@Mik: It doesn't matter how one musician might write paragraph upon biased paragraph to press the point that the Iranian regime is bad. And how ancient history is applicable to today's problem remains a mystery to me. Most people are well aware of this. And if Israel was led not by a thug named Netanyahu, and America by a bully named Trump (who has bombed 8 countries in one year)--fast becoming an autocrat--some of this author's arguments would make more sense in the real world. That what Israel and the United States have done is somehow equivalent to what the Iranian regime itself has done. As things now stand in the world, Netanyahu, Trump, and the Supreme Leader make up an axis of evil. America has fallen and so has Israel. Too bad, but neither country enjoys the moral high ground these days. Trump has trampled the Constitution and all that is holy about America with the aid of the republican party bathing in evangelical christian nationalism. Christian nationalism, militant Judaism, and Islamic terrorism. That's it in a nutshell. The isms that cause so much trouble in the world. None can claim the moral high ground these days. There was no justification for bombing Iran. This is the consensus. Hopefully Congress will do its job tomorrow and put a stop to it.

Just got home last night. 9 days went by really quickly! Madrid and Alicante. More later.

Extra tallow and a couple extra salt packets, please.

I told my husband he should embrace his mistakes. He gave me a hug.

Link to video No, it's real.

Link to video Is Sarah next? This is a good journalist with good connections.

@realplayer I have instructions bookmarked but other things have kept me busy. I definitely want to learn how to do it.

I'm guessing people in MAGA will freak out. Personally, I hit the American generations head on- WWII, Boomers, Generation X. It's random chance but I wouldn't have chosen anything to be different. We've lost my grandparents' generation; we're loosing the Boomers (I've lost both my parents). Now it's my turn to be in the world with my only family left being my peers, although they're about fifteen years younger than me. I'm very satisfied with this timeline the universe chose for me. /Back to demographics of countries with aging populations

For things like cobblers, canned peaches are great, and more reliable than fresh. I think they are, in no sugar added juice, the best of canned fruit.

@axtremus Thoroughly sick of MAGA world.

Beautiful. Very nice! Lovely British decorating style.

@wtg said in Good night, stars?: In the beginning, the Bible tells us, God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And so it has been ever since — until now. Here in the 21st century, we humans are on the cusp of turning night into day — and bidding good night to the stars that have guided us home for thousands of years. Two little-noted applications under review by the Federal Communications Commission would, if fully implemented, fundamentally remake the night sky. But the FCC, the satellite regulator, appears to have fast-tracked approval without much of a pause to weigh the benefits of these proposals against the harms they could cause to life on the planet. A start-up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night, with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight. At the same time, Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to launch as many as a million satellites to serve as orbiting data centers — 70 times the number of satellites now in orbit. We could have a million points of light streaking across our skies at night. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/good-night-stars-we-are-on-the-cusp-of-turning-darkness-into-day/ar-AA1XbQDM Nightmare de jour.

For AI bulls, this is “proof” that AI can increase productivity and reduce labor cost for businesses, bigly.

I’ve spent many summers watering tomatoes and zucchini and getting 10 tomatoes and 6 zucchini for what feels like $100 in water and effort. I’ll just buy my produce, like Mik.

@wtg I’m afraid to click on that link and read the rest…. This is exactly road I’ve been afraid we would be going down …

The Witch 2: The Other One Link to video