Kosh's Shadow 1/16/2025 7:10:31 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/16/2025 7:31:33 PM

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From Wednesday:

In #4 Occasional Reader said: I sure hope that Bibi (and Trump?)  are playing some sort of 3D chess here that I'm not seeing; because the only "deal" for Hamas should be "surrender or die". 

Trump II does not seem to be Trump I

I cannot find the article now but Trump's envoy to the MIdeast FORCED Bibi to accept the deal - even forcing Bibi to meet with him on Shabbat.

Methinks the Tucker Carlson wing has more influence with Trump. So maybe the Dems were right and he is like Hitler.

I am getting quite disillusioned. But I cannot imagine Camel-ass Hamas would have been better.

The best article I can find is here

Kosh's Shadow 1/16/2025 8:56:24 PM

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vxbush 1/17/2025 6:11:10 AM

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In #3 Kosh's Shadow said: Amazon is going to hate me

Oh, I doubt that. I'm sure there are several vendors they hate with a passion more than their customers. At least, I have to assume so.

vxbush 1/17/2025 6:11:39 AM

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vxbush 1/17/2025 6:19:07 AM

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I don't share many of these, but this one is just special: Woke Prof. Gives Lecture on ‘Trans Ghosts and Nonbinary Magical Realism’

Are you ready for the pretension? 

As a nonbinary space that is neither land nor water but both, the swamp serves as the material grounds—as the “terra infirma”—for a series of considerations about transformation and difference. Drawn from Professor C. Riley Snorton's new work, Mud: Ecologies of Racial Meaning, this lecture weaves together the insights of Black ecologies and trans studies through a nonbinary analytic to raise questions about the coloniality of climate (change) and being.

In this talk, Professor Snorton will juxtapose three swamp narratives—the Wild Man of the Green Swamp, the Honey Island Swamp monster, and the Amazonian plant-spirits to discuss how swamps confound common sense notions of difference, especially in terms of racial and gender categorization. Ending with a meditation on the Brazilian film, Uyra: The Rising Forest, this talk also highlights how Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists are redefining the terms of their difference.

Whereas I, in this liminal space called morning, am going to confound common sense notions of laughter, finger pointing, and guffawing to point out how ridiculous Snorton sounds. 

vxbush 1/17/2025 6:23:22 AM

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These Democrats have absolutely no idea how crazy they look after this vote: 145 Dems Vote Against Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

vxbush 1/17/2025 6:29:22 AM

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Headline edited for more accuracy: Former WaPo Anti-Trump Cartoonist Exposed As P@do

He hasn't worked for WaPo for a year, so there's no need to slime them with the association. Perhaps he left because they discovered what was going on. I have no idea. 

vxbush 1/17/2025 9:35:42 AM

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Struggling Washington Post Drops ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ Slogan for This New One

JCM 1/17/2025 9:43:56 AM

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Starship and Super Heavy had mixed results for Flight 7.

The Super Heavy Booster performed as design and returned to the tower for a catch. This is still mind blowing a rocket the size of the first two stages of the Apollo Saturn V returning to the launch site and being caught on the launch tower.

Starship failed spectacularly. Apparent fuel leak and Starship turned into a expanding ball of gas and debris. Lot of spectacular videos of the debris re-entering the atmosphere.

JCM 1/17/2025 9:46:45 AM

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vxbush 1/17/2025 11:14:56 AM

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In #10 JCM said: Starship failed spectacularly. Apparent fuel leak and Starship turned into a expanding ball of gas and debris. Lot of spectacular videos of the debris re-entering the atmosphere.

Oh, I want to see this. Any video of an explosion? 

JCM 1/17/2025 12:20:11 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 12:

Explosion only seen from ground based cameras as are the re-entry tracks.

Scott Manley has an excellent overview of the flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfVm4DTv6lM&ab_channel=ScottManley