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May. 28th, 2019
Another Type of Sphere
May. 28th, 2019 10:04 amNot looking especially good in Old Hio right now. It's even on the front page of das Beeb, although that may be because I'm coming from the States. I'm astonished that no-one got killed, especially with it happening late at night like that.
Whilst following along on the NWS map last night, I saw a tornado warning box pop up entirely inside another warning box, which I've never seen before. Overlapping, especially as the line moves east, isn't that unusual, but this was entirely inside. I'm guessing it represented a refinement of the earlier warning box.
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Time to choose a new Chairman of the EC. Nigel Farage would do a great job, I'm sure!
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I'm pleased to see Modi winning by such a landslide in India. I normally consider the government of India largely irrelevant, but I'm pleased to see a nationalist win so convincingly. It helps me to believe that sanity may finally be returning to the world.
The BBC criticize him as "divisive", which seems to be one of the internationalist/multiculturalist dog-whistle words to describe a majoritarian populist. At 63% of the vote, he's certainly more unifying than any of the other candidates.
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Yankees are pounding along in first. Cubs are barely holding off the Beer Factory Employees.
Whilst following along on the NWS map last night, I saw a tornado warning box pop up entirely inside another warning box, which I've never seen before. Overlapping, especially as the line moves east, isn't that unusual, but this was entirely inside. I'm guessing it represented a refinement of the earlier warning box.
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Time to choose a new Chairman of the EC. Nigel Farage would do a great job, I'm sure!
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I'm pleased to see Modi winning by such a landslide in India. I normally consider the government of India largely irrelevant, but I'm pleased to see a nationalist win so convincingly. It helps me to believe that sanity may finally be returning to the world.
The BBC criticize him as "divisive", which seems to be one of the internationalist/multiculturalist dog-whistle words to describe a majoritarian populist. At 63% of the vote, he's certainly more unifying than any of the other candidates.
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Yankees are pounding along in first. Cubs are barely holding off the Beer Factory Employees.
I saw an Otter crossing the road! Exceptionally well-fed Otter too, or else pregnant. I don't know when their season for having babies is.
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Very aggressive Robin in what's left of the maple tree by the driveway. In about 30 minutes of sitting out front, I saw him chase off an Oriole (which you seldom see here), then a big Grackle cock. Robins are usually fairly mellow. I wondered at first if the Oriole's bright orange was upsetting to the Robin (cocks get twitchy in breeding season sometimes), but then he went after the Grackle too. I think he's just very touchy about his core territory right now. This is the tree that I lost part of last week, so I wonder if that has some bearing. There's bound to be a nest up there, but I don't see it.
If there was a nest in there that got wrecked, I didn't find any eggs or hatchlings, and I think I would have, since I raked pretty thoroughly. Robin's nests that fall in storms usually leave little blobs of muddy sticks, too.
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Very aggressive Robin in what's left of the maple tree by the driveway. In about 30 minutes of sitting out front, I saw him chase off an Oriole (which you seldom see here), then a big Grackle cock. Robins are usually fairly mellow. I wondered at first if the Oriole's bright orange was upsetting to the Robin (cocks get twitchy in breeding season sometimes), but then he went after the Grackle too. I think he's just very touchy about his core territory right now. This is the tree that I lost part of last week, so I wonder if that has some bearing. There's bound to be a nest up there, but I don't see it.
If there was a nest in there that got wrecked, I didn't find any eggs or hatchlings, and I think I would have, since I raked pretty thoroughly. Robin's nests that fall in storms usually leave little blobs of muddy sticks, too.
Those Other Things That are Similar
May. 28th, 2019 11:43 pmFrom 2010,and I just now heard. This is strange. Extremely so. I've long known about myself that when I'm getting sick, I enjoy reading about the Black Death or the 1918 Spanish Flu. I'd always put it down to bloody-mindedness on my part. Perhaps there's more to it than that.
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I wanna see Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader-Ginsberg have a cage match! He'd kick her ass to Timbuktu!
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The Dayton furs are apparently all okay after the tornadoes. We had two go by just south of us, which I didn't find out until much later. Neither one touched down, though.
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Ah, Texas... If you're not from America, I'm not even sure you can properly appreciate Texas.
What would be really cool would be if the Texas-shaped pool were in the exact centre of Texas, surrounded by a Texas-shaped patio, surrounded by a Texas-Shaped fence, surrounded by a Texas-shaped lawn. etc, etc.
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I wanna see Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader-Ginsberg have a cage match! He'd kick her ass to Timbuktu!
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The Dayton furs are apparently all okay after the tornadoes. We had two go by just south of us, which I didn't find out until much later. Neither one touched down, though.
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Ah, Texas... If you're not from America, I'm not even sure you can properly appreciate Texas.
What would be really cool would be if the Texas-shaped pool were in the exact centre of Texas, surrounded by a Texas-shaped patio, surrounded by a Texas-Shaped fence, surrounded by a Texas-shaped lawn. etc, etc.