Happy 250th birthday today to the U.S. Navy: "... At this time, all Navy and Nation 250 events are paused as part of the government shutdown protocols. We hope to recommence planning once appropriations are provided."
www.navy.mil/Navy-250/

Actually we do fly not one but two British flags, combined: The English flag (St. George) with a weird variant of the Scottish flag (St. Andrew) as the canton, in honor of the Scottish bishops who consecrated our first bishop.

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I was all set to say that Trump was looking pretty strong — until he just wouldn't shut UP. (Why would I have expected him to be any different than before?)

www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

From The Other Place in 2022: "I guess he's with jod now"

In the "footnotes, or in-line citations?" debate, I'm liking putting the citations in-line, but using small print for visual distinctiveness:

Surely you can't be serious? Or did I miss the Guardians giving Biden a Green Lantern Ring, and so Biden should have just ~willed~ all parties to agree to his plan?

@brianbeutler.bsky.social got it right in www.offmessage.net/p/poke-the-b...:

Sadly, this seems to be an actual PG tweet, which I wasn't going to assume was the case.

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My school (Univ. of Houston) is doing that on orders from Gov. Abbott.

uh.edu/infotech/ser...