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I think the media were enormously cheered up to talk about the eclipse instead of politics. But now Biden is blathering about canceling student debt to the tune of $23 billion, so it’s back to the screaming again.

The most exciting things today: I got to eat leftover pizza for breakfast, a favorite, and will have leftover roast beef for dinner, another favorite. Whee! Eclipse? *yawn*

Clear skies for the last couple of days and even this morning, couple of hours before the eclipse it gets overcast 😛 …took a few pix but it was just a bright hazy blob…it did get quite a bit darker though.

Too far on periphery to “enjoy” eclipse.
Didn’t feel the NJ earthquake.
Got my taxes filed.
Still not voting for Biden.

I live near Houston, which was overcast.
The cloud line extended just north of the totality path.
I’d really hoped I’d get to see an eclipse, but no. This was probably my last chance.

Stoaty—you mentioned bees:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/americas-honeybee-population-buzzes-to-an-all-time-high/

DHH

Our cloud cover vanished just in time.
It was pretty cool really.

Thank heavens “Sunny Hostage”, one of the harpies on “The Poo” explained eclipses are caused by climate change.
I’m not sure if she’s as stupid as the Congressman from Atlanta who thinks Guam might capsize, but she’s definitely in the running.

Best part of the eclipse was was when “third contact” occurs (the eclipse starts it’s end phase…) and suddenly it’s like someone turned the closet light back on.

Oh, expect someone to sue NASA or the guy on the corner selling knockoff eclipse glasses and people end up burning their eyes out.
We’ll probably have to have mail in voting in November as a result.

There seemed to be two things going on that I’m aware of.
1) Stupid people going to the internet asking about basic science. (So many repeated Reddit questions lacking basic physics knowledge, it hurt to read some of them…)
2) Progressives were convinced that conservatives were freaking out about the end of the world. Their source: a few memes about the LHC and biblical apocalypse that a “reasonable” person would take as jokes, but joy scolds cannot because they must “own the MAGA”.

The name for my next band . . . Eclipse Zombies!

And for stupid comment of the decade – whoever the idiot was on “The View” for “The eclipse was caused by climate change!”

@Tim Carlson – Texas’s own Shiela Jackson Lee, just yesterday, assured school children she was speaking to during the eclipse that the moon is “mostly made up of gases”.

She are an expert, being a former member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology you see.

And the fake name “Sunny Hostage” I mentioned above, is Sunny Hostin, and she’s the twit that attributed the eclipse, and the recent earth tremor in the Northeast, to climate change.

America, where even morons can succeed.

The media overhyped it for sure…and the path mostly sliced through fly-over states and we normies don’t flock in masses wearing weird gear and speaking in tongues at the drop of a hat…so it was mostly “Oh, okay, that’s neat.” and they all went back to work. Now had that been over California all manner of strangeness would ensued for days mostly buck-nekked, faces painted, tons of merch to sell, cuz we like them silk screened tee shirts…and lots of herb imbibing and mystic music.

We witnesssed a total eclipse in Melbourne in the 70’s and it was a very big deal. Huge viewing parties, work cancelled news crews blathering from every screen and radio. We thought it was eerie, and a bit unsettling in a asmr way..gooseflesh and neck hair tingling at totality. I can understand why our ancestors thought it was end days.

Sheep and cows laid down as they are wont to do anyhoo, so maybe not in response to the eclipse…but the newsies were selling it pretty hard. Birds fled to their nests and perches. Oz has a zillion noisy bird species, so when they all go quiet it’s striking…oh and goannas ran up the trees in the dark and then fell out when the light returned. Now that’s a picnic! Top that California!