Link round-up for 19 September 2026

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

Six weeks to Halloween!

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Probably the worst possible place to do a backflip.

Fairy tales need to be modernized a bit.

Don't sit on that.

Too absorbed in gawking at her phone to pay attention.....

Cats have things their own way.

Joy has come into the world.

Zap not, lest ye be zapped.

Here's the most popular cat name in each state.  Some of them are distinctly odd.

Don't steal my bowling ball!

Apparently they're hungry.

Never be the last one to let go.

Sometimes you need to create your own miracle.

Blogger KO has been driven from the seas by oversize cnidarians.

Have a few amusing videos (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).

Scariest zombie apocalypse ever (even at just five seconds).

Today, the combat instructor is teaching target selection.

Just too much vodka, I guess.

Michael's is the go-to place for Halloween décor -- but it's not cheap.

Two dogs, two personalities.

Lots of pictures here from the Outer Hebrides.

More photos here from Salem MA, a town full of character.

Overlapping circles create optical patterns.

Elephants imposed justice for a threatened rhino.

Mansfeld Péter was the youngest person murdered by the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary after the 1956 rebellion.

Covid probably killed far more people than was reported at the time.

This was one of the most important events in recent history, and almost nobody noticed it.

If you are a crime victim and hesitate to register to vote, apply for a driver's license, etc because it would make your address public, check if your state has an address confidentiality program.  Such programs are designed to protect people in that situation.

Here are some of the activities being planned to support election integrity and encourage turnout.

If you have a small business, resist the temptation to use "AI" -- it will eventually destroy you.

Fybe is a new art marketplace site guaranteed free of "AI"-faked "art" (unlike Etsy).

California's billionaire wealth tax initiative still narrowly leads in the polls despite the massive billionaire propaganda campaign against it.  There are also two scam initiatives on the ballot which would at least partly negate the wealth tax if passed.  The parasites are desperate to stop this thing.

If you believe transgenderism is valid, you need to watch this.  It's less than a minute and a half.

Here's a program which claims that it can get rid of all the "AI" in Windows 11.

This is the superhuman machine intelligence which is going to overthrow humanity and take over the world.

OpenAI employs hundreds of workers to read your "private" prompts and chats with ChatGPT.

The vast majority of people prefer traditional architecture over modernistic crap.

"This entire 'AI is going to kill us' was an orchestrated psyop."

Woketardia is even ruining our indie bookstores now.

You've never heard of this bass player, but you've heard her.  She's finally getting some recognition.

This is who that Macklemore character is.

Yet another company adopts "AI" and immediately turns to shit.

What are women supposed to do if only a small minority of men are worth dating?

A Christian pastor calls upon the Arapaho Indians to abandon their silly primitive religious ways and adopt modern rational practices like hating gays or eating a cracker and pretending it's God.

Colonialism is still colonialism even if you don't use the word.

Nashville airport is being renamed after Dolly Parton.  Unlike some recent "renamings", this one will actually take effect.

This is not what apartheid looks like.

A lawyer vents frustration at the persistent intrusion of "AI".

"These are the people we're supposed to believe are women."

The activist left's routine use of threats of violence to intimidate opponents is totalitarian in spirit.

Data centers are causing a huge surge in toxic pollution.

The medication she needs to stay alive is "no longer medically necessary".

There's internet buzz about a possible nationwide trucker strike starting on October 1 and lasting until diesel prices come down.  It's not clear whether this is real or not, but if it is, it would be awesome.  With grocery store shelves bare until fuel prices were cut, Congress would have to act and not just blather about market forces.

A stalker terrorized a woman by taking control of the software running her car.

In a win for the First Amendment, a federal court has ordered ICE to stop harassing people who criticize it.

"AI" is dangerous, not because it will wipe us out or take over, but because it's controlled by malignant people.

ChatGPT has ads now, but they don't work.

Some women in forced-birth states are already under effective travel bans that prevent them from going to free states to get abortions.

Hackers analyzed the data from a surveillance camera to find out what they're really doing.

The leader of one of our closest allies (yes, they still are) speaks about the September 11 attack.  This is how a serious and mature leader talks -- these days it's easy for Americans to forget.

This guy is charged with possession and distribution of kiddie porn, bestiality, and the rape of a 14-year-old.  And he's a cop!

Iranian drone strikes on Amazon data centers caused some permanent loss of customer information.  Obviously Amazon doesn't back up its data adequately.

Democratic candidates are being advised not to attack "AI" too forcefully for fear that tech CEOs and companies will spend big to defeat them -- another example of the billionaire parasite class undermining democracy.

State officials are preparing to defend against ICE interference in voting.

More than 70% of people here in Oregon oppose building any more data centers in the state, but our useless governor is doing nothing while construction pushes ahead.

Speaking up against anti-Semitism carries some risks these days.

That picture of Trump kissing Natalie Harp is probably fake.

One police investigator conducted over four thousand illegal surveillance camera searches, partly to stalk her ex-girlfriend.

The city of Boston is dumping Flock over a contract violation, but looking for another camera vendor to replace it, so there will be no improvement in privacy.

This New Mexico lawyer submitted an "AI"-generated brief full of fake testimony, some of it apparently from witnesses who don't exist.  This was for an appeal of a murder conviction, a serious matter.

Besides data centers, Trump also supports surveillance cameras.  He seems to have no clue how much damage these statements from him are doing to Republican candidates.

Support for unions is rising rapidly, even as membership remains low.

96% of voters in the British village of Piddington have voted to leave the UK.  The village cannot actually do that, but it's a protest against the government's plan to settle more than a thousand migrants nearby.  The village has just 350 residents.  Discussion here.

Here's why Beira's Place is so necessary.

Germany's nativist AfD party has reached 30% support nationally, far outstripping the establishment-right CDU.

The election the AfD won in Sachsen-Anhalt state two weeks ago had record-high turnout, and the party won almost half of younger voters.

Foreigners commit a hugely disproportionate share of the violent crimes on France's public transport.  The situation in Europe is totally different from in the US, where immigrants commit a relatively low share of violent crimes.

This Russian missile launcher exploded impressively.

Lots more stuff blowing up here.

The Russian city of Taganrog has no air defenses left -- Ukraine has destroyed them all.

A Ukrainian drone flies freely over the Russian city of Belgorod, showing the total lack of any countermeasures.  The upper left caption at the beginning says "Welcome to Blyedgorod", basically renaming the city "Dullsville".

This is an attack on Rostov's airfield.

Russia's land corridor to Crimea looks like a complete mess.

See a Russian shahed drone shot down over Odessa.

The Iranian regime is probably heading for collapse, but external pressure can help speed up the process.

Four years after it killed her, the regime is still afraid of Mahsa Amini.

A man who grew up in Gaza describes what it was like.

Turkey is carrying out mass arrests of gay people.

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

My posts this week:  some truths and inspirations, a problem with scheduled posts on Blogspot, and miscellaneous observations.

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