This is an advertisement for Google's new Bionic Skin™ -- resistant to temperatures down to -100F and up to the melting point of Tungsten. 😂

https://www.techspot.com/news/97306-gravity-batteries-abandoned-mines-could-power-whole-planet.html

Anyone still using Picasa? EOLed in 2015 but was still communicating with the web until 2018 or so. I still find the flow just perfect somehow and I miss it dearly. Google Photos was just a half-baked cloud-centric replacement that has real problems with EXIF metadata and video format datetime...

I'm sure this fucknugget had the same harsh words for the people in charge of the TX power grid:

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, criticized the F.A.A. following the outage, saying the agency's “inability to keep an important safety system up and running is completely unacceptable and just the latest example of dysfunction within the Department of Transportation.”

#politics

Love your handle... Klaatu_Veratta_Nek..(mumble)(mumble)... @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine

SCOSC just ruled that the SC constitution includes a right to privacy, overturning the state's ban on abortions after six weeks.

It's 2023. Please reevaluate your conspiratorial beliefs.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/17/conspiracy-theories-pandemic-trump-2020-election-coronavirus-326530

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/merrick-garland-donald-trump-investigation-indictment/671683/

This year I'm finally back on the east coast with friends and family for New Year's. Happy New Year to one and all!

May you:

snag that new job,
find a new hobby,
find a new love or friend,
find a new pill or balm that eases your pain,
rediscover your spark,
find solitude,
rekindle fond memories,
smite those who would do you harm (metaphorically),
get in shape,
worry less,
expand your horizons,
and most important:

Do whatever you can to maintain and improve our democracy!

Wondering if Democrats will get another seat back this spring? https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2022/Items/Dec20-4.html

In another continuing story, the House Republicans continue to snarl at one another. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now backing House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and has turned on Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who is siding with Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) against McCarthy. Boebert started things off by tweaking Greene about believing in “Jewish space lasers.” Greene responded on Twitter, accusing Boebert of being in it for the money. The fight has devolved from there.

https://burningbird.net/testing-tribel-counter-social-and-mastodon/

I find it interesting how this blogger disses the technology/usability of Twitter alternatives (as well as the fact that CoSo is run by one person and could disappear at any time, despite it's longevity) and then claims that the tech doesn't much matter, it's the people. Just a self-contradictory mess. I would've liked to politely engage but apparently they're no longer here (@bbird).

Hands down the best WC final I've ever seen! Maybe in history...

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/12/inflation-covid-war-joseph-stiglitz-ira-regmi/

Has anyone yet seen one of 😂 #DerPumpkinFührer's Broke'mon cards?

https://www.electoral-vote.com/

Wow this site is great!

50/50 if we include 2024, no better than a random coin toss! Guess he'll just have to "go through some things"...

#DerPumpkinFührer will be indicted in