Not sure what KY and TN are thinking but interesting map. [image: 1762642358347-img_8594.jpeg]

Getting an octopus to play the piano. Link to video

@Mik I’m having flashbacks. Never again will I live in a place with sliding glass door on a tub. I prefer full 1 piece acrylic tub-showers and large single shower units with non sliding glass doors (like for new builds). I dislike cleaning tile this much, and just use tile to the ceiling above and as an accent for surrounds. Saying this, I did do a stand-alone rectangular tub in the most recent master bath. For resale reasons only. I searched quite a while finding one that was long enough & shallow enough .. like retiree friendly. That area got half height large format rectangular tile on 3 walls. Good for hanging wet towels on both ends I suppose.

I just pinged him on FB this morning to see how they're doing in NYC. He isn't on WTF much if at all.

I wonder what this means for Texas’s redistricting? Surely they based it off of 24 data. Obviously they’d put in some wiggle room but surely they didn’t account for a double digit shift among such a key group. How fucking glorious would it be to see that backfire on them.

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1987120344809787607?s=46

Tesla is the right company to do it, because it needs high-powered IC, very different from the rest of the chip-making world's focus on low-powered, energy efficient chips.

It depends on who when you ask. https://x.com/jbhenchman/status/1986925973883748696?s=46

Follow up: In my book, “The Baton and The Cross,” I explore how the Church shaped Putin’s Russia — and the part it has played in enabling the current bloodshed. I also demonstrate how, throughout its 1,000-year history, the Church has always sat at the right hand of power and done whatever it takes to ensure its survival, its influence and its own enrichment. The cases of opportunism and overreach today echo those from the past — and the story of Hilarion is no exception. Until the full-scale invasion, he was part of Kirill’s inner circle and had a stellar career. Born Grigory Alfeyev, he studied music before he left to become a monk and took the name Hilarion. He has composed choral works and written a slew of theological books. From 2009, he was Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and headed the Moscow Patriarchate’s version of the foreign ministry. He was also a member of the Holy Synod and rector of the theological studies center named after Saints Cyril and Methodius. Some saw him as the Patriarch’s successor. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/07/russian-orthodox-priests-dont-practice-what-they-preach-a91083

@Klaus said in Sometimes you just know a nickname is going to stick: Who is it? America's Himmler - aka Steven Miller.

Waltz Op64 No2 is memorized. Still polishing of course. I'm seriously looking at Nocturne Op 9 No 1. I mean, it's the first Nocturne in the Henle Urtext. I already learned No 2 and had it memorized a few years ago. I will bring that one back under the hands at the same time I learn No 1. I chose No 1 because of my previous mention of it being the first piece in the book, but also familiarity and it's a beautiful piece of music. It seems more than a little intimidating. I am going to play the first few bars tomorrow at lesson. I'm not sure this is the Nocturne that my teacher has in mind for me. He just asked if I had a published book of the Nocturnes and I did not. So I ordered one. lol

The comments are interesting too. It's perhaps not apples to apples but it's a good development, nonetheless.

Though the betting odds of him leaving are markedly down (even after adjusting for time passes since the former screenshot). [image: 1762510336811-img_8550.png]

Hard to read. https://x.com/lelemslp/status/1986570561196335597?s=46

It about fucking time. Chuck, are you listening?

said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge: You’re all off base completely there’s no fraud there will be no discovery this will get tossed. https://x.com/thefireorg/status/1986534057786687569?s=46