Huh. Remind me… how did Russias war on Ukraine start, again? China military rehearses ‘encircling’ Taiwan after US Speaker visit A total of 71 Chinese warplanes crossed over the Taiwan Strait on Saturday. with 45 entering Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, Taiwan’s defense ministry said in a statement. China 🇨🇳 Taiwan 🇹🇼Today China finished encircling…
National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down a few blocks from here. It was puny as such things go… EF-1, winds of 95 miles per hour. But it did raise a ruckus. Destructive Winds, Very Large Hail & Tornadoes: April 4-5th, 2023 Date 04/04/2023 Time (Local) 09:41 AM – 09:43 AM EF Rating EF-1…
In Colorado Springs: Former D20 student accused of planning attacks on three campuses “D20” here is “district 20.” The new trend isn’t “19-year-old tries to shoot up a middle school and some churches.” Guess what it is. Go on, guess. Here’s a subtle hint: William Whitworth who identifies as “Lilly” has been charged with felony…
As I’ve previously mentioned, something holding back my return to cyanotyping is a sudden lack of availability of the transparent film required. Without that I can’t print off new negatives. Early on in this protracted process I managed to get a few prints from a local print shop; these prints were made at a distant…
Storms took out my power this morning. I drove around and looked at the damage…. it was quite extensive. I figured it would be days before power came back, but it was restored a little while ago. My neighborhood saw little actual damage, but just a block away big trees were yanked out at the…
Ever since the early sixties there have been ideas about “inspector” spacecraft that would check out other satellites. This would be done to see just what some foreign satellite actually was…r econ, communications, navigation, weapons platform. But actually doing it has not but done too often… at least, it hasn’t been *shown.* But here are…
It’s not confirmed, but it’s possible that AOC, the Dumbest Person In Congress, had a burner account on Twitter that she used to “anonymously” tell the truth about her actual feelings… hatred, death threats, standard Antifa-level rhetoric. “Zaza Demon” blocked some people (which, if this was AOC, is I believe illegal), and then deleted the…
Well, this could be the start of something… interesting: Bomb kills Russian war blogger in St Petersburg cafe It appears that “Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky” was blown up by a bomb, far from the Ukrainian front lines. The guy seems to have been a Kremlin mouthpiece, so the obvious suspect would be Ukrainian forces…
For some reason, a Chinese construction company was hired to do highway work in Serbia. For some reason, the Chinese construction company decided to demolish a war memorial. Lots of WTF in this story. The first being: “Why is a European nation using a Chinese construction company?” The second being “Why can’t a European nation…
Brandon Herrera covers some initial memes about the Nashville mass shooting: Donut Operator did a breakdown of the bodycam footage of the sweep of the school and the takedown of the transurrectionist. *THIS,* as many have pointed out to the Uvalde police, is how you do it: get it done quickly and efficiently,…
