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Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014

A Metro line in #munich can‘t run due to repair on the tracks. People flock to busses in rush hour. Bus is overloaded already. Who also crams in: mother with a stroller, woman with steaming hot tea that she will spill as soon as the bus starts rolling. Bus inches forwards through morning commute full of SUVs with a single guy inside.

Rats suck.
I have a largish older (’48) brick house on a crawl space. I have a large brushy yard. I live in the Midwest. So of course I am a rat magnet.
This is the 2nd pack we’ve had in 25 years, so I guess that means we’ve been lucky. For an unknown period of time prior to last Winter the crawl had standing water deep enough that no self-respecting rat would have stayed. Last week we had a bag of snacks ripped open.
The guys from Critter Control have snap-trapped 3 so…

How Chiefs cleared millions via Mahomes' contract restructure, plus free agency rankings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7057685/2026/02/19/chiefs-restructure-mahomes-cap-space-explained-scoop-city/

Chiefs restructure Patrick Mahomes' contract to free up over $43 million in cap space https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-restructure-patrick-mahomes-contract-free-up-over-43-million-cap-space

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 14 that
territorial concessions by Ukraine
would not bring peace,
just as the 1938 Munich Agreement did not prevent World War II.
"It would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine
— just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a greater war,"
Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference.
The Munich Agr…

Territorial concessions by Ukraine won't bring peace, Zelensky says in Munich
"It would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine – just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a greater war," Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference.

I heard a segment on one of the national broadcasters this morning in which the host spoke of vibe coding as a form of democratization. How impoverished can our collective imagination get? Like "freedom," "democracy" means so much more than what's on sale - genuine democracy can't be found in the capitalist economy like authentic freedom doesn't reside in commodity consumption.

Video: In the Future, We’ll All Speak Seven Languages
For the Muslim Futures anthology, I was interviewed by Ryah Aqel, one of the editors, about my story and what it means to me.
In the Future, We'll ALL Speak Seven Languages by Karim AhmadA chat with Hussein Rashid about his MUSLIM FUTURES story, “HO JAMALO”! Read

Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mines-dams-move-in-as-protection-slips-in-a-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/

Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary
In Sre Chhuk village, a quiet patch in northeast Cambodia where the Mekong’s smaller veins trace the edge of a fading wildlife sanctuary, Vorn Pang and Sao Thorn once believed their land was safe. By 2018, officials and conservation groups had formalized their farmland as part of the Veal Kambor Community Protected Area (CPA), under […]

Iran was laying #mines in the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump declared he was thinking of taking it over.
At least two people familiar with U.S. intelligence told CNN Tuesday that Iran began laying mines in recent days,
but noted that the operation is still in an early phase.
They estimated that Iran has so far only laid a few dozen mines and still retains upward of 80 to 90 percent of …

Trump Insists Strait of Hormuz Is Safe as Iran Begins Laying Mines
Donald Trump’s claim comes months after the U.S. decommissioned its primary mine-hunting ships in the region.