@faineg.bsky.social to haunt your nightmares.

Travelfish #560 The Scam Hotel Edition A wrap on interesting travel, Southeast Asia, and other random stuff I’ve come across over the last week or so. www.travelfish.org/newsletter/n...

Lorenzo de Medici’s pet giraffe used to wander 1480s Florence sticking its head in second story windows to be fed by excited neighbors (or eating their ribeye is herbs) and this is a great visual to help imagine it.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

WE MADE IT GUYS

barely a metaphor lmao

You squirts better skedaddle.

Snort. I’m in.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

This is why No Kings is important. Turns out there are more people who agree with you than you thought, and the people who don't agree discover how big the opposition is

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

I’m going out on a limb here and hazarding a guess that the people in KY angry they couldn’t vote in N.Y. or VA are not the people Dems want to be voting…

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

How the inventor of the printing press made souvenir mirrors that could "store" the holy essence of relics! Magical Persian goblets of yore! The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca "Smoking Mirror" and his connection to Elizabeth I's personal sorcerer! These all relate to drones, really - read my latest:

Over the next two months, during the Fall NewsMatch campaign, Orange County residents can insure they’re not among 50 million Americans without access to local news.

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

Another day, yet another paper systemically, mathematically showing that all of the major AI models are just pattern-matching, not reasoning, not reevaluating and being absolutely clowned by humans in new reasoning benchmarks: arxiv.org/abs/2510.19788

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

This rack of cards only has pet sympathy cards no people ones. That has to mean something but what?

It’s like Jurassic Park but with people. Don’t miss the part about it requiring, “a particularly adventurous female.” www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

"Let them eat cake."

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Ancient Roman science fiction! Prester John getting mixed up with Mongol invaders! The pyramids of Cahokia! Foucault! All this AND MORE in the latest entry in my series on the ancient history of drone technology:

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

love your giant founding charters bsky.app/profile/alet...

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Protest frogs = Soju. Coincidence?

The women on the left did not want to climb every mountain.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

I wish I knew which evil genius in hotel management convinced priority guests that bottles of water are a perk. It comes out of the tap for free here in the US. We could have had something worth something but no, now we complain that we didn’t get something we could get for free anyway.

I went in for a routine Mammogram at 1:00 and had the (negative) results back from my doctor by 3:46. Second time it’s been a few hour turnaround. American medicine does some things very well.

Now it all makes sense.

Once a year for my Birthday I have original recipe KFC (thighs) and a bottle of fancy Champagne. Then I toast the biscuits with butter and honey for breakfast the next morning.

Reader. I have lived this. They usually end up with bits of shell or maybe a crawfish leg in their hair.

You may be wondering where I’ve been, and the answer is both “spent a nice weekend in Vermont with family,” in addition to this:

Hell yah elderly me wants a Godzilla tail. www.geeky-gadgets.com/human-tail-r...

Strange frogs walking down streets and staring down ICE is absolutely a basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

A friend of a friend self-published a book that had promise but desperately needed an editor who did not care one iota about his feelings and I’ve been asked to write an Amazon review. I’m torn. Do I lie and say it was good when it wasn’t but could have been….