My wife took this picture at a zoo. My caption would be "You want WHAT from me now?" You, of course, are free to invent your own captions.

If this becomes law, the administration will twist it to take away his pension. "Go ahead, let him sue" is the mantra.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 5d ago

Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.

The standard names "climate change" and "global warming" don't convey what's happening. Those concepts are downstream results of large amounts of extra energy being trapped in the atmosphere and then being transferred to the oceans. Energy isn't just "warming", bad as that can be to ecosystems.

When it comes to the afterlife, I'm just saying that I do NOT want to be in Mar a Lago heaven.

Last night I had a dream. I was on the Moon with a pig. No one else with us. I woke up and thought, "That's weird", and fell asleep. Today, I kept thinking about the pig. And I came up with a story idea. 800 words so far. Don't know how far it will go. Spoiler: pig's name is Hambo. 💙📚🪐

@skeetofgod.bsky.social - The recent smiting in the DC area has been good, but the aim is still a little off. Please try to do better.

Republican primary voters.

Ann Aguirre@annaguirre.bsky.social · 4w ago

He hasn't died.

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

National Park Service employees in the DC area have been asked to "volunteer" to clean up the Reflecting Pool mess on their own time.

One of the greatest lessons from social media has been learning how many fucking stupid people there are in America.

This legal post is an important document to read about the Trump/Blanche slush fund. balkin.blogspot.com/2026/05/is-n...

American's have been hard charging towards the future for a long time now (trampling anyone in the way, like the Natives). Now, a large fraction wants to turn around and charge into the past - coal power, formalized misogyny, state religion, neo-Jim Crowism, huckster medicines, .... What happened?

Never use "Neanderthal" as a put-down again! wapo.st/48WvYXj

A 59,000-year-old tooth reshapes what we know about Neanderthal dentistry

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence of dentistry by more than 40,000 years.

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The Trump attack on Iran is a mirror image of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Done without warning during negotiations over the points of contention between two nations. "A date which will live in infamy."

It was the most whiny speech ever given - even more cringy than Jeb Bush's "please clap". Trump's entire text can be summed up as, "I'm wonderful. I'm fabulous. I'm a superman. Everything is great in America. YOU SHOULD ALL LOVE ME MORE. Thank you for paying attention to this matter."

Trump has "given aid and comfort" to Iran, via Russia - which has given satellite intelligence about US bases to Iran - and which has had oil sanctions lifted by Trump. Trump should be impeached for treason - his actions fit the literal definition, not some colloquial slang.

Impolite people call Prez Trump a liar. But since he doesn't know anything, can he know what he's saying is a falsehood?

Brain rock encountered in the Grand Canyon, near Deer Creek.

My great idea for reforming ICE: Refocus it on the REALLY dangerous immigrants - kudzu and tamarisk. Root those interlopers out of the nation!

Is Trump even happy being President any more? He's obviously not that well, and he's not getting the unconditional devotion of the masses that he craves. Many of his signature policies are unpopular even with Repubs. OK, the Rs are still afraid of him. But is that enough?

The US is now ignoring reality, but reality will not ignore the US. Climate change, the increased energy being stored in the atmosphere and oceans, will keep on accelerating, keep on creating chaos. Nations that ignore the future find out the hard way that the future gets here anyway.

In non-Trump news, we are touring Ha Long bay in Vietnam.

The grim visage of Skull Arch in Arches National Park. Actually a nice place to eat lunch as hardly anyone goes there.

This classical visage is ME, as rendered by MRI and AFNI. Obviously, I could have been a Roman Senator back in the Olden Days of which Gibbon wrote.

How many people is DJT willing to kill for Greenland? He killed about 100 just to snatch Maduro and wife. He might not think in those terms, but that's the calculus of saber/gunpoint rattling. Some goals are worth killing for. But a big old hunk of ice?

You know, this whole "sex assigned at birth" thing makes little sense. What if the doctor/midwife/... makes a mistake? For example, a CAIS boy (XY chromosomes) assigned as a girl, due to lack of male genitalia? Or the doctor is just drunk?Is the answer "that's just too bad"?

Although this looks like it might a brain fresco from olden days ... it was actually a water spot on the floor of a tunnel at the NIH. Overhead was a very slowly dripping pipe.

These guys are not just psychopathic and evil -- they are stupid. Any sizable nation can spin up fission weapons in a few years (or less). "Force"? Would Trump try to snatch the leader of a nation with nukes? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World

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Looking back, it is likely that Jan 6 2021 will be tagged as the effective end of the American Republic founded in 1776 and reforged in blood in the 1860s. Alas, since I loved that nation despite its flaws.

Today I went into the NIH to help fix a problem with AFNI brain image and graph displays on MacOS 26 Tahoe. First time doing C programming in 4 years of retirement. And I've still got the touch, baby!