Realtor.com on X: "Corporate investors are increasingly buying up mobile home communities and raising rents, leaving residents with few options since moving a mobile home costs $4,000 to $10,000. In Clinton, TN, one retiree saw her lot rent jump from $275 to $650 a month under new corporate https://t.co/WfYWAjabgF" / X https://share.google/UJkPuOXkc5TaLmYNJ My lot rent is $890 in '26. It increased by $75 after only $50 in '25 and $25 in '24. It was below $550 in December, 2019. This is a private owner in his '80's squeezing every last dollar he can out of his business by increasing rent and cutting services. People who know (this is second hand) know that his children hate the business and want nothing to do with it. I told the manager I was leaving and why. She said she wished I'd stay but will give me a landlord recommendation for these years when I asked her if she would do this. I think I'll ask for it in writing before I settle my final payment.

The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me. How would you even define it? I'm showing my age.

Anyway, yikes!!

I looked into Optery, which is a similar service. I did the free plan, which provides a report that lists where your info is stored. It originally located 60+ sites, and I manually submitted requests to a bunch of them, requesting deletion of my info. Optery still sends me occasional emails and now it says I'm only on 30 sites. I may do some more manual deletion requests; I haven't pulled the trigger on a paid subscription. PC Mag does a comparison: https://www.pcmag.com/comparisons/incogni-vs-optery-which-data-removal-service-comes-out-on-top

Good lord.

This is a great story. Dr. Druker is still here in Portland, with the Knight Cancer Institute. (Named for Phil & Penny Knight of Nike.)

It's a feel good story. Fine. The problem is still a system that created this chasm of a wealth disparity and it's attendant societal evils.

A New Orleans house the way it should be. Link to video

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Block Communications had announced it would permanently shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on May 3; the paper enjoyed a last-minute reprieve, sold last month to the nonprofit institute that created the online Baltimore Banner. But the local news guild says that the new owners have cut 40% of the newsroom, including the vast majority of those who served as union organizers during an extended labor dispute. https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5818208/ajc-andrew-morse-leaving (The article also talks about changes at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Wisteria can be a vigorous pain... I'd drill into and add poison to the very short stump.

Another one. A painting stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator, an art detective has said. Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, is believed to have hung for decades in the home of Hendrik Seyffardt's family, Arthur Brand said. It had belonged to Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who died while fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, leaving behind a collection of more than 1,000 paintings. The case was brought to Brand's attention by a man who told him he was a descendant of Seyffardt and that he was "disgusted" to learn his family had kept the artwork for years. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmpj0p9k08o

Glad to hear Mr. WTG is making progress!