Tonight, I’m writing a letter – a physical, paper letter, with an envelope and a stamp – to the local Sinclair propaganda outlet, KOMO-4, over their continued blockade against Kimmel.
I’m not telling them I’m going to boycott them, no. They’re a free/over-the-air station. I don’t pay them. I don’t pay them a dime, why would they care if I boycott them?
Obviously, they wouldn’t.
So instead, I’m telling them I’m going to boycott their local sponsors, and I’m going to write those local sponsors a physical, paper letter, one with an ENVELOPE and a STAMP, and make sure those local sponsors know why.
For every obvious reason, I (and 50501 Seattle) encourage you to do the same. If you’re not in KOMO’s range, that’s fine, find your local Sinclair station and write them, instead.
(But write your own letter, don’t copy mine. They check for that.)
KOMO received enough protest calls today – Tuesday, September 23rd, as I write this – that they shut down their phone system. They went dark.
They can turn off their phones. They can delete their voicemail. And they have, and they did.
Goodnight, kid! Your sheets are glowing You forgot The game you're stowing? Now you're claiming Nightmares pending Back to bed! Yes, you, I'm sending! -K Royka, 9/23/2025
Happy bisexual visibility day, everyone! In case anyone doesn't know, I'm bi, and yes, some of us are greedy and enjoy having partners of more than one gender.
One of adrian_turtle's comrades from the hav invited the three of us to have lunch in their yard today, after Rosh Hashanah services. We all had a good time--I hadn't met either R or their partner Peter before, and I liked them both, as did cattitude (as did Adrian, of course). We sat and talked for a couple of hours: the three of us brought a vegetable frittata and an apple cake, both of which Adrian made yesterday; R. and Peter contributed salad, challah, and of course the location. It was the right amount of food for five people; we took home 1/6 of the frittata, and gave them the last slice of cake, since we have more at home.
R and Peter live in Allston, near the Packard's Corner T stop, so not in walking distance, but easy by transit. The conversation wandered, as good conversations will. We were there for a couple of hours, longer than I'd expected, and I didn't notice the time until we got home and I looked at the clock on our stove.
My loan is nearly done, they say, And quote a hefty price Apparently my birth date's wrong It wasn't yesterday, and son, Your scheming isn't nice. -K Royka, 9/22/2025
a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California. It attracted online attention in 1997 for its unusual location â it was located at the intersection of two dirt roads in a remote part of the Mojave Desert, 12 miles (19 km) from the nearest paved road (Interstate 15 to the northeast, Kelbaker Road to the southwest) and miles from any buildings.
[I]n the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar concentrator power plants, the kind where rings of mirrors reflect sun onto a central tower, which I think is now an outdated model, but it was striking to see the literally dazzling array; the second was a big field of solar panels around the town of Mojave t hat appeared to be tipping toward the setting sun; and then a long array of wind turbines just before the desert ends as the road heads uphill into Tehachapi
Now, you can go to PenĂnsula ValdĂŠs and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In IberĂĄ, where yaguaretĂŠs were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?
A food designed for astronauts now fuels first responders and new moms by Madeline Taub. "Oakland resident Ryan Dowdy came up with the idea for READYBAR while working on food systems for the International Space Station." Kind of an ad, also a cool success story. No, I haven't tried them.
I have owned my dishwasher for 2 years now. I like to run it every few days in the evening, but sometimes I want to retreat upstairs before 9pm when the electricity gets cheaper, and I don't always remember to go back down and start it.
A couple of days ago it finally occurred to me to look for a delayed start function, and there it was, a button clearly labeled Delay that delays the start for an hour every time it's pushed. Now I know!
The two levels are awkwardly laid out and after two years I am still trying to figure out how to load my dishes and containers in it efficiently. On the positive side, it is really quiet and I can't hear it running from upstairs at all.
I tried to write a poem yesterday So tired that I had almost gone to sleep No rhymes were found, no humor come to play My thoughts were busy fighting to count sheep I'm sorry that I worried you, my dear But yes, the nap will help me finish here. -K Royka, 9/20/2024
I got this great set of questions from rosefox in preparation for discussing updating my website.
Mostly I want to look at the site you already have and learn what you're unhappy with and what you'd like it to do. My main questions are:
- Who's the target audience? How will they find and access the site? What do you want their first impression to be? What's your goal for how they spend their time there? - Do you want to keep the logo you have now? Are there any specific colors or existing images you want to use for brand consistency? - Do you want to port over the existing content? Will you be creating additional content from scratch? (I assume you'll want to write any text yourself, and my role is solely design.) - Do you need to do e-commerce through the site, or is it mostly a pointer to another site where the books can be purchased? Are there any existing systems that the new site needs to work well with? - Do you want any kind of frequently updated or interactive elements, like blog posts or quizzes, or only static pages? - What's your plan for getting the link in front of people: social media, advertising, search rankings, handing out business cards?
My answers: (I know more than I realized!) ( cut for length )
Today we went to the Autumn Fest in Marshall. It was an evening event, and the day had cooled off considerably, so it was quite pleasant. We were lucky to miss the rain there -- it rained a bit at home and we drove through several showers. This event continues on Saturday and Sunday if you want to catch it, and it is well worth attending if you're in Illinois this weekend looking for something to do.
I would like to wish all the people who fought with me and sneered at me about how Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris were no better than Donald Trump and sat out the election and encouraged others to do the same a very happy DRINK SOME FUCKING BLEACH:
The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as âviolent extremistsâ in the wake of Charlie Kirkâs murder, two national security officials tell me.
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Under the plan being discussed, the FBI would treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureauâs new threat category, âNihilistic Violent Extremistsâ (NVEs).
This is, yes, OBVIOUSLY, a duplication of Putin’s moves to designate target groups as “extremist organisations,” whether there’s an organisation or not, as “LGBT” was designated a couple of years ago, leading to the de facto re-illegialisation of LGBT people and large scale prosecutions.
Every other kind of queer is probably gonna be next.
I do not believe it’s a minor thing that Greg “let’s reclaim the word Nazi” Gutfield is repurposing Hitler’s “Jewish hypnotism” libel against trans people to transfer guilt from a cis white boy from a conservative family:
“[The shooter] was a patsy. He was under the hypnotic spell of a direct to consumer nihilism – the trans cult.”
There are plenty of other full-on-fascist declarations in this rant, too, not the least of which being the open declaration that they “don’t care” about “what-abouts,” which is to say, the overwhelming share of violence being from the right, or, in this case, the literal assassination of two Democratic state officials earlier this summer by a MAGA supporter with an extended list of targets. Those don’t count, because Democrats. Only MAGA are people, only MAGA have rights, only Trump can be king.
But it’s still important, and the one I think people may miss. This is, again, literally Hitler libel from a many who proposed “reclaiming” the word “Nazi” this summer.
If he wants the word so much, let’s apply it to him.
Laura Loomer, an important Trump confidante and aide, calls for a Trump dictatorship and mass arrests and prosecution of “leftists” (which for her absolutely includes liberals):
Trump and MAGA are following Putin’s playbook on the media, pushing it either into the hands of ideological compatriots or into silence:
Kimmel is about as controversial as a goldfish here. They arenât serious about it being a problem; the whole â˘point⢠is that itâs obviously â˘not⢠a problem.
They are using something extremely benign to test the waters of government repression of speech, to see just how much they can get away with â and ABC caved like 3rd-grade toothpick bridge.
Nexstar Media Group, which is seeking FCC approval for a multi-billion-dollar merger with Tegna, said its ABC affiliates would not air Kimmel’s show before ABC announced its own decision.
Earlier this week, responding to a conservative reporter who said that anti-war protesters near the White House âstill have their First Amendment right,â Trump replied, âYeah, well, Iâm not so sure.â
Itâs against this backdrop that Politico reported [that] the Justice Departmentâs No. 2 official said Tuesday that people noisily protesting President Donald Trump could face investigation if theyâre part of broader networks organizing such activities.
In the current environment I think itâs fair to say thereâs really no reason to believe anything weâre hearing from federal law enforcement, either formally or on background to reporters.
It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable viewsâthat he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. Itâs that Kirk reveled in open bigotry.
Not the violent rupture of 1861, but something else entirely. Blue states building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders.
I am happy to see that "should receive" the covid vaccine or booster includes infants; children and adolescents who haven't already been vaccinated; anyone with a medical condition that puts them at higher risk of severe covid; and all household contacts of anyone at higher risk.
Everyone aged 65 or older should receive two doses, six months apart.
All healthcare workers "should" receive the vaccine, as should anyone who is pregnant, contemplating pregnancy, or has recently been pregnant, and a few other groups.
What I saw is Massachusetts-specific, but it says it is aligned with the recommendations of the new Northeast Public Health Collaborative, which includes New England except for New Hampshire, plus New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
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