(0652) Morning all. Troubles all over the place and we also have our share.

 

The state of play at the blog level

First signs have been at NOWP and you can read of those … yes, there was moderation bin at work it seems … the danger is that that’s the original site and has much in the engine room. It’s still working but as you can see from Andy’s attempts to post yesterday, which I misunderstood, there is some interference in the commenting system.

The weird situation is that HQ is under severe spam attack (think this involves lists to be attacked) but other than that, it’s in order.

Unless I leave this venue that is and even then, nothing is lost … it’s backed up … it’s just not plugged in. After losing NO, we always knew this would eventually happen. Safest two sites for our tavern complex for now are HQ and Jstack but even Jstack has bizarre issues of complication in the works … it’s near impossible to open and compose on, plus it keeps signing itself out. To get back in, I must go through a chain involving a different email, which actually eventually works just now.

To cut to the chase … NOWP does work, it seems to be requiring moderation … if our droppers can stand that for now, I’d still use it. Reason for attack? Pretty obvious … the targets, innit?

UHC-WP is in the same boat as NOWP, as a WP blog under their direct control, low storage space. Workable for now though.

Jstack does work as a convoluted process … it’s not designed as a news site, it’s for authors’ views, e.g. Dan Wootton, Nick Dixon. It’s designed as a traffic builder … we went through this long ago.

Recommendation from me? Still use things as they are if you feel you can, I just need to be more vigilant about NOWP.

(1635) Approacheth the evening. Very weary and it was interesting one of us just wrote and described my own weariness and aching. Plus others on X have been posting on it … across the west. Food, water, atmosphere … the running down of the west. The pace I’ve been setting I should be able to take in my stride … but this is something outside, alien. Yet my mood is buoyant because some great things are happening.

 

20. Interesting how troubles come in bunches

Before getting onto these, here’s IYE with what he could not get posted at NOWP:

Here’s Leah’s update for today which is what I was trying to leave

|https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-294465235

Actually, it’s up at NOWP but there’s certainly grief being given, esp. in Compose function right now. Also, check this:

Suddenly hit by masses of spam. Fun time at the ole blogs right now.

19. And now … comedy hour at the Beeb

18. Inspiration for DAD, from Toodles

17. And now … comedy hour with Andy

Yes, our witty, wacky patron of the tavern is doing his comedy rouine at 1439 right now.

16. Jade

I’d like to address openly that there are those I consider inner circle, obviously including our gang here, plus about four generally unsung, e.g. MMutR … but on X are those who are also special but still within X, fewer still who can DM me … I just went through removing the uninvited I did not keep there (logical?) … those people still there, plus non DMers, plus people I’m seen wishing good morning to … they mean a lot to me but they do not become “inner circle”, nor would they want as they’re ladies and would like to keep that respectable barrier there, whilst still occasionally lightly flirting in the open.

Jade is not one of those … she is a rape gang inquiry girl … the abuse stopped 10 years ago. She confesses she’s a mess, frightened still. Now, equally obviously … I would NEVER flirt with her, seeing her as a daughter type, supporting her with the occasional heart. Yet I’ll promote her case and I noticed this earlier:

Do yo see that word in her moniker … safe?

15. Moo corner

14. Giving money to this Woke rainbow lot?

13. Happy Bastille Day, France

12. The 3:30 a.m. secret society

11. IYE

The Case Against Todd Blanche
His confirmation hearing is Wednesday. Here is everything he has done to lie to us and cover things up, starting with Epstein.”

|https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-case-against-todd-blanche

 

All right, viewers, we know what we’re getting here:

Target Earth was a typical product of 1950s-filmed science fiction but could never rise above its low budget underpinnings.^[6] One of the few notable aspects of the production was that the film was one of the first to explore the subgenre of alien invasions, following the successes of George Pal‘s The War of the Worlds (1953) and William Cameron Menzies‘ Invaders from Mars (1953). Target Earth was also produced by Herman Cohen, making his producing debut, who would become one of the most prominent B movie producers of the 1960s.^[7] Director Sherman A. Rose, who was a prolific editor in both television and film, would go on to make only two other films.^{[8][Note 1]}

(1154) Apologies to readers … yes, there are things going on, preventing me blogging. Slowly at least. My mindset just now is not to miss anyone so slow does it.

7. Andy

Whoop-de-doop! No more black holes in our national finances. The clever devils have found some money from somewhere. | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-of-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union-on-united-kingdom-participation-under-the-ukraine-support-loan-13-july-2026 | A loan which carries no interest, doesn’t need to be paid back and only benefits the MIC. Wonderful.

6. Lord T

https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2026/07/ultra-processed-documentary.html

 

(0822) Bonjour, mes Amies, Dad kicks off the fireworks today. (0837)

 

5. Moo corner

4. Watch the channels Them attack

3. IYE corner

a. Donny could keel over at any moment from natural causes and outside agencies could be blamed to bring about whatever Them desires. 

“ Trump Examined by 22 Medical Specialists at Walter Reed, White House Declines to Explain Record Number

|https://archive.is/oMi0z

b. Who saw this one coming? 

Lindsey Graham’s sister to replace him. 😳

|https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-293940230

2. No question which side Them are on

1. DAD at 1439 on Le Jour de Fête

a) Too Catholic to be French Officers. French military schools face a backlash after excluding Catholic pupils, exposing ideological bias and raising concerns over future army recruitment.

b) French anti-terrorism prosecutors have launched an investigation after weapons were discovered in a vehicle near a synagogue in a Paris suburb, a statement from the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday….

c) National Rally leader Marine Le Pen would win next year’s French presidential election against any opponent, according to a survey conducted after it was revealed this week that she would be eligible to campaign to replace Emmanuel Macron in the Élysée Palace….

d) Massive left-leaning bias found with AI models. Only models from xAI’s Grok family sat near the political centre. None leaned to the Conservative side….

e) The anti-immigrant protests in Scotland are ignored by the MSM.

f) Rupert in on Parliament Live tv.

(1601) Approaching evening, chaps and chapesses. Cream-crackered here, been no respite today. All good.

 

20. The IYE in the mod bin issue

I saw a notice via ticker about IYE being in the mod bin again but when I went into the two sites, plus the email, there was no mention anywhere. Nothing in spam or trash either. Now I certainly saw IYE’s message but now nothing anywhere.

There’ve been some curious things also with spam … as in I’m being flooded but there’s a way to get rid of it. It once put IYE in there, no idea why, how he’d supposedly offended. 🍿🍿🍿🍿

19. One does wonder

18. Toodles and the phantom buyer

“We went shopping at the antique mall today. We came home empty handed although I saw some items we could use in the new room.  I think somebody bought a few things I’d gone on about in a couple of booths.

It is like some people don’t see the things until I do and if I don’t grab them up … they do. 

Some lady followed me around and would listen to my conversation about items.  She bought this big green hamper, I should have gotten, but I was dragging today.  I lauded all the virtues of the hamper to the booth owner who asked if she could help. She was there adding a few items and rearranging her booth.  

That lady who was shopping (not the booth owner), never far from me, seemed to be listening to me again. The booth lady sent me a message on a different item and she hoped I enjoyed the hamper. 

I can tell you who bought it! My shadow bought it! I wasn’t in the mood to do or buy a thing.”

17. John Cleese is livid!

16. IYE more on Donny and those other two or three

This is in comments under Monday 11:

(1533)(1557)

 

15. Moo corner

14. When a butcher is better than a doctor

Isilme writes: “A week ago. I was told I could go to the chemist right away after an appointment the next day and the dressings I needed would be ready (the speed of things done over the computer!) So I went to the chemist – and was told they had none in the shop but I should come in the next morning. I duly arrived the following morning, only to be told that they were out of stock at the place they order from. The pharmacist phoned the doctor for an alternative. That, too, was out of stock. I was told it would be a fortnight before they could get anything.

Well, considering that I’d been told to change these dressings every 24 hours (and had already gone past that timing at that point) I was a bit miffed. And a fortnight would be no good because I had an appointment in 4 days’ time. They said they might have something suitable if I came back at 5pm. I returned at 5pm only to find that this third attempt at dressings was thwarted by a staff training day and they couldn’t get hold of them. They sent me home with a pack of sticking plasters!!!!

On the way home I went to the butcher’s to get some thin steaks for Beloved’s breakfast. Told the butcher the story of the dressings. He suggested I try what the butchers use if they cut themselves and it gets infected – rub a bit of soap (barely damp) on the sticking plaster and then a small sprinkle of sugar. So I tried it. It worked. Now…. how to explain to the doctor that I got a second opinion from the local butcher, and it worked……”

13. Fabians, in case you’ve been in Antarctica this decade

12. Food borne illness which is going around

Darl Pattison writes: “James, check out the symptoms of the food borne illness going around. Fits me to a T. I posted this on X.”

|https://x.com/grok/status/2076625334816932288?s=20

“The treatment for Cyclosporiasis shows antibiotics. I will start with natures antibiotic when I get home ‘Oregano oil and black seed oil’ capsules I have at home. Works better than pharmas from my experience.”

 

I was showing a friend who did not know of the band this relatively (in the west) unsung group were popular in eastern Europe while I was there. In fact, I was talking to the trumpeter and leader, James Lynch about a possible tour in our corner of Russia at some point in the early 2000s. Ggl’s intro pics:

They were a project, not unlike Alan Parsons or Steely Dan but they realised they needed a human band to go public. The singer was coopted, other members … the genre is jaunty jazz blues rock funk … their big hit here was, “Would you go to bed with me/Straight to n1?”. Not sure I told my new friend that bit. So that song is NOT below.

However, three songs which also had airplay here are below … they were certainly distinctive.

The song proper below starts about 2:09:

And a great track for these hot days as the fourth song of the three:

Naturally, that’s just an excuse to let me go out and get some lunch, do the clothes wash and check out X.