Well, I almost got caught up. And I don’t even want to discuss the pile of links I’ve accumulated….dammit. Plus I suppose I really ought to post something besides memes and links.
Eventually. Maybe.
Memes 1/26/23
Just a heads up, I’ll be starting to delete the 2022 meme posts shortly in order to not overload the server with pictures.
Memes 1/22/23
I wasn’t aware that only the first handfull of memes (in these bigger posts) was clickable till someone commented on the last post. I figure I’m overloading the algorithm but untill I can get caught up it is what it is. I’m trying a couple different things in this post to see if that fixes the problem, but if it doesn’t, try right click – open in new tab to view the memes in full screen.
Links 1/1/23
Fibonacci day!
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE FOR THE HOLIDAYS (again)
Covid boosters likely cause net harm to young people under 30
FDA approves EUA for bivalent boosters for children down to 6months in age
Boosters not usefull against current covid variants
No more military vax mandate
Canadian Judge tears apart the shutdown of club
the date upon which our mistakes become more deadly than was Covid, backs up to 17 Oct 2023.
Why observation only studies on vax effectiveness suck (aka: unvaxed people are more likely to get in car accidents)
Lingering symptoms after respiratory sickness is normal and not special to covid
Meanwhile the CDC considering studying long covid
Two new studies show mRNA-jabbed people have a much higher risk of getting Covid than unvaccinated people
Study dated 2009: to many vaccinations in a short period of time results in autoimmune disorders
Pro tip: dead bodies are yucky. Don’t lick them. (quote source)
FDA links Pfizer’s vax to blood clots
police used covid as an excuse to expand surveillance
However, the judge changed his mind during the hearing and decided that since CDC recommends masking, no citizen can challenge a public health order mandating masks AS A MATTER OF LAW. Note, this affects way more than masking, women and alcohol comes to mind, as does pregnant women and a WHOLE LIST of things….
Hanging out with your germy grandkids results in less severe covid outcomes (gosh, really?? what a novel concept….)
Cambridge public schools are requiring covid vax in children above 5 for participation in all extracurricular activities.
Lack of correlation between school mask mandates and paediatric COVID-19 cases in a large cohort
2021: ACLU on why vax mandates are good things
China opens boarders
The Young were not Spared: What Death Certificates Reveal about Non-Covid Excess Deaths with Rob Arnott, 2022
Why do fact-checkers debunk obviously silly ideas (“vax makes you magnetic!”), while ignoring important wrong ones (“vax stops disease transmission”)?
Reason 1million or so on why people don’t trust the government on why these shots are good things
Climate change debate divides scientific community
Greenland once covered in forests
Switzerland considering banning electric cars
Attacks on power stations in FL and NC, and why they were so slow to get fixed, now attacks in WA state
Wyoming came close to blackouts during last week’s storms
Electric garbage trucks can’t handle the snow
TN to increase registration fees on electric cars
NY says no more gas or oil furnaces
Coal consumption hits record high
Oxfordshire county to restrict car travel
Remote work devastating cities
startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate
12/5/22 Iran to shut down morality police
The Twitter files, some background, more
Twitter refused to remove info on the sexual trafficking of minors
DC council unclear on how taxes work
9 million people get emails stating their student loans are forgiven (spoiler, email was wrong)
Hold on for more inflation
76% of all women murdered, were murdered by someone they knew
Roundup contamination in foods
New Zealand to ban future generations from buying tobacco
HOA tows truck for flat tire
Philly gas station hires armed guards
NY strengthens restrictions on TOY guns
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates that the employment data was vastly overstated in 2022. 10k jobs added instead of 1.1 million reported from March to June of 2022.
The effort to create a program for Black federal civil servants is not going smoothly
a new report confirms clean-water challenge for low-income Mississippi residents is a symptom of massive fed funding gap nationwide.
A school field trip: Alice in Drag, plus, masks on the kids
Lesbian Norwegian filmmaker gets 3 years in prison for saying men can’t be lesbians
Twitter thread: paraplegic woman on why she doesn’t want male carers
The biggest threat to middle aged men isn’t smoking, its loneliness
Body armor for women was never actually tested on real life women
California gun owner data breach
Stanford U’s list of offensive words
Exercise is white supremacy
Tiktok spied on journalists
Drug makers raise prices on 350 drugs
Identical twins score identically on tests
CDC removed defensive gun use stats
For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans
Good girl takes bad guy’s gun and shoots him with it
Mississippi improves literacy by use of phonics
Female snakes have clitoruses (Australia rather than FL if you must know)
Gene editing cures incurable cancer (if you read Mira Grant books you just ducked for cover).
Subaru apologizes for Forester Ultimate Customized Kit Special
Hallucinogenic spinach caused by nightshade weeds
Blood test may be able to detect alzheimer’s years before onset
What can we learn from Barnes and Noble
Snowplow train
Awesome photos of clouds
Dogs evolved special muscle that lets them make “puppy eyes”
Dogs can smell time
Links 12/19/22
Just why are we still paying for the TSA??
Tax filing websites sending info to FB
Twitter thread: why newborns are having such trouble with RSV
More info on NYC covid emergency/hospitalizations
Did the Cook County ME cure covid deaths?
MA officials worked with Google to install covid spyware on phones
LA county recommending masking again
High BMI = high covid transmission risk
Twitter thread: masking/hiding from covid doesn’t work
states ask .GOV to repeal health care worker vax mandate
11/15/22 Senate votes to end Covid emergency
China to end Zero Covid?
CDC data on bivalent vax
G20: vaccine passports a good thing
Just Data: USA pediatric respiratory death burden, before and after Covid
NYC’s hospital system never reached full capacity in 2020
Kids are more suicidal.
FDA oversight of clinical trials inadequate
Canadian study finds even higher rate of heart problems in young men after 3rd dose
FDA says banning ivermectin was just a “recommendation”
Remember when “viral interference” was a conspiracy theory??
Pandemic stress aged teenagers brains
Confirmation of pre-existing immunity to Covid
Alberta bans school mask mandates and online only learning
WesternU no longer requiring vax
Long Covid vs Long Upper Respiratory sickness
Of COURSE masks work, that’s why surgeons wear them….or not.
Daily Skeptic: cancer doc’s observing increase in cancer damage after booster?
Teen gets covid vax, dies 3 weeks later
NYT admits that pandemic learning loss is a thing
US DOE admits that students with disabilities badly failed during pandemic
MRNA flu vax?
Socialized medicine is BETTER! Unless you’re in Canada with a sick kid right now
Americans spending more time alone, and thats bad.
Biden the Union buster, the deal literally allows ONE paid day off per year
Jan 6 geofence warrant by the FBI
Iranian protests.
100’s of Elementary students arrested nationwide.
Biological male comes in #72 on male team, takes 1st on womens
Trans serial molester told to self manage
Mom handcuffed and jailed for allowing 8yr old to walk half-mile
Driver accused to deliberately hitting police recruits released from jail
Man serving life sentence for murder to be released from jail
NY banning native inspired school mascots/sports team names (I’m kinda waiting for them to notice how many towns/cities/counties are named after natives….)
Cali to ban diesel trucks at ports by 2035
Germany about to have meat shortages too
Netherlands to close 3000 farms
UK once again proves it dislikes self defense
San Fran to arm robots
REAL ID being pushed back again (why are we still doing this?? Obviously its not necessary at this point.
Home Depot Employee dies from injuries caused by shoplifter
Amazon gutting Voice Assistant team
Airbag will only save you if your subscription is paid up
New law will require kill switches in all cars
Yuan digital currency has an expiration date
Twitter thread: another look at why people voted for Trump
(now former) Biden admin official charged with felony theft
DOD fails audit, can’t account for 61% of assets
Man who inspired The Terminal dies.
Genetically modified tobacco produces cocaine
French man wins right not to be fun at work
Kentucky election decided by coin toss.
Barefoot is better, at least for horses
The Samurai who changed Cali
Please don’t release your goldfish into a nearby pond
Viking carvings found in cave in Ukraine
I have so many more links, but thats a long enough post for now
Links 11/12/22
Life got busy again, so I’m a bit behind and some of these links are a bit older than I’d intended to let them get. They still apply though.
Arrested in 2020 for taking her children to the playground, still fighting in court.
11/2020 Woman arrested for removing mom from nursing home
More from the Ethical Skeptic: the CDC had a problem.
The new booster might not be all that. (I mean, they only tested it on a handfull of mice before releasing it, why would there be a problem with it??)
Guy who approved the new booster based on a study involving 8 mice, says the new studies on humans are to small to be useful.
Japanese study on vax induced myocarditis vs general pop. Folks, every time I see numbers on this they just get worse. Seriously, think twice before getting a shot, or a booster.
Scientists from Switzerland show that the MRA vax’s may injure the hearts of ALL recipients, even if they don’t end up needing medical attention. Guys, damage to your heart is a bad thing, even if its “minor”.
One of the most respected cardiologists in the world is being stripped of his credentials due to his take on the vax.
Vax trials in children noted that there was a concerning spike in RSV in the kids involved. Now that RSV numbers are spiking nationwide the .GOV wants to vax even harder.
Italy ends health worker vax mandate
10/28/22: Shanghai lockdown (again)
Shanghai Disney locks down and won’t allow visitors to leave without a negative test
NYC First responder vax mandate ruled unconstitutional
Records of federal pressure on the FDA to approve boosters
Effectiveness of Pfizer vax turns negative within a few months (note, this is not the first study to show NEGATIVE, not just zero)
Newest booster may be causing immune imprinting instead of helping
Serious cases of covid in kids to few to actually evaluate vax effectiveness
Triple vax’d more likely to get symptomatic covid than unvax’d.
Triple boostered have higher Omicron infection rates than the unvax’d w/previous infection
Sweden stops Novavax for <30
Meanwhile the LA Times is still trying to harass the unvax’d
Study looking at vax’d 6th graders, in a primary school (where they are the only vax’d students), vs in a middle school (where there’s a much higher rate of vax’d students). Results: But our estimates of indirect effects are small and statistically insignificant: despite a 20 percentage point increase in vaccination rates across all grades, we find essentially no difference in COVID-19 incidence between sixth graders in middle schools and sixth graders in elementary schools.
In Germany the vax’d make up most of the patients in the ICU
Additional data on NYC hospitals in 2020
Proof of vax still required to enter the USA (legally) through Jan 2023
Paper showing “covid is leading cause of death in children” was thoroughly debunked, so they just narrowed the time studied and re-issued the study. Spoiler, covid is still only #8 on the list with less than 3% of the deaths.
Disney ends vax mandate for actors
Study on how effective masks are accidentally proves that covid rates are higher in vaccinated students
Finland (who already had one of the lowest covid death rates) says its covid death rate may be to high by 40%.
Lockdowns: they didn’t ACTUALLY happen, people weren’t ACTUALLY arrested for taking their kids to the park, or wave boarding by themselves, or going camping, or…
Sweden refused to lock down, and had the least covid restrictions, also has lowest covid caused death, and lowest pandemic response caused deaths, and lowest excess mortality
CUNY’s testing policy is costing a fortune and not doing a single useful thing
NSW teacher wins court case for “phycological injury from vax mandate”
One of the reasons why amnesty isn’t going to happen
FB and Twitter created special portals for .GOV employees to report “misinformation”
Oxford England looking to issue permits: you’d only be allowed to drive in the city 100 days a year.
The TikTok app sold to the world is not the same app sold to the Chinese
Student Debt Relief was a driving factor in Biden’s election: and! days post election its officially unconstitutional
Diversity quotas result in lower interest rates
Guns and parts stolen from the ATF
Judge suspends large portions of NYs new gun restrictions
Stress during pregnancy causes psychiatric disorders in the child.
The new threat to science and research
DeWalt battery powered zero turn mower catches fire for reasons unknown.
20yr old wind farm being pulled down to open coal mine in Germany
The fun of trying to find a place to charge your EV
In the UK it is now more expensive to charge your EV than to buy desiel.
Hummer EV taillight costs $4k (I mean, its a Hummer, so yah).
Watch out for parking garages if you drive a Tesla
Greenpeace admits that recycling plastic isn’t worth it
Billionaires emit more greenhouse gasses than the average person
More student sexual abuse by teachers
Please stop licking the toads
Wondering why in hell so many of the GOP candidates that were up for election were on the batshit side of the party? Wonder no more: the Democrats promoted them on the assumption that people would vote Dem instead of crazy.
Poll worker removed from poll site after trying to influence voters, more
Mercer County NJ voting machine outage, more
Luzerne County PA ran out of paper for the voting machines
Dead man elected in PA
White man chokes black woman. But its not news cause the white guy is a Dem and the black lady is GOP.
2nd railroad union veto’s deal that would have stopped the strike.
Officers who locked a woman in their patrol car and left it parked on the train tracks to be charged with attempted manslaughter
Montreal police handcuff black man, discover he’s innocent, have to call for handcuff keys in order to release him
Blind Man arrested after cops mistake cane for weapon
CDC releases new opioid guidelines
.GOV aid for high heating prices
Dutch wolves are becoming to tame
Russia turns Ukrainian children into spoils of war.
Chinese police stations found in Netherlands
Small Town highschool stabbing
No Bail system strikes again
Salesman steals dog from home (folks, please don’t let your dogs run loose…)
Royal Mail Strike
Turkey to institute digital currency tied to your digital ID
Dormant volcano waking up
3 day work week is popular
Aldi and Walmart to price foods at 2021 prices for Thanksgiving
Cali is about to be very broke
Norwegian man identifies as disabled woman, uses wheelchair “almost all the time”
Halloween Stampede in Seoul
Town dresses up police horses for halloween: discovers idiots are universal
Idiot calls 911 because she doesn’t understand how smoking meat works
Google puts out new search tool to help you manage your online presence.
Homemade bread dough enhancer?
Painting has been on display upside down for 75 years
Directory of things still Made in the USA
Farmer injured in car accident: whole town comes together to help bring in his harvest
Business owner puts up “now Hiring” sign
500m year old fossil found in Wisconsin
Strange mineral growth on dead bodies turns them blue
Twin elephants born at zoo
And last, but not least, a smile for your last link of the day
Raffle for Lawdog
Lawdog’s having a bad year it turns out. A bunch of folks have put together a raffle to help raise money for him. I can’t really donate financially, but I’m donating a chainmaille, stainless steel and crystal, 6 sided dice for the raffle. See the above link for how to enter to win it!
