Kevin Lossner
@kslossner.bsky.social
Writer, technology teacher, translator, scientist, and martial artist. Retired to the Portuguese countryside in the borderlands with Spain.
Next up on my contrarian listening list....
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Next up on my contrarian listening list....
Adapted my old chocolate chip cookie recipe as carob chocolate chunk with Greek yogurt, because what else is there on a rainy day? Books, of course, but books read better with a good cookie.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Adapted my old chocolate chip cookie recipe as carob chocolate chunk with Greek yogurt, because what else is there on a rainy day? Books, of course, but books read better with a good cookie.
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Joined The David Frum Show to discuss the end of the government shutdown and MAGA's repulsed young women problem.
Thanks for having me, @davidfrum.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Thanks for having me, @davidfrum.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
MAGA Has Repulsed Young Women
Sarah Longwell on the growing voting divide between the sexes, the 2025 elections, and how Donald Trump remade electoral politics. Plus: David Frum discusses the deal to end the government shutdown an...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Joined The David Frum Show to discuss the end of the government shutdown and MAGA's repulsed young women problem.
Thanks for having me, @davidfrum.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Thanks for having me, @davidfrum.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
I love Spain, and its occasional surprising simplicity. Libraries in Badajoz are open hours later than in Elvas (Portugal), so I decided to see if it were possible to get privileges.
"Why not?" said the librarian. "It's free, and everyone is welcome." Ten minutes later I left with a book.
"Why not?" said the librarian. "It's free, and everyone is welcome." Ten minutes later I left with a book.
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I love Spain, and its occasional surprising simplicity. Libraries in Badajoz are open hours later than in Elvas (Portugal), so I decided to see if it were possible to get privileges.
"Why not?" said the librarian. "It's free, and everyone is welcome." Ten minutes later I left with a book.
"Why not?" said the librarian. "It's free, and everyone is welcome." Ten minutes later I left with a book.
Portugal now has a nationwide electronic lending system for e-books and audiobooks, but some local libraries are ignorant and claim it's only for citizens. Not true. These screenshots from the BiblioLED app show how anyone with a library card can request access.
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Portugal now has a nationwide electronic lending system for e-books and audiobooks, but some local libraries are ignorant and claim it's only for citizens. Not true. These screenshots from the BiblioLED app show how anyone with a library card can request access.
"Did you really buy a sleeping bag?"
"Yes."
With some trepidation, I ask "Why?"
"To sleep with the puppy and the new goats when they come."
Hmm. Camping in the new stalls? Sounds like an interesting adventure. Waking to baby goats dancing on your gut.
"Yes."
With some trepidation, I ask "Why?"
"To sleep with the puppy and the new goats when they come."
Hmm. Camping in the new stalls? Sounds like an interesting adventure. Waking to baby goats dancing on your gut.
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Did you really buy a sleeping bag?"
"Yes."
With some trepidation, I ask "Why?"
"To sleep with the puppy and the new goats when they come."
Hmm. Camping in the new stalls? Sounds like an interesting adventure. Waking to baby goats dancing on your gut.
"Yes."
With some trepidation, I ask "Why?"
"To sleep with the puppy and the new goats when they come."
Hmm. Camping in the new stalls? Sounds like an interesting adventure. Waking to baby goats dancing on your gut.
Seeing badgers on the MMS camera feed is always a special thrill for me. Tonight is the first time I have captured one in this area, far from the usual favorite spots. That bowl of guts on top of the rocks from yesterday's bird hunt is a strong motivator!
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Seeing badgers on the MMS camera feed is always a special thrill for me. Tonight is the first time I have captured one in this area, far from the usual favorite spots. That bowl of guts on top of the rocks from yesterday's bird hunt is a strong motivator!
Patinho's first day outdoors. He's come a long way for a little duckling who would have died in the failed attempt to hatch. Still behind his four siblings in development, but he is vigorous and follows me all around the yard now.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Patinho's first day outdoors. He's come a long way for a little duckling who would have died in the failed attempt to hatch. Still behind his four siblings in development, but he is vigorous and follows me all around the yard now.
Lunchtime for the garden bantams.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Lunchtime for the garden bantams.
Behold "Quartus", our future goat guardian, inshallah. A Castro Laboreiro who will be the fourth one to watch over our quinta. A wonderful Portuguese breed.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Behold "Quartus", our future goat guardian, inshallah. A Castro Laboreiro who will be the fourth one to watch over our quinta. A wonderful Portuguese breed.
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Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
The latest training equipment acquired by my fencing club in Badajoz. I prefer this to versions I've seen with pipe, a sword, and bungee cords on a pillar.
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The latest training equipment acquired by my fencing club in Badajoz. I prefer this to versions I've seen with pipe, a sword, and bungee cords on a pillar.
Madeline Miller's "Circe" is a masterful work, and the audiobook reading of it does full justice to the writer's art. This afternoon I revisited the death of Odysseus and the reception of Penelope and her son on the island.
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Madeline Miller's "Circe" is a masterful work, and the audiobook reading of it does full justice to the writer's art. This afternoon I revisited the death of Odysseus and the reception of Penelope and her son on the island.
Made an afternoon excursion to the olive groves with Harmat, who visited with the rabbits while I gathered green ripe olives for the first batch of cured olives this year.
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Made an afternoon excursion to the olive groves with Harmat, who visited with the rabbits while I gathered green ripe olives for the first batch of cured olives this year.
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nmwa.org/exhibitions/... wonderful exhibit- go if you are in town. Women highly esteemed in their lifetime cut out of the art canon so have been invisible for centuries. Who gets included in the telling of our history and culture is critical
Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 | Exhibition | National Museum of Women in the Arts
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October 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
nmwa.org/exhibitions/... wonderful exhibit- go if you are in town. Women highly esteemed in their lifetime cut out of the art canon so have been invisible for centuries. Who gets included in the telling of our history and culture is critical
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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Whatever nonsense Trump and the Reagan Library are claiming about the Canadian anti-tariff ad using selective excerpts from Ronald Reagan's 1987 radio address, the full address is every bit as bad or worse for Trump's stupid tariff argument.
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade
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October 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Whatever nonsense Trump and the Reagan Library are claiming about the Canadian anti-tariff ad using selective excerpts from Ronald Reagan's 1987 radio address, the full address is every bit as bad or worse for Trump's stupid tariff argument.
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
I am offended by library availability only during ordinary business hours of a working week. No weekends, no evenings. Are we to assume that people with a typical work schedule don't need libraries?
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I am offended by library availability only during ordinary business hours of a working week. No weekends, no evenings. Are we to assume that people with a typical work schedule don't need libraries?
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They celebrate punching down. Gleeful when people in desperate circumstances get deported.
We can support border security and the law without getting off on the misery of others.
We can support border security and the law without getting off on the misery of others.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They celebrate punching down. Gleeful when people in desperate circumstances get deported.
We can support border security and the law without getting off on the misery of others.
We can support border security and the law without getting off on the misery of others.
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Say what you will about Twitter but at least...no, actually there is nothing redeeming. 😀
October 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Say what you will about Twitter but at least...no, actually there is nothing redeeming. 😀
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
I love Libby and use it with three libraries in Southern California, though I moved away from there in 1992.
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I love Libby and use it with three libraries in Southern California, though I moved away from there in 1992.
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Joyce narrated the audio version herself. For several years now, she has been on my short list of experts to help me understand the legal issues in US politics today.
It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC
October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Joyce narrated the audio version herself. For several years now, she has been on my short list of experts to help me understand the legal issues in US politics today.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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