I mean in the actual article, you would have thought one of the professionals would have dropped it. 😉

Nobody is going to drop the quote from Orwell’s 1984? (sigh) I guess it’s true, people HAVE stopped reading. 😞

“‘War is Peace’, ‘Freedom is Slavery’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength’”

What the column has you do is disable Gemini access in Mail, but it is still on for search.

I did all that ages ago and re-confirmed, it’s still all disabled…

But Gemini persists:

Thanks! I appreciate it!

I had to call THREE hospitals to get a CT scan in a reasonable amount of time. First one said “April” and I was like “No.”

2nd one said 2/18 which is better, but still 29 days out and I don’t want to sit and ruminate on the diagnosis that long.

3rd one? 1 week. 1/27! I think that’s about as good as I can get.

Tales From the Loop got adapted for Amazon Prime and Electric State was adapted for Netflix. I enjoyed Electric State, but other than the name, look, and feel, it didn’t really adapt the book.

Haven’t seen Tales From the Loop yet.

Sunset at Zero Point likely couldn’t get made in the current political environment due to it being a sweet gay romance book. Think sci-fi version of “Moonlight.”

Speaking of Sweden… I just blew through all the Simon Stålenhag books. Good reads with gorgeous art!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stålenhag

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tales-From-the-Loop/Simon-Stalenhag/9781982150693

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Things-From-the-Flood/Simon-Stalenhag/9781982150716

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Electric-State/Simon-Stalenhag/9781501181412

https://www.simonstalenhag.se/labyrinth.html

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sunset-at-Zero-Point/Simon-Stalenhag/9781668096413

(published outside the US as “Swedish Machines”)

https://www.simonstalenhag.se/

I already beat a 50% 5 year rate on the heart stuff so I got that going for me! 😉

Oh, they KNOW! 😉

I’ll take it! 😉

Well, it wasn’t entirely out of the blue, there were biopsies 6 months ago and they sent me photos, which made me go “Hey, that’s fucking cancer!” but the people with actual degrees in this were saying “No, no, it’s pre-cancer.”

So on the one hand I get to tell the doctors “SEE! SEE!” 😉

When they pull something out of you that looks like Tetsuo from the end of Akira… yeah…

Oh yeah, I have a good team of doctors!

That’s the plan!

Amen! And I aint even religious!

Working on it!

I see it as yet another opportunity to invite RFK Jr. to eat my entire ass! LOL. Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks Charles!

https://youtu.be/jOxgiq6c6_E

And the officials in Portland tell you the same:

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/08/portland-shooting-federal-agents/

“We know what the federal government says happened here,” (Portland mayor) Wilson said at the earlier press conference. “There was a time when we could take them on their word. That time has long passed. We are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full investigation can take place.”

Disruptive protests only turn off your intended audience. You THINK you’re disrupting the powers that be, you aren’t, they take no notice of you and you turn away the people who would ordinarily be on your side.