After a bumpy patch, the girls are back to normal.

I have to admit this is far more effectively argued than I expected.

Big day here, my dimwitted, car-brained mayor used common sense and fully closed a road nearby for a brocante. He normally let's car traffic pass through which always creates problems because it's obviously dangerous as hell. Not sure why he's now being sensible but I'm still not voting for him.

Sure it's just a few snow flurries that aren't sticking on the ground but better get ahead of things and shut down the city anyway.

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as the British government’s official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.

LOL I already see people on both sides of customer service calls complaining about terrible service. A lot of their service was already outsourced overseas and the only time people got answers (often bad) was via a person in the US office. Good luck people.

Abolish ICE is the bare minimum we can accept Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

For anyone around Paris who wants to visit Versailles for free in March (first Sunday of the month) you can dive in now and try to get your tickets. www.paris-friendly.fr/entree-gratu...

My reaction after seeing January's EDF bill. Pretty similar with friends who were slammed as well. I still don't get the point of tying nuclear costs to oil since most of the energy here is nuclear.

And some American scientists are already in France, Marseille to be precise. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy #Caturday from this glorious floof who works the front desk at the vet's office.

French MP banned from USA for questioning the tech of free speech absolutist, Musk. Everyone who believed the free speech bullshitters should hang their head in shame for eternity. Good luck to football fans who think it's safe to visit the US for the World Cup. www.20minutes.fr/politique/42...

Keep this in mind when using any of these platforms. Facebook/Meta has long had a terrible reputation for personal privacy. These are the companies who stood with Trump at the inauguration and love him.

EXCLUSIVE: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. theintercept.com/2026/02/13/a...

0 for me though admittedly, I'm not wild about celery or cauliflower but eat both. I'll try pretty much anything and if someone goes to the trouble of preparing something, I eat it.

The bullshit hype machine never stops. Of course it will (and is) replacing some jobs but these guys overstate everything because they've bet their entire career on it. Cracks are already showing in the market and they're panicking. www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai...

Wild that anyone ever trusted Amazon with home security in the first place. Nobody should ever trust Amazon for anything. A reminder that if you use Amazon, you're helping Bezos buy a new yacht.

Tax dodging immigrant worries about immigration. They really are the worst of us.

When it hasn't been raining, February has been nice.

You know it has to be bad accounting when E&Y raises the subject. The traditional accounting method is to help companies hide problems like this.

Here in Europe, there's movement against the monsters who were close to Epstein. It's hard to understate the extent of the Republican coverup of Epstein and his crowd over in the US. Obviously the most Republicans (with a few exceptions) are eager to continue the coverup because they love Trump.

Addiction is clearly the goal of these massive companies and it's obvious they've been successful.

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People have been buying/selling/using coconut milk for years and now the clowns in the UK Supreme Court are banning that too. It's no wonder people don't think much of the political system when we see silly decisions like this.

I don't even use oat milk (or any kind of milk) and I find this ridiculous. It's as silly as lawmakers who want to ban veggie burgers from being called burgers. Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby www.bbc.com/news/article...

US markets seem to be correcting after initially rising on the US jobs report. It. Was. Terrible. January numbers were mediocre and the massive downward revisions for 2025 were a nightmare. January 2026 will probably be revised downward soon as well and it already was nothing great.

“The more we learn, the more pedophilia and criminal use of cryptocurrency look related… Epstein, it turns out, was a major early investor in the crypto industry. In the backrooms of MAGA-land, passing around under-age girls is a lot like passing around insider crypto deals.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

The Republicans can't stop howling about the Super Bowl halftime show, but somehow have no interest in actual US policy that is highly irregular.

I currently have 5 different cat food tins open right now because Blini has to eat while taking medication, but she's refusing to eat everything that she loved to eat a few days ago. Thankfully Mimo is here to eat the opened tins. She's a lot less finicky than Blini by a mile.

If only Rupert Murdoch's media cared as much about abusive billionaires as they do with younger people buying roasted fucking chicken and juice. Murdoch will do anything to pin today's blame on everyone but the billionaires who are ruining society.

We shouldn't be too surprised that the Republicans are lining up to support a pedophile. It wasn't that long ago they were protecting Dennis Hastert as Speaker of the House before he went to prison for raping boys. No thanks to the Republicans though, just like today.

the multimillionaire treasury secretary talking about how he visited the billionaire pedophile's private island with his wife, kids, and multiple nannies sounds like something you'd write in a novel and throw it out for absurd unrealism and yet howard lutnick exists.

Tomorrow's US jobs report is going to be so bad, they're on TV to lower expectations. These guys will trash everything until they're removed from power.

Look across the political and financial elite and there are so many who participated in child trafficking, pedophilia, rape and then the others who either promote or support neo-Nazis. And then there are the others who sell state secrets as well. WTF are we doing here? It's all so disgusting.

These selfish fuckers need to be taxed into oblivion at the national level. They hate the idea of living in a society where people are treated with decency or helped in any way.

The coverup continues. The rich and powerful are receiving special protections thanks to Trump and the Republicans. Epstein file redactions reveal victims as young as nine and implicate a high-level government official, lawmakers say www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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When I was a student working breakfast room service at a hotel, I made sure the rude people received decaf coffee instead of caffeinated.

What I always love about @crockett.house.gov is how she cuts through the bullshit and says what people are thinking but are afraid to say. There's no reason to be anything but blunt when it comes to Trump and his crimes or his racism.

The Republicans love having a police state where paid goons are hiding behind masks...as long as they're in charge of things. Obviously they'll fight against this if the paid goons don't answer to Republicans.

Pretty obvious at this point that US Olympic athletes should just flat out say what they think of Trump instead of dancing around the subject.

On the subject of rewarding bad behavior online, look at what gets attention between a handful of trans athletes versus thousands of doping athletes across cycling, swimming, weightlifting, etc. around the world. One creates hysterical online rants with lots of clicks, the other almost nothing.

Online disinformation runs so deep and while plenty of stupid people fall for it, plenty of otherwise intelligent people fall for it as well. I know a former French journo (Le Figaro) who fell for the stupid "wokism is the root of all evil" bullshit. My head exploded when I tried talking with her.

It's incredible today that cities allowed this to happen, but glad the blight of cars is being addressed.

This video about AI slop and "London is dangerous" is well worth watching. I see similar online about Paris and I've even had arguments with dumb fucks from outside of Paris (Nice, Geneva, US, etc) tell me that Paris is falling apart because they saw it online. There's so much bullshit out there.

Visited the Orangerie today since it was a perfect day to walk across town. I had a laugh when I saw this painting by Utrillo since the little building on the right side of the church is where my annual homeowners meetings are held. It's the oldest church in Paris.

Let's get ahead of the game and send her back to her previous prison now. It's not worth playing games like this.

Still amazed that we have a global conspiracy involving the worst people around - all with long histories of being abusive assholes - but the nutters who believed in PizzaGate hardly seemed moved by it. A few outliers but the cultists still support one of the most popular names in the Epstein files.

We're looking for a dogs & and cat sitter 10th to 14th September, here in La Manche, close to the DDay landing beaches? There's an old FB page of our house under "Vindelonde".