Link round-up for 6 March 2022

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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Some people really are like this.

This guy found a way to force the city to fix potholes (from commenter NickM).

A young woman makes a shocking discovery about her grandfather.

Resist being corrupted by the magical object.

Cool benches.

Lucky coins.

Noisy monkeys.

Useless machine.

Bad parking.

Please donate generously to fight this rampant epidemic.

You can't get there from here.

It's all in a day's work.

Who's your favorite sidekick?

If you want to really annoy a Brazilian, here's how to do it.

What if classic literature had sequels?  (But let's not give Hollywood any ideas.)

Playing with dolls is fun.

Dealing with reality can be annoying.

A nightmare walked through the door.

A picture tells a story.  Nature is horror.

Interesting new music video here.

She's driving back home from a funeral.

Blogger Annie greets the winds of March in verse.

Carol Seidl visits the desert.

This is Heddal Stavekirke in Norway.

I like this artist's weird comics and drawings, especially this one.

Find yourself a person like this.

Very cool snake jewelry here.

Fifteenth-century Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain sang the joys of medieval sex.

See city lights from the space station.

One account, two tweets.

This Ukrainian postage stamp from 2002 could well be brought back for today.

Don't wallow in anxiety and despair when it serves no real purpose.

If anti-vax convoy truckers really want to fight for freedom, here's a suggestion.

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

What matters is substance, not labels.

Here's a quick, if odd, way to get some money to Ukrainians.

Shower Cap blog explores the dumbth of Putin.

Don't let Trump get bored in prison (found via Yellowdog Granny).

Please vote for politicians who don't talk like this.  Jesus, I'm so sick and tired of it.

It's interesting how Twitter has changed since Russia was blocked.

This coming Saturday is Detrans Awareness Day.

Putin is a duplicate, Jews are Nazis, and God is fighting evil aliens.

I can imagine what I don't really expect I'll ever see.

Be wary of dishonest media reporting.

The Smithsonian celebrates women in STEM.

Stress, pessimism, and isolation can fog up your thinking.

US wingnuts plumb new depths of delusion as they cling doggedly to their veneration of Putin.

This is psychological class warfare.

Here's how his parents found out he was vaccinated (found via Fair and Unbalanced).

List of verified charities here to help Ukrainians.

There is such a thing as mental child abuse.  But physical child abuse is still worse.

The whataboutism has begun😬.

This "anti-racism" is nothing of the kind, just more discrimination.

Strike!  Don't cross the virtual picket line.

See the reality of Bible morality.

To wingnuts, the Ukraine war is just an excuse for more of the same old dishonesty.  Be grateful we at least have a real president in charge.

Ignore the women -- only the man matters.

Life is empty without a supernatural dictator to rule over you.

Conspiracy "theories" need to be examined logically.

If churches want to play politics, they should pay taxes like everybody else.

Ophelia Benson fisks the ACLU, which has adopted 1984's NewSpeak.

Learn some differences between things.

Anonymity is essential for regular people to participate in the internet.

The law should work the same for everybody.

Do not express an opinion without clearing it with your masters first.

The wingnut lunatic fringe is as delusional as ever.

The US anti-vax trucker convoys have turkeyed out ignominiously.  And their event in Washington was, shall we say, sparsely attended (found via Fair and Unbalanced).

I said here that to stave off looming electoral disaster, Democrats need to bluntly repudiate the lunatic-fringe positions with which the party has become associated.  During the State of the Union speech, Biden did explicitly repudiate one of them, "defunding the police".  It's a step in the right direction.

An ICU nurse explains what can happen when you're hospitalized with covid-19.  I think I'd rather just die.

These people are trying to make the schools cesspits of totalitarianism.

The Arizona Catholic Church struggles to deal with the aftermath of goofed-up magic spells.

Bruce Gerencser and his commenters address the "liberal Christian vs conservative atheist" question.

Taboo-driven sting operations harass hundreds of innocent people and do practically nothing about actual human trafficking (found via The Honest Courtesan).

Funny how they keep trying to re-define the word "woman" but never the word "man".  Or to avoid the one word but not the other.

Democrats have lost the white working class, are losing Hispanics, and are now even getting into trouble with the educated -- and refuse to face the reality of the problem.

Alberta claims to have achieved ratlessness.  I'm skeptical, but New Zealand aims to follow its example.

Don't let the assholes warp and steal the concept of freedom.

We know what terrorism is.

This Ukrainian did some real "de-Nazification".

Blame Putin, not the Russian people.

Kyiv Independent has photos of the war's devastation.

Ukrainian civilian volunteers support the war effort.

Many Russians believe the regime's version of the war -- it's all they're allowed to hear.  But when people refuse to even look at any contrary information, you know that deep down they suspect the truth.

This is Ukraine's first lady.

Europeans swarm to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees (found via Hackwhackers).

More links at Fair and Unbalanced, Miss Cellania, and The Psy of Life.

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My own posts this week:  invasion insanity, how frozen borders have helped keep the peace since 1945, some videos on the Ukraine war, and Putin's nuclear threats.