Definitely Over Thirty

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

One can draw a corollary from provincial Russians being so convinced of the virtue of Russkiy Mir: That it is either an improvement from Soviet times; or they are so thoroughly lied to about the rest of the world that they imagine monsters everywhere else.

"If Ukraine were to surrender tomorrow then we would not be talking of peace but of the occupation of a European nation, and of the return of Soviet imperialism of the mid-20th century." Yes. I lived in that period, and I do not want to see it return.

The US Embassy in Moscow has issued an advisory following reports of a potential pneumonic plague outbreak in Irkutsk. Americans were urged to monitor their health if they have visited the region.

Let's just pause to appreciate this for a moment: The USA is now threatening other NATO countries to secure a place as a fuel hegemon.

In an age where “free speech” is a culture war issue warped and won by how much US dark money a side has, I implore you to listen to literally anyone from Northern Ireland (or the west of Scotland) to understand what cultural “free speech” debates feel like marching in front of your actual house.

Engineers have long since proved that gravity can be simulated by rotating a vehicle in space. If theatre isn't the point, though, dumping someone out of an airlock is safer than decapitation: Fluid spillage in low gravity is nothing to sneeze at.

AI can be a great helper, but it has no concept of what it's helping with. It is as innocent as a knife.

I have a friend who works for the German foreign ministry and I asked him what he'll do when AfD runs the government "Oh that won't happen" he said my dude, you can't "it can't happen here" in fucking GERMANY

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

£72 million buys lots of leaflets making sure you never think to #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants or demand the government #TaxTheRich to end poverty, homelessness ... "Reform are part of the establishment and not a party for the working class – it's not a level playing field" via The UK Against Hate

The police officer confronted the U.S. Border Patrol agent and asked why he was tampering with evidence at the scene where a motorist and his passenger had been shot. https://mrf.lu/231Ky

We don’t talk about Russ Vought enough and he’s the most powerful villain in Washington, D.C.

👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣

Someone appears to be gambling that taking away votes from one-third of Americans will not provoke a serious backlash.

MAGA is part of a loose network of the rich, the well-connected, and their political philosophers. It's a mistake to think that it's a purely American disease. For example: postmoderniconoclast.substack.com/p/restore-br...

In early August, I contracted listeria, a bacterial infection from food poisoning. It hit me so hard that I ended up in the hospital for four days with severe dehydration and injured kidneys. I’m fine now but be extra careful with what you eat these days. It’s no joke.

The Labrador Sea; the Northern Passages; the Strait of Denmark; Baffin Bay. These are all places that Trump's administration might like to set up toll-booths in.

The next time you think about reaching out and hesitate because you don't want to be a bother or you think you aren't important enough in that person's life? I want you to imagine they too have been thinking about you, and in their mind the growing silence is because you just don't care about them.

R.I.P. Dolly Parton: Remember what good she did, and why.

I can highly recommend @hopenothate.org.uk ‘s report Race Science Inc. as a good starting place to understand how a eugenicist like Nathan Cofnas can get hired at two prestigious universities over more qualified candidates. This is a major far right project to give the academy’s legitimacy to them.

Mark Ruffalo has the biggest cojones and the biggest heart in Hollywood. Him being called antisemitic is a distraction from just how powerful and critical his post was.

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The recent death of a British academic after press harassment may have caught your notice. This article covers some interesting and worrisome ground related to that death. postmoderniconoclast.substack.com/p/from-race-...

Don't let them! "Google plans to concrete over land at Arena Essex Raceway, which hosts 530 invertebrate species and has Local Wildlife Site status. Spread across 128 acres, the data centre is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year" via Protect the Wild

He didn’t change. They did.

ok cheers guys

They always go for the weak and marginalised first.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that The Eton Rifles by The Jam sums up what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz right now? youtu.be/C7kUDkK70qQ

It certainly seems that someone wants to pander to the Trump clique.

Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.

So, regarding Lindsay Graham - who might want to clean house before Mr Trump dies of old age or is removed from office? I'm just extrapolating from recent trends in Russia, mind you.

On one hand, this is seriously good news. On the other, let's say that we get to a roll-out of a cure: What else could the technique be used for, both good and ill?

Founder of the Orange House Project and protector of sea turtles, Mona Khalil, has been murdered.

UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn

People really haven't been focussing enough on the fertiliser shortage that Trump's war in Iran has caused. Hunger may sharpen their attention.

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

Okay, this could be something of a game-changer. And just in time, too...