in 1980 i was 14 years old, an age when a lot of dioceses start targeting girls to replenish their nunneries. as a born and bred Catholic girl, i was nun-curious. the school assigned me nunnery counselors, one of them a Mariknoll nun. I WANTED TO BE A MARIKNOLL NUN; so i remember vividly how […]

"Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term." - NYTimes

Montana family preserves more than 1,000 years of Blackfeet history Web: https://www.ktvq.com/community/out-and-about/montana-family-preserves-more-than-1-000-years-of-blackfeet-history Archive: https://archive.ph/IEfWl #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

okay, I think I have a Character (PC & NPC) store/load worked out with mongoDB and the gradually emerging code for my "Galaxy Simulator" project.

after my first cuppa and a 1.7 mile walk in the rain, I am still not really conscious & alert. it looks like this is A Two Cuppa Day

thanks for your analysis @CARROT

I often ask myself this very question

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It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

The Chinese word for ‘owl’ is ‘cat headed bird’. #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

Martin Peterson doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

“The Minnesota agency tasked with investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has withdrawn from the case, alleging federal authorities have restricted its access to evidence.” […]

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE […]

#Cats Christmas/Chanukah (by my friend Marcia Weisbrot)

The World Is A Ghetto by War mmmmmmmmmmmm https://pandora.app.link/bsQ3k1NyKZb

gawd, I love Joe Cocker https://pandora.app.link/9IO3YNEyKZb

nope, they said. just nope. https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-halts-nvidia-h200-chip-o-7EouWXq_SC2.wfcP3HkbaA

Senator @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social is donating $400,000 of her campaign money to 23 state Democratic parties in an “early money” investment “crucial” for state parties ahead of the 2026 midterms for political infrastructure. WATCH THIS and donate with me here: secure.actblue.com/donate/wfs-j...

well worth pondering https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/peace-conflict-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClA.OK1L.EysjdaXO4i2g&smid=nytcore-ios-share

I worked at Ames Research Center for a while. trust me on this one: the Trump Administration's destruction of the history stored in the Goddard Space Center Library is an act of barbarians.

huh. so Herr Trump told the oil companies about the Venezuela raid beforehand but not the Congress? interesting comment on centers of power here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-says-he-spoke-to-oil-companies-before-venezuela-action/ar-AA1TBogN

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

good point

Happy Anniversary! (not)

JFC “Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

a sad end for a valuable institution. Franklin would have been appalled https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/business/media/corporation-for-public-broadcasting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Mark Kelly tells Hegseth to go fuck himself, vows to fight demotion - National Zero https://nationalzero.com/2026/01/05/mark-kelly-tells-hegseth-to-go-fuck-himself-vows-to-fight-demotion/

""Over twenty-five years in the US Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the […]

yup https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm

People: "but I can't use a bike for transport cos sometimes it snows" The Dutch: "hold my stroopwaffle"

given that Herr Trump probably believes in his ‘heart of hearts’ that María Corina Machado ‘stole’ the Nobel Peace Prize from him, I am unsurprised that he was not willing to support her taking over in Venezuela.

“T]he U.S. action to remove Maduro as Head of State amounts to an unlawful intervention into Venezuela’s internal affairs …. Regime change by one State in another amounts to intervention when it is “coercive”…, which Saturday’s operation obviously was.” [ […]

I love this https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org/

Thank the Lord!

if I were the chief executive of Taiwan I would be concerned about this kidnapping of an admittedly bad person from Venezuela.

WIRED: A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science/

radio frequencies do not “collapse”. either something central to ATC broke or someone/something was interfering. my vote is for on it being due to an old and overly-centralized UHF or VHF antenna system https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115837118514059702

if anything can bring the population of a South or Central American country together, the US ‘taking control’ of their country will. this is not like replacing a CEO and just moving on after a successful ‘hostile takeover’ of a company.

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Mole sauce is a wunnerful thang

Pentagon ran a “war game to assess what the Venezuelan strongman’s fall might unleash. The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich […]

Happy Birthday to Steven Stills. Your music helped me to survive the 70s with a shred of sanity...

Military action against a sovereign state is illegal under the UN charter. There are two exceptions: self-defense, and UN Security Council approval. Heads of state have personal immunity while in office from prosecution in foreign courts. This attack is a serious breakdown of international norms.

in a speech to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on 3 JAN 1925, 101 years ago today, Benito Mussolini announced he was taking dictatorial powers. it seems somehow fitting that Herr Trump would announce the seizure of a nearby country today.

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walkies!