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Thursday GNR: Yanking Their Chains [1]

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Date: 2025-02-13

The Stunt Man’s minions are flailing madly, imposing performative kayfabe on the nation in all directions. We are pushing back in court, where we have a continuous string of wins, but also out in public, where we have all of the good lines of hilarious attack.

I am not going to list the meshugas, but I cannot pass over 😡🤦 the demand to go in with Putin on dismantling Ukraine 🤦😡, and 😂👉 the claim that the evidence that an asylum seeker is a member of a criminal gang to be sent to Guantanamo is a tattoo of Michael Jordan. 👈😂. They demand that every one of their Heels is a Face, and that every Face in defense of Democracy is a Heel of the worst order. Kash Patel has admitted and also vigorously denied involvement in child slave labor in China. Food and medicine aid to the world is rotting on the docks. But enough of that. There are plenty of places where you can follow all of that.

As W. S. Gilbert put it in The Mikado,

Apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind

Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob,

And likewise — Never-mind,

And 'St— 'st— 'st— and What's-his-name,

And also You-know-who —

The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.

But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,

For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!

Just remember that they are also Losers, who consider being a crook or a total loony to be among the highest qualifications for office.

Actual Good News

It occurred to me that I should check which of our usual sources is on Bluesky, and make a list of them so you can follow them all at once. Also a feed that will serve up all of their posts in a clear, unpolluted stream. This is what I found. I’ll see about that list soon.

Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!

x This is a “Reindeer Cyclone”. A swirling mass of threatened reindeer stampeding in a circle making it impossible to target an individual. The weakest and fawns are in the middle..



[image or embed] — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM

The DK elves are continuing to work on embedding Bluesky videos so they play here and you don’t have to click through.

x Amateur astronomer here. I had to look up radio galaxies -> synchrotron process to better understand what I was seeing, which made it cooler. So then I donated to Wikimedia, because we should. 🔭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_g...



[image or embed] — Gordon Hundley (@drgoon.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM

x There's a total lunar eclipse on March 13-14. Lunar eclipse photography is much easier than solar eclipse BUT you can make it even easier with some automation. Check out my video on the eclipse & the LETnC Software: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJY... #LunarEclipse #Astronomy #astrophotography #Space



[image or embed] — Naztronomy (@naztrono.my) February 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM

x The Astronomy feeds now include 11 (!!!) brand new specific subfeeds! 🔭 The subfeeds try to cover every part of astronomy research with at least one feed. All subfeeds automatically crosspost to the main Astronomy feed, too! Here's a thread with links to all of them ⬇️ — Astronomy Feeds News (@astronomy.blue) September 12, 2024 at 11:15 AM

Too many for me, but feel free to follow all of them that you like, and post goodies in the comments here.

x 🧪

❤️ 🎵

When you swim in the sea & an eel bites your knee

That’s a moray If it swims on the reef

& has 2 sets of teeth

That’s a moray If it feeds in the dark

& eats crabs for a lark

That’s a moray If it seems yellow but’s green

& it hates to be seen

That’s a moray ❤️ 🎵



[image or embed] — Sally Bourliakas (@sallybourliakas.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM

x In response to the emergence of H5N1 influenza A viruses as a novel pathogen of cattle, a study in Nature Communications shows that pasteurisation of cows’ milk should effectively inactivate the virus, but that it remains infectious in unpasteurised milk. https://go.nature.com/3WRQ8fb 🧪



[image or embed] — Nature Portfolio (@natureportfolio.nature.com) February 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Here are more silly Blueskyers who won’t allow their posts to be embedded. So I have to copy and past the text, open the link, and download and upload the images, or possibly ignore them.

The researchers found that their approach, which uses signals stored within circulating cell-free DNA sequence data, had 80% sensitivity at predicting whether a pregnant individual would experience preterm preeclampsia or not. #ReproSky #ObGynSky #Preeclampsia 🧪newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

x The #GrievingBody aspires to #scicomm 🧪: bringing the research on physiological #grief reactions to reader's hands. And by recording the #audiobook, hopefully it brings the meaning of my words uniquely to listeners. #PsychSky #WomeninSTEM #PsychSciSky #BookSky www.harpercollins.com/products/the...



[image or embed] — @doctormfoconnor (@doctormfoconnor.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Funny or Fuggedaboudit

x People who know better think they're going to get Trump 1 with more anti trans kayfabe and instead what they're going to get is the American Ragnarok



[image or embed] — Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM

P. D. Q. Bach and more

P.D.Q. Bach Fan Channel

Dill Piccolo

With help from Bernard "Weird Beard", I managed to get myself a actual dill piccolo! This is actually a whistle that is in the shape of a piccolo that was given away as a Burger King Prize. P.D.Q. Bach uses the instrument in his Little Pickle Book (Ger: Pockelbuchlein)

I can’t choose only one version of the Little List song from The Mikado.

WARNING: The original racist and misogynistic lyrics are utterly non-PC. But that is entirely in character for medieval Japan and Victorian England.

DVD Available Now: http://bit.ly/XDoSKU Mitchell Butel of Avenue Q fame sings "I've Got a Little List" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. As Someday It May Happen (Little List Song) stereo version ...

As Someday It May Happen (Little List Song) stereo version - John Reed , The Mikado. 249K views · 4 years ago ...more ...

I've Got a Little List Lyrics: As some day it may happen that a victim must be found / I've got a little list — I've got a little list / Of society ... Ko-Ko's 'little list' song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado

Ko-Ko's 'little list' song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Enjoy Richard Suart singing the much-loved and topical tune from Gilbert and Sullivan's The ... As Some Day It May Happen - I've Got A Little List (The ...

I've got a little list of society officials who might well be underground and who never would be missed. I've Got a Little List (1886)

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found I've got a little list - I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be ... Arthur Sullivan - The Mikado: I've Got A Little List

I've Got a Little List (from "The Mikado") William Schwenck Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Donald Adams, James Walker, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra "I've Got A Little List!" - History, Mystery and a Little Romance

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