(0549) Same situation outside as yesterday morning. Morning all! (0704)

 

5. Moosh corner

The romantic part is yes … of course I’d wade out and rescue her … the unromantic part is => probably in a fireman’s lift.

4. Steve at 1045

• Google Hit with Historic $1.375 Billion Settlement for Secretly Tracking People’s Movements *
• Archbishop Viganò Sues Vatican Bank Over Alleged Theft of Charity Assets **
• Stephen Miller to TGP’s Conradson: Trump Admin is “Actively Looking At ”Suspending Habeas Corpus on Immigration Matters as the Courts Wage “War” on Executive and Legislative Branches **
• ICE Bodycam Footage Shows Dem Rep LaMonica McIver Verbally and Physically Assaulting Federal Agents **as well
• Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 10, 2025
• EU/UK demand Russia surrender […] Trump Backs Starmer/Macron Ultimatum ***
• Spike protein found in stroke victims’ brains up to 17 months after injection
• Virologist who endorsed HCQ for COVID-19 appointed to top pandemic post at HHS
• Much more.

…..

*A known-known.

**Wonder if he knows about John-Paul I, Bank Ambrosia and Blackfriars Bridge.

***Dismaying criminal lunacy.

3. DAD at 1045

a) The new ‘Sport’ of the young of France. An urban rodeo gathering 500 cars and nearly 3,000 people took place Friday evening in Bordeaux, before being stopped and dispersed by police intervention, police said Saturday. Two officers were slightly injured during the incident, which resulted in no arrests….. *

b) They shout “shit*: shit” in broad daylight, sitting on chairs in front of the front door. In the Belsunce neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the Old Port in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), for the past year, a landlord has seen her building lose tenants one after the other.….

……

*Er DAD (cough) … er … we … er … we were doing those things in the 70s too in our souped-up vehicles. Having said that, we were hardly ever stabbing and raping like today.

2. Why the Oz input?

Parallels, readership partly from there, my past dealings downunder … a bit like Canada and NZ. DAD covers France, Kassandra Netherlands, southern and eastern Europe, middle-east.

1. AKH poses an interesting issue to a fellow blogger

Firstly, the topic itself but then secondly … netiquette or blogiquette and that can extend to vlogiquette and podcasts, memes etc. etc.

AKH writes:

And the question is? The question is how much to include in a quote … the entire post in this case needs reprinting but there’s also a “guild” code of conduct that we aim to drive traffic over to the other chap, so we can’t just include it all, even attributed.

A bit different, methinks, is IYE, for example in our own sidebar here. Holus bolus or partly quoted? Matters less, as long as it’s signposted, attributed. NOWP? Obviously I’d like Steve and DAD visited there by you, the reader … thus I can’t give it all at HQ. Is that clickbait? Maybe but “good clickbait”? ☺️

OoL? Well Julia advertises us on X, so it’s fairly well covered. I try to cover that with Julia’s posts at X afap.