I've seen an uptick in links to Substack lately, so here's yet another reminder:

Substack is a transphobic, pro-Nazi platform. Many of will not follow links to it. We are not giving that place any eyeballs or clicks.

Publishing there, or linking to it, helps the Nazi site owners. Please don't do it.

#Substack #SubstackIsTransphobic #SubstackIsRunByNazis #NaziSubstack #NaziShit #BoycottSubstack

#Europe is more seriously threatened by an #invasion that is already underway. It appears likely to result in not merely the conquest but the #permanent erasure of whole #nations via #demographic obliteration. No serious defense against it is planned. Europe is more seriously threatened by an invasion that is already underway. Listen in horror as President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen calls for “more safe, safe pathways — legal pathways — to Europe” and “more bridges between our continents” — i.e., between Europe on one hand and numberless hordes of welfare colonists from the Middle East and Africa on the other:
https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1998779985394352579

#WILLFUL #GLOBAL COMMUNIST DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE
In the US and elsewhere the politicians, media, global communists willfully destroyed us via open borders, shipping jobs via "false trade" and complicit 3rd world invasion.. (youtube will soon take this down as they also eliminate many posts)
'This Is Coming, This Is Real, This Isn't Pretend!': Schweikert Issues Dire Warning To Colleagues
youtu.be/nmEI5HOdByc?si=z7MCSW…

#Mark Zuckerberg sparks backlash as his enormous new $300m 387-foot #mega yacht goes viral
Mark Zuckerberg's lavish yacht has gone viral for all the wrong reasons after critics slammed its reported impact on the planet.
Competition is stiff to become the most conspicuous ecohypocrite of all. Leonardo DiCaprio may have been dethroned by Mark Zuckerberg.
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Kelsey Grammer on Trump, Newsom Running for President, and Malibu Fire U... youtu.be/zJ-R4TFSLBM?si=_KUq4s…

#introduction

I decided to give journa.host a shot because of the company.

I am a Brazilian data journalist, kind of a pioneer here in that for the last two decades.

After a long career as a media employee (finishing as the first audience development editor in Brazilian press, at Folha de S.Paulo), I currently I run Lagom Data, my studio. We work with small media, nonprofits and academia to listen to data.

I'll often toot in Portuguese - and sometimes about Deep Purple.

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The "American Action Forum" looks at health care costs & prices

americanactionforum.org/weekly…

Reminding the reader that cost and price are not necessarily correlated. Plus how political statements often mix them up.

Plus a chart at the end of Hepatitis B cases & a claim that there will be 1.4K (70%?) more cases with removal as "required" for all kids versus kids at risk. No mention of vaccine injuries or deaths.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/j…

A federal appeals court on Friday afternoon temporarily halted Judge Boasberg’s contempt hearings in the Alien Enemies Act deportations case scheduled for next week.

Earlier Friday, Judge James Boasberg made it clear that he was not backing off from his planned contempt hearings and threatened to pierce through attorney-client privilege in his order denying the government’s motion to reconsider.

Millions of people are feeling this right now, or something very similar, or even worse.

It weighs on us for years, the slow crank of a vise while choking panic rises by almost invisible inches.

And somewhere some smug assholes are sipping champagne and congratulating themselves on not being us. They're the ones who put us here. We all saw them laughing on their balconies at the original Occupy.

Don't apologize for letting the anguish show. No, we don't want to weigh each other down with our distress, but burdens are lessened when shared, and our suffering should NOT be buried.

@hosford42 techhub.social/@hosford42/1157…


It's like claustrophobia, having kids to feed and no money. I am terrified, and it's hard to breathe. I know my blood pressure is high. And I can *see* my blood sugar spiking when I get panicky.

But the worst part, aside from stressing over how to manage shielding my kids from all this is, I can't shelter my wife. I can see the fear on her face. She keeps not eating because she says she isn't hungry, but it's nerves and I know it. And no matter how much I try to convince her it won't work because she'll eventually break, she keeps trying to save money by skipping meals on purpose. She thinks she can just power through it, and maybe she can, but there will be consequences.


Some local stories (1/2)

coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/col…
Over 200K people to see health insurance cost go up - a lot.

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/trum…
DOJ sues CO for failure to provide voter information.

coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/cli…
and
coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/col…
Two stories about water protections in CO and blame climate change.

coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/del…
Delays at DEN today due to nearby ATC problems.

in reply to Mark ☑️

Some local stories (2/2)

coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/col…
Wolf released in CO caught in NM & sent back.

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/doze…
May have cattle thieves in Northern CO. At least three ranchers affected.

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denv…
Lawsuit against Denver jeweler gets $7.5K award to customer due to uncertified scale.

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/bake…
NIMBY - residents near 4.4 acre lot on I--70 oppose a new truck stop. Goes to Clear Creek county for approval or rejection.

Cambodia claims Thailand still bombing hours after Trump ceasefire call
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/13/cambodia-claims-thailand-still-bombing-hours-after-trump-ceasefire-call?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

We are doing "deconstructed cabbage rolls" for the adults tonight, and pasta for the picky kiddos. Super cheap ingredients...only the prices have gone up. $3 for a head of cabbage. Almost $6 for a pound of ground beef. We cut the amount of ground beef in half (the fecipe calls for 2 lbs) and are subbing in some kidney beans, which shaves off ~$4.50. So $12 for 2 adults on what the recipe author claimed would be "pennies per serving" even *after* the cheaper substitutions, plus the pasta stuff for the kids. This inflation is ridiculous, even without losing my job.
in reply to Aaron

Our car is going to be impounded if we get pulled over, because the insurance and registration are out. But we have to keep driving because the bus doesn't run here, and we can't afford groceries being delivered. Our electricity bill will have to be paid soon, and my wife tells me we only have a week once it comes due. We'll have a gas bill and a water bill and a phone bill, too. I won't be paying the internet bill again; we'll just have to use hot spots. At least the data is unlimited for that, so that's one tiny bright spot.
in reply to Aaron

It's like claustrophobia, having kids to feed and no money. I am terrified, and it's hard to breathe. I know my blood pressure is high. And I can *see* my blood sugar spiking when I get panicky.

But the worst part, aside from stressing over how to manage shielding my kids from all this is, I can't shelter my wife. I can see the fear on her face. She keeps not eating because she says she isn't hungry, but it's nerves and I know it. And no matter how much I try to convince her it won't work because she'll eventually break, she keeps trying to save money by skipping meals on purpose. She thinks she can just power through it, and maybe she can, but there will be consequences.

in reply to Aaron

I've gone from layoffs to not being employable because I don't have fucking LLM experience to finally getting another job to having a hateful boss to getting sick for months to getting laid off again and now I have to deal with this damn LLM bubble *again*. When does this fucking bullshit end? And all the time, there's this horrific beast of a person threatening and then destroying the whole damn country, right along with my personal disasters. I hate it. Fuck this whole damn thing
in reply to Violet Madder

@violetmadder I have so much anger

No. Fucking FURY

With the shitbags who are raining this misery down on us. Every last fucking narcissistic billionaire piece of shit on the planet can kiss my fucking ass. I hope we all get the chance to spit that in their faces someday, with their mansions and yachts and ballrooms burning in the background.

That's me biting my tongue.

@adam

regarding your checking out of AI archwizard 4th video described in Podcasting 2.0 podcast episode 244:

see attached screenshot with comment from your Texas pal Gene!

shortly speaking: Gene was and is claiming that @Vox is AI voice not real, and that's why she took her time to prove she isn't in episode 4 (CC: @dave ):

Some tech stories

schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
A story pointing out a long list of problems with "trustworthy" Artificial Intelligence agents.

theregister.com/2025/12/12/on_…
A story of a long ago support call that made it to the 3rd level before getting resolved. The "blank screen" wasn't quite blank - one line at the bottom told the story.

theregister.com/2025/12/12/was…
Washington University (in MO) spent over $265M to migrate old systems to "Workday" over a seven year period.

WTF?