Spokane WA has a huge waterfall going through the center of town.

Christ's decapitated head rests in a sea of bones and viscera. A flock of carrion birds circles overhead. A vulture rests on the bones, the others on a pitted, ruined cross being strangled by vines.

Baphomet stands tall behind a bonfire in the darkened woods. A circle of celebrants revolves around him. Mist moves in toward the fire.

An ancient door swings open and a horrible light erupts out in a sharply defined wedge against the darkness. There is a mist or smoke beginning to emerge with the light.

Figures make their way up a winding pathway beset by lava and fire and smoke. Embers float everywhere. Far off in the distance perched on the edge of a humongous cliff is a horrible church. Lava pours down the cliff face. Smaller figures can be seen on the cliff nearing the church.

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The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

A simple alteration to McDoanlds bus stop ads made with a bit of black poster paint and a long T30 torx key.

Xenophile Bibliopole in Richland, WA

People that are too young to remember George W. Bush will not be able to remember what this looks like coming up. It will be like COVID distancing enforcement, except with locally deputized militias in public places interrupting everything you do.

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Nothing says: “Entering A Global Recession” like being parked in a commercial freight vehicle for over 24 hours, in a gravel lot, in Lewiston ID, with no word from dispatch.

Been doing a bunch of small highway drives from WA through UT and NV through the back side of Los Angeles. Living in the Central Valley for 25 years deprived me of any alternate perspective than I-5 or Hwy 99. There’s an entire side of CA that I’ve been missing.

Got some stupid over-priced sushi in Phoenix and found maybe the last payphone in North America in the deserts of Cosgrave, NV (no dial tone).

From LA to Helena, Montana in one week. On to Phoenix next.

Ain't it funny how the factories doors close?
'Round the time that the school doors close?
'Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cells
Open up to greet you, like the reaper?

Like ashes in the fall.

Took the HWY 95 South through Humboldt County, Nevada through Winnemucca, then the 395 through Bishop on the East side of the Sierras.

Portland, where even the postal carriers have Black Flag tattoos

Tornado Alley

I will find more of these church trailers, I’m sure. I got some pretty severe looks at this truck stop in - get this - Whitestown, IN. People still don’t like tattoos or something, not sure.

My first time at an actual Waffle House location too.

Kentucky

Explosive morning.

Iowa

Nebraska

*Almond blossoms 🙄

Brooks, OR. Cherry blossoms in CA, tree piles in Longview, WA. Snake River in Twin Falls, ID.