Mystery meat and maggot-infested produce: the disturbing reality of US prison food | US prisons | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/eating-behind-bars-book-prison-food

Totally normal situation:
Ruh 🐱 is eating from the bowl. Mr Ek 🐱 comes through the window. He walks up to the bowl. She notices him and stops eating to sniff his snout. Ek uses the opportunity to start eating the food. Ruh looks at me surprised.
After a minute, Ruh shouts at him. He answers with a hiss, and continues eating.
#cat

Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p94#a260130p94

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

You keep hearing about “European values” but might be confused about what they are so here’s an incomplete list based on historic and current evidence:
• Colonialism
• Slavery
• Ethnic cleansing
• Genocide
• Hypocrisy
Sorry if I missed any.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ed Nash & Liz Lawrence:
🎵 Mad World
#NowPlaying #EdNash #LizLawrence
https://ednash.bandcamp.com/track/mad-world-feat-liz-lawrence
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GGz9FXjqaexBZG8vhB6zW

https://apnews.com/article/croatia-protest-far-right-surge-4f76f067fef8ea56f682c79bb5fae61d

#HappyNewYear I just went through the refrigerator and pantry and threw out the remaining Christmas candy that I was eating “because it’s Christmas”, and anything that was never going to be eaten (why do I have a bottle of “black and raspberry” vinegar?) or well past its best by date. The trash bin now smells like 2022 pickles….

SBU detains 3 men accused of working for Russia's FSB, plotting bomb attacks on Ukrainian military in Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/sbu-detains-men-accused-of.html

Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool,
is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well.
Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years.
“We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it,
half-frozen food being given,
gua…

“Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX
Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool, is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well. Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years. “We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it, half-frozen food being given, guards yelling at parents if their kid…