to draft this...):
March 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Elon Musk's cartoonish megalomania on full display. Section 10 "Governing Law" in the Starlink Terms of Service (emphasis added - and I would so love to meet the lawyer who was assigned to draft this...):
A deeply inspiring book from a military that values what the racist, misogynistic Hegseth and his President rejects.
March 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
A deeply inspiring book from a military that values what the racist, misogynistic Hegseth and his President rejects.
Let's make Flu great again!
March 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Let's make Flu great again!
KMUX, the Weather Service radar covering the SF/Bay Area has been out of service for the last 3 days, leaving forecasters blind. The DOGE firings and spending freeze has made it impossible to order needed parts or repair the radar. Elon has told them to just use a Sharpie instead!
March 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
KMUX, the Weather Service radar covering the SF/Bay Area has been out of service for the last 3 days, leaving forecasters blind. The DOGE firings and spending freeze has made it impossible to order needed parts or repair the radar. Elon has told them to just use a Sharpie instead!
Breaking : Texas Lt. Governor contracts Mad Cow Disease
March 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Breaking : Texas Lt. Governor contracts Mad Cow Disease