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With all the eager discussion of the possibility of Trump dying in office, I am in the delicate and unfortunate position of not actually being in favor of it.

Don't get me wrong. I, too, would enjoy to seeing something very bad happen to Trump. What I'd best like is him getting his just deserts – ideally being arrested, indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced, having appealed, the appeal failing, appealing again, having that appeal fail, petitioning the POTUS for clemency and it not being granted, him being duly executed by the state as the traitor to the Republic and the Constitution he was proven to be. I'm not generally a big fan of capital punishment, but I am in fact willing to make exceptions; he seems to think he's an exception to a lot of things, and here I would agree with him.

But that's not going to happen, not in this time-line, and it's probably for the best that it doesn't.

Perhaps he will simply keel over dead, and I confess I will take at least a little bitter satisfaction in it.

And it's certainly not that I don't wish us all to be spared even another moment of this Trump presidency. Of course I do.

Alas, as much as I hate to crush the pleasant fantasy of us being redeemed by the deus ex machina of artheriosclerosis finally doing its job and carrying off our oppressor: Vance is worse. Much, much worse.

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The Girl Genius comic for Monday, September 01, 2025 has been posted.

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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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Title: Siblings
Author: Brigitte Reimann
Translator: Lucy Renner Jones
Genre: Fiction, historical fiction

This review will be briefer than I wish, because I’ve got two fingers taped up (injury) and it makes typing a pain. This morning I finished book #12 from the “Women in Translation” rec list, which was Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated from German by Lucy Renner Jones.

This book was published in 1963, just two years after the Berlin Wall went up, but takes place in 1960, before the Wall. It’s a book about three siblings, but really it’s a book about Germany’s future. The core of the novel is the relationship between the protagonist, Elisabeth (“Lise”) and her brother, Uli; and their views on the German state.

Lise is an adamant supporter of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; aka communist East Germany) and communism as a whole. She views it as her generation’s chance to right the injustices of a capitalistic world. Uli, on the other hand, while supportive of communism, resents the GDR for what he views as a lack of opportunity and its petty politics. At the start of the novel, Uli has decided to defect to the west, and Lise and her partner Joachim are trying to convince him to stay.

Throughout these efforts, the shadow of their eldest brother Konrad hangs over them—Konrad has already defected, years earlier, and is firmly settled in West Germany, though not without struggle.

This book is very politically philosophical. As mentioned, it’s about Uli and Lise (and Konrad), but it’s really about the future of Germany. Not yet 20 years out from the end of WWII, this is not an easy question (and there is a lot of finger-pointing to go around about who did what for the Nazis while they were in power). The book definitely leans in favor of supporting the GDR. While Uli and Konrad have their gripes about it, these are generally cast, through Lise’s viewpoint, as self-centered, or fig leaves for their real issue, which is that they cannot let go of a capitalist ownership mindset. Even where she acknowledges their complaints as valid—such as Uli’s frustration at the stunted opportunities for anyone who is not a Party member—her attitude is essentially that they need to tough it out for the sake of making the communist experiment work, or that it’s a reasonable trade off to avoid what she sees as the cruelties of capitalist West Germany.

It's the closest I’ve ever come to reading a pro-communism book (even Soviet authors I’ve read have been pretty staunchly against the Party, a la Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna), which made it interesting in that respect, as well as in how it addresses the ways the split of Germany affected individual Germans and German families.

However, the prose is very “tell not show” and this, combined with the highly philosophical nature of it, kept me at arm’s length from the characters and their lives.

Nevertheless, it’s fascinating from a historical perspective.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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There's a geometric trend sweeping the wedding cake world, peeps, and I APPROVE:

(By Erica Obrien Cake Design)

What sweet sorcery is this? It feels retro and modern at the same time.

It's pure modern elegance in these sea-swept tiles, though:

(By Cake Life, featured here)

In fact, I like this one so much I think it got into my subconscious: I just realized the curtain I bought this week is the same teal ombre! Ha! (Now if only I could find real tiles like this to match.)

This next one defies description:

(By Olofson Design. Photography by Anneli Marinovich)

What do you think, "exploding pastel fractal"? Maybe?

(Dig that stand!)

I know exactly how to describe this one, though:

(By Very Unique Cakes by Veronique)

WANT.

Yep, that fan topper is breaking my brain in the best possible way. Love it.

Raise your hand if you can't believe this next one's cake:

(By Amy Beck Cake Design)

[raises hand]

Such a rich masculine vibe, though. Me likey.

I've always felt there isn't enough kelly green in the world, so this little Pretty is making my day:

(By Cake Your Day)

Not to mention I want that topper as a hair clip, STAT.

Oooh, but here comes my favorite color combo:

(By Sweet And Saucy Shop, featured here)

Mmm, orange and teal goodness.

I also love the drippy candy thing (technical term) that's so popular right now, so this is a cool combo:

(Baker Unknown. Help?)

Check out the hexagonal lollipops, and that patterned topper! Rockin'.

Although there's a kind of serenity to these chic clean lines:

(By Sweet Fix, featured here)

Ahhh. Perfection.

And finally, for those brides who crave a touch of blue, you simply CANNOT beat this gilded Sapphire beauty:

(By The SweeterE, featured here)

The patterns, the textures, the perfect floral placement! YES.

Hope you enjoyed today's Sweets, everyone! Happy Sunday!

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Theme Prompt: #271 - In the nick of time
Title: Lifeline
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: M
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Ianto is faced with the stark realisation that what he wanted most of all might cost him his life.

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For your ten minutes today, write about yourself. You do not have to post what you come up with -- you can just post that you did it.

You might talk about something that happened to you in your past, or something that you're hoping for in the future. You could talk about something great that's happened to you recently, or perhaps things that you've been thinking about.

You can also mess around with various ways of expressing this. It's probably easiest to think about writing a journal entry, or maybe even an autobiography, but instead, you could write it as a conversation with a friend, or as a letter to a friend. You could even write yourself as a character in a novel, speaking to another character or having an internal monologue.

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Posted by Damien Newton

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https://cal.streetsblog.org/?p=69635

In case you missed it last week, Streetsblog California will be posting links to our short videos every Friday so any reader who doesn’t have a TikTok account or visit YouTube regularly can see what we have been working on. While the embeds below go to TikTok, you can view our work at short video channels at TikTok, Instagram, Facebook Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

We released four videos this week, two following up on videos from last week, one following up on a Santa Monica Next story, and one previewing today’s committee vote on SB79.

On Monday, we released our most popular video to date heralding Santa Monica’s Wonderful Bike Lane Paving Machine’s return to build some protected bike lanes by the Bergamot light rail station.

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Santa Monica’s Wonderful Bike Lane Paving Machine is coming back. Is your city moving slow on making protected bike lanes? Show them this video. More: https://santamonicanext.org/2025/08/the-wonderful-bike-lane-paving-machine-is-coming-for-bergamot/ #santamonica #bikelanes #streetsblog #StreetsblogCalifornia
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On Tuesday, it was another look at California High-Speed Rail as the state claims it can have service running by 2032 in the Central Valley and connect to the Bay by 2038.

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California High Speed Rail’s New Plan shows what a connection to Caltrain in Gilroy would mean for ridership, and the budget, in the next dozen years. #californiahighspeedrailway #CAHSR #gilroy #Streetsblog #streetsblogcalifornia
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On Wednesday we released a preview of today’s Assembly Appropriations Hearing on SB 79.

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San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener has been trying to upzone near transit sites for years. His Senate Bill 79, legislation that does just that, has already cleared the Senate and is heading to a key vote at the Assembly Appropriations Committee this Friday. SB 79 would do a couple of things: upzone near major transit stops, allow transit agencies to create their own zoning on land they own, and create an automatic approval process for projects within a half-mile of major transit stops if they meet local zoning and affordable housing rules. The legislation is supported by the YIMBY movement, the state democratic party, and a coalition of progressive groups. Opposition comes from the City of Los Angeles and most other cities, with some exceptions and community-based organizations. Some of the concerns, including that the legislation could produce less affordable housing in cities that have certain development requirements, are more serious than others. While the legislation has been controversial, it’s doubtful it would be coming to a vote at the Assembly Appropriations Committee unless passage was all but assured. The chair of the committee is Buffy Wicks, an ally of Wiener’s on many issues, and a co-sponsor of the legislation. Links to more coverage of SB70 at Streetsblog can be found below: Politics Heat Up Around SB79 – Dems Support, Los Angeles Opposes, August 25 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/08/25/politics-heat-up-around-sb79-dems-support-los-angeles-opposes Wiener’s Legislation to Upzone Near Transit Clears the Senate (Barely), June 5 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/06/05/wieners-legislation-to-upzone-near-transit-barely-clears-the-senate Wiener’s Controversial Legislation to Upzone Near Transit Keeps Moving with One Major Change, May 12 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/05/12/wieners-controversial-legislation-to-upzone-near-transit-keeps-moving-with-one-major-change Wiener Introduces Legislation to Increase Housing Density Near Transit, March 17 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/03/17/wiener-introduces-legislation-to-increase-housing-density-near-transit #streetsblog streetsblogcalifornia #scottwiener #sb79
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And yesterday we followed up on last week’s video about efforts to push back on a ludicrous anti-bike grand jury report in the Central Valley. The city council quickly and unanimously rejected the report’s findings…except for one that hilariously accused world-renowned bicycle and pedestrian safety planning group Alta Planning and Design of being “biased towards bicycles.”

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San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener has been trying to upzone near transit sites for years. His Senate Bill 79, legislation that does just that, has already cleared the Senate and is heading to a key vote at the Assembly Appropriations Committee this Friday. SB 79 would do a couple of things: upzone near major transit stops, allow transit agencies to create their own zoning on land they own, and create an automatic approval process for projects within a half-mile of major transit stops if they meet local zoning and affordable housing rules. The legislation is supported by the YIMBY movement, the state democratic party, and a coalition of progressive groups. Opposition comes from the City of Los Angeles and most other cities, with some exceptions and community-based organizations. Some of the concerns, including that the legislation could produce less affordable housing in cities that have certain development requirements, are more serious than others. While the legislation has been controversial, it’s doubtful it would be coming to a vote at the Assembly Appropriations Committee unless passage was all but assured. The chair of the committee is Buffy Wicks, an ally of Wiener’s on many issues, and a co-sponsor of the legislation. Links to more coverage of SB70 at Streetsblog can be found below: Politics Heat Up Around SB79 – Dems Support, Los Angeles Opposes, August 25 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/08/25/politics-heat-up-around-sb79-dems-support-los-angeles-opposes Wiener’s Legislation to Upzone Near Transit Clears the Senate (Barely), June 5 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/06/05/wieners-legislation-to-upzone-near-transit-barely-clears-the-senate Wiener’s Controversial Legislation to Upzone Near Transit Keeps Moving with One Major Change, May 12 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/05/12/wieners-controversial-legislation-to-upzone-near-transit-keeps-moving-with-one-major-change Wiener Introduces Legislation to Increase Housing Density Near Transit, March 17 https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/03/17/wiener-introduces-legislation-to-increase-housing-density-near-transit #streetsblog streetsblogcalifornia #scottwiener #sb79
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Posted by Damien Newton

https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/08/29/fridays-headlines-98

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Op/Ed: Reauthorize Cap-and-Trade for the Environment (SacBee)
Traffic Enforcement Way Down in Long Beach (LB Post)
CHP Being Used to “Curb Crime in Key Cities” (SacBee)
LA, San Bernadino on the List for CHP (Daily News)
Gav Says CHP Recovered 4,000 Vehicles in Oakland (East Bay Times)
Zoning for SD’s Clairmont Neighborhood Would Keep Low-density Housing Near Blue Line (KPBS)
More Good Press for Santa Clarita’s Mountain Bike Park (SF Gate)
Life in Planned Community “Pretty Great” (SF Chron)
Trump’s ICE Terror Destroying Communities, for Example: Oxnard (LAT)
How About Some State Guidance on Ebike Laws? (Voice of OC)
Pollution from Oil and Gas Extraction Kills 90,000 Americans a Year (The Guardian)

Get the rest of the headlines at SBUSA, SBLA, and SBSF.

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Posted by Roger Rudick

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/commentary-the-real-reason-trump-opposes-high-speed-rail-isnt-about-trains-its-about-power

https://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=479736

Amtrak just put its new high-speed Acela II trains, a French design built in the U.S., into service on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston. That means if someone wants to travel, say, between Washington and Providence, RI, a distance of about 400 miles, it can be done with unrivaled safety, comfort, and speed in about six hours, on infrastructure that’s well over a century old. Parts of that run have been updated and modernized, permitting bursts of speed up to 160 mph with the new trains. However, many sections have winding curves and tracks and electrical infrastructure that is badly outdated. Sections are also shared with much slower commuter trains and even some freight. So the average speed is more like 70 mph.

Alstom’s high-speed rail set/Acela II, entering service on the East Coast. Photo: Simon Brugel/Wikimedia Commons

Despite that, Amtrak and the other rail systems that use the Northeast Corridor account for about 50 percent of that travel market, carrying over half a million people every weekday. In the Northeast and in Europe and Asia, modern high-speed rail systems have all but eliminated short-haul flights between the major cities.

I picked Providence as the destination and not Boston or New York, because from D.C. that’s about the same distance as San Francisco to Los Angeles. The same Acela II on modern high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure is actually capable of 220 mph. That means the train that just launched on the East Coast could one day go from LA to SF in under three hours.

Yes, California’s HSR project is badly delayed. Most of that comes down to the state’s excessive regulations. But it doesn’t follow that the solution to reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is to give up and kill the HSR project. The solution is to do what State Senator Scott Wiener is doing: amending CEQA so it doesn’t make it all but impossible to build anything bigger than a chicken coop.

Oil wells in California. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Lately, California’s HSR debacle has been folded into the rivalry between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom. Trump just wants California to fail. The Republican Party wants to keep bleeding tax revenue from the nation’s richest state and giving it to red states. Newsom, meanwhile, just wasn’t that interested in the train, usually seen as Jerry Brown’s project, until Trump made it front-and-center. But the opposition goes much deeper than any political spat. Look into who’s funding the so-called “think tanks” that keep writing editorials and funding politicians who oppose HSR, and it’s always petroleum, car, and airline interests filling the coffers. That started long before Trump’s first term.

It’s not hard to figure out why they’re so interested.

This isn’t even about CO2 emissions; it’s about the power consumed to move people in different modes. From an Amtrak report.

The chart above shows the relative energy consumption of different modes. And see the lead image? That’s the Safe Harbor Dam on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, a hydroelectric generating facility that provides the power to much of the Northeast Corridor. Electricity grids are complicated, but, put simply, people riding Acela II and most of the trains on the Northeast Corridor aren’t emitting greenhouse gases beyond what they fart and exhale. Head over to France, and nearly all the energy involved in moving people around comes from nuclear and renewables, emitting no CO2 at all. Closer to home, the Hoover Dam puts out more than enough power to run California’s high-speed rail system.

A lithium mine in Chile. Credit: Reinhard John

And before you go there, electric cars are no substitute, since they consume so much more electricity per person (and thereby make the transition to renewable energy harder and harder). They’re also associated with a host of other environmental damage, such as metal mining for battery production. And of course, they do nothing to address congestion and traffic violence.

An electric Key System train running on the Oakland Bay Bridge. The Key System and others were purchased and destroyed by car and oil interests. Photo: Found SF

Simply put, the opposition to HSR doesn’t give a crap about waste or delays, which they ignore on road projects and intentionally exacerbate with rail. No, it’s about greed, cynicism, and power. Political power, yes, but more than that, it’s about power—and whether it comes from fossil fuels or hydroelectric and other clean sources. There’s a reason Qatar, which exists entirely on fossil fuel exports, gave Trump a 747. America is the largest consumer of petroleum in the world. California, with the country’s largest car market, consumes nearly 2 million barrels of oil every single day—86 percent of it goes to transportation. 90 years ago, oil, car, and tire interests started purchasing electric transit, including the Pacific Electric rail network in Los Angeles and the Key System in the Bay Area, and shutting them down to force people to buy cars and gasoline. The modern descendants of those car and oil companies certainly don’t want California to finish building a modern, West Coast version of the Northeast Corridor. People funding Trump, the Republicans, and even many Democrats, will do whatever they can to hold onto their massive oil-money spigot.

Note: The contracts for the Acela II project between Amtrak and Alstom, the manufacturer of the train, were signed in 2016, when Obama was in office.

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Current rumors engulfing Bluesky have me recalling an old Communist-era Russian joke:

Every day, a man walks to a news stand and pays for a copy of Pravda, unfolds it, looks at the front page, and throws it in the trash. Every day he does this, for months, until finally the news seller asks the man, "So what is it you are looking for on the front page every day?"

"I'm checking for an obituary."

"Comrade, the obituaries aren't on the front page."

"Oh, this one will be."

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https://xkcd.com/3135/

They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

https://xkcd.com/3135/

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Posted by Jennifer Blakeslee

https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/maker-faire/from-robots-to-fire-breathing-dragons-maker-faire-long-island-lights-up-stonybrook-on-september-14th/

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FACEBOOK I INSTAGRAM I MASTODON I WEBSITE On September 14, 2025, more than 100 makers will gather at Stony Brook University to inspire families, students, and innovators with hands-on exhibits, performances, and cutting-edge tech. This year’s event is bigger than ever, coinciding with the Explorium’s 20th anniversary and promising a day filled with invention, creativity, […]

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Theme Prompt: #271 – In The Nick Of Time
Title: Perfect Timing
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Des Llewellyn, Intergalactic Man of Mystery, aka Ianto Jones, along with his faithful sidekick, take on a mission to rescue a kidnapped child.

( Perfect Timing... )

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Posted by john (the hubby of Jen)

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...never let the guy from Boston order your bachelor party cake.

Bummah.

Thanks to Jerry F., who was the real stah of the pahty.

*****

P.S. Here's another (hilarious) reminder that English is hard:

P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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