OK I finally had time to sit down and watch Hegseth pretend to be George C Scott pretending to be Patton Cutting through the bullshit: here's what he wants to change (and my analysis as a veteran):

Tuesday is Orange Shirt Day, when communities honor the survivors of U.S. Indian boarding schools and their descendants.

This is hilarious. Even the Dutch are way ahead of us in seeing how bad things are in the United States with Donald Trump running amok and corporations capitulating to fascism. But, then again, the Netherlands has experience with being taken over by fascists.

You’d think free speech was a woman’s body given how badly the Right hates it and wants to control it at the same time

The same people deep in their feelings over jokes about a dead Nazi are the ones who were cheering at the thought of people being eaten by alligators a month ago

Rest in Peace, Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman. She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.

Well, duh.

Trump should attack Putin, not Chicago.

Liberate DC!

Based on AI, bounty hunters stormed a North Texas home, threw a flash bang and snatched the wrong guy, police say

It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.

Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks, bulletproof vests claiming to be police, HPD says

I don't know who did this, but it's perfect. I saw it, then couldn't find it on Gavin Newsom's social media.. then it popped up again. So someone else may have done it without his OK. Anyone know who did it?

From my collection of Scientific Americans. These are covers relating to Mathematical Games columns. I have July 65 (Four bug problem) somewhere. I don’t have April 61 yet (Coxeter-Escher). martin-gardner.org/SciAm12.html

Hang out with me drawing transit networks! I'll be doing my fun master class in transit network design is in Portland Oct 30-31. It's for anyone who interacts with transit planning on the job, as well as for advocates and aspiring planners. Please share! humantransit.org/2025/07/new-...

Trump's takeover of DC has again raised the possibility of DC becoming the 51st state (on social media and by a congress guy). Standard reaction: "Oh! 51 isn't a round number. Our flag!!" etc. GUESS WHAT --- 51 stars work out fine!

Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.

Easy fix to DC’s homeless problem: spend $200 million on affordable housing instead of on a White House ballroom fit for a mafioso

What are the chances that at their summit,Trump and Putin will announce a new world order?

“The Carter Center condemns the decision [by Israel to occupy Gaza City] and calls on the Israeli government to pursue a non-militarized path to peace, implement an immediate ceasefire, and avoid further unnecessary suffering in Gaza and exacerbation of violence in the West Bank.“

FCC commish: "A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda." Stan Freburg made fun of this kind of nonsense back in 1957. youtu.be/PLlTlYfqQV4?...

Gerrymandering? FYI - The Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group at Tufts University, was founded by Moon Durchin. Link mggg.org Here is an hour long talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8C...

For my BlueSky followers & friends - Here's a web page I've made about the "Pig Butchering" scams appearing on NextDoor. I intend to use it in response to obvious imposters in scam posts seen there. Comments welcome! www.dialectrix.com/BLOGGING/pig...

Trick question, it doesn’t matter because Israel has already condemned you Free Palestine

Hang out with me drawing colored lines on maps! My "inexcusably fun" two-day intensive course in transit network design is coming up this October 30-31 in Portland. It's for anyone whose work benefits from a deeper grasp of how networks work. Please share! humantransit.org/2025/07/new-...

Tom Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025). Omnia mutantur; nihil interit. tomlehrer.bandcamp.com/track/we-wil...

Maybe you have seen this, but I had not seen this angle. I hope faces of these monsters can be identified. Beating the shit out of peaceful protesters sends a message. The police are the enemy. Peaceful protesters no longer have the right to protest. Well, fuck this.

Scott Adams is overtly trying to redirect MAGA cult members’ cognitive processes away from “saving the children” and back to “the cult leader knows best”:

I just registered for G4G16 -- February 18 to 22, 2026, in San Francisco! My talk will likely be on "LangTominoes". Donald Knuth will be a Featured Presenter at the Gathering, so he may be in the audience. Yikes! www.dialectrix.com/langford/Lan...

Portland Peeps! Are you familiar with SW Corbett near Hamilton and the Corbett bridge over I-5? If so, you may be interested in this detailed account of the multiple electric train/trolley trestles that crossed a gulch for decades, beginning in 1890. dialectrix.com/trolley/Corb...

10 sets of LangTominoes [1-8] arrived on Monday! I'm distributing them to 9 Lucky peeps as time permits. Produced in Canada.

So, 2025 is half over now. Ugh.

My batch of LangTominos have been produced and shipped! I have an advanced photo of a set, sent by the maker, ItemsByCL.

When LangTominoes 1-8 are nested together, (see top configuration) they take up more width than when fit into a complete arrangement (bottom configuration). Can you explain this? (Hint in comments.)

UK readers! I'll be in the UK for most of September. Let me know how I can be helpful! humantransit.org/2025/06/comi...

Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.

Freshly printed Langtominoes. Thanks for Talus Design in Portland.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I'm about to have Langtominoes one thru eight 3D-printed in June! I've been editing the web page for them. www.dialectrix.com/langford/Lan...

How brilliant is this! All those asymmetric ones... mesmerising. #iteachphysics www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7K...

Picked up my test prints today from Talus Design 3D in SE Portland. These are all red Langtominoes 1,2,3,4. They fit tightly!

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Makoto Ozone on PIANO New Year's Eve 2021 www.orsymphony.org/productions/...

Polygons…

The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Planar arrangement of Langtominoes 1-12. (This is one of 40 such 2D planar solutions.)

A planar arrangement of Langtominoes 1-11.

Vladimir, STOP! STOP Vladimir, STOP! Make Vladimir stop! See Vladimir stop? Run Donald, Run! (Not in 2018, Donald.)

I made my Facebook rant about the Weather chart in the Oregonian into a blog article.. dialectrix.com/BLOGGING/Wea...

Happy Easter Langtominoes! (A new project) Langtominoes will be solid. Like 1/2” square wood dowels or some such material. There are 4 such flat planar solutions for n=8. But, what if we are allowed to stand selected ones up?

Permanent Standard Time is the healthiest, safest, prosperous way to end clock change. Permanent DST costs lives, money, and health, and fails each time tried. Please tell your Congressional reps NO to DST, restore year-round Standard Time! Links below 🔗👇