Monday-est Monday to ever Monday.
White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/white-house-media-website-trump
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/ai-poetry-safety-features-jailbreak
The kids are all right
A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/alabama-teenager-election-map-voting-rights
Glad I drove home on Saturday; it was still very busy
Snow and ice create hazardous conditions, travel chaos across parts of the US
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5624991/thanksgiving-travel-winter-storm
Sprots! [That last sentence does not bode well: “The last charter sold went for $45 million, and NASCAR has indicated there is pressing interest from potential buyers including private equity firms.”]
Michael Jordan’s fight against NASCAR heads to court
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/30/nx-s1-5626165/michael-jordan-nascar-court
I had a bit of a Jesse Welles marathon in the car the other day:
Have a good day!
…speaking of a monday mood
…but…on the other hand…the telegraph straight up said the part about brexit being an unmitigated disaster from an economic point of view…however career-enhancing it might have been for nigel “been a proper bigot since at least secondary school” farage
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/29/admit-truth-brexit-has-been-an-unmitigated-economic-failure/
…so…still not quite sure why keir seems so inclined to outmanoeuvre himself into sliding into nige’s “immigration” policy while running scared of spooking the markets…just one of life’s little mysteries, I suppose?
It’s kind of a fascinating thing to watch in that it turns out that you can just build a fake economy out of nothing and it operates basically the same as the “real” economy and everybody is kind of afraid to actually point out that those two pictures look uncomfortably similar and uhhh maybe don’t look at the guy behind that curtain, we swear he’s just a janitor, take our word on it bro
Note that this comment is about the stock market AND Brexit and they’re both somehow the same picture, too.
Tulip mania!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
The irony that a fake currency based on having no principles/regulations is dependent on socialized regulated power and water.
I guess the Trump White House has never heard of the Streisand Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
If, for one, will be checking their website daily. That 20-something press secretary with the performative gold cross really has no idea what she’s doing, does she? Although Trump wants clicks and to rile up the mouthbreathers so maybe this is actually a good idea?
I awoke this morning with a nagging question: Who were the two bloggers who brought down Splinter by convincing whoever owned it at the time to shut down the comments? One was a woman dubbed the child blogger. The other was a man who claimed Native ancestry despite there being no evidence that he belonged to any recognized tribe. Any info would be appreciated!
Oh, one more thing: Trump’s tweet or whatever it was about closing down Venezuela’s airspace. Is this the Battle of Britain all over again, with us as the Nazis and Maduro as some kind of Churchillian figure? The tweet concluded, as so many do, with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
As he slides ever further into his senescense I look forward to a post like, “I have not had a Solid Bowel Movement in THREE DAYS! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
And remember, everyone’s a winner!
ZDF is/was a German broadcaster, so this would have been a German audience. Notice how they are obediently sitting in their chairs, no doubt thinking, “I am hearing music and it is pleasant.” Hot Chocolate (a fabulous name) must have performed this on “Soul Train.” I bet the experience was very different.
One of my all-time faves is Journey’s live video for “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” which was filmed in Japan. It’s an all time “And the crowd … goes … mild” responses to what is supposed to be a get on your feet sort of song. It’s great!
So Private Equity is going to ruin NASCAR.
“If you ain’t first, you’re LAST!”
-Ricky Bobby
The enshittification continues.
There was once an AI from Nantucket
Who consumed all the water, including buckets
Once it went completely nuts
It wanted to turn humanity into just guts
After it read Vogon Poetry, it said “Fuck it”
Deadsplinter’s very own bard!
Fuck this whole plan…
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-war-crimes-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine/
and as always, fuck Idaho (sorry Meme)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/idaho-bar-ice-arrests-free-beer-b2875294.html
and lastly, fuck this guy!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/pete-hegseth-investigation-congress-boat-strikes/
I’m never offended when someone says that. I say it all the time. Turn it into Latin and I’ll see if we can update the state motto.
Listening to the news reporting this & trying to sell it as a flex to how great the economy is?
https://www.newsweek.com/black-friday-spending-raises-eyebrows-over-us-economy-11133753
FACT: If you Invested $12,500 in Melania Trump’s memecoin scheme 11 months ago at its peak, you now have $118.