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In this sleepy rural Kansas diner, the regulars don't care much for the mainstream media or "big government". All they want is simple: a hot coffee, a tall stack of pancakes, higher gas prices, and for their sons to die in an interminable proxy war to defend the state of Israel

NYT: Dec 2025 :Trump to close Voice Of America's overseas offices and radio stations

Radio Free Asia Will Halt News Operations Amid Shutdown Until this month, Radio Free Asia had successfully resisted Trump officials who had tried to render it obsolete.

Maybe if America had some sort of decades-old state media apparatus with a high-powered broadcaster that could send news and pro-Western propaganda to the Iranian resistance so that America could take a step back militarily and just use their soft power to--

...oh they what?

Even by the low standards of American quagmires, this one seems especially half-assed. Like the whole operation was just a 3-slide Powerpoint deck that went
1. Rain hellfire on Tehran
2. [slide 2 tk - Pentagon?]
3. Let the bells of democracy ring out

Every quote from Christian Horner so far this season has been like,

"This is results business and when you're no longer delivering results you deserve to be sacked, luckily for me, I will never be fired because I'm at the top of the world, invincible if you will"

A masterpiece of table-setting

(Sidenote but I find it funny that "The Netflix F1 show" and "The Netflix Michael Jordan show" might be 1A and 1B in terms of most-watched sports documentaries ever, and those are the names we use for both shows, even though both shows have real names, but the real names are a bit dumb)

Jonathan Wheatley, F1 team Stake Kick Sauber from the Netflix show

Flavio Briatore, who was banned from F1 and is also a known Epstein associate

The whole episode just jumps back and forth between

JONATHAN WHEATLEY, SAUBER: righty then, P13, but that's why pencils have erasers innit, our lads tried their best and deserve a big hug

FLAVIO BRIATORE, ALPINE: we come facking P14, I say-ah to my driver: I have gun, perhaps I shoot-a your face

Martin Scorsese: Absolute Cinema

Episode 2 of the Netflix F1 show just being a character study of Sauber's team principal (a sweet old British elf who believes in the power of friendship) and Alpine's team principal (a cartoonishly despicable Italian villain who dresses like an aging nightclub impresario)

I have to imagine we're careening over the edge of Peak Cookie. There simply cannot be enough of a market to sustain more places popping up doing gourmet $8 cookies. All of these cookie places will eventually meet sushi burritos and unicorn food and bacon-themed restaurants in Food Fad Valhalla

(ChefReactions voice after just watching a Tiktok of some vile cooking ragebait) "yeeeahhhh.... 2.6 out of 10 fuck it I'd try it"

TORONTO LIFE: This popular Toronto bakery is now making everything bagel cookie sandwiches Craig’s Cookies is at it again By Erin Hershberg | March 3, 2026

The Simpsons "Nuts and gum - together at last" gag but the can has been edited to say "Vanilla Icing and Garlic together at last"

GTA 6 is anticipated to create $3 billion in sales and up to $7 billion in total economic activity, overshadowing any piece of media created in the history of film or television, because people across this vast and dynamic planet yearn to know what it's like to drive to a Publix

I can't believe that the biggest cultural moment coming this year is a video game where you get to simulate what it's like to live in Florida

The under-construction 100+ storey Pinnacle One Yonge at Bloor & Yonge pierces above the orangey-yellow clouds at sunrise, with just a few other skyscrapers and the CN Tower popping out above the cloud line in the background, via photographer Kotsy on Instagram

A striking, portrait-sized shot of the CN Tower shooting up out of the white-grey fog with only a few skyscrapers peaking out of the fog in the background with a cool blue sky in the background

Last week's pea-soup fog over the city provided some insane drone photography shots of towers piercing up out of the clouds
(via Instagram photographer Kotsy: www.instagram.com/itsonlykotsy/)

It means any monsters you've killed come back to life

I swear to god don't poopoo this by saying "it's gonna be rainy". ooohhhh I'm afraid of water. get a jacket!

Surprisingly cheap Toronto-Vancouver flights in April ($216 round trip for Flair, $319 on a real airline) 4-star downtown hotels for under 300 bucks Wrestling (AEW Dynasty) / Baseball (Vancouver Canadians) / Cherry blossoms

Surprisingly affordable trip recommendation for anyone in Toronto who wants to get away, but is looking for a more budget-conscious "we don't need Japan we've got Japan at home" vibe: Vancouver in April

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record.

Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

Christopher & Mary are longtime faves but I think this is my first time seeing their daughter Barbara on this account. Wow. Apple didn't fall far from the tree at all.

Well well well, look who's checking the Alt Text to find out if it will contain the answer to the riddle. No such luck, my friend! All that I'll tell you is that it contains 6 images with some sort of hidden connection or link between them: a former Montreal Expos manager, a famous collie, a judo outfit, an 80s Finnish Oilers great, an award containing a statuette of an actor, and a toy child.

SUNDAY NIGHT TRIVIA:
What is the connection between this images?

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

The answer is: HOMOPHONES OF INDIAN FOOD 1. Baseball great Felipe Alou (ALOO - potatoes) 2. Collie great Lassie (LASSI - mango drink) 3. Judo/karate outift Gi (GHEE - clarified butter) 4. 80s Oilers player Jari Kurri (CURRY - self-explanatory) 5. Now called the Actor Award this was once known as the SAG award (SAAG - spinach) 6. This is just a doll (DAAL - lentils)

At least one person has figured it out, so please check the alt text to be spoiled by the answer!

This was inspired by my mystery connection category at my pub trivia night I ran this past week, and I was told by my regulars it was tricky, so I'll see how my nerds of Bluesky find it.

Well well well, look who's checking the Alt Text to find out if it will contain the answer to the riddle. No such luck, my friend! All that I'll tell you is that it contains 6 images with some sort of hidden connection or link between them: a former Montreal Expos manager, a famous collie, a judo outfit, an 80s Finnish Oilers great, an award containing a statuette of an actor, and a toy child.

SUNDAY NIGHT TRIVIA:
What is the connection between this images?

Flightaware live tracking from my app over the middle east showing no traffic over Iran and all flights diverting north or south. A ton of planes over Turkmenistan just north of Iran

(Clocking in for my first day at work as air traffic controller in Turkmenistan)
Alright, should be a pretty chill Sunday, let's see who we've got in the air

Brits have long held some sort of funhouse-mirror view of Canada - remember when Morissey & Paul McCartney launched boycotts of Canada over seal hunts, or Brit tabloid hysteria over MAID.

Anyways I'm sure Vancouver isn't hurting over "oh no an 86-year-old can't do his 60-year-old jokes here"

Here is Brady Tkachuk saying "that's for the people who say I can't read, go F yourself" after attempting to do some elementary school math and getting the wrong answer

The Tkachuks just narrowly missed out on this gig after it was learned that reading SNL cue cards requires being able to read

Showing my jar of Holy Duck Chili oil which is Chinese spicy red chili oil with Canadian duck fat in it

The resulting load showing a perfect beautiful spiral inside. All credit to my wife for this one

IMPORTANT:

Sourdough bread loaf with duck fat chili oil, scallions and cheddar

In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Netherlands: calmed where it can be, protected where it must be, and always comfortable and connected.

The result? You can now pedal across the city on infrastructure made for everyone—not just the fit and brave.