This corner of the Nerd Left is feeling sad that both Chekov and Captain Picard died this week. At least Will Shat is still around to sell us on eating our high fiber Raisin Bran.
In Neolithic Europe, once pottery was developed, it seems to have been very desirable to have around the house clay female fertility figurines. Typically headless, probably representing an ideal rather than any specific woman, and extremely buxom, a mother that could nurse hungry babes even /1
Expecting Trump to be deep down in the bunker after the midterms.
In fairness to Trump, he has been working his ass off, as he claims. But when you are an incompetent, corrupt and narcissist boob, it doesn’t really make much of a difference.
😂🔥 Obama destroys Trump’s Cheesecake Factory tantrum: “He wasn’t even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison… they mobilized a whole government response to that joke, not inflation… the Secretary of treasury held a presser outside Cheesecake Factory. This really happened.”
Fact Checker: Trump’s critics say the only immigrants he’s allowing into the country are white South Africans. In fact, he is also allowing white Brazilian fugitives. Three Pinocchios.
Worth noting that sweet corn is not used to make Bourbon whiskey. Instead, a starchy landrace of corn is used, because the distiller’s malt produces enough enzymes to convert the starches into even more sugars.
How do the Japanese make sake out of rice? After a process known as polishing the rice (specific landraces bred to make booze) to remove unpleasant flavors, they use a fungus they call koji (aspergillus oryzae - a landrace of fungus bred specifically for this purpose) /1
How to make vodka from potatoes? 85% potatoes and 15% barley malt, probably distiller’s malt. Those barley enzymes will convert any starches into sugars for the hungry yeast, a type of fungus.
I find fascinating all the different landraces of the grains we eat. For example, to make bourbon whiskey, distillers use distiller’s malt, a landrace of barley designed to maximize the enzymes necessary to convert starches in the maize and flavoring grain (wheat or rye) into sugars for the /1
If you’re a rich far-right scumbag from Latin America you automatically get a visa to stay in the U.S. as long as you want, but if you‘re a hard-working & poor trying to make a better life for yourself and your family, you get thrown in ICE torture prison and deported or in some cases killed.
Excellent free article from NYTimes. Something I take out of it: Trump’s hyper-partisanship weakens U.S. government’s ability to respond. U.S. government doesn’t die or leave office and never forgets, at least when not corrupted by hyper-partisanship. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...
A New Level of Threat and Fear Risks Pushing the U.S. and Iran Back to Full War
With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
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Trump's 2025 tariffs increased US beef prices by as much as $2/lb. Might be relevant over the next couple weeks, if the MSM could ever lift their heads from the troughs to do some real reporting. #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
okay, to recap, trump's most repeated messages on the campaign trail now: 1) describing in detail how much he admires jon husted's ass 2) fairy tales about children getting gender-affirming surgery in school 3) bragging that he can identify a giraffe on a dementia test
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
HOW NICE FOR PETE: Seven months into the pointless Iran war that’s driving up fuel prices and draining our wallets and Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth still finds time to take a taxpayer-funded trip to Knoxville to watch the UT-Alabama game! And of course he’s with Marsha 🙄
The first rule of Trump Club: everyone eventually ends up under the bus but Trump. /1
Possibly the most British news article ever: a “well known individual“ has sued the Guardian and ITN to prevent them for publishing details of serious allegations against said individual. He claims he may hurt himself if the story is published, citing the European convention on human rights /1
Saudi Arabia will execute a man for attending demonstrations for religious freedom for the country’s Shia religious minority and funerals Saudi authorities deemed to be protests when he was between the ages of 15 and 17. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Saudi Arabia to execute man for being at protests and funerals when he was 15
Use of death penalty against people for crimes committed when they were children a ‘new low’, say rights groups
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Katie Zacharia is out after only five days as Press Secretary. As a friend has pointed out, this constitutes only 0.46 Scaramuccis in the position. At least Katie has her successful legal career to fall back on.
Angelina Jolie just sold her LA estate for $24.75M, only $250,000 more than she paid for it in June 2017. Taking into account commissions and inflation, she probably lost $9M on the investment in today’s $$, not counting any reasonable profit from safe investments of the purchase price in June 2017.
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
