Dan Elsewhere
@catful.bsky.social
My hovercraft is full of eels!
A little good news.
Maia Sandu, Moldova’s pro-Western president, cements power after the party she founded wins election
Moldova’s pro-Western President Maia Sandu has led her country toward European Union integration. Her Party of Action and Solidarity, founded in 2016, won a decisive victory on Sunday, overcoming pro-...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A little good news.
Make atrocities great again!
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Make atrocities great again!
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Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯
February 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯
AI vs scammers. Hee.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall
Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
AI vs scammers. Hee.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
Well, it's a Nancy convergence. First I discovered Bill Griffith's "Three Rocks," about the life of Ernie Bushmiller and his muse, Nancy. Then I stumbled onto the Nancy fan page at @nancycomics.bsky.social . The universe speaks in mysterious ways, don't it... store.abramsbooks.com/products/thr...
Three Rocks
From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy. Winner, Eisner Award for ...
store.abramsbooks.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Well, it's a Nancy convergence. First I discovered Bill Griffith's "Three Rocks," about the life of Ernie Bushmiller and his muse, Nancy. Then I stumbled onto the Nancy fan page at @nancycomics.bsky.social . The universe speaks in mysterious ways, don't it... store.abramsbooks.com/products/thr...
Future XBox games will have a sniper mode where players can shoot running children in the head for extra points.
Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war
Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet a growing demand for cloud and AI tools
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Future XBox games will have a sniper mode where players can shoot running children in the head for extra points.
I have been utterly and completely defeated by a duvet. I would sooner try to build a ship in a Klein bottle than stuff one of these.
January 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have been utterly and completely defeated by a duvet. I would sooner try to build a ship in a Klein bottle than stuff one of these.
Who was that bozo who said "maybe we'll have a snowless winter!"
Oh, never mind. It was me.
Oh, never mind. It was me.
January 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who was that bozo who said "maybe we'll have a snowless winter!"
Oh, never mind. It was me.
Oh, never mind. It was me.
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This is by far the most wonderful story I've read all week. I'll be linking to it in tomorrow's newsletter.
I haven't seen it get too much attention so I'm sharing it here as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I haven't seen it get too much attention so I'm sharing it here as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar
Women with little to no formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is by far the most wonderful story I've read all week. I'll be linking to it in tomorrow's newsletter.
I haven't seen it get too much attention so I'm sharing it here as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I haven't seen it get too much attention so I'm sharing it here as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
More Aardman brilliance.
youtu.be/fBJ6pixLHtc?...
youtu.be/fBJ6pixLHtc?...
Heat Electric - Creature Comforts (1990, UK)
YouTube video by DJ 3lectrical
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January 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
More Aardman brilliance.
youtu.be/fBJ6pixLHtc?...
youtu.be/fBJ6pixLHtc?...
The truth about your $12 dress.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success
Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.
www.bbc.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The truth about your $12 dress.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Maybe it was the news of Brill Allcroft's death a few weeks ago, but I CANNOT get the theme from Thomas the Tank Engine out of my head.
January 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Maybe it was the news of Brill Allcroft's death a few weeks ago, but I CANNOT get the theme from Thomas the Tank Engine out of my head.
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When on holiday, I do a lot of sun dodging (as a card-carrying ginger) & can often be found defiling shells or pebbles with silly nonsense. These are limpets that I swore looked like No-Face, so I en-Ghiblied them…
They’re on sale in me shop…
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/sh...
#ghibli #mhhsbd #bsnm
They’re on sale in me shop…
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/sh...
#ghibli #mhhsbd #bsnm
January 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
When on holiday, I do a lot of sun dodging (as a card-carrying ginger) & can often be found defiling shells or pebbles with silly nonsense. These are limpets that I swore looked like No-Face, so I en-Ghiblied them…
They’re on sale in me shop…
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/sh...
#ghibli #mhhsbd #bsnm
They’re on sale in me shop…
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/sh...
#ghibli #mhhsbd #bsnm
Corporate America is destroying the English language, among many other things. Consider this emission from Macy’s CEO Tony Spring regarding the closing of 66 stores:
January 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Corporate America is destroying the English language, among many other things. Consider this emission from Macy’s CEO Tony Spring regarding the closing of 66 stores:
Justin Trudeau to resign today, his constituents angry because he couldn't prevent those pesky drops of water falling from the sky, or that huge ball of light from appearing daily on the horizon. #Canada #politics #stupidity
January 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Justin Trudeau to resign today, his constituents angry because he couldn't prevent those pesky drops of water falling from the sky, or that huge ball of light from appearing daily on the horizon. #Canada #politics #stupidity
Two book recommendations for year's end. First, American Bulk, by Emily Mester. Not just another scolding on our culture of excess, this is a set of deeply personal essays on consumerism, hoarding, and families, written in a way that pulls you along as if they were a single work.
December 31, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Two book recommendations for year's end. First, American Bulk, by Emily Mester. Not just another scolding on our culture of excess, this is a set of deeply personal essays on consumerism, hoarding, and families, written in a way that pulls you along as if they were a single work.
Four years of headlines beginning with "Trump threatens..."
Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over ‘ridiculous’ fees
Trump also warns he would not let a ‘vital national asset’ for the US fall into the ‘wrong hands’
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Four years of headlines beginning with "Trump threatens..."
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For anybody trying to understand Trump and Musk's plan - it's real simple: Sow chaos, undermine trust in systems, keep the base angry and afraid, and then consolidate power and wealth to themselves and their cronies.
There is no higher level strategy. That's it.
Ignore the words. Watch the hands.
There is no higher level strategy. That's it.
Ignore the words. Watch the hands.
December 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
For anybody trying to understand Trump and Musk's plan - it's real simple: Sow chaos, undermine trust in systems, keep the base angry and afraid, and then consolidate power and wealth to themselves and their cronies.
There is no higher level strategy. That's it.
Ignore the words. Watch the hands.
There is no higher level strategy. That's it.
Ignore the words. Watch the hands.
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Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...
theonion.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
“The cat was warm and was warming him … so he saved his life,” Dan Benga, the director of the Maramures mountain rescue service, told The Associated Press. “The only thing we saw he is caring about is the cat. He doesn’t care about himself.”
Ukrainian man fleeing war rescued with his kitten on a perilous journey through Romanian mountains
A Ukrainian man who embarked on a perilous journey fleeing his war-torn country into Romania has been rescued from a deep mountain ravine in subzero temperatures with an unlikely companion: his months...
apnews.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:39 PM
“The cat was warm and was warming him … so he saved his life,” Dan Benga, the director of the Maramures mountain rescue service, told The Associated Press. “The only thing we saw he is caring about is the cat. He doesn’t care about himself.”
I love the Libby and Hoopla library apps, but they can lead to overloaded TBR lists with looming deadlines. Currently:
Libby:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker prize)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Supercommunicators (audio) by Charles Duhigg
Libby:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker prize)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Supercommunicators (audio) by Charles Duhigg
December 8, 2024 at 11:21 PM
I love the Libby and Hoopla library apps, but they can lead to overloaded TBR lists with looming deadlines. Currently:
Libby:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker prize)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Supercommunicators (audio) by Charles Duhigg
Libby:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker prize)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Supercommunicators (audio) by Charles Duhigg
The good voters of the heartland can't wait to see this kind of gleeful sadism in action.
‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations
Errol Morris’s bleak documentary Separated has gained in relevance since it premiered with more ‘state-created orphans’ to come under a second Trump administration
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The good voters of the heartland can't wait to see this kind of gleeful sadism in action.
"The auction also includes dry-cleaning bills for a green velvet jacket, a gold suit and orange trousers, among Hendrix’s other trademark psychedelic costumes inspired by London’s Carnaby Street."
Newly found Jimi Hendrix tapes give fans chance to own song only they can listen to
Four never-before-heard demos will be sold at auction along with documents rescued by former PA to the star’s manager
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 PM
"The auction also includes dry-cleaning bills for a green velvet jacket, a gold suit and orange trousers, among Hendrix’s other trademark psychedelic costumes inspired by London’s Carnaby Street."