For my Halisky pocket friends who are following HRMs budget discussions.

Adolphe Sax sits on a chair with an odd rest in front of him, I assume a prop from the photographer to keep people from moving their hands. He has a full beard, is handsome in a middle aged way, and looks wistfully to his right.

The saxophone is named for Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax, Belgian inventor and musician, who made musical instruments in Paris

I am not making this up:
He also invented the 'saxotromba', 'saxhorn' & 'saxtuba', and look, I'll explain: the SAXOCANNON.

But just LOOK AT HIM. *Will Riker* energy.

MICK JAGGER SUPPORTS WHO? 🤯

This answer, given in Paris in 1985, is quite something 🤨

He'll be twice as excited for the North London Derby this weekend ❤️🤍

📹 Music Box

The Not-So-Impressive “New” Health Care Ideas Republicans Want to Rush Out What GOP leaders are missing in their mad scramble to remake health care policy.

People are already shopping and making decisions, and within a few weeks they’ll be paying premiums unless they decide the price spike makes coverage unaffordable—as nearly 4 million people are expected to do. www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...

YouTube video by AnnaLapwoodVEVO Anna Lapwood - Cornfield Chase (From "Interstellar")

This thing:

Alt: Anna Lapwood plays "Cornfield Chase" from the Interstellar soundtrack on the organ at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Pope Leo and Theaters as Cathedrals The power of Christ compels you (to go to the movies).

"The movie theater is key to creating that understanding because it separates you from your devices, it removes you from the worries of the outside world. In that way, it is like a church—a sanctuary of sorts."

"Psychocandy", the debut album from #TheJesusAndMaryChain is forty years old today!

Couple this with the November NAHB print -- where a record 41% of homebuilders reported cutting prices -- and you can feel the shelter deflation tailwind kicking in.

Map of SF that shows different temps ranging from 53 to 86 — within 6 miles of each other

Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles

Differences Between An Irish Breakfast & An English Breakfast https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/12/15/differences-between-an-irish-breakfast-an-english-breakfast/

a group of people are dancing on a stage in front of a moon . Alt: a group of people are dancing on a stage in front of a moon .

Not the biggest piece of brilliant political news from yesterday, but I AM excited that the budget just announced by the 🇨🇦federal government has a line in it for funding Canada’s bid to participate in the Eurovision contest.

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6

Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.

Donald Trump blamed Republicans' big losses last week on not TALKING enough about affordability.

Pro tip: If you want to talk about affordability, you probably shouldn't be doing everything you can to make health care, groceries, and utilities MORE expensive.

Tick Tock
The Epstein Files

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

First the Dutch announce (publicly!) that they won’t share certain critical intelligence with the US because of its politicization. Now the UK won’t share intelligence to enable what it (rightly!) says are illegal strikes. That’s how you emasculate your national security. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

A Wallace and Gromit collab with Barbour

what

Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks

A ~3 hour timelapse of this morning's plume of lake effect snow totally obscuring the city before blue skies appear. #chicago

Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

Ok, I think I found the best Wikipedia article discussion ever

NEW: Ignoring Pope Leo’s Warning, Trump-Vance White House Bans Prayer Vigils at ICE Facility Trump-Vance officials told Church leaders “no more prayer” outside a Chicago-area detention center — just days after Pope Leo warned the White House was trampling religious liberty.

@christopherjhale.bsky.social wrote about the situation:
"For nearly two decades, local Catholics have gathered weekly to pray outside the Broadview immigration processing center. But this Friday, that longstanding vigil was abruptly halted by a new edict"
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-ignori...

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.

So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.

This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

go.nature.com/4oyN3wc