Link round-up for 11 April 2026

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

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The GoFundMe for blogger Mary Kirkland's ill daughter is still slightly short of its goal.  I'm sure anything you can spare would be appreciated.

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It's laundry day, online style.

Time for some smiling faces.

The parking brake in a car exists for a reason.

Save the bird within the bird.

How tiresome.

What is it like when your mom becomes you?  (Notice how almost all of them look way better in their original incarnation.)

Watch humanity begin the destruction of an alien race.

He is saved!  It's a miracle!

Offer a refuge to those in danger.

See a demonstration of the Chinese rope dart.

Serenity Falls in Australia looks to be well-named (click photo for full size).

This is Norway (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).

Watch a chameleon's life begin.

For the first time in fifty years, the Hudson river is clean enough that fish from it are safe to eat.

Watch out for this nasty new CAPTCHA scam.

Recognize the past as it truly was, both good and bad.

Your doctor may start using "AI" to take notes during your visit.  Here are your options.

Don't use ChatGPT to time anything.

Use fluid dynamics to cool down a hot car.

Starfleet Academy was such a gigantic flop with viewers that it may finally spell the end for new Star Trek shows.  They've been desperately beating this dead horse for decades now.  Just let it rest in peace and let us enjoy our DVDs of the real Star Trek from the old days.

In the New York city hospital system, dumbass administrators who don't know anything are preparing to replace radiologists with "AI", likely with disastrous results.

Google's "AI" overviews are giving users tens of millions of wrong answers per hour.

Modern problems require antiquated solutions.

Beware of weird racist interpretations of fantasy.

This is serious abuse and the people responsible need to be sued into oblivion.

Bluesky is now shrinking rapidly.  It seems to have been captured by ideological types who make a habit of hounding anyone with different views off the platform -- a surefire formula for declining into irrelevance.

This man is an exorcist.  And he believes the US is controlled by demons.  And he gets taken seriously.  In the twenty-first century.  Incredible.

Bikers against Child Abuse is a real organization, and a worthy one.

"Is there anything more stereotypically male....."

This is what Iran used to be, and will be again.

Voters overwhelmingly support raising taxes on the wealthy and on large corporations.

Younger Americans are increasingly souring on "AI".  People are far more trusting of fully human-produced work than of work produced wholly or partly with "AI".

The feminist forum Ovarit shut down a year ago, but there is now an archive version preserving all the posts and comments.

"It wasn't until last month..... that administrators took a closer look at the group they had signed up to work with and realized they had been duped by a lying Christian."

Aw, he's so sad that he can't cheat any more.

Polymarket briefly allowed users to place bets on the fate of US airmen shot down over Iran.

Changing word usage documents a colonial take-over.

The enemy is running scared.

This person exists.

"When people see no way out of debt, no way forward to retirement or a life lived for themselves, when they have nothing to lose what else are they supposed to do?"

Billionaire tech bros are delusional megalomaniacs and the CEO of OpenAI in particular allegedly hardly knows his own field.

"But it's not a fetish!"

The murderer of Iryna Zarutska has been deemed not competent to stand trial.  (A deleted comment on this post claimed that the murderer is an immigrant.  He is not.)

Blogger John Hill has some questions about Jesus.

In a win for sanity, the DNC has voted down a resolution singling out AIPAC -- but not any other (non-Jewish) lobbying groups -- for condemnation.

Corporations, a major tool of billionaire oligarch power, are trying to sabotage the right-to-repair laws which give their customers a little independence from them.

52% of Americans now favor impeaching and removing Trump, including 14% of Republicans.

The Wall Street Journal is going down the "AI" tubes.  So is the Associated Press.

Think politics can't get any worse?  Now we've got this piece of shit running for Congress.

Epstein-files activist congressman Thomas Massie has a massive lead in the Republican primary in his district, despite Trump's determined campaign against him.

There is still a chance that voters in Virginia will stop the super-gerrymandering of their state.

"A public institution cannot make emotional reassurance the test for what it is allowed to endorse."

Religious nutball fucks up baptism, kills someone, desperately tries to dodge responsibility.

Lack of religion is now a permanent reality in the UK, especially among young people.

There's a category of sex abusers who are even more coddled by the system than Epstein's clients.

West European governments are now desperately trying to save Hezbollah from destruction so it can recover and kill more Jews in the future.  France wants a special role in negotiations on the future of Lebanon, but has shown it can't be trusted.

Russia is suffering a drone shortage while Ukraine produces them in abundance -- a potentially fatal disparity in a war which is now dominated by drone warfare.

A Ukrainian company is working on a defensive missile system comparable to the US Patriot system, but much cheaper.

This took guts:  A Russian officer declares that Russia's military is so decrepit that it couldn't fight Poland effectively (well, it can't seem to fight Ukraine very effectively, so.....).  On the issue of Russia's nuclear weapons, see this post.

Russian soldiers are reportedly sabotaging their own equipment to avoid being sent to the front.  The Russian military is getting seriously worn down by the war, and there's little doubt that Russia has been gravely weakened.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia has been providing the Iranian theocracy with targeting information to attack Israeli infrastructure.  Russia denies this, but there's plenty of evidence of increasing cooperation between the two gangster-regimes as they fight the democracies.

In Israel, younger voters are shifting strongly to the right, thus increasing Netanyahu's support.  The October 7 attack and its aftermath are the main drivers of the trend.

Whatever happens with the Iranian theocracy, the West Bank remains a ticking time bomb.

"The main messages I get from inside [Iran] are just constantly asking to remind everyone not to leave the regime standing."

The regime-imposed internet blackout in Iran has now lasted a thousand hours, the longest such blackout since the dawn of the internet.

The positions of the theocracy and the US are so far apart that the ceasefire is unlikely to last.  In the long run, peace is impossible without the fall of the theocracy.

China has more shipbuilding capability than the US, but in a real war that probably wouldn't matter.

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

My own posts this week:  a short video on deception, the moral depravity of the ideological mind, an image round-up, a few observations on the Iran war, and a unique bit of music.

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I'm glad that Artemis II and its crew returned safely.  It remains a fact that sending humans into space is excessively dangerous and expensive, and serves no scientific or practical purpose.

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The Hungarian national election is tomorrow.  Orbán's rule could be reaching its end quite soon.

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Trump's Tuesday threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" turned out to be true in a perverse sense.  If Western civilization cannot stick with a project as important as overthrowing the Iranian theocracy until the job is done, just because the price of oil went up or the media threw tantrums, then it indeed might as well be dead.

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