Kitten on tree branch.

Since it is Caturday, here is a photo of Andy soon after he arrived here.

2025 Tesla Cybertruck: Regular Car Reviews YouTube video by Regular Car Reviews

A great review of a terrible vehicle.
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Thanks! I’ve now downloaded it.

Displayed upside down:(

Your servant holds it for you.

Majestic cat.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch.

Pila Muralia?

Sauces that pair nicely with eating the rich NEW YORK – As yet another news cycle confirms that extreme wealth functions as a force field against accountability, the discourse has evolved. We’re no longer debating whether to eat the rich; we’ve ...

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/sauc...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

It seems to be my job to point out that it’s not a rock, but really cast lead. The article you linked eventually mentions this.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

Recommended reading.
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It’s cast lead, not a rock. The article you linked to eventually mentions that.

Not a rock. Cast lead. Even the crappy story you link calls it lead in the text.

Dinosaur.

Is that good use of the pillow?

I wouldn’t call those chips. They’re really bits of natural crystal emerald.

Phillips O'Brien on Iran How clueless are our leaders? Very

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Transcript below video.

Nitrogen, Ammonia, and the Strait of Hormuz

www.science.org/content/blog...

Brother laser for the win.

Now that’s showing off!

I’m Canadian, so shipping to the US is currently crazy. I don’t know what the tariffs are from day to day. I may also be out of stock (but that can be fixed with a casting binge).

You can almost see it shivering, seated on that rock.

Replica of a Roman greyhound brooch.

And here is a brooch that I make that is inspired by the one in your post.

Garishly wrapped Tesla cybertruck with roof rack and brightly coloured wheels.

I didn’t know it was possible to have a vehicle uglier than a stock cybertruck. The photo doesn’t do it justice- the wheels are much brighter than the photo shows.

137. Aragorn’s tax policy and other weird shibboleths Yesterday I found myself diverted by people on Bluesky revisiting the issue of Aragorn’s tax policy that George R.R. Martin so memorably quibbled over back in 2014. The vast majority of my wr…

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Decorative Tinning on Roman Armour – Revealing Ancient Craftsmanship YouTube video by Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno

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Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

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Also no photos from the excavation, just a stock museum photograph.

No citations. No named archaeologists. No excavation dates. A very disappointing link.