Archive for 2022

THAT’S CRAZY: Women Who Want Women for Intimate Care are ‘Psychotic.’ “The misogyny and homophobia among the New Queer jackboots has serious consequences. They wouldn’t play nice and just live-and-let-live. So this is where we are — where even intimate care for women and girls is to be dismissed if it causes even a minute of inconvenience to any male claiming to be a woman.”

COMET!:  On this day in 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons sighted his first comet.  By the end of his career he had discovered 37 of them–more than anyone in history using visual methods.

Pons was not your average scientist.  He was born to a poor family and had little in the way of formal education.  He was hired to be the caretaker of the Marseille Observatory.  At first, he was not taken seriously by the credentialed scientists Pons assisted.  But after a while, they had to admit that he had a knack for finding comets.  By the end of his career he had been awarded the Lalande Prize three times.

FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Looking around: Dutch farmers protest; Juliet Samuel on the tyranny of HR; who will succeed Boris?

I’d just like to remind everyone that the Dutch are capable of political cannibalism. I’m not kidding. They’ve done it before.

(As a proud occasional cheerleader of #teamheadsonpikes, I’d like to point out that #teambarbecuefork is beyond the pale. You don’t want to put politicians in your mouth. You know exactly where they’ve been.)

WHY AREN’T THESE TERRORISTS BEING ARRESTED?  ShutDownDC Offers Bounties For More Harassment Of Justices.

And their source of funds investigated?

Oh, and apparently Morton’s is being harassed for defending Kavanaugh’s right to dine in peace. It’s a bit rich for my blood, but if you guys have the funds, consider buy-cotting, okay?

IS THERE NOTHING IT CANNOT DO?  New COVID subvariant could make you sweat at night.

Covid is the Climate Change of viruses.

Because you don’t sweat at night in summer, particularly if you’re trying to save bloody expensive energy, and you don’t sweat at night from a million other causes like diabetes and menopause. No. It must be Covid. The scariest virus EVER with a survival rate of 98% for most of the population.

Pfui!

WHICH BRINGS THIS UP:  Facebook and Instagram face European threat after watchdog’s ruling in a Snowden-era privacy dispute.

And yes, I know Faceborg and instagram censor, and all, but again, Europe has no real blogs (some in Ireland and England, but not the forest of political blogs you see in the US) and their press is far more controlled than ever.

Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I look at this and think “If I wanted to keep news of uprisings from coming out…”

THANK HEAVENS AND THE ANGELIC CHOIR, ONLY SIX MORE OF THESE:  TANSTAAFL DAY TEN- Less than a week to go! Now With More Internet Hamsters – And FREE SF PICTURE released under CCBY.

It makes me profoundly uncomfortable, but I believe I have earned it, and if you’ve found value in my blog you might choose to contribute.  There is also a free SF picture and (sigh) today only internet hamsters. (Look, I had so much trouble with the promo post, I couldn’t resist.)

IF THERE MIGHT BE A BABY IN YOUR FAMILY IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, STOCK UP:  Abbott Plant, at Heart of America’s Baby Formula Shortage, Reopens.

Depending on the expiration date (I breastfed, okay?) having some formula laid by might save a kid’s life. Sometimes mothers just don’t lactate, even leaving more grim possibilities aside. And at this point I don’t trust the supply chains.