Front page of The Onion for April 16, 1912, with the headline ‘World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg’. With subheads such as ‘Titanic, Representation Of Man’s Hubris, Sinks In North Atlantic — 1,500 Dead In Symbolic Tragedy’; and ‘Spaniards Ruled Out As Suspects In Ice-Berg Placement’

TITANIC STRUCK BY ICY REPRESENTATION OF NATURES SUPREMACY STOP INSUFFICIENT LIFEBOATS DUE TO POMPOUS CERTAINTY IN MANS INFALLIBILITY STOP MICROCOSM OF LARGER SOCIETY STOP

Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

World War III is going to be fought over access to potable water, not oil. Trust me on this one.

#worldnews

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My first thought is ‘Mother And Child Reunion’, which Paul Simon got the idea for when eating chicken and eggs at a diner.

Yep. The world markets like ‘light sweet crude’. Venezuela has almost none of that.

Is there anyone left in the US besides me who still pronounces ‘era’ correctly?

And by ‘correctly’, I mean ‘not like the stupid laundry detergent commercial/brand from the ‘70s’.

I’m sure whatever Chief Justice Taney and his cronies decide will doubtless be honest, reasoned, and entirely dependent upon whatever legal principles Goebbels… er, Stephen Miller… tells them to use.

After all, there’s nothing quite so satisfying as getting a papier mâché peace prize from a soccer mom, right?

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Working on a memoir of my legendary romantic prowess entitled…

The Walking Dud

Seems like everyone in the Trump admin prepares for interviews by spending 20-30 minutes in the hyperbolic chamber.

Well, don’t just do something — stand there!

#worldnews

My eyes are
The boarded-up windows
To my soul

#micropoetry
#poetry

Platforms including Signal, Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, as well as services such as banking sites and the Ring doorbell company were some of the 2,000 companies affected by the outage, […] – with more than 8.1m reports of problems from users across the world.

…and practically any business located in the Northeast that depends upon AWS for its server/Azure/SSO infrastructure — that is to say, thousands and thousands.

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

“What happens when this system suffers cascade failure?”

“It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.”

“Right. But what happens when it does?”

Correction: Donald Trump *loves* crime. He especially loves crime and criminals that serve to enrich him. He is the most pro-crime president in history.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” —Donald Trump, 31 July, 2025

The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.

Donarrhea

October 18, 2025 Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...

October 18, 2025

The seeds of the American Revolution were sown right here in Fairfax, where our founders said no to a king.

Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.

Assuming I still ate meat, I’d be OK with that. And I’d be thankful they took the time to prepare it. And I’d be sure to make sure they knew it.

I’ve said this before, but Donald Trump makes Richard Nixon look like Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Technically, Schumer and Jeffries are ‘corporate-owned center-right Democrats’.

Stanford researchers say they purposely haven’t taught their AI about viruses that can infect people. But this type of technology does create the risk that other scientists—out of curiosity, good intentions, or malice—could turn the methods on human pathogens, exploring new dimensions of lethality. Re

What could possibly go wrong?

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So, Republicans are the pro-doxxing party.

And just by the way, the US is already a deeply socialist country — for rich people.

Capitalism *can* be ‘OK’, so long as it’s fairly regulated. The brand of US capitalism currently in vogue — unfettered greed — is unsustainable.

Indeed, the one vital ingredient without which unchecked capitalism cannot flourish — unbridled greed — is the very thing which causes it to fail.

2/ …served Israeli interests by avoiding negotiations on Palestinian statehood. (The Times of Israel) As one analysis noted, “Hamas has long offered Israel an alibi to avoid abiding by its supposed commitment to Palestinian statehood.” (The Intercept)

1/ Excerpt from a Claude/Sonnet4 response:

More recently, some Israeli sources have acknowledged that this policy continued in different forms. Israeli analysts have noted that Netanyahu’s policy of “treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood”…

Which is kind of odd, given all the funding and support Israel gave to Hamas over the years in order to weaken and damage the credibility of the Palestinian Authority.

Broken link.