Trump policies set to increase rates of lung disease and death, study finds Experts warn of ‘attack on Americans’ lungs’ from cuts to health programs, environmental rollbacks and other plans

MAGA = Death
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Even though "One Battle After Another" beat out "Sinners" for the Best Picture Oscar, it doesn't change the fact that in November 2024 over 77 million people voted for a pedophile.

MAGA = Death

Warren Zevon - Don't Let Us Get Sick (live acoustic) YouTube video by cdburdick

I post this every New Year's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_gC...

ferris wheel viewed through wall of windows

At the N.C. State Fair today

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

I’m beginning to think the whole being a raging fascist thing isn’t a distraction from being a lifelong pedophile, but that he’s both a raging fascist AND a lifelong pedophile

Dead Kennedys recording Nazi Punks Fuck Off in 1981.

South Park Thinks Trump is a Little Fascist Bitch The best satire in years.

Haven't posted here in a while, so how's about this?
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Drop bears! I take it this is not western Massachusetts?

I find the charge “the attempted assassination of a Major Presidential Candidate” unintentionally humorous. Is there a separate statute for attempted assassination of a Minor Presidential Candidate? Would someone have gotten the special slammer if they'd gone after Pat Paulsen?

I haven't been laid off (yet), but many friends have, and they are all my colleagues.

RTI International layoff expected to reach at least 525 by May 1, organization says A letter to North Carolina officials provided new details about the Research Triangle Park organization's plans as it grapples with federal funding cuts.

This is where I've worked for over 30 years. My sadness is matched by my anger. This is ALL due to the Orange Shitgibbon and Afrikaners Hitler.
www.wral.com/story/rti-in...

Playing around with an adapter that let's you attach a smartphone to the eyepiece of a telescope. Here's Jupiter and its four large moons, taken earlier tonight.

I don't think so. The only thing of his I see in IMDB is an episode of "The Hunger" based on "The River of Night's Dreaming." There was also a great audio adaptation of "Sticks" back in the '80s; that might be lurking somewhere on the internets.

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

We can even dance in the dark.

The constellation Orion on the left faces off against bright Jupiter and nearby star Aldebaran on the right, with Mars refereeing at the top.

Don't know what went on here.

Snowsquatch

Showing Up & Walking Out Two Ways to Make your Point

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They’re Fighting For Us Democrats have more talent than they’ve had in a generation.

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My father was born 105 years ago today. He would be angered and ashamed at what this country is becoming. We need to fix this, now.

A comment of mine from LiveJournal from Nov. 2006: "As homosexuals achieve more civil rights and respect, the irrepressible Need to Hate will have to find a new focus. It'll be atheists. Give it about 10 more years."

I wish it had turned out that way, to spare LGBTQ+ persons.

I think we're close to martial law. It remains to be seen if they'll wait for or dream up some semi-plausible excuse, or just outright declare it. Then no more Congress -- not that it'd be missed -- and more importantly no more Supreme Court or any other federal court.

Daytona 500, right? Indy's in May.

I might lose my job, but the fascists aren't coming for my very identity. Fuck those fascists, fuck their collaborators, and fuck every single fool, idiot, traitor, and sucker who voted for them. Resist!

and I'm spiritually and physically sickened by what is happening (or not) in this country, still, that's NOTHING compared to what's happening and will continue to happen to trans people and all the other people that the current administration is trying to dehumanize.

Around 12:30 I awakened from a dream in which I was trying to save a trans friend from some terrible peril, the nature of which I don't remember. But I was literally trying to carry them out of harm's way. It made me realize that even though my job might go away,

Last night I went to bed early because, as I told my wife, it had been a fucking shitty day and I wanted it to be over. Most of my angst was from worrying over the likely layoffs at my employer that will be directly caused by the actions of POTUS and collaborators.

Still exploring settings on my phone, and searching for a tripod. All my sky pictures thus far have been handhelds. This is the moon (not full) and Mars again, at about 1 o'clock up from the moon.