#dontRideThatRuss

SEEKING FRIENDLIER DATA

When all three people fart on the elevator.

Why Young Children May Not Get Covid Shots This Fall

“The risk of severe illness and hospitalization among children under 1 who are infected with the coronavirus is comparable to that among adults 65 & older. That’s why experts have said that a child’s first exposure should be through a vaccine, rather than infection.” If only experts were in charge…

Never forget who supports this shitheel. Never forgive them.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

Such a nuisance!

Sound on for the annoying deer fly audio…

Color photo of a used car/mechanic’s lot featuring the left side of a Mach 1 Mustang from the rear… it has a flat tire. There’s some kind of rusted metal container to the left, a bicycle and pickup truck in the middle distant background.

Maynard, MA - August 2025.

#flatTire #muscleCar #mach1 #ford #photography

This is ironic — we’ve been talking for a long time about how “short trips” make up a LOT of traffic in cities & have BIG implications for pollution and GHG emissions. So it’s a big opportunity to convert such trips to walking or biking trips.

But guess what — they’re ALSO REALLY BAD FOR YOUR CAR.

Color photo of the AMX badge on a green AMC Javelin AMX. The badge and surrounding body paint are pitted and show signs of rust.

Interior of an AMC Javelin AMX. Pretty much gutted with no seats, instruments, etc. The driver’s side door is held closed with a bungee cord looped around the steering wheel.

Read window of an AMC Javelin AMX showing a rusted rooftop with dual white racing stripes down the middle. Body color is dark green. The circular AMX badge is visible in the lower left and a FOR SALE sign is hung inside the window.

3 of a Javelin AMX. Maynard, MA - August 2025.

#javelin #amx #javelinAMX #americanMotors #muscleCar #bringATrailer #photography

we can't force Spotify to pay a reasonable rate, but we CAN support the musicians we love and respect by purchasing their stuff from @bandcamp.com, preferably on a Friday
#shoegaze

US drug sales are $683bn a year.

Because Donald Trump has cut them by 1500% that means the drug companies will pay Americans, $9,562bn.

That is nearly $40,000 for every adult American.

What are you going to spend your $40,000 on?

Booker’s seat in NJ is up for election next year. He currently does not endorse the NYC Democratic candidate for mayor.

I suppose we may infer that Booker does not subscribe to “vote blue no matter who”. This is a small comfort to those who don’t have a partisan approach.

this is a must-read. and it's not great that zero democratic politicians/candidates have been willing to speak up about this level of corruption over the last decade. no wonder consultants are so terrified zohran

Finish was in remote location… could be few choices to get freshly baked pies nearby?

i’m not going to accept any statement on the “steep environmental cost” of air conditioning while countries are backtracking on their climate goals to keep powering AI

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Color photo of the front left side of a early 70’s Mach1 Ford Mustang. It has a bright yellow hood with a thin blue front edge, a white bumper and fender. Just beyond is the hulking mess of another Mach1 that lacks its grille, bumper, radiator, and engine.

Color photo of the right rear of a Ford Mach1 Mustang showing its tail light and rear spoiler. The spoiler and trunk lid are white, the rest of the visible part of the car’s body is light blue. The chrome bumpers shows quite a bit of rust. To the right of that car is the driver’s side front of another Mach1 Mustang showing its red driver’s side fender and door. The car looks lifted up pretty high because it has no engine to weigh down its shock absorbers.

Mustangs. Maynard, MA - August 2025.

#fordMustang #ford #mustang #mach1 #bringATrailer #photography

Been a while since I’ve seen #colinsSweater

Derp!

If you were gonna make a list of the 5 people who ensured Russia did not democratize after the collapse of the USSR, Larry's in the top 3.

I was so worried that she might reach out to high five fans along the way and crash!

I like this variation in the first two lines of Elvis Costello’s “Luxembourg”:

Dressed up like a dog's dinner
Butter wouldn't melt on your paws

no, really, the people you think are bad really are even worse than that

Black and white photo taken at a low angle of an open pack of Crown cigarettes lying on a leafy patch of ground. One cigarette is hanging pretty far out of the pack.

NOT mine.

Maynard, MA August 2025.

#cigarette #cigarettes #iQuit #cantQuit #cantStopWontStop #blackAndWhite #photography

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

An Air Quality Index (AQI) map showing the Upper Midwest United States (centered around Minnesota) and south-central Canada. The map is filled with colored circles containing numbers, which represent the AQI for various locations. A color-coded legend at the bottom shows the scale: green for "Good," yellow for "Moderate," orange for "Unhealthy for sensitive groups," red for "Unhealthy," purple for "Very Unhealthy," and dark purple for "Hazardous." Many of the visible areas, particularly in the center of the map, are colored red, with AQI values often exceeding 150, indicating poor air quality resulting from wildfires ravaging forests in Canada.

AQI is the new weather.

The left needs a Joe Rogan. The left needs a Stephen Miller. The left needs a Lee Atwater. The left needs a Rupert Murdoch. The left needs a Goebbels. The left needs a Nugent. The left needs a Dilbert guy. The left needs a pony. The left needs a nap. The left needs a new heel for its shoe. The lef..

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation