The Week In Woke

America's ugliest little wallflower loser will ignore the public vote on banning males from girl's sports.

The statement was 148 words. Not one of those words was "girls."
Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said that she was going to back the Seattle School Board's unanimous vote to pursue legal action against Initiative 638 -- which would enforce separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports in Washington state.
Voters passed the measure by a 13-point margin last week, and it won in 36 of the Evergreen State's 39 counties. But after deliberating behind closed doors Monday, the Seattle School Board voted publicly to authorize potential legal action against the measure without hearing public testimony. And the mayor fully approves.

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"As mayor, I remain committed to building a Seattle where every person is welcomed, supported, and valued, and where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves. I support the Board's decision and its commitment to creating inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."
Remember, Seattle was one of the epicenters of the "No Kings" movement, where tens of thousands rallied against a president they accused of disregarding the will of the people. Yet when Washington voters overwhelmingly supported a measure Wilson opposes, she had no problem backing an effort to overturn it. Apparently, the will of the people is only worth defending when the people vote the right way.
Capping off Wilson's statement was a paragraph of political platitudes so empty it would make even a seasoned politician blush. She wants to build a Seattle "where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves," and "create inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."

Girls don't, of course. They'll continue to be dominated, harassed, and menaced by male cheaters with a bizarre hatred of women.

Earlier in the week I linked Laura Yakas, a "professor" of social work, whose "teaching" consists of her badly strumming her guitar, badly singing, and doing her "comedy" act for students going in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a job that pays $50,000 per year. If you haven't seen that, do check it out.

Her "academic" work consists of making arguments about why the "neurodivergent" and "mad" should be given privileges. She means "mad" in the sense of "mentally ill." She's a pioneer in the field of "mad studies," and I strongly suspect she has a very personal interest in the subject.

I also strongly suspect she was hired precisely because she ticks the Intersectional Box of Obvious and Florid Mental Illness.

Her "academic" work is what you might expect.

Yakas' academic publications are equally unconventional, including her 2009 work, Femininity, Sexuality and Body Hair: The female body hair(less) ideal, which is no longer available online.
In her chapter Love Is Merely a Madness in the 2023 Routledge academic book Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals, Yakas argues that society has historically treated people whose sexual identities or behaviors fall outside traditional heterosexual norms as mentally ill or abnormal. She challenges those beliefs, arguing that sexual diversity is natural and that labeling it a mental disorder is itself harmful.
In the same book, she co-authored the chapter Compulsory Monogamy Is Disabling: Connecting Disability Justice and Critical Non-monogamy with Nicole Ariel Lopez. In it, Yakas and Lopez argue that society's expectation that people should have only one romantic or sexual partner can be harmful and discriminatory. They compare traditional expectations of monogamy to discrimination against people with disabilities, arguing that both create barriers that prevent people from living as they choose. They advocate for greater acceptance of relationships involving multiple partners, arguing that people should be free to pursue love, sex, and companionship in ways that meet their individual needs.

She's an advocate for "Mad Pride." The pride that insane people should have in their insanity.

Like I said, this madwoman has a personal interest in Mad Studies.

Recently, after accidentally falling down a rather deep Google rabbit hole, I learned a new term: Mad Pride, which, in simple terms, is a movement trying to encourage society to view neurodivergence and other mental illnesses in a more positive light. "Mad" is a reclaimed term, meaning that, although it has been used in a derogatory manner in the past, people once targeted by the term now use it to self-describe themselves. Mad Pride as a movement began in the 1970s in response to coercive treatments in mental healthcare, which all too often attempted to subdue a patient and emphasized productivity and adherence to social norms, sometimes at the expense of actually improving their quality of life.
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What is madness anyway?
Recently, I spoke with Laura Yakas, a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work with an interest in Mad Pride. She Zoomed in from New Zealand, where she grew up, and where she is currently staying while she teaches remotely.
We started by getting clear on terms. While I had always thought neurodiversity referred primarily to conditions like Autism or ADHD, Yakas said she uses it to refer to mental health conditions more broadly. Yakas also differentiated between innate neurodiversity, which a person is born with, and acquired neurodiversity, which is often caused by trauma. For example, Autism would be considered innate and a condition like PTSD would be acquired.
Yakas further argued that there is a lot of overlap between madness and neurodiversity, and different people may prefer one term over the other for a variety of reasons. As a result, these terms are often used interchangeably. But, Yakas emphasized, someone who identifies with the ideals of Mad Pride would likely say that none of these conditions mean someone's brain is "wrong" or "broken."

The thrust of her "academic" work is claiming that neurodivergent people -- people with autism or insanity -- are actually the sane and normal ones, and the normal and sane ones are the abnormal and insane ones.

She's created a new Intersectional Category of privilege: "saneism," the belief that sane people have that their mental sanity allows them to see the world correctly and make logical judgments about it.

But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.

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"Neurotypical ... doesn't mean normal," Yakas explained. "It means someone whose neurotype is not being pathologized in their particular culture at this time."
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Yakas also argued that madness is, at least in part, socially constructed. There has been somewhat of a cultural shift in recent years in terms of viewing diagnoses like Autism and ADHD as a form of neurodiversity rather than as diseases needing to be cured. ...

Because of saneism, mad people are often denied the ability to define their own experience -- as evidenced by the push to cure autistic people of something much of the community doesn't view as a disease. Of her own experience, Yakas said that the messaging she received was, "I have a broken brain. Nothing that I'm saying is real. Everything is irrational."
In many cases, stigma prevents mad or neurodiverse people from being able to define their own experience. It can also prevent mad people from entering mental health professions, which means that many of those treating mental illness don't have lived experience.

She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness. Which they also assert is not mental illness as all.

That's just your "saneism" talking, Bigot.

Speaking of insane people attempting to define reality for sane people:

TPUSA staffers discuss the Retard Tranny Wizard who attacked them.

And yes, the retard has they/them pronouns.

He was identified by law enforcement as Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, and booked into the Smith County Jail. He faces two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily injury.
The Smith County Criminal District Attorney's Office could not be reached for comment Wednesday by The College Fix on what formal charges Tomlian may face. A jail spokesperson told The Fix on Thursday that Tomlain was booked out of jail Wednesday night on bond.
Tomlian was seen in a video vandalizing a Turning Point USA display, ripping down an American flag, calling the TPUSA members "fascist pieces of sh*t," and using a prop cane to smack a member's legs before he was subdued and arrested. He was wearing a cape and some sort of wizard hat at the time.
According to his Instagram account, Tomlian goes by he/they/she pronouns.

That doesn't even make sense. All three of those are subject pronouns. It has no object pronouns. So you'd say "I'd like to give she a punch in the mug"?

Even when playing a game for retards, zhe still makes the most retarded move possible.

The violence won't stop until people start knocking these people the **** out.

But you can't do that, of course. While this retard will be "sentenced" to time served for an unprovoked assault, you'd go to jail for a year for knocking she out in self-defense.

Speaking of that:

Via Steve Inman, a crackhead comes charging a guy out of nowhere, but joins the Ludacris Hall of Fame.

A new survey of nearly 2,200 students at five Chicago-area universities found 84% felt pressure to criticize Western civilization to succeed academically, while roughly 3 in 4 reported holding back their opinions.
@campusreform editor-in-chief @zachmarsch warns that students may be learning to stay silent rather than challenge ideas.
�There is very little room for interrogating the history of Western civilization in a neutral, if not even a positive lens.�
— The National Desk (@TND) November 10, 2026

Notice how we didn't see any of this: https://t.co/S74sYDO8JX
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 11, 2026

Here's their coverage of Iryna Zarutska: https://t.co/7suogOcqPy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 11, 2026

A 15-year old immigrant from Ghana was shot dead in NYC. It was a major story.

A 17-year-old has been arrested on a murder charge in the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong.
Police picked him up for questioning at his home in the Bronx Wednesday morning and took him to the 42nd Precinct.
The NYPD is not identifying the suspect due to his age, but he is facing charges of murder, manslaughter and other firearm-related charges.

Now it's becoming a much less major story....

The NYPD just arrested the 17-year-old that killed a black teen migrant, Javits Frimpong
Ben Crump now says "skin color does not matter" regarding "who pulled a trigger"
You know what that means� https://t.co/4xRCAQnUvj
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 11, 2026

Woke 1 was craaaazy.

Why are you not cheering louder?

Yes the county is running a huge shortfall. Yes this slab of concrete has been abandoned for more than two decades and is merely a useless eyesore. Yes, this nitwit's "victory" is going to cost the county and state millions of dollars in tax revenue. And yes, this brain donor and others like her will be screaming about how underfunded their preferred social programs are. Willful stupidity is a choice
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) November 10, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness. Which they also assert is not mental illness as all.

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Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. "Rachel" L. Levine.

I rest my case.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 05:26 PM (dIske)

2 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2026 06:23 PM (hwFie)

3 FedEx H1B IT are doing maintenance on the login system, so they have their scammer buddies in India doing a full court press to break onto accounts while users can’t change their account email or passwords.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 06:24 PM (PB58D)

4 So you'd say "I'd like to give she a punch in the mug"?

Yes, actually.

And I bet doing that would piss off she/they/it.

Posted by: Socialist at November 13, 2026 06:26 PM (vJrRc)

5 /off red sock

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2026 06:26 PM (vJrRc)

6 Ain't it foggy outside...

Posted by: Dewey Bunnell at November 13, 2026 06:27 PM (xg/DD)

7
The thrust of her "academic" work is claiming that neurodivergent people -- people with autism or insanity -- are actually the sane and normal ones, and the normal and sane ones are the abnormal and insane ones.

She's created a new Intersectional Category of privilege: "saneism," the belief that sane people have that their mental sanity allows them to see the world correctly and make logical judgments about it.

But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.

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If you don't agree, you're anti-intellectual and hate learning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 06:27 PM (eRlcH)

8 Ok, I feel like I cheated. I shouldn't be #1. I posted that over an hour ago.

And, while I'm setting things straight. I have a gripe about the thread on California supplements. I just went to GNC Vitamins and Supplements, and those bastards wouldn't sell me any Heroin. I call shennanigans.

SHENNANIGANS!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 06:27 PM (dIske)

9 That poor girl at the bottom is just mourning the closing of the mall food court and her favorite stores, like Great American Cookie, and Aunt Annie's Pretzels.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 06:27 PM (uUHnE)

10 If Presdent Obono was Presdent thinks nots be happening!

Another Trump Screw up peeple..

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 13, 2026 06:27 PM (XsYff)

11 The lesson that the moslems are learning is the central weakness of Liberalism: there is only one crime that cannot be excused.

Murderer? Didn't get enough hugs. Rapist? Got too many of the wrong hugs. Sells drugs to children? It's society's fault. Terrorist? Well, those darn Jews, you know.

The one crime which cannot be forgiven is RACISM. It will cost you your career and there's no coming back from it.

So yeah, moslems have to be allowed to fly jets because it's racist to prevent them.

Remember the bomb at the Ariana Grande concert some years ago? Someone pointed out suspicions and was told "Shut up, racist."

Liberalism has doomed us all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 13, 2026 06:28 PM (CHHv1)

12 I fear some day in the not too distant future it will be Day of Woke

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

13 Regarding the cruise ship T-boning here: I'm pretty sure this happened on the East Bank side, near the French Quarter. Mardi Gras World, where the floats are constructed for the parades every year, used to be on the West Bank. Every morning during the season, you'd see a caravan of floats crawling across the bridge. Eventually the owners decided it made more sense to relocate to the East Bank.

And all the footage right now is being shown as being right by Mardi Gras World. I see a line of palm trees in several shots, and there's nothing like that on the Algiers side.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (56Qyq)

14 Just for Ace to keep uo

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Close the sky.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (hwFie)

16 He was identified by law enforcement as Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, and booked into the Smith County Jail. He faces two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily injury.

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I could tell by the way he held the stick he used to attempt battery that his father wasn't a part of his life. Any decent father would have told him at the age of 4 to grip the bat with one hand atop the other when swinging. It increases the force and accuracy of the swing. Seriously.

Posted by: Crusader at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (TN0g+)

17 Howdy Doody Tally Rico. When is he due for his next nervous collapse?

Mad Pride, eh? I have always been proud of my own madness. I don't join these freaks as it would somehow involve weird sexual deviants and a big NO.

They're probably all super ugly as well and I would not fit in for that reason alone.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (hzuYO)

18 John Cornyn looks like he is being held hostage in that photo.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:30 PM (5WPt1)

19 Is that what Talarico looks like without the glamour filters?

He's practically a twin for that one grinning meme face.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2026 06:30 PM (vJrRc)

20 The verbiage that is used in these "social sciences" paper (s) sounds like someone reading a MadLibs of words. It's gibberish on steroids

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 06:30 PM (Qu9v+)

21 I could tell by the way he held the stick he used to attempt battery that his father wasn't a part of his life. Any decent father would have told him at the age of 4 to grip the bat with one hand atop the other when swinging. It increases the force and accuracy of the swing. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader at November 13, 2026 06:29 PM (TN0g+)

I think the faggy outfit and hat probably indicated this just as clearly. He shit is all retarded.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (5WPt1)

22 "2+2 = 5"

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the phrase "2 + 2 = 5" is a symbol of the totalitarian Party's total control over objective truth, logic, and individual thought.

Power. Boys can be girls

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (2sX6p)

23 Willowed: >No city in the western world is laid out as retarded as Rome.

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Santa Fe, NM, lifts a hand . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (56Qyq)

24 Via Steve Inman, a crackhead comes charging a guy out of nowhere, but joins the Ludacris Hall of Fame.

Anybody have a working X firewall workaround?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (vTZFs)

25 >>>But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.

We thought the Philip K Dick future would be like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and it turns out that the PKD future is going to be The Clans of the Alphane Moon

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (rbvCR)

26 Mardi Gras World? Is that a theme park where animatronic girls flash their boobs?

Posted by: davidt at November 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Q+gd/)

27 21 The verbiage that is used in these "social sciences" paper (s) sounds like someone reading a MadLibs of words. It's gibberish on steroids
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 06:30 PM (Qu9v+)

Playing with words is the only thing left in "academia" these days. Nobody is breaking any new ground, but they do find ways to explain it that are more and more opaque, so they think they sound really intelligent.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:32 PM (5WPt1)

28 There's the Uniparty and there's Trump. Us against them. I don't like the odds. I hope he comes out ok.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 13, 2026 06:33 PM (MWfyi)

29 Sweet lord - one look at the professor and you know she's a lunatic. I mean, my brain warning light went off before she even opened her mouth.

Posted by: notalawyer at November 13, 2026 06:33 PM (Cx4Ie)

30 19 John Cornyn looks like he is being held hostage in that photo.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:30 PM (5WPt1)

__________________________

I got a different vibe off of his expression.

"You should have re-elected me. Now you get to deal with Alfred E. Neuman. "

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 06:33 PM (dIske)

31 Maryland Activist is eating well, I see.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:34 PM (k1S9h)

32
It's going to be very hard to take looking at Talarico for at least the next 6 years*. I'm still in shock that TX put that freak into office.

* And most likely for as many years as he wants to stay in office because it's nearly impossible to get these crumbs out of the Senate once they're in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (qBdHI)

33 1 hour and 45 minutes on the tarmac for J. This is a very bad, no good day.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

34 Talerico is literally an anti-christ.

And it's snowing outside.

I think I'll have another bourbon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (XV/Pl)

35 People have a very false sense of their own attractiveness these days.

Posted by: NCKate at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (enNUy)

36 Mardi Gras World? Is that a theme park where animatronic girls flash their boobs?
Posted by: davidt at November 13, 2026

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I wish. Though I've never visited it, I understand it's not only the workshop where the parade floats are designed and built, but also a tourist stop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (56Qyq)

37 >>That poor girl at the bottom is just mourning the closing of the mall food court and her favorite stores, like Great American Cookie, and Aunt Annie's Pretzels.

Caught a story on this earlier today...apparently, when asked what she would rather see the site used for she proffered 'An Indoor Trampoline Park'.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM (k1S9h)

38 The thrust of her "academic" work is claiming that neurodivergent people -- people with autism or insanity -- are actually the sane and normal ones, and the normal and sane ones are the abnormal and insane ones.
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Ya know who also has an interest in this? Demons.

It used to be that madmen were thought to be possessed by actual demons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 06:37 PM (s2iZv)

39 ****She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness. Which they also assert is not mental illness as all.
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It's like a vaccine, isn't it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2026 06:37 PM (826kS)

40 I really deserve a Scotch, my 66th trip around the sun

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)

41 24 Willowed: >No city in the western world is laid out as retarded as Rome.

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Santa Fe, NM, lifts a hand . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:31 PM (56Qyq)

Madison, WI, where you can stay on the same road, all the way around a lake, and the name changes six times, all without ever making a turn.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (5WPt1)

42 I got the panicked phone call because we have 2 people trying to get home from El Lay. They couldn't even get any type of rental car. Oh well.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (VCgbV)

43 I wish. Though I've never visited it, I understand it's not only the workshop where the parade floats are designed and built, but also a tourist stop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I was there a pretty good time ago. We did a corporate team building function there and built a small float. It was fun.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

44 Playing with words is the only thing left in "academia" these days. Nobody is breaking any new ground, but they do find ways to explain it that are more and more opaque, so they think they sound really intelligent.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026

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Robert B. Parker, once an English prof, had his detective Spenser describe it once: "[A]s if they could make the false into the true by richly said restatement."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (56Qyq)

45 >>1 hour and 45 minutes on the tarmac for J. This is a very bad, no good day.

Back in the 90s I got stuck in an American Airlines Jet in Dallas for 7+ hours.

I started smoking after 2 hours. When they told me I couldn't smoke on the plane I offered to step outside...after that, all the smokers on the plane lit up.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (k1S9h)

46 It used to be that madmen were thought to be possessed by actual demons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 06:37 PM (s2iZv)

Some of them are.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (5WPt1)

47 Skip, Happy Birthday and a toast to many more.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (8Uo7a)

48 41 I really deserve a Scotch, my 66th trip around the sun
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026

Happiest of Birthdays, Skip!

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

49 This country is on a generational run. Never stop fighting but shit is fucked.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (jooRO)

50 "She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness"

Are not most shrinks already nuts themselves?

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

51 Why do fatties insist on wearing lycra?

I would support a law that required all lyrca to be sold on top floor of buildings with 5 stories and no elevators.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (uUHnE)

52 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKIP!!!
🎂🎉🎁🎈

Posted by: lin-duh at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (VCgbV)

53 Happy Birthday Skip.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (jooRO)

54 That fat colored gal in the last photo most likely does not work but does "activism" for a living, most likely paid for in federal grants and other tax payer schemes, or works at some government sinecure collecting a check for no work. She will be lauded as a democrat hero while in fact she helps keep her neighborhood entrenched in poverty and dependence. I wonder what her SAT scores are...

Posted by: Ben Crump, Race Warlord and Grifter at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (Ssbab)

55 >>This country is on a generational run. Never stop fighting but shit is fucked.

My only advice is to get somewhere rural and get friendly with some neighbors.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (k1S9h)

56 @41

>>I really deserve a Scotch, my 66th trip around the sun

I learned this very day about the incredible combination of Scotch and Chocolate.

It's true.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 06:41 PM (XV/Pl)

57 It's going to be very hard to take looking at Talarico for at least the next 6 years*. I'm still in shock that TX put that freak into office.

* And most likely for as many years as he wants to stay in office because it's nearly impossible to get these crumbs out of the Senate once they're in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM

Hey now........

Posted by: Senator Cornyn at November 13, 2026 06:41 PM (I43vL)

58 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 13, 2026 06:42 PM (I43vL)

59 At least haven't heard of any Muslims going Jihad today

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

60 43 I got the panicked phone call because we have 2 people trying to get home from El Lay. They couldn't even get any type of rental car. Oh well.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (VCgbV)

When SeaTac closed due to snow, we got stuck in Las Vegas for an entire week. Couldn't rent a car to drive to LA to get a direct flight, because those were all booked solid, too. There used to be some redundancy in air travel, but apparently all that is gone. I imagine this will be much like it was after 9/11. Even the military planes are grounded today. No sign of the F-22s or even the C130s that usually go over the house.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:43 PM (5WPt1)

61 44 I was there a pretty good time ago. We did a corporate team building function there and built a small float. It was fun.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 06:38 PM (ZdaMQ

Now that I think about it, that was trip I met J.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 06:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

62 This scotch would be good with chocolate

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (k1S9h)

Not realistic unfortunately. But your point is a good one.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:44 PM (jooRO)

64 Are not most shrinks already nuts themselves?
Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

Physician heal thyself.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:44 PM (5WPt1)

65 At DM: "Peanut the squirrel's German owner is seized by ICE and warned she faces deportation two years after animal's killing outraged America"

Lady just can't catch a break.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

66 It's going to be very hard to take looking at Talarico for at least the next 6 years*. I'm still in shock that TX put that freak into office.

* And most likely for as many years as he wants to stay in office because it's nearly impossible to get these crumbs out of the Senate once they're in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:36 PM

Hey now........
Posted by: Senator Cornyn at November 13, 2026 06:41 PM (I43vL)

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It only took nearly a quarter of a century to get Cornball out!

Pondering a quarter century of Talarico...

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (qBdHI)

67 Did the FAA get hacked by Chinese AI too?

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (MWfyi)

68 Call me crazy but I don't think a 300 pound woman is going to spend a lot of time on a trampoline. She gets that flubber bouncing and she might go into orbit.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (viF8m)

69 ~~Texas~~ America got Blue because, in no small part, of the system that continued to push John Cornyn…

…John Thune, Darlene Graham, etc., etc.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (FEIEI)

70 64 Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:40 PM (k1S9h)

Not realistic unfortunately. But your point is a good one.
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:44 PM (jooRO)

Realistic enough. I did it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (5WPt1)

71 Hey Blue Jays, you'd better get those slut women reporters to start covering up.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (2WIwB)

72 My theory on grounding the planes - they realized that all the cockpits had Microsoft operating systems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (eT5aD)

73 Cornyn looks like a cardboard cutout

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (Qu9v+)

74 Happy Birthday, Skip!!!

Posted by: washrivergal at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (KGrz7)

75 Happy Birthday Skip. Take tomorrow off and enjoy yourself!

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (MWfyi)

76 Be proud, TX.

Two POSs in the same shot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2026 06:46 PM (nbhjE)

77 Call me crazy but I don't think a 300 pound woman is going to spend a lot of time on a trampoline. She gets that flubber bouncing and she might go into orbit.
Posted by: JackStraw
----
They would definitely abort that "catch".

Posted by: lin-duh at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (9U6Wl)

78 All radars and communications system were disabled simultaneously.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (8Uo7a)

79 Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (5WPt1)
The money I’d make on the house sale would be lost on the buy for a new house. And to convince my job to work remotely permanently? Ehhhh.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (jooRO)

80 68 Did the FAA get hacked by Chinese AI too?
Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (MWfyi)

Of course they did. Cyberterrorism is now the norm, rather than an odd occurrence. We are being held hostage by our enemies. We probably gave them the wherewithal to do so. I just hope they don't decide to crash a plane into my house at this point.

FFS.

We are not a thoughtful civilization any more.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (5WPt1)

81 Happy birthday Skip, many more

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 06:48 PM (Qu9v+)

82 In my ongoing and brief reddit studies, I saw a blurb about a musical group (don't remember name and not important).

They were on fakebook and X telling people of losing their 20wk gestational baby. Which is sad, even for weirdos. Ok.

I read the statement and they kept referring to the baby as they. I got confused, considered twins, and backed up a bit and found, no. One baby. Who was a they. Who may have said, oh, heck, no I don't need this they as I am a girl or a boy.

How retarded is this? No need to answer. Instead of he/she or him/her they had to go further and say they.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 06:48 PM (hzuYO)

83 Have they explained why they shut down air travel yet?

You would think something like ATC would be 6 or 7 nines.

I feel that our system is like one nine. Not even that, it is like a microsoft 7.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 06:48 PM (uUHnE)

84 And the fallout from the election keeps on coming, Lauren Boebert has been ousted in Colorado.

Ousted in her "conservative" district for a lunatic leftist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 06:48 PM (XV/Pl)

85 She's created a new Intersectional Category of privilege: "saneism," the belief that sane people have that their mental sanity allows them to see the world correctly and make logical judgments about it.

But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.

I see we have already arrived at the De Sade Stage of Woke 2.0.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (6ydKt)

86 Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 06:48 PM (XV/Pl)

Between the fraud and people telling Trump voters to stay home? Yeah. I can see it.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (jooRO)

87 80 Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (5WPt1)
The money I’d make on the house sale would be lost on the buy for a new house. And to convince my job to work remotely permanently? Ehhhh.
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (jooRO)

It is less an economic decision than a tactical one. We have found paradise, and we are staying. However, you will find that rural property is less expensive and is taxed considerably less. But YMMV.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (5WPt1)

88 I for one welcome our new retarded overlords.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (MWfyi)

89 >> Call me crazy but I don't think a 300 pound woman is going to spend a lot of time on a trampoline. She gets that flubber bouncing and she might go into orbit.

She sure as hell stopped that Data Center, though.

Fat fucking retard.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k1S9h)

90 Lindsey Graham was gay?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, trying to upgrade my AoSHQ Membership level at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (xg/DD)

91 Bizarre accident in New Orleans today - an oil tanker going down the Mississippi went out of control and T-Boned one of the fancy paddle wheeler cruise ships this afternoon, sinking it.
(microsoft again?)
There were passengers on board, but it was tied up at the dock and disembarking passengers at the time. Haven't seen and injury count - the cruise ship sank in minutes, but I don't think it was in deep water.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (eT5aD)

92 And the fallout from the election keeps on coming, Lauren Boebert has been ousted in Colorado.

Ousted in her "conservative" district for a lunatic leftist

--

And it only took them 10 days to keep manufacturing "votes" until she lost!

Happy Birthday, Skip!

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:50 PM (qBdHI)

93 Has anyone asked those five Chicago University presidents to name the last noted conservative professor they hired in....oh...say the last ten years?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2026 06:50 PM (2WIwB)

94 70 Texas America got Blue because, in no small part, of the system that continued to push John Cornyn…

…John Thune, Darlene Graham, etc., etc.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 06:45 PM (FEIEI)
_________________________

Tim Scott.

Also, since 2017 over 1 Million Californians have moved to Texas. These aren't the overwhelmed Conservatives who were held hostage in a Blue state. These were the people that caused the California Blue state, and decided to move out of what they caused because they were (and remain) too incredibly obtuse to understand why it didn't work to their benefit.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (dIske)

95 Brennan did all of this to distract from the coverage of his pedo son.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (viF8m)

96 I'm telling ya, everything is going to crap. Slowly at first...

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (MWfyi)

97 I see I was repetitive. Just saw video of it, pretty nasty.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (eT5aD)

98 At DM: "Peanut the squirrel's German owner is seized by ICE and warned she faces deportation two years after animal's killing outraged America"

Lady just can't catch a break.
Posted by: gp

Hey, just because we mourned the extrajudicial execution of her pet doesn't mean she gets to break immigration law.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (vJrRc)

99 I don't know except for the Socialists Propaganda Ministry going anti- Trump 24/7 how the whole country went Socialists. Its brain washing or fake votes ratched up to 1000%

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (Ia/+0)

100 She sure as hell stopped that Data Center, though.

Fat fucking retard.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k1S9h)

Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (5WPt1)

101 Orson, the Californians moved here because the jobs moved here.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (8Uo7a)

102 Talarico has a smile that says "I've sucked a lot of dicks." I'm sure he's got a handshake to go with it, too.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (QaH55)

103 Servo makes the 100th FAA/Microsoft joke today.

Tell him what he's won, Johnny.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 06:53 PM (J4Dwc)

104 >>Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.

From her perspective?

Data is a White Adjacent and therefore a Racisms.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:53 PM (k1S9h)

105 >>She sure as hell stopped that Data Center, though.

>>Fat fucking retard.

If you haven't seen the full story look for it. She was a minor annoyance until she partnered with an NGO funded by Neville Singham. It was a CCP op.

Hopefully, it will become obvious to everyone 90% of the data center hate is coming from China.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)

106
Can we name one of our little crappy Pacific islands, Mad Island and dump all our Mad Pride advocates there so they can live their best Mad Lives being all mad 24/7-

and we don't have to put up with their stupid bullshit.

I starting to believe that we need a general movement for

"Hygenic Exile" wherein al kooks nd idiots get removed to their own island.

You know, kind of like the idea of Australia except these assholes really do deserve to get the boot from society.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 06:54 PM (YSUhf)

107 >>Talarico has a smile that says "I've sucked a lot of dicks." I'm sure he's got a handshake to go with it, too.

And Cornyn has the, 'I just contracted 3 strains of MonkeyPox, didn't I?', face.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:54 PM (k1S9h)

108 @93

>>And it only took them 10 days to keep manufacturing "votes" until she lost!

The GOP has been essentially wiped out in Colorado, they are down to having 1 congressional seat left and no statewide offices to speak of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 06:54 PM (XV/Pl)

109 102 Orson, the Californians moved here because the jobs moved here.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (8Uo7a)

Every summer, DH asks me if it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them? I kind of feel like that should likewise apply to Californicators moving in. I know they ruined Anchorage up here, and I suspect the effect is somewhat similar to Texas at this point. It would be self defense, after all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (5WPt1)

110 Cornyn is standing next to the guy he voted for. Let that sink in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (qBdHI)

111 79 All radars and communications system were disabled simultaneously.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:47 PM (8Uo7a)

*****
Comforting for when I fly again.

I am never afraid of flying. I guess if I had enough warning i could listen to "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult" after saying prayers.

https://tinyurl.com/3k5ysa83

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (hzuYO)

112 104 Servo makes the 100th FAA/Microsoft joke today.

Tell him what he's won, Johnny.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 06:53 PM (J4Dwc)

the other play was

COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT!!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (eT5aD)

113 It's Skip's birthday? Happy Birthday, dude!! Take the weekend off, have a beer or three!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (6PUpl)

114 Anybody have a working X firewall workaround?
Posted by: Oddbob

twitterviewer.net

Posted by: t-bird at November 13, 2026 06:56 PM (SOF+/)

115 No. This shit I get tired of. The constant "demons" and "Satan" said by some here.

Its just Human Nature. We don't need a damn Satan. We are our own Demons. Including, for the most part, some that think they are Angels. They're the worst.
Posted by: Really at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (V0dOF)

The best op by Satan was convincing people that he doesn't exist. You do you, but you have been warned.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:56 PM (5WPt1)

116 Data centers are noisy and have lots of lights. They say buffer zones mitigate that. I wouldn't want to be right on the other side of the buffer especially if I had moved there specifically to get away from that shit.

That shopping center site seems perfect though but people are extraordinarily stupid so what do you expect.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:57 PM (MWfyi)

117 >>Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.

There isn't one. It's a CCP op.

Years ago I was in the data center business. Most of the crap that is floating around in the media is made up nonsense.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 06:57 PM (viF8m)

118
Absolutely beautiful views of Earth below from Starship now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

119 Remember when the gov came up with that bill of rights for air travelers a few years ago?

Posted by: NCKate at November 13, 2026 06:58 PM (enNUy)

120 The best op by Satan was convincing people that he doesn't exist. You do you, but you have been warned.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:56 PM (5WPt1)

*********
Standing with you, tcn.

Demons walk among us. It's not my fault some can't see it. It's real and I pray against their evil daily.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 06:58 PM (hzuYO)

121 Too many races take days to get to the Socialists winning, but its all legit

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 06:58 PM (Ia/+0)

122

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2026 06:59 PM (Cqx++)

123 tcn I don't think you would like a data center built next to you either.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)

124 >>Data centers are noisy and have lots of lights.

They really aren't either of these, by necessity.

They also don't use much in the way of water.

It's all an OP. The Chinese really want us to abandon the pursuit of Tech.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:59 PM (k1S9h)

125 These were the people that caused the California Blue state, and decided to move out of what they caused because they were (and remain) too incredibly obtuse to understand why it didn't work to their benefit.
Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 06:51 PM (dIske)

I here tell that California is very scenic and beautiful with deep river valleys, luscious green farmland and miles and miles of beaches. Me and the family be planning on moving out there sometime this spring in time for Jethro to start that there college out there...wee doggie! Here we come...

Posted by: Ozark Hillbilly Jeb and Family at November 13, 2026 07:00 PM (Ssbab)

126 Jackstraw would you want a data center built next to you?

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

127 105 >>Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.

AFAIK, the strongest anti data center point would be power usage. Having them create their own power generation is probably necessary.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 13, 2026 07:00 PM (r7+Q7)

128 Why didn't these fat asses protest blanketing good farmland with solar panels? Or the whooop whoooop whooop of windmills?

Or even the crime and degradation of migrant centers. they only seem to protest shit that helps america

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 07:00 PM (uUHnE)

129 No. This shit I get tired of. The constant "demons" and "Satan" said by some here.

Its just Human Nature. We don't need a damn Satan. We are our own Demons. Including, for the most part, some that think they are Angels. They're the worst.
Posted by: Really at November 13, 2026 06:55 PM (V0dOF)
----
Demons and angels are 100% real.
You'd know that if you'd been touched by both.
But you are under demonic influence and don't even realize it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 07:01 PM (s2iZv)

130 >>.... would you want a data center built next to you?

Would you rather have a Data Center or Low Income Housing built next to you?

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:01 PM (k1S9h)

131
Headline for last picture:

Dumb Fat Woman Destroys The Creation of Hundreds of Jobs Through Her Incredibly Dense Ignorance

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 07:02 PM (YSUhf)

132 "They really aren't either of these, by necessity."

I'll ask you too if you would want one build next door to you.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:02 PM (MWfyi)

133 >>I'll ask you too if you would want one build next door to you.

If the Zoning allows for it, sure. I have no problem with one.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:02 PM (k1S9h)

134 jackstraw lives IN a data center

Posted by: grass monkey at November 13, 2026 07:03 PM (eP4XR)

135 "Would you rather have a Data Center or Low Income Housing built next to you?
Posted by: garrett"

Neither. That's why I bought property way the fk away from everything.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:03 PM (MWfyi)

136 107
Can we name one of our little crappy Pacific islands, Mad Island and dump all our Mad Pride advocates there so they can live their best Mad Lives being all mad 24/7

Johnston Atoll has Crazy Ants. Mean little fuckers, but then what ant isn't? Kinda like...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 13, 2026 07:03 PM (QaH55)

137
Tim Scott.

Also, since 2017 over 1 Million Californians have moved to Texas. These aren't the overwhelmed Conservatives who were held hostage in a Blue state. These were the people that caused the California Blue state, and decided to move out of what they caused because they were (and remain) too incredibly obtuse to understand why it didn't work to their benefit.
Posted by: Orson

It worked perfectly, Tim.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2026 07:03 PM (Cqx++)

138 Physics Geek: know why the pic doesn't show her knees? Yeah, she out did Kamala.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2026 07:03 PM (826kS)

139

(with slight hair lip inflection and lots of indignity)

JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A NORMAL BRAIN DOESN"T MAKE YOU ANY BETTER THAN ME!!!

Posted by: pawn at November 13, 2026 07:04 PM (Ytebf)

140 >>Jackstraw would you want a data center built next to you?

Wouldn't bother me anymore than any other commercial facility. And the taxes they toss off would be welcome.

Some of the largest commercial data centers have been around for years and exist in major metro markets and nobody said dick. Aside from the large power requirements pretty much every other claim made about them is nonsense.

One of the biggest areas for data centers in the US is northern Virginia. Has been for decades. Nobody cared.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)

141 CNN has learned that today's ATC System shutdown was shut down because of Global Warming effects.

CNN has learned that with recent temperature increase of 0.0003 C over the past 5 years cause this failure.

CNN also has learned from the Democrat Party that the way to make sure this does not happen again is for everyone to buy an electric car and reduce their Carbon Footprint.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at November 13, 2026 07:05 PM (jGtoG)

142 How often, these days, I want to reach through the screen and give certain people a good slap.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 13, 2026 07:05 PM (12Bbv)

143 Feedlots, just about any type of Ranch/Farm, Railyards, Municipal Waste Facilities, Wind Farms, Solar Farms...
the list is endless of things I would choose a Data Center over.

It is patently retarded to think a Data Center is more obtrusive to a population than any of these.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:05 PM (k1S9h)

144 They wanted a Data Centers in the next town, but the Chinese have talked everyone into only letting them have them

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)

145 I might add those northern VA areas are some of the wealthiest suburban zip codes in the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)

146 twitterviewer.net
Posted by: t-bird

Thank you.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2026 07:06 PM (vTZFs)

147 40 107
Can we name one of our little crappy Pacific islands, Mad Island and dump all our Mad Pride advocates there so they can live their best Mad Lives being all mad 24/7

I recommend Atlantis...

Posted by: Jackson K. at November 13, 2026 07:07 PM (ENxVw)

148 >>Neither. That's why I bought property way the fk away from everything.

You really aren't understanding the nuance of my inquiry.

To rail against Data Centers for no cogent reason is to assist those who would happily put Low Income Housing on YOUR Property, because KELO Fuck You!.

All because you have been brainwashed to think that they are something they are not.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:07 PM (k1S9h)

149 "If the Zoning allows for it, sure. I have no problem with one.
Posted by: garrett"

The zoning changes to allow it. I wouldn't want one next door anymore than I would want a shopping center or warehouse. Screw the tax benefits, the county is just going to blow it on pickleball courts and free needles for unhoused people.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:08 PM (MWfyi)

150 I would welcome a data center next to me. I could get a part time job there cleaning the shitters and stealing stuff from the fridge.

Posted by: Nanookie of the North at November 13, 2026 07:08 PM (Ssbab)

151 Javits Frimpong
----

Of the Long Island Frimpongs!

I love these Star Wars alphabits names.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 13, 2026 07:09 PM (kpS4V)

152 What's with the nationwide ground stop at airports?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 13, 2026 07:10 PM (kpS4V)

153 How much capacity does a data center have? We sure seem to need a lot of them.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 07:10 PM (8Uo7a)

154 Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (5WPt1)

In this county? The Land Use commission will invalidate part of its own plan for soil and water conservation for the privilege of having construction companies come in from out of area, the County will insist of issuing bonds to cover additional expenses by the County, the city involved will force the consumers to pay higher water and sewer rates while doing nothing to increase the infrastructure, and the city councilors and some relatives of county employees will make bank in selling the property.
And power rates will go up, since there is no way the state will allow increased power production.

All the money from the construction gets funneled into the commissioner's pockets, and there will be little benefit for the locals. And when construction falls through, the state will insist on putting in Section 8 housing through a simple change in waiver, because putting it in the larger cities means fighting about who has to have section 8 housing in their back yard.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 07:11 PM (rbvCR)

155 >>What's with the nationwide ground stop at airports?

Data centers.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

156 Femininity, Sexuality and Body Hair: The female body hair(less) ideal

And thus began the Carpet / Hardwood War.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 13, 2026 07:12 PM (0sNs1)

157 So we can all agree, it has nothing to do with any rational basis for not wanting a Data Center.

It's just NIMBY-ism.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:12 PM (k1S9h)

158 Just saw at Insty that DataRepublican got a people's choice award for citizen reporting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 13, 2026 07:12 PM (kpS4V)

159 "All because you have been brainwashed to think that they are something they are not.
Posted by: garrett"

I was in a data center just a couple of weeks ago. I've also been to one under construction. I'm not opposed to them in the appropriate location. I'm not brainwashed because that is impossible seeing as how I am always right.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:12 PM (MWfyi)

160 Data centers.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)
---

Rise of the machines!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (kpS4V)

161 California's largest export in the last two years--- it's residents.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (8Uo7a)

162 That lady in MD; that area is the old Landmark Mall. The Washington Capitols used to play at the arena there. It's all part of the DC Metro area. What it isn't is quiet. Noise is a thing here. Except today, no air traffic due to that outage. I'm not anti data centers, but as with anything, location is important. The rust belt area of the country is near and dear to my heart. There are LOTS of empty spaces there that used to be mills. Those areas are big enough for data centers. Also, they are near major roads, railroad lines, and rivers. Data centers would be much cleaner than those old mills. I'm still pretty neutral towards AI and data centers, mostly because what we are hearing and reading is trash. Truth is valuable and scarce these days.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (6PUpl)

163 CNN has learned that today's ATC System shutdown was shut down because of Global Warming effects.

--------------

CNN Reports That The New Orleans Paddleboat That Tipped Over Earlier Today May Have At One Time Been Named "The Guam" -- Vindicating What Little Remains Of Rep. Hank Johnson's Reputation.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (V3Oxf)

164 This is a ddos that might be foreign or just AI. More to follow.

Posted by: Sandman arriveth at November 13, 2026 07:14 PM (uUznD)

165 How much capacity does a data center have? We sure seem to need a lot of them.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 07:10 PM (8Uo7a)

Look up the economic term, "skyscraper curse"
The economics are distorted because the firms making AI have too much money or have access to cheap loans which they can't access unless they commit to building something.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 07:14 PM (rbvCR)

166 It's all an OP. The Chinese really want us to abandon the pursuit of Tech.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 06:59 PM (k1S9h)
==

I'll need more than "We have to because it's a Chinese Op!" to accept data centers being built on every available acre.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 13, 2026 07:14 PM (0bjKf)

167 The men in blue t-shirts giving the heart sign; what does that have to do with the murderer?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2026 07:15 PM (826kS)

168 Demons walk among us. It's not my fault some can't see it.

Especially when they’re dancing loudly in bright clothing screaming “sacrifice your children! Enslave your neighbor!”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 07:15 PM (b7uxG)

169 "It's just NIMBY-ism.
Posted by: garrett"

That's right. Put one in your backyard. It's fine with me. I'm not opposed to it at all.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)

170 >>I'll need more than "We have to because it's a Chinese Op!" to accept data centers being built on every available acre.

The actual Story was a Chinese Op.
Nobody is denying that. It has been documented and in several other instances the same person is responsible for funding the astroturf against Data Center Development.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:17 PM (k1S9h)

171 143

(with slight hair lip inflection and lots of indignity)

JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A NORMAL BRAIN DOESN"T MAKE YOU ANY BETTER THAN ME!!!
Posted by: pawn

Preach it!!

Posted by: Abby Normal at November 13, 2026 07:17 PM (6PUpl)

172 California's largest export in the last two years--- it's residents.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (8Uo7a)

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I was disappoint that their Billionaire's Wealth Tax proposition failed -- as Califzuela cannot collapse soon enough for me.

Hopefully the Commies in charge will once again ignore the will of the voters ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 07:17 PM (V3Oxf)

173 J has officially gotten a gate and is deplaning. He is running to the car rental place for the care he rented while on the tarmac, hoping it is still available.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 07:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

174 >> J has officially gotten a gate and is deplaning. He is running to the car rental place for the care he rented while on the tarmac, hoping it is still available.

Isn't this the plot to Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:18 PM (k1S9h)

175 Beau was killed in a Data Center

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 13, 2026 07:18 PM (xg/DD)

176 >>> Can someone please tell me one cogent argument against data centers? I have yet to hear one that holds water.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (5WPt1)

No hearings, no listening to their constituents. You will eat zee bugs, you will build zee data center. And instead of rushing to build new dams or nuclear power plants to cover it, they are tapping out the resources already in existence.

There are data centers in Utah already. Smaller non-disruptive ones, I have no problem with. But Utahns are passionate about protecting the Great Salt Lake, which has been rapidly shrinking for decades. Too many new people and too much drought.

When "Mr Wonderful" and the shadow corp MIDA bought the approval of the county commissioners, to build a data center next to the lake, one that is THE SIZE OF THREE MANHATTANS, with no real studies as to what that might do to suck up the nearby lake groundwater and water shares from needy farmers, and mess with the electric grid. (Closed circuit water loops DO need fresh water! And they expel toxins from the water buildup.)

They are rubber stamping them with no concern about how it will actually affect the people in that area.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 07:20 PM (Eng1Z)

177 The men in blue t-shirts giving the heart sign; what does that have to do with the murderer?"

It's a play on the images of women doing that during the trial...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 07:20 PM (pfXMo)

178 The men in blue t-shirts giving the heart sign; what does that have to do with the murderer?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2026 07:15 PM (826kS)

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I think they were contrasting what we don't see (men) at rallies of primarily AWFLs supporting murderers & murder like with the Clancy children.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 07:20 PM (V3Oxf)

179 >176

I get that Neville Singh is behind a lot of the anti-data center stuff. But you can't make people hate something that they didn't already dislike.

What I haven't heard is why data centers are good and needed.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 13, 2026 07:21 PM (0bjKf)

180 the city involved will force the consumers to pay higher water and sewer rates while doing nothing to increase the infrastructure, and the city councilors and some relatives of county employees will make bank in selling the property."

That's what happened when I bought Bushwood!

/T. Melon

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 07:22 PM (pfXMo)

181 That lady in MD; that area is the old Landmark Mall. The Washington Capitols used to play at the arena there. It's all part of the DC Metro area.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 13, 2026 07:13 PM (6PUpl)
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The Washington Capitals used to play at the Capital Centre, an arena located in Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Landmark Mall was located at the western end of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.

Posted by: Zombie Todd Howard at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (skdav)

182 >>I get that Neville Singh is behind a lot of the anti-data center stuff. But you can't make people hate something that they didn't already dislike.

Data centers have been around for decades. Nobody ever said squat about them until a couple years ago.

Where has all this dislike been for the last 40 years?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m)

183 11 102 Orson, the Californians moved here because the jobs moved here.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 06:52 PM (8Uo7a)

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Companies moved to Texas. BUT, what employees did they take with them. Certainly not the line workers or the "grunts". No, they brought their HR recommended employees. Management and middle Management. And, those folks (remember this is California) are a DEI nightmare of massive proportions.

SO, yeah, people followed the jobs....but not the people you wanted following the jobs.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (dIske)

184 "What I haven't heard is why data centers are good and needed.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke"

They have to store and process all those Flock pictures somewhere. Also, AI videos of cats water skiing.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)

185 Late to the thread, but people with emotional baggage if not full on mental illness have been getting degrees in psychology for decades, wanting to figure their issues without paying a shrink $$$ every week. They even had a term for it. Wounded healers or something.

And it was not always a horrible thing. People who have experienced a parent constantly belittling them etc can connect with clients working through the aftermath of something like that. But taken to the extreme and having people who never worked out their trauma or have full blown psychosis 'running the asylum' Yuck.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (Qt+hw)

186 Its just Human Nature. We don't need a damn Satan. We are our own Demons. Including, for the most part, some that think they are Angels. They're the worst.
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"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" - Jeremiah 17:9

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (aStBq)

187 2 punch faces

Oh Texas. I pray for us.

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (lCppi)

188 True closed-loop cooling systems do not need a constant fresh water supply. Once the system is initially filled, the fluid recirculates indefinitely within sealed pipes, requiring only minor top-offs to compensate for rare leaks or maintenance events.

However, many facilities marketed as "closed-loop" actually utilize a hybrid design that requires significant fresh water. In these setups, an internal closed loop transfers heat to a secondary cooling tower or dry cooler system. This external loop relies on evaporative cooling to reject heat into the atmosphere, which consumes water through evaporation and requires regular make-up water and periodic blowdown (flushing) to prevent mineral buildup.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (V3Oxf)

189 Once President Trump came out in favor of data centers, the left anywhere and everywhere instinctively is now dead set against data centers.

Like Moscow of old, the orders go out and the Comintern responds.

Posted by: 1919 to 1943 at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (Ssbab)

190 When I first saw the top photo, I thought the pedo youth minister was shaking hands with Biden.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (12Bbv)

191 Isn't this the plot to Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2026 07:18 PM (k1S9h)
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Mrs. F. said the same thing.

It's all up to fate now. Who flys, who drives, who is left behind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 07:24 PM (RIvkX)

192 "Data centers have been around for decades. Nobody ever said squat about them until a couple years ago."

Because the scale is huge compared to a few years ago.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)

193 John Cornyn's resounding defeat in the primary is a clear and unmistakable referendum on President Trump. After all, I have it on good authority* that Senator Cornyn voted with President Trump 99.2% of the time. Apparently, people no likee that.

* source: John Cornyn 2026 campaign literature

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 13, 2026 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

194 >>> So we can all agree, it has nothing to do with any rational basis for not wanting a Data Center.

When have we ever agreed on ANYTHING at this site? Which is a feature not a bug.

"But muh Chyna!" fear porn to force people to build centers, or accusing anyone who ask questions about data centers of being a Chinese psyop, is just as stupid as my friends who want to burn them to the ground because they fear change.

I want data centers that help us advance technology in a POSITIVE way. But one that protects the humans, and prioritizes them over the bots.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 07:27 PM (Eng1Z)

195 Some college football games may not be played tomorrow because the team flights were cancelled. I know Alabama is going by bus tonight to Nashville for their game with Vandy tomorrow. My towns high school is playing tonight, they are still in the playoffs and I will be going to watch them soon.Gotta support the kids.

Posted by: Case at November 13, 2026 07:27 PM (En+fz)

196 Nood Cafe.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 13, 2026 07:30 PM (xg/DD)

197 Data centers have been around for decades. Nobody ever said squat about them until a couple years ago.

Where has all this dislike been for the last 40 years?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m)
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I liked da jooz until I heard they caused the Iran War and now I can’t afford bananas. And something about Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Cenk Uygur's audience of millions at November 13, 2026 07:30 PM (RIvkX)

198 As someone who disliked the older push towards storing information on the "cloud" and who dislikes the current push towards "AI", I'm not partial to the supposed need for a vast number of new data centers.

However, the campaign against data centers seems to be largely supported by the sort of people who can't be bothered to store anything on their own equipment, rather than the "cloud", and who eagerly embrace AI chatbots and their crummy output.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at November 13, 2026 07:32 PM (2vECm)

199 I think its cute how anthropic has been saying "we think AI could break containment and harm people, government needs to regulate it"

My answer would be for government to pass laws that if some companies AI causes harm the assets of every employee and every stockholder of that company are available to satisfy any successful lawsuits.

What we will get is bought politicians making regs that make it very hard for any new companies to break into the field.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 13, 2026 07:34 PM (Qt+hw)

200 >>> How in the fuck do you think "AI" is advancing ANYTHING ?

Helps streamline parts of my processes I hate and are tedious, for starters. As my assistant it helps me so I can do the things I LIKE to do, and minimize the tedious parts, for starters.

That is not the problem with AI. The problem is governments using them to store massive data that invades our privacy, like the flock cameras.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 07:34 PM (Eng1Z)

201 32
It's going to be very hard to take looking at Talarico for at least the next 6 years*. I'm still in shock that TX put that freak into office.
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You can than Chairman Xi for that.
It cost him a lot of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2026 07:45 PM (826kS)

202 Ol' John couldn't wait to put a finger in the eye of Texans. I suppose its a step up from the knife he put in our backs.
Sadly, I don't think John is done. I expect he'll find a way to stick it to us a few more times before January.

Posted by: Chemist at November 13, 2026 07:45 PM (YqyJL)

203 Would you rather live next to a data center or a crumbing and weedy shopping mall site abandoned 24 years ago?

I'm thinking that you would at least get the benefit of lower taxes and higher property values with the former.

Posted by: boatbuilder at November 13, 2026 08:28 PM (AosIJ)

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