I’m trying to decide if I‘ve accidentally taken acid, or if it’s reality itself that’s breaking down.

I've made the point in the past that Trump's support is based on a coalition of disordered counterpublics which distrust institutions, such as anti-vaxxers, Pizzagate truthers, and the like. Their primary loyalty is to their individual causes, not Trump, and this is the coalition fracturing.

I'm going to do the same with the peace sign for cars as they pass.

Cheers

I've been doing something similar to thoughtful drivers. Has made a difference.

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Michelle Obama says America is ‘not ready’ for a female president “Don’t even look at me about running because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time,” the former first lady said in a recent interview.

She is right.

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Cat MM is in a mood this evening. I opened the balcony door to see if that would help.

(Fingers crossed)

I wondered that as well. The article hints at what I suspect is the prime use case: team support on race day. The mechanic could have this in a small toolkit and attend to bikes where they are, rather than a run back to the pump location.

Std home use? My floor pump does just fine.

When you need a new marginal buyer. Quick.

@financialtimes.com $HOOD
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I've been gesturing thank you* to drivers who go out of their way or defer to me when I'm riding. I'm in a small town (I see the same cars a lot). It really helps.

* Exaggerated nod while also taking my hand from my chest/heart forward and down. The hand gesture is similar to "thank you" in ASL.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

Before her (too early) death, the amazing Sharon Begley wrote this piece on double helix co-discoverer James Watson and the racist and sexist pronouncements he seemed to revel in making in later life. Fascinating read about a troubling individual.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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The Outfit (2022) ⭐ 7.2 | Crime, Drama, Mystery 1h 45m | R

One of my favorite films.

FWIW, today's studio scissors are different. Even for most wools. The film's selection was appropriate for time/place. Just out of place in current workshops. I love their attention to detail.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1411...

A small drain hole at the bottom of the tube would be handy for rainy day rides. The LBS should be able to help with that.

(Can you tell I live in a very rainy portion of the world? 😂)

A 4th grader giving public comment in a packed Davis city council meeting.

My 4th grader at a packed City Council last night asked for a safe bike/ped overpass over a busy road to connect a new development instead of needing to wait up to 2.5 minutes at a light as planned. He then asked everyone to wait with him for the duration of his comment to share how long that is.

And single speed...?

YouTube video by Reuters World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS

Tall ship cargo makes a cross Atlantic comeback.

An interesting, if small, turn of events.

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Too bad there isn’t an Ig Nobel Peace Prize

Yup. A classic case of semantic overload.

If the goal is to filter out unwanted content at the user level, it needs a "don't show me this" label.

White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed. For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

Sigh. Norms aren't law. And law can't cover everything which norms do.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

HOLY COW!

They did it!

A stock pot on the stove. Ingredients are: onion, celery, carrot, ginger, chicken, bay leaf, garlic, whole black pepper, and a tomato. It's a bit of a hodge podge ... but so it goes when pantry cooking.

Ginger chicken soup.

Whenever I hear/read the word "vranyo", I replay a Wynton Marsalis song in my mind ("Premature Autopsies").

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wx...

www.mdcbowen.org/p1/cobb/prem...

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after
experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall."

These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

-- Sir Joshua Reynolds

Which is even more relevant today, given the rapid and thoughtless proliferation of AI.

Rare earths was (and will continue to be) the deciding factor in this.

It was an insane fight to start. A US "loss" was pre-determined.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium Expert warns commercial use of the radioactive material from cold war-era warheads carries safety risks

Hum.... Small-scale nuclear power plants on govt land for AI? Would having them on govt/military land get around enviro and permitting/oversight rules?

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I can’t stop thinking about all the hoopla over removing confederate statues and the phony appeals to “heritage.” But this is done without discussion. It was always about displays of dominance.

Plus, it’s a sub-type of the ‘boys will be boys’ excuse/deflection.

Sanders can get a lot of side eye from me. This is another case in point.

I respect the intent behind the following.

However, if/when this takes hold in the USA ... I fully expect this expansion of 'personhood' to be used to justify laws creating fetal personhood.