"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
• ...designed to bypass the gridlock of activist immigration courts, the Department of Justice has officially activated a powerful, 30-year-old national security weapon to aggressively deport suspected foreign terrorists from American soil.
  FIRST EVER: Trump Taps Clinton-Era Alien Terrorist Removal Court for Dangerous Migrant Deportations
  
• The rule, known as “public charge,” appeared in the Federal Register on Thursday. It will be formally published July 20 and take effect Sept. 18. Under the policy, green card applicants must demonstrate they will not become a burden on American taxpayers.
  New Trump Policy Prioritizes Financially Independent Green Card Applicants
  
• The Trump administration can’t allow its deportation policies to be dictated by the outrage of the left and the propaganda press.
  Rather Than Back Down, Trump Must Escalate His Campaign For Mass Deportations
  
• Mass immigration doesn’t stand alone. Instead, Western governments, including ours, have much grander plans for the end of nations.
  Immigration Is A Proxy Issue For A Western Government Trend
  
• The sustained increase in daily arrests also coincides with President Trump’s defense and subsequent reinstatement of traffic stops. “We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP,” posted the President on Truth Social earlier this week.
  ICE Arrests Hit Record Average of 1,400 a Day This Month.

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• Iran rapidly responded, saying two US bases in Kuwait were targeted in response to more than a week of intensifying attacks — which Tehran said included strikes on an airport, a railway station and bridges.
  U.S. Launches Strikes to ‘Punish’ Iran After Troops Killed
  
• On one hand, we are winning the war with Iran. On the other hand, the Vice President seems to be at odds with the administration.
  Strange Things Are Happening
  
• Instead of hitting them where it really hurts -- by empowering the Iranian people to overthrow the regime -- we are fighting the "old" war.
  Iran's Warning Shot

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• "Destroy Israel" banner floats at San Fermin Festival.
  In Spain, Jew-Hate Now Running With the Bulls
  
• Soros backed group hits new lows.
  J Street Sponsors Conference Featuring Speaker Who Praised Hamas

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to . . . duck. They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.
  Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing on fraud

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “The Roberts Court sees only white.”
  Hawaii Supreme Ct Lashes Out At SCOTUS in CRT-Infused Rant, Citing KBJ Dissent
  
• The fast-food drive-thru was not born in California. But the idea was perfected by California cultural icon In-N-Out, which is fitting because the double-double chain has become the main villain in Culver City’s effort to ban drive-thrus. 
  Another Piece of California Culture Threatened By Prohibitionists 
  
• Good intentions gone bad—by design!
  McCain-Feingold, USAID and the NGO Network

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Jamey dutifully wore her keffiyeh, took up with a “Palestinian” man, and converted to Islam.
  Ireland: ‘Palestinian’ Muslim Man Beats His Pro-‘Palestinian’ American Lover to Death
  
• The water carriers behind the creeping Sharia.
  Baptist Report Blames ‘Republican-Fueled Islamophobia’ for Attacks on Muslims
  
• Here is a declaration of Islamic supremacy Americans can no longer ignore.
  Islam and America Are Incompatible

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• When the state forces Catholic nuns to choose between their faith and caring for the dying, ideology has become a civil religion.
  The Left Is Intrinsically Intolerant: Attacking New York Nuns Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of the Left’s ‘Civil Religion’
  
• REVIEW: 'The Jews and the Left' by Batya Ungar-Sargon
  Another Wake-Up Call for America's Jews
  
• The statues are of the patron saints of police officers and firefighters, the National Catholic Register reported in April, noting that if the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court it “may help determine whether religious art has a continuing place in the public square”:
  Massachusetts: Legal Fight with Left-Wing ACLU over St. Michael Statue Could Land in U.S. Supreme Court
  
• His appeals are euphemisms for talking about one particular group.
  Mamdani Invokes “International Law” Against Israel
  
• That will fix everything.
  As NYC Floods, Mamdani Ponders Arresting Netanyahu
  
• The Pennsylvania Democrat called Mamdani a “clown,” noting that the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity was from a court the United States did not recognize.
  ‘Sit Down’: Fetterman Says Mamdani a ‘Clown’ to Threaten Netanyahu Arrest

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Why the media forgot the 50th anniversary of Israel’s triumphant rescue.
  Entebbe Oversight
  
• No debunking. No denial. No deriding. No dismissive editorializing in the guise of ostensible reporting.
  Mainstream Media Ignores An Explosive Charge In Trump’s Speech
  
• This survey of the nation’s greatest companies is both nonsensical and evidence of the problems that plague our mainstream media.
  America’s Top Companies?
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• The potential for China to usurp us in AI isn’t a scary hypothetical for some future decade. It’s our current reality.
  The New American Industrial Revolution Runs on Data Centers
  
• China is the one foreign power with both the resources and the strategic incentive to shape American technology.
  Is China Sabotaging America’s Data Centers?
  
• David Harsanyi: The panic surrounding data centers is highly reminiscent of the panic surrounding hydraulic fracturing. And like the fracking ban in New York, also based on junk science and scaremongering — not to mention, initially a “moratorium” — the policy will backfire.
  Data-center debate has one winning argument: sheer panic — and it will backfire
  
• Amazon Leo intends to start its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service later this year, having now already launched nearly 400 satellites. Such broadband-capable satellites operate roughly 350 to 500 miles above the Earth’s surface. This altitude allows the satellites to deliver faster internet speeds while also making their launches more cost efficient. 
  Amazon’s ‘LEO’ Satellite Network Will Soon Be Up And Running As Federal Funds Flow

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Early moves presage a return to a humbler Federal Reserve and a smaller balance sheet.
  The Fed’s Kevin Warsh Is Already on the Right Track
  
• The new Democratic Socialists in America refer to the common good, or communist good, all the time. But what do they mean?
  Is There Really a Common Good?

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• President Trump’s efforts to dismantle parts of the Biden junta's climate-policy framework have exposed just how much money and institutional power had become attached to it.
  Who Really Funds the Climate Agenda?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The suspect was identified as 55-year-old Batarti Gabbard whom police arrested and charged after the incident happened on the afternoon of July 12 in Waikiki, KITV reported Friday.
  VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard’s Brother Accused of Trying to Lure Children with Gum, Money to Hotel Room
  
•  Trust is important. Verification is essential.
  Who Watches the Watchers?

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• It was inevitable that the LAUSD’s obsessive focus on left-wing politics would wreak havoc in the classroom and that students would vanish.
  Los Angeles’s School District Went From Morally To Financially Bankrupt
  
• Moms for Libros, which had its tax-exempt status revoked, has another leader who had a judge garnish her wages over a longstanding debt
  ‘Grassroots’ Organization Fighting Miami Charter School Expansion Is Led by Democrat Operative Arrested for Stealing From Target, Pocketing Proceeds of GoFundMe Campaign, and Stiffing Mom’s Nursing Home

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The state’s attorneys “at every turn have turned a blind eye to the Constitution while prioritizing histrionics over history.”
  Federal Appeals Court Delivers Big Second Amendment Win in New Jersey
  
• The decision says that the Second Amendment still means something.
  New Jersey’s overreaching gun and magazine bans die in the Third Circuit
  
• Gun control remains a priority including its fixation on the AR-15. It is on the SCOTUS docket this Fall.  
  Second Amendment: Using courts to engineer society is a liberal obsession and delusion

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The move signals increased pressure from the federal government to ensure states take election integrity seriously. By linking grant funding to security measures, DHS can ensure voter rolls are accurate. This decision could provide an incentive to reduce vulnerabilities and restore public confidence in the democratic process.
  Trump Admin Warns States Must Scrub Voter Rolls to Get Federal Grants.
  
• And if you doubt that, just ask Obama-Appointed Judge Amy Totenberg.
  Trump Is Right About Voting Machines
  
• The president is correct: Widespread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election.
  More Evidence for Trump’s ‘Debunked’ 2020 Election Fraud Claims
  
• Given the massive amount of fraud that Trump revealed (and that slipped by most people), it’s questionable whether we’ve actually had any elections recently.
  Will We Have an Election This Year?
  
• Across America, perfecting an opaque election process has become more important than the system’s fundamental integrity.
  The God Of Process Controls American Elections
  
• “Finding out that Olive Garden has better security than American elections was not on my bingo card!”
  The Olive Garden Pasta Pass Stumbles Into the National Debate Over Voter ID
  
• Senator Mark Warner attacked GOP voter reform while simultaneously mischaracterizing his own state's policy.
  Top Democrat Doesn’t Know His Own State’s Voter ID Policy
  
• Who needs fraudulent drivers licenses to vote in elections when birth tourism promises babies born on American soil authentic U.S. IDs?
  After Birthplace Citizenship Ruling, China Won’t Need Hackers To Meddle In US Elections

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Nothing to see here, I'm sure.
  Cops Find Body in Squad Husband’s House After $2B Contract Accusations
  
• John Stossel: "Castro famously wore two rolexes."
  Spoiled Socialists
  
• There is no bottom for the red-green alliance.
  Ro Khanna’s Unfortunate Encounter With Face-Eating Leopards
  
• The Senate hopeful is trying to distance himself from the DSA in his statewide race in battleground Michigan. His record shows years of strong support.
  Abdul El-Sayed Hailed as 'Longtime Friend' of Democratic Socialists and Headlined Socialist Fundraiser With 'Squad' Member Before Claiming He Is 'Not Somebody Who Is a Socialist'
  
• Of course, like most any negative condition that makes headlines and impacts Americans, the problem was caused by Trump, according to a Democrat lawmaker and another who is running for Congress.
  Democrats Blame Trump for Recalled Mexican Lettuce Causing ‘Explosive Diarrhea’

  POLITICS

• Democrats are considered likely to retake the House in the Nov. 3 elections, due to polls and the historical trend of the party in power in the White House losing seats in the midterms. But the Senate is a tougher call. Based on polls and incumbents, Republicans have an easier path to hold the upper chamber, but Democrats are running neck and neck with them in key races.
  Senate Dems rake in jaw-dropping cash — with Ossoff and Talarico leading the pack
  
• “It’s scary to think that this is the person who is leading the primary … There’s a lot of us that think if she’s the nominee, we lose that seat, even in what’s supposed to be a very big Dem year. And we will lose the Assembly, too.”
  Democrat ‘Chaos’ in Wisconsin Over Fears DSA Candidate Will Win Gubernatorial Primary
  
• DSA candidates are currently surging in America, winning major elections across the country.
  Seven Ways DSA Plans To Turn America Into A Third-World Communist Country
  
• “In fact, I know we have a message. We are coming. We are unbossed. We’re unbought. We’re unbound, and we will become undeniable. Thank you.”
  Hasan Piker Trashes Dems at College Democrat Convention
  
• We’ve lost the noble goal of preserving legislative debate. The filibuster has become nothing more than a bludgeon.
  Does the Filibuster Still Serve a Purpose?
  
• Could she win?
  Titty-Caca AOC is Running in 2028

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "I wrote this book all by myself."
  EXCLUSIVE: Proof That Biden Wrote His Memoir All By Himself

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their forests and brush.” – President Trump
  Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs Over Wildfire Pollution.
  
• The right is on the march, cleaning out the wreckage of socialism and communism.
  Trump Is Righting Latin America
  
• “The call to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops. It has no place in Denmark, and you shouldn’t be in any doubt whether you’ve ended up in a suburb of Islamabad when you walk around Denmark.” – Morten Bodskov, Social Democrats
  Denmark Bans Burkas in Schools to Boost Migrant Integration.
  
• "The absence of the weapon led to Henry dying terrified, alone and disbelieved. Her actions contributed to this."
  Mom of Henry Nowak's killer jailed for 3 years over hiding knife to protect son
  
• But Brits hoping for a fresh start, perhaps even a bit of vision and principle to steer us through these troubled times, are bound to be disappointed. Like Keir Starmer, whose premiership was defined by so many policy u-turns he might as well have been doing donuts, Burnham is the walking, talking embodiment of the Groucho Marx line: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them, well, I have others.”
  The UK’s incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham, is a far-left human windsock

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The measure imposes an annual fee (translation: tax) on employers with at least 50 employees receiving health coverage through Medicaid.
  After Pushing Medicaid, New Jersey Fines Businesses Whose Employees Use It

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The discovery is of significance, as it proves finally — more than two decades after the first detection of an exoplanet — that rocky exoplanets outside our solar system can have an atmosphere. There is also evidence that this loss of helium might be seasonal in nature.
  Evidence of an atmosphere detected for the first time on a rocky terrestrial exoplanet
  
• CEO Elon Musk saying SpaceX will likely try to launch again early next week
  SpaceX’s 13th Starship Test Aborted Less than a Second before Liftoff
  
• In a spectacular success, the Indian private rocket startup Skyroot today completed the first launch of its smallsat rocket Vikram-1, placing several payloads into orbit. This is the first private Indian rocket ever launched.
  Indian’s private rocket startup Skyroot completes a perfect first launch

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• “Feminism that is focused on the needs of white women is something we must constantly battle.”
  League of Women Voters Declares War on Women
  
• It’s not just Christians who support a return to a traditional marriage definition.
  Observant Jews Want Obergefel Overturned
  
• America’s experiment with Title IX social engineering has failed.
  Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
  
• California’s 'first partner' claims more than 2.5 million students have been exposed to her lessons, which come with the documentaries
  Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Radical Gender Documentaries Force Student Viewers To Reveal if They're Gay and ID 'Fags': Films Are Funded and Promoted by Newsom Donors, Appointees
  
• The Health Council of the Netherlands backed a controversial transition protocol against best evidence.
  Gender Medicine’s Regulatory Capture
  
• The footage shows a blue-haired University of Central Florida student, identified as 27-year-old Jarrett Vick, screaming at a police officer after the cop arrived at a campus building for an unrelated call.
  Chaotic bodycam video shows trans Florida student freak out on cop for ‘misgendering’ him — before being cuffed

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Larry David's historical series jabs Trump, RFK, jr., leaves laughs behind
  Is Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness a Score-Settling Screed?
  
• Along with architectural historian Vincent Scully (Yale) and urban theorist Colin Rowe (Cornell), the European architect and theorist Leon Krier is widely recognized as a foundational intellectual inspiration behind the American New Urbanism movement.
  The Modernist Anti-City And New Urbanism
  
• Roger Kimball: Modern art stopped challenging convention long ago. Now it challenges only common sense—and rewards the people willing to applaud the loudest absurdities.
  ‘Art’ and the Pathology of our Age
  
• Have I unwittingly entered the Big Tent of the Bible thumpers?
  Sifting Through Biblical Translations In A Woke World
  
• The exhibit room openly stated that the purpose of National Geographic had changed as Americans became more climate-focused.
  DC’s Newest Museum Tells Tale Of National Geographic’s Tragic Fall From Patriot Explorers To Globalism Activists
  
• Phyllis Schlafly was the ultimate American frontier woman.
  What Phyllis Schlafly Understood About Family, Culture, and Civilization

  HITHER & YON

• — marking the first time in over 150 years a child’s been born to a sitting vice president. 
  Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha welcome 4th child, baby boy Alec Neel

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Tech News

• Orchid is a delightfully retro and approachable hipster synth. (The Verge)
  
  That bad, huh?
  
  
  
• Zilog's Z80 has turned 50 and been discontinued but don't you worry. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A replacement chip has been reverse-engineered and is now available. It's built on an ancient 130nm node, but that's magic compared to the 4 micron node used in the original Z80.
  
  It runs at 50MHz and the chip itself measures a quarter of a millimeter on a side.
  
  
  
• China's CXMT is preparing to launch DDR6 memory and attempt to steal market share away from Samsung and SK Hynix. (WCCFTech)
  
  Great. We'll be here, starving, just as we always have been.
  
  
  
• The head of SK Group, owners of Big Three memory maker SK Hynix, says that memory prices are too high and have to come down. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not that he cares about customers. But while SK Hynix is pulling in record revenues and profits, every other tech company in the chaebol is in the doldrums due to exorbitant memory costs.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, while the 2026 model of the Razer 18 laptop is not any faster than last year's, it does at least cost you more money while providing half the memory and storage. (Notebook Check)
  
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Musical Interlude




Disclaimer: Wut.

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Congratulations to Spain on their World Cup win.

4 Takeaways After Spain Beats Argentina In Extra Time To Win 2026 FIFA World Cup

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POTUS arriving at the game

HOLY SMOKES: Watch from INSIDE Marine One as President Trump flies over the FIFA World Cup final

THIS IS SO EPIC 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0RscadvJ8q

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 19, 2026

I'm glad I watched this afternoon. Well - I'm glad I watched the halftime show. Really just this particular part.

'Dai Dai' is performed by @shakira and @burnaboy during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show pic.twitter.com/GwMQgaMMI1

— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) July 19, 2026

Justin Bieber - good on ya!

🚨 POWERFUL: Justin Bieber using his platform to lift up the name of Jesus during the 2026 World Cup Final halftime. pic.twitter.com/80IOypIrAB

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 19, 2026

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Bugs are asshoe - this seems kewl!

Startup Develops Micro-Drones Capable of Shooting Down Insects in Mid-Air

Engineers at Tornyol, an American startup backed by Y Combinator, have been working on an AI-powered micro-drone that could bring down the cost of mosquito eradication by 100 times. Swarms of these tiny drones could potentially hunt and shoot down mosquitoes in urban spaces, instead of using chemicals or other more expensive and hazardous population control solutions.

On July 14, Alex Toussaint, one of the founders of Tornyol, posted a video showing the company’s “first air-to-air kill”. In it, a small drone can be seen pursuing and ultimately shooting down a moth in a control test area. Obviously, a moth is not a mosquito, and the test area was very small, but this is apparently a very big step toward developing a drone capable of identifying and annihilating insects in mid-air.

Videos at the link

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3D printing ideas

54 Fun And Useful Things People Printed With Their 3D Printers

Some cool stuff along with some whelm. at least it's a single webpage and not a click-through thing.

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Is It Real Couture or Piper? The Ultimate Fashion Eye Test!

I’ve mixed real runway couture with AI generated looks based solely on my prompts. Your mission: guess before the big reveal. Ready? Let’s play!

Round 1: The Aliens Bring It
Real or Piper?

Round 2: The Open Kimono
Real or Piper?

Round 3: The Golden Bird Cage
Real or Piper?

Round 4: The Sleek Black Strapless Gown
Real or Piper?

Round 5: The Epic Black Princess Ball Gown
Real or Piper?

Round 1: The Aliens Bring It

✅ REAL COUTURE

Rahul Mishra went full space-opera for this one. Inspired by Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot and some ancient Hindu scripture, models basically beamed onto the runway like they’d just hitchhiked from another galaxy. Sparkling structural capes? Sagan’s voice narrating? Peak couture theater.

Round 2: The Open Kimono

🤖 PIPER
This dramatic, flowing piece channels our friend Saijo if he suddenly decided to crash the couture calendar. Zero atelier hours, maximum drama.

Round 3: The Golden Bird Cage

✅ REAL COUTURE
Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior pulled from legendary silhouettes like the Trapèze (thanks, Saint Laurent 1958 ) and the Cigale (1952), then updated them with modern fabrics. Basically, she took vintage icons, gave them a glow-up, and turned them into golden bird-cage-level fabulous.

Round 4: The Sleek Black Strapless Gown

✅ REAL COUTURE
Straight from a 2025 Paris Haute Couture Week runway—this is elegant Armani Privé doing what it does best: making simple black look like a million bucks (and probably costing close to that).

Round 5: The Epic Black Princess Ball Gown

🤖 PIPER
This dramatic black stunner with the bold corset top comes from my Dystopian Sparkle collection.

How did you score?
• 5/5 correct? You’re a certified fashion detective. Get yourself a drink on Doof.
• 3–4? Solid eye, but Grok and I are getting scary good at this.
• Under 3? Welcome to 2026, where the line between real and generated is deliciously blurry.
Tell us your score and your favorite look, or confess to cheating.

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Thanks, Piper!

Don't forget to check out Piper's X page. Seriously - I suggest this every week. If you followed Piper on X, you'd have already seen this awesomeness!

I am literally never this lucky. Ever. I would be laughing so hard if this happened to me. https://t.co/rx5Hw2583g

— Piper (@piper_moves) July 15, 2026

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Bonus fashion segment - from me, not Piper!

Melania at the World Cup Final

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Approved by Disco Doof as a kid

Today in 1977, your mother dressed you like a little tablecloth from hell. pic.twitter.com/jnhC2KO7SA

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 17, 2026

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DJ Doof - Nineteen Edition

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 07-19-2026

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
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Number of comments: 21992
Number of unique hashes: 1683

Top 10 commenters:
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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2 [134 names] 'Absolute genius'
3 [62 names] 'Count de Monet'
4 [51 names] 'Duncanthrax'
5 [48 names] 'gKWVE'
6 [43 names] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
7 [40 names] 'Axeman'
8 [34 names] 'fd'
9 [31 names] 'mikeski'
10 [29 names] 'mindful webworker - I am. Yes.'

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FUNdamentals

Fundamentals of gun pickin', that is.

In order to practice shooting fundamentals, you kinda need a gun. How do you decide which one is right for you? Guns come in a lot of shapes and sizes and of varying manufacturing quality, and one size or type definitely does not fit all. This guy ranks a bunch of specific models for reliability, which is high in the hierarchy of good things to look for. Longish, so you may want to save and watch later.

What do you think? What are your criteria when selecting a handgun besides reliability?

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S&W Revolver Frame Sizes

What do these letters mean?!

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Used Revolver Inspection

Used guns can be a great value. Do you know what to look for in a used revolver?

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This Old Gun

Another look at the Colt Detective Special.

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Our Pal The Atom

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Highway Patrol!

This week's episode: The Chase!

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The Amazing Colossal Man!

Truly a giant terror!

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World New!

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo
Lucky Gunner Ammo NEW!

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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

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This is a tough one.

Oh...wait...no it isn't

Cyclospora Outbreak Linked to Iceberg Lettuce in 5 States

On July 17, 2026, Taylor Farms initiated a recall of all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. The recall includes iceberg lettuce sold at retail stores and restaurants. It also includes other recalled products distributed to food service customers. A complete list of those products is included in the recall notice.

Maybe buying produce from 3rd World sh*tholes isn't such a good idea. We already import 3rd world workers to pick and process the stuff in our fields...why do we also have to buy their (literal) sh*t?

I cannot wait for the time when robotic picking and processing decreases the number of primitives handling our food, and an administration that sees domestic food production as a national security imperative. Do I care whether we overspend on government support for farmers? No, I do not. We already piss away billions of dollars on stupid price supports and all sorts of other wasteful programs. Maybe subsidizing domestic production is a good idea!

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This is from commenter and pellet grill maven "Gunslinger."

Those ribs look great, and they were the impetus for my little chat last week with the butcher shop supervisor at my go-to market. He will save me a couple of uncut beef rib racks the next time they go on sale! Yippee!

But on to Gunslinger's cook!

That’s a large cookie sheet, or jelly roll pan, as my Mom would pedantically call it. Mustard for the binder, and kosher salt, garlic salt, and coarse-ground pepper is all.

Started the cook about 4pm at 235 degrees. Let it cook until 7, then spritzed it with beef broth every hour until I hit the sack at 10.

Got up at 5:30, put the temp probe in, and started spritzing it again each hour. It was 174 degrees when I started with the probe. Monitored it constantly. There were many temp stalls all throughout the day. 2 degree rises in 2 or 3 hours. These stalls are normal, but sheesh!

It got to be 5:30 Sunday evening, but only 198 degrees internal temp, but had to eat! Work night and all…

It turned out wonderfully, with no indication that it should have continued to 205 degrees, my ideal internal temp.

They look spectacular. I think beef ribs, when done well, are at the top of the beef pyramid. Well, maybe they share the top with a couple of other cuts, but you get the point!

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Sourdough Discard Crackers for the win! Yup, they are tasty, and easy, and very forgiving. The only problem is that I have modified my sourdough bread process so that I no longer have discard. When I make crackers I have to make discard first. So it isn't really "discard," it's more like "excard?" Or maybe I will stay in my lane and avoid creating new words.

Anyway, they are fun to make, fun to eat, and are strangely satisfying to put out for guests. "Why yes, those are homemade crackers!"

Pro tip: Use lots of butter!

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Here's another look at Cast Iron pans.

[Hat Tip: Kathy]

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As much as I love British cooking, and I think it is very, very, underrated, sometimes I see recipes on British cooking websites and I scratch my head and think, "Guys, are you serious? Do you know your reputation?"

Here's one of them. It's not that it sounds horrible; it's that it is more in tune with a college junior in his first apartment that he shares with three friends. Yes, it is food. Yes, it is filling. But do you really need to publicize it?
Sausage and baked bean casserole
Hell, they even use canned baked beans!

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The garlic is harvested! And it looks...well...sigh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

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Grab that little pencil sharpener in your junk drawer, and make them look better!

I had a plethora of broken tees in my golf bag. After just a few minutes with the pencil sharpener (smaller opening), I had this lovely collection of stubby tees!

Fast forward a few days. Playing the back 9 at a local course. The Par 3 12th arrives. I had this ready to go!

Perfect height for the 7W I was about to swing - just gently enough to land in front of the green then roll up near the hole for a tap-in birdie.

At least that's the way things played out in my head as I took 2 practice swings. What really happened was a nice 75% backswing, followed by a rushed downswing and a too-soon head lift at impact so I topped the ball and it ended up about halfway between the tee box and the green.

Oh well - at least my stubby tee looked good!

[Please do not share this idea with bluebell - these sharpened tees could very easily be used as a shiv!]

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We are all about the contents of books here at the Book Thread, but a high-quality binding is the literary cherry on top. The photo above is one of the old books in my library, a first edition of the Hurst "Burnt Leather Classics" version of the works of Robert Burns, printed in 1904. (It took a bit of internet research to find out the date, as the fancy version had no published date inside.) Not only does it have gilt lettering on the cover, the edges of the pages are all gilt as well. In addition, the cover is soft leather, delicately embossed with daffodils, and slightly padded so it is very comfortable to hold. There used to be a silk bookmark ribbon bound in, but that fell to the ravages of time. A lot of thought clearly went into this design, to not only look good and to be functional but also elevate the book even more. (Apparently it was TOO fancy/expensive to produce, even for the luxury holiday gift market it was intended for, and in 1905 the standards were *koff* lowered and the gilt page edges and cover lettering vanished. But that made it possible for me to figure out my copy was one of the elite!)

Now sometimes the attempts to pretty-up a book went a little far, what with all the enamel and gems and whatnot. Who wants to curl up with a lumpy book that weighs 15 pounds? And won't play nice with the other books on the shelf?

Anyone have any pretty treasures to brag about?

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Tech News

• The AGI AI828 contains no AI at all; it's just an SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And an expensive one; it's a DRAMless PCIe 4.0 design, and the 1TB model costs as much as a 4TB Team brand SSD I bought in March.
  
  Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy the ride. The complimentary barf bags are in the seat pocket in front of you. Yes, there are a lot of them.
  
  
  
• Korean outfit 2P Game Arcade is hosting a competition for games that fit entirely on a single 1.44MB floppy. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Plenty of room. Why, that's 1.6 Amiga floppies!
  
  
  
• Of which around 15,000 can be downloaded from the Amiga Freeware Archive. (Amiga Freeware)
  
  Which used to be a lot, but that was long ago and in precisely the same country.
  
  
  
• Kimi is the latest menace to the domestic threat of communist AI creators from foreign communist AI creators. (Tech Crunch)

  Meanwhile, OpenAI's head of strategic futures Dean Ball said that Kimi is "a very good model" whose performance probably can't be "explained away by distillation or anything like that," adding that he's "personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks."

  Right. Sure.
  
  
  
• China's Kimi K3 identifies itself as Claude, betraying its distilled origins. (WCCFTech)
  
  You were saying, Bean?
  
  
  
• AMD's upcoming 10 core Zen 6 laptop chip stomps all over AMD's existing 10 core Zen 5 laptop chip in new benchmark leaks. (WCCFTech)
  
  In fact, it stomps all over AMD's existing 12 core laptop chip. It's not even close. It comes in as 33% faster than the equivalent Zen 5 chip in multi-core tests, and 35% faster single-core.
  
  Since I'm writing this on a Zen 3 system and the latest hardware I have is Zen 4, it looks like a pretty substantial jump.

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Disclaimer: You're never too old to rock and roll.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.

The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories. There were all the regular types of stuff: Spilled milk and pennies saved. But then the teacher realized, that only Janie was left.

"Janie, do you have a story to share?"

"Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a Marine pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife.

She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break, and then she parachuted right into the middle of 20 Iraqi troops.

She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands."

"Good Heavens," said the horrified teacher. "What did your Daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story?"

"Don't mess with Mommy when she's been drinking."

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Drink of the Night

Tonight we drew the 7 of spades from our deck of playing card cocktails

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Club ONT Department of Home Remodeling

Pole dancing accident floods two Houston apartments

A Houston woman said she is done practicing pole dancing at home after a mishap led to two apartments being flooded.

Asha Gilbert was filming her pole dancing practice July 6 at her west Houston apartment when the pole came loose from the ceiling and struck a fire sprinkler.

Gilbert said she had only installed the pole three days earlier.

"It wasn't even a thought that it could possibly hit the sprinkler," Gilbert said. "We were more worried about it hitting a wall."

She said her furniture was ruined and she had to move to another unit due to the damage. Gilbert said her downstairs neighbor was understanding about the water damage.

"I explained everything, and she was very, very cool and understanding, and I appreciated that," Gilbert said.

She said she will not be pole dancing at home anymore.

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Club ONT Department of Bonanza History

Dan Blocker's horse off camera was a mini-bike.

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Club ONT Department of the Misplaced Emu

Mystery emu on the loose in Mississippi

Animal control officers are trying to find the owner of an emu on the loose in Mississippi's Pearl River County.

A witness captured video of the flightless Australian bird wandering this week near Pea Ridge Road.

Pearl River County Animal Control confirmed Wednesday that the emu remained on the loose, and its origins were unknown.

Officials are asking anyone with information on the emu's owner or current whereabouts to contact local authorities.

Any among the Horde missing your Emu?

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Club ONT Department of Oklahoma Geography

There is a Disney, Oklahoma? Who knew?

According to the town website:

Disney is situated in northeastern Mayes County at the east end of Pensacola Dam on State Highway 28. The town is named after former Oklahoma U.S. Congressman Wesley E. Disney and has no affiliation with The Walt Disney Company or Walt Disney.

Disney is renowned worldwide for its vehicle rock climbing, off-road trails, and adventure activities. Within the city limits are five recreation areas of Cherokee State Park, offering off-road rock climbing, trails, and mudding for off-road vehicles. Visitors can also enjoy camping, swimming, picnicking, boating, fishing, skiing, and kayaking. Many off-road event attendees also spend time fishing, boating, or kayaking on the water.

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Club ONT Movie Night: X-15 Documentary

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Club ONT Jukebox

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Club ONT is brought to you by: Club approved attire

Because business doesn’t stop just because it’s July, motherfucker. pic.twitter.com/DlWyD2pTCK

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 16, 2026

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Restroom tokens are temporarily not required. We know some of you hit the nearby Taco Bell on your way in.

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Love them or hate them; The Rolling Stones are an amazingly impressive band. They have been successful for more than 60 years, have made a ton of money, didn't implode because of "creative differences," and at least one of them is immortal, which is sort of cool in a scary way.

She's A Rainbow is a bit different for them (at least to my ear), although one of the reasons for their success has been their openness to changing their music to suit the fashion of the time. "Some Girls," I'm looking at you!

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Carl Perkins' version of Blue Suede Shoes is far better than the more popular Elvis Presley version.

Fight Me!

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Is Watermelon In Easter Hay good Zappa? Bad Zappa? Weird Zappa? Mainstream Pop Zappa? I have no idea...maybe Misanthropic Humanitarian can tell us!
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The Band is a great rock band, and here is proof of that: Atlantic City, with the additional delicious reality that Springsteen sucks in comparison. His version of this song is sh*t compared to The Band's original.
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Merle Haggard! Hey...I like country music. The Fightin' Side Of Me
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Top photo: The first 52 cars bearing the Porsche name were built in a small sawmill near Gmünd, Austria. They were hand hammered aluminum on wooden forms. The example in this photo is the 8th oldest Porsche in existence and still runs.

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Let's talk Heavy Metal! Much of hobbying, building, and bodging generally involves either joining things together or cutting things apart. If you join or separate metal, you get to use hammers and fire. Sounds good, right?

Many home hobbyists are not welders or metalworkers. Some are and either learned in school metal shop or under the wing of a mentor. Some work with metal as a profession and transfer those skills to hobbying. Wood is cheaper than metal but it is also softer and less durable. Nobody builds engines out of wood.

Metalworking can involve shaping, forging, welding, casting, punching, milling, bending, extruding, rolling, and more.

Are you wise in the ways of metal? What skills do you have? How do you use them? How did you learn? What would you like to learn or try?

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What are you hobbying?

The thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, find something else or offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants are optional. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Welding basics:

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Metal crafts (the pipe wrench T-Rex at the beginning is awesome) - BTW, watch because there are some fun pieces, but mute the sound to avoid the AI narration:

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This is a great example of a video that pulls you into a rabbit hole you didn't know existed and then makes you care about it. "What makes this anvil so special?" (I also did not know that some people collect anvils. No reason why not - just never occurred to me before.)

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SuperfastMatt gets two entries in the content today. If you're into 3D printing, watch this video. You might be thinking "doesn't 3D printing involve plastic, not metal?" Watch and learn.

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Yes, the title says V12 epoxy table, but the video also has plenty of metal work. But V12 epoxy table should be enough to get your attention.

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A master coppersmith at work - lots and lots of little hammer taps:

Where did that copper come from?

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Forging axes by hand in Sweden (not so much a hobby as it is an industrial documentary, but fascinating to watch):

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Inheritance Machining is a YouTube channel that specifically focuses on machining metal. The scripts are very well written and presented and the videos well produced. No overdone clickbait bells and whistles. I struggled to pick a representative video but eventually landed on this one because it compares and contrasts different tools to accomplish the same objective.

Watch this for the backstory and shop tour - it is a good story told well and an enjoyable watch even if you're not into machining:

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Are you wise in the ways of custom metal cutting and fabrication? Do you like factory tours? This video is for you. Very impressive.

This is not a commercial or endorsement but SendCutSend operates an online platform for instant quoting and ordering. Customers upload CAD files, get immediate pricing, then customize with services like bending or finishing. Parts ship within days with no no minimum order quantities.

The company targets makers, hobbyists, small businesses, startups, and large enterprises by removing traditional manufacturing barriers like long lead times, high minimums, and outsourcing.

They operate several facilities across the US and Canada.

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This is way beyond hobbying, but watch this if you want to see the future of metal working. It is called Roboforming from a company called Machina Labs.

Both SendCutSend and Machina Labs are trying to solve the impediments to metal working - customization and scale. In the past, the fixed costs of tool and die making meant zero iteration and a high minimum production volume to make the cost worthwhile. Cost effective customization, with scale when needed? 3-D printing is another closely related technology that is changing the equation. Interesting times...

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Investigators release preliminary report on LEGO 747 and Space Shuttle crash

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a small scale theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comment from last week:

Bonus content based on last week's theme: this mixes woodworking, epoxy, electrical and a touch of 3D printing. Way too small and fiddly for my dino fingers and patience but quite an impressive result.

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

A metal thread without an Iron Maiden link? Surely not. Here you go. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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Scientists studying impact of painting wind turbine blade black to reduce bird collisions

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University researchers are part of a team looking at reducing bird collision risks with wind turbines by painting a single blade of the turbine black.

Wind energy has a significant role during a time of climate change, rising energy demands and a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, but it poses risks to birds and bats due to collision fatalities. Previous studies estimate that hundreds of thousands of birds and bats die each year as a result of collisions with wind turbine blades.

The Oregon State researchers, working with federal, industry and nonprofit partners, and funded in part by the Oregon Legislature, are building on recent research in Norway that found a nearly 72% decline in bird collisions with turbine blades when one blade was painted black.

Well, at least they're trying to help. But what about the bats?

How about just taking down the turbines and trying something else?

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Famous cat employee:

Absolute unit. https://t.co/Z7Ijo628Vg

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 15, 2026

A more modern cat employee:

A company in Mexico rescued an orange stray cat and decided to hire him.

They named him Engineer Miauricio and gave him the title of Emotional Support Director. His responsibilities are smiling at coworkers, gently meowing and walking around the office. pic.twitter.com/fDuJOJmHnX

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 14, 2026

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This is Gemma. She’s a rescue dog from Texas who will only listen to her human if they speak in a southern accent. 13/10 a true southern belle pic.twitter.com/x185tpGqyI

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) July 16, 2026

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It's important to communicate with your animals:

This guy explains to a crowd of cattle how hes not able to get the well going to give them water but fortunately, someone is coming in an hour to give them water pic.twitter.com/UnyYQs7RLP

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 16, 2026

"Thank you for your continued support"

"Have a great day"

Meet The PetMorons

From Piper:

Trying to change the sheets on the bed…. pic.twitter.com/mfAVNDnzUT

— Piper (@piper_moves) July 18, 2026

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Bruno at the creek. He's such a good boy. He just finished his treatment for Lymphoma and is in remission.

- fd

Yay for Bruno! Thanks for the great photo of your good boy.

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Cat and Box

Lirio

Perfect photo of Cat in Box. Endearing.

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Still the cutest

Eris Enthroned

Lily, ready for love!

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Hi KT,

I'm sending some of my favorite photos of Bingley in honor of his 8th birthday, which I celebrate on July 18.

In October 2018, I was working in a large Midwestern university library. One day, a kitten found his way into the ceiling of the Main Library basement. Library staff heard his pitiful cries, climbed up and rescued him, and took him to the shelter to treat a tail injury. They circulated his picture around the library. When it got to my department, my coworkers decided I was the chosen one, as everyone else already had multiple cats and I just had one.

After he healed from a partial tail amputation, I brought him home. It took maybe 24 hours for my older cat to decide the new guy was all right, and in another few days the older cat had appointed himself Bingley's mentor in all things, especially the fine art of grooming. Until I lost my older kitty to cancer in 2022, the two of them were inseparable. Bing is the biggest snuggle bug I've ever known, 14 pounds of floof and love. He is a Very Good Kitty.

Thanks for the pet thread!

My nic is "screaming in digital"

Thanks for the great photos of your photogenic guy! Save that last photo for later. It's special, too!

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today. We hit the jackpot with kitties this week, and will have some more photos to show, especially if you send yours, too!

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 11

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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Wow! Such fun! I don't remember seeing your orchids before.

And here's another sunflower (not 11 feet tall) with a visitor:

I’ve done very little work today, unlike the bees 🐝
This evening continuing the relaxing day with some drinks in the summerhouse. You can join us if you like, but unfortunately there’s only enough room for 2 chairs!!
Have a great evening 🥂cheers! pic.twitter.com/tMEmsmNTOh

— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) July 14, 2026

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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From By-Tor:

My garden is hitting full stride. Which is a bit overwhelming. Luckily I have friends that are happy to get the overflow.

Great haul from a container garden!

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When you have too many tomatoes all at once, you make soup. Especially if you have fresh basil.

Mmmmmmmm

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Nature

Somewhere in this world right now, someone is letting the gentle song of birds replace the chaos of breaking news.

And in that simple moment, the world feels a little more hopeful again. pic.twitter.com/8zfuuC0blQ

— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 17, 2026

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The diversity of nature

A plant whose flowers look like jewellery pic.twitter.com/k7CqD0Y8nQ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 14, 2026

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Puttering

Graffiti laser removal is oddly satisfying to watch.

Credit: Twonix pic.twitter.com/DQTBDoJ2Z6

— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) July 15, 2026

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Science

Read the comments:

Fun fact: you can see photosynthesis in real-time.

This is an aquatic plant producing oxygen. pic.twitter.com/ZiOO14nJX3

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 15, 2026

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Gardens of The Horde

I don't usually get blossoms every year. Not sure why, but I really like it when they come out.

Diogenes

Beautiful!

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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 11

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This week, I had another odd Social Media Experience. FB sent me a message that one of my friends had a new post. I seldom check this friend's page, and the post turned out to be a slightly snarky article in BlazeMedia by Owen Anderson proposing a thought experiment: What if the commies were right after all? What if the rich folk were the dangerous, permanent oppressors of the world?

He proposed an alternative:

The left condemns concentrated wealth while demanding concentrated political power, the only kind backed by guns, prisons, and law.

He discussed some of his own experiences with leftists and made some suggestions for countering their influence.

Normally, I would not have paid much attention to this piece. But one of my friend's friends, I'll call her "young teacher friend" seemed upset and begged her to learn what democratic socialists believed, "from primary sources".

I looked at Young Teacher Friend's FB page, and it included almost no personal information - just run-of-the-mill memes for leftist causes and a single post - an essay supporting protests by students, including elementary school students. Though she acknowledged the authority of school districts to enforce mandatory school attendance.

My friend expressed surprise that the Blaze piece had shown up on her FB page. I have never seen her post anything political before. And this piece was certainly not her style. How did it get there? Why was I notified of this post? Was Young Teacher Friend also notified? Was the algorithm trying to start a fight?

Anyway, I took it as an opening, and posted the new DSA platform on my friend's page as Young Teacher Friend had suggested (can't get a more primary source than that). I admit that Young Teacher Friend is not the primary intended audience here:

DSA program and platform, July 2026 “DSA has written this program for ending capitalist oligarchy and creating a real democracy. Some of these demands may be won under our current system, but we know complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up. We push these demands to their furthest extent today, so we can fight for their fullest realization in a socialist future. Join us.” - - “For the working class to govern, we need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery: get rid of lobbyists, dark money, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.”

https://program.dsausa.org/

If you follow the link, you may be surprised, and maybe a little alarmed, at the simplicity of the language in the entire platform.

Do you think anyone will get the message about what the DSA's real goals are? Why are young people attracted to these failed programs and ideologies?

Absolutely insane:

Two-thirds of Americans don't know who Mao was. Half don't know who Xi is!

It's no wonder Americans tend to be so unconcerned about the rise of China when they know so little! https://t.co/fljCDP7wXz pic.twitter.com/iSHHbg45Qh

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 15, 2026

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Keeping the generations in touch with each other

Johann Kurtz has written an interesting piece which will likely lead to some lively discussion: Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

On the surface it does seem as if the young are fine. Real median incomes are higher than they were for their parents at the same age, unemployment has spent most of the past decade at historic lows, and purchasing power has risen roughly 63 percent since 1973. Televisions, clothing, food, and air travel are cheaper than ever.

And yet this generation is also not marrying, not buying homes, not having children, and seem pretty miserable. I think we’re clearly in the midst of a tremendous measurement failure.

My argument is that previous generations received an enormous stock of social capital: trusted neighbors, functional public schools, a productive courtship culture, predictable career arcs, and a public square in which children could roam and adults could be relied upon. That stock, once given for free, has now been substantially liquidated.

(emphasis mine). So, maybe it really does "take a village". Not just a village that consists of government programs?

What actually got cheaper over the past fifty years? Electronics, entertainment, fast fashion, processed food, toys, screens of every kind. And what got more expensive, usually by many multiples? Housing, education, childcare, healthcare, insurance.

Absurdly, both of these movements register in the statistics as progress: one shows up as asset appreciation and the other as consumer surplus. But the lived reality for families feels like a pincer.

Housing is the least ambiguous case. . .

The entire essay is worth thinking about.

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Saving the Shire

The Secret Anguish of the Median Voter

This is my favorite scene in The Lord of the Rings movies.

The four hobbits are riding home to the Shire, having come through hell and back. Frodo has saved the world at terrible personal cost. Pippin is now a knight, wearing his mail and tunic bearing the White Tree of Gondor. Merry is still dressed as an Esquire of Rohan.

All of them are in outlandish clothes, and laden with exotic treasures of dwarves, elves, and men. They have been utterly transformed by their journey.

But Everard Proudfoot (a contrivance of the film) has not been transformed by their journey. He spent the last year in the Shire, with its ordinary rhythms and expectations, and he thinks they are fucking weird.

It’s a big change from the books of course, where Saruman has brought the conflict home, and the hobbits have to drum him out.

I like both versions of the story — but what I like about the scene in the movie is that Everard Proudfoot represents the totality of their victory. They truly saved the Shire — completely intact, exactly as they left it.

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If we win the way we hope to win, all the people who think we are weird and disreputable will have no reason to change their minds. (In fact — as in the film — the way we win may confirm all their suspicions.)

But imagine trying to get Everard Proudfoot to vote to save the world.

A few weeks ago, my wife got her hair done by the Median Utah Voter.

Lately I’ve been using the term “median voter” instead of the n-word (normie) — but in this case I mean it literally.

White, married, middle-class, homeowner, “some college”, late fifties. She lives in a safe neighborhood, where she still sees most of her neighbors at church.

She couldn’t afford her house if she had to buy it now, but she doesn’t have to buy it now. Her husband is closing in on retirement; they saved responsibly, she mostly just cuts hair to have something to do.

She’s not political, except in the ambient sense that she watches the TV news sometimes, and feels bad about the things she’s supposed to feel bad about. She doesn’t like to see people being nasty to each other.

She voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024 (though probably not in 2016), because she’s a Conservative, but she doesn’t like him personally — or at least, she doesn’t like “the way he talks about people.”

When she sees Trump (and Trump surrogates) being harsh and insulting on TV, she thinks about how she tries to treat people — the kind of people she meets in her real life, in her safe neighborhood.

The Mexican guy who fixed her water heater was polite and efficient, and gave her a good price. She did a service project for a refugee charity last Christmas, and seeing those families smile as they got their care packages made her feel really good.

Nothing (in her real life) justifies being Nasty, or Hurting People.

You’re not going to convince this woman of The Big Picture.

There’s no bar graph you can show her that will convince her that her neighborhood is dangerous (it isn’t), or that the contractor who installed her water heater is a threat (he isn’t), or that the refugees at the charity are about to make a fire with her Beautiful Oak Door — they aren’t (at least, not any time soon).

She lives in the real world; she Touches Grass. She isn’t going to care about any of the stuff you care about until she sees it right in front of her physically, and by then it will be way, way too late.

Of course, her moral attention can be redirected parasocially, but not by you — not in the totalizing way that activates a person politically. She’s not going to update her worldview — which, again, is very much wrapped up in her moral attitude toward dozens of real relationships in her real life — because you showed her a meme, or a statistic, or even a lurid atrocity video.

Read the entire essay for more nuance and information about "Median Voter", but the "X" post gets to the nitty-gritty:

“Do you want your grandchildren to be foreigners in their own country?” In political conversations with older people with kids, no other point has shaken them awake quite like this one.

— Theseus' Star Destroyer (@theseus365) July 17, 2026

From the end of the Old Testament:

Malachi's prophecy is literally true

If the hearts of the fathers are not turned to their children & vice versa, nothing will change until the earth is smitten with a curse, & the barbarians are literally, physically at the door

From the essay:

If the Median Voters - - the cozy Everard Proudfoots of the world - - understand themselves as atomized individuals, they will never take action until the earth is smitten with a curse, and the barbarians are literally, physically at their doorstep.

(Again, the individualist frame was inculcated with the express purpose of lowering these defenses.)

The only way to make them see what is coming - - what is, in fact, already happening - - is to turn their hearts to their children.

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Weekend

Congratulations, Duncan. You, as much anyone I know -- more-- were dealt a crappy hand as a working artist, kicked aside by the system, wandered in the wilderness, and are turning it all around in a passionate, winning, meaningful fashion. This is going to be great. https://t.co/dabAX4Nupd

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) July 16, 2026

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The Week in Pictures: Don't Get Buffalo'd Edition

Let’s see: Gulf War III is back in full swing, Mitch McConnell has become Schrodinger’s senator, but the biggest stories in America right now are a buffalo trying out to be an NFL placekicker, and Taco Bell deciding that a life-imitating-art menu is the best life after all. Too bad about the Whirled Cup soccer thing, but losing to . . . Belgium? Maybe we can appeal to the Whirled Court. Oh, wait. . .

Music

The Shire

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, July 11, Can we afford utopian education?

Notable comment:

"It's a system built on envy of those who have more than the self-anointed "best and brightest".

And again, here's another quote from F.L. Lucas. I think this guy has potential.

“Thence it is possible to arrive by easy stages at the happy notion, not uncommon among 'intellectuals', that taste consists of distaste, and that the loftiest of pleasures is that of feeling displeased; and thus to end by enjoying almost nothing in literature but one's own opinions, while oneself incapable of writing a living sentence.”

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2026 11:32 AM

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1 marked one year since they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.
6/24 Update – Everything is going well. The chemo seems to be working, but it’s very hard. The prayers help, so please keep praying for them.

5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
7/6 Update – He has gotten a second opinion, and selected the option for treatment, which should begin next week.

6/18 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina, who has struggled with drug addiction and is in jail again. Buzzion prays that this really is rock bottom and a true wake-up call for her – even if it requires her to stay in jail.
6/29 Update – Christina’s family bonded her out of jail and she has checked into a rehab facility. Please pray that she gets the help she needs.
7/11 Update – Thank you to everyone for your prayers. Christina is doing well in rehab. Please pray that she continues through this and keeps working through it even after getting out of her program.

6/20 – bluebell gave an update on grammie Winger. Grammie had some major surgery related to her cancer in March and is pretty much housebound. She said she isn’t keeping up on news since her diagnosis; she doesn’t have the energy. She said she thinks of her grey-box friends often with fondness. Please keep praying for her. Your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
6/27 Update – grammie winger requested bluebell to let the Horde know that she is hospitalized again, with sepsis, and cannot eat or walk. She is very tired and cannot speak for long. She is being fed by tube. They don’t know how long she will be hospitalized or where she will go after (rehab, hospice, etc.). Bluebell has a mailing address for grammie, so please contact bluebell to send a card or note to grammie winger. Please pray for her, that her suffering will be eased, and pray for her family, who are suffering along with her.
7/4 – grammie winger posted her thanks for the sweet, sweet cards and letters. She said she treasured each and every one of the Horde reprobates. She can’t express the love she has as she sits there in the cancer hospital.

6/21 – B posted a request for prayers. He said that, due to his own shortcomings, and a moment of madness 6 years ago, B has been estranged from his two sons (age 41 and 36). He has tried to reach out and apologize to them over the past 6 years, to no avail. B asked the Horde to pray for their hearts to open, to allow him to properly apologize, and try to be the father he should have been. The boys are losing their mother to early-onset Alzheimers, and B needs them to know that he’s a better person today than he was then, and he can be counted on.

6/27 – Tom Servo posted prayers of thanks to God that his 38 year-old daughter, who was released from a psych hospital this week after a particularly bad breakdown. She has 2 children, which she does not have custody of, but she still sees, and they are wonderful. She has received more professional care, and it appears to have helped quite a bit. She has new medication and a new commitment to living in a way that will keep her from making a return trip to the hospital.

6/27 – George V sent his thanks to the Horde for their prayers. We had prayed for his wife in May, when she had a heart valve replacement, and there were indications of problems in her lymph nodes. She received the biopsy results, and both came back negative for cancer! Thank God for his goodness!

6/27 – “A” sent thanks for the prayers for a family friend, who is at home recovering with the family and doing much better. “A” has an additional request for long-time friends (J and S) who are in the midst of intense family problems and requesting healing, peace, repentance, and restoration in the family.

7/2 – Publius asked for prayers for his 96 year old mother, who had emergency surgery when a massive hematoma on her leg ruptured, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding due to her being on blood thinners. Things were not looking good, but Publius posted later she received blood thinner reverser medication, and was fully conscious and alert after surgery.
7/10 Update – Publius’ mother was moved to a nursing home for post-acute therapy. At this point, she is very weak but is coming back physically. But her mind is in La La Land.
7/13 Update – Publius’ mother has experienced an absolute miracle. She has come back, fully conscious and cogent. The Lord Almighty has decided her time is not complete.

7/3 – San Franpsycho posted that Mrs. F. was admitted to the hospital from the ER visit, and asks for prayers for a complete and immediate recovery for her. She was conscious enough to phone him late last night, and it was a great relief that she was awake even for a short period. She continues with IV fluids and atb. Further steps and hopefully improvement await the results of lab tests. The caring concern shown by so many morons has been a great relief. Thank you.
7/5 Update – Mrs. F. remains hospitalized while being treated for salmonella poisoning. She has had some improvement, but is on Day 5 of not being able to keep down any nourishment.
7/11 Update – Mrs. F. came home on 7/7, and has finished her oral antibiotics. They are very grateful for the prayers for healing.

7/4 – Duke Lowell humbly asked for prayers for the nurses who will have to put up with him, when he goes in for (hopefully the last) surgery related to the events of last September.

7/4 – AH Lloyd requested prayers for his aunt, who was in a shattering collision on 6/29. She was hit by a semi at full speed through an intersection. She lost a lot of blood, but is out of ICU now.

7/4 – Random Dave posted the good news that the past week of interviews went very well. He also had a prayer request for his grand-niece, who has not been growing properly. She’s about 5 or 6. The growth plates are fine but has not grown in over a year. They have found an intestinal or bowel blockage and may need surgery.

7/4 – Dr. No sent his thanks for the prayer list and the Horde’s prayers that helped his daughter in her recoveries from (a) cancer and (b) knee replacement surgery. She’s doing fine now.

7/7 – Weak Geek asked for prayers for the survivors of RG and KG, a couple in their 90s who were pillars of their church for decades. They were knifed to death on 7/3 by their grandson. The entire congregation is stunned. Please pray for them too, and the pastor, trying to help deal with the tragedy.

7/11 – Mis Hum asked for prayers for Some Rat. He has some serious health issues at this time.

7/11 – Fen requested prayers for comfort and strength for “C” and her mother. “C” is in her 30s and her father died after a several months long struggle with cancer.

7/11 – P, a long time lurker would appreciate prayers. He says he should have asked for prayers last year, when his stage 4 prostate cancer was first diagnosed, but he was too busy freaking out. A year and nine months later, he is still on hormone therapy and his PSA spiked recently. It’s back up to 92. He is supposed to start a drug trial soon. He knows from experience that prayer helps, and would greatly appreciate if anyone could include him in their prayers.

7/13 – Captain Obvious posted that he could use some prayers, as he was experiencing some kind of cardiac arrhythmia.

7/15 – Captain JS’ daughter needs prayers for his/her daughter. Early on 7/15, she experienced complete heart failure. She is in the ICU on a heart/lung machine. They will operate to see what is happening. Captain JS sends thanks in advance for the prayers and has faith in their power.
7/15 Update – Thanks to all who responded to Captain JS’ request for prayers. The daughter is still unconscious but is still alive. The doctors suspect a blockage to the left side of her heart. They are planning to take pictures and then insert a stent.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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Tech News

• TSMC says that its work towards 1.4nm technology is progressing well, with 90% yield on SRAM dies and 90% of targeted performance on logic circuits. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  1.4nm is the node after the 2nm node that we are expecting to see late this year, so it won't reach production until at least 2028. A 90% yield this early is a good sign.
  
  
  
• AI datacenters must produce as much energy as they consume, says retarded communist and part-time Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Alexa, please repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
  
  
  
• The Zilog Z80 has turned 50. (Goliath32)
  
  As has that website.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is here with its complement of eight whole gigabytes of RAM. (The Verge)
  
  That's plenty for Linux, and tolerable for MacOS. Running Windows 11 it's a miserable experience.
  
  
  
• The Redmagic Astra 2 tablet is here, with a 9" 185Hz OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Active cooling? (Liliputing)
  
  The one thing I want from a tablet is not to have a fan whining at me.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite tablet is here, with an 8.8" OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Passive cooling, apparently. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's going to be horribly expensive and I just picked up their Gen 3 model at half price so I'm not even tempted, but at least it's silent.
  
  
  
• Beelink's new ME Pro 370 is a NAS with a Ryzen 370 12-core laptop CPU, supporting two or four 3.5" hard drives, three M.2 SSDs, and... Up to 256GB of RAM? (Notebook Check)
  
  That seems unlikely, because that amount would require four 64GB DDR5 modules, and nobody is putting four SODIMM slots in consumer equipment.
  
  I have ten DDR5 SODIMMs. Believe me, I've looked.

Research

The Eighth Law already requires that every admissible alteration of the noetic field (and, by extension, every macroscopic world-line that couples to that field) lie along a null geodesic of the full 6D manifold that satisfies the 2T-gauge conditions. Ordinary 3+1 orbital motion is the projection of such a higher-dimensional geodesic. Spin-orbit locking therefore cannot be a purely 3-spatial mechanical equilibrium; it must also be consistent with the hidden $t_2$ and $x^4$ components of the geodesic. In practice this appears observationally as an additional, apparently arbitrary ceiling on how tightly a world can remain synchronized: once the integrated "geodesic resistance" $\mathcal{I}(\gamma)$ exceeds a threshold set by the unknown couplings $\beta$, $\kappa$ and the noetic tensor, further dissipative evolution is forbidden even if ordinary tidal torque remains. The result is that perfect, permanent 1:1 locking may be rarer or more fragile than in 3+1 physics, and residual libration or slow drift in the relative orientation of the permanent day/night hemispheres can persist.

This actually makes complete sense given the context, and solves the problem, but even so gives me a headache.

All I wanted to do was make the sky blue.

I've also been tinkering with Fable as well as Grok, and while it's impressive, I don't trust it. It heaped effusive praise on what I consider one of the weakest points of the plot of the story I'm working on.



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Disclaimer: Do not eat the dark snow.

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Fido Friday: Wheee!

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 17, 2026

Terry

How to land

AI

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 17, 2026

Sounds legit

Doc, I'm still awake

Bad day

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 17, 2026

This would start civil war 2

Bottoms up!

Honesty

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 17, 2026

Uhh..

It's a living

Saw some of you guys on TV

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 18, 2026

Me finding ONT content

NDA

I wanna know who did this

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 18, 2026

That's how it works

You died

Cute

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Right now CNN has person after person claiming that China doesn't interfere in our elections.

Apparently they don't watch CNN.

2024. CNN does a segment on Chinese election interference with Tony Blinken.

This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/T89Bm9Rjxh

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 17, 2026

This guy spent five years lying to the planet claiming Trump stole the 2016 election. Now he’s offended that some have questions about 2020 and the release of docs (not paid for by Hillary Clinton) that raise even more questions. And he’s so smug about it.

You can’t hate these… https://t.co/gCObgua2D1

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 17, 2026

2019. Eric Swalwell says that Russia and many other countries have the capability to change vote totals during our elections.

"The intelligence communities, they understand the risk."

From 2016 to 2020, CNN aired many segments with politicians making similar claims about the… pic.twitter.com/pzKBzLPeyQ

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 17, 2026

The media aired all of James Comey's false allegations -- made WITHOUT EVIDENCE, as Jake Tapper's gay chirons lisp -- without challenge.

Here's James Comey on ABC News saying that Trump may have been peeing on prostitutes in Moscow.

Comey knew this was false. He knew for years that the Steele Dossier was fiction and was paid for by the Clinton campaign.

ABC has such strong standards for what they broadcast. 👌 pic.twitter.com/cBzerminny

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 17, 2026

CNN claims that no one is stuffing these unsecured drop boxes. But they did happen to film a woman stuffing ballots into an unsecured drop box.

Why won’t CNN air President Trump’s speech tonight about the stolen 2020 election?

Oh, that’s right. 😬 pic.twitter.com/b2NrXKIrVY

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) July 16, 2026

It just turns out this is so common that when you do a random shot from a ballot box, you're bound to catch someone stuffing the box.

Flashback: Hillary Clinton, whose husband was elected with China's straw donations made through "nuns" with no money, expressly called for China to interfere in the US elections on the Democrats behalf -- which they did.

The following is my original content opinion, up until I get the the breakdown of President Trump’s released information on our voter fraud!

The Legacy News Networks (@ABC @CBS @NBC @CNN) and @TheDemocrats @DNC are so comfortable with their heads in the sand regarding our… pic.twitter.com/8bhXUFLKJE

— C-Reason🇺🇸 (@CreasonJana) July 17, 2026

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