CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Today I was driving in the left lane on a local 4-lane street with traffic in all lanes, pretty normal situation. I noticed in my rear view a motorcycle going very fast coming up behind me. I switched on my turn signal and began to move over into the right lane so the speed demon could pass in the left but the guy was ALREADY passing me on the right, we're talking like one second here. As I was in the process by that time of switching lanes I nearly sideswiped him and he jammed on his horn as he sped past me going extremely fast then turned around on the bike and gave me the finger.

I see a LOT of people on motorcycles speeding and jumping lanes between cars, just crazy behavior enabled by the type of vehicle. I'm pretty sure that many, many of the motorcycle accidents and deaths that occur are actually caused by the motorcycle rider.

@alessandro @chris @redsad Yes it was 3 years ago and this was one of the graphics included in the packaging.

Well this is interesting. I just received a #CERT recall drill alert. First time seeing one of these since I certified a couple years ago. But I have my gear so I guess I'll show up and be counted! #EmergencyResponse

Phillips said Stanley repeatedly returned to the same spot in the garden and despite regularly repairing the damage, Stanley would come back time and again.

After his dog recovered the bottle, Phillips said a search of the internet revealed it to be a blue poison bottle that began appearing in the middle of the 19th century.

Dog digs up possible link to notorious 19th-century Devon murder case

Owner of labrador says bottle find may be connected to poisoning that led to one of England’s last public hangings

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

I see a lot of comments from people complaining how all they get from internet search is AI slop, ads, or not what they're looking for. I don't have this experience. Nobody has to have this experience as far as I know. I use ad blockers, I have AI features turned off in my browser, and I don't use a search engine with AI (mine does offer something or other but I have it turned off). I wonder if the many complaints are mainly a factor of people not knowing that there's an escape hatch. Certainly all these burdens shouldn't be on the users. I wish people could find out there are ways to make things work better though. If I lived in a different information space I probably wouldn't know, either.

I just found out about Dairy Queen free cone day. It was 2 days ago. Sad trombone

@jerry 85F here

@h2onolan That's 100% what's going to happen, no doubt about it. But people will still manage it

Every day I remember: It could happen today.

When the monster dies I'm going to drive around town honking my horn like a maniac and waving at everyone and yelling WHOOOOOOOO! I bet I won't be alone.

Related: Children held in "torture" prison in Texas. (This is just one location where human beings are being systematically tortured this way, and more are being purchased rapidly.)

Board-certified pediatrician Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier assessed 39 children detained at Ursula and filed a formal medical declaration stating the conditions “could be compared to torture facilities — extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.” Every single one of the 39 children she assessed showed signs of trauma.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/ice-just-detained-a-7-year-old-canadian

Whew. This one is heavy. Sure, it shows Jake Tapper's flawed logic about the term concentration camp, but aside from that it reminds us that the criminal Trump regime is building a horrendous system of concentration camps in the U.S., thousands of Americans are participating in this evil -- maybe your neighbors or family members -- and the U.S. is on a stepwise track toward worse and worse. #NextComesWhat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aMgiR9mMI

@copter_chief Probably not, but someone's coming to visit him

@heidilifeldman Republicans packing the SCOTUS with regressive, religious, monarchist kooks has paid off exactly the way they wanted.

One thing the Trump Taliban's "SAVE America Act" will definitely do is end the practice of women taking a man's last name when they get married. That'll stop. Because this law is meant to make it nearly impossible or simply too much of a burden for millions of women to vote. It's a poll tax.

@Viss Who knows? Can't hurt to ask if it interests you. When I was in the IC we'd constantly invite experts from all kinds of fields & industries to let us pick their brains, give talks, participate in events...they didn't have any connection to govt but they had knowledge we wanted. Anyway if you know someone who might be interested, you can pass it along.

@Viss But you're right, people do get a kick out of the hands-on role play where they have to come up with actions and do them and see whether it works, or what the next surprise is.

BTW, I ran across this one that's open registration right now and cyberspace operations is listed https://www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/AFD35%20Wargame%20Invitation%20Flyer.pdf https://www.doctrine.af.mil/Home/AFD35/AFD35-Wargaming/

@Viss Did a lot of these in DOD. Sometimes in the role of my real job, sometimes playing other roles like SECDEF etc. Ultimately in the big exercises the injects often lead to worst case scenario and everybody dies in the end...

@sundogplanets Recommend adding #journalism #media #space #science for reach on groups

@beandreams Only the most unpleasant combos are left, apparently