When do you guys think the plow is going to hit my cul-de-sac? Today, Tuesday, Wednesday…
Too much!
US winter storm leaves seven people dead as more than 1 million lose power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/25/us-storm-cuts-power-cancels-thousands-flights
Snow and ice put up final stand in Northeast as brutal cold slides in behind storm
https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/winter-storm-forecast-snow-ice-01-25-26-climate
I’m sure Obama inserting himself in the conversation will be helpful
Obamas say Alex Pretti killing a ‘tragedy’ as calls mount for full investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/25/alex-pretti-killing-calls-for-investigation
Sprots
‘Alex Pretti was murdered’: NBA’s Haliburton among sports stars to condemn Minnesota killing
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/25/alex-pretti-shooting-tyrese-haliburton-angel-reese
FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate agent who shot Renee Good
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/25/fbi-tracee-mergen-resigns-ice-renee-good-investigation
I was watching this at home on a snow day when it happened.
40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g-s1-106940/40-years-after-challenger
Have a great day. Stay safe and warm!
…when it comes to whatever the online equivalent of determining your natural buoyancy might be…I guess mine might be somewhere in the region of this sort of thing in terms of the overlapping reasons to think it might be worth taking more interest in than seems like it would be considered “normal” based on available anecdotal data with a sample size of “people I know”
…so…I didn’t come to know who chris kluwe was until probably after he called a book “otaku”…I mean…I knew the name & saw some posts & knew he played the football that’s mostly hands & such…but…I couldn’t have told you what team(s) he played for or when or how they did or any of that…if I tried hard I might remember there was a deadspin connection I just about remembered…but…well…here’s chris
…&…I forget if these are snipped out of the one I think I remembered to find a place for while trying not to drown yesterday’s DOT in enough embedded stuff to crash the site…but…if you have the trick of saying it while sounding all the ways I imagine I don’t on any given day…to about the same degree I feel like it would make sense to say chris might be speaking for others that include me…so is the nice lady who has likely forgotten more history than I have ever managed to learn
…&…look…too much of the internet is reflective of much that is going too wrong for that diet to agree with anyone any more than it’s really “good” for us…but the internet…is like experts in at least some ways…it was popular & fashionable enough at one point for some asshole to think it would drive votes their way to announce that we’d had enough of experts…&…it certainly isn’t hard to feel like we’ve “had enough internet for today”…but…see…sometimes…internet+journalists+experts…is…like one of the good things they make out we can’t have?
…&…what with all the column inches devoted to this or that politician’s quest to create & curate a “legacy”…when someone who is in the business of assessing history’s verdicts & lessons says…this?
…but…I don’t want to keep feeling like all I ever do is make it all sound worse…if the ones about the wildlife didn’t get a grin out of you…maybe…this?
…I mean…@farscythe might be able to help out with the nuance…but…pretty sure the funny is…less than lost in translation?
i uhhh…im pretty sure nobody needs help figuring out exactly what that says
But what does “achter” mean?
Also, is the Dutch “Wie” like the German one? (A “who/what” word)?
its a who word…our what word is actually….wat
after or behind
Thanks!!!!😁💖
Rip, you KNOW i’ve gotta razz you, for sayin’ you don’t *know* who Kluwe is, right?!???
😉😆😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
He was OUR kicker (Punter, really!), in the “hands-football” here in MN playing for the Vikes!
AND he was the man who wrote *THIS* epic tale, giving us *incredible* turns of phrase, like “Lustful Cockmonster” and “Fromunda Stain,” back around 2012, when Minnesotahad the Gay Marriage Amendment on our statewide ballot, *and* when Edie Windsor won her case at the USSC, in 2013!😂😂😂😂😂
Kluwe (aka ChrisWarcraft on Reddit, Bluesky, the Site Elon Broke, and elsewhere–his other handle in the Gawkerverse had “Cassandra” in it), is a LEGEND, an incredibly decent dude,a GOOD geek, not the loser-dork type like the Techbroligarchs, and also this dude;
https://deadspin.com/they-wont-magically-turn-you-into-a-lustful-cockmonste-5941348/
https://the-cauldron.com/why-gamergaters-piss-me-the-f-off-a7e4c7f6d8a6
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-kluwe-arrested_n_67b69201e4b050f805a0e92b
…I mean…I know that *now*…sure
…but I felt like full disclosure required admitting I didn’t know that until *after* I thought he did good posting?
Challenger: I was driving to school and had the radio on. Back then, launches were still a big deal and they would typically break in during the actual launch and have a newscaster describe it. Except this time the person started saying “Oh, my God! Something’s wrong! Something’s wrong!” I pulled over and jumped out to look at the sky (I’m close enough to the Cape that you can see the rockets once they get enough altitude) and could see three different contrails splintering off. I knew what had happened.
Still legit surprised that WaPo is not backing down on the unjustified killing angle. Particularly since Bezos is firing a ton of people.
Court to hold hearings in Minnesota lawsuits seeking to curb federal agents
It occurs to me that one way to mute this controversy would be to have one or more ICE agents commit “suicide” and blame everything on them. If I was an ICE agent that was anywhere near this incident without a solid alibi (and since they wear masks, that’s not gonna work), I’d be sleeping with one eye open. Or better yet, running.
It’s gangster rules now.
That WOULD be one (terrible!) wa for Thiel, Vance, & the other Techbroligarchs to find “a perfect scapegoat” to pin the Mimetic Violencr they’ve been steadily raising onto, and hope it can act as that “pressure release valve” they’ve likely been looking for if they want to get back to a state of Mimetic Desire again, until “the next ramp-up”!
The fact that they fuck AROUND with *everyone* that way, but no one REALLY sees it, except a few folks is an eternal cockleburr digging in!
https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250605001528/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile
The sapegoat/mimetic violence/mimetic desire article;
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2023/09/04/mimetic-desire-the-scapegoat-notes-on-the-thought-of-rene-girard/
The difference is that you have more than two brain cells to rub together. These fucking shitbag morons are fully convinced that Trump will never turn on them–and so far, he hasn’t.
I was studying (time is a fucking circle) for mid term exams (high school) when the Challenger blew up. I turned on the TV and just saw contrails and search helos on the TV. I would end up studying it as part of a 1st year course on engineering failures.
The lack of any moral courage displayed especially by senior execubots and engineering leaders (from NASA AND the various contractors) would shake me to my core. The fact that the politicians from the Raygun Admin ran the fuck away (started to wake me to the flaws of politicians who wanted spectacle over safety.)
It started my path against pushing horseshit and blowing sunshine up senior managers asses especially when people’s lives are on the line.
Unknown to me at the time, my dad was miserable at work fighting off the new plant manager’s demands to change the speed of the refuelling rod machine (which had to extract out spent nuclear fuel first before pushing fresh nuclear fuel in.)
My dad pointed out that thanks to nuclear radiation that the metal casing holding the fuel rods gets really brittle that why it’s takes so long to do it. Too much force and the damn thing will shatter. His colleagues, in particular, one slimey sack of shit, said to the new manager, he’s lying.
My dad held his ground till he left. Slimey Shit took over and altered the force and speed on the refueller. Six month later, a fuel rod broke and it would cost Ontario Hydro 1.3 Billion to clean it up. The plant manager was “retired” soon after and Slimey Shit found himself sitting at a desk with not much to do till he retired in disgrace. Lots of people would blame him for the fiasco.
The smart move is to let Noem and Bovino hang for this, but let’s be clear — Tangerine never does anything smart.
Trump ‘is not happy’: Insiders say president fuming over DHS handling of MN shooting
Okay, now I get it.
‘Changes need to be made’: Conservatives demand heads roll at DHS after Fox News report
This isn’t wrong. I had no idea this was going on.
Well, yes, of course.
Is Trump Losing It?
My MIL had a stroke last week (no sympathy necessary for me, thank you just the same). It turns out she’s had several small ones before this one. She’s been my proxy for Trump — similar personalities and behaviors. It’s quite striking how her condition is paralleling the reports about him. Word confusion, weakness on one side, angry outbursts, agitation and confusion especially at night, inability to recognize common objects, loss of bowel control, vision and hearing issues, on and on. He’s just got an entire staff to help him ‘mask,’ and she doesn’t.
I WILL send my Empathy to you & the Mrs, though!
Simply for what I suspect are some pretty complex feelings for HER, as the child of a difficult parent–and for you, in being as kind as possible to her, while *of course* reasonably being “meh-to-loathing” (as always reasonable, from your tales of her over the years!), about the MIL.
I hope things go as gently on the Mrs, and on you, as you care for HER through all this, too!💝💖💓
Thank you.
My brother in law was in the same NASA class as many of the crew of that Challenger mission. Our family watched that in horror & lost a Hawaiian hero & neighbor Ellison Onizuka. I will never forget that day.
Shit! We just lost Sly Dunbar! RIP Legend!