And you’ll also need a grinder that can make espresso fine grounds. Your blade grinder won’t work for that.

I hope the UAF makes good use of it in the month or so before Trump takes office…

Maybe the Haitians’ employers in Springfield should have campaigned harder against Trump.

Or maybe even Ohio politicians in their state’s economic interest?

But no…

BlueSky’s been getting a ton of press lately.

Their PR department must be working overtime.

Not a peep about Mastodon though.

Mastodon’s user count stayed flat

It’s been a few years. Best throw it out.

On the other hand, Dr. Drew is looking pumped and has been hawking the V-Shred weight loss system recently.

At least his family knows where he is…

Even if you don’t want deign to give Trump himself credit, he’s got very smart lieutenants working for him, like that Susie Wiles who co-managed his by-all-accounts “disciplined” campaign and was named Chief Of Staff a couple of days ago.

It’s probably most famously the name of the lead heroine in the Sailor Moon anime and manga, hence it’s a girl’s name, and on the hurricane/typhoon name list.

I have no idea how many Japanese girls are actually named Usagi.

Maybe an anime fan had input to the name list, and we can expect Typhoon Madoka some time.

You do realize why Trump is doing these wild nominations is to distract from whatever else he will have cooking when he takes office.

Less flashy, but more consequential things like even more tax cuts for billionaires, pardoning himself for anything and everything, installing corrupt MAGAts in place of career civil servants, Supreme Court nominations, gutting securities/education/food/communications regulators, gutting the State Department and other instruments of our foreign policy, anything else in Project 2025, etc.

Trump could care less whether it ruins life for the 99% of us.

Haha, point taken.

Back in 1991, when the first Civilization game came out, Madonna wasn’t the “elder statesman” that she is today.

He’s lucky to be alive and apparently uninjured, instead of rotting in a field.

This reminds me of that feature in the first Civilization game where the portraits of your advisors change, depending on what type of government you have: Democracy, Republic, Communism, etc.

Under Anarchy, your foreign minister was Madonna, your military advisor was a banana republic general, science advisor a drug dealer, etc. https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Advisor_(Civ1)?file=Advisors_(Civ1).png

This is like that.

We’ll be lucky if term 2 is just like term 1. That would mean the ACA would survive, no detention camps would be built, and they don’t find a way to deploy the US military to go grab the immigrants and any effective political opposition put them into camps.

Fixed that for you.

The rocks will look different when their chemistry will change when exposed to a warmer climate, different climate migrating species grow on them, and they’re covered in micro plastics, and worn down by more acidic rains.

And possibly become radioactive if things don’t go right.

Unless the R’s hold their constitutional convention and crown Trump Emperor

It’s looking like Mayor Lurie. I can’t see many putting Breed on their 2nd choice.

This whole election day is just fucked.

Good nite.

The honeybees might have come back a lot faster if the US had not turned to chemical miticides and selected for varroa mite resistance instead.

Instead, the vast majority of commercial beekeepers are producing chemical-dependent bees, which is not good in the long term. But chemical miticide producers are happy to make profits.

Because of the ways that honeybees mate, i.e. the virgin queen mates with several drones randomly on her mating flight, the mass of chemical-dependent genetics waters down any progress made in spreading varroa resistant genetic lines.

Modern beekeeping is a lot more complicated with beekeepers having to keep to a strict timetable of varroa treatment to keep their colonies alive.

Boooooo!

Also, as someone who grew up watching the A’s, fuck you John Fisher.

Q: Will Putin be okay, because he’s the richest man in Russia?

A: Yes.

Then war will continue.

What it’s all about: Real estate greed.