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SCIENTISTS TEST SILICONE MENSTRUAL CUP ON ROCKET FLIGHT: Did not explode, implode, melt, catch fire, or experience structural failure; also retained simulated bodily fluids. The test was performed aboard an uncrewed rocket built and operated by Portugal’s fortuitously-named Team RED. The increasingly shrill and woke Space(dot)com tries so very hard to avoid saying the words “woman,” or “female” in their coverage of this, referring to “astronauts who menstruate” and “silicone-based containers that someone can wear during their period.” Then there is the clownshow that is NASA Space News (not affiliated with NASA) who wrote “[s]cientists sent a menstrual cup to space […] aboard uncrewed rocket reaching 1.9 miles altitude.”
PAGING HARMEET DHILLON: A Charlotte-Mecklenberg (NC) high school is getting the shit sued out of it for treatment of student who painted message in support of the memory of Charlie Kirk on the school spirit rock, apparently with the permission of the school which was later quietly withdrawn. School then pulls some straight-up Orwellian bullshit on the student, forced confession, cell phone search, etc. And, of course, no school official will suffer any negative consequence, and the taxpayers will be on the hook both for defending their actions and hopefully paying a huge settlement. Your weekly ‘nad tap, folks.
NOT A GOOD SIGN: The Trump administration is planning to appoint an American two-star general to command the International Stabilization Force in Gaza… This is not something we need to be involved in.
MEANWHILE: Libertarian hero Congressman Thomas Massie introduces bill to withdraw the US from NATO. Now do the UN, please. This is the direction in which we should be moving.
THEY ALL WANT CAKE: Progs plan to dump frozen water into Boston harbor to protest US government agency. They’re calling it the ICE Tea Party. Hurr-durr. Only clean ice will be allowed for dumping, in accordance with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Boston Conservation Commission guidance, the groups said. So, food grade ice only. That’s going to have a pretty big carbon footprint.
BYE, NOW: The New Yorker gives us the best Christmas present ever, a how-to guide for disaffected leftists who hate America and want to leave. Bookmark this and whip it out the next time some shitlib goes off about how miserable they are here.
NOT THE RIGHT SORT OF INDIAN: Bal Batth is among 150 homeowners in the City of Richmond [British Columbia] who are affected by the ruling in favor of the Cowichan tribe. I found this article several different places (many paywalled) and they all focused on this one guy. Apparently the ruling can be appealed.
ISS FIRST – ALL DOCKING PORTS OCCUPIED: For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied…
FIRST POWER
FIRST POWER
FIRST POWER
Nothing says resistance quite like a government approved protest.
What, you’re saying there aren’t millions and millions of Americans passionately taking to the street to ensure the uber wealthy don’t lose access to their black market menial labor pool?
Look, even GOD is joining their protest. I mean there’s frozen water falling from the sky right now!
+1 BLM Street/Plaza/Corner in every city
Charlie Kirk Freedom Of Speech Plaza
Nice troll which we know will never happen.
ALL DOCKING PORTS OCCUPIED
Airtight
Ha! I was hoping someone would say that. I considered trying to make it a joke but since the thing is already airtight…
happy to oblige
Beat me to it.
Still a space docking joke in there somewhere.
SPACE SMITH JOIN STATION WITH HIS UMBILICAL!
Thank you for enacting my labor, kinnath.
Ngl, she kinda cute. Although this research seems relatively useless, given it’s material we’ve already been using in space for decades.
Even though she’s out of focus, I love the Mona Lisa smile in the picture I used.
rocket to 1.9 miles
So 10,000-ish feet? I can’t be arsed to go look if typo (19 miles?), so I’ll snark – couldn’t just load it up on a Cessna and have hours of uninterrupted bleeding experiments?
Based on the picture of the rocket, I’d say 1.9 miles is accurate. I’ve seen bigger ones in the high-performance class at model rocket events. I think it was the stress under acceleration they were testing, which you could probably simulate with a centrifuge.
Yes, snark is called for since the Karman line, the generally accepted boundary of space vs atmosphere, is 100 kilometers (62 miles).
She is. Shame about the oversized Smart Girl glasses, though.
I’m all in favor of moving out of the country if you are unhappy hear or just think it will be a fun adventure. Those people might learn a thing or to about how difficult it can be to legally immigrate to another country for example. They might also learn that living in a foreign land and having to work is very different than visiting the Instagram spots while on a two week vacation.
They already know that they’ll be taken care of by the much more generous government benefits that exist in Europe and Central America!
And the standard of living will totally be on par with what they’ve become accustomed to in the U.S.
Yeah, knock yourselves out. Your lefty paradise awaits – for as long as American dollars continue to prop it up and cultural enrichers haven’t destroyed it.
A pastor I know loved in the neatherlands for almost a decade.
He came home and hit me up for money for his work with the Pullman Muslim group. His time in Europe was wasted as he saw first hand how they are and thought they were just like us.
I told him to watch his neck and tried to teach him the word taqiyyah. That of course fell on deaf ears.
I hate to be the principled cynic, but this is exactly why public schools don’t need to be cultural and community centers, and just teach kids the basic shit they need to know to stay off welfare once they turn 18. If you’re going to have a “spirit rock” there’s inherently going to be limitations on the space, type and amount of speech it can accommodate, and you’re inviting viewpoint discrimination by the very nature of the thing.
You are absolutely correct. But the inmates, er, students demand shit like this. It’s the perfect storm of pre-adults who are almost fully functional but lacking in judgement, and humorless educrats pushing their woke agenda. Backpack funding now.
humorless educrats also almost functional and lacking in judgement.
“Public schools don’t need to be”
You could have stopped there.
Boo hoo. New Yorker is paywalled.
That’s weird, it’s not paywalled for me.
Here’s a link to an archived version.
https://archive.fo/JOmN3
They will, of course, still be happy to pay American taxes on their foreign income just like the corporations should. Right?
I could send them the link, but I don’t think I’m going to whip it out.
Low key
There are public figures who fill headlines with noise, and then there are those who move quietly through the world, choosing purpose over attention. Mackenzie Scott belongs to the second group. Her decisions, especially in recent years, have created a kind of conversation that goes far beyond wealth. People are drawn to her because she gives without asking for praise, speaks without seeking applause, and approaches generosity with a simplicity that feels rare in today’s world. Her choices make us think about what responsibility looks like, how kindness can reshape entire communities, and what it means to help without needing to be seen.
Completely under the radar, except for the press releases and fawning tongue bath adoration.
What communities has she reshaped, anyway?
And “kindness” is a really weird autocorrect for “money, lots of money”.
The term “kindness” has been perverted and weaponized to shut down good-faith criticism of bad ideas.
Yeah, that reads like a plea for her canonization. I clicked through to their home page and that site seems to be devoted to navel-gazing twaddle. How did you happen upon that?
Can we instead do cannonization?
You mean, like this?
https://www.cardcow.com/images/set928/card00659_fr.jpg
Incredibly, that was a postcard.
And, you know, the definition of “public figure.” There’s tens of millions of private figures in this country who behave with kindness and charity without it needing to be their identity.
“We’re pissed off, and we are going to show up,” said Rebecca Winter, executive director of Massachusetts 50501, a grassroots organizations whose members represent “50 states, 50 protests and one movement,” she said.
My brain flipped that around to 5150.
Their website has an interesting section on Information Security and Operational Security. I wonder why they would need such a thing.
Ripping out the regulatory guardrails
In a letter released Thursday afternoon, Bessent will recommended altering the approach of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
Whereas the agency’s focus had been tightening regulations and oversight of the institutions it oversees, the new plan will switch that, and push for looser regulation and a freer approach.
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Bessent will contend that lowering regulator barriers and oversight will strengthen the financial system and boost economic growth.
Wild west free for all usury.
“Progs plan to dump frozen water into Boston harbor to protest US government agency.”
Maybe Dave Matthews can bring his tour bus.
How did you happen upon that?
Served up by the google nooz, in the “MacKenzie Scott” section.
Space station bukake.
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure bukake would involve undocked components.
Apropos of nothing, this is what 1/3 of the way through December looks like in west Texas this year. I can’t even get it up for Christmas, it still feels like spring.
1/3rd through December in Iowa. We having our 4th snowfall today. Saturday night into Sunday morning we’ll get down to -15 or so.
Fucking January weather.
Central KY is getting our 2nd snow tonight. Last couple of years we haven’t seen any accumulation before January.
Yeah it has been much colder and snowier than the previous two winters in my present town.
Global warming is a bitch, especially when it’s the prelude to massive glaciation.
Where in Central KY?
I count this as my 3rd accumulating snow.
66 F in Denver today.
Hey B.P., there’s occasional meet ups in Denver. Interested?
Yeah, I could probably do that. I meant to email Tundra once upon a time.
Cool! Probably nothing until the spring.
Sounds good.
Didn’t I tell you that. Christmas in Texas is best done in shorts?
It was high fifties here in the middle third of Idaho at 2470’ yesterday. It was magnificent.
Thanks for the archive link, Tonio. I made two whole paragraphs. Those people should be set adrift on a chunk of ice in the Arctic Ocean.
Hard numbers
Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee.
Using Treasury Department numbers on revenue from tariffs and Goldman Sachs estimates of who ends up paying for them, the Democrats’ report Thursday found that American consumers’ share of the bill came to nearly $159 billion — or $1,198 per household — from February through November.
“This report shows that (Trump’s) tariffs have done nothing but drive prices even higher for families,” said Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the economic committee. “At a time when both parties should be working together to lower costs, the president’s tax on American families is simply making things more expensive.”
Down to the penny.
On the bright side it’s a regressive tax.
It’s a consumption tax, which at least is less bad that production taxes (like the income tax).
How the tease the tariff signal from the inflationary noise, I have no idea.
Now let’s ask them about fuel taxes, their cap and trade scheme, and banning internal combustion engines.
Personally, not being much of a consoomer, and having spent the last decade and a half trying to avoid purchasing goods constructed with slave labor in totalitarian countries, the only thing that’s appreciably gone up in price this year are municipal services. Goddamn Trump putting those dastardly tariffs on municipal water delivery and trash collection.
Honestly, until all income taxes are repealed with government being fully funded by tariffs, tariffs can fuck off.
I wonder how big a federal sales tax would have to be to replace the income tax. The gross value of all goods sold was around $4TT, but that includes what governments buy. Income tax revenue was around $2.4TT. Looks like replacing the income tax with a sales tax would require, what, an 80% sales tax rate?
According to the Tax Policy Center:
That having been said, just eliminating the IRS would save ~$15B per year; a national sales tax wouldn’t have to be the only source of federal revenue; fuck you, cut spending.
Yeah the Dems crying about “tariffs” like they give a single flying fuck about the rest of us is goddamn rich.
Agree.
They don’t give a single fuck about the tariff. They only care that it’s Trump implementing it.
“according to calculations by Democrats”
I can’t even come up with a joke for this.
Well Team Blue and (((Goldman Sachs))).
Why Christianity transcends today’s divides
I used to buy this, but don’t really anymore. It was the Enlightenment’s rejection of Christian morals and church authority that created modern western culture, with communism and socialism being the natural result of retaining Christian self-sacrifice and self-rejection as a cultural value while abandoning its moral precepts.
To do it right, they need to go caroling from mosque to mosque.
Dressed as Vlad.
In his second term, Trump has reversed decades of U.S. policy that favored free trade.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
At least he’s forcing the left to make arguments in favor of the free market.
Not forcing, trapping. Which is better.
The bane of my existence in my current job is shipping stuff around the world, both from the US to other countries and between countries. I wonder when this period of free trade was. Classification codes, customs, etc. And this was before Trump got elected.
I had a shipment that was held up because Germany didn’t allow metal screws to be shipped into the country. Free trade my ass.
I read an article that Germany won’t allow the importation of a bunch of metal products that haven’t been made in a carbon neutral manner or some such rot.
Run them all into a shirt of 1/4” plywood and then it’s not a bag of screws anymore. Like the chicken tax and the jump seats in the back of a Subaru brat.
Huh. Star Wars poster just sold for millions:
https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/original-art/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-tcf-1977-historic-half-sheet-key-poster-artwork-by-tom-jung/a/7433-38321.s?ic=hero-pr-entertainment-starWars-viewLot-7427-121125
I want to say I remember seeing that poster in the theater, but I’m not sure.
It looks like that’s actually the original painting the posters were made from.
I remember parts of it, namely Luke and Leia, the X-wings, but in a different shape, with logo and film info.
But you are right, that is the original master painting.
I seem to recall the first third of that poster being the standard movie poster, and actually seeing that poster for sale at Spencer’s.
The full picture may have been for newspaper ads. I think the left side was used for movie posters.
I think I’ve seen that reproduced (badly, of course) on a van. Leia was much bustier.
Are ya fuckin’ serious?
The guy who flew a spacecraft into an asteroid got a ration of shit over a shirt he wore. The shirt was a gift from a female friend.
Poor guy. He was hectored into making a tearful apology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKZ9V3MgjA
I own a similar shirt I bought at an Army PX.
[kif sigh]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ9gaATWfA
No sympathy. You don’t wear a shirt like that to work as a professional.
Look, Winston’s Mom can wear what Winston’s Mom wants to wear.
Particularly when you know there’s going to be press coverage. But he is a space scientist, so probably clueless about the appropriateness of it all.
I swear, every IT shop and nerd aquarium needs a nice tough yet motherly female boss to keep the nerds in line and remind them to dress nice on special days and stuff.
?!
Not the response I was expecting.
“Professional” is a matter of taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIPya9N466k
“Oh no! I’m not popular enough to be different!”
Politicians usually wear suits, but some indulge in crazy hats.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/pemmy-majodina-silly-hat-world-champion.html
I wear shirts like this all the time
https://www.johariwest.com/collections/autumn-gold/products/autumn-gold-3018-gold-johari-west-mens-hawaiian-button-down-shirt
You will notice there are no busty women in revealing clothes depicted on the shirt.
Eh, there was nothing on my or his shirt more risque than what you’d see on any US beach.
Zanzibari beaches are a different story.
That should be entirely between you and your employer. Tonio may be on to something about getting the eccentric nerds properly costumed for photo ops, but if you’re landing space craft on an asteroid in a big tiddy anime girl shirt and your boss can’t be fucked, via con dios.
Classic looks:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001050/mediaviewer/rm3963173632/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001050/mediaviewer/rm4284835584/
Pat approves
Cute! Or however men would describe it.
“You don’t wear a shirt like that to work as a professional.”
You do if you are Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
TO’G: That would a grunt and a shoulder bump. *possibly* a small smile if the complimenter’s face can still do that.
That was his special day shirt.
You know this story is from 11 years ago right?
So what? If anything. it’s more relevant.
I mean think of all the pubsec workers with nose rings. poison frog hair, egg roll tattoos etc.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Court Rules Pottstown’s Rental Inspection Ordinance Unconstitutional
Even though they’re moving towards compliance with Conquest’s Second Law, this is why I still support the IJ every year. Tax-deductible, for those who itemize.
“More than eight years” is disgraceful. Whatever happened to the right to a speedy trial? If either side can’t make its case in one year, then the action should be dismissed with prejudice against the offending late party.
Idaho has a law that the property tax accessors office can enter your home at will.
Fuckers, I own a backhoe and I’ll use it.
Beware the Yellow Peril
President Donald Trump’s decision to let Nvidia
sell its advanced H200 artificial intelligence chips to China “sells out American national security,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday.
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The Trump administration knows that China gaining access to the chips, which have previously been subject to export restrictions, “poses a serious threat to our technological leadership and national security,” Warren said on the Senate floor.
It’s not racism when a Democrat says it.
Russia unveils monuments to Americans killed in war with Ukraine:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bust-of-american-killed-fighting-for-russian-forces-in-ukraine-unveiled-in-russian-occupied-donetsk/vi-AA1S9OTo
“Home Prices Go Negative”
They’ll pay me to live there?
Yesssss!!!!
Where is K.K.?
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/18/san-francisco-blimp-lta-research/
I JUST SAW THIS!!!
There’s always the chance to see one up close and personal.
Rigid Airship
Rigid Airship was the second worst iteration of Jefferson Airplane.
You know there is a blimp air field at the bottom of the bay.
In a Waymo now. No hippie protestors blocking me so far.
Any traffic cones stop you?
Leftist rag – Musk’s claim that “whites” ended slavery and they should be proud of that is “ahistorical.”
Why? Well, they cite thought leader MSN:
So…they did end it, you just don’t want to focus on that fact. They fought and died to end it. Which you don’t mention. They go on:
Thanks for making Musk’s point for him!
I was explicitly taught at university that yes, chattel slavery was indeed the worst form of slavery. A particular evil unleashed upon the world by whitey. And your dopey uneducated ass is sitting here literally making Musk’s own point for him that there was nothing exceptional about “Western slavery.” That all people practiced slavery and it was all evil.
But you can’t actually refute who the first nations to outlaw and actually fight wars and die to end it were.
“a narrative that insists enslaved people benefited from being slaves”. I haven’t heard this narrative before. I have heard the reasoning that often conquered people were either killed or sold into slavery, so maybe being a slave was the better option, but both options suck. I suspect what the author is referring to is that some slaves were able to use their acquired skills to earn a little money on the side and in some cases buy their own freedom.
There’s definitely been narratives over time that slaves were treated like family, that they were better off leaving Africa and being here, and that they were better off under slavery than free.
But none of that has anything at all to do with what Musk said.
At the last high school I taught in, the English teacher mentioned skipping the part in The Odyssey where Odysseus was, in her words, the “sex slave” of Calypso.
She fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
On a related point, this pic of WW2 guys lined up at a Honolulu whorehouse made me laugh. They were the dubbed the 3 minutemen. It’s a shame more boys are taught that getting your dick wet is no big deal. It’s all about getting female approval, which is also not a big deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_minute_men
I can see being a scared teenager wanting to get their ticket punched. Thousands upon thousands of them marched into the mouth of death on the basis of childish slogans from megalomaniacs.
The power women hold in society has always been sex and they’ve kept a tight grip on it throughout history. It’s never going away and they aren’t about to make concessions for young men/boys going off to war who may die.
Wikipedia won’t show me pictures. That’s new.
OK, then.
There is a Narrative to push, I guess.
No, they think your obsession with the race and ideology of the people who finally ended the institution of slavery after thousands of years of its uncontroversial practice across every culture and society since we have written history betrays your utter and complete ignorance, on the one hand, or your slimy attempts to mask your racism and Marxian midwit ideology, on the other.
because why should that matter?
You know exactly why it matters, you disingenuous fuck. Because all the noise about slavery from your side is about tearing down western civilization so the revolution can proceed. Not about slavery, about tearing down the west, via whites as the proxy. It matters because pointing it out takes away your sledge hammer that slavery was a uniquely white (western) institution. And that’s the only real reason you care about slavery.
Tucker Carlson meets with Palestinian amputees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32pdfWOUF_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBDQtLDgLs
If you want to know why so many countries want to see Israel turned into a smoking hole in the ground, watch the above.
It doesn’t tug at my heart strings any more or less than the video I saw from the 10/7 attacks of an Israeli woman who’d been raped and beaten to a bloody pulp thrown into the back of a pick up truck by two Palestinian freedom fighters swinging her in there by her arms and legs while she begged for her life, or the scattered bits of blood, bone, and digits after the bus attack some years back. I’m sure there were plenty of cherubic little German kids who got blown to pieces during the Dresden bombings. Their mommies and daddies should consider not behaving like subhuman piece of shit death cultists, then mounting the bodies of the dead and mutilated children they used as meat shields for propaganda in service of their twisted ideology.
This cartoon sums it up well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxmDFG0ZGw
Hell, I’d let Israeli emigrees use my spare room at this point. NYC won’t be a safe haven for them soon.
Also this:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/06/presented-without-comment-israels.html
You can pick any war that’s ever occurred and find people who were innocent victims or people who even weren’t all that innocent who ended up like this. It would tear at your heart strings if presented in a bubble with no other information.
The particular hate Israel gets is a result of propaganda and Europe’s long, long hatred of Jews. it didn’t just go away in the aftermath of the Holocaust anymore than racism of blacks magically vanished after the Civil War or post-“Civil Rights Era.”
And then you have the other side of the coin. The pro-Israel crowd who, even if they aren’t being paid in sheckles for their takes, almost fetishize the Jew. They can do no wrong at all.
I still maintain that I could care less what the Jews do to the Palestinians. I’d rather see them shipped off the land at this point even if by force just so there’s some chance at peace and quiet. But the rest of the Muslim/Arab world like to keep them right where they are because it allows them to point to the Israeli boogieman to distract from their own corruption and brutality.
Palestinians have mostly created their own bed. Their leaders who enjoy widespread support are corrupt pieces of rat shit who live high on the hog from foreign aid while tossing scraps to the average Pali. It’s far easier to just keep stirring shit up with the Jews than to actually try and build a functioning territory. That entire culture is broken.
That time Israel had to steal their navy from France:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HomebMjvUoE
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiLZoPk9Hc
Yeah, fuck propaganda.
Tucker has a Narrative of his own.
Guess what? War sucks.
Don’t start one.
Indeed. Don’t start a war you cannot finish.
Don’t kill and harm innocents whether Palestenian or Israeli (or whatever) works for me.
Sura 9 is why.
Some people will never forgive the Jews for the holocaust.
comedy gold!
If Tesla went woke
I’m old enough to remember when Tesla was woke!
I noticed that if I Google things about crime and race, the Google AI suddenly vanishes. I wonder what the reason for that could be?
Yeah, I’ve been getting weird errors too.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/11/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html
“Letitia James Off The Hook Again As 2nd Grand Jury Refuses To Indict” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/letitia-james-hook-again-2nd-grand-jury-refuses-indict
Ahh, the system works (if you’re a(n allegedly) corrupt witch who would’ve gladly prosecuted some middle class schlub who did exactly what you were ccused of doing).