Senator Slotkin served three tours in Iraq during her tenure in the CIA, along side our troops.

She can simultaneously remind our troops of the law, and make a scene.

The internet is filled with savages and they are my people.
SO here for all of it!
~LJo

Snowy yard

Yesterday in Silver Spring, MD, the high temperature reached 85°F

Midnight, it was still in the 70s.

It’s 35°F now, and snowing.

Also, that's the punchline of a long joke about preparing camels to cross the desert.

And Musk is a parasitic simulacrum of a human being.

Tragic But Not Random: Andrew Papachristos on Gun Violence I first heard Andrew Papachristos, a sociologist at Yale University, present on networks of co-offenders in Chicago at the American Society of Criminology meetings in 2013. At the time I was blown …

Here's a tiny bit of background; one of his citations in that post.
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The Elephant in Gladwell's Room Forthcoming book on gun violence by Malcolm Gladwell

If you truly care about violence in the USA, you must follow @davidyamane.bsky.social and his substack.

Read this. It's important. open.substack.com/pub/lightove...

There are groups on Zucknet that have value, and I share not-doom things in those groups.

I stay there, posting about the existential threat to humanity of Trump and maga, in the forlorn hope of reaching one of them, and maybe opening their eyes.

Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80 | Penn Today Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC—the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer—launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wid...

Another distraction from the horrorshow of the orange parasite.

ENIAC happened 80 years ago.

I attended Penn 50 years ago

penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penns-e...

Explore Woodpecker Holes and Why They are in High Demand: Backyard Birds Revealed The Backyard Birds Revealed video series is made possible by Wild Birds Unlimited. If you enjoy this series, you can donate to the Cornell Lab to support our work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Over on the sycophants (Zuckerberg) media, I post nothing that is not antagonistic to Trump or its myrmidions.

Here, I try to post helpful, funny, and/or emotionally satisfying content.

The Cornell Bird Labs is emotionally satisfying.

www.allaboutbirds.org/news/woodpec...

An Official Journal Of The NRA | Thinking Of Tinkering? Be Honest About Your Reasons. There are often benefits to resurrecting an old gun, but cost savings isn’t usually one of them.

An enjoyable article by @tamslick.bsky.social about old MILSURP rifle projects

www.americanrifleman.org/content/thin...

Ronnie Easton Ronnie Easton. 104,593 likes · 99,859 talking about this. Just an old Man trying to be a good guy

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That's Ronnie Easton. Follow him on FB

Liberal Gun Club Statement on Federal Shooting in Minneapolis | The Liberal Gun Club

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Car crashed through the wall of an elevated parking garage. Caption "Bob's near-mastery of power oversteer wowed the other valets."

Another distraction from the horror show of the orange parasite.

Road & Track PS page

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

Car crushed by a log from tree cutting. Caption "As promise, Bob returned to the cabin with 'a new roof rack and some firewood.'"

From the Road & Track PS pages:

Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22] He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

Why More Liberals Are Buying Guns : Up First from NPR Since President Trump’s second inauguration, more liberals, people of color and LGBTQ folks say they are buying guns and getting training. This is the latest in a trend that researchers, gun clubs and...

www.npr.org/2026/01/11/n...

UPDATE: Most Americans are against the Trump regime’s racial terror campaign.

migrantinsider.com/p/the-people...

IMO, the reporter did a very good job, and the back and forth between the reporter and the show host had absolutely no anti-gun slant.

Yep!
We were on NPR again yesterday, in a longer form piece that was based on the ATC piece back in October

Picture of a Jaguar E-Type coupe with a hideous rear modification that has a massive fin going down the back of the car. Caption: "After months of careful aerodynamic research, Bob was able to design a Jaguar E-Type that actually repelled women"

From the Road & Track PS pages:

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

ARPANET standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 — 43-year-old standard set the foundations for today’s Internet How an academic research network became the Internet.

Happy Birthday, TCP/IP!

www.tomshardware.com/networking/a...

I’m not crying, there’s smoke in the air

How NOT to Talk About Guns A holiday gift to my fellow liberals

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Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s