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Listen to these Orca whales imitate human speech.

susiedent.com: The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.

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Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law struck down by US appeals court | Reuters

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Drink water. Make your bed. Get dressed up. Gratitude journal. Take a break. Be authentic. Give a compliment. Have a healthy snack. Drink water. Let go. Be nice. Read books. Celebrate small wins. Get in shape. Say no. Be thankful. Be selfish. Lather yourself in coconut oil. Speak up. Start a business. Read frequently. Exercise. Lather yourself in coconut oil. Forgive yourself. Drink water. Pet animals.

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Guardian cartoon: World War 3!? Whose idea was that?

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ORANGE: World War 3!? Is that good? Whose idea was that? Israel bombed Iran first and now the USA is bombing Iranian nuclear sites, the world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on!? I’m frightened!

BEIGE: It’s all for a good cause. You should know that Israel was forced to bomb Iran in preemptive self-defence in order to achieve peace through strength.

ORANGE: Israel bombed Iran first?! What terrible thing did Iran do to provoke this?

BEIGE: Iran IS terrible! Remember the axis of evil? Iranians struggle under the yoke of oppression and the country is jam packed with terrorists.

ORANGE: Terrorists! How awful – but what did Iran actually do.

BEIGE: Well… it’s complicated.

ORANGE: Ok so up to November last year did Iran drop 85,000 tons of bombs on a captive population which is more than all of the bombs dropped in World War 2 on London Dresden and Hamburg combined?

BEIGE: Err… not that I recall.

ORANGE: Did the Iranian army evacuate a hospital at gun point forcing staff to abandon 4 babies in the ICU and those babies died slow deaths and their decomposing corpses were found weeks later?

BEIGE: Ah no that wasn’t Iran at least I don’t think it was.

ORANGE: Have the Iranians been starving a captive population to death and literally executing 100s of people who line up for the tiny amount of aid the army is letting in?

BEIGE: Erm… no.

ORANGE: Have they killed or injured more than 50,000 children, many of whom had to have limbs amputated without anaesthesia?

BEIGE: I am not sure that is the point.

ORANGE: Does Iran have somewhere between 90 and 400 nuclear missiles?

BEIGE: Aha! Yes! Wait… ok no. None right now. But ever since 2002 Iran has been mere weeks away from building their own nuclear weapon so who knows what might happen next weekend.

ORANGE: Gasp! Those monsters! Somebody should do something.

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“Shoutout to everyone who is still committed to trying to be an open-hearted and knd person even while having to process lots of heavy things. "

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Limmy's Show: I Wanna Be There

Man: Hiya.

Ticket Agent: Hi.

Man: This is a bit of a strange question, but can you tell me how to get there?

Ticket Agent: Where is it? Where was the photo taken? Oh, I know, that’s Millport. Right, what you would do is, get the train to Largs, from there you get the ferry, the train takes roughly…

Man: No, sorry, I know how to get to Millport, but can you tell me how to get to there [points to photo]?

Ticket Agent: That is Millport.

Man: I know, but…

Ticket Agent: Sorry, you’re confusing me now. Where is it that you want to go?

Man: No, you’re right, it is Millport, you’re right, but… see, I took that photo when I was about 16. That’s me there. Some day, that. Some summer. Some laugh. Tons of pals and we’d just all, just kick about all day. The summer just seemed to go on forever, just kick about, not thinking about tomorrow or what we were doing the day after that or the day after that, just kicking about. No aggro, no fighting, nothing, just having a laugh and jumping off the pier and swimming about and all that.

And then at night, like every second night, we’d all go for a carry out. We’d all give our money, like the oldest-looking one, they’d try and get served.

“Get us a bottle of Merrydown, get us a bottle of Old English, get us Diamond White” and all that and

“Get us a quarter bottle of voddy.” “You only getting a quarter bottle of voddy?” “Oh, get us a half then,”

Aand just falling about steaming. You can’t get away with that nowadays. But it was a laugh, no aggro, no fighting, nothing like that.

We made mistakes, I know we made mistakes, but that was just part of life, part of living, wasn’t it? That’s what it was, it was living. Unlike now…

I don’t want to be here anymore. I don’t want to be here.

I want to be there. So can you tell me… how do I get there?

Ticket Agent: You can’t do that, I’m sorry.

Man: ….. Aye, just give us a return to Largs then.

Ticket Agent: £7.95.

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AND JUST LIKE THAT, nobody’s talking about:

the largest protests in American history

Trump being in the Epstein files

the assassination of a politician in Minnesota

crowd size at Trump’s birthday parade

federal thugs abducting American citizens

a spending bill that adds trillions to the national debt, makes it legal for Trump to ignore the courts

Trump’s record low polling numbers

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Finding Your People

PANEL 1:

Yellow guy, exited, smiling, blue star, green squiggly, red cone, yellow circle.

Off-screen: “You’re too loud.”

PANEL 2:

Slightly faded yellow guy, discouraged, less bright. Tiny blue star, red triangle, yellow circle fading out.

PANEL 3:

Dimmer yellow guy with white speech buttons. Off-screen: “You’re being really annoying.”

PANEL 4:

Orange guy with speech balloon popping out.

PANEL 5:

Even dimmer orange guy. Speech balloon: “Haha, you’re so weird.”

PANEL 6:

Brown guy with disgruntled expression.

PANEL 7:

Dim gray guy. “You used to be so outgoing. What happened?”

[later]

PANEL 8:

Off-screen: “Hey there!”

Brown guy: “?”

PANEL 9:

[Brown guy facing cyan guy.]

Cyan guy: “I overheard you talking and you seem col.”

PANEL 10:

Cyan guy, gesturing to green, red, and purple guy. Green guy is waving. “Wanna hang with us?”

PANEL 11:

Cyan guy grabs guy’s hand, who is gradually brightening.

PANEL 12:

Yellow guy is in circle with blue, green, red and purple guy. Various colored symbols are in air. Speech balloon is coming out of yellow uy.

PANEL 13:

Yellow guy asks question, composed of yellow star, square, and squiggly.

PANEL 14:

Green, red, cyan and purple guy look at yellow guy, expressionless.

PANEL 15:

Green, red, purple and cyan guy break into wide smiles. Unified speech balloon with yellow star, heart, squiggly, square, and triangle, and three exclamation marks.

PANEL 16:

All parties talking, forming speech bubble of multicolored cosmos.

Caption: You will find your people. (Heart icon.)

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In this house we believe:

Cats have seen the face of God

Permanent Standard Time is the way

Carl’s Jr. is better than Hardy’s

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

The slithy toves = brillig

EPUBs are just PDFs with straight privilege

You forgot to lock your door

We must build the Republic of Heaven where we are

In his house in R’lyeh, Dead Cthulhu is NOT woke

Kindness is a lot, but we aren’t sure we’d say it’s everything

Because we live in a world that also has bagels and ‘Black Sails’ (2014-17) on Starz (at time of writing it’s also on Netflix).

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What Does the Republican Party's Actions, Overall, Reveal?

A counterpart question to the question I asked ChatGPT about the Democratic Party:

Q: Based solely on actions by its elected representatives in the national legislative and executive branch and not on any stated principles, please provide 250 words on what the Republican Party stands for.

A: Republican officials’ record signals seven governing principles.

1. Supply-side taxation: they pursue permanent, across-the-board tax relief and creative scoring to justify it, treating lower revenue as an engine for private-sector growth and political reward.

2. Selective austerity: they pair tax cuts with deep domestic trims while insulating defense, showing a hierarchy in which social programs are negotiable but military capacity is sacrosanct.

3. Procedural maximalism: reconciliation shortcuts, emergency declarations, and baseline redefinitions illustrate a conviction that rules are tools, not brakes, and can be bent to advance priorities.

4. Border sovereignty: deploying troops, waiving environmental reviews, and fast-tracking construction conveys a belief that territorial control merits extraordinary executive power.

5. Extractive nationalism: revoking climate limitations and unlocking drilling suggest the state should clear obstacles for carbon-intensive industries, privileging immediate energy autonomy over environmental risk.

6. Moral traditionalism: national abortion bans, work mandates, and symbolic honors to a single leader point to a worldview that elevates conventional family structures, personal responsibility, and charismatic hierarchy.

7. Institutional self-protection: bills curbing court review of election disputes and tightening voting rules reveal a readiness to reshape referees when they threaten partisan advantage.

Together these principles form an action-based doctrine: enrich capital, constrain welfare, guard borders, amplify fossil fuels, defend martial strength, uphold conservative social codes, and adjust legal guardrails as necessary. The party shows little hesitation to trade higher projected deficits or procedural backlash for these ends, underscoring an instrumental ethic focused on outcomes, not process purity. Patterns endure across congressional and presidential eras.

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What Does the Democratic Party's Actions, Overall, Reveal?

As a reaction to Dave’s question I thought I’d ask my own, but with a twist. I suggest jumping to the second answer, but I leave the first in for transparency.

Q: Based solely on actions by its elected representatives in the national legislative and executive branch and not on any stated principles, please provide 250 words on what the Democratic Party stands for.

**A: ** Since 2021 Democratic lawmakers and President Biden have wielded federal spending and regulation to steer markets and bolster social insurance. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan sent direct checks and temporarily made the child tax credit fully refundable, raising monthly incomes for millions of families. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act committed $1.2 trillion to roads, transit, broadband, and clean water, treating infrastructure as public responsibility that creates union jobs and growth. The CHIPS and Science Act subsidizes semiconductor plants, and the Inflation Reduction Act pairs a 15 percent corporate minimum tax with Medicare drug-price negotiation and historic climate investment. These measures show readiness for robust modern industrial policy, spending, and targeted taxation to meet economic and environmental goals. Social policy actions are equally activist. Democrats codified federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages through the Respect for Marriage Act. They brokered the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, tightening background checks and funding crisis-intervention programs on guns. Executive orders defend abortion access on federal property and through medication regulation. The administration has sought mass student-debt relief and continues to push a lower-payment SAVE plan despite court injunctions. Labor appointments favor union organizing, and hundreds of diverse judges have been confirmed. Abroad, Democrats frame U.S. security as linked to liberal allies, advancing multibillion-dollar aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Indo-Pacific partners in 2024. In practice, the party governs as an interventionist, regulation-friendly coalition blending Keynesian stimulus, climate investment, civil-rights expansion, pro-labor administration, and decidedly multilateral foreign policy.

Q: Translate this into 250 words about the observable principles that govern its actions from this behavior, again working off actions and not stated platforms.

A: The party’s record since 2021 reveals a set of operational principles that repeat across issue areas:

1. Democrats treat the federal government as an economic actor responsible for smoothing shocks and steering markets. They pump fiscal stimulus during downturns, subsidize strategic industries, and accept higher public debt as the cost of resilience and competitiveness.

2. They assume that broad-based prosperity requires direct transfers to households and stronger labor bargaining power. Expanded tax credits, union-friendly appointments, and wage-floor rules aim to raise the floor of consumption and shrink inequality.

3. They read climate change as both an emergency and an industrial opportunity, so they prefer large, incentive-heavy public investments over coercive carbon pricing.

4. Their social policies reflect a civil-rights maxim: individual identity should not limit legal recognition or access to public programs. Marriage equality, abortion protections, and gender inclusion measures extend protections through statutory and executive channels whenever court doctrine wavers.

5. They approach gun violence and public health with a technocratic precautionary principle—tightening background checks, funding community programs, and using agency rule-making to fill legislative gaps.

6. The party prizes multilateral alliances and rules-based trade but is willing to weaponize export controls and subsidies to counter authoritarian rivals.

7. Democrats treat courts and administrative capacity as levers of durable change, accelerating judicial confirmations and rewriting agency regulations when Congress stalls.

8. They show a pragmatic incrementalism: accepting bipartisan trims or private-sector partnerships when pure progressive bills lack votes, but circling back with executive action to edge policy further leftward.

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Donald Trump paved over the White House Rose Garden.

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Ice Ice MATRIX

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Bardic Inspiration - A D&D Musical

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“You mustn’t let the dystopian nightmare bullshit dim your fucking sparkle.”

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When it was discovered that Zalim (ironically… - The Stars My Destination