Category: Chatter

#inmygarden

Yeah. It’s been a spring. Which got here just in time for summer. Vide: The whole yard is hunched down against the ground, whimpering. I can hear all the flowers saying, “Really? It’s not going to drop below freezing again? You’re sure? You’re really, really sure?”

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Lagniappe Sunday

Wow! Definitely the year to visit Canada. Assuming they’re still letting us in. (h/t Kottke) Grid batteries are growing even faster than solar did at the same stage. The world installed 112 GW of grid batteries in 2025, a record total and ten times more than in 2021. China built more than half the total,…

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The type of men who pride themselves on their willingness to kill.

Around about 2005 expat British author Richard Grant decides to drive the 900-mile stretch of the Sierra Madre Mountains in northern Mexico. The Sierra Madres, a rugged, comfortless and dangerous place, are home to drunks, druggies, marijuana growers, meth cookers, drug lords, bandits, rapists, murderers, Mormons, mestizos, cave-dwelling Indians and entire companies of corrupt Mexican…

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Lagniappe Sunday

Quote: “DARO: We were told this was about keeping the galaxy safe from extremists who don’t share our values. Alderaan isn’t that. We’re peaceful. We comply. But seeing that thing’s massive dish warming up like that, it certainly doesn’t feel like protection. It feels like something else.MODERATOR: Have you felt this way for a while?DARO:…

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