I’m currently at my boyfriend’s family’s farm. This was supposed to be a vacation for me, but WordPress shat all over that. Farm personnel are gearing up for a big cattle event. The cows are receiving hormones, and the bull is getting frequent pep talks. I feel like Eva Gabor’s character in Green Acres. But you’re not here to listen to me prattle on about pastoral life, you’re here for some linkage:
TIDE TURNING AGAINST TROON BULLSHIT: Unfortunately, they’re framing this as a “trans rights backlash.” Even some doctors are starting to see the light. [First link has been fixed. Thanks, rhywun.]
TRUMP ADMIN TO HELP EUROS BYPASS INTERNET CENSORSHIP: Donald Trump’s administration is launching a website that could let British and European internet users bypass online safety laws, escalating a transatlantic row over censorship. Fuck your “online safety laws.”
IRANIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CALLS OUT UN, WESTERN LIBERALS FOR REGIME APPEASEMENT: From the top rope, with the folding chair. Shame that this will have exactly zero impact on anything.
THE TALENTED MR GADIS: Turns out that David Gadis was also involved in the Flint Michigan crisis where the drinking water was contaminated with lead Gadis is currently CEO and General Manager of DC water, the agency that spilled more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac. He can’t do his job properly, but finds time to whine about the whiteness of management at DC Water. Some people are noticing the thunderous silence from the environmentalists over all the spill.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HOUSING-FIRST MOVEMENT: Sam Tsemberis is the founder of the Housing First movement, wherein the homeless receive free housing on demand with no strings attached. I don’t doubt their claim that this approach is more effective at keeping them off the streets than the treatment-first approach favored by the Trump administration, but the end goal here is not merely keeping them off the streets but having them take some responsibility for their own lives. To say nothing of the cost. And while their claimed 85% success rate is admirable they don’t address whether those people are still begging on street corners and medians to support drug habits . Tsemberis, and other members of the homeless industrial complex are unhappy that the grant money for their Housing First grift is drying up. The Grauniad (of course) is far too happy to platform him and his overwrought claims of victimhood: censorship (partially true), making him an outlaw (patently false), destroying his work (by which he means not funding it or him).
OAKLAND MAYOR’S CAR STOLEN: Thief breaks into mayor’s office in city hall, steals vehicle keys, then steals car. Vehicle recovered, cops believe they know who the culprit is. Why did building security not notice this and apprehend the person?
WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS IDEA BEFORE? Elon Musk wants to build mass driver catapult on the Moon. Space (dot) com attributes this idea to Gerard O’Neill in 1974. That’s particularly hilarious coming from a gee-whiz website that devotes as much coverage to sci-fi as they do to actual space news. As every true libertarian knows, the lunar catapult is a central plot element to Robert A. Heinlein’s novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, published in 1966, eight years before O’Neill. I will note, but don’t have time to verify, a comment to the article which claims an even earlier mention of such a catapult in Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke (1951 novella, 1955 novel).
ANYONE WHO’S NOT ALL-IN FOR ARTEMIS IS A BIG, MEAN, DUMB POOPY-HEAD: Over at SpaceNews, a slightly more respectable outlet than the one mentioned above, Christopher Cokinos lectures “haters” about the manifest perfection of the SLS rocket: it’s worth noting that the Space Launch System flew an uncrewed Orion to the moon successfully on its first try. Saturn didn’t do that. Yeah, Christopher, that’s an unfair comparison because the development strategy and cadence were different for Apollo. The first Saturn rocket to launch lacked the payload capacity needed for that. And the computers weren’t that good back then either. I watched Apollo 11 live. I was six. I was carrying a cardboard lunar lander in my hand — courtesy of an Esso gas station… That’s real cute, kid, I can just see you there in your footie jammies. I, OTOH, was watching with my 3-foot tall Saturn V polystyrene model with three stages and detachable CSM and LEM that I bought and assembled myself. I may have built and launched my first Estes flying model rocket by that time. SLS (the rocket part of Artemis) is the only rocket we have at the moment that can actually take humans back to the moon, but that’s its only advantage. It is not reusable. It is not innovative. It just is.
WEBSITE UPDATE: We are out of space again. This means new images (etc) can’t be uploaded to the Media Library. This is also probably causing at least some of our ongoing problems. WebDom is going to nuke all the videos from our Media Library as that’s the easiest/best way to reclaim a lot of space very quickly. This will mostly affect the already-published IFLA posts which will now show a broken link (or empty box, idk) where the videos were. Going forward, please do not upload videos to our media libary, but rather embed links to videos hosted elsewhere (ie, YouTube). If you have photos to share in the comments please don’t upload them here, post links to files hosted elsewhere. Please also remember to visit the Extra Settings section at the bottom of the editing window and change Sidebar Location to “No Sidebar,” and check Hide Featured Image on Post (unless you really want it there).
(*) For some values of normal, and yes I deliberately misspelled it above.
The Glib porn collection will be lost?
o.O
Just the videos about fun butt stuff.
trans rights backlash
aka sick of your made up idiocy
That link seems to be desugared
Fixed. Thanks.
I am reminded of the 2014 South Park “Cissy” episode, with the concluding lesson:
I only first saw it much later after the backlash had begun – it’s almost impossible to believe how much has changed.
Sinead O’Connor did it better with her Pope picture.
I would have taken her seriously if she tore up a picture of Mohamed.
Vehicle recovered, cops believe they know who the culprit is.
Someone who has been on their radar?
Savetsky, who trained at NYU Langone Health, said the culture inside elite medical programs left little room for voicing his concerns.
“You’re at the number one plastic surgery program, you’re just grateful to be there. There’s no room to speak up. You’re a soldier…” he said.
Can’t see the forest for the professional courtesies.
I believe Theodore Dalrymple called these people ’emasculated cowards’.
” I am so lucky to be here at the most respected school in the world! Wait, you are doing what?? That is fucking evil. What is wrong with you? I am not going to have anything to do with that and I am going to tell everyone what you fuckers are up to.”
I was never much of a joiner, dont make waves kinda guy and no, I did not get invited to the most respected medical school in the world.
Look, doctors in general are rule followers. Most of us have been working toward becoming a physician since early in life and the path is basically geared toward selecting for compliance. In order to get into the good college, you need to get good grades from your high school instructors and avoid demerits. Rebelling against authority is likely to lead to lower grades, poor recommendation letters, and so forth. The same thing is true in college and then again when you get into medical school. You’re basically being groomed for obedience. Residency is very much the same thing.
Once you get into professional practice, you are held to a concept called “the standard of care”. If you elect to break from the standard of care, which is basically determined by expert opinion as to what good care is (whether or not there’s even good evidence that it works), you are not only typically shunned and criticized by your fellow physicians (and nurses, who often are even more conformist), but you also can be passed over for promotion to leadership positions, possibly fired, and might even face disciplinary action from a hospital or potentially even the state medical board leading to the loss of your ability to get a job (if you are dismissed for disciplinary reasons you are required to disclose it for the remainder of your career).
An illustrative case is that of Paul Marik, a pulmonary/critical care physician who, up until COVID happened, was regarded as one of the nation’s foremost experts in his field. At one time (I’m not sure if it’s still the case) he was the second most published critical care physician in the world and was a frequent lecturer at major conferences. He even won the national teacher of the year award from the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Marik disagreed vehemently with the approach dictated by the CDC when COVID erupted and he formed a research group in April of 2020 that advocated a number of treatments that differed from the established treatment guidelines. In 2021, he was investigated by the Virginia Board of Medicine and reprimanded for allegedly prescribing controlled substances to people who were not his patients. In 2021 he was banned from prescribing Ivermectin and he lost his privileges at his hospital. In 2023, the American Board of Internal Medicine announced it would be revoking Dr. Marik’s board certification, which it did in 2024 (the charges boiled down to spreading “misinformation”) . In other words, Marik went from one of the most celebrated figures in the world of medicine to an outcast in the span of three years.
It’s not hard to understand why doctors are afraid to speak up. Most physicians graduate with hundreds of thousand of dollars in medical school debt. Without a medical license or board certification, a physician cannot work. It shouldn’t be difficult to see why someone would be scared into silence, even when it’s obvious that the course being pursued by the medical establishment is insane.
On point with Dr Marik.
I’m married to one. Some days it can be tough on that front, but sometimes I get a breakthrough.
No, it is not hard to see but as you can see from my post I am just not built like that. I have the ridiculous notion that people as a whole should stand up, tell the truth and take the hit.
That’s easy to say until you are confronted with the prospect of the loss of your job (that’s taken you twenty years of your life to get), your standing in the community, and the prospect of hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt with no income. That’s a really high hurdle to overcome. Very few of us were willing to stick our necks up and those of us that did suffered consequences.
How does one find nonconformist doctors and nurses then?
Now I’m picturing Tonio’s boyfriend as Eb, only with more body hair.
“TIDE TURNING AGAINST TROON BULLSHIT”
It’s no coincidence this is happening right after the first successful lawsuit.
Dear Hospital,
We will no longer provide malpractice coverage for trans surgeries.
Sincerely,
Insurance Company
Dear Doctor,
Distance yourself from this trans stuff ASAP. Our lawyers will help with your statement.
Sincerely,
Hospital
Absolutely right.
One can only fucking hope. The trooooooooooons are fucking insane.
I think the only thing that could stop this is if the Dems get control again, and pass a law protecting these doctors and hospitals from liability. Just like vaccine makers.
Me and someone else here predicted a few years back that this was coming. There is going to be a tidal wave of lawsuits.
The people that did it are truly evil and deserve a lot worse than what they are going to get.
That’s really the only way to be sure that it stops. Insurance companies will not cover procedures they deem to be too high risk. Procedures become high risk because they generate lawsuits, not because they don’t work.
I found the original source of lobster girl on the Internet one day. I may have it bookmarked on my home computer.
It is always a welcome sight here at Glibs.
Thanks to everyone involved in keeping the site alive. I really, really need this oasis of sanity to come to.
Pound me too
Dude. kinnath is a happily married man.
I shall make a generic photo for the movie nights and cease adding new movie posters. That should help. And I can delete photos from all the 2024 and 2025 posts.
Please keep doing your movie posters. Hold off on deleting stuff for the moment. We’re also looking for a way to automatically delete duplicate and orphaned (not used in any post) photos. Most photos are under 1MB, whereas most videos are n X 10MB. So a single post with 2-3 videos can take up as much media library space as all the other photos for the week.
But do look to use existing illos wherever possible.
I try to name my photos meaningfully, and fill in the description field to make them easy to search. Encouraging others to do this going forward.
I started naming files in 2024, my own art is now labeled with Glibflick, and movie posters by name. If you decide I need to shrink down, I can quickly find the ones I want to remove. Chances are nobody is going back to 2024 to read old Glibflicks. I did the same thing a few years ago, and removed all art for 2021-2022.
Of course you do, R.J. You’re one of our best.
We’re also going to tighten auto-smush (file compression) settings.
the thaw will also bring something else: the unmistakable stench of raw sewage.
It’s organic fertilizer!
This is going to be economically devastating to Maryland and Virginia crab and oyster industries, not to mention recreation and tourism. In a sane and just world those states would sue the District for damages, but blue don’t sue blue.
Once you go blue, you never sue?
The darker the sewage, the sweeter the grift?
And those watermen are mostly white crackers and descendents of slave owners, anyway. Like, srsly. The coastal areas were the first-settled area and some of those families have been watermen since the 1600s.
The watermen will probably try to sue but they’ll run up against the standing (them) / sovereignty (DC) trap. The states would be on equal footing with DC.
They are blue claw crabs, right?
When you go to Baltimore, you have to make sure and go to the waterfront and have some of the Maryland Poo Crabs?
Sensei, Callinectes sapidus, the “beautiful swimmer.” Also, much delicious.
When I was in college if you were poor and wanted to throw a party you’d buy a bushel of crabs (dirt cheap), and tell people to bring beer (expensive). When my social group started having kids we made the mistake of teaching them to pick crab as soon as they could walk. Early post-college the economics reversed and the keg of craft beer was cheap and the crabs were expensive.
Same variety here that I used to catch at the NJ seashore.
One might expect such a disaster, unfolding just miles from the seat of federal power, to dominate the national environmental conversation. Instead, it has struggled to break through the noise.
They’re busy shrieking about Trump eliminating every air pollution rule ever made and turning the clock back to1900. We’ll be choking on deadly airborne toxins before you can say, “Your Honor I object.”
It’s almost like the left is really more concerned with grandstanding fantasy than with accomplishing anything in reality.
The left wants the spill. They want the destruction, the ugliness, everything. Despising what’s right or beautiful is what they do. Just like the judges that turn criminals loose – repeat offenses are the goal. Dead innocents are the goal. Raped girls are the goal (especially for female judges).
Following up from the dedthred on why any rational person would have elected to take the experimental vaccine for Covid 19 . . . . .
The statistics for Covid deaths were pretty clear. It was a clear threat to senior citizens particularly the obese and those with existing heart and lung ailments. For everyone else, it was no serious risk.
As one of those senior citizens who was morbidly obese with hypertension and asthma, I was clearly in a high risk group. And my cousin and her husband had already died from covid (not with covid).
So, I took the calculated risk.
Then the Brandon administration destroyed the value of that vaccine by forcing hundreds of millions of people that weren’t at risk to take the vaccine thus causing rapid evolution/mutation of the vaccine.
Everyone involved in that decision should be in prison.
It also seems that since the elderly do not have as robust immune systems as the young they experience fewer misidentification of self problems with the spike protein as well.
My mom has developed an auto immune mouth lesion problem since her shots. No way she’ll accept that it’s directly linked to the shots. Hates Trump. Got the Trump shot. It’s funny as hell.
It’s as though the vaccine was designed to do the most damage to the people that got the least benefit from it.
No, mostly they deal drugs from their new pad. And sometimes cook them. And they bike back and forth all day and night to their old “campsite” to buy and/or sell. Ask me how I know.
I’d love to see an article about that. And we can attribute it anonymously if you wish.
nah I don’t know have certain close-up knowledge. Just observations and putting two and two together.
I’ve bitched about it many times, though – basically they found about 50 homeless folks and put them into a new building across the street along with a couple hundred of the “working poor”. That was a couple summers ago and it’s been a non-stop parade of arsons and OD’s ever since. One of the apartments got bombed out last summer and the windows are still boarded up lol.
I shall make a generic photo for the movie nights
A still shot of an old-timey hand crank camera from a Max Sennet movie.
Possibly me, eating popcorn in a movie seat. My daughter promised to help me do a few new GIFs and photos at some point.
It’s not about carbon or climate change. Why would the modern environmentalist movement give a shit? They’ve long since stopped caring about actual environmental issues in favor of fake ones.
Just as soon as they are back in power, all of this will get taken care of!
/environuts
I think all of the do-gooder organizations are grifters fleecing the taxpayer. Double that for anything to do with environmentalists. We have a squillion dollar carbon capture boondoggle in Louisiana. The funding was threatened and you should have heard the screeching about the money. They didnt make any bones about it…it is strictly about the money.
If they go through with it I predict it will go about like CA’s train to nowhere.
It’s pretty telling that in NY and California they’re talking about massive tax increases. It’s already been proven by DOGE, and in MN, that a huge percentage of government spending goes to fraud (personally I think it’s 50%). But blue cities and states never mention that as a way to stay solvent. And I think people are starting to notice.
If they “notice” it, then the back end of their revenue sources will dry up.
a huge percentage of government spending goes to fraud (personally I think it’s 50%).
And the other half they waste on government programs… Where the real damage is done.
Trump trolling the Euroweenies with a way to get around the online safety laws is my favorite troll of the year so far. I cannot wait for the red-faced rage from all the dickless Frenchie and Brit leadership.
Radio Free Europe 2.0–on the internet this time.
OMG, that’s brilliant, Homple.
Please, someone do some AI-generated posters or TV-ads for that. I don’t do the AI thingy.
Mechanics and automotive analysts have increasingly raised concerns that repeated forced shutdowns and restarts place additional strain on engines, batteries and starter systems. That strain leads to higher maintenance costs, more frequent mechanical failures and shorter vehicle lifespans — outcomes that run counter to the environmental goal of reducing resource consumption over time.
That’s so cute. Who actually believes that?
I have to shut it off with a button press every time I get in the car. Now that it is officially no longer required, I shall have a software solution and delete it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I mentioned my wife’s rid already has a defeat button pressing device installed.
https://www.autostopeliminator.com/
Speaking of movies-
I watched The Man With Two Brains last night.
Not the worst movie ever made. Definitely nothing to keep Mel Brooks awake at night. Steve Martin doing the roadside sobriety test was worth the price of admission.
Speaking of dickless Brit leadership (R.J., above), we started watching “Slow Horses” last night. It’s quite clever and well-done. Very accurate depiction of bureacratic agencies. But the absolute demonization of anti-immigration politics, parties, and people is disgusting. Currently, Reform is polling over 10%, and Restore is just under that. They have a narrow window of opportunity to reverse course, but that window is rapidly closing.
Yeah, the wife and I watched some of that. Jeebus, I like the principals, but the plots were straight up propaganda for Big Gov.
Ya’ know, there is a reason we shot as many of the kingshit fuckers as we could once upon a time.
Contrarian P-
I was, as usual, being flippant above, but “We do this because this is what we do” applies to a lot more than medicine. Not many people are inclined to go out on a limb to protest established practices.
This more likely than not applies to people associated with Epstein. As long as the first stone remains unthrown things continue. Inertia prevails.
It’s very difficult to have a course correction in a field like medicine, where much of your standing is built upon your reputation. It’s even more so in politics, because all of your standing is built on your reputation. If you say “I was wrong and I hurt people”, that’s death.
I’m pretty sure the Epstein thing is a threatened circular firing squad. Everybody will get it if one person does, particularly because there is no criminal proceeding or standards of evidence. It’s all trial by media and guilt by association. There isn’t even a civil trial, where at least there is some standard.
You are absolutely correct. It is not a problem just in the medical profession but a problem with the human condition.
In this case the problem is so obvious and counter to anyone with any semblance of a moral compass that I expect more people to stand up.
Your explanation of medical schools screening for compliance make a lot os sense.
Sadly I was ruined by growing up in a place crawling alive with evangelical churches. I naturally rebelled against people telling me what to do and how to live when what they were saying was obviously nonsense. My attitude became ” You dont own me and you aint my daddy so fuck off.” It stuck with me to this day…I am a contrarian.
Avatar test.
The RI trans shooter’s ex-FIL was his Dad’s brother’s son.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/us-news/trans-ice-rink-shooter-robert-dorgan-was-cousins-with-the-ex-wife-he-murdered/
Per previous conversations, US women beat the Canadians in hockey.
https://justthenews.com/events/xx-womens-hockey-defeats-xx-olympic-gold
I think I saw that movie.
Wut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIsxXDyjlc
THE TALENTED MR GADIS… is functionally useless.
In my city, (assuming everything is on the up and up) the water dept. is measuring contaminants in parts per billion.
I don’t have the report handy, or I’d tell you what they were measuring.
Look, would you rather have the raw sewage separate from the rivers or have an executive team at the water department that looks like the community? I think the answer is clear.
Clearer than the water, to be sure.
Mmmmmm Lobstergirl.
…at my boyfriend’s family’s farm.
That makes me wonder If SugarFree’s picture of the clitlit Minotaur Milking Farm is still around.