More pictures from the war ravaged city of Portland. Just as Kyoto was spared from the atomic bomb, I am hoping Portlandia statue can be spared.

Time to lighten the mood with some vegan propaganda.

<<It’s discouraging to go into a classroom and find it full of students who believe, almost verbatim, every bad idea that I believed when I was their age.>> josephheath.substack.com/p/kohei-sait...

watch if you want a lot more detail on Haligan, Abba and Pulte. “In any other era, Trump would be impeached.“

Just in: Portland currently under siege by Antifa forces. Take care folks.

I'm trying to imaging Tsar Nicholas II reading the term "hereditary communist aristocrats" in the paper

If democracy really worked, the number one issue in the US would be the cost of and access to healthcare and health insurance. This is one issue that affects virtually all US voters and where US voters are paying a lot more for the same treatments relative to other developed countries.

Pelosi is running for reelection? What?

Also, let’s not lose sight of the fact that Musk claimed Trump was in the Epstein files. But instead we so far have only Musk in the Epstein files.

Our friends in America for the first time are experiencing what the Enlightened Peoples of Sh*tholes like Russia, India, Hungary, Turkey have experienced forever - except at least Trump is constrained in theory by term limits.

Latino people voting for Trump whose ICE then disappears their husbands/wives/in-laws into an El Salvadorean gulag is why we can't have democracy. Curtis Yarvin, inasmuch as he makes sense, is right to be against democracy but for the wrong reasons.

British welfare state seems… Generous? 6% of GDP goes to pensioners? 15% of working age population is receiving unemployment benefits?

You shouldn’t be able to fire prosecutors like this. This is some sh*thole-style justice you got here. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

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<<Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla account for over 40% of Nvidia's revenue as they buy Nvidia's AI chips. The highly interconnected nature of the Big Tech names has Wall Street concerned about how much the market could drop if the AI bubble pops.>> -Axios

Million, billion, trillion… It’s all the same. Also tariff monies are being collected on a shelf? Seems a little risky.

<<Once however, with my team leader’s permission, I fired an old soviet grenade launcher randomly in the enemy’s direction for funsies.>> www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-revie...

Have you guys ever tried reading Curtis Yarvin tweets? What even is this sh*t? x.com/curtis_yarvi...

CURTFISHING www.astralcodexten.com/p/sources-sa... (on.ft.com/3KoF59G)

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Always nice to see Orthodox Jews protesting Israel.

Is this another fake controversy to detract from the Epstein files, the increasingly fragile labor market, etc etc? Regardless, I learned about a new US massacre.

The author not so subtly is throwing shade at my man Elon.

I fed the first paragraph of the novel "The Sea The Sea" by @irismurdoch.bsky.social to Google Gemini. And this is what I got:

I'm once again reminded of what the lead prosecutor said about defendant Casey Anthony in closing arguments (?). It was something like: "The most well-documented liar in court history accuses everyone else of lying."

Archive Md linlk if you can't access: archive.md/VkZVr Japanese criminal justice system still has Tokugawa-sh*tholeness corroding it. The Japanese should go through a "Meiji Restoration"-Restoration - just to cleanse the Tokugawa sh*tholic juices corrupting the land.

I wouldn't have guessed Hawaii was the richest state by median net worth and Washington was the second. The poorest states are of course all Republican, ex-Confederacy parasitic sh*tholes. finance.yahoo.com/personal-fin...

🎶Another sh*t co… Another heartache… On and on… Does anybody want to take this anymore? 🎶 www.axios.com/2025/09/25/c...

An interesting sh*tco play. Value baggies will be salivating for sure. elmerspud.substack.com/p/deep-value...

Bunch of comedians are performing in Riyadh, whitewashing MBS's crimes. Including Bill Burr. www.humorism.xyz/heres-how-co...

<<"If they absolutely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but with my head held high," he said.>> CC @bagholderquotes.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎵 Sinkholes and sh*tholes go together Ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong ... That's the way it should be Wah-ooh, yeah! 🎵 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Good to see that our American friends are slowly embracing civilization. I guess they should give up their guns first? Perhaps. “free bidets for guns” ultimate civilizational upgrade gov program. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

I can grant the British people the random u in various words (colour, labour). But anything more than the random, harmless u, it’s just getting on my nerves (pAedophile, encyclopAedia, diarrhOea). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

When it comes to Israel-Palestine, as things currently stand, you have two options: pro-genocide or anti-genocide. I’m anti-genocide. But if you are going to be pro-genocide in Gaza, why not also be pro-Holocaust? Or pro Rohingya genocide? Darfur? Rwanda? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

If Peter Turchin is right (his thesis being that fundamental driver of social instability is income inequality + surplus of aspirants who want to be elite), taxing the wealthy is also in the self-interests of the rich. But...

This morning when I opened my gambling brokerage account (aka individual stock picking bagginess), it was down 122bps. Now it's up 10bps. (Thanks IBKR and FTLF and gold.) I'm glad I survived the bear market of this morning.

"IF AMERICA WAS being bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did, and many innocent Americans and American children were being killed and traumatically injured, and we begged for mercy,

Europeans are royally f*cking Americans by making the Americans pay for biotech research and then using the resulting drugs on the cheap. Weaken patent protections drugs get and let the chips fall where they may - right inside the European rectums. archive.md/2025.09.16-1...

<< I can see no legitimate reason for the U.S. government to risk billions in American taxpayer dollars in an almost surely doomed effort to bail Milei out. Above and beyond the economics, it is an outrage that we are doing this while condemning African children to die >>

<<Nvidia's decision to pump money into OpenAI to fund its need for the chipmaker's hardware has raised concerns over the agreement's circular structure.>> - Financial Times Look it’s very easy. $NVDA trades at a P/S multiple of 25. They invest $100B into Open AI, which returns as $100B of revenue.

The many intertwined layers of self-dealing here are just astonishing - a Musking inside another Musking that’s inside yet another Musking. Use company A’s funds to pressure company A shareholders to give you more money and in doing so prop up your other company B. A triple combo Musking.

<<Alibaba stock soars 8% on expected AI spend, Nvidia pact>> -This is madness! -Madness? This is NVID—YAAAAAA (kicks the value baggie into a deep pit full of cigar butts)

Jesus fentanyl Christ…

Twitter is getting worse - and it's really hard to get worse from the depths it has sunk to - and yet...

Long $IBKR