Old Man Glas

This.
Also: ever wondered what kind of monster would shoot up a church during a church service? The same kind that would attack a Muslim-majority country during Ramadan. Take notice.

Sharing.

Non-binary bat biologist and Yosemite park ranger SJ Joslin got fired for protected off-duty free speech (they hung a very cool trans flag from the rock face of El Capitan). Now they are suing, and I think that this is right and proper -- and I hope their case goes smoothly.

Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds 4th edition. ^_^

Trans Latina superhero takes center stage on Green Ronin's latest version of its Mutants and Masterminds game -- very, very cool!

(I do love Green Ronin, and the various creators past and present. Crystal Frasier designed Sonia Gutierrez, this M&M hero.)

💵 How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger? 🍽️ Would $6 billion end world hunger? We know what it takes to end world hunger, and we know what it costs. Let's break it down.

Hunger 9/9 (WFP)
• We need $40 billion dollars per year to feed all of the world’s hungry people and end global hunger by 2030.

UN World Food Programme
(10 Aug 2022, updated 10 Feb 2026)
"How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?"
wfpusa.org/news/how-muc...

Hunger 8/9 (WFP)
• The U.N. World Food Programme feeds over 100 million of the hungriest people each year.
• We need $7 billion dollars to deliver food to the millions of people facing famine this year.

Hunger 7/9 (WFP)
Yes, the U.N. World Food Programme has a plan to end world hunger, and here are the numbers:
• There are 828 million people on the planet who are hungry. That’s 1 in 10 people.
• Of those, 50 million are on the brink of famine and desperately need help.

Hunger 6/9 (WFP)
“That seems like a lot of money,” Beasley said. “But in the United States alone, in the last one year, the U.S. billionaires’ net worth increase was over $1 trillion.”

Hunger 5/9
Quoting WFP:
Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

Hunger 4/9
Let me quote below the UN World Food Programme, which itself quotes U.S. Republican David Beasley, its former director and a past GOP governor of South Carolina. (Beasley served as Director of the UN WFP from 2017 to 2023; he had bipartisan U.S. Senate support his final year.)

Hunger 3/9
And don't tell me that you're a good Christian, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good religious person of another faith, or even a mediocre military planner if you think that world hunger isn't an issue for EVERYONE.

U.S. debt concerns weigh on Trump's plan to supersize the Pentagon's budget to $1.5 trillion, highlighting this law about great-power status | Fortune “This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” Trump said.

Hunger 2/9
(The U.S. spends a trillion dollars a year on matériel and personnel, and Mr. Trump and MAGA supporters want 1.5 trillion in the mistaken belief that we can bully the other 96% of the world into submission.)

Fortune (23 Feb 2026)
fortune.com/2026/02/23/u...

💵 How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger? 🍽️ Would $6 billion end world hunger? We know what it takes to end world hunger, and we know what it costs. Let's break it down.

Hunger 1/9
What would it cost to end world hunger?
Less than the half-trillion dollars a year by which the GOP currently wants to increase U.S. military spending.

UN World Food Programme
(10 Aug 2022, updated 10 Feb 2026)
"How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?"
wfpusa.org/news/how-muc...

Books on a bookshelf

Chemistry:
Configurational Isomerism --
Cis-Trans Isomerism. (I learned about this back in the 1970s.)

Cis-isomerism:
Functional groups are on the same side of some plane.

Trans-isomerism:
Functional groups are on the opposite (transverse) sides.

cf. IUPAC Gold Book:
doi.org/10.1351/gold...

And yet plants have trouble if the carbon dioxide concentration gets too high (ditto on the surrounding temperature). I swear, the whole GOP seems built on "How many different sciences can we ignore or contradict?"

Wow --
Powerful.

Talk about aura farming --
The Battle of Pulo Aura: THIS is effective military deception!

I wonder...

Of note.

Welp.

I had not heard!

When federal agencies evade Congressional oversight, you KNOW that they are breaking our laws again.

Gonna go with "Lutherans caring about their neighbors." But I'm really getting concerned about domestic of our far right-wing folk.

Wow!

💯

Unfortunately, seems too accurate a description. 😞

Sharing, as I am intrigued.