Kurt Lass

One smart cat...

a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone with the words " i don 't understand any of this " behind him ALT: a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone with the words " i don 't understand any of this " behind him

As Guy Rundle frequently observes, the majority of Australians are now knowledge class small ‘l’ liberals concerned at widening inequality, climate change, housing affordability and our grovelling to a failed US state. So why are the ALP, Libs, Nats and One Nation all competing for the cooker vote?

Data centers in space make no sense to me There seems to be a huge push lately in the tech world for the idea of placing data centers in space .  This is not just coming from Musk vi...

🧪⚛️ My thoughts on why the suddenly popular idea of putting huge volumes of data centers into orbit makes no sense, at least to me, on physics grounds. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/02/data...

Looking at the abstract (Paywall... ☹️), it is retrospective data mining and data torturing of the FFQ based NHS and HPFS data sets... GIGO...🙄

Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday

Never underestimate the little ways you include others.

Those quiet gestures can make someone feel noticed, seen, and truly cared for.

They may seem small to you,
but to someone else, they can mean everything.

In the USA vernacular, RFK Jr. is a "crackpot".

Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day

Take care of yourself, not just the version the world sees, but the quiet parts too.
You don’t have to be strong all the time.
You’re not broken. You’re human.
Give yourself the care you give everyone else.

Don't mention the war Australia is struggling to respond proportionately to violence, fear and political pressure in the wake of the Bondi attacks, October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza. The result has been a contraction of d...

Well worth a read! Don't mention the war johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

Timeline cleanse...

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday

Be someone who still tries.

After failure, frustration, and heartache, be the person who finds the courage to try again

Believe that better days and kinder moments are yet to come.

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.

It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

Night night sweet dreamies

The mind is a powerful thing.
It listens to what we tell it and learns to believe those words
So speak kindly to it
Remind it of your strengths, your worth, and how capable you truly are.
You are wonderfully and beautifully made, exactly as you are.

Very important thread by the always smart John Pfaff.

Border control agents/inspectors at airports in the USA have worn guns for decades. I have always wondered why this is.
In Australia, an immigration official does not wear a gun. That function is performed by fully trained police officers from the Federal Police roaming the immigration/customs area.

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

Killer Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti identified by the excellent @propublica.org

www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day

We’re all improvising, really.
Taking small steps into days we’ve never lived before.

Just in case you needed to hear it:
Everyone is winging it.
Some people are just better at pretending.

You’re doing fine.
Keep going

Night night sweet dreamies

Everyone carries doubts, insecurities, and tender spots.
They’re part of your story, but they are not the whole of who you are.

Look how excited they look! 🤣🤣🤣

Talking with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty about Trump, Operation Metro Surge — and FAFO Watch now (47 mins) | "[T]he people of Minneapolis are looking around, and this is what they’re saying to their electeds too, is, ‘Who is here protecting us?’”

On Wednesday, I had an in-depth discussion with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. Overseeing a jurisdiction that includes Minneapolis, Moriarty had significant information to share and a lot of important thoughts about the past year — and the past month.

They were not sure about whether the killing was justified, not whether they watched the video...

Wise words from a very handsome cat.

Timeline cleanse...

The Oprahfication of CBS News.

Good morning and welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday

If you’d like to give more, a smile is the perfect place to begin.
There are so many moments in life that deserve your smile.

Classic DARVO process in action. Deny that the offender(s) could have done anything wrong. Attack the victim. Reverse the Victim and Offender.