Noel Dickover

The mininarch to the left turned out OK as well.

Lots of fun tunnels and arches for my rainbow shark that will eventually be coming.

Thanks!

Well, two pieces. I thought they'd go well together.

I had enough spare epiphytes to sprinkle a little green on them!

With fish.

9 baby neon dwarf rainbow fish (praecox)

4 baby flag fish.

All born nearly the same time. Flag fish grow so much faster because they eat all the time - plants, stuff in detritus, and food I give.

Rainbow fish only eat from the water colum.

#aquascaping #fishkeeping #acquarium #fish

I reversed the slate on the left side. I'm going with this.

#aquascaping #fishkeeping #acquarium #fish

For aquascaping my 55 gallon I'm thinking something like this.

#aquascaping #fishkeeping #acquarium #fish

Upset about shitty air travel? You should dress nicer.

Upset about high prices? You should just ignore it.

Upset about bad inflation? You should just move to another state.

I got DOGEd earlier this year when they made the funding portal inoperable for EPA grantees to steal the $ & our group of subgrantees was just 1 of 2 out of 75 grantees nationally that sued & won back funds access thanks to a court order that was unexpectedly obeyed, the rest of them didn't even try

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Every time I listen to Trump, Bessent or Lutnick talk about economic conditions, it is always completely obvious how utterly disconnected they are from the everyday struggles the average American working family is dealing with right now. They simply can’t relate to normal people.

Yeah, the whole "leave wood alone" movement is whacked.

The wood going into my 55 gallon tank right now...

My third failed attempt at leveling the tank.

This is like 4 full bathtubs worth of water wasted at this point.

#aquarium #fail #aquascaping #fishkeeping.

So efficient!

Mark Zuckerberg is a shitty human being in charge of an even shittier company,

Chapter 93.

Quiet history: US has conducted 21 strikes on boats, killing 83 persons, capturing 2. Experts in laws of war, and members of Congress, say the strikes are illegal because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians—even suspected criminals — with no imminent threat of violence.

When Davis learned that a breakaway faction was gathering on a Saturday afternoon at the offices of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to plot a strategy for DOGE’s future, he began calling likely attendees and told them not to attend what he called the “coup” meeting. (The firm did not respond to a request for comment on its role in DOGE’s work.) Those at the meeting who looked at their phones would have seen their fortunes change in real time, as they were removed from Signal group chats — DOGE’s primary status marker of who belonged.

Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted

Getting rid of the stigma would be new.

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Kleptocracy

evergreen

9/ One tool could help: vaccines. After researchers in France discovered bird flu was traveling on dust and aerosols, they turned to vaccinating the country’s ducks. The results: A near-total reduction in cases. But USDA hasn't authorized their use in poultry here in the U.S.

The map highlights 16 farms that were located in the plume and tested positive for the virus. ProPublica found that farms located downwind from Howe’s Hens during this period were about 20 times as likely to contract the virus than those that weren’t.

6/ The simulation showed that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

In the first few weeks of the virus’ spread, I found that farms downwind were 20x as likely to see outbreaks.

3/ I was able to trace the outbreak using genomic data sampled from the farms with infected poultry. This data told another story: hens in one egg farm got infected, and then the contagion spread from there, lighting up one of the most poultry-dense areas of the country within weeks.

1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.

And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵

How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers After meeting with advocates, the Trump administration confirmed it has scrapped a controversial regulation that would have cut disability benefits for older workers.

After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.

My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess

I feel like any subject just below the UFO surface would lead to problematic rabbit holes.

Hopefully this helps open up the conversation to the normals.

Really nice column! Great tid bits!

History repeats itself. What a horrible dynamic.

Two-Day Virginia Budget Summit Highlights: “Risks are Skewed to the Downside,” “Job Growth is Expected to be Flat,” “Mandatory budget pressures outpace revenue growth”; etc. On Thursday and Friday (11/20-11/21) in Radford, the Senate Finance & Appropriations Committee held its annual meeting, focused on "Fiscal Issues Facing the Commonwealth. There was a TON of informatio...

Two-Day Virginia Budget Summit Highlights: “Risks are Skewed to the Downside,” “Job Growth is Expected to be Flat,” “Mandatory budget pressures outpace revenue growth”; etc. (Bottom line: "The Trump administration is hurting the Virginia economy") bluevirginia.us/2025/11/two-...

This hack's partner is the hack at vanity fair who hired his best friend who's the hack who was fucking every source she could while cheating on the hack who was her then boyfriend