Cats are a type of
hair-trigger kinetic weapon.
A rookie journalist conducts
her first interview.
Smell the ass, face the consequences.
What if
trees were just like us?
Ancient mummies
don't understand modern technology.
The TV is getting a bit dusty --
time to clean it.
Cats
do things their own way, and meet fearsome aliens.
This is not a job for
a philosopher.
Being
an alien with acid blood is sometimes very inconvenient.
Call the plumber --
there's a leak.
Lady M discovers some
wallpapers for witches.
This short film looks like a bizarre drug trip, but a few bits will seem disturbingly familiar.
Behold the power of
an American tornado.
This volcano and lake of lava are of interest mainly for
where they are located.
The English of Shakespeare's time sounded much more different from the English of today than most people realize.
We're
approaching the turning point on greenhouse-gas emissions.
NASA is
once again getting data from Voyager 1 after remotely fixing some technical problems aboard. The spacecraft, which is now four times as far away as Pluto, is forty-six years old and its technology
is primitive by today's standards, adding to the challenges of keeping it working.
Intel seeks to make ever-smaller computer chips.
The tool it uses for this purpose weighs a hundred and fifty tons.
They keep finding ways to
make Windows shittier.
Recycling plastic doesn't work -- and the present emphasis on recycling is
mostly the result of a corporate campaign to dodge responsibility for pollution.
More
Tesla Cybertruck problems continue to surface.
They can kill you even if you aren't riding in one.
Here's what happens when you try to replace artists with "AI".
It's not hard to identify the target of
this new parody song.
Cas d'intérêt examines
the awesome art of Victor Hugo, and ponders the internet-based distractions of modern life.
Has Kristi Noem been to
this Florida beach recently?
Be respectful of the
vitalistically challenged community.
The Toronto police are
making fools of themselves.
Don't mess with
the thing.
Performative self-righteous wokeness has imploded into a black hole of absurdity.
Car makers have been
selling information about millions of drivers to insurance companies without the drivers' knowledge.
No sane man would join
this religion.
A California IVF lab is accused of
knowingly implanting dead embryos in women.
In most ways,
Taiwan is now a better place to live than the US.
Seattle police
engage in pest control.
Atheism
is not a matter of choice.
A Daily Kos writer
begs the "progressive" left not to embrace anti-Jewish hatred and violence, even though the many examples he himself cites show that it already, definitively has.
True-believing megatrumpazoids
have been scammed out of millions by fraudsters selling fake Trump debit cards and other "financial" junk. Neither Trump nor his campaign have anything to do with the scam, which is based in Macedonia, but con men know easy marks when they see them -- people who believe the stolen-election, anti-vax, etc bullshit are clearly easy to fool.
This Texas company
fired a worker for using safety equipment that was obviously necessary.
Stop paying attention to
the New York Times. It may have been a great newspaper once, but it's junk now. And FFS stop giving them money for subscriptions.
The "pro-Palestinian" movement in the US has
an eliminationist, and de facto genocidal, stance (found via
Hackwhackers). To support them is quite literally to support a new Holocaust.
Gateway Pundit, one of the most toxic and scurrilous far-right "news" sites,
has declared bankruptcy in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.
This person exists -- and could become the vice president.
Woke ideology
is gradually being defeated, but die-hard true believers entrenched in some institutions will continue to cause trouble for a while yet.
Some students accepted by Columbia University
are deciding not to go after realizing it's infested with violent Jew-hatred.
In the recent series of alarming events on Boeing planes, nobody has been killed (yet),
but experts are still worried.
51% of Americans, including 45% of Hispanics and 42% of Democrats,
support mass deportation of illegal aliens.
A Pennsylvania high-school boy
with known violent tendencies, who maintained a "hit list" of girls to attack,
bludgeoned one of his targets with a heavy implement and sent her to the hospital. The media's
weirdly dishonest reporting offers clues to what's really going on.
Arizona stolen-election claims by Kari Lake and Mark Finchem have been rejected by every court that has heard them.
The US Supreme Court has now done the same.
Two men -- one liberal, one conservative, both pro-democracy --
have formed a partnership to fight the polarization of US politics.
A New Mexico police officer committed
a horrific abuse of power.
The sane are finally
starting to take the country back from the lunatics. It's going to be a big job.
Trumpanzees
hope to sabotage Trump's hush-money trial, but they're probably too dumb to succeed.
Several members of Congress are
behaving like Putinist collaborators. Maybe they are.
Trump's dementia is rapidly getting worse. It should be a major issue in the presidential race.
The labor movement contemplates
organizing a general strike in 2028.
After passing the House by 311 to 112, the Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package
passed the Senate by 79 to 18. Something is seriously broken when a bill with such massive bipartisan support could be delayed for months by partisan games-playing. Infuriatingly, one of
the very few Democrats to vote no was my own state's senator Jeff Merkley, because he opposes Israel's war to eradicate Hamas. I used to quite like him, but I can never vote for him again after this. You have to draw the line somewhere.
They stand with our country's enemies. McConnell
calls his party's isolationists to account.
A rabbi at Columbia university
urges Jewish students to leave -- Jews are now
being regularly terrorized and assaulted there. At Yale, too,
Jews are being violently attacked amid annihilationist taunts. The left would not tolerate such persecution
if it targeted any other group than Jews. Our universities have turned into encampments of actual literal Nazis eagerly following the example of their German predecessors.
The masks are off. It is disgusting that the media refer to these orgies of hatred as "protests". By that standard, a KKK rally or a lynch mob is a "protest".
They
don't really care about Palestinians. They just hate Jews.
It's happening again, right here, right now.
In Canada, too,
the new Nazis openly celebrate the mass torture, rape, and slaughter of Jews.
This British doctor is
pushing religion on his patients. The hospital authorities need to be doing something about this.
More here on the British police who stopped a man from approaching a "pro-Palestine" thug rally because his being "openly Jewish" would be "antagonistic" to them (from commenter NickM) -- at least one of the participants was already shouting "scum" at the man.
Police also told a woman at another such rally that swastikas being displayed there were not necessarily anti-Semitic. There is clearly a problem.
The UK is
sending more military aid to Ukraine.
British hospitals are
turning away from trans ideology and back to reality.
Spain will
force the Catholic Church to pay compensation to victims of sexual abuse. The number of victims is estimated at 440,000, which is about one in every hundred people in Spain.
The delay in US aid
caused Ukraine serious harm.
Ukraine is successfully
hitting back against Russia's oil industry.
The pier being built by US forces in Gaza to help aid reach civilians
has been attacked by jihadists with artillery.
An Iranian rap singer
has been sentenced to death by the regime for criticizing the government.
The regime is also
cracking down on women's assertions of freedom, though it still seems a bit nervous about public resistance.
More links at
WAHF and
Fair and Unbalanced.
My own posts this week: some
truths and inspirations, and why
the NPVIC isn't the right solution to the Electoral College.
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I was getting real Phantasm vibes from this for a moment
Mosquito season is coming
Loch Awe, Scotland
The theater of Pergamon, Hellenistic period
A street in Ragusa, Italy
Venice
This tree in California is 238 feet tall and 2,527 years old -- when it first sprouted, Aristotle had not yet been born
