(0911) Time for breakfast and reading about Epiphany. (1052)

 

15. They breed em toof

… as in Tue 12.

14. Twofer

13. Going to run this one at OoL and here as well

The text below is exactly as I wrote it at Orphans:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/01/predictable.html

… plus there are lessons here for readers to see for themselves. For that reason, this is a good cautionary tale.

There are two admins at OoL … Julia and myself.  She takes care of the overall, plus comment moderation, I look after the tech side.

As part of that, I expressly agreed with the host that there can be nothing misleading allowed to stay up … fully agree with that. Sometimes we might run something, or a reader might, which turns out not to be initially, factually, completely so … this happens on X a fair bit, resulting in a “community note”.  However, I’ve seen a “community note” to a “community note”, disagreeing with the first “community note”.

To my mind, that’s fine, however ludicrous it seems, as it enables readers to see different angles. The one exception is that if something has been thoroughly debunked over a long period, e.g. Net Zero, then it gets short shrift at sane sites such as OoL, Julia’s or ours across the way … sites where we do deep dives, do our homework before mouthing off.

Uh huh.  So what’s the issue?  This is:

Now, there’s zero point arguing with them as it’s a bit like someone trying to get justice for DJT.  So Letitia James flags it, on the phone to Obama, the case is heard in NYC by Jack Smith, with a handpicked anti Trump jury.  Hardly justice, is it?  Zero percentage for the defamed and that’s the case with all issues today, e.g. the raped girls seeking justice or the vaxx injured and dead.

So, moving past that … that post has clearly gone forever … the more important issue is the toerag or toerags who “flagged” it to a known-known unjust committee and once again, truth bites the dust.

Now, moving even further along, Julia is a libertarian, I am a “classical liberal” in the sense of freedom afap but if there is a clear enemy trying to harm us or in blig terms, a hostile troll … well it’s insanity to allow them. Yes, so there are two readers only on permamoderation, put there by me, plus I request you use a moniker, not Anon by itself, or Unknown. Occasionally the Blgr comments mechanism plays up with that, so it’s a fluid situation.

The libertarians and classical liberals can argue this point until the cows come home. It still doesn’t alter the situation that some toerag flagged the post and I was given no say, except by kangaroo court or star chamber.

On the other hand, this is a known-known, par for the course … we makes our choices, we takes our chances.  And we can never be free of trolling.  Just one more thing … if by some chance anything happened to OoL, you know where Julia blogs from, you know where I do. Keep your eyes open, dear sane reader.

12. Chuckling quietly about this one

… adore it:

Y'all ran up on the wrong white country girls. Those country girls have been bucking hay and wrestling livestock. Double choke hold is actually wild! 👏 pic.twitter.com/uCXCYIpDrQ

— Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 (@MAGA__Patriot) January 5, 2026

11. Epiphany and this winter season

Epiphany (from Greek for “manifestation”) refers to both a Christian feast day on January 6th celebrating Jesus’s divinity revealed to the world (Magi, Baptism, Cana) and a moment of sudden, profound realization or insight in general life, like Archimedes’s “Eureka!” moment, often occurring after deep thought or a new piece of information. It marks the end of the Christmas season in the West, while some Orthodox churches call it Theophany, celebrating Christ’s revelation.

Uh huh … sounds good enough to me. I’ve been trying to get my past in proportion in terms of world events, songs, things which happened to lil ole me (excuse an aging man) and one of those things is exactly when does “my” winter season start and end?

Problem is this … and Dearieme and Toodles might actually agree on this point … the chance of it actually being December 25th, even January 6th/7th, is fairly slim, given that many who’ve studied it put it more likely in September or whenever.

For me, it’s reasonably irrelevant … we need a date or three, the west and east do not agree, just as Iona and Lindisfarne did not agree … so let’s settle on an official Advent, Christmas, Twelve Days of, then Epiphany, Orthodox Christmas (this evening and tomorrow morning) and that’s about it.

In Russia, we’d go back to studies (this year Monday the 12th) somewhere around the 10th … that was a fair end of year break, any longer would be a bit uncomfortable, weatherwise … thus I can count back to just before Christmas during advent … pretty much near the shortest day or the nearest weekend before that (December 20th/21st this year) and again that seems a fair timeframe.

Thus, were someone to ask my fave season, I’d say that specific winter period first, about to end this coming weekend … my second fave would be autumn when the weather turns, leaves fall … third would be early spring when new life appears, rivers flow etc.