Posted 12 weeks ago by Dr. Cowbourne: Only the faint traces of HL+FH remain, but "Gina+Dom XXX" still remain a hot item, as do "F+C" just below and to the right of their heart. That suggests to me that it wasn't a caretaker or official person cleaning the graffiti off—just a bitter lover who wanted those two gone in particular. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTH5xVyjICx/

...Because nerding out means I can't stop following a lead, I worry about the relationship of "HL+FH."

The photographer, Dr. Cowbourne, posted in reverse chronological order. Her photo must be closer to Annie Cambridge's ~Dec.2025: Their love is fresh.

Rubbed off ~12w ago—yet "Gina+Dom" weren't.

Google Maps view from St. Michael's Tower, Glastonbury Tor, UK. Source (I'm so sorry for the ridiculous URL!): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Glastonbury+Tor/@51.144444,-2.698611,3a,75y/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sCIABIhA9N4N8PxDw6supsJcBCUe3!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fgps-cs-s%2FAPNQkAGJaZqR5uC7GTlw6dBpoS1xItia-_Q_mhteraGF5HasaPht-lPzy2WjLRVn8yQP0oOV-qbCyrkNtzSg1JnQt1rB6LA7MRmkQZFmKIOkivOKbvN16OGvbXTU8xOM8RMBvKXF7PQ1RAO2EgI%3Dw203-h360-k-no!7i2268!8i4032!4m7!3m6!1s0x48721788de2da81f:0x1a10895db78accda!8m2!3d51.144444!4d-2.698611!10e5!16zL20vMDEzN3Fw?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Photo (c)Annie Cambridge (I think), borrowed under Fair Use for commentary. Taken, per her comments, some time in the third week of December 2025. Source: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CVqW9HtGD/

I just got back from a convention where a hot topic was the "bad AI" accusations tanking the careers of #indieauthors. I nerded out not in anger but with curiosity:

There might be some AI colour filtering(?) but Google Maps produces the same arch (facing NE, not the path SW) with the same graffiti.

People in the *US* military didn't. Brave men & women in uniform took honourable discharge or left the Forces—even if it cost them financial security—to NOT become the private army of America's first conqueror. They kept their oath to the Constitution.

People in the *Trump* military betrayed it.

Four different types of apples, all marked "Product of USA," and pears, marked "Product of South Arrica."

This was the day I learned that you can, in fact, make a fantastic pie using pears tossed with cinnamon instead of apples...
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I actually came here just to say this. Miller & Hegseth & Leavitt & Vance will lie on behalf of Trump anytime he asks. But this is so...so HONEST. It's such a fair and candid expression of how Trump truly feels. No other human has so little shame as to express his innermost sludge in words.

It would not be appropriate for a Pope to take a political stance against any one party.

It's perfectly appropriate, however, for him to take a stance for compassion, human dignity, and the love of our neighbour and enemy alike.

If that just happens to goad anyone into embarrassing themselves…

It was a perfect, masterful delivery of what should have been an impossible line. Completely baffled, not without hope, but just exhausted by the whole damn business.

Here's a helpful cognitive distortion when thinking about #America, or #Israel, or #Iran: whatever country you WANT to hold up as righteous, falsely equate it to its people. Then falsely equate the other two to their ruling regimes.

Each regime is profiting by throwing its own kids into the fire.

Well, you seen to think it's"women failing their own gender." It's not that either, but enjoy your blanket misogyny.

Amazing. Just nasty, petty, superior, on both sides of the political aisle. I'll just delete my original answer, wish I hadn't offered it, and wish you the day you deserve.

a man in a suit and white shirt says it was my understanding there would be no math ALT: a man in a suit and white shirt says it was my understanding there would be no math

Addendum: a few days late, but it occurs to me the whole idea of the Petrodollar was probably the the brainchild of Henry Kissinger, not Ford himself.

Makes sense. Ford was no mastermind. I'm too young to remember Ford firsthand, but my dominant memory of him was Chevy Chase's bumbling SNL version:

And also to you.

In the the bedroom at night, Alfie is a truly menacing creature.

Alfred the cat, in the light of day, is not so menacing after all.

That's one "benefit" to this horror.

The other is that Americans' top-secret weaponry is like my cat: bigger & scarier if you don't know what or where he is.

Hegseth gives me "lookit all my toys" vibes. The more he reveals as a brag & flex, the better we become at protecting our kids from it.

I wish I could point you in the right direction, but I'm an Arts & Humanities guy, not a pure sciences guy. I think my answer is probably *mumble* somethingsomething turbines, so any interaction between stuff turning in a circle and electricity. So windmills are really just jet engines in reverse?🤔🤷

Imagine a classroom of 30 kids playing a world war game instead of the Model UN. Everybody gets a country; you play with that country's military.

Imagine being the kid who draws the one United States card. Imagine the advantage they get.

Now imagine how BAD at the game they'd have to be to lose.

When China banned the export of rare earths to the US, of COURSE the US said, "that's a direct attack on our ability to make more missiles and jets."

OK yes, but the US has tons of those. I remember thinking, "no, it means you can't build solar & wind infrastructure. That'll hit harder by 2050."

It's not about "taking" the oil - it's about enforcing at gunpoint a deal Gerald Ford struck that basically forced every OPEC country to price & sell oil ONLY in U.S. dollars.

Being tied to that commodity is what keeps the fiat $USD from crashing ever since Nixon delisted it from the gold standard.

A global famine is unlikely.

Canada alone has considerable supplies of potash. Not enough for the whole world—not alone—but we're never alone.

I can't imagine a worse fate in the world than being totally, utterly alone.

Anyway, we'll be happy to help out anyone who hasn't threatened to invade us.

Iran should be sending an artillery unit in paramedic gear. They should have a SAM battery painted & and put into the back of a gutted fire truck.

They have to know something about the Epsteinian military: it pathologically CANNOT RESIST targeting the weak. They'll walk right into it 100/100 times.

I'm glad I heard about this, because so far we've gone straight back to the Tet Offensive, and I'm getting to live through every horrible thing I missed by not being alive in 1968-1969.

Moon missions are a sign that at least we get some good with the bad. I'm still waiting for the amazing music.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly where you started: Within less than a year, the White House took on a 33% housing cut, after all: it looks pretty austere from the sky

Trump-level thinking:
"NO FIND OUT ABOUT ME AND LITLE GIRLS…WAIT, BLOW UP FORIN KIDS TOO? MAKES MY PANTS HAPY!"

Stephen Miller-level thinking:
"Protect the petrodollar; cement disenfranchisement to fund internal militarization…wait, blow up foreign peoples' kids, too? It DOES make my pants happy."

Meanwhile in Canada, we're FINALLY paying our fair share, putting 2% of our budget to defence like we promised the UN.

We want our people to live long free lives without suffering pain & death too. That's why we keep blowing our gun & missile budgets on that extra 4-5 years of life expectancy.

New York is the kind of place where liberals know he's always been everything they're directly opposed to, and conservatives are more aware than most places that he's actively betrayed everything they stand for too.

I've written too many "1/x [a thread]" rants, both here (my "peacetime account" and my "wartime account" over on X.

Sadly, there are smart people talking about smart issues; and per Treebeard, sometimes the only things worth saying take a long time to say.

I miss writing BOOKS, & reading them too.

Here's a hot take: if you have a law, but you can't or won't enforce that law, particularly against people on the higher side of a power dynamic, you don't actually have that law.

That's as true of the best practices in restraint you pretend to have as it is of the Constitution you pretend to have.

I like to imagine people are recognizing their words have value, and those whose posts you enjoy the most—most likely the highest-skilled, more articulate writers—are tired of donating their wit & craft to social media billionaires. A growing effort to half-ass quick free posts > reduced clarity?🤞

Depends how fast you're going.

If that's 19 years our time, see you in a couple of hours but Idon't think we'll have it sorted out yet.

If that's 19 years your time, I can't promise you what you'll find when you get back, but it's got to be better than this.

Have they tried IKA?

George H.W. Bush was by far the smartest of these three. Even then, he knew the US no longer had the international goodwill for the dollar to keep its worth as a purely fiat "trust me, bro" currency without a backing commodity.

The US MUST dethrone any regime that attacks that last economic crutch.

Saddam's fatal error wasn't invading Kuwait. It was exactly the same as Maduro's in Venezuela: he agreed to price & sell oil in a currency other than $USD.

Gerald Ford's deal with the Saudis to turn the USD into the petrodollar was a desperate save after Nixon delisted it from gold to print more $.