Wednesday Reads

Posted: March 10, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: #EndChildMarriage, abortion rights, Biden’s First 100 Days, black women's reproductive health, COVID19, Discrimination against women, fetus fetishists, Fox News, Journalism, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons | 13 Comments

Good afternoon.

There was something about that image of the high heel and at vaccine 💉 …connecting women to science and how women are moving forward with Covid relief. (It also harkens back to the film High Heels by Pedro Almodóvar.)

The tag line to the film was, “Life can be murder in high heels.” And that is one statement you can’t argue with…even though we are living in 2021.

First some cartoons:

Ok…

All this makes this next tweet relevant…

On women:

Update here:

So true:

And I will end it with this thought:

Have a kick ass day…

Sunday Reads: Atlas

Posted: March 7, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Biden’s First 100 Days, COVID19, Democratic Politics, Donald Trump, Journalism, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, Senate, the GOP, Voter Ignorance | Tags: | 8 Comments

Good morning…

Some tweets to think about:

So proud to say…these are my senators:

This looks like it could be one hell of a story:

I had lunch with one of my old friends yesterday who told me this word for word:

She and I fully understand that we don’t agree on things like tRump…and the pro-choice rights of women…we love each other. She is like my family. It is so hard for me to hear some of the things she says. I spent the last year away from this family and we reconnected lately. I love her… and want her in my life.

Family and friends in the time of tRumpism. Even though he is out of office…his disruptive wake is still rocking boats that are moored in the bay.

This is an open thread.

Be careful, and take care of yourself.

Sunday Reads: Terrorwatts

Posted: February 28, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Climate Change, Democratic Politics, Domestic terrorism, energy, Environment, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, the GOP | Tags: | 14 Comments

Good morning…

This next link truly is mind boggling…

I don’t understand this Bitcoin shit…

The cryptocurrency’s value has dipped recently after passing a high of $50,000 but the energy used to create it has continued to soar during its epic rise, climbing to the equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of Argentina, according to Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, a tool from researchers at Cambridge University that measures the currency’s energy use.

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Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithms – is a deeply energy-intensive process.

“Mining” bitcoin involves solving complex math problems in order to create new bitcoins. Miners are rewarded in bitcoin.

Earlier in bitcoin’s relatively short history – the currency was created in 2009 – one could mine bitcoin on an average computer. But the way bitcoin mining has been set up by its creator (or creators – no one really knows for sure who created it) is that there is a finite number of bitcoins that can be mined: 21m. The more bitcoin that is mined, the harder the algorithms that must be solved to get a bitcoin become.

Now that over 18.5m bitcoin have been mined, the average computer can no longer mine bitcoins. Instead, mining now requires special computer equipment that can handle the intense processing power needed to get bitcoin today. And, of course, these special computers need a lot of electricity to run.

The amount of electricity used to mine bitcoin “has historically been more than [electricity used by] entire countries, like Ireland”, said Benjamin Jones, a professor of economics at the University of New Mexico who has researchedbitcoin’s environmental impact. “We’re talking about multiple terawatts, dozens of terawatts a year of electricity being used just for bitcoin … That’s a lot of electricity.”

Seriously…when I read this article, I could feel the blood vessels in my head bursting.

Meanwhile…

It should be noted…that if you live in a red state, it is more likely that the schools are open…and have been for a while now.

So, here we have a bomb from WWII having to be detonated…while a cryptocurrency uses as much electricity as an entire country just to “mine” it. What the fuck?

Well, try and have a pleasant day.

St. Valentine’s Day Reads

Posted: February 14, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: 2022 Elections, 2024 Elections, Domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, History, impeach trump, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Psychopaths in charge, Republican politics, Republican presidential politics, Senate, the GOP, Trump Impeachment, We are so F'd | Tags: | 18 Comments

This special Valentine goes out to all those people #43Traitors who voted to give a certain insurrectionist yet another free pass.

By the way, all Kitty hearts illustrations by:

This tweet is getting some attention:

So, there are bad storms across the country…

I will end with this one observation:

What can you say after that?

Sunday Super Thread

Posted: February 7, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Climate Change, COVID19, Environment, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, racism, Trump | Tags: , , | 7 Comments

Good morning…

Just a few cartoons…

So today is Super Bowl Sunday…and I wanted to remember the best halftime performance ever…

And just a few links:

Hollywood legends…we have lost four over the last few weeks.

Christopher Plummer

Hal Holbrook

Cicely Tyson

Cloris Leachman

Keep well, and stay safe.

And just a little shoutout to my hometown team…go Bucs!

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