Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) I’m an optimist for the most part, not a doom-and-gloomer, but I also read history for fun. Hard to ignore the parallels between 1929 and 2026. (Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250.) Quote: “Dishearteningly, but perhaps inevitably, [the priest] began to speak of the Great Replacement Theory. ‘There are places where…
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Quote: “…we discovered that one of the Bosnian pines on the mountain is Europe’s oldest-known living tree dated with tree rings: more than 1,075 years old…We named the oldest Bosnian pine Adonis, after the Greek god for beauty and desire.” (h/t The Best of Journalism) Quote: “So last year, after the Trump administration shut down NOAA’s official climate…
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Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
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So long and thanks for all the belly laughs. Although he missed the Pinwheel of Death. (Brian Phillips in The Ringer, h/t Kottke) Plus, further illness and death that won’t happen, brought to you by vaccines: Bangladesh just vaccinated 18.4 million children in an emergency measles-rubella campaign after an outbreak killed more than 600 people and exposed…
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Looove these Tiny Angry Witch videos. (The Tiny Angry Witch) Circa 1920, so a tad out of date. It’s missing the “Some Hemsworths” area, just for starters. (h/t Brilliant Maps) ICYMI, Saul’s got your back. Mike, too. Gulp. (h/t Laughing Squid) No one better than Sarah Paine for telling it like it really is. I…
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I followed him on the strength of this video alone. (Josh Johnson) I had to sit there in the garage to hear the last five minutes of Part 1 before I could force myself out of the car. And then I went right into the house and put Part 2 on the Boze. (Apple Podcasts)…
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