Today, as I was walking home after an errand, I ran into a local figure, Marty Medina. He recognized me from working together on a volunteer project. He was delivering flyers about a local event celebrating cultural diversity....

For years I was a participant at a community mental health program, a chapter of the Clubhouse movement. When the executive director resigned, candidates interviewed with selection committee and then met with the general membership, right after lunch, taking questions from any member who asked...

This 1948 film explaining propaganda to school children should be shown to every US, UK and Australian schoolkid in 2025. #USPolitics #UKPolitics #auspol #politics #propaganda youtu.be/8AGpILvdwDM?...

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Dutch late night TV has its take

When Helen of Troy found herself wallowing in regrets, over hard choices and losses, she reminded herself... ...she'd always have Paris. - (if you haven't seen Casablanca, then I recommend it; it's a classic for a reason.)

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

They travelled to a less advanced nation, to share their technology skills. They learned the language, they ate the local food, and so forth. But even so, the natives were fearful, and eventually the natives turned on them, violently. - I'm referring to the South Korean Hyundai workers.

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"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk - You might even say he really stuck his neck out, for 2A!

Yet another successful use of "I disagree" rather than "You're wrong": Talking yesterday with my mother, who has dementia. I mentioned my housemate's kittens. She said she'd never had a cat. I said, mildly, that I disagreed. And then she DID remember the housecat we had from about 1978 to 1985.

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission today fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the advertising technology market.

From Jane of the North:

I have wondered, what Germans could have done differently, in the early 1930s, to avert the rise of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. According to this article, the window of opportunity closed in 1933. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...

Rocks form three ways. Sedimentary rocks form slowly, as material (eg sand) settles in layers, over a long time, and compacts under weight. Igneous rocks are formed from molten rock. Metamorphic rocks were once sedimentary or igneous, then changed under heat, pressure and/or chemical reactions...

Someone in comments (and now I can't find the actual comment, sorry) said the best Star Wars trilogy is now Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars Ep 4, and you know what, I'm here for that argument, call it the "Death Star Trilogy"

Autocomplete thought I might be typing "shrimp ceviche" into a search bar. In a better world, ceviche would indeed be the word starting with ce. But in reality, I was curious about shrimp cesium-137. - I wonder if anyone will find the source of the cesium-137?

An adage a day keeps the doctor cliché

Fifteen year olds can walk into any Subway and order a sandwich. No background checks. No sandwich licence. No wonder cops don't feel safe on our streets.

I heard about an attempt to gene-splice crabs with cheetahs... I dunno, that could go sideways, real fast.

LULA: “.. Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions and will not accept any form of tutelage.” 🇧🇷

When the moon hits your eye... - When behavior's informed, by strict cultural norms, that's some mores!

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Things will be fine …

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

1/2 My favorite passage from the Second Edition rules for Dungeons and Dragons: Lawful evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful evil...

The first rule of Apophrasis Club, is we never mention apophrasis!

Love it.... #StarWars

Accordion to a recent study, 7 out of 10 people don't notice when a word in a sentence is replaced by a musical instrument.

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I just discovered this meme and I love it. Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!

One way lawless regimes hold themselves together is through shared guilt. If they can get their soldiers to get enough blood on their hands, and for everyone to know, then those soldiers understand that their fate is bound to the regime's. That's loyalty that they can count on.

Adam Kinzinger asked "How can a state have a militia if the president can simply federalize it?" - Apparently Kinzinger has never heard of Orval Faubus, and what happened in Arkansas in 1957. This is a staggering level of ignorance about USA history. The crisis at Little Rock was a turning point!

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

“And I’m like man! Y’know, you know what the problem is, though. It’s definitely not me. I think it’s everyone else.” - Tim Pool, a rising (white male) star of MAGA

I can smell the smoke from the burning