I dare say that if they actually started selling cars that looked like this, they'd sell like crazy.
At This Point…
…I simply hear the phrase "youth pastor" and immediately think, "pedophile" and "Trump supporter."
Gonna Try A Few Of These!
Not My Photos, But Currently Featured At The Desert Botanical Gardens
Amiright?!
🤣 🤣 🤣
Triptych
Vomiting It All Up
Yes, Virginia. It appears this will not be a daily occurrence.
I'm Not Embarrassed To Be A Liberal. I'm Embarrassed That You Still Think Trickle-Down Economica Isn't Just Piss From The Top
It's About Fucking Time!
Right?!?
We're all going to be diagnosed with PTSD if this nightmare ever ends.
How Do We Get Rid Of This Cancer?
We MUST Answer
"Let Them Eat Cake"
We Just Caught Up
The photo is so ordinary, it's shocking.
A woman in a long dress stands beside her car—not at a gas pump, but in her own garage. She's not cranking a stubborn engine. She's not smelling like petrol.
She's plugging it in.Because in 1912, electric cars weren't the future.
They were already here.
The Golden Age of EVs (That You Never Heard About)
At the turn of the century, electric cars dominated the roads. They were quiet.They didn't spew smoke.
They didn't require hand-cranking like gas cars (which was dangerous—broken arms were common).
Women loved them. Cities preferred them. Even Thomas Edison swore they were the next big thing.
So… what happened?
The Three Death Blows to Electric Cars
Texas Struck Oil (A Lot of It). Gas became dirt cheap overnight. Meanwhile, electricity was still a luxury in rural areas.
Henry Ford's Assembly Line
The Model T rolled out in 1908 for half the price of an electric car. Suddenly, gas was affordable—and EVs were "rich people toys."
The Road Trip Boom
America fell in love with long-distance driving. Electric cars? They maxed out at 40 miles per charge. By 1935, electric cars were gone.
The Irony? We Just Caught Up to 1912.
Today's EVs boast:
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- "No emissions!" (Like 1912.)
- "No noise pollution!" (Like 1912.)
- "Convenient home charging!" (Like 1912.)
We didn't invent the future. We rediscovered it.
Final Thought
That woman in the garage? She was a century ahead of her time. And we spent 100 years pretending gas was progress.
Banned From Reddit
And so it begins.
Oh well.
I responded to a Reddit post this morning asking what should be done about Felon 45's insider trading and manipulation of the stock market.
My response was, "Bring back the guillotines and drag that orange daughterfucker and his entire administration out of the White House."
Apparently someone was triggered. I received a 3-day ban from the entire site for "inciting violence."
I had a premium (ad-free) subscription that was good for another eight months, but I said fuck it, and wrote it all off. I canceled the recurring subscription and then deleted my account completely. This was my last connection to social media—save for a nearly-inactive Instagram account that I still have only to bring you guys those horrible Star Trek jokes.
Fuck 'em.
And on the subject of putting my money where my mouth is (or cutting off my nose to spite my face, depending on your viewpoint), I realized the other day I still had some money left on my Starbucks Gold Card. (I've been a member since 2010 or thereabouts.) Since I've given up supporting that union-busting multi-millionaire CEO, I'll be damned if I was going to let him keep drawing whatever pittance of interest the company gets from holding my remaining balance. I ordered a coffee this morning and then left a $5 tip, leaving only a few cents on the card. (I would've zeroed it out completely if that had been an option, but sadly it wasn't.)
So fuck Brian Nicol too.
And you know what? After being away from Starbucks going on six weeks now, I won't say that Starbucks coffee isn't bad insomuch as it's just uninspiring—especially after having a month-long diet of much better java from local businesses.
THIS
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365 Days Of UNF: April 10th
Idiots, All Of Them
Prescient
Vomiting It All Up
Elon Musk And The "Christian" Right Are Waging War On Empathy
"How we relate to the pain of others is a question that always lurks beneath our politics, but it's one that is particularly relevant now. In its first months, the Trump administration has begun to implement a radical rightwing regime featuring mass deportations without due process, draconian cuts to domestic and foreign aid programs, and venally self-interested foreign policy—a set of policies that amount to a prescription for mass suffering and death. Whether Trump succeeds or fails in his quest to remake US society is very much a question of how much of the pain of others Americans are willing to abide in the pursuit of making America great again.
The rightwing movement against empathy seeks to dismantle and discredit one of the essential tools for any society—our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering. We should see the campaign against empathy by Trump supporters for what it is: a flashing red light warning of fascist intent."
– Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian Right are waging war on empathy
Sometimes This Is All That's Needed
Rediscovering A Few Old Friends
Hard to believe these are 25 years old. These double-CD sets were my constant companions once upon a time, and stumbling upon them while going through my iTunes in search of music to transfer to MiniDisc after so many years of neglect has done wonders for my mood. I also discovered that when I went to purchase them again on Discogs that at one point I had marked them as already being in my collection—meaning they—and a half dozen of their Euphoria brethren were in that banker's box that was lost after the fire. They weren't cheap then, and they're not cheap now, but definitely worth replacing.
Yes, I have them ripped to iTunes, but the original CDs were continuous mixes, meaning that once they're burned to any other medium from iTunes—whether it be to another CD or a MiniDisc—there's now an annoying little split-second gap between tracks that isn't present on the original recording. And yes, while I know there are so many more important other things that are happening while Rome burns that should be commanding my attention, and in the overall scheme of things this is silly, but not having that gap is still important to me, as it's one small thing in my life that I do have some control over.
So they've been ordered, and their siblings will be replaced as funds allow. A couple are coming from overseas, and frankly—after the events of the past couple weeks—I fully expected to receive notice that the seller does not ship to the U.S. any longer (because I have seen it appear in some listings). But so far all is good; my funds were readily accepted and I was provided with tracking numbers for the shipments.
This Is Barbaric
Right Now 'Murika Is A Car Being Driven By A Blackout Drunk, And MAGA Is Still Hooting Out The Windows While The Rest Of Us Hold On For Dear Life
Make April 9th A National Holiday
Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday.
"What greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?" ~ Barack H Obama
America should reject the romantic re-imagining of the Civil War and the myriad totems to the Confederacy and its leaders that pockmark the South.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Union's victory in the Civil War and still most Americans have a rosy vision in their head of that war and the reasons for which it was fought and it is way fucking past time that ends. Until America actually faces its true identity, it can't grow up and be a real boy.
April 9th should be made a federal holiday; and America should commit to disavowing or renaming monuments to the Confederacy, and its leaders, that receive direct federal support.
I love this idea, not least of all because the Southern States would be apoplectic.
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Some Stupid To Start Your Day
From Mock Paper Scissors:
With a screech only bats and certain dogs can hear, Field Commander PeeWee Himmler declares that Hair Füror will make America the manufacturing capitol of the world…
an angry, twitching Stephen Miller yells on Fox News that Trump will "make American the manufacturing capital of the world"
Watch his eyes. You don't have to be a Truthsayer of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood to know that liars usually blink rapidly and in excess.
1984's Thought Police Are Already Here
From Mock Paper Scissors:
Elmo and the Incels has taken to hunt for 1984-style ThoughtCrime, which of course adds ThoughtPolice to their assorted CVs. And how are they doing this, you might ask yourselves?
AI, of course. One of its most obvious applications is to surveil your messages for disloyal thoughts and expressions.
"Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter."
"While much of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded in secrecy, the surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting."
Of course, the irony here is that Big Balls et all are using Signal to avoid having their own communication and thought scraped by Grok:
"The DOGE team is also using the Signal app to communicate, according to one other person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially violating federal record-keeping rules because messages can be set to disappear after a period of time."
"And they have "heavily" deployed Musk's Grok AI chatbot – an aspiring ChatGPT rival – as part of their work slashing the federal government, said that person. Reuters could not establish exactly how Grok was being used."
That's pretty easy to figure out: once they gained access to the servers, they gain access to the archives; they are using the Presidential Records Act against everyone but themselves.
As we said up front, Elmo and the Incels  are Big Brother's  ThoughtPolice.
And no one except a scattered handful of Democrats is standing up to this abuse.
365 Days Of UNF: April 9th
