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• Post #4099845

  Every July, a secretive all-male encampment (past guests: presidents, senators, SCOTUS justices) gathers in the Sonoma redwoods for an event called “Bohemian Grove”. This year, for those 3 weeks, Santa Rosa airport quietly ran the departure route it's told residents for 2.5 years is impossible. No safety issues, no delays, 82% fewer low-altitude flights. #BohemianGrove #Sonoma #SonomaCountyAirport #NoisePollution #FAA https://mmalc-x-machina.ghost.io/bohemian-grove/

• Post #1374573

  “Following her press conference, Trump is reportedly firing Melania as First Lady. It is rumored she will be replaced by Lindsey Graham.” Richard Angehr #USPol

• Post #1374571

  #SilentSunday #Sonoma

• Post #1374569

  TDS is real — it stands for Trump Deification Syndrome (See also: https://thedailybritain.co.uk/trump-attacks-pope-leo-weak-terrible-liberal-iran-2026/) #Trump #TDS #USPol

• Post #1374567

  Freudian slap: an unintentional error in speech or action that may reveal unconscious thoughts or desires but which hits harder than the correct version. (To preempt: Freudian slop: broadly the same, but generated by AI.) #Neologism #Linguistics #Politics

• Post #1057922

  “There is no question that President Trump is 100 percent responsible for a stunning victory in the Iran war.” I hope at least some of the smug MAGA-adherents continued to read the remainder of the article, bumping almost straight away into: "Unfortunately, there is also no question as to who won. Hint: It wasn’t the United States.” The remainder of the piece is a good summary of the overall catastrophe. https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5824238-trump-geopolitical-catast...

• Post #1046241

  Congratulations, I suppose, to Donald #Trump for introducing the world to the concept of the Pyrrhic Defeat. #USPol #IranWar

• Post #1046240

  MAGA people celebrating #Trump "winning" peace in Iran are like home-owners congratulating an arsonist for calling the fire brigade. #USPol #IranWar #MAGA

• Post #1046239

  People in the #SFBayArea interested in #ElectricVehicles might benefit from visiting the 2nd Annual Sustainable Transportation Expo at Skyline College on April 30th, 2026: https://events.skylinecollege.edu/event/109338-2nd-annual-sustainable-transportation-expo TELO trucks is an exhibitor: https://www.telotrucks.com/

• Post #1006233

  Fascinating analysis showing how battery storage is now cheap enough that solar coupled with battery storage could “meet as much as 90% of India’s electricity demand at lower LCOE than the average power purchase costs in most states”. "Using 4.9 GW of solar and 13.5 GWh of battery storage for each GW of average demand … solar-plus-battery systems could supply between 83% and 92% of demand in the ten largest states.” https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/battery-storage-is-now-cheap...

• Post #982933

  Walnut Creek has banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Noise is the obvious pollutant that many focus on, but emissions from 2-stroke engines are startlingly toxic, including a mix of: - Carcinogens (benzene, PAHs) - Lung irritants (PM2.5, NOx) - Toxic gases (CO) - Smog-forming chemicals (VOCs, hydrocarbons) Best is not to use leaf blowers at all (they lift topsoil into the air), but battery is orders of magnitude less harmful. #Electrification #LeafBlowers #SFBayArea https://www.eastbaytimes.co...

• Post #982932

  Computer History Museum event: “Steve Jobs in exile — NeXT and the Making of a Comeback" “… a special CHM Live book talk with Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary, and key figures from NeXT’s history, including Dan’l Lewin, Avie Tevanian, and Bud Tribble.” https://computerhistory.org/events/steve-jobs-in-exile/ Maybe of interest to some. Related: Also recently excavated another piece of memorabilia #NeXTCom...

• Post #982931

  Many of those gravely asserting that the $200 million cost of rescuing one pilot was worth it because "every human life is worth saving” are the same as those who will routinely shout down calls for universal healthcare, improved public transportation, better food access, and environmental protections. Investments that would dramatically reduce mortality from a range of leading causes of death in the U.S. #USPol #IranWar

• Post #982930

  It's frustrating that the UK is trying to follow in the USA's political footsteps… #USPol #UKPol (Not sure who to credit for the artwork.)

• Post #982929

  Trump consults the Oracle at Delphi… "If you cross the Rubicon, a great empire will be destroyed.” #USPol #IranWar #Trump #Classics (See alt-text for notes.)

• Post #982928

  Perhaps at this point the best we might hope for is that at 8:01 there's a press release from the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying that they’d received an order that they and their legal counsel believed to be illegal and so they were not going to carry it out. Then, “What happens next is a matter for politician, not the military.” #USPol #IranWar

• Post #828603

  Hmm, the dealership promised they were going to repair the car this morning, but I’m starting to wonder … (Something chewed through the windscreen washer fluid line — I suspect squirrels)

• Post #828602

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWii2NItLo4 Old Mac OS had an upgrade AI AI oh And in that upgrade it had a chatbot AI AI oh With a bot bot here and a bot bot there Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot bot Old Mac OS had an upgrade AI AI oh #Apple #AI #Chatbot

• Post #828600

  wienerberger UK & Ireland has secured funding to transition natural gasfired brick kilns at its brickworks in Denton, Greater Manchester, to run on 100% green hydrogen. This will make Denton the first commercial scale hydrogen fired brick plant in the world. Splendid progress. #Hydrogen provides long-term storage for surplus energy created by renewables; using it directly for heating is even more efficient than turning it back into electricity. #RenewableEnergy https://www.wienerberg...

• Post #828599

  As #Apple approaches its #50thAnniversary, thinking of what the company could have achieved if only it had pursued the lucrative Internet Café business (https://www.techtimes.com/articles/197451/20170214/the-futuristic-apple-cafe-was-almost-built-in-1996-heres-how-it-would-have-looked-like.htm) More excavation of memorabilia…

• Post #828598

  If Hormuz is not opened within 25 days, oil field production may permanently reduced. The “reservoir skin effect” can create “permanent damage around the well, … crippling its long-term productivity. If [well]s are forced to go dark for even two to three weeks, the altered physics of the reservoir dictate that they may never return to their original flow rates.” https://fortune.com/2026/03/28/iran-hormuz-oil-price-l-shaped-plateau-not-v-recovery/ #Trump may have done more to wean the world of...

• Post #828597

  In the unlikely event of Kash Patel going down on a woman, would it be a twat à twat? (Random thought inspired by https://piaille.fr/@lsdog/116307146259717960) #USPol

• Post #457643

  @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social Borowitz: “… former President George W. Bush confirmed on Saturday that he is celebrating no longer having started the dumbest war in U.S. history." #USPol #Satire

• Post #126751

  Good Trolley Problem You're standing on the tracks and a trolley is approaching. You have time to get out of the way and do so. Do you shot the driver for no reason? (doing so wouldn't stop the trolley anyway) (Sorry, don’t know who to credit) #USPol #Good #ICE #TrolleyProblem