Sometimes even dogs
go too fast.
She died and went to Heaven,
but found it unsatisfactory.
He surely gets
great gas mileage.
Check out some
dumb detectives, nosy nuns, and miscellaneous cartoons.
You cannot keep this woman in a headlock.
It's a Chinese street fight between
lobsters and clams.
Cats have things their own way.
They
suspected her of being a witch, but.....
In my opinion, the Pepsi-Cola company
still owes this guy a fighter plane.
Not sure
what's going on here, but I'd suggest not doing it.
This map shows
each state's alleged claim to fame. I'm a tad suspicious of some of them.
This is vandalism. That poor house.
It wasn't dinner, but.....
The
best moments in life are free.
What if Cinderella had been
an ethical person?
Here are some more
cringe TV commercials from the 1970s.
It's never too early to start
stocking up for Halloween.
See some
aggressively odd-looking buildings (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).
That'll teach you not
to tailgate, dumbass.
British TV
is more realistic than American.
Spend a bit of time on
dustsceawung.
Here's a
spooky little story.
Johnny Profane finds a couple of
autistic-coded TV characters.
The
caryatid statues on the acropolis of Athens exemplify the beauty and endurance of ancient Greek sculpture.
A new museum documents the life of
Eli Cohen, a courageous spy.
Here's
a detailed comparison of Proton VPN and NordVPN.
If you're using an app to get meds for chronic dongwilt and other intimate medical issues,
Meta may be spying on you.
This 1948
warning about propaganda is still useful today.
People in Oregon and nearby, watch out for
yellowjackets.
Snapchat
spies on you with "AI".
You
can't always rely on "adversarial clothing".
BMW is
pestering its customers with on-screen ads in their cars. Many are not happy. I will
never buy one of these modern pieces of shit.
Maybe we need
sexier scientists.
Opposition to surveillance cameras
is bringing together people from across the political spectrum, much as the anti-data-center resistance does.
Remember, it's not only Flock -- there are
several companies that make these cameras.
Male forced-birth politicians
are pervs who get off on degrading women, like molesters or porn hounds.
This man cannot be guilty --
he has such a good alibi.
Three surveillance cameras
were destroyed in Auburn CA.
Winona MN had eight surveillance cameras.
All eight of them
were destroyed over just two days.
Charges have been filed against two school officials who failed to report the sexual assault on girl wrestler Kallie Keeler. So much for the scumbags who claimed there was no sexual assault here. Now
make sure they suffer to serve as an example to others.
OpenAI paid a bunch of "influencers" to promote its stuff.
The scheme backfired big.
On the other hand, "AI"
has its own influencers to give garbage advice.
Three mothers in Houston
are suing against Texas's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in classrooms.
Dozens of people
are getting arrested for peacefully protesting against data centers.
New Orleans is
using "AI" to triage incoming calls, creating a delay for callers with emergencies to reach a real human dispatcher, if they can get to one at all.
People are going to die because of this.
More surveillance cameras here. If you approve of this because it's a gun range, you lose your right to complain when they spy on something
you do. Left or right, we must all stand against this.
The Republican harassment of Dr Fauci is
a witch-hunt by the scientific ignorantsia.
Young Hispanics
are abandoning religion faster than any other US demographic group, with women leading the way. This reflects the similar trend
in Latin America itself.
There might
be an underlying pattern here, but it's just too hard to tell for sure.
Minnesota's
ban on creating fake nude images of people without their consent is now in effect, despite xAI's efforts to block it.
Google plans to
destroy protected wetlands in Indiana to build a data center.
The movement to get men and boys out of women's and girls' sports
is reaching a tipping point, with public support now at 80%, and people increasingly refusing to be bullied into silence. Colorado, Washington, and Arizona will hold referenda on the issue this November. Now that Sophie Cunningham has become known as a new face of the movement,
her branded shoes sold out within hours of going on sale.
Jews are 10% of New York City's population, but are
the target of 70% of the hate crimes.
Workers' share of economic output
is shrinking this year, as it has been doing for decades.
More than half of the young women who grew up in the Mormon religion have left it.
Blogger Bilbo has some ideas on
reforming the US government (see my comment too).
California's Democratic party executive board
has endorsed the state's union-backed billionaire tax initiative, defying billionaire-toady governor Newsom.
The anti-Trump resistance
shows some strength even in rural Nebraska -- where Dan Osborn's independent Senate candidacy also seems to be doing well.
What an asshole. And that is
not an apology.
Residents
swarmed a city council meeting in Salem OR to oppose a planned data center. Some of them
brought a guillotine along, perhaps reflecting the billionaires-vs-masses aspect of the conflict.
"
In another age, you'd have been among the most enthusiastic witch-hunters, and then, as now, you'd be utterly convinced of your unimpeachable rectitude."
Mamdani clone Abdul El-Sayed, "
the most anti-Semitic US Senate candidate in America", has won the Democratic nomination in Michigan, yet another alarming sign about the direction of the party. Still, the news is not all bad. He won by barely 1%, not the double-digit margin the polls had predicted (he didn't even get an actual majority since 4% of the vote went to Mallory McMorrow, who had withdrawn) -- and Michigan has a high concentration of Muslim voters, giving him an advantage that similar candidates would not have in most other states. There's grounds for hope that the Republican, Mike Rogers, will be able to defeat El-Sayed in November -- Republicans openly said that he's the opponent they hoped for, much easier to beat than his pro-Israel rival Haley Stevens would have been.
Pro-Israel Wesley Bell
overwhelmingly defeated "Squad" nutjob Cori Bush for the nomination for Missouri's First Congressional District. The district is heavily Democratic, so Bell is sure to win in November.
Cindy Holscher, an "anti-establishment populist" who supports a moratorium on data centers,
has won the Democratic nomination for governor of Kansas. Despite being a very red state, Kansas sometimes elects Democratic governors, including the current governor.
It was
a good week for abortion rights.
Democratic congressman Justin Pearson of Tennessee is emerging as
a leader in the anti-data-center movement. This may even get him enough Republican voter support to stay in office despite the recent gerrymander of his district intended to get rid of him.
Colorado Republicans are using an "AI"-faked image of a Jewish political candidate
depicting him with demonic horns.
It's not just Twitter --
Meta too is a cesspit of kiddie porn. More billionaire news at the link.
Surveillance cameras
aren't even much good for fighting crime. Apparently they often
misread license plates.
SpaceX says it will remove the air-polluting gas turbines powering its data center near Memphis TN, which it doesn't have permits for --
but the last of them won't be gone until July 2027.
They don't have permits. Why are these people being allowed to break the law with impunity for a year? Send the cops in, shut down and remove the damn turbines, and if SpaceX's people object, arrest them. No special privileges for the billionaire's company.
Mamdani
got a tough reception in Staten Island.
The Lake Tahoe area, suffering from a dangerous bear infestation,
uses specialized dogs to condition them to avoid humans. There are only two such dogs available, however.
This investment company
bet everything on "AI". Now it's totally buggered.
The world
has learned to ignore Trump's threats and bluster.
A
simple typo in a police document resulted in an innocent man spending a year and a half in prison.
"
By the time the public notices, the new rule is presented as settled practice rather than a political choice that should have been debated."
The UK Labour party
is finally coming to its senses on the trans nonsense -- as in the US, people are just refusing to be bullied into silence any more. The writer mentions four unions still guzzling the kool-aid, but the problem is most likely just the leaders of those unions, not the rank-and-file.
In Germany, about ten thousand people
have died from excessive heat so far this year.
The Moroccans who swarmed into Ceuta last weekend
were just seeking a better life.
Even Luxembourg, one of the world's smallest countries,
is donating to support Ukraine.
Ukraine
gives some help to Hungary during the latter's energy crisis.
In the Perm region of Russia,
this truck spectacularly exploded, for reasons not yet known.
Two Ukrainian cruise missiles
hit a military plant in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad).
See Ukrainian attacks on a
Russian fuel truck convoy and a
fully-loaded missile launcher.
This is
the Wildberries warehouse in Novosemeykino, near the Kazakhstan border, after a Ukrainian attack. A
massive plume of smoke from the fire filled the sky over the city. Here's
another such warehouse near St Petersburg; in fact, it was not completely destroyed, so more drones will be needed.
Here's what Russia's
supply route to occupied Crimea looks like.
This is/was
the oil refinery at Saratov.
Apparently the
water quality in Russia is terrible.
Sex-segregated education
is a very bad idea for Israel, making it less like the West and more like the backward Islamic states. If women don't have equal educational opportunities, some of the best might even emigrate.
Israel warned Trump that if his planned new wave of airstrikes didn't
focus on regime-change targets, there was little point in doing them at all.
The Iranian regime now
has the upper hand over Trump in any negotiation, and is well positioned to weaken and humiliate him.
The Iranian regime
doesn't understand the rising generation.
The Turkic states of central Asia
are cozying up to Israel.
The recent mass protests in India led to a new display of the Modi government's
bullying and arrogance.
More links at
Red State Blues,
AutisticAF, and
Comedy Plus.
My posts this week: some
truths and inspirations, the video
Sur le quai, and some
recommended news sources.
