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Vasily Leonidovich Khudyakov - "Evening shadows", 2023

I've written a summary/ initial analysis of what's happening in Syria qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/his…

Mark McAfee, the California raw milk producer who has been at the center of several bird flu-related product recalls, says a transition team for RFK Jr has encouraged him to apply for a position at the Food and Drug Administration. Susanne Rust latimes.com/environment/st…

December 10th ➦In 1967...Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays (Otis’ backup group) were killed in the crash of a private plane near Madison, Wisconsin. Redding was just 26 years old. He came along at a time when black rhythm-and-blues artists were making inroads into

Thoughtful commentary from a highly decorated combat veteran Elliot Ackerman thefp.com/p/pete-hegseth…

New: Elon Musk spent today stirring Republicans into a frenzy over the stopgap spending bill filed by Johnson. A look into everything he got wrong in tonight's Inside Congress: politico.com/newsletters/in… w/ K Tully-McManus

Came across this just now. Really cool

Hydrangea macrophylla a native to Japan grows like crazy here in #NewZealand Flower color depends on soil pH. 5.5 or lower = blue flowers, 6.5 or higher = pink hydrangeas, and between 5.5 & 6.5 purple. This is due to the availability of aluminium ions in the soil base on the pH.

A friend who studies crypto sent me this:

Reading Ann Bauer whining about rage machines after she voted for Donald Trump is pretty damn amusing.

NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to “report” violations - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/…

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

I can’t believe the southern US perfected the porch… and then just stopped building houses like this.

Fukuyama was so insanely right about people restarting history out of boredom.

Damn, it does look like this guy found the exact playbook that Elon and Trump are using right now. They appear to be following Yavin's strategy to install a techno-monarchy in the US. The fact that Thiel, Vance, and Bannon are all fans of this guy's work point toward this being

It is grimly hilarious to see this guy ripping up decades of American soft power projects while going “Wow!” and “Gawrsh!” at stuff he doesn’t understand. God only knows what the Russians or Iranians are making of the CIA getting absolutely hosed in public by an imbecile.

This sentence from David Frum captures perfectly why it’s so difficult to write about almost anything related to Trump: “The situation was simultaneously too stupid for serious journalism and too shameful for wisecracks.”

The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been terminated by DOGE. This is a prestigious US epidemiology training program that supports public health in all 50 states. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/news-half-of…

Nearly 30% of callers to the Social Security Administration are now auto-disconnected before reaching an agent, per SSA data reported by BI. After a year of low failure rates, the 2025 spike points to deepening understaffing or systemic breakdown.