Now if the porn creators leave Xitter for BS/Mastodon, that’ll be the end for them…

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What it’s all about: Real estate greed.

I’m sure the LNG will make its way to China and India eventually.

Maybe via North Korea through a pipeline that goes directly to the Chinese border and absolutely nowhere near any North Korean cities.

Who believes that authoritarian regimes care about inclusivity?

“Democracy dies in cowardice and greed”

I like that quote, because it’s so accurate!

Think of it as supporting your neighbors.

There is value in keeping money within your own community, instead of giving all the profit to Bezos.

What Jeri announcement?

Trying to get in on Russia’s action, I see…

But don’t take LeVar’s word for it!