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Manatees *can’t* turn their heads left or right because they don’t have enough neck bones. They have 6 neck vertebrae while most animals (even giraffes!!) have 7. |
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| Daniel Boris |
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| Clay Jones |
Manatees *can’t* turn their heads left or right because they don’t have enough neck bones. They have 6 neck vertebrae while most animals (even giraffes!!) have 7. |
Martian dirt contains high levels of perchlorates — reactive chlorine-and-oxygen salts. Inhaling or ingesting even tiny amounts of Martian dust can exceed safe exposure limits.The main issue in 2025 has been the world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Starship program. Designed to carry passengers to extraterrestrial destinations, Musk stated in March 2025 that SpaceX aims to send its Starship rocket to Mars by the end of 2026, with a potential landing date between 2029 and 2031. Unfortunately, recent results may suggest otherwise. Thus far, four straight Starship launches have ended in explosions. The most recent of which occurred in June 2025, at its Starbase site in Massey, Texas, raising the company's yearly total to five. (source)
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Pedo whined that the press weren’t being sufficiently obsequious. There were outlets who had the stone temerity to not bow down to him and they *gasp* reported reality and asked actual pertinent questions. Naturally this forced the pedophile-who-would-be-king into having a big fat tantrum. He seems to not understand that the White House has granted access to news organizations and can’t ixnay that access because the reporters are doing their damn jobs. Prez Poops-in-Pants seems to have forgotten about that pesky First Amendment, if he ever knew about it to begin with.
In any case, his old man tantrum’s backfiring on him. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico have filed a First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access and there was no audio for the presentation of his I'm-a-special-boy $6,000,000 helipad. Newsmax’s equipment was just NOT up to the task of capturing the doddering old man’s ramblings. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News did not cover the event, in solidarity with the three banned networks. *snicker, snicker, snicker*
From The Halfway CafΓ©:
Dozens of women in journalism who watched Trump’s press events today without volume — because the press corps is protesting his free press violations — said under their breath, “Who’s quiet now, piggy?”
If that wasn’t bad enough for Prez AttentionWhore, CNN was the designated press for Monday’s United Nations assembly. In solidarity, none of the other networks stepped in and the UN welcomed the network. Pedo had no say in the matter. He’s a president not a king or a dictator. The spoiled twat’s been coddled for far too many decades (eight to be precise).
The so-called Department of “Justice” says ultra thin-skinned Toddler Trump has the right to ban whoever he’s mad at, calling press access a “privilege.” Jesus Fucking Christ on an egg and cheese bagel – what a sad, rage inducing joke our nation has become.
Hannah, we're already there.
ICEholes shot a man while he was working, while he was on his fucking job.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in Austin on Sunday when his car was “sideswiped” twice by ICE officers in an unmarked truck … (source)He was shot, taken to the hospital in serious condition but somehow released later that day into ICE custody. He was put in a “detention center” where he was been made to sleep ON THE FLOOR WHILE A BULLET WAS STILL LODGED IN HIS SPINE. He not any pain medication or treatment while in ICE's sadistic care.
But the whistleblower, who oversaw a staff of 100 in ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which manages background investigations for job applicants, said he had never seen the agency hire people so quickly. Human resources personnel made final job offers before preliminary vetting was complete. Applicants were cleared for duty “without fingerprints, identity verification, or credit checks,” he wrote. (source)
This doesn’t even include criminal histories which they supposedly check but don’t seem to be overly bothered about.
A great example of this precocious hiring bullshit is David Brouillette. He’s the ICEhole who murdered Johan SebastiΓ‘n DurΓ‘n Guerrero in Maine just two months ago. Brouillette had a long history of violence and *oopsie* slipped though the cracks.Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process … as it rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, a current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News.
ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.
Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said. (source)
Now those egregious ICEholes who never should have been hired to begin with are getting the ax.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun quietly firing some officers brought aboard during its massive hiring surge after belated background reviews uncovered red flags or recruits failed to meet performance standards, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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The firings follow an expansion that brought roughly 12,000 new officers and agents into ICE as the Trump administration sought to rapidly increase immigration arrests and deportations.
The hiring campaign, backed by billions of dollars approved by Congress, offered signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and drew more than 220,000 applications.ICE also shortened training and allowed some recruits with previous law enforcement experience to bypass the agency's training academy. (source)
Now this wholly incompetent administration is trying to claw back the big fat signing bonuses they prematurely handed out. Future wages will be garnished to get those undoubtedly already spent buckos back. I bet this is really gonna make the freshly fired, emotionally unstable, hair-trigger violent ex-ICEholes a bit testy. I wonder who they'll take their rage out on. I'm thinking domestic partners should take the kids and run for the hills NOW.
We're living in a live action Hieronymus Bosch painting. Welcome to Hell.
⭑ A wildlife overpass in Washington near Snoqualmie Pass has recorded its 10,000th safe crossing.
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⭑ Last month Victoria, Australia began vaccinating thousands of little penguins against the deadly H5 bird flu.
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⭑ Roanoke, Virginia’s City Public Schools are building the state’s first solar-plus-storage systems to keep emergency shelters going during extreme weather and save money.
Roanoke City Public Schools district has been installing solar panels to lower electricity bills, minimize its carbon footprint, and teach students about clean tech.
As climate change intensifies, communities around the country are looking for ways to better prepare for extreme weather, from ice storms to heat waves. In Roanoke, Virginia, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, that starts with the schools. (source)
⭑ Indigenous girls aged 10–17 have won legal rights for a culturally significant Cherokee waterway.⭑ Whaling is barbaric. Of course it is! Harpooned whales can take up to two hours to die. How would YOU like to experience that?!
Amongst other qualities, these big brained creatures have advanced communications systems, complex social structures, emotional intelligence (undoubtedly exceeding your average frat brother, Republican, evangelical, and and/or rich asshole), they learn from each other (e.g. Orcas dismantling yachts — GO ORCAS!). I am by far NOT the first person to suggest that IF/when aliens come to Earth, the first creatures they'll approach sure as fuck won’t be humans – it’ll def be the whales. They’re far more civilized.
Some potentially good whale news:
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Iceland’s government will submit a bill to parliament in February 2027 introducing a permanent ban on commercial whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only countries in the world still hunting whales commercially. (source)
The government holds a majority in parliament so this permanent ban is expected to pass.
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⭑ A big, new solar panel recycling facility is coming to Texas, of all places — the state isn’t exactly known for being on the right side of any issue since I don’t know when. I'm surprised.
“Solar panels contain the exact critical materials the US supply chain desperately needs, but until now, no American company has been able to recover their full resources at such scale or efficiency,” said Adam Saghei, founder and CEO of We Recycle Solar. “Through our advanced process, we are achieving true, comprehensive material recovery entirely on US soil, and retaining these critical materials – and the value currently being lost to Asian processing – within our domestic supply chain.” (source)
Honestly, no one (rather, precious few of us) would have ever expected environmental innovation to come out of a state that doesn't value human life let alone the planet's.
So then, everything's not all doom and gloom this morning. Huh ... interesting.
Everybody in DC knows this: There is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, and everybody knows every single one of them, who's gay.
“The Defense Health Agency (DHA) said the provider will document the presence or absence of each of the symptoms, along with risk factors.Loss of morning wood is a top Pentagon concern, yes sir! NOW we're talkin' 'bout serious matters!
Symptoms include erectile dysfunction, reduced sexual desire, unexplained loss of muscle mass or gain in fat, depressed mood, low motivation, disturbed sleep, impaired concentration or memory, diminished physical performance or endurance not correlated with injury and loss of spontaneous morning erections.” (source)
Secretary of War Crimes is freakishly concerned about service member’s willies isn’t he? Next thing you know he’ll be breaking out tape measures. If your hard-on's under 6” there's a dishonorable discharge waiting for you, soldier!
Then there’s his whole waist-to-height ratio mandate fetish.
The Pentagon is reportedly requiring troops to meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address later this month.
The Wall Street Journal published a report Tuesday, quoting emails from the Pentagon to Army commanders…(source)
Dude has some serious kinks that he either needs to work out, inpatient, with a team of qualified professionals (who were NOT appointed or selected by Trump) OR he needs to just give it all up, go wild and become the naughty rent boy he’s clearly always wanted to be.
Another thought – perhaps Petey had a truly empty, unloved, and/or traumatic childhood. He may be horrifically and misguidedly attempting to recreate a childhood he never had. He sees the military as a combination of a Build-A-Bear Workshop, G.I. Joe plastic toy soldiers, the board game Battleship.
Drydrunk Petey doesn’t give a fuck about the health of women in the military. Considering his weird, sexualized attention to men, being ignored is a good thing, eh? To Kegger’s warped and closeted mind women shouldn’t exist except on barstools, hotel rooms or in brothels where he’s only vaguely aware of them through his bleary vodka martini haze.
Speaking of naughty … or maybe I mean sleazy.
Lauren Handsy Boebert (R-the stupid part of CO) engaged in sexual relationships with three of her Congressional staffers. She broke two workplace generally accepted smart practices THREE times (that we know of).
Okay, we’ve probably all violated that first one. Hell, The Amazing Bob was a co-worker and then I poached him to work in my department. So yeah, I’m guilty as the dickens. I dated a couple other co-workers too. I suppose you could say I learn by making mistakes.
The thing about Handsy Lauren that’s new is that two of her three playmates were women. The three with bad taste in affair partners are former District Director Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, District Chief of Staff Raven Finegan and former Chief of Staff Jeffrey Small.
Word is, she paid Clarice, who was fired without being given reason why, $200Gs to keep quiet about their affair. Well now, that didn’t work so well, did it?
I wonder how Raven and Clarice feel about Boebert’s very public history of opposing LBGTQ+ rights and spreading ridiculous lies and Republican scare tactics like “drag events “sexualize” children.” I wonder what they think of Handsy’s hilarious (to me) and hysterical denials. The woman lies like a toddler – mouth smeared with chocolate, crumbs dropping of her chin. She's claiming "no mum, I haven't eaten any of the cake you made for the neighbors!"
"Well, I'm not a lesbian or bisexual, and I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff," Boebert told Brufke, a former Daily Beast reporter. (source)We all know Handsy, like her hero Prez Pedo, has a Godzilla-esque struggles with the truth but that’s par for the course in the closeted GOP.
I came across this post on Substack yesterday, The Woman Who Burned From the Inside: What Forensic Science Actually Says About Spontaneous Human Combustion by Isa Grant. Fascinating! It’s the stuff of Twilight Zone, X-Files, and Stranger Things type shows only these stories really happened. These people actually existed.
There’s Mary Reeser of St. Petersburg, Florida. All that was left of her were ashes, a shrunken skull, her backbone, and her left foot, still in its unburnt slipper.
Soot surrounded the area, but only her chair, a side table, and a portion of the wall had been burned. Plastic objects near her had been softened. A clock sat intact, stopped at 4:20 a.m. (source)George Mott of Crown Point, New York. The heat (from his burning body) melted a television in the room and the contents of the closed fridge. Much of the bedding was fine though. There was a box of wooden matches a few feet from the bed – they didn’t ignite. Weird.
Mental Floss has five additional strange spontaneous human combustion tales. 
I have to ask, could these have have been caused by:
Regarding Krazy Kash ...
A brill link was dropped in a comment on my post Which Side Are You On. It’s to a song by Allison Moon called Who is The Animal Fucker, Kash? Here’s a snippet of the lyrics. Go to the site and give a listen! I wish I could hear it. (deaf here, remember?)
34 states still marry children
Stamp the licence call it law
No law degree required by Constitution
For the federal bench at all
But the clerk who briefs the judge
Better finish law school first
Tell me how the people under judgment
Got the standards in reverse
45 states elect prosecutors
46 elect the sheriff
In most states a coroner need not be a doctor
To investigate how you perished
Who set the bar?
Who drew the hiring line?
Who hands out Power?
Who calls a rΓ©sumΓ© ‘fin
Meanwhile, back in Bad Muppet Land ...
I only mention it but the Streisand Effect will soon become known as/be updated to the Ed Sheeran Effect.
In trying to remain so damn apolitical, neutral, generically pleasing and inoffensive to all he’s dropped a metric fuck-ton of cement blocks on the balance beam. The floodlights are on big and bright and they're showing up every pore, pimple, pit, and ingrown hair. It's not pretty.
Dunno if there’s anyone without an opinion on Israel’s genocide of Palestine at this point. We may not all be up on the history or all the nuances but we can see the body counts, the dead children, the cities reduced to rubble. We can all read the reports of the aid workers and doctors who’ve been targeted and killed by drones. We know Palestinians are being purposely starved.And Ed the muppet bowed down to his buddy Bob Kraft and the head of his tour management company, Casey Wasserman, both of whom are in the Epstein files. Ed could have easily come out the hero by telling Kraft to stuff it. Sheeran could have taken his show, as is, to a different set of venues. OR he could have gone BIG and exposed Kraft’s arm twisting mobsterism to the media. THAT would have humiliated Kraft and forced the bully’s hand. Make Kraft say in front of the world that he’s in favor of more dead and starving children.
It seems that once people get some multiple millions in their bank accounts, the memory of belonging to a community, to the human race, fades. Peaceful, supportive coexistence is apparently only desired and encouraged if you’ve got proper amounts of dosh, everyone rocks the same shade of pale, and believes in the same sky daddy and fairy tales.
Also, I must reiterate, Sheeran’s mum fucked muppets. Maybe she could get a job with Krazy Kash’s FBI?
I have a few stray thoughts and questions on this Friday.
Okay, now that I’ve finished scribbling, maybe they’re not so scattered and random at all. Waddya know – I had a relatively focused(ish) train of thought. Yea me!
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I’d have thought that someone who looks like he was born behind a medieval pub to hobbit parents and raised exclusively on riddles would be better prepared for twists of fate. I’d have also thought he would have been quicker at coming up with clever solutions and more interested in standing up for his fellow man. Just goes to show ya ... not all hobbits are quick, resilient or courageous. Huh.
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Did you know that not all of the NFL team owners who are standing behind Robert Kraft’s mobster-esque strong-arm move (to keep Macklemore’s anti-genocide message away from fans), actually own the stadiums where their teams play.
Yes, Kraft owns the Patriots and Gillette stadium. David Tepper owns the Carolina Panthers and Bank of America Stadium through Tepper Sports & Entertainment. Arthur Blank owns the Atlanta Falcons however he does NOT own Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It’s owned by the state of Georgia through the Georgia World Congress Center Authority – a state agency. Jeffrey Lurie owns the Philadelphia Eagles. He does NOT own Lincoln Financial Field. That stadium is publicly owned and funded by the City of Philadelphia – by the people of Philadelphia.
So, Kraft and Tepper own their stadiums and can make whatever Neanderthal-ish edicts they want (not to insult Neanderthals, mind you) but, and please advise me if I’m off base on this, if a stadium is publicly funded, is it not subject to freedom of speech?
What authority did Arthur Blank and Jeffrey Lurie have to decide that an artist could not perform inside these publicly owned buildings and WHO gave it to them? Did they make this determination after meeting with their city's respective mayors or other authorities?
Did any of the mysterious, unnamed government officials that they may or may not have met with know about or participate in Blank and Lurie’s decisions to threaten Sheeran’s tour because Macklemore made a brief human rights speech?
Dunno but it looks to me like Lurie and Blank were misusing publicly owned stadiums – acting as though it was their own damn personal property alone.
Can you say filthy oligarchs? Sure ya can! can you say EAT THE RICH! Sure ya can!
Don’t forget that Robert Kraft is in the Epstein files. I wonder if his wife, Dana, an ophthalmologist who’s 32 years younger, knew from the get go that her husband-to-be was a dissolute, kiddy-diddling, empathy devoid pile of loose warthog stools. I mean, as a doctor, she had a healthy, steady income so she can’t have married someone THAT much older just for his money … could she? Maybe she has a kink for old racist, pedophiles?
By the by, Dana serves on The Kennedy Center Board. Yup, she’s a Trump tool. Maybe that’s her excuse – she’s possibly brain damaged. She supports the obscene re-addition of Prez Pedophile's name to JFK's memorial’s facade.
Anyway, their connections to Trump and Epstein make them complicit in sex trafficking children, genocide in Gaza, and fascism. Welcome to the corporate takeover of America. You can pick up your Patriots fan gear, Cokes, and sanitized-for-your-protection pop music on your way out the door.
I only mention it AND maybe it’s just me but, I’m pretty sure Sheeran’s mom fucked a muppet.
OUCH! That’s gotta hurt.
Also you’d think young Ed would’ve seen this coming. Beoga are founding members of Irish Artists for Palestine. But no. He’s sided with Robert fucking Kraft and the rest of the NFL owning oligarchs.
Three – Kegseth seems to actually be on the ropes which is why vacation-happy Mike Johnson called another House recess until the midterm elections. This one will be seven weeks long, running from yesterday, September 16, until November 9. Must be ultra sweet to have a gig with a base pay (for regular Joe house reps) of $174,000 and only work 119 days (projected – so far it’s just 72 days) out of the year. Us normal U.S. type folk? We work somewhere around 230 days if we’re lucky.
I think I’m gonna go back to Snooze Land for another 24. Ya know, just to be safe.