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A close-up photo of a CD of REM's "Murmur" where credits include "additional words by N. Bogan."

Neill, I HAD NO IDEA! This came in my WFDD morning update.

The Fifth Element. We named our dog Leeloo.

I haven’t seen any since Hurricane Helene. We usually have them.😢

A white Trillium, smaller than a quarter, in an abandoned garden.

There’s a teeny white trillium, too, with evidence of an abandoned garden. (Yes, mine.)

A Shooting Star plant in an abandoned garden.

This Shooting Star refused to bloom well for years. I guess it liked being in a landslide. Patrick’s probably right—new minerals.

Nashville. The traffic is awful, but the food is good.

Yes! I finally took to bed with a migraine today

Even the Matthew Rhys version of Perry Mason, a flawed character with some questionable stuff going on his life, has a moral compass.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky …. The US tariffs were designed by dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them, it’s literally a chatgpt tax on Americans.

“dipshit sex pest failsons”😂

Around 6 a.m., I sat bolt upright in bed because high winds and rain in the morning dark will terrify me for the rest of my life. #wnc #helene

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She wrote her dissertation on Type 1a supernovae.

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This book is a great story about what comes after. (The link is a 60-page preview.)
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YouTube video by ContraPoints CONSPIRACY | contrapoints

The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.

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Smart, thorough, thoughtful, funny. I always enjoy her take on things.

And he’ll trade her in as soon as her warranty is up, anyway.

Subscribe to #Dame, y’all. Here’s a taste that captures the part that made me throw up in my mouth a little.

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There’s something so viscerally unsettling about watching grown men plan a cruise missile strike on Houthi militants alongside emojis crying with laughter.

If you pronounce it "peed-ants" they will reveal themselves.

It snowed overnight here.

had lunch there today. Just perfect.

Tallinn, Estonia, photo of turrets and steeples in old town from the overlook above.

Doesn't matter that I've taken this very same photo more than a few times. It's just so darn pretty. Even on a cold, windy, gray day. #Tallinn

Find the interpreter at that one-on-one meeting in Helsinki. The one where Putin said, “I will release the details of how I threw the election to you unless you do exactly what I say.” It’s time for them to talk.

If you love freedom of speech but don’t listen to other opinions, then what you love is your opinion echoed by your bubble.

Students at an art school in Germany hung this banner in the central rotunda.

I added alt text

My people are better than y’all’s people. We are more powerful, intelligent, prettier, morally upright, cultivated, and healthier. We are good, and y’all are bad. God is on our side. Our shit doesn’t stink, and we invented everything.

Thanks to the Neue NationalGalerie museum shop in Berlin (and Barbara Kruger and an anonymous translator), I have a new shopping bag for use in the USA, where most people won’t know what it says.

Virginia Foxx is not cooperating with this plan. Overwhelmingly Repub district, she’s here but not accepting visitors. Even those needing constituent-type service.

Does this level of pettiness sound familiar?

“Jewish workers and employees shall no longer receive long-service awards.”

“Jews dismissed from state service can be denied the license to practice law.”

“Jews shall be ineligible for rent assistance.”

a random selection-Jewish Museum Berlin

Hundreds of long paper scrolls hang from the ceiling of a gallery. They contain every anti-Jewish edict from before WW2 in Germany.

Does this level of pettiness sound familiar?

“All Jewish teachers in Prussia who are not regularly employed shall be dismissed.”

“Childless Jewish women are not eligible for health insurance coverage for investigating the causes of their childlessness.”

(Jewish Museum Berlin)

Facade of an old townhouse in Germany. The first floor is white stucco. The second and third floors are clad in dark gray slate tiles.

Slate tile as wall cladding is subtly shiny. 52°N latitude