Dave.Land: Radical Left Scum

@dave.land

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Love means love: all means all. On the other hand: • Follows ≠ endorsements. • NO random DMs. 　👎 ESPECIALLY if I just followed or followed back. • I block titty-spammers. "America is hostage to a rancid dementia addled sociopath." — @scassian.bsky.social

Black-and-white vignetted quote photo of John F. Kennedy on a white background with the text, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." — John F. Kennedy
Text image of white text on a royal blue background accompanied by a photo of a smiling Ronald Reagan: It is headlined: "The Father of Fake News" The body text reads: Ronald Reagan's FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine which, since 1949, required media to present both sides' opinions in the rare event they weren't just reporting straight news. A Democrat-controlled Congress passed a bill to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. Reagan vetoed the bill. Fox News followed in the 1990s. America is now more polarized and misinformed than ever.
A random nonsense quote from from https://nontrinsic.linerly.xyz/en My generation grew up playing Pac-Man, but did we end up dashing around dark rooms and swallowing white dots while listening to electronic music?
Image shows the last step in blocking a user on Bluesky on mobile.
Photo of Abraham Lincoln with Meme text overlay: "The problem with Internet quotes is that you never know how authentic they are" – Abraham Lincoln
Jasper, our 20-year-old senior cat, snoozes on my knee while I game (instead of cleaning up the living room).
From the Mercury News, a chart showing the top nine candidates for Governor. Of them, Two are GOP: front-runner Steve Hilton and also-ran Chad Bianco. Votes for Katie Porter, Mat Mahan, Antonia Villaraigosa, Tony Thurmond, and Betty Yee, if they'd been cast for either of the top two Dem vote-getters Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer, would have rusulted in a two-way Democratic run-off in November.
Fake text chat messages that appear to be posted (by someone looking like Keanu Reaves with long hair or Jesus with Ray Bans): - i ain't reading all that - i'm happy for u tho - or sorry it happened
Screenshot from a YouTube video titled "the UK's inconsistent unit conversions on bridge height signs" showing two different overpasses marked 4.5 m, but one is 15'0" and the other is 14'9".
A blue square with a large yellow equals sign, representing the Human RIghts Campaign for equal marriage.
In dappled afternoon sunlight, Jackie, a gray medium hair colony queen cat, enjoys the drink of water from a galvanized watering can.
screenshot of status.bsky.app, showing that the page can't load sure to a server error. These guys are having a heck of a day.
Screenshot of a detail of yesterday's Donald Trump's Truth post, highlighting the following text: "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz."
Detail from bizarre image of Donald Trump as Jesus healing a guy in bed who might be Epstein. The detail shows what looks like a heavily armed warrior with "Statue-of-Liberty"-style spikes radiating from the head, and what's either upraised arms making the "TOUCHDOWN!" sign, or crossed furled flags across its back. It clearly has another arm, which is holding hands with another warrior figure to its right.
Random image inserted by gBoard dictation on iOS, consisting of a blue vertical line at left, and the rest of the images is blank. In other instances of this bug, one or two characters may appear to the right of the blue line.
Nasa photo from the Artemis II mission shows, left-to-right, the bright white Ingegrity ship, a looming, gloaming crescent moon, and a tiny silver sliver of Earth about to go behind the Moon.
A long-haired grey cat drinks from a watering can on a warm California summer… erm, Spring afternoon.
Whiteboard with the following poem written in purple: There once was a singer of Old, Who then broke away from the fold, He won't give you up, He won't let you down, In a word you have been Limerick-rolled.
“There’s a whole group of really corrupt billionaires who have really close attachment to the Trump administration, who want people who are going to be soft on their issues, and so that means people who are going to be OK with unconditional military aid in [Israel Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war machine,’ Peters said. "That means people who are going to be OK with the advancement of Al slop and the increase in utility rates. That means people who are OK with the corrupt practices of the crypto bros who have been literally benefiting from the Trump administration and I believe have played a role in Trump’s ability to gain more wealth”
Blood red image with black-and-white photo of Hakeem Jeffries with the following text: AIPAC HALL OF SHAME HAKEEM JEFFRIES US REPRESENTATIVE [D-NY-08] $1,741,000+ SPENT BY THE ISRAEL LOBBY & THEIR MEGA DONORS ALL-TIME TOP DONOR: AIPAC www. TrackAIPAC.com
Screenshot of a tweet by @cspan: Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.
Text image reads: Here are the specific details regard the status of U.S. and international medical ships: USNS Comfort & USNS Mercy (USA): Despite recent public discussions about deploying a ship to Greenland, both vessels were identified via tracking data at the Alabama Shipyard, rather than being on active deployment. Typically, these ships are docked in Norfolk, VA, and San Diego, CA, in a reduced operating status.
Screenshot of six macOS Messages app items, each reading (basically), "NETWORK MSG: Your reply has blocked all messages sent from this number…"
NBC Bay Area newscaster Robert Handa opens the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties hosted by Weasley United Methodist Church in San Jose Japantown.
Jasper, a black 20-year-old cat sits on a fuzzy purple blanket next to my legs on the bed.
A video of the lower-right quarter of a plate of scrambled eggs. A hand approaches the lower-right corner and attempts to move it by grabbing the air just outside the plate. It fails, of course. Finally, it grabs the plate, and it moves. It's a succint illustration of how Apple has screwed up window-resizing in macos Tahoe.
Close-up screenshot of the bottom-right corner of a macOS Tahoe window. The mouse pointer repeatedly tries to resize the window by grabbing the corner and dragging it down and right. It fails every time that the pointer clicks on the visible part of the window. It succeeds only when it clicks on a spot just outside the corner of the window, because Apple's affordance for resizing is OUTSIDE the window.
January 3, 2026 STATEMENT FROM REP. TED LIEU “The U.S. attack on Venezuela is illegal. Congress never authorized this use of military force. I will vote to stop it. "This is insane. Heath care costs and food prices are surging. Trump's response is were going to run another country. Batshit crazy."
Jasper, a 20-year-old black cat, snoozes in a loop on some very fuzzy blankets between my knees on the bed.
Navy-blue-on-white image of the "CBS Eye" logo with the word "See" centered above the letters "BS", superimposed on the eyeball.
Screenshot of early official results for today's Santa Clara county special election shows Precincts Reporting 579/579 Votes: •Neysa Fligor – 108,556 – 65.71% • Rishi Kumar – 56,617 - 34.27%
Wikipedia image of the "Sede Vacante" emblem of the Holy See used when the See is vacant. The emblem looks like a red-and-gold-striped parasol above two intricate skeleton keys of silver and gold. The keys' bit consists of a cross cut-out and several "teeth." They are tied in a six-fold knot with a crimson cord where they cross the center pole. The cord loops through the handles of the keys and drapes behind the pole.
Photo of a mailer from anthem Blue Cross showing a message in Thai where the text is actually readable :-) The text, in multiple languages including Thai, translates to "Important: can you read this letter? If not, we have people who can help you read it .…"
Photo of a multi-language document from Anthem Blue Cross. Paragraphs in Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese are shown with the correct characters. The Thai text is nothing but placeholder characters: boxes with an "X."
Two-panel comic. Upper panel shows a yard surrounded by green shrubbery. White question marks hover over the greenery. It is captioned "How do you know if a House Wren is nesting in your yard?" Bottom panel: Close-up on a wren, wings pulled back and tense, as it shouts at you, "Hey! Hey, You!" "GET OFF MY LAWN!" Caption reads, "Don't worry, they'll tell you." The cartoonist later noted that it wasn't a house wren, it was a Bewicks Wren.
Image from a recent Katie Porter for Governor ad shows her slightly behind (11%) two R candidates, Steve Hilton (12%) and Chad Bianco (13%). The ad reads, "NEW POLL: Katie Porter is neck-and-neck with two Republicans, showing images of the candidates as junk bar charts (that is, color blocks of slightly different heights with no baseline or indication of scale) behind them.
Grocery store price sign for Green Onions: Special Onion Green 青蔥 Hanh Xanh Product of USA $3.69/Bag Môt Bich LION 獅子城
Lurid red-on-black graphic from Track AIPAC shows that Hakeem Jeffries has taken $1,741,230 in AIPAC funds.
On a bright red and yellow background of rays streaming from a smiling sun at the bottom, a huge white cartoon rooster shouts, "WAKE THE HELL UP!" The whole image had a mid-century breakfast menu vibe.
Apple watch "Loud Environment" notification: "Sounds levels hit 90 decibels. Around 30 minutes at this level can cause temporary hearing loss."
Screenshot from LA Times article about USGS ShakeAlert misfire. Shows an alert reading "Earthquake Detected Nearby. If shaking intensifies: Drop, cover, hold on. M5.9 estimated 193 mi away. - USGS ShakeAlert" above a map of Northern Californa with a legend reading "Area of Strong Shaking" and a red circle matching the legend over Western Nevada. The cities of San Francisco and San Jose (highlighted, so the image must have originated here) are labeled.
Slices of a banana in a small glass bowl.
Photograph of a hand holding a cell phone near a TV screen on which Lin-Manuel Miranda, as Alexander Hamilton, appears to be making a pained face as he squints down at whatever's on the phone.
Text image reads: WE'RE NOT ASKING. WE'RE SHUTTING IT DOWN. MASS BLACKOUT NOVEMBER 25TH - DECEMBER 2ND The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th! - No Work - No Projects - No Spending - No Events - No Restaurants - No Restaurants NO BACKING OUT!!! Prepare for the IMPACT! To prevent "spike spending" before and after the BLACKOUT. we ask that all participants purchase goods needed from community-owned stores and markets leading up to and after the dates. This helps with sustamed impact and keeps our money out of the mega businesses pockets. COORDINATED NATIONAL PUSHBACK. MAXIMUM LOCAL IMPACT
"Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen." — in a still from the 2004 film "Mean Girls," Regina George (Rachel McAdams, looking quite fetching in a Santa hat) scolds her friend Gretchen for using the term "fetch" as a synonym for "cool."
An ultra-deluxe long-haired fluffy orange and white cat, looking like he came straight out of a Renaissance painting, sits on the top of a tiny ladder and contemplates the secrets of the universe.
A blue and yellow pie chart titled, "did this happen?" The chart is mostly blue, with a thin sliver of yellow from about the 12:00 position to 1:00. Blue is labeled "NO" while yellow is labeled "NO, but in yellow"
Blank white card with the words "Be the first to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not doing before"
Photo of Mark Twain with quote text: "It is better to remain silent and [be] thought a fool than to open one mouth and remove all doubt."
Jadie, a random gray and white cat, doing random cat stuff, sitting in the crotch of a tree deciding whether that squirrel is worth catching.
Detail of painted sidewalk in Iceland showing both the mismatch in the number of bricks on the LGBTQ-painted section and a slightly misaligned utility hole cover in the trans flag-painted section.
Three tiny striped gray kittens are piled on top of each other under some disused patio furniture next to a blue bucket.
Purple-Striped Jellyfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium. Thanks to the exhibit's lighting, this approximately 20" jelly glows warm white against an indigo background. Looking like an inverted Tiffany lampshade, it has numerous near-black purple stripes running from a ring around the top of the animal's bell to ink-blot-like shapes that resemble long-tailed bats around the rim.
The Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium in its night mode, with a screen of bubbles to keep the residents bedroom bumping into the massive glass wall, which is invisible to them in the dark. It's magical.
Three California political mailers decrying Governor Newsom's defensive gerrymandering in response to Trump's attempt to steal Congress. All three focus on gerrymandering as a threat to democracy.
Screenshot from NYT Politics reads: Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. 'There's No Precedent in American History' Followed by thiscommentary: Oh no, not my beloved private insurance, which increases 10-20% every year, costs more than my mortgage did, and doesn't cover anything until l've paid $13,000 first.
A campaign poster in the style of Bernie 2016 reading "Luigi: because Bernie was our compromise." Below, a subtitle, "oppression makes revolution inevitable."
AI-generated image purports to show the (distant) relationship of Gavin Newsom to Nancy Pelosi. The image features photos that may or may not be the named people, but hard to say because the text is gibberish. The image shows two kind-of family trees (in the shape of the letter H), with "Thomas D IVeroom" topping the one on the left, evidently parent of "Trord Merguen" and "Gotda Merajon", who is shown to be married to a child of the second "tree", labeled "Nancy Putrul" (with a picture that might be Nancy Pelosi at maybe age 15. She is shown as the daughter of "Paud Puitul". There are what appear to be dates under each name. Some are legible ("Trord Merguen" 1950, "Gotda Merajon" 1947), and some are very much not. There are also names without photos, such as a "Nancy Pultul" arranged to suggest that she's the sister of "Nancy Putrul." I'm sorry to put you through this.
Snippet explaining :not() CSS selector and chaining reads as follows: ":not() lets you exclude stuff: .nav li:not (:first-child) hides everything but the first child. Chaining gets wild: li:not(nth-child(2n+1)):not(nth-child(4n))"