PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

This is what people in Mississippi apparently see. My IP privacy rotation apparently cycled through the state.

Me explaining to my mother why her Alexa is going to sound and act differently (new AI Alexa). Me once again raising topic of replacing Alexa with total in-home alternative with spare hardware. Me realizing who I sound like to her and her generation.

After repeatedly rephrasing and goading the model, I finally got it to spit out this reasonably coherent answer: #GoogleAI #Trump #CognitiveDecline

Now, more than ever, conservatives are proving that their accusations are *always* confessions. When they call people “welfare queens”, it’s because they are that themselves (or want to be). It’s always projection. If a conservative is alleging something, look into his own affairs.

@xreal-global.bsky.social Love my One Pros. Would it be possible to add a firmware feature to store device profiles, eg. I plug into my MacBook and it automatically changes to DP mode with widescreen at 4m distance, and then something else for my Steam Deck and something else for my phone.

Re-uploading this piece about the history of fascism within the Republican party, as I feel it's relevant still. medium.com/@brian.ragle...

Powered up my D3 to find some images left over on it from Jan/Feb/Mar of this year. Here is #M45, taken with a 4-point diffractor on the lens. #Astrophotography #photography #Astronomy #WeAreNotAlone

Britannica's social media team answering the MW folks.

I was privileged to meet her once during an interview for PBS Newshour. She was a Fred Rogers kind of soul for the whole of nature. Truly a wonderful light in an increasingly dark world and she will be missed.

MW keeping it real.

So, something I have been putting off for years, I plan to start today. In 90 days, we will know if I can produce something that has been rattling around in my head for 2 decades.

Wow, wait until they see what I write about and post literally every single day.

ChatGPT5 isn't just snarky...it's downright mean. Look what it said about my Steam Deck.

It's not the beards, it's the men who most commonly grow them (black men, SE Asian men, Muslims, Sikhs, etc.) Hegseth is preaching Incel Aryan Übermensch standards here.

The Hegseth "speech" can be summarized with this poster: hard-lit male profile, “elite” brotherhood, war as character test, reduces citizenship to combat fitness. He said "Übermensch" without saying it, and distinctly NOT in the manner Nietzsche meant it...but then again, neither did the Nazis.

Of all the things that could connect me to my dog psychically, our respective poop schedules are the dumbest. #UGoIGo

And this is an example of a "pig butchering scam". I was content to reply and be polite. I AM a Tennessean. But my spidey sense started tingling. The number is a Florida number but claims to be in LA and travels to "my city". The flattery was the tell. dfpi.ca.gov/news/insight...

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Reusable daily

www.rawstory.com/medbed-trump/ Was a little puzzled about reporting of an AI generated video of Donald and Lara saying crazy things. Then went back and saw that Donald is the one who posted it on his social media site Truth Social.

This. Is. Real. (The tweet screenshot, I mean).

Dangerous: deliberately weaponizing the DOJ to prosecute political enemies for past grievances. Hilarious: Picking the most comically inept person to handle the legal duties since George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court in 2005.

I wake up and read why “medbed” is trending. Sigh.

There's visiting an historical cemetery, primed for the rumors of dead witches and cursed graves and there's encountering the crudely marked grave of a child. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Halloween #GraveyardTales

This reminded me that I wrote a thing about this dipshit once upon a time and here it is again: medium.com/@brian.ragle...

I hate the fact that this is probably going to be called a TikTok Chicken Cobbler, but here we are. Y'boy can follow some directions and a recipe! I'm a VERY good recipe-follower in the kitchen! You know what they say, ladies! A man who can follow a recipe...is probably a pretty good reader! 😉

Is #NaNoWriMo back to being a sane thing or am I on my own this year? Anyone?

In addition to prowling around gravestones, I happened upon this historical marker and decided to investigate further. Real event, real numbers, real gross.

Raise your hand if you did a follow-up interview, got your oil changed, stocked the pantry, and visited a supposedly haunted cemetery full of (supposed) witches from the 1800s. Oh, and wrote two stories, pitched a third, and shot around 3000 photographs the whole day. 🙋🏼‍♂️

If you see this, post a bridge

Just remember, when you see or hear this phrase, you have seen and heard it before. It was in Italian, last time. “Il Duce ha sempre ragione”

Just remember that an organization which had plans, people, and photographers in place at the right times and marks, along with a lowered flag, for just the right photograph is capable of damn near anything equally dumb and dangerous with the levers of power they now have. People died that day. #FBI

As a reminder, with today's essay, I have 22 articles on Medium covering a tight range of snarky history to snarky politics, with a dash of snarky cultural commentary. See if you can spot the common theme! These are all FREE (for now), and full of credible sources (always). medium.com/@brian.ragle

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

🚨 1️⃣New long-form essay is live on Medium: “They’re Eating the Dogs: A Thousand Years of Fascist Lies.” From medieval monks inventing blood libel to Trump raving about migrants eating pets, it’s the same smear recycled for a thousand years. medium.com/@brian.ragle...

1️⃣The MAGA cult is dutifully lining up behind Der Pedo-Führer to repeat his misogynist, false, and debunked claims linking Tylenol during pregnancy to autism. If you see this screenshot, here's what is actually in them and what they say:

This, but with "ANTI ICE" scrawled in ballpoint pen.

The Donald Trump administration is unquestionably evil and malignant. No doubt about it. But, they are also incredibly dumb. So, so, so very dumb. Inept, incompetent, and dumb.

1️⃣ The Dallas shooting at an ICE facility is once again raising more questions than are being answered, especially by the law enforcement dribbling out information. They released this photo of ammo recovered at the scene and it's....odd.

1️⃣ For the #Kimmel monologue last night, there was a bit of a nod to history buffs, particularly those in TV and movies. In 1960, Jack Paar, the host of The Tonight Show on NBC, walked off the show live. Why? youtu.be/SGkSOKTUgaM?...

some scientists taught gorillas sign language and one would sign about his dreams, he called them, “sleep pictures.” and the president of the usa cannot pronounce acetaminophen.

The photo on the left is a real photo released by the White House, taken at the Kirk Kracker Kult rally on Sunday. The picture on the right should be immediately recognizable to anyone who has read anything about history. They are flat out telling us what's going on right now.

Happy Rapture Day, for those who celebrate. Maybe once those people are gone, we can have a better world? Old but evergreen take on that here: youtu.be/f9KlMWzKj4s?...

"To the woman he said, 'I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children'" -Genesis 3:16 1/ The utterly pseudoscience and batshit crazy press conference given by Trump/RFK/Oz was about women and not autism or vaccines or Tylenol. medium.com/@brian.ragle...

He was betrayed by those he was close to. Persecuted for his beliefs. Publicly crucified to serve as a cautionary tale to his followers. Then, by divine grace, he was resurrected. The people rejoiced. Needless to say, I’m referring to Jimmy Kimmel.

I have often compared Trump's MAGA events to Nürnberger Parteitage events from 1930s Germany. But it was never more on display than it was yesterday in Arizona.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

This is what $150-$400 looks like in your car when it breaks.