A message everyone needs to hear

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Swapping dinged up bumper trim on the E30 but can’t access a couple screws wo removing the bumper. 2 torx bolts, NBD, unless you strip them out bc they’re fused to the brackets… guess we’re doing some rust mitigation on parts noone will ever see.

A tsunami that starts in Alaska can reach the Washington coast in less than four hours.

You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained. His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing. He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

Imagine seeing this on a Christmas tree and not knowing it’s from a movie

Bluesky bakers, help. I ate this heavenly “Apple Pancake” last week. I’m attempting to duplicate. I picked an internet recipe based on the closest photo, but, Lordy, was it a failure. The consistency isn’t German Pancake/Dutch Baby, but no quite a standard pancake.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...

If white is cool, then consider me Miles Davis.

Now official policy of the United States: —Immigration is exclusively harmful —All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners —Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that Read it yourself.

any “Machines Only Get One Button” candidate has my vote

From GR’s website, apparently they got the aero designed before the exterior design was considered which might explain the approach!

Be still my heart

Baking season

Also, saying it was a 'righteous strike' is a tell

This is so good

My version of Spotify wrapped is the record of borrowed CDs from my local library. Found a lot of great music this way, and avoided buying shitty music that I didn’t need to hear twice.

Congratulations, America. Shitty cars are back.

The US reverse-engineered an Iranian drone based on an Israeli drone, based on a joint German-US drone?

Heard on Main Street U.S.A.: “you are the cheapest man I know. How come when we’re here you have no problem buying everything?” It’s nice to take a vacation from your economic station, even if it’s just for a few days.

“I think” is how a system run by a king or a dictator works. Here, we have a rule of law that says no one, and that includes the government, can murder people on a whim because it “thinks” they’re up to no good.

G'night, friends. Leaving you with this lullaby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eD...

Photobomb...that Goof

We only lived in Germany for three years, but it as apparently a significant point in our kids' development because my son still feels more comfortable with Celsius than Fahrenheit, and my daughter calls this place "Discoveryland."

Let me be clear. In the context of war, killing helpless former combatants who’re trying not to drown by clinging to pieces of their wrecked ship is a WAR CRIME. Outside the context of war, it is MURDER. There are a lot of very complex hard-to-judge military ethics cases, but this ain’t one of them.

Good one, Rolly.

Never again

this was a nice read on those U.S. Chinese restaurant Zodiac paper placemats from @jayasaxena.com :

Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators. n.pr/48brg8f

Is it a slippery slope when officers have to eventually use their judgement to figure out if an order is unlawful? Yes! But it shouldn't be too much to ask officers to disobey morally abhorent, clearly illegal orders such as 'kill all survivors'

Hot damn

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Typical California scene

Proceedings Photo of the Week: U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Erin Porras, the Depot Mascot Handler, and Corporal Opha Mae II, the Depot Mascot, pose for a photo during the motivational run for Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., 25 November.

California Brown Pelicans, Encinitas CA, Sunset

Nothing brings joy like Mexican fruit vendors

Which datasets have gone missing after the consolidation of the federal government? And who is stepping in to supplement them?

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

The beloved Galapagos tortoise named Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo at an estimated 141 years, has died.

The ultimate stolen valor test: show this image to someone claiming to be a combat vet, if they look at it blankly immediately accuse them of stolen valor

Navy's argument for diversifying it's sub-launched undersea weapons systems is straight forward. Current MK-48 mod is arguably the most operationally capable weapon that exists. But it's an old design, expensive & technologically complex. So what if we prioritized volume over capability instead?

1. EXCLUSIVE Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage The use of Chinese components was previously unreported Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military

Life advice, fellas/ladies. Buy that cheap convertible you accidentally find on Craigslist.

“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.” - Joseph Heller

This is another unforced error but you didn’t need me to tell you that.

Tomorrowland, 1980

RIP Jimmy Cliff youtu.be/fjW5f7i5EwE