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Wielder of the arcane sword of SQL. Slayer of data demons. Sometimes.

Tropical Storm Bertha projected path as of 10AM CDT, July 21, 2026 with location, warnings and watches. Due to changes at any time, please refer the National Hurrine Centre for current information at: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2026/BERTHA.shtml?
Proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor at the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. A large crowd of men in 19th century German dress uniforms stand before and beside Wilhelm of Prussia on a dais. In front in grey uniform is Otto Von Bismark.
Countries with birthright citizenship in 2026. Grey are countries without, red are 45 countries with restricted birthright citizenship, green are 36 countries with unrestricted birthright citzenship. source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-birthright-citizenship
How is the noun marijuana pronounced? British English /ˌmarᵻˈ(h)wɑːnə/ marr-uh-HWAH-nuh U.S. English /ˌmɛrəˈ(h)wɑnə/ mair-uh-HWAH-nuh
God gesceop ða æt fruman twegen men, wer and wif (then at the beginning, God created two human beings, man and woman)
Two US helicopters flying in close formation to a C-130 Hercules over Iran Source: https://youtu.be/LxSaB2dhk4o
Infrared or heat images of various fighter jets.
Twitter post from Travis County Sheriff's Office, Sept 5, 2020. "TCSO responded to multiple calls involving boats in distress during the Trump parade on Lake Travis. Several boats did sink." Below that, a picture of a partially submerged boat, sinking, in mild choppy water, from said parade.
Two aircraft flying at high altitude in close proximity. darker sky above, stars seen through thin atmosphere. Flat white of cloud tops far below. The lead aircraft, a KC-135 Stratotanker, has a refueling boom, a long telescoping tube with two guiding winglets mid-way, lowered from the rear underside to the top of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, just behind the cockpit.
Four panel montage in 2 x 2 layout. Trump in the Simpsons in 2000 on left, Trump in real life on right. Top row, Trump desending escalator in Trump Tower, with a crowd above. Bottom row, Trump speaking at a podium with blue rectangular Trump sign in front, US flags behind.
A sample of a Canadian Election Ballot. It is black with a column of white rectangles with candidate names in bold and party affiliation below in smaller letters. The second column are white circles, where the voter makes their mark. Title: Canadian Election Ballot Candidate Column: Cabot, John Political Affiliation / Appartenance politique Cartier, Jacques Appartenance politique / Political Affiliation de Vercheres, Madeleine Independent / Independent Secord, Laura Instructions to the right in the clear area: You can X, check, or line, or you can fill the circle. Marking more than one circle or marking outside the circle spoils your ballot.
Map of the Strait of Hormuz, Qeshm island highlighted, of strategic importance.
Map from Wikipedia article: On 28 February 2026, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran, was destroyed during the school day, reportedly being triple tapped by three missiles, amid the initial US-Israeli attacks against Iran in the 2026 Iran war. According to Iranian state media, 168–180 people were killed, the majority of whom were schoolchildren. The attack was the single most deadly airstrike in the ongoing bombing campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
US Storm Prediction Center convective map 2026-02-06, with enhanced risk area for east OK, east KS, south east NE, southwest IA, west MO, Northwest AR. Strong tornado risk.
Hard line approach demanded by Canadians Canadians’ appetite for capitulation when it comes to Trump’s threats has long been minimal. Consistently, fewer than two-in-five have said that making concessions to maintain the relationship is the preferred path. Currently, two-thirds say that they would have the Canadian government take a hard approach even if it means drawing the ire of Trump’s team. As negotiations of a potential, but perhaps unlikely, renewal of the USMCA trade deal near, it’s worth noting how Canadians’ attitudes have changed compared to when that deal was first negotiated during Trump’s first term. Then Canadians were much more likely to say they wanted a soft approach to preserve the relationship between the two countries.
Miller’s anti-immigrant zeal has at times exceeded even that of Trump. According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller.
A silver high pressure water jet attached to a blue hose, about to enter a drain.
A red baseball cap on a white background, with a white maple leaf on the side and "Make America Go Away" in white embroidery.
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NEXRAD from Buffalo NWS (KBUF) showing buildinf shadowing and "exclusions" black pixels from high return points.
Wx Radar image from ECCC Exeter (CASET), showing interference from wind turbunes
A disheveled, pop-eyed, white haired old man, dressed in a white coat, white shirt, red tie, smiles. (Kureo Mado, CCG Ghoul Investigator, from animé version of Tokyo Ghoul.
CBC News Conflicting Headlines 1) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized 2nd strike on alleged drug vessel, White House says. 2) White House denies report U.S. ordered 'second strike' on already bombed alleged cartel boats.
French Queen Marie Antoinette with Donald Trump's face photoshopped on.
Helicopter view of an area on fire in the industrial area south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport after the crash of a UPS MD-11 after take-off. A green circle surrounds the location of Stooges Bar and Grill, outside of the fire zone.
A painting of Marie Antoinette, with Donald Trump's face photoshopped in.
Two views of a metallic computer enclosure box with fans. Inside the box are yellow printed circuits, mounted on a mother board.
Right portion of the German Nazi flag.
Passage from 1984, George Orwell Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?
A US Navy F-35C carrier based fighter floats in the ocean, surrounded by foamy water, before sinking... glug glug glug
drop in steel water barriers north of Lock 8, Welland Canal, Port Colborne, ON, CA.
Storm surge navigation gate - Lake Ponchartain entrance to Inner Harbour Navigation Canal, New Orleans, LA.
A table display of 2020 Incoterms, arrayed with which party is responsible for fees and services in international trade and shiping.
Article101 Definition of piracy Piracy consists of any of the following acts: (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed: (i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft; (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State; (b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft; (c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b)
Map Southern Ontario - centred on Boston.
A bright yellow Canadair CL-415 water bomber, drops it's water in a blue sky.
Recent Canadian federal polling from https://338canada.com/polls.htm
Image of DHS Secretary Kristie Noem with the quote beside: "The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American Dream" From FOX News
Bar graph of Canada's annual wildfire burn area total since 2000.
A green helmeted alien standing facing camera from the ice warrior race of Mars from the original Dr Who series.
Sample voting ballot from Elections Canada
A battenburg cake sliced on a white rectangular plate. Wikipedia: Battenberg[1] or Battenburg[2] cake is a light sponge cake with coloured sections held together with jam and covered in marzipan. In cross section, the cake has a distinctive pink and yellow check pattern. It originated in England
Israel Red Alerts.
Left Image: Trump in a big yellow chicken suit with TACO on front. Right Image: blend of a taco on a plate with Trumps face superimposed.
TACO Memes - Trump Always Chickens Out.
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln.
Sedition Marginal note:Seditious words 59 (1) Seditious words are words that express a seditious intention. Marginal note:Seditious libel (2) A seditious libel is a libel that expresses a seditious intention. Marginal note:Seditious conspiracy (3) A seditious conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to carry out a seditious intention. Marginal note:Seditious intention (4) Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the expression seditious intention, every one shall be presumed to have a seditious intention who (a) teaches or advocates, or (b) publishes or circulates any writing that advocates, the use, without the authority of law, of force as a means of accomplishing a governmental change within Canada. R.S., c. C-34, s. 60 Marginal note:Exception 60 Notwithstanding subsection 59(4), no person shall be deemed to have a seditious intention by reason only that he intends, in good faith, (a) to show that Her Majesty has been misled or mistaken in her measures; (b) to point out errors or defects in (i) the government or constitution of Canada or a province, (ii) Parliament or the legislature of a province, or (iii) the administration of justice in Canada; (c) to procure, by lawful means, the alteration of any matter of government in Canada; or (d) to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters that produce or tend to produce feelings of hostility and ill-will between different classes of persons in Canada. R.S., c. C-34, s. 61 Marginal note:Punishment of seditious offences 61 Every one who (a) speaks seditious words, (b) publishes a seditious libel, or (c) is a party to a seditious conspiracy, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. R.S., c. C-34, s. 62
US senator Lindsay Graham floats idea of Trump being elected the next Pope.
Radar image of meso cyclone south of Sioux Falls, IA with NEXRAD TDS at 2025-04-28 19:34 EDT.
A pile of ashes sit on a white surface with a white background. A Sun Tze quote as above: "An evil man will burm his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
A representation of 3 dimensional Euclidian Space.
Map of southern section of Port Colborne Ontario, centred on Charlotte and King with two arrows. The north east arrow points to Canalside Restaurant on West Street where PM Mark Carney was having lunch and harassing right-wing protesters had gathered. The south west arrow points to a location on King Street where an advanced polling station was open.
A dark globe with the USA on it... America first? America Alone.
Two bluesky posts... The first with how the prefix "pen" means "almost" The second post by chance is about Marine Le Pen (French far-right leader). Marine "The Almost".
CNN Headline: South Texas faces half a year's worth of rain as rare severe storms threaten the Pacific Northwest.
The Third Doctor and Jo Grant stand in the ancient Atlantis Temple of Kronos, looming at the glowing master time crystal in the foreground (Doctor Who - The Time Monster)
A glowing time crystal from Doctor Who, The Time Monster
FAA AIDS TTD data file.
Portion of Amazon item detail. White screen with colured buttons and text. This indicates ships from and sold by.