Irons in the Fire

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

I have discovered I can run the riding mower

mostly one-handed if I'm careful, which is good because I need to do some mowing and don't want to ask son to come over after work and do it.

Bad thing: we had rain over the weekend(good, this time of year), and it was enough that it'll be afternoon before the grass is dry enough to cut. Which means can't do it this morning while it's just warm.

Ah well, other things I can work at now. Limited, but I can.

In other news "It depends on what you mean by 'rape' why our numbers are up." So says Commissar Mayor. I'm sure that's comforting to the victims.
Also, a lot of rents have- surprise!- had big leaps.

Side matter: X posts that have video have changed, and you have to sign in to see the damn things. So, unless they fix that, I'll havc less of those linked. PITA, it is.

I wonder if the kid's parents are thinking about- if he doesn't have one- getting the kid a rifle?

I do wonder of the stupid bastard crashed on landing.

This may well be the season winner for tourist tossing

by bison. And this poor bastard was not bothering it, just happened to be in a bad place at the wrong time.

Monday, July 13, 2026

A different sort of iron sight setup,

with the front sight looking like a rear sight. Take a look and see what you think

My, isn't THAT just amazing

So, something weird about the mount/weapon, or what the hell?

Found at Kim's, his comment being 'Let’s give a round of applause to Russian military training and their equipment.'

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Ah, the joys of wearing a sling almost all day,

especially in summer.

This kind of sling both holds your arm, it uses a second strap to hold a foam block between your arm and your side to help isolate it, and make it VERY obvious to you if you try to use it when you shouldn't.

And it's hot outside. And not fun to sleep with it on. But the doc and the PTs insist. Especially since there was a relatively long wait between "This is what's wrong, and you need surgery" and being able to do it, and that meant a bit more work for the surgeon, thus longer healing time.

It is improving, and yes, I'm doing the exercises I can at home, so we're moving along. But damn, that doesn't change that I'm tired of this.

Unrelated matter, but interesting: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation 'Significantly' Improves Depression in Just 10 Days, Trial Finds

Yes, my first thought was 'Hey, one more plus for getting laid!', but no, that's not the stimulation they speak of.

Why people don't trust experts anymore,

Part 872. Because some of them are lying bastards with an agenda that does not involve the truth.

Take Bellesiles-level crap,

make it about slavery, and when doubts are cast add in 'The critics are racists'. Oh yeah, that's great.

The article is in the NYeffingTimes, so it's behind a paywall. Maybe the full thing will become available later.

The Brit censors want what?

Local law enforcement agencies and courts. A British quango has floated the idea that American cops will be dispatched to collect a British speech fine, on the week of America’s 250th birthday, from a website whose entire legal existence sits under the First Amendment. You could not make it up, and yet here we are.

Preston Byrne, the US lawyer representing 4chan, gave the plan the review it deserved.

“This is legally illiterate,” Byrne wrote on X. “If they really want to sue us in the United States to recover a foreign censorship penalty, we welcome the fight.”

He was only warming up. “we now have a foreign censor claiming not only that their laws work on U.S. soil, but also that they can conscript U.S. police forces to finish the job,” Byrne wrote, adding that “Ofcom’s threats here are, much like their fines regime, toothless and designed to intimidate.”

His conclusion on the whole business: “it’s long past time for the U.S. to put the UK back in its box.”

And then kick the box off a dock.