Infidel753: Link round-up for 31 January 2026

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

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A dog improves a firework show.

The railing is not making it any safer.

How dare you side with the bird!

I think the skateboard won.

You can tell they'll never settle this quarrel.

It's a perfect day to go skating..... oops.

This is not the best way to catch a fish.

Lookit me, lookit me, I'm thtoopid!

Margie feels a bit sheepish about being overweight.

Skiing is fun.

The cat can easily pounce on these birds.

This ad was not well thought out.

Snow in Portland is different (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).

This is not the correct way to use a stepladder.

Here's how a simple fence post evolved into a palatial mansion.

Noisiest mop ever (disturbing image).

Fordite is the new "stone" being used for art and jewelry.

This is Wentworth Falls in New South Wales, Australia.

This is the island of Hormoz off the coast of Iran. The rain mixes with minerals in the soil and produces the color.

This is how a ship is brought into a shipyard.

It's too bad this interesting house doesn't exist any more. It will probably be replaced by some generic beige all-rectangles piece of shit.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major threat to future human health. Here's how science is fighting back.

Uber will bullshit you on prices (but this guy beat the system).

That's what you get for using "AI", dumbass. The comments are fun too.

If you live in Indiana, Minnesota, or North Dakota, be aware of this recall of contaminated food and other products.

Don't feed your dog this tainted dog food, which was supposed to be recalled but hasn't been.

Want to make some easy money by gambling? Just bet on Elon Musk to not do what he promises.

Your ISP can see a lot of your internet activity unless you take precautions.

"Moltbot is also a good way to spend $300 a day with Anthropic. Also, it's a security disaster. Also, it doesn't work."

Here's what happens if you mention jury nullification in court.

Never mind what he's saying -- look at the facial expressions and body language. This is not how women actually look or behave. This is a man faking it based on clichés.

Not everything has to be a metaphor for the trendy issues of the moment.

The Marsh family is still going after Trump.

Look back on life without shame.

We want to be where the decisions are made.

Here's a poetic elegy for Alex Pretti.

"AI" is coming for US history now.

The latest anti-science bleatings of a Trumpazoid health official show that federal standards about vaccines no longer have any connection with reality. The AMA even publicly denounced his dangerous quackery.

Angry Bear blog reposted my February 2025 post about economic reasons for the Democrats' defeat in the 2024 election. If you've been reading my blog for that long, you already saw the post, but there are some good exchanges in the comments.

So many people are being driven to mental illness by interaction with chatbots that support groups are emerging.

Asshole tech-bros whine deliciously as bitcoin keeps falling.

Tesla is re-orienting from making cars that don't sell to making robots that don't work.

Searchlight is a new Democratic think tank aiming to guide the party toward broadly popular policies, abandoning identity politics and sidelining the ideological crazies.

One thing leads to another and then another and.....

Democratic state attorneys general are leading the pushback against Trump within government.

This time, Congress has managed to avoid another disastrous government shutdown while discussions about reining in ICE continue.

Elon Musk really wanted to visit Epstein's island.

A study claims that it's mathematically impossible for "AI" agents to perform as advertised.

Here is a rallying cry from Indivisible in Minneapolis.

Large majorities of Americans oppose ICE's lawless tactics, but only 19% want it abolished. Far more advocate drastic reform. Support for enforcing immigration law (including deportations) remains strong.

This report claims ICE has been ordered to dial back its abuses in several ways. Let's wait and see if their behavior really changes.

An Amazon warehouse is suffering a tuberculosis outbreak, but for some reason the media don't want to say so.

"AI" is being used as a pretext for layoffs, but it is not actually replacing workers (because it can't).

The parasite class is throwing a tantrum about California's union-backed wealth tax proposal (I discussed this here).

Seeing gross injustice up close tends to radicalize people.

"He started getting..... what do they call it?"

This comment thread on a right-wing blog shows how ICE actions are causing serious debate (after clicking the link, scroll up to see the comments).

Investor concerns about the "AI" bubble are growing, with even Microsoft committed to vast spending while the tech stubbornly fails to bring in much money. The plunge in Microsoft's stock wiped out over four hundred billion (yes, with a "b") dollars in value on Thursday alone.

The Iran massacre, and the problem of Islam generally, show how Western prog-feminist ideology is useless and out of touch.

A proposed California law would bar ICE agents from any future employment in policing or schools.

The CEO of ManyVids, an OnlyFans-like platform, has apparently succumbed to "AI" psychosis, leading her to post attacks on her own business as well as random lunacy.

A judge has blocked election-rigging in Virginia, at least for now.

This Delaware nurse practitioner is refusing to back down to a Texas lawsuit over her mailing abortion pills to patients in the latter state. Such mailings have emerged as the main way for women and girls in forced-birth states to preserve their freedom after the end of Roe.

Yet another supposed "AI" achievement is exposed as fakery.

Trump has wrecked a US industry that employs more people than manufacturing.

The measles outbreak in under-vaccinated counties of South Carolina is still spreading fast.

Cutting off ICE funding will accomplish nothing since the agency has enough money to keep going for years. What's needed is strict laws to stop its violations of Constitutional and civil rights, with harsh penalties for agents who transgress.

Waymo robotaxis are still driving dangerously, including around school buses. (Why do these moron websites keep parroting the corporate "still safer than human drivers" bullshit? Do they think we don't know it's bullshit?)

It's oblivious corporate bosses who are all gaga over "AI". Real workers who actually have to deal with it know it's useless.

The Citizens United decision disastrously empowered the parasite oligarchy.

Here's a report from the immediate aftermath of the Alex Pretti murder.

Insurers don't want to cover businesses for problems caused by "AI". They know it's shit.

Prison abolition would be a disaster for women's rights and safety. Discussion here of the weird mentality behind it.

Georgia is becoming the ground zero of the battle against data centers, considering a state law to ban further construction of the abominations until at least March 2027.

Hmm, I wonder why they're so determined not to investigate this kind of thing?

People in Minnesota are using car alarms to alert neighborhoods to ICE raids.

The right-wing politicians who support ICE in Minnesota are repeating the errors of their predecessors who sided against the Civil Rights marchers.

Lesson for US business leaders: Europe showed that standing up to Trump works, while appeasing him only leads to more trouble.

Some straight talk here from a British politician. I wish Schumer and Jeffries would be equally honest.

Scottish authorities have tried to silence and intimidate a woman prisoner who testified about being forced to share a jail with male prisoners.

A string of high-level politician defections suggests that Reform UK, the largest British nativist party, is already replacing the Conservatives as the country's major party on the right.

France is likely to pass a ban on social media for children under fifteen.

The EU and India are working on a massive trade deal, sidelining Trump's unpredictable US. Deals with Mercosur and east Asian countries are on the horizon.

India is working on reducing sex inequality. It has a long way to go.

More links at Red State Blues, WAHF, and Comedy Plus.

My posts this week: the rise of Amelia, an image round-up, and the Trumptanic hits the ICE berg.

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FFS quit referring to ICE shootings as "executions". Execution means carrying out a legally-imposed death sentence. These are murders.

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