you might not like what i’m about to say many people aren’t happy with the current situation. they take to the streets you want to protest? buy bitcoin many see bitcoin as an investment, even…

Private ownership of digital infrastructure can give a small number of companies the power to determine the conditions under which everyone else participates in economic and public life.

The SCMP reports… Hong Kong tourism authorities have pledged to review the roll-out of a lighting project along a trail on The Peak after mounting complaints that flowers and trees were chopped down…

I learned about this development proposal over the weekend through a Toronto Star article that I couldn’t read because it was behind a paywall. Oh well, here’s the Twitter post and the…

If there were doubts about Reform's political character, ITV's undercover documentary has put them to bed. In encounter after encounter, its reporters were witnesses to unprompted, off-the-cuff…

You absolute monsters, these are children we’re talking about. Washington’s statewide Initiative 638, if approved, could require all girls (but not boys) to have their genitals examined…

If television has taught the public anything, it’s that catching a cyberstalker takes about thirty seconds in a dark van with lots of blinking lights and headphones, a hoodie, some scrolling green…

“The Nov. 3 general election is pivotal for the future of bicycling due to current hostility toward bike infrastructure funding at the federal level and gloomy budget forecasts at the state…

Q&A with Jeanie Finlay Stickers! On Sunday morning I read: The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide, The Nerve. It’s about the Teesside developments, the sudden sea…

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2026 The problem we all face: Yes, it's an actual post. Even worse, it's an actual Truth Social post, from the sitting president. NBC's Channel 4 in Washington, D.C. provides the…

Grimké's "Puppet-Master" can be applied to Putin pulling DJT's strings. The post Putin as Puppet-Master first appeared on Better Living through Beowulf.

The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day.…

Many residents of LA feel that the city is in danger of falling into a downward spiral. But there are bright spots, too, in neighborhoods that are enjoying a boom […] The post Making LA’s…

NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard. Are you one?

The US Navy can't open the Strait of Hormuz because they're the ones closing it

We are not woke enough!

Former U.S. President Barack Obama recently received a honorary doctorate from the Queen’s University in Belfast. He gave a speech at the event with was reportedly attended by some 7,000…

In a revelation that manages to be both entirely unsurprising and yet still somehow shocking, former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland writes in her memoir that weeping and bullying were…

We’ve all seen the pictures of the thousands of arrests of peaceful protesters for supporting Palestine Action: an 83-year-old retired priest; a 94-year-old Jewish former human rights lawyer; a blind…

China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war’s lessons into military advantage: The first offensive lesson is economic. In March 2025, the PLA Daily…

The Democratic Party candidate for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, habitually draws a false equivalency between Islam and other religions and treats the ethic of religious tolerance as a position…

AFTER the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, progeny of the Nazis) secured the largest slice of the vote in the elections […]

I’ve taken several cracks at common arguments progressives and leftists use to justify ‘voting blue no matter who.’ This includes, of course, the harm reduction argument. I even…

I completely agree with Andrew McCarthy, who writes at National Review , that Trump's likely interference with Ukraine's access to Starlink/Starshield technology and illegal lifting of economic…

It’s early afternoon on Friday 16 October 2026. I enter the public transport office in central Strasbourg, next to the Alt Winmärik tram stop. Alt Winmärik means Old Wine Market in the old Germanic…

… few doubt that the middle east is in the grip of epoch shaping convulsions. Nothing speaks more eloquently to this truth than the astonishing territorial gains of Yemen’s de facto government,…

Congratulations to Mike Rogers of Michigan, Dan S. Sullivan of Alaska, and Ashley Hinson of Iowa -- three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate who think President Trump is a fool for buying…

Last week-or-so, I mentioned that the Polish Ambassador to Ireland had been cutting a ribbon in Glenties Co Donegal. It was on account of a) the commemoree was born in what's now Poland b) for the…

Some pictures and videos from the current Paris protests paired with words by Zygmunt Bauman.

* As previously mentioned, I have been reading Frank Dikötter’s trilogy on the history of China during its years under the rule of Mao Zedong (1949-76). Of the three books, the one covering the…

Trajetória do senador inclui voto contra restrição de armas a policiais denunciados por violência doméstica e condecorações a homens posteriormente associados a milícias. O senador Flávio Bolsonaro…

When Trump came to Kalispell, Montana, I got to see firsthand just how good a politician he is. Then I read the news reports that lied and distorted what happened to make Trump look as bad as…

This week I finished: Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, by Brian Klaas: This book asked the big questions about corruption: Does power corrupt, does power attract corrupt people, do…

The cultural landscape of 2026 did not simply happen. The radical restructuring of American life and the capture of our institutions were the outcome of a deliberate, multi-decade psychological…

Peter Thiel says evil is “maybe kind of good.” Curtis Yarvin says Hitler was a genius. And the mainstream press has barely asked their intern, JD Vance 1 , about either. – Gil Duran, Antichrist,…

Yesterday there was a headline in the New York Times — Trump Offers Putin Economic Relief in Hopes That Russia Will Return the Favor. So the U.S. is just a supplecant nation to Russia now.…

Down toward the bottom of their November ballots Austin voters will find eight proposed changes to the City Charter. Seven of those propositions were placed on the ballot by the City Council and City…

My wife related to me that she was glad we use Qobuz for our music streaming service, since she had read it was one of the more ethical services in terms of artist payments. I’m happy to see ethics…

Republican representative Thomas Massie, from Northern Kentucky and elected to Congress in 2012, is notable for being the sole 'no' vote on many pieces of legislation, such as renewing the ban on…

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Can you imagine world leaders sitting around a big conference table and agreeing to have a nuclear war? Of course not, because that would never happen. Ultimately, it will be some sort of a mistake…

What are we looking at here? Let’s check Reuters: Yeah that sounds about right. These fine young gentlemen woke up this morning, checked their government’s [...]

brief interlude about the cold war and the Power Of Art

Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich talks to Jennifer Welch of the I've Had It podcast about JD Vance, Peter Thiel and tech's takeover of US government

Continuing our discussion of the City of Austin ballot for the November 3 election, this article will take readers through the “propositions” from the City of Austin, as put on the ballot by the City…

Greens senator Meheen Faruqi says words matter. She is right. “Extinction”, “native animals“, “responsibility” and “Country” are all words that should carry particular weight for Australians,…

Last week, the Ford government started work on removing the Bloor bike lanes from Clissold to Royal York. A massive protest was held on Tuesday evening which stalled work that day while smaller ones…

Everyone is rightfully expecting a massive turnout at the polls for the mid-term elections. Appeals to vote are everywhere, but I want to emphasize that people need to study up a little before going…

I noticed in the replies to a Bluesky post recently that people are misreading certain polls in a way that […]

Dan Sullivan and Ted Cruz popped onto Fox News for an early Halloween appearance at their fearmongering finest, claiming that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola wants to destroy America…