Feeling: Sick

Two days ago, I beat the Commodore PET game BShip, which is like a cross between Battleship and Master Mind.

New video game fonts include the IBM 026 Printing Card Punch, Intrex, The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy for the Famicom Disk System, Ninja Gaiden for the TurboGrafx-16, and Bubble Bobble for the Master System. With these, I have surpassed 500 video game fonts!

• Despite Russia being far more massive and well-funded, Ukraine is still capable of making surgical strikes against Russia's military. Russia seems only capable of carpet bombing entire towns, to which Trump has issued the strongest rebuke he can muster, "I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing." Wow! Such harsh words! I'm sure Putin will surrender now!
• Trump is still defying the US Supreme Court and sending men to prison in El Salvador. This is a constitutional crisis.
• Trump signed yet another executive order. This one urges companies to start mining the sea floor. Not only is he not interested in safety regulations or ecological impact studies, but he also told them to mine "beyond national jurisdiction." Mining ore in land owned by another nation without their consent is tantamount to an invasion. This could lead to a war.
• The Trump administration doxxed Abrego García's wife, and she's had to move because Trump goons keep threatening her life. Trump keeps attacking innocent people, and must be stopped.
• Trump is building up new interment prisons to incarcerate more people without due process. Either everyone has the right to due process, or it's not a right.
• Trump has directed his DOJ to "investigate" doctors who treat transgender minors.
• Trump called the whole of Harvard University "antisemitic" and a "threat to democracy" for allowing people to protest Israel's genocide. He's also continuing his attack on people of color and minorities by demanding school end all their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
• Trump claimed he's currently in tariff negotiations with China, China called out his lie.
• Unsurprisingly, ICE illegally arrested Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant.
• More rats leaving the sinking ship as Joe Kasper resigns as Hegseth's chief of staff. I'm sure Hegseth will fill the position with more of his relatives.
• Just a reminder of the many disgusting ways Trump has sexualized his daughter, even when she was a child.
• Trump has pardoned yet another corrupt politician. Michele Fiore was caught having stolen $70,000 from a slain police officers memorial, but she's also referred to as "Lady Trump," so I guess he was protecting his brand.
• A research survey shows that Conservatives are less trusting of science. And not just science that conflicts with their beliefs, they're less trusting of every field of science.

Yet another example of how the values of Western culture are certainly not based on Christianity.

Feeling: Sick

Illy has a stuffy nose and is sneezing. Not sure if I gave it to her, or she gave it to me.

Two days ago, I beat the Commodore PET games Battleship and Connect 4.

• Russia continues bombing civilians in Ukraine. Another 9 were murdered with 63 others injured.
• RFK Jr, a man who doesn't know the first thing about autism, is building a national registry to track autistic people and he's not waiting for you to volunteer your name, he's building it from your confidential medical records. This is terrifying news, not just for people with autism and those who care about them, but anyone who thinks their medical records should be private. Next thing you know, they'll be calling up universities and asking who Jewish. Someone needs to explain to him that, just because doctors weren't able to identify a disease when he was a child, that doesn't mean diseases didn't exist.
• Republican Markwayne Mullin posted online about how heroic of a soldier he would be and how he would risk his life to fight the enemy. However, a bunch of soldiers who actually served pointed out that Mullin was never in the armed forces, is trying to steal valor for himself, doesn't know what he's talking about, and was caught cowering in the Capitol when Trump's goons failed to cause an insurrection. But Mullin still supports the integrity of Hegseth. Here, the word "integrity" means installing free chatting apps on government computers by breaching Pentagon security, and giving the appearance of safety by demanding a makeup room be built for him, and firing all the fat people.
• Because they are part of rape culture, Indiana Republicans reworked their state's sexual education classes to eliminate teaching consent.
• Public schools receive government grants to buy fresh food from local farms instead of massive corporations. This helps the local farms sell their food, and helps students by giving them fresh produce. But Republicans don't care about either of those things because Trump cut over $1,000,000,000 from these food grants, and red states are being hurt the most.
• Trump's Department of the Interior is looking to open national monuments for oil drilling.
• Jordan Klepper talks about what it's like interviewing the MAGA crowd.

If you're planning on redacting information on your computer with a pixilated blur, make sure you don't move the window.

Training your brain to have 360 degree vision.

Feeling: Sick

Gabby is finally back in school, but now I'm sick.

Yesterday, I finished reading A Swiftly Tilting Planet and beat the Commodore PET game Solitaire.

• Republicans continue to help Russia's genocide in Ukraine. Marco Rubio refuse to attend peace talks. But, this isn't unexpected since Trump has told the USA to stop investigating Putin's war crimes.
• Pete Hegseth is still trying to deny that he inadvertently shared Top Secret war plans with civilians (twice) and admitted to Fox his war mongering saying, "I'm here because President Trump asked me to bring warfighting back to the Pentagon every single day."
• The measles outbreak has reached 800 cases and three dead children, and we still have an antivaxxer in charge of the the Health Department. Speaking of making America sick again, with all the cuts Trump made in the FDA, they said they are too understaffed to even test the purity of milk. This isn't a problem for RFK Jr as he supports untreated milk regardless of how unsafe it is.
• Gun violence has become the number one cause of death for college age people in the USA. Trump is solving this problem by eliminating grants into studying gun violence.
• Trump ran on a platform of lowering grocery prices, but his tariffs have made them more expensive now than ever before. How does he defend his blunder? By simply lying and saying their cheaper than ever before.
• Because Trump still faces a lot of legal issues in New York, he's trying to buy his way out of them by granting protection to criminal former mayor Eric Adams. Now, Trump's Justice Department has told the attorneys who worked on Adams's corruption case they would only be allowed to return to work if they admitted they were wrong to investigate Adams's crimes.
• As part of his white nationalism views, Trump is closing 10 embassies, mostly in predominately black nations, and 17 consulates.
• If you were waiting for Congress to grow a spine, Republican Tom Emmer refused to answer the question of whether he would support Trump in deporting American citizens.
• In yet another executive order, Trump hired Lindsey Halligan, an attorney with no training in historical preservation, to overhaul the exhibits at the Smithsonian in order to eliminate things that might make Americans feel bad about their nation's past, particularly things that focus on race, like slavery and Indian slaughters.
• Sarah Palin lost another defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.
• There are a lot of web sites offering beautiful eulogies for pope Francis, but it's important to remember that, despite him not being as evil as his predecessors, he still was not a very nice person who led a very evil institution.
• The Trumps are trying to leverage their political authority to get further into Hollywood.

How the numbers work on airport runways.

Neurologically speaking, our brains are no more advanced than they were over 100,000 years ago, so why do we have smart phones and cave people didn't?

Feeling: Blah

Gabby is still dealing with norovirus, but she's getting better. I'm feeling a bit ill myself, but sinuses, not stomach.

Yesterday, I beat the Commodore PET game Checkers!.

• Trump continues to openly defy a court order from the US Supreme Court to stop kidnapping people and disappearing them to El Salvador, especially innocent American residents, but Constitution be damned.
• The Trump White House is being sued by the ACLU for illegally deporting visiting students for protesting Trump, something which is not only legal, but protected by law.
• Another pro-Trump Christian preacher was arrested for raping children.
• Four Seattle cops are suing their state's court after it was ruled their names can be made public after they attended the January 6th insurrection.
• Trump's mass deportations aren't getting even close to the numbers he claimed he would get, he can't even deport as many people as Biden did. This is a combination of have an inept cabinet and severely over-inflating the numbers of immigrants in the USA. But the goal of white supremacist Republicans still remains the same: deport people of color and make America white again. The problem is, white people account for less than 60% of the population, so, doing away with everyone else would leave the nation severely under-populated. But don't worry, Republicans have a plan for that: demand white people have more children by paying American women for each baby they pop out!
• A survey was conducted of over 500 political scientists. They were pretty much in agreement: democracy in the USA is on a steep decline now receiving a rating of only 55 out of 100, and the worrying consolidation of power is turning us into authoritarianism.
• Trump's Easter message didn't mention the resurrection of Jesus, forgiveness, redemption, or any of that religious nonsense he despises. Instead, it was all about his hatred of American ideals.
• A lot of Trump's tariffs are still in effect, and they all really stupid.
• Trump's leaky White House has told the press that his incompetent failure of a Defense Secretary is on the outs. I wonder which Fox talking head will replace him?
• In case you hadn't heard, the Catholic pope died. I won't be shedding any tears over the death of someone who protects child molesters, but even I won't pull a Marjorie Taylor Greene who thinks her god personally killed him.
• Elon Musk didn't become the richest man in the world by being fair to customers. Turns out he's been cheating Tesla customers by increasing their odometers more than they actually drive in order to avoid warranties.
• Republican Kristi Noem had her purse stolen. When the police asked her what was missing she said her driver's license, passport, makeup, and $3,000 in cash! When asked why she was carrying such a large amount of cash, she said it was because she wanted treat her family to Easter dinner... which I guess can't be done with a credit card.
• While Democrats were trying to protect students who were tricked by predatory banks, Republicans are helping out the predators.

Rhett McLaughlin of Good Mythical Morning talks about his deconversion.

Feeling: Okay

Gabby has had an upset stomach for the past four days, and missed the dragon show, but is now on the mend. Illy really loved the show which scared her just enough to be exciting.

Yesterday I beat all variations of the Commodore PET game Cursor Gomoku.

• Putin declared an Easter truce with Ukraine, then, because he's not actually interested in peace, only conquering Ukraine, immediately broke it.
• Trump's hatred of people of color has again reached the point of human rights violations. By demanding the arrest of far more people than can be held, he is packing them into jails like animals, and ICE officers are treating them as such forcing them to go to the bathroom on the concrete floor, the same place they're forced to sleep. And being a US citizen isn't enough to keep you safe, ICE has been arresting people of color and demanding they prove their a US citizen before being allowed to go free. And there are plenty of people who think they're a US citizen, but aren't. Of course, it's not a human rights violation if the Republicans in the State Department simply change the definition of human rights.
• Proving further that he is a fascist, Trump warned those who disagree with him, whom he referred to as "the enemy within," will be "easily handled by the military."
• RFK Jr is trying to do damage control over his lies about autistic people not being able to pay taxes (as if that's our life goal) and not being able to fall in love or write poetry, but he's not doing a good job. He explained on Fox that he was only referring to a quarter of autistic people.
• As expected, a second group chat from the Defense Department has been leaked. This time, Trump-appointed Pete Hegseth shared Top Secret war plans with his wife and brother, who do not have security clearance. This one was also on Signal, a free chat app that is not nor has ever been, approved for sensitive military communications.
• Republicans are changing the Social Security Administration so that it will no longer give important information through press releases, but will require people to sign up to Elon Musk's Twitter app to know what's going on. Conflict of interest? What's that?
• RFK Jr. is a big fan of Ben Edwards, a doctor in Seminole, Texas which is the epicenter of the measles outbreak which has killed three unvaccinated children. Edwards was just photographed with what looked to be a measles rash on his face, and, when questioned, he admitted he did in fact have measles, and was still treating children! Measles is extremely contagious which means he exposed every single one of his patients, but Edwards said he only treated patients who already had measles, so they weren't susceptible. This isn't entirely true, as anyone with a compromised immune system can be reinfected (something a doctor should know).
• It looks like Ron DeSantis has been committing fraud through his "charity." Hope Florida took in almost $900,000, mostly from companies with state contracts, but it isn't actually giving that money to anyone, and some donations known to have been made do not appear on the charity's books.
• Republican David Argall likes to think he's protecting children by banning books from public schools. When a 12-year-old challenged him on this, he asked the child is she thought they "should allow pornographic magazines in kindergarten classrooms?" This slippery-slope fallacy didn't mean much to the child because she didn't know what a pornographic magazine was, so the self-proclaimed champion of protecting children explained to the 12-year-old what pornographic magazines are.
• Republicans took down important medical information COVID-19 from the HHS web site and replaced them with links to various conspiracy theory web sites.
• Because there aren't any actual problems in the USA right now (not economic collapse from tariffs or a Defense Department that keeps giving away military secrets), Oklahoma Republicans are working hard to use the government to promote their religion.
• Trump's holy commercial which included a children's Easter egg hunt brought in plenty of money from his schmoozers: Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
• It's sad to see several intelligent people who I used to admire tank their careers and go down the hate-filled MAGA rabbit hole.
• How healthcare is just on a completely different level for the ultra-wealthy.
• Elmo is not pleased with Trump trying to end PBS and Sesame Street.

Honey is delicious and, when its unfiltered, it has natural pollen, but that still won't cure your allergies.

Christians who just can't understand why people leave their religion.

Feeling: Okay

Taking my girls to a show tonight.

New video game fonts include Special Criminal Investigation for the Master System, Rogue for the ZX Spectrum, the European BIOS of the Sharp MZ-700, and the Signetics 2526 character generator.

• Democrat Chris Van Hollen was finally able to meet with Kilmar Abrego García, the innocent American Trump sent to a gulag in El Salvador and has been ordered by all nine members of the US Supreme Court to be returned home, but still refuses. And, even though Trump has threatened to annex Greenland, Panama, Palestine, Canada, and Mexico, he says he just can't violate the sovereignty of El Salvador. The White House responded to Hollen's visit by slandering García and saying they will forever defy the Supreme Court.
• Just a reminder, you are being gouged with egg prices, and Republicans will do nothing to stop it because, to them, price gouging is a feature, not a bug. They'll gladly sit back and watch Trump's tariffs crash the US economy. Despite claiming to bring manufacturing jobs to the States, American truck manufacturer Mack is laying off employees because of the tariffs. But that's just one company, the Cato Institute lists another 200 more.
• Elizabeth Warren was on the Late Show and talked about the importance of fighting back against Trump.
• I'm glad to see RFK Jr's eugenics-laced speech has blown up in his face. Someone who knows so little about autism should not be in charge of "fixing" it.
• Trump booster Mike Lindell bankrupted his own company pushing Trump's lies. He's now under audit by the IRS, so, in yet another act of cronyism, Trump has demanded the audit be placed under review, presumable to put a stop to it.
• The fact that the Republicans on the US Supreme Court are even entertaining a ruling on Trump's challenge to the 14th amendment is very disturbing.
• Because of Trump and Conservative media, the majority of Republicans no longer view Russia as an enemy, even as they are invading Europe.
• The son of a sheriff's deputy stole his mother's guns and started shooting up Florida State University. Law enforcement hasn't released the names of two people who were killed, but they were not students, although several students were shot and have been hospitalized. Republicans will do nothing to stop these shootings from happening.
• How many other women has Elon Musk paid to impregnate?
• While most Canadians rightfully hare Trump, the nation does have a few bootlickers.

When performing a blind taste test, Americans actually like vegan meat.

Frugal Americans have been demanding the elimination of the penny for years, but, while we're at it, how about getting rid of the nickel as well?

Why the concept of Jesus doesn't make much sense.

Feeling: Okay

I again spent all of yesterday evening procuring scalp medicine and doing laundry.

New video game fonts include Excitebike for the NES, Maru's Mission for Game Boy, Spellbinder for the BBC Micro, and the Signetics 2516 character generator.

• The death toll in Sumy, Ukraine has risen to 35 civilians, following Russia bombing a town square while residents were attending church for Palm Sunday.
• Democrat Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to check the status of Kilmar Abrego García, one of his constituents and an innocent US resident who the Trump administration illegally deported and sent to prison, but was denied any contact with him, not even a phone call.
• A leaked internal White House document shows Republicans are trying to cut the budget of the Health Department by almost $40,000,000,000, a decrease of about a third.
• RFK Jr went on a tirade against people with autism saying their unique brains are an epidemic and they will never have a job and never fall in love, very dehumanizing eugenics type stuff.
• Trump said he would make other countries respect the USA, but his tariffs are only making them all hate us more.
• The US State Department had an organization designed to combat lies from foreign countries, particularly Russia trying to influence US elections. Republicans just shut it down.
• Because all their talk about state's rights is a lie, Republicans are suing the State of Maine for making their own laws regarding who can play sports.
• Because they defied Trump's authoritarianism, Trump has directed the IRS to end Harvard's tax exempt status. Typically, this requires proving a non-profit broke some rules of their status, but Republicans haven't even tried to gather evidence. And pro-fascism rhetoric appears to be growing on college campuses.
• Because she's a horrible person, the town hall meeting of Marjorie Taylor Greene was filled with protesters. But don't worry, the police were there to hit them with semi-lethal weapons.
• In yet another example of Trump's efficiency, his administration is now sending out end-of-immigration notices to American citizens born in the USA.
• Republicans are demanding Medicare data be surrendered to ICE so they can try and track down immigrants.
• Ten different Jewish organizations are claiming Trump is exploiting antisemitism so he can keep undermining democracy.
• Republicans in Arkansas passed a bill allowing their state's monstrous governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to fire the state's entire Library Board because they weren't banning enough books.
• Republicans are arguing that wiping out the habitat of an endangered species doesn't constitute as "harm."
• Thanks to antivaxxers, whooping cough is on the rise again.

How bigotry tends to influences conspiracies.

Another day, another child-raping preacher.

Feeling: Okay

I spent all of yesterday evening washing hair and bedding. Good times.

New video game fonts include Gauntlet for arcade, DuckTales for the NES, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones for the TurboGrafx-16, and the Japanese Sharp MZ-700 BIOS.

• It is completely unacceptable that Trump can admit his administration sent an innocent US resident to prison in another country, then be court ordered to return him, then simply refuse. Trump says he can't do anything about it because he has no jurisdiction over El Salvador, but El Salvador's president, a self-proclaimed dictator, also says he can't do anything about it describing the innocent American as a terrorist. Thankfully, a judge is now demanding the Trump administration prove they are trying to get him back and Democrats are traveling to El Salvador to check on the safety of Kilmar Abrego García.
• The Social Security Administration was already working with a bare-bones staff (a 50-year low) when Trump decided to fire 7,000 employees. Because of all the cuts, the web site people use to check the status of their account is crashing and some people have been incorrectly told their payments have been canceled. Democrats are demanding Trump be held accountable, but expect Republicans to block it.
• J.D. Vance said the first Islamic nation to get nuclear bombs may be the UK. A couple of points to make. Vance doesn't seem to know that Pakistan is over 95% Islamic and has had nukes since the 1990s. Also, the UK, which has had nukes since the 1950s, is majority Christian with less than 6% Muslim. So what is Vance talking about? He's just letting his bigotry shine by warning the UK might become majority Islamic. Why? Because the people there stopped voting for their incredibly corrupt Tory party.
• Republican Linda McMahon, the pro-wrestling wife Trump put in charge of American schools, has issued an edict demanding all schools end programs which help people of color and people with disabilities, or she will eliminate the school's funding.
• Ed Martin, Trump's pick for the attorney of Washington D.C., is yet another person Trump has put into power who has a long history of trying to hid his connections with Russia.
• I love that Bernie Sanders is in his 80s, but he still believes he belongs at Coachella.
• Most of Trump's executive order attack on the Susman Godfrey law firm has been blocked by a judge for being illegal.

The humble plastic soda bottle is actually a lot more complex than you'd think.

Pac-Man gets some new ghosts.

Feeling: Okay

Kids picked up lice from school. Yay...

• Immediately following Russia's deadly attack on Ukrainian civilians, Trump blamed Ukraine for starting the war. When asked about the specific attack where Russia killed a bunch of children, Trump said Putin just "made a mistake."
• A whistleblower has shown that Trump's unapproved DOGE got access to sensitive labor data about legal disputes, including the private information of everyone involved, and took copies outside restricted areas. This information has nothing to do with saving the government money and is really only beneficial if you want to make life bad for union workers. Worse still, DOGE demanded the elimination of any record of them taking this data!
• Trump's tariff war continues to ruin the US economy with instability and increased costs, and Conservative media outlets continue to call his losses wins. This is going to cause serious long term damage to the USA.
• While Columbia University capitulated to Trump's bigoted demands, Harvard refuses. But this refusal comes with a big price tag of $2,200,000,000 in funding cuts!
• Republicans begrudgingly reinstated Jackie Robinson's web page after fans complained loud enough.
• A Cato survey showed that 80% of Americans believe the USA would be better-off if we increased manufacturing jobs here. The same survey showed that 73% of Americans said they would be worse-off if they personally were working in a factory. This helps illustrate the disconnect Americans have with what they want versus what they're willing to do.
• Someone hacked crosswalks in California to make them sound like Elon Musk offering Cybertrucks to anyone who will be his friend, and Trump calling him back to bed.
• Once again, while trying to look cool, J.D. Vance made himself out to be an idiot and dropped Ohio State's football trophy.

The paradox of our ancestors.

Did scientists bring back dire wolves? No. But, did they bring back woolly mammoths? Also no.

Feeling: Okay

Had a nice birthday dinner on Sunday with some friends.

New video game fonts include Dragon Quest and Ultima: Exodus for the MSX2, Gauntlet for the ZX Spectrum, and the Texas Instruments TMS 4177-4178 JC and Fairchild 3258 character generators.

• To further their genocide, the Israeli army has bombed the last fully functional hospital in Gaza. Russia is not as successful, but they're still bombing civilian targets in Ukraine and killing children.
• The Trump administration admitted they arrested and deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on a clerical error and that he should not have been deported, but, in addition to saying they are incapable of bringing him home, they now claim that they don't even have a legal duty to bring him home, even though the Supreme Court ordered them to get him back. These "clerical errors" might just happen to you one day.
• The Republican SAVE Act will require you to prove you're an American citizen in order to vote. A driver's license will not count, you will need a passport or birth certificate, and make sure your birth name matches your current name, so, if you changed your name during a marriage, things will be even more difficult.
• Josh Shapiro, the Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, had his home firebombed at 2AM while his family was sleeping. They evacuated safely, but the man who did it, Cody Balmer, said he intended to murder Shapiro.
• Trying to make sense of Trump's failed tariff war isn't nearly as hard as trying to make sense of the Republicans trying to say it's good. That requires a lot of cognitive dissonance.
• Elon Musk promised to save $1,000,000,000,000 in government waste. He has decreased that number by nearly a full order of magnitude down to $150,000,000,000, and, lets be real, he's not going to reach that goal either. In fact, because of Trumps ridiculous policies, spending is actually higher than previous presidents, and the national debt has growing at a record pace despite their attempt to kill Social Security.
• Trump's illegal market manipulation isn't a distraction, it's a crime, and another one of the many crimes he's committed for which he needs to be punished.
• Trump's brain drain continues as academics from other nations are refusing to attend American conferences for fear of being detained at the border.
• Trump's bigotry extends to language. For some reason, he thinks English should be the sole US language, despite Americans fighting a war to prevent English rule. But, his fixation with English means he's eliminating everything that isn't in English, like warnings for dangerous weather. OF course, we won't even be able to predict dangerous weather it Trump's budget passes because it ends pretty much all weather research.
• Republicans continue to worship Trump as their Messiah.
• Republican Ron DeSantis gave his wife's charity $10,000,000 of taxpayer money to help defeat his political rivals. This is obviously very illegal.
• While trying to look cool in a military cosplay photo-op, Republican Kristi Noem, who was made the head of the Department of Homeland Security because she murdered her puppy, suited up in military armor and held an assault rifle, but she had it pointed right at the head of a cop. Democrat Ruben Gallego, who served in the Marines, gave her a lesson on how to properly hold a rifle.
• Republican Marco Rubio is urging his fellow Christians to look for people who are wanting their religion to be included, or Christians to not be allowed to push their agenda on others, and report it as Christian discrimination.
• Another man has disappeared. ICE agents arrested Mohsen Mahdawi even as he was in the final stage of obtaining his US citizenship.

What it takes to program even a very simple game for the NES.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include 4x4 Off-Road Racing, Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja, Gauntlet, and OutRun for the MSX, and the Texas Instruments TMS 4103 JC character generator.

• In an effort to further dehumanize Palestinians, Trump talked about how nice the Nazis were to the Jews they put in concentration camps by asking Benjamin Netanyahu if Hamas showed love to the Israeli hostages or gave them extra food the way the Nazis did to the Jews.
• Because Newsmax followed the lead of Fox and knowingly lied about Dominion voting machines, a judge has found them guilty as well. Fox had to pay Dominion $787,500,000, but whether Trump will step in and save Newsmax remains to be seen.
• Trump is losing his tariff war and has paused them for most countries, but not China. Goods from China now cost more than double what they did last month thanks to his %145 tariff, and China is responding in kind with its own %125 tariff on all goods the US exports to them. This will hurt farmers particularly who export a lot of produce there.
• Immigrants pay into Social Security as part of their taxes, but they can't claim the benefits. This is certainly a win for the program, but Republicans hate people of color more than they like a solid government, so they've updated Social Security records to mark over 6,000 immigrants as dead despite them being very much alive. With a status of dead, they cannot get work as taxed employees. Obviously, they will continue to work, they will just do so under the table, so this move not only won't decrease undocumented workers, it will also hurt Social Security.
• Because he's a Christian Nationalist warmonger, Pete Hegseth has issued a memo saying, if a position isn't necessary for war, it should be eliminated. Someone needs to remind him he's the head of the Department of Defense, not the Department of War.
• Typically, the Deputy Director of the FBI doesn't ask for or receive a security detail because they're just not that important. But, Trump appointed paranoid conspiracy nut Dan Bongino to the job, and, because he believes there are enemies everywhere trying to shut down his really cool podcast, he's demanding 20 officers to leave their actual duties and watch him 24/7, paid for by the American taxpayer.
• Trump eliminated National History Day, a children's history contest which saw around 500,000 students nationwide. It's budget for the entire nation is only $132,000, less than the cost of a single golf trip for Trump.
• Trump cut funding to Northwestern University and they didn't even know it until they saw it on his Twitter feed.
• Professional liar, Matt Wallace, a Republican "influencer" blamed a helicopter crash on Jo Ellis because she is transgender. In actuality, Jo Ellis was not the pilot, and now she's suing him.
• As much as I would love for it to be true, a for-profit genetics company did not bring the dire wolf back from extinction. And, their lies aren't just insulting to science, they've also been picked up on by the Trump administration who says we no longer need to keep wolves on the endangered species list, because, even if we make them extinct, we can just bring them back.
• Republican J.D. Vance went to Greenland to tell the people there they should surrender to US imperialism. Colonel Susannah Meyers, who heads the US military base in Greenland, told Greenlanders that Vance's views were not that of the military base, so the Trump team fired her.

Are CBD products miracle cures? No. But some might actually be helpful.

The child-rapist protectors are warning us of moral collapse if we don't support the child-rapist protectors.

Feeling: Okay

I took my girls to see the Minecraft movie last night. It isn't very good.

I finished reading Judy Blume's It's Not the End of the World.

Also, if you haven't checked it in awhile, my Trump complaints page now links to 1,000 news sources!

• The Hands-off protest was quite successful,
• After his tariffs crashed all of the markets, investors begged Trump to stop them. Trump promised he wouldn't even pause them, then he paused them because, while Trump isn't very bright, he does look out for his own interests, and his tariffs were killing his businesses too, so he was the first to blink. Interestingly, just before he paused his tariffs, he posted online to his followers to buy, and, those who did, made a lot of money. That's called insider trading, and it's illegal.
• The Republican judges on the Supreme Court ruled that presidents can fire independent watchdog agencies making independent watchdog agencies completely useless.
• Making good on his promise to weaponize the Justice Department to attack people he doesn't like, Trump is again doing just that. I guess there just aren't any other criminals out there who need to be stopped. In particular, the DOJ sent armed Marshals to deliver a letter to fired DOJ lawyer to warn them about testifying against Trump.
• Because he's a bigot, Trump is purposely targeting protesting students who are not white Christians.
• Republican Todd Lyons, Trump's head of ICE, said he wants to make deportation a for-profit business like Amazon and use AI to make it like Prime, but with human beings.
• The reality is, DOGE costs more money than it's saving. It's very expensive to run, and the programs it's cutting are comparatively very small.
• Puppy murderer Kristi Noem, Trump's head of the Department of Homeland Security, says she will go back to targeting transgender people simply for being transgender, and that she will start monitoring the social media of immigrants to make sure they don't disagree with Israel's genocide.
• Small town Sackets Harbor, New York shows us how to perform effective protests.
• Veteran teacher Melissa Calhoun was fired by her school in Republican-majority Florida because she called a student by the name the student wanted to be called.
• Kash Patel, who has been running both the FBI and ATF, despite being woefully unqualified for either, has been relived of running the ATF by Trump himself.
• Victor Perez is a non-verbal autistic 17-year-old. His cerebral palsy meant he could barely walk. Something agitated him because he was in his fenced in yard chasing his family members with a knife. Police showed up, and, even though Perez was behind a chain-link fence and his sister was pleading with the police that he was disabled, they shot the teen nine times!

The Video Game History Foundation Library is in open early access.

Why do people die anyway?

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja and Guerrilla War for the ZX Spectrum, Billiards for arcade, and the Texas Instruments TMS 2404 JC character generator.

• The United Nations has issued a very clear statement on Israel's genocide of Palestine. No food, medicine, or fuel has been allowed into the nation in over a month, and Israel's breach of their ceasefire has turned Gaza into a killing field.
• Trump's assault on intelligence continues. He's halted about $1,000,000,000 in funding to Cornell schools until they force their students to stop protesting Israel's genocide.
• The EU has joined with China and Canada by imposing retaliatory tariffs on the USA. This is preventing the US stock market from rebounding, so now Republicans, in order to continue to support Trump, are arguing that they don't care about money.
• Egg sellers claim they have to increase prices because bird flu is killing off a lot of their livestock and they need government subsidies to remain afloat. Except, they're making over 700% more profit than last year, so, really, they're just gouging consumers.
• Trump continues to destroy the US tourism market. Now, citizens of even US allies may now be forced to surrender the passwords to their phones and computers or be denied entry into the country (and sometimes even US citizens!). This is in addition to Trump demanding the arrest of travelers for even minor infractions, or trying to enter the country while being transgender.
• The Trump administration has admitted that it has considered deporting US citizens to prisons in foreign nations.
• Trump likes to break records, and his latest broken record is having the worst stock market to start a presidential term in modern history.
• Because of all the firing and resigning, the IRS doesn't have an official leader, and is being run by acting commissioner Melanie Krause, except, not anymore as she is also resigning because she refuses to be part of Trump's plan to share the immigration status of tax payers with the Department of Homeland Security. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes, but don't receive benefits. They are propping up the US economy, but, because Trump is really racist, he wants them gone. And, without any staff, the IRS can no longer investigate when non-profits violate the Johnson Amendment and endorse political candidates. Because of this, churches are now openly telling their sheep who to vote for.
• Republican Kari Lake, another Conservative TV host who kept failing in her political aspirations, has finally got a win with Trump putting her in the State Department just so she can dismantle the largest and oldest international broadcaster, Voice of America.
• A judge has ordered the White House to stop restricting the free press just because Trump doesn't like what they say, but, rather than follow the law, the White House says they won't engage reporters if their email identifies their gender.
• Republican Marco Rubio is a bit embarrassed after one of his security guards proved he was an real American by demanding a Belgium hotel reopen their bar after it closed for the night so he could get drunk. When they refused, he became violent, police were called, and he was arrested. The State Department defended the officer saying he's just overworked. Well, maybe stop overworking your employees until they become dangerous thugs?
• Ciara Armstead and Terrence Carroll have been arrested after the gun they left laying around their house wound up in their third-grader's backpack and the child fired it in class. Thankfully, nobody was killed.
• Joe Rogan's slow but steady descent into supporting fascists.

What does the bible actually say about abortion? Nothing really.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Golden Axe, Pac-Man, and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op for ZX Spectrum, Space Beam for arcade, and the Texas Instruments TMS 2403 JC character generator.

• Israel claimed they killed 15 medics in Gaza in self-defense because the medics were suspiciously driving their vehicles directly at them without any warning lights or even headlights and that nobody told the Israeli Army they were coming. Then reports came in which proved the medics did tell the Israeli Army they were coming, and video has surfaced which shows the vehicles did have on their emergency lights and it was very clear that they were driving an ambulance, and the medics were dressed in uniforms and high-visibility vests. Israel continues to commit genocide, and is purposely murdering medics.
• Russia, having spoiled much of their military on Putin's botched invasion, is having a hard time finding more soldiers willing to go on suicide missions. They have been hiring North Korean mercenaries, and now they appear to be hiring Chinese mercenaries.
• Trump's illegal deportation of people without Due Process to a gulag in a foreign country has been, at least temporarily, allowed by the Republicans on the US Supreme Court. They've also given him permission to continue his illegal firing of 16,000 US workers.
• Trump's assault on education continues as more and more students are being kicked out of the country for protesting Israel's genocide. Arizona State University alone has seen 50 students lose their visas for their heroic efforts, some only weeks away from graduation, and some people are even permanent residents with Green Cards who are being deported.
• As expected Trump's anti-science pick to head the Department of Health, the completely incompetent RFK Jr, continues to bungle everything. He has been telling people not to get vaccines for years, but, after a second unvaccinated child in Texas died from the entirely preventable measles, he is now saying people should get vaccinated. Obviously, this has pissed off a lot of people who have been listening to him for years. But don't worry, he has a solution to get people back in his good graces. He's just told the CDC to stop advocating for fluoridated drinking water.
• Republicans haven't found any systemic fraud in Social Security, as proven by they fact that they can't point to millions of arrests that should have happened if they actually did, but they keep making up all sorts of lies about fraud.
• Retired Republican Ray Holmberg has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a long history of using taxpayer money to have sex with little boys.
• Even as many Republicans coming to rely on them, Trump is still trying eliminate mail-in ballots (even though he uses them himself).
• The National Endowment for the Humanities helps people create important works related to history and culture like Ken Burns's documentary about the Civil War, the preservation of US newspapers, the publishing of books and so forth. Trump has just canceled over 1,200 grants.
• Kansas Republicans tried to pass a law that would allow foster parents to torture their adoptive children until they change their gender identity to match their own Christian values. Thankfully, Governor Laura Kelly vetoed their bill.
• Republicans are really good at getting ignorant people to hate things that will never affect them.

Are people just getting stupider?

Tips for successfully loading your dishwasher.

Feeling: Okay

I protested in Lansing on Saturday, like a boss.

New video game fonts include my first games for the ZX Spectrum: Altered Beast, Gryzor, Hard Drivin', and OutRun, and the Atari 5200 BIOS.

• The Hands Off! protest was massive. It spanned around 1,200 cities in all 50 states of the USA, and major cities all over the world. But Trump is just watching the market crash to the tune of $11,000,000,000,000, the worst two-day loss in history, and still being proud of it because, no matter how much he fails, he's always proud of himself.
• 60 Minutes did background checks on all of the people Trump has illegally sent to prison in El Salvador and couldn't find a criminal record for 75% of them. One of those men in particular was prove to be not only innocent, but a US resident. The Trump administration admitted they sent the wrong man (they laid off the woman who said it), so the courts ordered him returned home, but Trump is, once again, refusing to obey the judges. They say they can't get him out of the foreign prison, but they don't seem to have any trouble sending Kristi Noem and a camera crew to film the inside of the prison.
• Under Trump's orders, the US web site describing the Underground Railroad has been rewritten. They removed a photo of black abolitionist Harriet Tubman, deleted mentions of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and added more references to white people.
• On March 28th, Myanmar suffered a devastating earthquake which killed 3,300 people and left countless others trapped in the rubble. Trump responded to this not only by hitting them with a 45% tariff, but also by firing USAID workers who were there to rescue earthquake victims.
• As Trump keeps interfering with Social Security offices, the web site is becoming more unstable to the point where users can't even sign in, but, rather than try and fix that, Trump is preparing to fire the workers.
• After just visiting the parents whose unvaccinated child died from measles, RFK Jr is headed back to Texas because another unvaccinated child just died from measles.
• The CDC doesn't just keep us safe from epidemics, it also educates people. For example, the CDC has nationwide water safety classes which teach parents and children how to be safe in the water and prevent the very large number of drowning deaths. Is it as sexy as viruses? No, but it needs to be done, and, with thousands of US workers being fired by Trump, it won't be.
• After eliminating national forest protections, Trump is now allowing half of the remaining forests in the USA to be made available to be cut down.
• Republican Phil Bryant doesn't want people to know about his role in a $100,000,000 welfare scandal, so he's suing a newspaper, but, the judges keep dismissing his frivolous lawsuit.
• Shout out to New York schools who say they will not comply with Trump's trying to force his racism and bigotry in their classes.
• The Trump administration is claiming the tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica wasn't the result of a clearly rushed job, but definitely a clever strategic move!
• Marjorie Taylor Greene's marriage ended in divorce because she was cheating on her husband with several different men. Now Greene is claiming that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't experienced enough to be in Congress because she isn't married. At least her new boyfriend isn't pure garbage. At least she isn't begging her constituents to send her son beer money.
• The alt-right often fails to convert men who are actually secure in their masculinity.

A look back at all the add-ons made for the Famicom and NES.

Feeling: Okay

There is a big update for my video game font collection. I reworked the Signetics 2513 character generator font after I realized it had several characters that were slightly incorrect because I used an emulator as a guide. After getting the chips' official documentation, I fixed the font, then created individual fonts for each character set, a combined one which includes every set, and then redid the Apple I and Apple II BIOS fonts. New fonts include River Raid for the MSX, Rogue for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, and my first MSX2 game, Shanghai. In addition, I did a quick audit of the files and noticed several nonworking maps and two fonts I forgot to add to the zip file, the maps have been fixed, and Pac-Man for MSX and Tower of Doom for Intellivision are now properly included. This brings the total up to 450!

• In one day Trump wiped out over $2,000,000,000,000 in stock market value, but that was yesterday, today Trump's tariffs caused the Dow to fall another 2,200 points, but he's taking care of it by golfing. Despite his lies that his tariffs wouldn't raise prices, not only are they sky rocketing, but economists are saying this will cause severe long term damage to the US economy. And, while Trump is claiming his tariffs created jobs, he's using numbers from before he declared his tariffs. However, now that he has, American companies are laying off workers. China is the first to hit back with a retaliatory tariffs of 34% on all products sold in the US, but other countries will no doubt follow, though probably not the uninhabited frozen islands Trump put tariffs on. While Americans will have to pay an estimated $3,800 more for products this year, at least we can all join together as a family and sing Liberation Day carols.
• Racist conspiracy nut Laura Loomer seems to be deciding to should be fired at the NSA. So now the USA is losing another experienced general. But don't worry, I'm sure Pete Hegseth has some more more family members to fill his shoes.
• Republicans have confirmed it, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will now be run by a snake oil peddling TV doctor.
• Elon Musk fired over 1,000 FDA employees, including those who were reviewing his Neuralink products. Now he's begging about 300 to return to work.
• And, while Musk may have personally wasted $23,000,000 to buy a Wisconsin election, he doesn't plan to stop trying to buy elections, and he has plenty of money to keep at it.
• Republican Rafael Cruz, who demands people call him Ted so he won't sound so foreign, is trying to stop workplaces from using preferred pronouns.
• South Korea successfully removed former president Yoon Suk Yeol after his failed power grab. See America? This is how you do it!

What earthquakes are like on other planets.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Altered Beast and The End for arcade, Rampage for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, Shanghai for the Sharp X1, Zaxxon for the TRS-80 Color Computer, the BIOS of the Terco 4426 CNC Programming Station, and the Texas Instruments TMS 4880 JC character generator.

• Cory Booker's record-breaking speech helped light a fire under the butts of Democrats.
• Trump issued a new round of staggeringly high tariffs. There is now a minimum 20% tariff for every nation, but most nations are much higher, some well over 100%! Except, there is one country who seems to have managed to escape Trump's tariffs altogether. Can you guess which one? Of course it's Russia. The size of Trump's tariffs seems to be directly related to the trade deficit with that country, which is bad news since, in his last presidential term, Trump caused trade deficits to soar. Naturally, economists all over the world are saying this is economic suicide, and will plunge the USA into a recession.
• Trump removed the legal counsel of migrant children without parents, but a judge, after explaining to Trump the children were given attorneys to prevent child trafficking, ordered him to reinstate them, but because Trump doesn't care if migrant children are raped or enslaved, still refused.
• As ICE continues to round up migrant workers and deport them (and the occasional innocent US citizen), they've been reporting numbers to try and make themselves look good to their racist voters. Of course, director Kristi Noem the puppy murderer is lying about the numbers, and Trump is claiming arrests of people who were already in jail before he took office.
• Republican Mike Waltz, Trump's national security adviser, has now been caught making over 20 Signal chat groups. Each one is a threat to US national security.
• Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick to run the National Institutes of Health has a solution to prevent future pandemics. Step one, fire everyone involved in pandemic preparedness. Step two, there is no step two.
• In yet another example of cronyism, Trump appointed Stanley Woodward, a lawyer who worked closely with him to try to keep Trump's staff out of prison, to the third most powerful position at the Department of Justice.
• President Viktor Orban is pulling Hungary out of the International Criminal Court. He made this decision after meeting with Israel's genocidal butcher Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Republicans make a big stink over children having access to books they themselves won't read, but surely they wouldn't try to censor which books can be read by adult college students, right? Anyway, Trump ordered the library of US Naval Academy to remove over 400 books.
• Hugely corrupt former New York Mayor Eric Adams has had his crimes erased thanks to Trump's involvement, and now he is running again for Mayor of New York, this time as a Republican puppet.
• Cops and corporations are lying about how dangerous tasers are.
• Republican Jim Banks makes no apologies for telling an HHS employee he probably deserved to be fired by Trump.
• Republicans continue to every time Trump says he'll break the law, he's only joking, even when he explicitly says, he's not joking.
• Why Christian Republicans love very specific atheists.

Ed Pratt released episode 6 of his journey down the Thames.

Why digging in beach sand can be deadly.

Feeling: Okay

Yesterday, I finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie.

• After violating their ceasefire and cutting off most food, water, and medical access, Israel is expanding their murderous genocide into new areas of Gaza.
• Democrat Cory Booker just broke the record for the longest speech in congressional history talking for over 25 hours without eating or taking a bathroom break. During his speech Booker went into great detail for how Trump's fascist ways are destroying America, and there is poetic justice in the fact that Booker, a black man, broke the previous record set by Strom Thurmond, a racist Republican who was trying to stop black people from having civil rights.
• Wisconsinites successfully defended themselves from billionaire bribery and authoritarian politicians.
• Firing thousands of health experts is not going to make American healthy. The USA had become the world's leader in virus research, having successfully decreased HIV to undetectable levels in people, but Trump canceled all that.
• Wilson Martell-Lebron was walking along the sidewalk when a pickup drove up next to him. Several men jumped out, dragged him into the truck, and sped away. Martell-Lebron had just left court where he was defending his immigration status, but someone squealed to ICE. Agent Brian Sullivan orchestrated the kidnapping which, horrifyingly, have become commonplace because Republicans really hate people of color. Thankfully, a judge is fighting back and has held Sullivan in contempt of court for violating Martell-Lebron's civil rights.
• Republicans are trying to eliminate their own department, the TSA, and replace if with a for-profit private corporation.
• Just a reminder, even when the public say they don't like it, protesting works.
• Prior to Trump taking office in 2025 four women held the highest rank in the US military. After Trump and the completely unqualified Hegseth began their purge of women and people of color, there are now none.
• Another child from Elon Musk from another woman has been brought to light because Musk has stopped paying child support to her because she won't obey his demands.
• In Deerfield Beach, Florida, a sheriff's deputy was caught on video purposely driving his SUV into a group of children on their bikes, hitting on the them. The kid tried to run away, but the deputy got out of his SUV and tackled the child to the ground and arrested him. The sheriff responded saying the deputy didn't do anything wrong, and will not be investigated or punished.
• Why are Texas Republicans collecting personal information about transgender adults? And why is Attorney General Ken Paxton lying to them about transgender laws?

Philosophical hot takes.

Why the values of the West are not Christian, not matter what apologists say.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Marble Madness and Spy Hunter for IBM PC, King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, Double Dribble: 5-on-5 for Game Boy, and Sprint 4 for arcade.

• Trump continues to arrest and deport permanent US residents with valid green cards and make others disappear. This online tracker currently lists 747 people. No wonder Americans no longer trust law enforcement.
• Trump is ending the collective bargaining rights of over 1,000,000 federal workers.
• Once again defying federal judges, Trump is sending more immigrants to prisons in El Salvador. The men he's sending have not been given Due Process, and are therefore not criminals, but Trump says he knows they're part of a Venezuelan gang because of their tattoos, except the FBI itself has said that Venezuelan gangs don't have compulsory tattoos, and many of the tattoos the Trump administration says are gang tattoos are just generic tattoos. Because they no longer care about the rule of law, they keep accidentally arresting and deporting the wrong people.
• Republicans continue talking about invading allied nations.
• Republicans are going to kill a lot of people thanks to RFK Jr. This is why over 17,000 doctors tried to warn Republicans.
• Elon Musk's election bribery just so happened to reward the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans $1,000,000. Nothing shady there.
• Trump wasn't kidding when he said he thinks people who don't like Tesler are terrorists. A man allegedly set a Tesler dealership on fire so Trump's lawyers are seeking 20 years in prison, not because they hate arson, but because they are giving special treatment to Tesler.
• We need more Democrats like Cory Booker.
• Proving once again that they support rich CEOs over the working class, Republicans voted in favor of eliminating the $5 overdraft fee cap. Now banks and credit unions can charge you as much money as they like. This will probably never affect rich Republican politicans though.
• Trump stated very clearly, that he was not joking when he said he's looking into ways that he can run for a third term, but the spineless Republican senators like Jon Husted are still trying to say he isn't serious.
• Things you can do for the next four years to undermine Republicans.
• France knows how to deal with people who rob them. The USA just offers ups more.
• Another man has poisoned himself to death for listening to Trump's medical advice.

Trying to make sense of the Bronze Age Collapse.

Something that sounds dirty, but isn't: viscous fingering.

Feeling: Okay

On Saturday, I finished reading Long Walk to Freedom, the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

New video game fonts include Arkanoid and Rescue on Fractalus! for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, Atari Mini Golf for arcade, Gomoku/Renju for the TRS-80 Color Computer, and Jet Set Willy for the Dragon 32.

• The Israeli military purposely and knowingly opened fire on a caravan of paramedics. Those who survived were tied up and shot executioner-style and all 15 corpses were buried in a mass grave still wearing their uniforms. Israel is barely even trying to cover up their war crimes at this point because they know the USA fully supports their genocide.
• As Trump's cuts to every American institution continue, his own voters are often the ones feeling the worst of it.
• Canada is the USA's largest trading partner, but because of Trump's incompetent tariffs, the new Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will not only respond with equal tariffs, but will rework their economy in the long term to avoid trade with the USA. This means products in the USA will cost even more, for even longer, and, when asked about the higher prices Americans will have to pay for everything, Trump responded saying he "couldn't care less."
• Trump is trying to force other countries to be just as bigoted as he is by telling them he will end their contracts with the US government unless they also stop hiring people of color, women, and people with disabilities.
• The fallout from the Trump administration using a free public chat app to discuss war plans continues. Now that people have discovered how lax the Pentagon has become about their security, they're digging up all sorts of information on Trump's top officials including their personal phone numbers, private email address, and even their passwords! However, Republicans still don't care, and won't punish anyone involved.
• Many accountants warned Trump that his mass-deportation program, rather than help the USA, would actually cost Americans money due to the high cost of transporting so many people, and subsequent lawsuits. But this was always about racism, not saving money, and the bills have already rolled in to the tune of $330,000,000. The stupid Guantánamo Bay stunt, which only lasted a couple days, cost $40,000,000 alone!
• Republican Pete Hegseth fired highly experienced US generals and is now replacing them with his own family members who, like Pete himself, have no experience in military leadership. He's also bringing a former producer of Fox & Friends, who has no security clearance, to military meetings.
• After again talking about an unconstitutional third presidential term, Trump was asked directly if he were joking and he said "No, I'm not joking," and stated, "there are methods," for how he could do it.
• After his very much unwanted visit to Greenland, Republican J.D. Vance agrees with Trump that the USA should invade and annex the sovereign nation.
• Most of the articles talking about Elon Musk selling Twitter back to himself are just free advertisement for him. But the takeaway I get from the deal is, Musk lost at least $11,000,000,000 on Twitter, but probably more since he gets to set it's value to whatever he wants. X is the new online home for Nazis, and, despite all the Nazis, and Musk dismantling the USA, Apple and Amazon keep giving him more money. And, having been given unchecked power by Trump, Musk has been using his government authority to prop up his companies which is working in the USA, but not so much in Europe.
• As Republican RFK Jr. keeps firing every medical expert, the US measles outbreak has now infected 400 people across five states.
• Ordinarily, if someone said they would pay people to vote for a specific candidate, they would be charged with political bribery and put in jail, but, because the Trump administration is benefiting from this, they're letting it happen.
• The US Institute of Peace is an organization that tries to help bring peaceful ends to violent conflicts throughout the world by using diplomacy and mediation. At least, it used to. Trump just fired nearly everyone who works there.
• More American scientists are leaving the country so they can live in democracies again.
• In Texas, guns are not regulated, but dildos are.

You've probably heard that hot water freezes faster than cold water, except, it doesn't. But sometimes it does?

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Alternate Reality: The City, Shanghai, and Silpheed for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, and Mickey Mousecapade for the NES.

• The main reason the Trump administration used Signal rather than the US military's own communication systems is so that they don't have to keep the legally required paper trail. They don't want any watchdogs looking over their shoulders when they commit war crimes. However, because they were so incompetent and shared their chat with a journalist, now the judiciary knows about their little attempt to skirt federal law, and a judge has ordered them to preserve all their records. But don't expect them to stop dismissing their violations of the law as whoopsie daises. And, if you keep getting invited to war plans, get yourself HegsBlocker.
• Trump made a big show of claiming to care about street drugs entering the USA, particularly highly addictive drugs like fentanyl. So, what is he doing to help those who have become addicted to it? He's taking $11,400,000,000 worth of grants dedicated to addiction and mental health and eliminating them.
• Trump signed an executive order to remove everything from the Smithsonian's 35 buildings that might make a visitor view the USA in a "negative light," particularly, things related to race or gender which he believes are un-American.
• All the cuts to the IRS has prevented their ability to audit tax cheats, so the IRS is estimating Trump's DOGE has cost the USA a staggering $500,000,000,000, just for 2025.
• Republican Anna Paulina Luna is trying to pass a sensible law. She wants to make sure that women who are giving birth on election day can still vote, but she faces her biggest opposition: pro-family Republicans. They say family is very important to them, but refuse to make any concessions for pregnant women, and are instead trying to bribe Luna to shut up about it.
• Trump is removing safety regulations in slaughter houses. They're already one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and now they're going to get worse.

What happened to the Mars drone?

A Christian preacher locked his congregation in church until they gave him $40,000.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Naughty Boy and Warp & Warp for the Casio PV-1000, Little Samson for NES, Marble Madness for Genesis, and Shanghai for TurboGrafx-16.

• One of the more shocking things about the Trump administration's failing to secure their group chat, despite Hegseth claiming "we are currently clean on OPSEC," isn't the childish use of emojis or Vance saying he was praying their air strike would kill people, but how happy they were that they leveled an entire civilian building, murdering 13 innocent civilians, to kill one man. And, while nobody in the Trump administration could agree on whether they did anything wrong, one thing they all agreed on was that the journalist they included in the chat was a hoaxer, deceitful, and a sleazebag (then why did they included him in the chat?) The same people who couldn't stop grilling Hillary Clinton have shrugged this off and don't care that the highest level of US military was using a free public chat app that the National Security Agency warned them against using, and Trump, who has previously taken credit for every military strike, now totally disavowed any knowledge of the attack. Also, Republican Steve Witkoff, who was included in the group chat, was in Russia at the time, but don't think Russia got access to the chat, because Witkoff said he was conducting international travel without a cell phone. Seems believable. Former military have looked at the chat and said that kind of information most certainly should have been classified and that allowing it to be made public puts US soldiers at risk.
• Trump's goons keep showing up in masks and kidnapping people who are legally allowed to be in the USA.
• Further tanking the US economy, Trump instituted a 25% tariff on all foreign automotive vehicles and parts, which account for about half of all automotive sales in the USA. Even if you bought an American brand, a lot of their parts are made overseas, so you will still see an increase in prices.
• It's been made clear that the men Trump deported to a country they never lived in was not because Republicans knew they were part of a gang, but because they had tattoos. One of these men, Arturo Suárez Trejo, was included in the deportation because he had an autism awareness tattoo.
• The teenager Elon Musk hired to extract and house your sensitive private data from government databases has a history of working for cyber-criminals. I expected more from Big Balls.
• Because of Republicans, we have to ask, Is Elmo now, or has he ever been a member of the Communist Party? Good work Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Proving how important security is, Republican Mike Waltz left his Venmo account public which listed everyone he was sending or receiving payments from.

A look at some other Apple II clones.

A look at US territories.

A look at how quacks are still killing children.

Feeling: Okay

I beat Little Samson on normal difficulty last night.

• The pentagon leak is one of the worst failures of military security in my life time. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally invited a reporter to Top Secret war talks Republicans were having, not on an approved secure military channel, but using a public chat application. They say both that nothing classified was in the group chat but also that a chat about war plans never existed while also claiming they have perfect security. Well, if there wasn't anything classified in the chat, the reporter is free to release it to the public right? Except, the reporter isn't a fool, and pointed out that security was so bad, they even included the real name of an under cover CIA agent! The reporter did eventually release the chat which proved everything he said about it, and also proved Hegseth was lying.
• Trump said it should be a crime to criticize the judges he's appointed.
• Trump signed an executive order requiring everyone who registers to vote to prove they're a US citizen. That may seem innocuous, maybe even beneficial, but there has never been any evidence of many non-citizens voting in US elections, so it doesn't fix a problem. Instead, it's much more nefarious. Ask yourself, could you prove you're a US citizen? You might think, I could show my driver's license, but non-citizens can get driver's licenses, so that won't work. The same is true for credit cards, military IDs, renting receipts, bank statements, or anything like that. You might say, I can show my birth certificate which proves I was born in the USA. If you can find it, it still won't work, because, since Trump is trying to eliminate the 14th amendment, he specifically said in the executive order that birth certificates also don't count. One of the few documents that can prove you're a US citizen is a passport, but only half of Americans have a passport (around 170,000,000 do not!). The good news is, in the USA presidents don't have authority over how elections are conducted. The bad news is, our Republican majority congress keeps surrendering their power to Trump. So, while this executive order is just another example of Trump violating the US Constitution, and will most likely be deemed illegal, it's going to be very expensive and wasteful to correct.
• How Republicans keep lying about free speech.
• Ray Holmberg, a different Republican who got caught trying to have sex with minors, is being sentenced for having sex with little boys for years before he got caught.
• With Trump deporting migrant workers, there isn't enough people to perform cheap labor in the USA. How are Republicans making up that shortfall? By eliminating child labor laws. Republican Ron DeSantis is trying to pass a law allowing children as young as 14 to work all-night shifts.
• Food banks don't just provide food to the poor, they also help disabled people who don't have easy access to food, and collect food from restaurants, grocery stores, and farms that would otherwise be thrown out. They are very important if we want to keep our society thriving, which is why Republicans are defunding them. The West Michigan Food Bank just had their budget cut by $1,100,000, resulting in a food shortage of 600,000 pounds.
• As the self-appointed director of the Kennedy Center, Trump held a secret meeting for what kind of programming he wants to see there. The meeting was leaked, and in it Trump said he wanted non-woke musicals like Fiddler on the Roof and Cats making it very obvious that, if he has ever actually seen them at all, he clearly never understood them. The reality is, every popular musical became popular because they're woke.
• Colorado Republicans collected $10,000 to hire a professional painter to paint a portrait of Trump to hang in their state Capitol. It looks just like him, but, when Trump saw it, he called it an insult, and ordered them to remove it.
• Further corrupting and debasing the US government, Trump is turning the White House's Easter Egg Roll into a corporate advertisement.

Why you can't breathe through a long snorkel.

Why soap is slippery.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Jump Bug and Shinobi for arcade, Altered Beast for TurboGrafx-16, and Winter Games for Atari 2600.

• The same Republicans who raked Hilary Clinton over the coals for even having a private email server are deathly silent now that Republican Pete Hegseth got caught using a public chat application to discuss Top Secret war plans. Trump's team has responded to this massive breach of security by claiming the planning and execution of an airstrike in a foreign nation is in which specific locations are to be bombed and named individuals are to be killed is... public information!
• The irony is, while the USA has been added to the Human Rights Watchlist because Republicans keep destroying our civil liberties, Trump supporters think they're freer than ever.
• Despite Trump's goons having found almost no evidence of legitimate fraud, but tons of made up fraud, Social Security is still on the chopping block.
• Republican Justin Eichorn keeps digging his grave. After he was arrested trying to have sex with a minor, he told authorities he didn't own a gun (he did), and he called a friend to quickly run to his house and take away all his electronics, but the FBI got there first.
• Another major Tesla stock holder just cashed in their Tesler shares.
• Republicans hope for the collapse of society to justify all their ridiculous doomsday prepping.
• How Republican mentality has made childcare both extremely expensive and terrible.

The strangeness of your two brains.

Why some fruits won't get any riper off the vine.

Feeling: Okay

Over the weekend, I beat the game Inside.

• In their continued genocide of Palestine, Israel has murdered over 50,000 Gazans.
• Trump sent a memo to his Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security ordering them to legally attack any law firm that challenges his authority.
• Perhaps in an attempt to prepare Americans for what's coming, Trump's Commerce secretary, Republican Howard Lutnick, said the only people who would complain about a missed Social Security check are fraudsters.
• Further Pentagon web site purges include the removal of sites dedicated to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Holocaust Days of Remembrance, suicide prevention, sexual assault awareness, and even breast cancer screening. They even removed the page for Jackie Robinson. Surely we are great now?
• Puppy murderer Republican Kristi Noem is obeying Trump's order to remove legal protections for over half a million immigrants, but not immigrants from mostly white nations, only those with a majority of people of color.
• Facing the elimination of federal funding, Columbia University's interim president Katrina Armstrong has caved to Trump and says she will start arresting protesting students and rework the school's Middle East studies department so that it meets with Republican approval.
• Even as natural disasters are becoming more frequent and deadlier, Trump is dismantling FEMA.
• Trump is rescinding the security clearance of his political rivals.
• Trump used to say electric cars were a Democrat hoax. Now that Musk is funding him, he's hawking Teslers on the White House lawn. Speaking of which, Vancouver removed Tesla from the International Auto Show because they didn't want to deal with protests against Nazis. Musk is trying to fight back by doxxing select protesters, and, of course he started with lies about a woman. Keep up the protests, they're working!
• A Fox host is preaching that the USA should eliminate due process for certain types of people because they don't deserve it. Unsurprisingly, the group he's talking about is mostly people of color.
• Children may be dying from measles in Texas with now over 300 cases, but a few dead children won't stop Republicans from trying to pass anti-vaccine laws.
• Fox had to pay $787,500,000 to Dominion for lying about the security of their voting machines. Now Newsmax is on the hook, but they have an ace up there sleeve with largely Trump in control of the judiciary.
• The USA continues to dishonor and threaten Native Americans with the Dakota Access Pipeline, particularly because of Trump, and now Greenpeace has been ordered to pay $660,000,000 to an oil company for their part in the protests.
• Why don't you hire a Fox weekend co-host to run the US military? Because he accidentally sends his war plans to random reporters.
• Trump supporters never seem to realize how bigoted they are.
• It's rare to get a win in these dark times, but, thankfully, it was for trans people.

Why adding backdoors to encryption would be a disaster.

There is still a lot we don't know about gravity.

Feeling: Okay

I vectorized the logo used on the US releases of Bionic Commando.

• In a photo-op surrounded by the children of rich parents who send them to private preparatory schools, Trump signed an executive order to dismantle and close the Department of Education.
• Another high-profile Trump supporter and Fox pundit has been charged with the possession and creation of child pornography, and Republican Senator Justin Eichorn just resigned from his failed attempt to have sex with a minor. Low-level goon Damion Surles, who created a doctored photo of Kamala Harris next to Jeffery Epstein (to counteract the dozens of Trump with Epstein) also raped a child. Seems to be a pattern.
• Further eroding the nation's reputation with our allies, Trump said, without evidence, the European Union has raped and pillaged the USA.
• Trump canceled a program to plant shade trees in urban areas. Not only would this combat climate change, but it would make the areas look nicer. But Trump didn't cancel the program because he doesn't believe in science, he canceled the program because, to him, planting trees is somehow a DEI program.
• Major nations are now issuing travel warnings to their citizens telling them that it is no longer entirely safe to visit the USA, as they may be arrested and jailed by ICE, as many have already been.
• Trump has cut off federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania because, while they are following all NCAA and Ivy League collegiate sport rules, they aren't following Donald Trump's collegiate sport rules of banning transgender athletes.
• Trump is indeed running the US government like a business and violating all anti-corruption laws in the process. But it isn't just Trump who is breaking the law by telling people to buy products from his friend's, Commerce Secretary Republican Howard Lutnick is the latest to abuse his cabinet position to promote Tesla, a company in which he personally owns stock.
• Federal judges keep having to remind Trump that he can't deport people simply because he doesn't like them, and he certainly can't deport permanent US residents.
• Because Trump can't do anything right, when he released a few more JFK assassination records, his team forgot to redact over 400 Social Security numbers paired with people's names and dates of birth, several of whom are still alive and will now be subject to serious identity theft.

Christians trying to take credit for Western values requires a lot of lying. Like, a lot.

Feeling: Okay

Stayed home today to look after Gabby.

• Trump claimed some men were part of a Venezuelan gang, so he sent them to El Salvador, which is not Venezuela. A judge said that was unconstitutional, and they had to be returned, but Trump refused. And, also, they never stood trial, so nobody knows if they're actually part of a Venezuelan gang, and, some of them had never even been convicted of a crime in the USA.
• Trump said anything documents or contracts signed by Biden or Obama using an autopen must be struck down and rendered null and void. Just please don't look into whether he uses autopen all the time or if presidents can actually void pardons.
• Continuing his attack on the 14th amendment, Trump is deporting children who are legal citizens of the USA because their parents are not. One such child is a 10-year-old girl with brain cancer.
• Emboldened by Trump, white supremacists continue to spew their hateful messages.
• ICE continues to arrest and jail non-white US citizens, depriving them of their civil rights. And, further enforcing the end of US scientific endeavors, ICE is refusing to allow foreign scientists into the nation if they disagree with Trump.
• Oklahoma Republicans are trying to change the state's education standards so teacher will have to parrot Trump's lies about election fraud.
• Bradley Bartell is a staunch Trump supporter, but he fell in love with a Peruvian woman named Camila Muñoz. He knew that she was residing in the USA illegally, having overstayed her work visa which expired during the COVID pandemic, but she has been trying to get permanent US citizenship. The two were married, and took a late honeymoon to Puerto Rico as it wasn't possible during COVID. On their return, she was arrested by ICE and is now in jail awaiting deportation. Bartell is trying to spread the word about how difficult and expensive it is to get any information about his wife's whereabouts or situation. When asked if he regrets voting for Trump and getting his wife deported, Bartell said he still actively supports Trump and blames the previous administration. This is the kind of person who votes for Trump.
• Pride festival in San Francisco is seeing long time sponsors backing out sending a clear message about how much authority is still held by anti-LGBT Republicans. Thankfully, there is still some good news as an Ohio court overturned at least part of the Republican law that makes gender-affirming care a crime.
• Another 46,000 Cybertrucks have been recalled due to shoddy paneling, and Tesla stock continues to tank.

Mythbusters alum Kari Byron talks about the importance of getting girls into science.

Feeling: Okay

I was woken up at 3:00 AM to Gabby puking all over her room. She somehow managed to throw up in her bed, her sister's bed, the room's carpet, and the hallway. What a champ!

I've added translations to the main list in my Adventure Hero's Books page.

• The Israeli military is still purposely murdering humanitarian workers.
• A mere hours after making a ceasefire promise to Trump, Putin violated the ceasefire. This isn't surprising because he's already violated it 24 other times.
• One of the many war crimes committed by Russia involves the abduction of around 30,000 Ukrainian children in an effort to force them to become Russian, thereby wiping out Ukrainian culture. The USA set up an office to identify and track these children with the hope of reuniting Ukrainian parents with their children after Russia is stopped. Trump has not only shut down the office, but, in order to ensure nobody can ever find these children again, he appears to have deleted the database of names!
• Once again proving he opposes freedom the speech and the press, Trump said media outlets which publish articles critical of him are illegal.
• Democrats introduced a bill that would re-hire every veteran fired by Trump and Musk. Despite their claims to support the troops, every Republican voted against it.
• RFK Jr's plan to combat bird flu is: let the deadly virus spread unchecked and hope some birds will be immune to it, and then breed those birds. Survival of the fittest is a natural approach, but, ask anyone who has studied evolution and they will explain to you why it's a ridiculously costly endeavor that always includes unintended side effects, one of the worst, at least for us, is that bird flu can jump to humans, so, letting it spread will probably cause another global pandemic.
• Governor J.B. Pritzker reveled that Trump told him he wouldn't send any COVID relief money to his state unless he personally priased Trump on television.
• In February 2025, Trump appointed Leo Terrell to lead his antisemitism task force, which was strange since Terrell had no ties to Judaism, a problem which became all too clear a month later when Terrell posted content created by the founder of the white supremacist hate group Identity Evropa who said "Trump has the ability to revoke someone's Jew card." Terrell made the post in an attempt to defend Trump's antisemitic attack on Schumer which lead the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to call out Terrell for being antisemitic.
• After firing tens of thousands of US workers, Elon Musk said Americans would reap the benefits of having major services permanently dissolved in the form of a $5,000 check. Except, true to Republican fashion, he was lying.
• A judge says Trump's bigotry against transgender people in the military is unconstitutional, and has temporarily stopped him.
• Republican Senator Justin Eichorn, who adores Trump and say's he big on family, was eager to meet with the 16-year-old girl he had been chatting with online. He hoped to get lucky, but the child he thought we was going to have sex with ended up being a bunch of cops in a sting operation.
• Fearful of retaliation from Trump, and forever tarnishing their name, Columbia University has expelled, suspended, or revoked the diplomas of students who exercised their first amendment rights by protesting Israeli genocide.
• The Texas measles outbreak is nearing 300 people and has spread to over a dozen states. I urge you to ignore Republicans and vaccinate your children!
• The punk band Dropkick Murphys pointed out a lot of Trump's crimes while on stage, so self-proclaimed free-speech-absolutist Elon Musk banned their Twitter account. Actually, Dropkick Murphys deleted their Twitter account in 2022, the account Musk banned was fan page.
• Protests are working, particularly those targeting Tesla.
• Chuck Schumer isn't winning any fans sucking up to Trump.
• How the privatization of elder care has made elder care absolutely horrible.
• How professional sports is transitioning into addictive gambling.
• ICE arrested and jailed Canadian Jasmine Mooney for trying to enter the USA despite her updated work visa. Why? Because she was trying to enter the USA from Mexico rather than Canada. For the next 11 days, she was frequently shackled and moved to different jails across the country to prevent her lawyer from tracking her down. Mooney being a white celebrity with a decent following no doubt helped her get out of the hell of ICE, but most aren't so privileged. Until the authoritarian bigot is removed from power, I would discourage anyone from visiting the USA.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include the games Double Dragon and Radar Scope for arcade and World Heroes for Genesis.

• As expected, Israel broke their ceasefire agreement with Gaza with a surprise bombing of civilian targets, murdering over 400 more innocent people. Israel has, is, and will continue to commit genocide. They are not interested in peace, their goal is the permanent eradication of an entire ethnic group. Israel doesn't see Palestinians as people, so they have no problem with exterminating them. The free nations of the world need to band together and stop Israel the same way we stopped the Nazis in World War II.
• Trump has tried to use the highly racist Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain and deport, not immigrants, but permanent US residents. The last time this Act was put in use was during World War II when conservatives put Americans of Japanese, Italian, and German descent into prison camps. A judge has blocked him, but Trump is ignoring the order, which erupted into a legal battle during which Trump called for the judge who pointed out his illegal act to be impeached.
• US law enforcement continues to harass, arrest, and detain permanent residents.
• Trump continues to white wash the US military, removing thousands of photos of women and people of color. Medal of Honor recipients Harold Gonsalves was flagged for removal because his parents were Portuguese, and Charles Calvin Rogers because he was black. Pictures of Ira Hayes, one of the US soldiers who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in the iconic photo, have been removed because he's Native American. Also various heroes have been eliminated from places of prominence on the web site of Arlington National Cemetery. But, what can you expect from the man who eliminated the ban on segregated bathrooms and drinking fountains?
• The Republican party has told Republican politicians to just stop talking directly to their constituents through town hall meetings. They can't possibly defend what they're doing, so it's best to just ignore the public.
• Trump's Justice Department has protected him on his theft and exposure of Top Secret documents saying the details of the case should never be released.
• Trump gutted libraries and museums yesterday, now he's cutting up NASA. But don't worry, one of his best friends has a private for-profit space company that your tax dollars can buy!
• Because he doesn't know how to be a strong man, Trump is looking to tyrants like Puntin and Jinping for what to do next.
• Texas is now imprisoning medical workers for performing abortions.
• Trump ordered those federal workers who were allowed to work from home back into the office, but, maybe he should have checked to see if the offices actually had desks, Internet access, or even electricity?
• Republicans have been spreading a lie about public school students identifying as animals and demanding litter boxes in schools. There has never been any evidence of this, yet Republicans keep wasting tax payer money to investigate it. Republican Stan Gerdes is even taking it a step further and demanding schools punish children if they act like animals. Does he plan on locking up kindergartners for pretending to be a kitty?
• In their continued effort to dumb down America, Republican Corey Simon is trying to pass a law allowing student to graduate without an understanding of grade school level English or basic algebra.
• To add insult to injury, the Trump administration is playing the song Closing Time by Semisonic in their videos about deporting immigrants. This is not only a violation of US copyright law, but the band has made it clear that anyone who would use their song to mock destitute people clearly doesn't understand it's message.
• Trump is ending Secret Service protection for Biden's adult children, but not his own.
• Trump's new Tesla already has 37 safety recall notices.

What is this strange material that gets bigger when you squish it?

Feeling: Okay

Well, it took a lot of play sessions, which were short because I became frustrated easily, but I finally beat the NES port of Ghosts 'N Goblins on hard mode.

New video game fonts include the variable-width fonts from Wolfenstein 3-D for DOS, OutRun for Game Gear, Tank Battalion for arcade, and Wheel of Fortune for Apple II. With those, I now have over 400 video game fonts!

• Ma Yang is a mother of five, has lived in the USA for 37 years, and has become a permanent resident. She was born in Thailand, and moved to the USA when she was only 8 months old. However, in his continued push to rid the USA of brown people, Trump is deporting her to her ancestor's homeland, Laos. Yang has never been to Laos, doesn't speak the language, has no family there, and is not a Laotian citizen, but all that matters to Republicans is, she's not white.
• Trump has crashed the US economy, wiping out a staggering $5,000,000,000,000 in just three weeks.
• Because so many of his picks are criminals, Trump has called for the elimination of FBI background checks for his senior staff.
• As Trump and Musk's lies keep getting found out, his claims about saving American's money seem less and less likely in fact, if this keeps up, even with all the fired US workers and shuttered buildings, DOGE is still expected to cost more money than it's trying to save!
• Musk has caused irreparable harm to Tesla with all his Nazi antics, there was a new one last Friday, but Trump is also causing irreparable with his tariffs.
• Trump is such an incompetent buffoon. While talking about Greenland, he said the following, "You know, Denmark's very far away, and really has nothing to do. What happens, a boat landed there 200 years ago or something? And they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is." That's the cognitive capabilities of the US president!
• Trump posted online that he is unpardoning the pardons of previous presidents, something he has no authority to do.
• Trump's criminal acts are unconstitutional, but the judges who issue these rulings keep receiving death threats from Trump voters.
• Trump and Musk are firing IRS workers, not because it helps the middle class, but because it helps the extremely rich. Audits of rich people are very expensive are require a lot of manpower, so, when the IRS is understaffed, they just stop auditing the rich.
• Fox Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, who also runs the US military, is reworking the military's legal system to allow for more crimes against humanity.
• There was a temporary restriction on Trump's executive order to fire all the women, people of color, and disabled federal workers, but it has been lifted, and Trump's back at it again.
• With a White House that is fully anti-science, those rational people are now becoming more afraid of measles.
• Trump signed an executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services which funds all federal libraries and museums.
• The Trump/Musk corrupt Tesla purchase has been canceled.

A retrospective on the Nintendo's Satellaview.

Feeling: Okay

I've vectorized the arcade and Atari 2600 logos for Jungle Hunt.

New video game fonts include King James Bible for the Game Boy and Pac-Man for the MSX. Working on some complex variable-width fonts that I should have on Monday.

• In their worsening genocide, Israel has cut power to Gaza which will prevent them from having enough drinking water, and the Israeli military is purposely destroying infrastructure that would allow Palestinian women to have children.
• Putin says if Ukraine surrenders a fifth of their territory to him and stops trying to join NATO, he will stop invading them... for a while.
• Trump is still asking the Supreme Court to let him violate the US Constitution.
• Trump is currently the least popular president in history even losing to the previous least popular president in history... himself. Maybe it's because he's tanking the US economy even more than in his first term?
• Police officer Kyle Kapitanski was speeding and watching YouTube videos on his police-issued tablet when he drove into a cyclist, killing him. After an investigation, it was discovered that the video Kapitanski was watching was of the Christian white supremacist Matt Walsh.
• Republican Hayden Haynes is the Chief of Staff for Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. He was just arrested for driving while intoxicated.
• Mehmet Oz is just another Republican tax cheat.
• JD Vance was rightfully booed as he entered the Kennedy Center, which he has helped destroy, to hear the National Symphony Orchestra, which he has said nobody listens to for enjoyment.
• Self-proclaimed free speech advocate Mark Zuckerberg's company has successfully stopped a former Facebook employee from being able to promote her book.
• Being a "tradwife" isn't just about looking old-fashioned, it's about surrendering your rights, being a man's fetish, and ultimately becoming a white supremacist.

The CIA is not as spooky as the movies make them out to be. Of course, that's just what they'd want you to believe!

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Little Nemo: The Dream Master and Tetris for the NES, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Game Boy and Vanguard for the Atari 5200.

• In six weeks, Trump has fired more veterans than any president in US history.
• During Trump's blatant conflict on interest where he degraded the office of the presidency to make a commercial for Musk, he referred to the company as "Tesler," which is accurate mash-up of Tesla and Hitler. In addition to saying violence against Tesla would be considered terrorism, Trump said boycotting the company is also now a crime. But Trump isn't just handing Musk's Telsa company free ads and contracts, he's also rewriting laws to favor Musk's other company, Starlink.
• Trump has illegally arrested a man for exercising his first amendment rights, and now he's trying to deport permanent residents!
• On Trump's orders, the EPA is cutting dozens of anti-pollution laws.
• Republican Marco Rubio wouldn't be a US citizen today if his Cuban immigrant grandfather hadn't defied the US government and stayed in the USA even after being ordered to leave. Rubio's takeaway from this is to try his best to kick out immigrants, especially people of color like his former grandfather, to ensure families like his will never be allowed in the USA ever again. What a pathetic sellout.
• It is estimated that Trump's tariff wars have cost US stocks a mind-blowing $4,000,000,000,000!
• RFK Jr is going to kill children with his misinformation.
• Trump sent immigrants to the super-max security military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba at an enormous cost. Now, probably due to legal pressure, he is flying them back to the States. What a huge waste of taxpayer money.
• In another example of Trump's antisemitism, he said Chuck Schumer, because he doesn't support Trump's and Israel's genocide, is no longer Jewish, he's now a Palestinian.
• Fox has a long history of being a toxic work environment where women are sexually assaulted and raped, but the network can breathe a little easier today as a judge has thrown out the lawsuit of former employee and rape survivor, Jennifer Eckhart.
• Because freedom of expression means nothing to Republicans, they are again trying to ban pride flags from government buildings.
• After Trump's severe corruption in weaponizing the government against private businesses, a judge blocked part of his executive order, and compared him to an evil queen.
• Amazon keeps sucking up to the Trumps.
• Wow, it's been several days since a Trump-supporting Christian preacher at a megachurch was arrested for raping children, let's just check the news... There we go.

Part five of Ed Pratt's journey from source to sea of the Thames is quite nice.

Omniscience just doesn't make any sense.

Feeling: Okay

Yesterday, I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars.

New video game fonts include Gauntlet and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game for MS-DOS and Sky Skipper and Tunnel Hunt for arcade.

• Ukraine held a fairly successful drone attack on Moscow, which caused Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire, and Trump reinstated military aid to Ukraine.
• Trump's chaotic trade war continues as steel and aluminum imports see 25% tariffs, causing nations all over the world to introduce their own tariffs on US exports. As predicted by economists, the US economy is tanking.
• Trump continued firing US workers, wiping out another 1,300 jobs at the Department of Education, a full half of its workforce.
• After a judge ruled the USA really did have to pay USAID debts despite Trump cutting all their funding, Trump ordered USAID workers to destroy their internal documents to make the process impossible.
• Back in February, Trump ended the US refugee program. A judge ruled that, once again, Trump's actions were illegal, and he was ordered to reinstate the program, but he hasn't, and says he probably won't for months.
• Trump ordered the US military to eliminate photos of honored soldiers if they were female or people of color. They were even ordered to remove a picture of the plane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II because it was called the "Enola Gay."
• Further weaponizing the government, Trump has signed an executive order attacking a law firm that offers legal defense to people who are having their lives ruined by Trump's weaponized government.
• The General Services Administration is being cut to the bone as well, and with it, all the people who oversee the USA's art collection. Our large collection of paintings, sculptures, and various other cultural treasures may be lost in the process.
• Elon Musk can't keep his web site running, probably because he fired all his workers and doesn't pay his bills, but, rather than admit his own incompetence, he's blaming Ukraine. Ukraine is a little busy right now, what with defending itself from a Russian genocide, and other cyber security experts have pointed out that the web site is being flooded from traffic all over the world. Musk chose to focus solely on Ukraine... because he's a bigot. And, because he's a bigot, sales are plummeting for his Nazis cars. So, Trump has turned the office of the presidency into a used car lot and is now trying to sell you a Nazi car. Musk even gave Trump an advertisement script! Then, to give Musk even more preferential treatment, Trump said any act of violence against the Telsa company would be considered an act of terrorism!
• Proving once again that this was never about "protecting children," Texas Republicans are trying to make it a crime even for adults to be transgender.
• Media Matters is counter-suing Elon Musk because he keeps suing them for simply reporting his exact words and deeds.
• The results of Greenland's election is a stiff middle finger to Trump.
• Border Patrol agent Shane Millan was fired after it was discovered he used his authority to sexually assaulted women seeking refuge.
• Because he's a bigot, Republican Keith Self purposely and repeatedly misgendered Representative Sarah McBride.
• Irony is cutting down the rain forest in order to build a road for a climate summit.
• A day in the life of Trump's Russian handler.

The very weird weirdness of quantum mechanics.

Feeling: Okay

Last night I beat Halo: Combat Evolved.

• Trump and Musk are looking to further eliminate Social Security by lying about it. And, while Social Security fraud does exist, Trump or Musk don't understand how it really works.
• Musk, on Trump's orders, is also continuing to degrade Veterans Affairs, wants to defund NPR, and is preparing to sell off 443 federal buildings.
• Of the top 20 worst days for the Dow Jones, three are directly the result of Donald Trump. But, he's not done yet. All of his tariff nonsense has just caused the Dow Jones to drop another staggering 1,000 points, and today won't be much better now that Trump has said he will now double Canadian tariffs on metals to 50%. This will create a metal shortage in the USA, well, since Trump can't seem to decide if he's actually going to enforce hos own tariffs which he says are so great, who knows?
• Maybe ICE shouldn't be allowed to keep violating human rights?
• At Trump's orders, the Department of the Interior says it will no longer penalize companies whose dumped pollution or chemical disasters kill migratory birds.
• The US government is the laughing stock of the world.
• Retired Navy pilot and NASA astronaut Senator Mark Kelly said Trump should go back to giving Ukraine military aid to protect Europe against Russia. Elon Musk called him a traitor.
• RFK Jr is ending all NIH grants researching the decline in vaccine use and lying about non-existent conflicts of interest with doctors who encourage vaccines.
• It's important for Christians to ask themselves, Who Would Jesus Bomb?

You may have heard it said that pollen is plant sperm, but it's actually a lot stranger than that.

How bigots are trying to hijack the game Werewolf.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include CoMotion and Double Dribble for arcade, Family BASIC for the Famicom, Donkey Kong Land for Game Boy, and Galaga for the MSX.

• I don't know how I missed this back in 2020, but the Trump administration went full-Nazi on Facebook.
• Birthright citizenship was created to allow black slaves and Asian immigrants to become US Citizens after we had been abusing them for a very long time. As you can imagine, this was not appreciated by racist American Conservatives.
• Economist are warning that Trump's second tariff war is going to start a new recession in the US economy costing Americans even more than his first failed attempt, and Trump was like, yeah, maybe.
• When they're not chanting "USA", Republicans are trying to steal your Social Security. Yes, they said they wouldn't do that, but, the Republicans were lying. Trump keeps lying nonstop about Social Security in order to help justify eliminating it.
• Democrats created a bill that would pay the medical treatment of veterans who were injured from exposure to toxic chemicals at burn pits. Republicans voted it down because Republicans don't care about veterans.
• Years of medical research have shown that there is no link between vaccines and autism. The idea was pushed by Andrew Wakefield, a charlatan who lost his medical license after it was discovered her was torturing children with painful unnecessary medical procedures in the hopes of scaring a medical board into using his trademarked vaccine making him rich. Despite being exposed as a fraudster, he's still very vocal and makes a lot of money lying to well-intentioned, but ignorant parents. As more research into autism has been conducted, we've learned that environmental factors do play a role, but it's primarily a genetic condition. But well-documented scientific evidence doesn't matter to a crank like RFK Jr. He's demanding that your tax dollars be spent on more research into the long-since debunked vaccines and autism claim.
• Trump's January 6th pardons are being expanded to crimes committed before and after the insurrection including illegal guns, selling drugs, and potentially child pornography.
• Trump helped get rapists and sex-traffickers Andrew Tate and his brother into the USA to protect them from various lawsuits in Romania and the UK, and the UFC is welcoming them back with open arms, literally.
• Trump is arresting college students for protesting his pro-genocide ideals.
• After promising to cut the cost of groceries, then saying it was outside his authority, Trump is now telling Americans to "shut up about egg prices!"
• Trump attempts to justify his massive government firings saying he's trying to save money, but then his administration spends millions of dollars on art to decorate embassies.
• GunBusters markets itself as a gun destruction buyback program, but it actually helps build more guns.

Here is a documentary on the making of The Oregon Trail.

Could liquid nitrogen freeze the T-1000? No.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Pocket Bomberman and Shadowgate Classic for Game Boy Color, Arkanoid for arcade, and Below the Root for IBM PC.

• Trump is actively dismantling the US government, jeopardizing long term allies, and helping our enemies, and that's not a good thing. And while some of his ignorant supporters are now facing buyer's remorse, it's not enough to do anything.
• Trump touted bringing back free speech in the USA while kicking out a member of Congress for using his freedom of speech.
• The measles outbreak in Texas has spread to New Mexico with 160 cases now, and another person has died, this time an unvaccinated adult. Just a reminder of what life was like before vaccines. A lot of private Christian schools in Texas are probably about to find out.
• Most people view cryptocurrencies as a scam, including Donald Trump. Then, he realized he could scam his followers, so now he's using the White House to host his own crypto scam. Sure, it cheapens the White House and the office of the US Presidency, but, it will make him a lot of money.
• The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection help keep food-borne illness to a minimum. Trump disbanded them.
• Another SpaceX test flight ended in a catastrophic explosion. Quick, let their CEO run the US government! Is he? Trump seems to think so.
• Trump is even downsizing organizations long-supported by Republicans, and they're still backing him. He's making them dig their own graves, and they couldn't be more complacent.
• While trying to defend his decision to fire air-traffic controllers during a nation-wide shortage, Trump said he would replace them with geniuses from MIT, which probably wouldn't be such a bright idea since MIT doesn't have an air-traffic controller program.
• In another great exampled of Trump's foreign policy acumen, he mispronounces Lesotho, then says nobody has heard of it, even though his right-hand mand is trying to setup a business there.
• Why is California Governor Gavin Newsom on a podcast with white supremacist Charlie Kirk?

If a person thinks being "woke" is a religion, they really don't understand what religion is.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin.

• Republicans are embarrassed that Democrat Al Green called out Trump for brazenly turning the USA into a Russian puppetstate, so they're going to censure him, and, to embarrass Democrats, 10 of their own sided with Republicans in the vote.
• Trump has authorized the firing of a staggering 80,000 Veterans Affairs worker, about 15% of their total staff. All of Trump's firings, compounded with employers fearful of the damage his chaos will create has caused an unemployment to spike at a staggering 245%, back to the pandemic levels!
• I'm glad late night hosts are calling out Trump's bullshit.
• How Trump plans to permanently dismantle the Department of Education.
• Almost immediately after restarting them, Trump is again re-pausing his tariffs. It's almost like he doesn't have the slightest idea what he's doing!
• Another federal judge has blocked Trump's attempt to freeze payments on already approved spending.
• In his effort to eliminate National Parks, Trump is closing 34 buildings, including visitor centers, rangers offices, and museums.
• Trump has eliminated Social Security offices all around the nation. Here's a map which shows how many were closed unemployment to surge to a in your state.
• Trump's elimination of foreign aid is doing a number on religious charities. I doubt this will decrease his approval amongst Evangelicals though, because, back when I was still going to church, foreign aid was seen more as an annoyance than a mission.

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I've added a page for the fairy tale Snow White.

• With Trump turning the USA into a Russian ally (he just ended military intelligence sharing with Ukraine), Europe is responding by escalating their own military programs, committing a staggering $840,000,000,000. Under normal circumstances, I would say this is an absolute waste of money, but, with Trump creating a US-Russian Axis, I don't blame them.
• This is why you don't put an antivaxxer in charge of medicine. The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics had to explain to RFK Jr his vitamin-based approach to treating measles "is not only dangerous and ineffective, but it puts children at serious risk."
• For at least he past decade, Russia has been actively trying to influence US elections, particularly to sow chaos by helping Trump get elected. Trump denied this during his first term, but Biden put together a program to combat foreign election interference. Trump's personal lawyer turned Attorney General, Pam Bondi, just ended the program.
• During his 2024 campaign, Trump said he would eliminate surprise medical bills, but he instead fired a large percentage of the department in charge of preventing surprise bills.
• Trump's illegal ending of USAID was so unconstitutional, even Roberts and Barrett said he couldn't do it. But Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh were all for it.
• Unsurprisingly, Trump's speech was almost entirely lies.
• It's tragic, but, American politics are now best explained using professional wrestling analogies.
• Iowa Republicans are trying to ban the COVID-19 vaccine, and all similar mRNA-based vaccines. And, on that topic, no, there wasn't a recent "study" calling the vaccine's safety into question, despite what you might read in People magazine.
• We could use more politicians like Al Green who are willing to call Trump out to his face, even if it means being kicked out.
• Oklahoma Republicans are trying to pass a law that protects Christian doctors when they refuse to treat patients because they believe their god doesn't want the patients to be treated.
• Like her corrupt husband, Melania Trump is really cashing in this time around.

Mario and Sonic fight over who has the best movies.

I order to not pay their employees a living wage, more and more companies are turning to tipping.

Feeling: Okay

I've vectorized the logo for the 1992 version of The Oregon Trail.

New video game fonts include Battletoads and Castle of Illusion for Game Gear and Digger and Donkey Kong Jr. for arcade.

• There may be a ceasefire, but Israel is blocking all food and medical aid going to Gaza. Those who survived Israel's military genocide will now starve to death.
• In order to remain loyal to Putin and help Russia conquer Ukraine, Trump has halted all bipartisan military aid to Ukraine. I guess he's trying and look tough after coming off as a whiny bitch.
• Trump's first trade war with China cost the American people about $230,000,000,000. With a population of around 331,000,000 people at the time, it means every man, woman, and child personally lost $694, and the end result was manufacturing jobs in the USA still declined. This time, Trump has ramped-up the tariffs even further battling with China, Mexico, and Canada, which is going to cost the American people even more. Already, the DOW has fallen a staggering 600 points! While some Trump supporters are having buyer's remorse, most of them are just too stupid to know they've been screwed over.
• The Texas measles outbreak continues to spread thanks to misinformation by Republican RFK Jr. In response to the large number of hospitalized children, RFK Jr said it was simply to quarantine them. According to hospital doctors, he's lying. Children are typically quarantined at home, they go to the hospital if their life is at risk. Already one child has died, and RFK Jr is purposely downplaying the severity of the outbreak. Before the measles vaccine, each year around 450 people died and close to 50,000 had to be hospitalized. We shouldn't go back to that!
• In his continued attempt to eliminate the first amendment, Trump posted that student protesters will be expelled, jailed, or deported and their colleges defunded.
• Trump is now charging $1,000,000 to have dinner with him, or $5,000,000 to meet with him directly. Businessmen can discuss what additional bribes will be necessary to buy an executive order.
• Because they don't actually care about state's rights, Republicans tried to use the federal government to force individual states to ban certain children from playing specific games in schools. However, because such a law requires a 60% majority, and Republicans don't have one, their bigoted law failed. But, make no mistake, this is far from over, as hateful Republicans will continue to scapegoat minorities.
• 21 employees at DOGE resigned in protest saying they didn't want to be responsible for the continued jeopardization of American's sensitive information.
• Trump continues his quid pro quos with US politicians.
• Did Trump finally stop believing the missing gold conspiracy? Or is he going to get involved with NESARA?

When you think about the stories in the bible, they're actually really stupid.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for the Grimm brother's version of Little Red Riding Hood.

New video game fonts include Duck Hunt for the NES and Carnival for arcade.

• Trump sold out Ukraine to Russia. Like so many other betrayals, it was to be expected, but I still hoped he would see reason. But, Trump has been a Russian asset for years; that wasn't going to change, and now he's also selling out the USA to Russia to the point where even Moscow now says Trump has realigned US foreign policy to suit Russian goals. Long time Republican writers have finally started speaking out against Trump, but they waited so long the party has devolved so far into fascism that their voices are meaningless now. Trump's treachery is going to have global implications, particularly in Europe. Already, a Norwegian gas company has decided to stop refueling US naval vessels. Since Republicans continue to actively help Putin, it is up to sane Americans to help Ukraine directly. I just donated $100 to the Ukrainian Red Cross, and urge you all to do the same.
• In addition to making Americans poor, Trump is also making Americans stupid by permanently deleting tons of scientific research, all of which was bought by US taxpayers.
• Now that children are dying from measles in Texas, Republican RFK Jr has decided to tell people to get vaccinated, but, I doubt they will suddenly believe him as he still appears to be canceling this year's flu shot. And, under normal circumstances, we shouldn't worry about bird flu, but considering who's in charge...
• The USA already had a shortage of air-traffic controllers in the USA when Musk went through and fired even more of them. But, planes falling out of the sky and flipping over on the runways isn't a good look, so now he's begging retired workers to return to work.
• A judge has ruled that, once again, Trump violated US law when he fired watch dog Hampton Dellinger, and Dellinger has been reinstated.
• A $65,000 reward for the murderer of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson was offered by the New York police and FBI to entice people to turn him in, and a McDonald's employee did. It's now three months later, but the police and FBI still haven't paid out the reward money, and may never pay.
• Police officer Wesley Shifflett shot an unarmed black man to death because he thought he might have stolen a pair of sunglasses. In a very surprising court case, Shifflett was actually convicted of a crime. Not murder or even manslaughter, but reckless handling of a firearm. But hey, that's something at least, and he was sentenced to three years in prison, a slap on the wrist for murder. But, after only two days of being incarcerated, Republican Glenn Youngkin pardoned him.
• Guess that's the end of Black History Month.

Lucas Hunt gained some fame for making signs which read "Thank you Jesus," aaaaaand he's been arrested for child porn.

McDonald's employee Diana Portillo was being harassed at work, but, rather than protect her, McDonald's fired her because she was trans. And now they've had to pay her $930,000 for their bigotry.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for the Grimm brother's version of Cinderella.

New video game fonts include Amidar and Exerion for arcade, and Ultima: Runes of Virtue II for Game Boy.

• Not that you should expect much from the guy who put a drunken wife-abusing TV host in charge of the US military, but five former defense secretaries, including his own, have denounced Trump's mass military firings as reckless.
• In addition to mass firings at the NAOO, the Trump administration cut funding to the Ebola prevention team in USAID. Musk lied and said they didn't cause any problems by doing so, but the people who actually do the work said, yes, you really did!
• When asked if Russian oligarchs would be allowed to buy US citizenship for $5,000,000, Trump said yes.
• Macron, Zelensky, and now Keir Starmer have all called out Trump's lies to his face.
• Trump's transgender ban in the military is now taking effect.
• Armed citizens in Lincoln Heights are taking to the streets to keep themselves safe from Nazis, emboldened by Trump, who have been demonstrating there.
• Journalists admit, freedom of press in the White House is pretty much dead.
• Trying to make Elon move like a real human requires a professional.
• Trump promised to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the child-sex-trafficker he liked to hang out with. Rather than release the documents in a professional manner, Trump gave them ultra-Conservative podcasters who have convinced themselves they would be filled with big-name Democrats and Hollywood liberals. When they finally got the documents, they were very disappointed. Everything they received had already been released years ago, and the only new documents included were completely redacted. So, once again, Trump lied to his base, but they'll stand by him no matter what.

How is it that colliding blocks can be used to compute pi?

Feeling: Okay

I've vectorized the Frogger logos for the arcade and Atari 2600 ports.

New video game fonts include Lazer Command and Ms. Pac-Man for arcade, 1943: The Battle of Midway for the NES, and Mickey's Ultimate Challenge for Game Boy.

• The President of the USA posted an AI video of Gaza being wiped out and replaced with a giant golden statue of himself.
• With many of the original 12,000 troops now dead or wounded North Korea is sending another round of troops to Russia to help them invade Ukraine.
• Republican Tulsi Gabbard, who is currently the head of US National Intelligence despite having no qualifications whatsoever, has just fired 100 employees across 15 US intelligence agencies. She claims the firings were for "egregious violation of trust," "corruption," and "horrific behavior," but, when you look at what they actually said, they were fired for talking about gender affirming care and making statements critical of Trump.
• Republican Josh Schriver introduced a resolution to re-criminalize same-sex marriage.
• Sex traffickers and accused rapists Andrea and Tristan Tate are heading to the USA, probably so that Trump can grant them asylum.
• Americans shouldn't have to hang an upside-down flag in a national park to convince Trump to stop firing US Parks workers, especially when he's firing the people who are trying to keep animals from going extinct. And, instead of getting angry that Trump is firing so many US workers, Republicans are telling them to be happy about it, because it's all part of God's plan.
• The Texas antivaxxers have killed their first child. Measles has been all-but eradicated in the USA with zero reported deaths in 10 years, but, with cranks like RFK Jr at the helm, expect a lot more.
• Even in the White House, nobody seems to know what Elon Musk is doing, not even Trump.
• Trump seems to have a fetish for a French accent, but is racist against an Indian accent.
• Republicans in the US State Department are now revoking the travel visas of all transgender athletes who try to enter the USA, even if the sporting authority they're competing through, like the Olympics, allows transgender athletes.
• Republican Shane Jett said Oklahoma public school teachers needs to be able to hit their disabled students because his bible tells him so.
• Imagine being so insecure about Trump's failure of a name change that you have to start renaming everything else "Gulf of America" and force other government institutions like schools to waste money updating everything.

Atoms are almost entirely empty space, and here's the experiment which proved it.

Ed Pratt has a new adventure. He's following the River Thames from source to sea, all 210 miles, while only making progress while in the river. Here are parts one, two, three, and four, with more on the way.

Feeling: Okay

I've made a page for the fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife, which was a new one for me.

New video game fonts include Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the NES, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap for Master System, and Pulsar for arcade.

• Again, proving he cares nothing about veterans, Trump authorized canceling over 875 contracts with agencies that provide aid to veterans, in matters of health care, disability compensation, home loans, burial services, cancer screening, financial planning, and more.
• Trump once again tried to completely end the USA's refugee program, but was again stopped by a judge.
• While he may complain about other people receiving government money, investigators have discovered that Elon Musk's companies have received around $38,000,000,000 from the US government, and that number is growing! Like most capitalists, Musk only cares about what is good for him, which is why he should never be in charge of the government, but at least Trump will keep sucking his toes.
• Trump may have said he wants to stop people from dying of drug overdoses in the USA, but he's cut over $340,000,000 from the budget of the Office of National Drug Control and Policy so it's won't be able to as effectively enforce drug control policies.
• Trump's White House has decided it will be the sole decision maker for which news outlets are allowed at press event, entirely upending the first amendment.
• Once again proving it's not about merit, it's about being wealthy, Trump says he will let wealthy people buy US citizenship.
• The measles outbreak in Texas continues to grow. Hopefully, it will cause some parents to reconsider their anti-science views, but I fear it will take a lot of dead children ton convince some of them.
• Under Trump, the USDA has deleted all its research on climate change, and is now being sued by farmers who need that information to decide when and what to plant.
• Facebook used to try to moderate hate speech, but, after Trump said he would put Mark Zuckerberg in prison for life for not letting him overthrow the government, they've given up.
• Macron chats about Trump.

The algorithms the make up your news feed contribute by and large to what you think about.

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I've made a page for the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

New video game fonts include Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom and Streets of Rage 2 for Genesis, Kickle Cubicle and Zaxxon for arcade, and Solitaire for the NES.

• Trump is saying he won't help Ukraine defend themselves from Russia unless they give us mining rights, so Putin, seeing an easy mark, is offering Trump mining rights in Russia if he sides with Russia. And that seems to be the case, as 93 nations a the UN voted on a resolution denouncing and calling for them to leave Ukraine, the USA sided with Russia and North Korea against it! Meanwhile, French President Macron reminds Trump that selling out to Russia will make him look weak.
• The problem is, when you don't actually know the inner workings of an organization, you can't fix it, and the certainly can't make it more efficient. So, when Musk claims he's saving money and making the government more efficient, he's sorely mistaken. But Trump and Musk are the kind of people who think firing 6,000 IRS workers and causing the commissioner to retire right in the middle of tax season is a good idea. And, all the while claiming he loves the military, Trump still fired 2,400 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Someone hacked the computers at HUD to show a video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's toes, with a play on Trump's quote, "Long live the real king." Accurate.
• The Associated Press asked a judge to force the Trump administration to reinstate them because the first amendment in the US Constitution grants them that right. Unfortunately, the judge they pulled, Trevor N. McFadden, was appointed by Trump and is a member of the ultra-Conservative Federalist Society, so, naturally, he refused to enforce the Constitution.
• Trump is now sending refugees and migrants to the super-maximum security military prison in Cuba. It is estimated that it costs around $13,000,000 to incarcerate a single prisoner there! So efficient!
• By slashing funding to the NIH, research projects at every university, college, and lab in the USA is going to be stunted or outright ended.
• Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are perfect examples of insecure men.

The tournament rules for Mortal Kombat don't make very much sense.

Feeling: Okay

I've made a page for the fairy tale Rapunzel.

I've vectorized the logos for Below the Root and the US NES port of Heroes of the Lance.

• Despite the ceasefire, Israel is sending tanks to Palestine in preparation to continue their genocide.
• Dan Bongino is a former Fox and NRATV contributor, but now runs a podcast where he talks about why he supported Trump's mob in their failed attempt to overthrow the US government because, even though he didn't have any evidence, he was convince Democrats somehow rigged the election, and since Black Lives Matter people aren't in prison, the Capitol insurrectionists shouldn't be in prison either. He also said the many well-documented examples of Trump's collusion is all fake, said it's wrong to punish police who use excessive brutality, and is a COVID-19 denier. So, naturally, Trump has made him the next Deputy Director of the FBI! In a shocking twist, Bongino actually has a decent education and even experience in law enforcement, though he hasn't been active in 13 years. But, you know he's going to take his new job very seriously because he explained his life philosophy as, "owning the libs. That's it."
• Despite their lies about wanting to reduce government spending, Republicans approved another $340,000,000,000 to waste on our already bloated military and border patrol.
• Unsurprisingly, Trump's pick to run the Department of Education wants to abolish the Department of Education.
• Noted antisemite and white supremacist Jack Posobiec, who also promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy, has been invited by Pete Hegseth to travel with the Department of Defense.
• The Trump administration tried to blame giving Elon Musk $400,000,000 for armored Teslas on Biden.
• The Associated Press shouldn't have to sue Trump's White House to be allowed to report on it.
• After appearing at Trump's inauguration and allowing Facebook users to make violent threats to minorities, Meta has decided to allow 200% bonuses to executives (but not their regular workers).
• I'm glad to see Democrats suing Trump for his hate-filled executive orders.
• Once again showing his disdain for veterans, Trump authorized the firing of telephone operators for the military's suicide prevention hot line. Trump's not a fan for first-responders either as he also funding to the 9/11 program.
• Trump halted funding and hiring at the USA's wildfire prevention program.
• Book bans have reached an all-time high in the USA because of Republicans.
• After Trump cut funding the USAID, the department's Inspector General, Paul Martin, released a report detailing how the decision was causing about $500,000,000 worth of food to rot in warehouses. A decent person would become embarrassed by their blunder, and immediately restart funding. But Trump is indecent, so he instead fired Martin.
• How Trump's decisions are directly hurting Trump voters. But, even if they do finally realize they were wrong to support him, you still don't have to welcome them in with open arms.
• Elon Musk is like a Bond villain, but, like, not a good one.

Different ways scholars have tried to improve the English alphabet.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Crystalis for the NES, Monte Carlo for arcade, Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan for Game Boy. I also made my first variable width font for the DOS port of Doom, and, now that I know how, I can start making more.

• Trump is selling out our allies to Russia, and it won't be long before he does the same to the USA itself.
• In Trump's continues effort to control the media, he's still banning journalists, while giving preferential treatment to conspiracy nuts like Lara Logan who's made such ridiculous conspiracy claims she was banned from Fox and Newsmax. Turns out, seriously suggesting that world leaders eat children shows a lack of journalistic rigor. But, she's pro-Putin, so Trump likes her.
• Not to be outdone by Elon Musk, Steven Bannon gave a Nazi Salute at CPAC.
• It looks like Trump is going to fire the board at the US Postal Service and put himself in charge. And he'll have plenty of time to run it right when he's not golfing, running the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, and pretending to be the president.
• While every plane crash isn't Trump's fault, his terrible decision to fire the already understaffed air-traffic controllers is making air travel less safe, just like his decision to fire the people who monitor our nuclear arsenal and bird flu.
• There has been a deadlock in the G7. They're trying to issue a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the Trump administration is refusing to let them call Russia the aggressor.
• Because Trump has canceled Black History Month, we have to get creative with how we celebrate.
• Trump has created a wonderful new legal argument!

A look at how games are made to feel mysterious.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Kid Icarus: Angel Land Story and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for the NES, Barricade and Turbo for arcade, and Spy Hunter for the Apple II.

• Because of Trump, and those who voted for him, the USA has become an ally to Russia, in particular, Vladimir Putin. Trump is solidifying our mutual fascism by helping to denounce the people Putin is trying to exterminate, even if it means attacking our allies. By making blatant lies about Ukraine and Zelensky, that are so bad even his fellow Republicans are calling him out with words, but that means nothing when they still support his actions.
• In his continued effort to help Israel conquer Palestine, Trump has stopped all aid to the Palestinian security forces.
• The Trump administration offered hundreds of thousands of federal workers a choice; either quit now and be paid until summer, or risk being fired and potentially lose everything immediately. The total number fired is still very hard to estimate, not just because the new people are being fired every day, but because the Trump administration keeps firing critical workers and then scrambling to rehire them. The number is well into the tens of thousands, but add to that an additional 77,000 workers who have agreed to resign. But despite the promise they would keep getting paid until September if they agreed to resign, some of them are getting fired anyway!
• To consolidate more power, Trump signed executive orders putting himself in charge of departments purposely created to be independent and not be under the control of the president, including the FCC, FTC, and SEC. There will certainly be lawsuits, because what he's doing is illegal, but the Republican Supreme Court has little interest in what's legal. With these agencies under his control, Trump will have authority over all broadcast media, all trade, and all private businesses!
• Trump's DOGE has claimed saving the USA $55,000,000,000. This is wrong for several reasons including the actual confirmed number is more like $2,000,000,000, but also, do you save money on your car by not getting oil changes, or do you incur a much larger cost further down the road?
• With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, inflation reached it highest rate since the 1980s, but, over the next four years, inflation saw a steady decline. Trump has only been in office for a month, and, already, it's headed back up. And, even though he promised everyone reducing costs would be his number one priority, Trump now says he can't do anything to reduce inflation.
• Farmers all over the country are still begging Trump to release to them the funds they are promised. He refuses to budge.
• Why does Elon Musk think people are receiving Social Security Benefits despite the system claiming they're 150 years old? Because his crack team of teenagers didn't know how to properly extract data from the government database and got the wrong dates. This is why you don't put high school graduates in charge of entire government!
• Like so many toadies before him, RFK Jr has given up his ideals to appease Trump.
• Trump, when describing what he believes is an accomplishment, described himself as a king.
• Aaron Craig Gleason, a self proclaimed Christian philosopher, prides himself on his contributions to Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire and The Federalist with articles about the importance of not letting transgender people near children. He was arrested for trying to have sex with a child under the age of 12.
• It was recently discovered that ICE agent James Joseph Rodden had been posting white supremacist hate speech on Twitter.
• Ditching the penny is a good idea, but it certainly isn't going to save our country.
• I'm beginning to think Trump doesn't care about the National Park Service.

What video games were like before they were video games.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Code Name: Viper and Gauntlet for the NES, and my first Genesis games, OutRun and Sword of Vermilion.

• In February 2022, Putin ordered the Russian military to invade Ukraine, and they dropped bombs on all their infrastructure and killed thousands of civilians. Trump is now blaming Ukraine saying they started the war and calling Zelenskyy, not Putin, a dictator!
• As part of Trump's massive purge of federal workers, he also fired the people responsible for monitoring and containing avian influenza, AKA bird flu. With the disease's recent growth, and the fact that it is now infecting humans, the USDA is struggling to rehire them.
• Trump has removed the right to an attorney for refugee children, this will probably cause over 100,000 children to lose their legal fight for refugee protection by default.
• Typically, Congress decides how government money is spent, except, Republicans have surrendered the power of the purse to Trump. But, they have forgotten the immortal words of Carl Sagan, "Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." So, now they've come to Trump on hands and knees begging for some of that money back before they start defaulting on their bills.
• Trump once again says he will break any law he wants because they don't apply to him.
• If you needed another reason to divest yourself from Google, their calendar app has removed Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hispanic Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples Month, and Pride Month. When asked why, Google said it was just too hard to make all the minorities happy, so they decided to be fair and not celebrate any of them.
• The Trump administration continues to say journalists should be put in prison.
• Andrew Tate has been credibly accused of rape and human trafficking in Romania and the UK. Trump is trying to help him escape the countries.
• Just like with Trump, Musk is using the federal government to exact revenge on the people they don't like. In Trump's case he's firing anyone who exposed him crimes, or helped minorities. In Musk's case, he's firing anyone who prevented him from killing people at Neuralink.
• Kansas Republicans, proving their hatred of trans people, have overridden the governor's veto and have criminalized gender-affirming care in minors.
• For the next few years, don't expect a visitation to go smoothly at national parks or libraries. Trump's massive firings have put them into chaos.
• First Korea and now Brazil. See, this is what you're supposed to do when a power-hungry fascist attempts a coup.
• Pete Hegseth, who is completely unqualified to be the Secretary of Defense, but somehow now runs the entire US military, isn't just an abuser of women, an alcoholic, and a defrauder of veterans charities, he's also a tax cheat. Turns out he owes the IRS over $33,000, but, rather than simply pay it to make it go away, he tried lying about it on social media, blaming his tax woes on Biden.
• The measles outbreak in Texas continues to grow. It's now the worst in over 30 years, but RFK Jr is still telling people not to get vaccinated.

What happens when you graph the entirety of Wikipedia?

Everything is magnetic to some degree, somethings are just weird about it, like bismuth.

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I finished reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

I've also added a page which lists all the Newbery Awards and honors. So far, I've read 20 of them.

• Yes, Trump is taking over the US government, yes, Republicans are helping him do it, but that doesn't mean we can't stop him.
• Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held an instructional webinar for immigrants so they would know what their civil rights are under US law. The man Trump put in charge of mass-deportations because he saw him on Fox, Tom Homan because he thinks teaching people their civil rights is a crime.
• Expect to see Social Security start failing in the USA. Michelle King, the commissioner, just resigned as Trump's goons begin to infiltrate it.
• Trump isn't just firing thousands of workers, he's telling the workers they're inadequate, even though who have stellar performance reviews.
• Trump's war on science isn't just going to destroy research laboratories, it's also going to kill off your favorite science communicators.
• Bosses say they hate working from home because people don't work as hard, but that doesn't appear to be true. The more likely reason it, it makes the job of bosses harder, and they tend to be lazy.
• I'm glad to see many Americans are hitting Republican sympathizers where it hurts, in their profits.
• Mordechai Brafman, a deeply racist Jewish man, hates people of Arabian descent so much, after he thought he saw a car being driven by Palestinian men, he pulled out a gun and opened fire on them. Though both men were shot, neither was killed, and, it was only then that Brafman realized the men he tried to murder were also Jews.

How can we solve the tragedy of the commons? Communication.

Saturday Night Live released their very first episode and it has some bangers from Janis Ian.

Feeling: Okay

Last Friday night I beat Superliminal.

• Republican VP J.D. Vance told Europe to stop worrying about Russia invading their borders, and start working with Germany's fascist party, the one endorsed by Elon Musk who said Germany needs to stop apologizing for the country's "past guilt" of the Nazis and Holocaust. Vance then met with the head of Germany's fascist party and publicly berated a 22-year-old environmentalist. Germany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, rebuked Vance saying that hate speech, especially that of the Nazis, is actually a bad thing. Republicans, on the other hand, are making sure schools can legally fly Confederate and Nazi flags, while at the same time banning LGBT flags.
• Trump said he will continue giving military aid to Ukraine, but only if they give the USA exclusive access to mine their land. Let's hope Europe and other nations step up now that the USA no longer cares about justice, and now appears to be colluding with Russia.
• One of the things Elon Musk is still mocked for is, after he bought Twitter, he fired almost half the company before trying to understand what the workers actually did. Because of this, he didn't realize he fired the company's most important software engineers until the site began seeing rolling outages, and Musk had to beg the people he fired to come back to work, probably at an increased salary. Thankfully, he learned from his embarrassing mistake and would never do the same thing now that he's cutting heads at the USA government. It would be completely boneheaded of him to, for example, fire the nuclear engineers who maintain the nations stockpile of nuclear bombs. Don't worry guys, I'm sure your lies will keep the blunder covered up, except Republicans even deleted all the employees contact information, so they don't even know how to contact the people they fired to beg them to come back.
• To give you an idea of why you shouldn't assemble a team of teenagers to run a national government, the hastily thrown-together DOGE website was hacked shortly after coming online because they didn't know they had to secure it, the workers have been "accidentally" given the ability to completely alter the payment system of the entire US Treasury, and they "accidentally" released classified US intelligence to the public. Because of these repeated failures, judges are temporarily and partially, halting DOGE, but it won't last, and, already, they've got their eyes on the IRS.
• Trump has constantly been lying about the number of undocumented workers in the USA, hugely exaggerating the number saying in 2024 that it increased by 21,000,000 in the past three years alone, and said he would employ the US military to get rid of all of them, promising between 15 and 20 million deportations, hoping to repeat Operation Wetback. However, because the actual number of undocumented workers in the USA is only around 11,000,000, that is making things very difficult for law enforcement. They may hate people of color just as much as Trump, but, despite their best efforts, they just can't find enough people to satisfy Trump's lies, so they're losing their jobs.
• Because Republicans are racists, Public schools in Kentucky are being forced to remove from the library any books which mention slavery, or any monthly observations of cultural heritage like Black History Month or Asian American Month.
• The President of the United States of America should not be hyper focused on stage plays.
• Elon Musk has a history of mocking disabled people, so, it's no surprise he's sicked his goons on a blind man.
• But, at least the price of eggs is down, right? What's that? Highest they've ever been because Trump was lying and never intended to reduce the cost of groceries?
• Marco Rubio is a little bitch.

ERB pits Charlemagne against Napoleon.

If a god has a chosen people, and cares more about some people than others, they're not a good god.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Dig Dug, Ghosts 'N Goblins, and Inferno for arcade, Dragon Warrior for the NES, and Ultima: Runes of Virtue for Game Boy. Also, with there now being 1,000 files in the archive, I've decided to split out the fonts by platform.

• Russia is trying to cause another nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant.
• Trump continues pushing his ethnic cleansing of Gaza and invasion of allied nations.
• 17 Republican states are suing the federal government because they want to be able to go back to the good old days when they could discriminate against disabled students.
• Florida Republicans to decide to cripple their own state's workforce while also greatly increasing their incarcerated population. Good luck with that!
• Because Republicans are trying to bring about The Handmaid's Tale, they made it legal for Republican states to extradite doctors who provide abortion even when it's legal where they live. Louisiana Republicans are demanding New York hand over one of their doctors to be imprisoned in Louisiana because they provided abortion pills, which is legal in New York. Thankfully, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is refusing.
• In his effort to replace the Christian god with himself, Trump signed a statue of a goat covered in fake $100 Trump bucks, each has written on them "In Trump We Trust."
• Trump appointed himself the chairman of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by firing everyone and appointing his own board of loyalists, I guess the President of the USA has tons of free time to be making decisions about stage plays. This has caused a lot of the existing talent to resign in disgust, and now many of planned shows are canceling their appearances.
• Jack Posobiec is a white supremacist who, in addition to saying he would "completely overthrow US democracy," creates Republican propaganda professionally. He's just been invited to join Pete Hegseth, unqualified head of the Pentagon, on an overseas trip. Maybe he'll get a military fort named after him?
• The Stonewall Inn is a famous gay bar where the LGBT liberation movement turned violent against government oppressors. It has since become a national landmark, but, because of that, it's under government control, so Trump is stripping away any mention of transgender people.
• With RFK Jr in charge, expect there to be a war on fluoride, so it will do you good to know the facts before the propaganda hits.
• The various strains of bird flu still aren't doing much damage to people, so we don't yet have to be worried about it, but Trump is firing everyone who monitors and researches it, so...

It's fantastic that the protein folding problem may have be largely solved, but the USA won't be putting any money toward researching the results, so we'll have to rely on civilized nations to apply this to medicine.

Feeling: Okay

I beat Axiom Verge 2.

Girls had another snow day, and they have tomorrow and Monday off! Five-day weekends make me miss being a kid! All I get to do is shovel the driveway for the third time in 18 hours.

• Many political pundits are saying the USA is facing Constitutional crisis because of the the Trump administration, and, shockingly, the Trump administration agrees! Except, not so shockingly, they are saying the crisis is because the Judicial branch is standing in the way of them violating the Constitution.
• Tesla has been doing poorly because of Elon Musk's poor leadership and highly controversial actions, but his Nazi salute at a Trump rally really set the company floundering. Rather than have private companies compete for a government contract, Trump ordered the US State Department to buy $400,000,000 worth of Tesla vehicles as a personal favor to keep Musk company from failing, all paid for by US taxpayers.
• There was never any doubt, but it's still surreal to even imagine. RFK Jr, the man who doesn't believe in science, medicine, or even the germ theory of disease, is now running the Department of Health and Human Services. You may not even be able to obtain medicine for the next four years, so, I hope you're stocked up. We're already seeing outbreaks of measles so bad children have to be hospitalized, and it's only going to get worse.
• Trump's pick to run the Department of Education, Linda McMahon (former executive of World Wrestling Entertainment) said she wasn't sure if she would let schools teach Black history, and might make it illegal.
• Missouri Republicans are suing Star Bucks for not hiring enough white men.
• The Republican law which they claim it to prevent voter fraud (there is almost none, but the majority that does exist is committed by Republicans) is going to make it harder to vote for the women who changed their last name after they got married.
• When you let a nation commit genocide, even when they have eradicated the group they hate, they won't stop, they'll just increase the scope of who they hate, and expand their genocide.
• Even churches are now realizing they're not safe from Trump and his administration is now being used by 27 religious organizations.
• Despite devolving into obscurity with Trump's latest selection of clowns, Republican Ted Cruz reminds us that's he's still a complete moron by claiming that solar eclipses are a part of scientist's woke agenda.

When priests aren't raping children they're torturing pets.

Feeling: Okay

I've vectorized the logo on the NES USA box of Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu.

New video game fonts include Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers 2, Marble Madness, and Where's Waldo for the NES, Poolshark for arcade, and Bank Panic for the Sega SG-1000.

Why are they naming a winter storm after my daughter?

• Part of an ethnic cleansing is permanently removing people from their homeland, and Trump has made is crystal clear that's what he intends to do with Palestine.
• The Biden administration successfully decreased the rampant unemployment and inflation caused by Trump. But, with Trump back at the helm for only a month, inflation is already increasing.
• By cutting funding to the NIH, Trump has caused serious long term damage to all science research in the USA, and that could dethrone us as the world leader.
• Trump is blocking reporters from official White House events because they won't refer to the Gulf of Mexico by the stupid name he wants to call it.
• Fully incompetent Pete Hegseth visited a military base only to be booed and watch the crowd walk out in protest. More of this please.
• Under Trump, the USA has gotten worse in the Corruption Perceptions Index, falling four points to 65 out of 100. This puts us below the United Arab Emirates, but above Lithuania. Are we great yet?
• In yet another example of Republicans are just not taking leadership seriously, Republican Buddy Carter has introduced a bill to rename Greenland to Red, White, and Blueland. This is the sort of thing The Onion would come up with.
• It would be nice if Democrats stopped trying to make everyone happy, and just did what's right.

In honor of Darwin Day.

Two children froze to death in a Detroit parking lot even though the mother called the city's homeless response team three times.

Looking at the uniqueness of fingerprints.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for CPUs.

New video game fonts include the BIOS and Marble Madness for the Master System, Felix the Cat and Kickle Cubicle for the NES, and 005 for arcade.

While Republicans in the USA are trying to block it, happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I'll keep raising my girls to be curious about learning, especially the STEM fields.

• It doesn't surprise me that Trump is calling for an ethnic cleansing.
• self-proclaimed "law and order" Republicans keep breaking the law, then refuse to follow a judge's order.
• After years of saying they would never do it, Google is now using it's AI technology for weapons and surveillance.
• Republican Bill Cassidy said the US actually has a very low number of women who die while giving birth... if you exclude black women.
• Elon Musk appointed Big Balls as the senior adviser at both the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Gee, having my homeland controlled by a 19-year-old boy named Big Balls doesn't make me feel secure. Neither does having Musk in charge of anything.
• So much for the free press. Trump is now demanding $20,000,000,000 from CBS claiming, without evidence, that CBS did an interview with Kamala Harris and made her answers to questions sound too good.
• Wouldn't it be great if politicians actually stood up to Trump?
• Republican turned Democrat Eric Adams is the mayor of New York who has been indicted in a series of bribery, fraud, and corruption charges, but Trump has ordered his Justice Department to tell New York to drop all the charges. Why? Because Adams is anti-immigration, and, while Trump doesn't really care about political parties, he certainly hates migrants.
• Proud to live in one of the states suing Trump over his destruction of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. I just wish there were more lawsuits against him, because nearly everything he's doing is illegal.
• How Hollywood is lying to you about renewable energy.
• Kid Rock threw a tantrum on stage when not enough people in the crowd clapped along to him singing a cover song. He yelled at the crowd, stopped the song, and ran off stage like a spoiled brat.

Can you make a death cult around the concept of rationality?

Feeling: Okay

Over the weekend, I took my girls to the Sloan Museum for their 2theXtreme exhibit.

New video game fonts include Ultima I and Ultima IV: The Quest of the Avatar for Commodore 64, Tetris Plus for arcade, Bubble Bobble for the NES, and Bomb Jack for the Sega SG-1000.

• Trump says he is committed to committing war crime by displacing Gazan refugees in order to buy and own their homeland. Maybe they can colonize Mar-a-Lago?
• Elon Musk hired a bunch of very young men to operate the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency giving them access to all the personal information of every American. It didn't take long before the identity of these men was brought to light. One of them is Edward Coristine, who just graduated high school, and goes by the name "Big Balls." Another is Marko Elez, who had to quit after it turned out he is a white supremacist who posted online things like, "I was racist before it was cool," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," "Normalize Indian hate," and "I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth." This is not the work of someone who is serious about running the USA, and, thankfully, a judge has temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury records.
• Yes, ICE is arresting and deporting people who have a legal right to be in the USA.
• Trump was duped by an online conspiracy theory which led him to cancel government subscriptions to legitimate news organizations. The result will be, federal workers won't have as much access to necessary information with which to do their jobs.
• After Russian invaded Ukraine in an attempt to genocide the region, the Biden administration, while it didn't directly attack Russia, began hitting them in several indirect ways. They gave defensive military weapons to Ukraine, issued sanctions against Russia, and froze the international assets of several Russian oligarchs and opened investigations on them. However, Trump has always been beholden to Russia. In addition to trying to pull promised military funding from Ukraine (which got him impeached), Trump is now ending the investigations on all the Russian oligarchs.
• Further emboldened by Trump, American white power terrorists in Ohio held a Nazi rally in Lincoln Heights, a city with prominent black population. The Nazis threatened the locals with guns and shouted racial slurs at them, and they were protected the whole time by a police escort. However, when a large group of Ohio citizens arrived to confront them, the Nazis fled in fear because they're cowards. The police tried to protect the Nazis as best they could, but ultimately their Swastika flags were stolen and burned. Another group of Nazis showed up in Howell, Michigan.
• Trump ordered his lawyers to lie for him so he could keep Top Secret documents he stole from the White House, but, sure, revoke Biden's security clearance.
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to ensure for-profit corporations don't use predatory tactics to trick US citizens into loans which will keep them in debt for the rest of their lives. Trump, who profits off people remaining in perpetual debt, and whose campaign was financed by similar people, just shut it down.
• I'm happy to see the workers unions involved in Trump's defending on the US government are suing him. It's particularly important to continue funding USAID which was feeding staring people.
• Trump has always thought of himself, not as a leader, but as an actor. Despite his inability to act or even understand why people treat acting as an art, he is firing the board members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and appointing himself as the chairman. His goal, like the U.S.S.R. before him, is to eliminate any plays, musicals, or other stage performances that show minorities in a positive light, or challenge his autocracy.
• Under Biden, the US Department of Agriculture offered grants to farmers to invest in their farms. While the farmers had to pay for these investments upfront with their own money, they would be paid back by the USDA over the next few years. However, farmers became fearful of accepting these grants because, while campaigning, Trump said he was going to make massive cuts to all areas of the US government, but Trump reassured them saying his cuts wouldn't affect individual farmers. So, a lot of farmers put themselves into debt under the promise their investments would be paid back in grant money. As anyone who is paying attention could have predicted, Trump lied to them and ordered the USDA to stop paying out grant money, and now these farmers might have their farms repossessed.
• Trump made it crystal clear during his campaign ramblings, and in his previous term, he will deport anyone he can if they look brown. And yet, a lot of Central and South American immigrants still backed him, telling themselves, surely he means all the other immigrants, not those like me who have TPS protection. No, he meant you too. When people bare their racism to you, believe them.
• How to fight against RFK Jr's anti-science grift.
• Yes, Republicans plan on cutting Medicaid.
• Yes, Trump was lying about reducing the cost of groceries.
• Trump rolled back another initiative to reduce plastic pollution.
• In order to comply with Trump's executive order against diversity, the FBI painted over a wall which listed its core values including words like "leadership," "compassion," and "fairness."
• North Dakota Republicans are trying to pass a law saying the USA has a king.
• My only post about the Super Bowl is that the NFL, in order to endear themselves to Trump, removed the phrase "end racism" from the Super Bowl field, and that is particularly fitting.

How far can you zoom in when it comes to magnification?

Feeling: Okay

I vecorized the logo used on the Epyx release of the original Rogue.

New video game fonts include Bad Dudes and three fonts for Lemmings for the NES, Ultra Tank for arcade, and Submarine Attack for Master System.

• Trump is dragging the USA further into Israel's genocide and urging the USA to commit war crimes in the process.
• In 2018, Trump's speech writer, Darren Beattie, was caught speaking at a white nationalist rally, so Trump reluctantly fired him. In 2019, Beattie was hired as an advisor for disgraced child-sex-trafficker Matt Gaetz. In 2020, despite his racist ties, Trump appointed Beattie to head the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, a major part of the job is protecting Jewish-American heritage, which resulted in condemnation from American Jews. In 2025, Trump appointed him to the State Department, and, while serving as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, he posted online, "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work," and "130+ IQ white males under the age of 20 is pretty much the only demographic that matters."
• Linda Fagan is a four-star admiral and the first female commandant of the US Coast Guard. Unwilling to see women in positions of power, Trump not only fired her, but gave her only three hours to before she was evicted from her home.
• It still amazes me how Trump can fail at literally everything he said he'd do, but his supporters still think he succeeded.
• Michigan patriots gathered around the state capitol to peacefully protest Trump's unconstitutional and unethical acts. Republican Matt Maddock couldn't help himself from trying to crash the protest by entering the crowd while recording with his phone, hoping to get some footage to use against them. He didn't.
• To see just how ridiculous gun control laws are in the USA, Terry Sutherland applied for a license to carry a concealed hand gun was granted one. Just one problem... he's blind.
• The IRS had a way for individuals to easily file their federal taxes online for free. Elon Musk said he just eliminated the entire system. Why would he do this? Because tax filing companies like H&R Block and Quicken hated the IRS program because it made it much harder to profit off of people who didn't know how to file their taxes. No doubt, there is some money being exchanged over this.
• A Tennessee Republican women's group was caught promoting Hitler in their newsletter. Though they didn't include and specific book written by Hitler, just after quoting Proverbs 22:6, which talks about the importance of training young children to coerce them into following a parent's views rather than figuring out their own, the Republicans describe Hitler as an "intelligent leader" for likewise training children at a young age. Either they didn't see the corollary between their holy book and Hitler, or they definitely saw it. Either way, even if this were an stupid accident, it's probably not best to describe Hitler as an "intelligent leader."
• The UK government is demanding Apple decrypt all of their user's private cloud data so the government can view it at their leisure.

Another Catholic priest is in jail for assaulting a 13-year-old girl, though, perhaps in a first, not sexually.

Understanding what is inside a manhole.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Castlevania and Double Dragon for the NES, Frogger for arcade, Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja for Commodore 64, and Mountain King for Atari 5200.

• Trump says he might use the US military to forcibly remove Palestinians from their homeland so that the USA and Israel can annex their land. This is not just highly immoral, it's also a violation of international law and a war crime.
• Trump said, "if [I] had the legal right to do it," he would send US citizens to foreign countries where their human rights would probably be violated, "in a heartbeat," rather than allow incarcerated Americans to stay in the country. That pesky Constitution foils his plans again.
• Trump continues to weaponize the US government to destroy law makers and law enforcement agencies that aren't 100% loyal to him.
• Trump is going to sign an executive order to offer special protections to the nation's largest and most deeply entrenched religion, which just so happens to be the one he says he follows, Christianity.
• Republicans sent Marco Rubio to Panama to threaten them into surrendering one of the most valuable parts of their country to the USA, but they somehow forgot how just how unintimidating Rubio is, so Panama wasn't frightened at all. In order to save face, Republicans at the US State Department started claiming that Panama would no longer be charging US ships tolls to pass through the Panama Canal, to which President José Raúl Mulino said US ships would still be charged tolls, and the Republican claims were "based on lies and falsehoods." A succinct description of Republicans.
• Amazon-owned Whole Foods is trying to nullify a newly-formed workers union because Trump has dismantled the National Labor Relations Board.
• Fueled by Trump's racism, a driver for Rorher Bus put up a sign on their bus which read, "No speaking Spanish on this bus!" Rorher Bus issued a statement saying they have suspended the racist driver. He must have watched this training video on how to eliminate DEI.

Is fire so conductive you can get shocked though it?

Feeling: Okay

I've vectorized the logo used on the home computer releases of the video game Shanghai.

New video game fonts include The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle and Super Jeopardy! for NES, Space Tactics for arcade, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters for Game Boy, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu for TurboGrafx-16, and Sega-Galaga for Sega SG-1000. And, with that, my video game font collection has reached 300 fonts!

• Trump is helping Israel finish their genocide in Gaza by saying the Palestinian survivors should be permanently removed from their homeland so that the USA and Israel can takeover their land. And, if they won't, the USA might send in the military to forcibly kick them out. Then, the Trumps can develop the land to become even richer. Other major nation's are denouncing Trump's genocide, but that many not be enough.
• The FBI has handed over information about those people who investigated Trump's crimes on January 6th. Trump has vowed to punish all these people for daring to stop his failed criminal attempt to overthrow the country, and now, with a weaponized FBI, he'll be able to do so.
• Trump's executive orders have banned federal agencies from celebrating Black History Month, Women's History Month, MLK Jr Day, and observing Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• It's pretty rich for Republicans to claim they want a meritocracy when everyone Trump hired is a family member, mega donor, or just some rando he saw on TV.
• Maybe we shouldn't be letting a handful of teenage hackers gain control of every cent the USA has?
• Trump caved on his tariff wars and put a hold on those for Mexico and Canada all the while claiming victory, but only succeeding in destabilizing the USA.
• Trump said whoever made the previous trade deals with Mexico and Canada was a terrible negotiator! And, who was that stupid president? Oh yeah, himself.
• Trump once again severed ties with the United Nations Human Rights Council, an organization which promotes basic human rights for all people.
• Trump's personal lawyer Pam Bondi has been approved by Republicans to be the next Attorney General.
• Another one of the January 6th insurrectionists Trump pardoned in back in jail, this time for rape.
• Trump's hatred of refugees and love of deporting hard honest workers has led to a rash of criminals impersonating ICE officers.
• A web site has popped up calling itself the DEI Watch List. It lists a bunch of federal workers, mostly black people, who it identifies as "targets."
• One nice thing about the USA's decent in fascism, it's causing other nations to steel themselves. Greenland, for example, is passing a law to ban foreign political donations in order to prevent US oligarchs from buying political influence.
• After the white folks at Myers Park Baptist Church began feeling uncomfortable because preacher Ben Boswell wouldn't shut up about refugees and queer people being abused, they stopped coming, so the church fired Boswell.

ZIP codes are far more complex than you realize.

How Internet enshittification continues unabated.

Feeling: Okay

I beat the game Sheepy: A Short Adventure.

New video game fonts include Boxer and Cutie Q for arcade, Guerrilla War and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu for NES, Bubble Bobble for Apple II, and Pachinko II for Sega SG-1000.

• Trump is planing to dismantle the Department of Education. So much for public schools.
• When you start a tariff war with several nations at the same time, they each see a small increase in the cost of imported goods, but you end up seeing a large increase because they're all targeting you. This is why Trump's plan is so unwise, and why costs for a vast assortment of goods are going to reach record highs. The tariffs have been paused for Mexico and Canada, but China has already instituted a 15% increase.
• Trump has cut funding to any research projects in the National Science Foundation which were learning about clean energy, human gender, helping anyone who isn't American, or the importance of racial diversity.
• Despite his claims to the contrary, Trump actually had a diversity program during his first term. But, now that he's changed his mind and says diversity is the enemy for his second term, he is punishing anyone who attended the diversity training courses he endorsed in his first term.
• Chris Wright, the CEO of a fracking company, has been confirmed to run the Department of Energy. Might as was have put an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
• It's tragic that once respected news journals have been purchased by rich cranks who are turning them into propaganda machines, but in addition to the Washington Post, if you own a subscription to the LA Times, you may want to reconsider who you give your money to.
• Republicans, realizing that their states' law enforcement can't possibly accomplish Trump's horribly misguided plan to round up and deport all the migrant workers, are turning to unregulated bounty hunters. We don't need their scum.
• A Conservative student group is suing the University of California saying Black and Hispanic students are given an unfair advantage in admissions, while white and Asian students are being discriminated against. However, if you look at the schools demographics, Black and Hispanic students make up 31% of the student body, while white and Asians make up 57%!
• As Google becomes more evil and buddies up with Trump, also consider using alternatives to their Maps.

A nice time line of US history.

How do fish show up in isolated lakes? Poop!

Feeling: Okay

I finished reading Tuck Everlasting.

New video game fonts include Bubble Bobble, Castlevania: The Adventure, and Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge for Game Boy, N-Sub and Starship 1 for arcade, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for NES.

• Trump's last tariff war was a massive failure which cost Americans an estimated $230,000,000,000 and didn't increase US manufacturing jobs (they actually decreased slightly). Despite his failure, Trump is doing it again, this time with even higher tariffs than before, and the tariffed countries are, as predicted, responding with their own tariffs on US exports, so costs are expected to go up even more, particularly the price of automobiles, food, and gas. Luckily, nobody in America needs those things. So, with all his claims about bringing down prices being his number one priority, Trump is now admitting his second even bigger tariff war will cause Americans "pain."
• Elon Musk hired teenagers to take over several federal agencies including the US Treasury, the Office of Personnel Management, and the General Services Administration. Senior managers are being locked out, and Musk's very young tech bros, one who just graduated and goes by the online name "Big Balls" are now in charge.
• Israel is blowing up buildings in Gaza and anyone who stands in their way to clear it out so they can annex the land.
• He may have claimed he had nothing to do with the Christian Nationalist Project 2025, but his cabinet is largely made up of the project's authors, and many of his executive orders were first laid out in Project 2025.
• Nazis and Klansmen feel emboldened by Trump and are preparing to increase their acts of terrorism.
• Trump continues to illegally fire watch dogs, which would normally be stopped by the Supreme Court, but, considering that the Republican justices subscribe to "unitary executive theory", which gives the President sole authority over the entire executive branch without any internal checks or balances, don't look to them for help.
• Trump blaming plane crashes with 67 fatalities on disabled people is beyond the pale.
• With the full weight of the federal government behind him, Elon Musk is now weaponizing it to sue every company which stopped paying him to advertise on his Nazi web site. This is the new Republican party. Despite all their claims of being in favor of private businesses being allowed to make their own decisions, they're attacking private businesses for making their own decisions.
• In order to make it look like he's doing something about the California wildfires, Trump demanded the draining of two reservoirs. Locals say a lack of proper leadership almost flooded homes, and experts say this expensive decision will not affect the fires, and will potentially prevent farmers from having enough water in the spring. Despite everyone once again telling him he messed up and only made things worse, Trump is calling it a victory.
• Trump has weaponized the FCC to help him win lawsuits in his goal to shut down the free press.
• While Republicans are offering federal employees eight months of of guaranteed pay if they resign now rather than be fired later, the Department of Justice isn't committing to actually doing so. Because of this, federal workers may resign and then Trump will renege and simply stop paying them. Considering how Trump has dealt with workers in the past, I would certainly expect him to cut them loose!
• RFK Jr won't stop lying about his anti-science past and intends to cash in on his position of authority, but Republicans will still confirm him.
• Trump is not a serious person and keeps making knee-jerk decisions which cause a lot of damage to a lot of Americans, and he just can't stop lying, and it's hurting our nation.
• With almost no warning, Trump has cut off foreign aid which is causing repercussions all around the world, particularly in nations the USA has previously destabilized. In the near future, expect it to be even worse as Elon Musk is permanently shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development.
• The federal government's web pages describing the rights the LGBT people (they exist by the way), the 2020 Census results, and the CDC's sites about sexually transmitted infections are all still offline.
• Mariann Edgar Budde, the preacher who begged Trump to have mercy on vulnerable people, is now receiving death threats from his followers.
• The comic strip Doonesbury published a cartoon which calls out as being a rapist, because he was described as such in the lawsuit he lost. Newspapers are refusing to print it.

There is a great benefit to super glue sticking to your skin.

Making some silly predictions for 2025.

Feeling: Okay

I vectorized the original SimAnt logo, and the USA and European logos for The Guardian Legend.

New video game fonts include Donkey Kong, Space Walk, and Star Raker for arcade, Pinball: Revenge of the 'Gator for Game Boy, Galaxian for ColecoVision, and Congo Bongo for the Sega SG-1000.

• Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa met in the Hague to discuss Israel's genocide in Palestine to the International Criminal Court. Hopefully, they will encourage other nations put further pressures on Israel and the USA to make them stop murdering children, doctors, and reporters.
• In their quest to cut the US government to the bone, the head of the FAA was ordered to resign or be fired, so he quit. Then, Trump placed a hiring freeze on all federal workers, including air traffic controllers which wasn't a wise decision because they were already understaffed. Then, Trump disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, but the White House still issued a press release congratulating Trump on restoring safety and excellence in the FAA. A few days later, there was a mid-flight collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter which killed everyone on board both air crafts, all 67 people. This was the first large scale plane crash in the USA in 15 years. Rather than admit his meddling may have affected the quality of air traffic control, Trump blamed DEI and said Obama allowed the FAA to hire air traffic controllers who could barely see or hear, were completely paralyzed, and had severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. Obviously, that never happened as DEI programs don't allow hiring people for jobs they can't physically do, and the particular diversity program Trump was condemning was actually put in place under his administration! And, while Republicans may want to blame the crash on diversity, all of the pilots were white men. When later asked if he would visit the site of the tragedy, Trump cracked a joke and asked, "You want me to go swimming?"
• Fighting Trump's terrible ideas does work, you just have to fight hard enough.
• RFK Jr's confirmation hearing is an absolute shit show.
• Trump has prematurely ended the Temporary Protected Status of Venezuelan refugees and the puppy murderer who now heads the Department of Homeland Security racistly described them as "dirtbags."
• After Trump was elected, many companies like Walmart, McDonald's, and Facebook said they would stop trying to hire people of color, women, and people who are disabled. Only a few companies said they would continue to make sure their workforce was well-represented from the various people in their neighborhoods, one is Costco. Now, in 19 Republican states, Costco is being sued by Republicans who want Costco to stop trying to maintain diversity in their work force and only hire white man qualified people. There is a Costco being built near my house, and, you can bet, when they open, I'll be shopping there.
• NPR and PBS are both often ranked as being very centrist compared to other news organizations, never skewing very far right or left in their reporting. Ad Fontes lists the politics of both outlets as almost dead center. So, why is Brendan Carr, the Republican head of the FCC, investigating them in an attempt to pull their funding? Probably because Sesame Street makes fun of Trump.
• Republicans are trying to introduce a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to run for a third term. Once again, Republicans admit they prefer kings.
• A preacher decided to use Elon Musk's Nazi salute and it didn't go well for him.
• Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was on Late Night.
• Most social media companies are run by greedy monsters, and using them probably make us angry, but trying to get people to delete their accounts is hard work.
• Who is it the richest man in the world can also be a deadbeat?

The last of the critiques of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's sad interview, parts six, seven, and eight.

Feeling: Okay

I've updated my Trump complaints page with a list of several people Trump pardoned and their prior and subsequent crimes so we can see they type of people Trump thinks need to be set free.

I vectorized the logo on the Atari 5200 cover of Pitfall!

New video game fonts include the BIOS of the Othello Multivision, Bubble Bobble and Seawolf II for arcade, Blaster Master for the NES, Artillery Duel for ColecoVision, and Monaco GP for the Sega SG-1000.

• Trump says he will send immigrants to America's torture center: Guantanamo Bay. Can someone please explain to the baby in chief why an undocumented worker doesn't need to be detained in an extremely expensive maximum security military prison specifically built in Cuba by Republicans so they could torture inmates without having to abide by the Geneva Conventions?
• As a continuing part of Trump's retribution, Pete Hegseth, the Fox weekend co-host who now runs the Pentagon, has stripped General Mark Milley of his security clearance and opened an investigation against him to demote him even though he's retired. Why? Because Milley, like all sane people, doesn't like Trump.
• Trump fired almost 400 employees at the US Agency for International Development, an organization which exists to help other nations in their time of need.
• In a further attempt to eliminate public schools, Republicans are encouraging the Department of Education to push harder on for-profit charter schools.
• While Trump is being openly bigoted against the LGBT, Michigan Democrats are protecting them.
• People married to undocumented immigrants still supported Trump even though he openly and frequently said he would deport undocumented immigrants. Now they're losing their spouses, and they can't believe it.
• Trump said he would bring down the costs of eggs. They're now 20% more expensive.
• Expect another one of Trump's racist travel bans.
• Channeling his inner-Scrooge, Republican Rich McCormick asks, instead of giving children free lunches, why can't we forced them to work for McDonald's?
• How Republicans are trying to dismiss Elon Musk's Nazi salute.
• As Google caves to Trump, it's important to consider your alternatives. I switched to Duck Duck Go months ago because Google's search engine was mostly ads and AI garbage.

I'm sure he was only trying to share his testimony, but Christian preacher John F. Fiedler has resigned from his megachurch after he was arrested for soliciting a prostitute.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's short story about first wave feminism, The Revolt of Mother, was adapted into a 45-minute film.

Feeling: Okay

I vectorized the logo on the Atari 8-bit/5200 cover of River Raid.

New video game fonts include the Famicom Disk System BIOS, Guided Missile and Gypsy Juggler for arcade, Solar Striker for Game Boy, Altered Beast for Master System, and Win, Lose or Draw for the Apple II.

• Trump has frozen the accounts of various government organizations including Medicaid in 20 states, so their payment systems stopped working. This disrupted the health care of millions of Americans. And, since the group frequently helps refugees, Trump also cut funding to The Center for Victims of Torture. Thankfully, a judge has temporarily blocked Trump's spending freeze, but it's only lasts for five more days. Expect major sections of the US government to cease operation after that, and those which can remain in operation will be doing so woefully understaffed as Trump is telling federal workers they either have to resign now or be fired later. All of this is to completely restructure to federal government to allow Trump to do whatever he wants, while the younger tech-bros are willing to play along provided they can parasitize along with him.
• Because he's appointed himself the nation's doctor as well, Trump has signed an executive order that will cancel federal funding to all medical institutions which perform gender-reaffirming care on teens. On that topic, Republicans have created websites allowing people to snitch on hospitals who are providing gender-affirming care, but Missouri had to shut theirs down because people kept submitting the script of Bee Movie. Make it a point to obstruct Republican snitching.
• Trump keeps doing a lot of really awful things, and, while some of them have been illegal and halted by judges, a lot of them are within the power of the president, which is why we need to be asking ourselves, should we allow politicians to have this much power?
• Caroline Kennedy has published an open letter exposing RFK Jr. as an unqualified predator who is addicted to power, and, despite years of publicly condemning vaccines as unsafe, he made sure that own children were fully vaccinated.
• Trump accepted a huge amount of money from fossil fuel companies, so he's paying them back in kind by letting them pollute as much as they want. And on the topic of blatant corruption, Congressional Republicans are preparing for a very expensive retreat at one of Trump's properties to ensure our tax dollars go directly into his pockets.
• Trump is firing people who enforce human rights in the workplace... but only if they're Democrats.
• Andrew Taake, one of the insurrectionists who injured police, but was still pardoned by Trump, will probably be going back to jail for trying to have sex with a minor. And Matthew Huttle, another pardoned insurrectionist, got into a fight with law enforcement and was shot to death.
• What is with Republicans and their daddy fetish?
• Republican Tulsi Gabbard grew up in a cult, and it has certainly affected her ability to make decisions.
• It may just be a community college in Flint, Michigan, but that doesn't excuse Trustee Janet Couch from making racist comments about black people.

A group of 14 Christians have all been found guilty of manslaughter after they purposely withheld insulin from 8-year-old Elizabeth Struhs and instead choose to pray to cure her diabetes. When Elizabeth died, she weighed only 29 pounds.

A look at Nintendo's various canceled 32-bit consoles and add-ons.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Extra Inning and Orbit for arcade, Ikari Warriors for NES, Pac-Man for Game Boy, Defender for ColecoVision, and Elite for Apple II.

• The man Trump has put in charge of culling the US government, Nazi saluting Elon Musk, gave a talk for Germany's dangerous far-right party and urged them to stop feeling guilty over their nation's past.
• Trump's "Justice" Department is firing everyone linked to the Trump investigation.
• Proving once again that they are the party of debt, Republicans are already bankrupting the government with Trump's ridiculous ideas and demanding a increase in the debt ceiling. Republican Chip Roy, though an open bigot and war monger, at least wants to remain fiscally solvent, and is refusing to let Trump rack up such huge debt. But Trump bankrupts almost everything he touches, and has never cared about who he's left in the wake, so he's calling for Roy to be replaced in the primary.
• Transgender, non-binary, and intersex Americans have had their passports invalidated and have been barred from leaving or entering the USA. Trump is also banning them from the military.
• Taylor James Johnatakis helped orchestrate an attack on police on January 6th to break into the US Capitol. After several cops were incapacitated, and the gates breached, he discovered Congress had already fled, and recorded himself saying, if they would have found any politicians who opposed Trump, "we probably would have murdered a few of them." Trump pardoned him.
• Because Trump's only source of information is bad television, his new cabinet is going to be made up of at least 19 Fox talking heads!
• The USA is seeing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in its history at a time when Trump is preventing health organizations from speaking to the public, or even to each other.
• Trump's new anti-brown people law is giving law enforcement the right to arrest people even if it means breaking into churches. And, as expected, racist groups like the Daily Wire are defending the deportations because they're also defending the Trail of Tears and Operation Wetback!
• Republican Susan Collins claims to not understand why Trump would fire all the watchdogs that exist to prevent the government from committing crimes.
• Trump, and his ignorant fans will never cease to be an embarrassment.
• In an effort to kiss the ring, Google is renaming the Gulf of Mexico for Trump's hair-brained idea.
• How Republicans are manipulating young men into staying Christian.
• There are a lot of posts online saying Trump's executive order, because it defined future based on a person's sex at conception, has technically made everyone female since it is the default sex, but, in actuality, our sex at time of conception is undifferentiated, so it would be more accurate to say Trump has made everyone neuter. The real sneaky part was describing personhood at conception, which also makes the executive order anti-abortion.

How engineers are making robot insects.

Feeling: Okay

On Sunday, I finished reading The Last Unicorn. I've also vectorized the logo of the Atari 5200 port of Vanguard.

New video game fonts include Double Play, Road Runner, and Tornado Baseball for the arcade, Mega Man II for Game Boy, and Nova Blast for ColecoVision.

• After supporting Israel's genocide of Gaza, Trump now says he wants to push the surviving Palestinians out into Jordan and Egypt so that Israel may "clean out Gaza."
• Guy Reffitt was one of the insurrectionists who after failing to topple democracy. After he returned home, he told his family he would murder them if they turned him in. They turned him in anyway, trusting the US justice system to keep them safe. Trump pardoned him, and now he's out, and they're terrified. Head of the US-based terrorist organization Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was not only pardoned, but given a front row seat at a Trump Rally. Also, another person is refusing Trump's pardon saying they deserved to be punished for their role in trying to overthrow the country.
• In order to ensure there won't be anyone left to report his crimes and corruption, Trump has fired 17 independent watchdog groups.
• Even Reagan-appointed judges aren't impressed with Trump trying to do away with the 14th amendment.
• When he isn't drunk, cheating on his three wives, defrauding veteran's charities, sexually assaulting women, or co-hosting a Fox weekend show, Pete Hegseth is running the Department of Defense.
• Maybe going quietly into that gentle fascism isn't right?
• Trump re-instituted his directive to stop all aide to organizations which even mention that abortion exists and scrubbed the word from the White House web site.
• Various heroic local government are openly defying Trump's racism and saying they refuse to help him deport immigrants and refugees.
• Republican Heather Scott is asking the US Supreme Court to overturn same sex marriage.
• Just another reminder, South Korea knows what to do with corrupt power-grabbing politicians.
• In an effort to satisfy Trump's anti-DEI racism, the Air Force is scrapping their training course which focused on the historic black and female pilots of World War II.
• I don't have much interest in technology that is built around making Trump happy.
• Trump fans are still unbelievably ignorant.
• Trump really hates preachers that don't agree with his bigotry. Speaking of bigots, as a Conservative Jew, Ben Shapiro views what Christians call the old testament as holy. But, as a Republican, he has to create lies about it.
• Despite her primary skill being shooting puppies, Republican Kristi Noem has been confirmed as the leader of the Department of Homeland Security.
• The National Institute of Health canceled their medical research meetings after Trump ordered them to cease all communication.

Glass becomes awfully conductive when it gets really hot.

Feeling: Okay

The girls had a snow day yesterday, so I spent the day being a good parent.

New video game fonts include Boot Hill and Hopping Mappy for the arcade, Paperboy for the Game Boy, Paperboy for the NES, and Sword of Fargoal for the Commodore 64. I also reworked all the Dave Nutting Associates fonts.

• While campaigning, Trump made it very clear he was going to issue blanket pardons to the January 6th insurrectionists, but the Fraternal Order of Police union stupidly still endorsed him. On Trump's first day in office, he issued a blanket pardon to the insurrectionists, including 169 who violently attacked and beat police. Now, the Fraternal Order of Police union said he's sending a "dangerous message." The pardoning didn't go exactly to plan; Republicans initially intended to pardon the insurrectionists on a case-by-case basis, but, when Trump saw that reviewing criminals takes effort, he said, "fuck it! Release 'em all." While releasing 1,500 violent criminals into the country is going to have deadly consequences, it is at least making Trump look even worse than ever before, though his sheep will follow him to their deaths. And on this topic, Daniel Ball, one of the violent criminals Trump pardoned, was almost immediately re-arrested for a previous illegal gun possession charge. Hopefully, there will be more to follow.
• I appreciate that Elon Musk's Nazi salute is making both him and Trump look bad, but the actual Nazis are viewing it as marching orders and communities all over the country are seeing another surge in terrorism.
• Trump's attempt to rewrite the 14th amendment has been blocked by a judge. While already being a super racist thing to do, it was made worse by the fact that birthright citizenship was also eliminated for Native Americans!
• In addition to women's reproductive rights, gun violence, all the Spanish pages, and science pages, Republicans in the White House have now taken down the page which simply displays the Constitution. But it's not just the pages, Republicans are trying to take away the very existence of these things.
• Now that using federal offices for personal gain is the new norm, Republican RFK Jr says he will not divest his interests and will continue to make money off any existing and new lawsuits he puts forth against pharmaceutical companies.
• Trump threw a big hissy fit after a bishop begged him to have mercy on the powerless.
• Government workers who were hired to make sure the US government isn't racist were put on leave by Trump.
• Republicans have already put forth a bill to let Trump "buy" the Panama Canal.
• Trump is going back to interfering with the results of the US census.
• When asked how he would decrease interest rates throughout the nation, Trump said he would simply demand they be lowered. However, presidents are not allowed to change interest rates, only the Federal Reserve can do that, because it's supposed to be run by economists who put the country's interests ahead of the president's personal interests.
• North Carolina Republicans are trying to reject over 60,000 votes, but only in Democrat districts, in an effort to overthrow the election results in their favor.

The right and wrong way to talk to people about their health.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include The Goonies II for the NES and Flicky for the Sega SG-1000.

• There are 271 Republicans in Congress. Only six oppose Trump pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists who attacked police, tried to murder Mike Pence, and topple the US government. At least one of the insurrectionists refused the pardon admitting she was trying to overthrow the USA, and was guilty, deserved her punishment, and that Trump should not be trying to rewrite history.
• The KKK is rallying in Kentucky pushing Trump's agenda.
• Trump's Justice Department says it will prosecute any municipal law enforcement agencies that don't comply with their federal rules, because state's rights mean nothing to them. And, they will even start policing public school campuses to arrest immigrants in front of children.
• Republicans have told all health agencies to stop talking to the public until they can change the messages to "Republican" health.
• Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, Fox weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, was so violent that one of his ex-wives believed he might murder her.
• Trump's pick for the ambassador to the United Nations is Republican Elise Stefanik not only supports Israel's genocide of Palestine, but described the entire UN as having an "pervasive antisemitic rot."
• Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde who gave a sermon on the importance of loving each other especially trans people and immigrants. Trump, true to form said she is Radical Left, nasty, not smart, and not very good at her job and demanded an apology from her entire church. Republican Mike Collins said she should be deported, despite her being born in the USA.
• Even the Wall Street Journal says Trump is a hypocrite for pardoning the insurrectionists.
• Republicans don't seem to understand what punk music is about.
• It's hard to be bothered by Biden's pardons when Trump openly said he will weaponize the government against them.
• There is a lot of disinformation about the California wildfires, much of which is being spread by Republicans.
• Manifest destiny isn't an apt phrase when you don't put your hand on the bible.

Like many converts, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has to gaslight herself to justify her new faith. Parts four and five.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, Mickey Mouse: Magic Wands!, and Trip World for Game Boy, Joe & Mac for the NES, Warp Speed for arcade, and Word Zapper for the Atari 2600.

• Trump's day one is already an absolute shit show. He started out by declaring a national emergency to "repel" brown people. Then, claimed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which only pertains to wartime, gives him the right to eliminate the 14th amendment of the US Constitution. He also pardoned all the terrorists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th, including those who violently attacked police officers. He signed an order saying he has the authority to give anyone Top Secret clearance without background checks or approval. He signed an order saying the US government will no longer acknowledge the existence of trans people. He rolled back every single one of Biden's executive orders which helped protect or include people of minority races. He pulled the US out of the World Health Organization, again putting us at risk for the next pandemic. He put a freeze on government hiring so agencies can't replace workers who quit or retire. He put a halt on the sale of TikTok, despite himself being the person to initially ban it. He again withdrew the USA from the Paris Climate Accord which will increase global pollution. Made it easier to execute people. But, at least there is one thing that we can all agree on as a huge success. It's probably the most important thing any president has ever done or ever will do. Something that will not only bolser our economy, and keep us safe from threats both foreign and domestic: he signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Problem solved!
• Despite all his posturing, and using white Christian nationalist terms like Manifest Destiny, Trump didn't place his hand on a bible when he was sworn in.
• When everyone is comparing you to Hitler because you keep saying and doing things like Hitler, it would probably be best if you didn't make a Nazi salute on live TV. But then there's Elon Musk. Oh well, at least he isn't confusing the presidency with being a king.
• Republicans have taken down the government web site that spelled out women's reproductive rights and taken down all of their Spanish language pages. Racist and sexist, as usual.
• Trump moving his inauguration indoors screwing over the dedicated fans who paid for a non-refundable ticket while ensuring the ultra-wealthy have a front row seat is a perfect example of what Trump's whole life has been like.
• Trump refused to attend Biden's inauguration because he was a pouting baby, so why is Fox hyper-focused on shaming Michelle Obama? Because she's both female and black.
• Trump making his official White House portrait look like his mugshot makes it very clear that he is not serious about the office of the presidency.
• Satanists are once again the hero as they convinced another city council to stop forcing their beliefs on the public.

Neil Gaimen is another example for why you shouldn't have heroes.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include Rolan's Curse and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 for Game Boy, 280 Zzzap for arcade, Mega Man III for NES, and Paperboy for the Master System. I've also added pages for the mostly complete Dave Nutting Associates Font and Kemco Font, and the less complete Game Boy Font.

• Today we celebrate the civil rights movement and, in particular, the work of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• As Biden left office he warned that the USA is becoming an oligarchy. I would argue that it already is.
• Trump isn't wasting any time scamming Americans by using the prestigious office of the president to sell Trump-themed cryptocurrency along with Melania's. I'm sure they will be just as lucrative and long-lasting products like Trump Airlines, Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Vodka... The USA government is a strip mall.
• The Department of Government Efficiency has already discovered a useless waste of spending and is ditching Republican Vivek Ramaswamy. But, at the same time, they're creating a huge amount of useless spending, as, the moment it beings to exist, it will be sued for corruption! Well, once Elon Musk figures out why his company's rockets keep exploding, I'm sure he'll get right on that.
• If a president aims to prevent corruption, they're supposed to pick an attorney general with whom they don't already have a relationship, that way, they will be more interested in upholding the Constitution rather than helping a friend. Trump instead picked his personal attorney Pam Bondi. When asked if she would uphold the Constitution, in particular the 14th amendment, Bondi admitted she hadn't studied the amendment, and ultimately refused to say she would.
• The party that want's to invade Greenland moved its inauguration inside because it was too cold for them.
• The whole of the Republican party hates gay people and black people, so it's really sad to see the Village People and Snoop Dogg sell out and accept his money to perform at his inauguration parties.
• A leaked internal document from Facebook's parent company shows their new rules relaxing moderation for fear of angering Republicans, in which they say a phrase like, "immigrants are filthy pieces of shit," is now acceptable. To justify allowing such brazen hate speech, Facebook said they hear stuff like this on the floors of Congress, so why can't Facebook users repeat it? As if Republican congressmen are the moral epitome we should be striving for!
• Republican Candace Owens says dinosaurs are a conspiracy created by Satanists.
• While it's like trying to teach quantum mechanics to a slug, I'm glad to see Democrats still petitioning Trump to act responsibly so he can't claim ignorance as a defense.
• CFI continues on their path toward transphobia. I'm glad my local group left.
• It's important to remember that engaging with other people, particularly when they have diametrically opposed views, is what will help us get out of this impending civil war.
• In one of her lasts acts as chair of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed the thin-skinned attempts to punish people for satirizing Trump because satire, especially of a political figure, is protected free speech.
• Glad to see Mike Lindell is scrounging.

Making soda with extremely high pressures.

Feeling: Okay

We got Lucy's ashes back yesterday. It's hard to believe such a loving dog who was so full of life could be reduced to such a tiny pile of dust.

New video game fonts include The Goonies, Hollywood Squares, Shanghai, and Shanghai II for the NES and Tiny Toons Adventure: Babs' Big Break for Game Boy.

• Pete Hegseth has cheated on his three wives, stole from a veteran charity to pay for wild drunken parties at strip clubs, doesn't believe women deserve the right to defend their country, has a lot of white Christian nationalist tattoos, defends soldiers who murder civilians, and recently refused to say he wouldn't shoot unarmed American citizens if the President told him to. Despite all that, he's most likely going to be the head of the Pentagon. Republicans were too busy asking him how many push-ups he can do and defending men who cheat on their wives to care about his failures.
• In case you want to know which music artists have no dignity.
• Antivaxxers continue to increase preventable diseases.

How Christian converts have to gaslight themselves.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include three fonts from the arcade game Trojan, Ikari III: The Rescue and Jeopardy for NES, and Balloon Kid for the Game Boy.

• Showing themselves as moral monsters, Republicans continue to mock those who died in the California wildfires, while tripping over themselves to suck up to Trump.
• After receiving $230,000 in donations from him, Trump picked oil executive Chris Wright to run the Department of Energy, which is quite sad since he rejects the science of climate change.
• Trump campaigned on the promise that he would decrease the size of the federal government, but, now that he's been elected, he's saying he needs to create a whole new department of government to handle all the tariffs he plans on instituting: the External Revenue Service. However, tariffs are already handled by the Department of Commerce, so this new department will be completely redundant.
• Proving once again that they don't care about small government, House Republicans passed a bill which gives the federal government the authority to decided which students can play sports in public schools across the nation.
• Along with Greg Abbott, Republican Mike Johnson is ordering flags to be flown at full staff because, not only do they hate Jimmy Carter, they also feel Trump is more important than flag code.
• Why Trump insist on Fox weekend co-host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, and why Hegseth believes himself capable of doing the job are mysteries, but the facts around who he is were brought up during his confirmation hearing: Hegseth is a drunk who abuses women and is completely unqualified for the job.
• Republican Nancy Mace comparing trans women to sexual predators, to which Jasmine Crockett responded by calling her a child, to which Nancy Mace proved how much of a big girl she was by saying she wanted "take it outside" to fight Crockett. These are the mature people Republicans vote for.
• You know something is very wrong when the largest web companies Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all donating huge sums of money to Trump.
• South Korea has the right idea. When a president tries for a power grab, you not only impeach him, you arrest him! Oh, what might have been. Instead, someone is stuck having to get a sample of Trump's DNA.

How and why Hot Ones lies about the spiciness of their sauces.

Feeling: Okay

New video game fonts include The Great Waldo Search and Puss N Boots: Pero's Great Adventure for the NES, Yoshi's Cookie for Game Boy, Super Shot for the arcade, and Wonder Boy in Monster Land for the Master System.

• Jack Smith said there was enough criminal evidence to convict Trump, both in his stealing Top Secret documents from the White House, and trying to steal the 2020 election. In any nation that cared about justice, Trump would be in prison right now. With his report delivered, Smith, like so many other Americans, has become so disillusioned, has resigned.
• Trump is so selfish that he's taking Jimmy Carter's death as a personal attack saying no Americans want to see flags half-mast during his inauguration. Texas Republican Greg Abbott went even further saying, screw Jimmy Carter, flags must be flown full-mast for Trump. But, what can you expect from the Gulf of Texas guy?
• When Hurricanes hit the South, even though the South is primarily Republican, Biden was quick to send them aide and relief money to rebuild, no questions asked. Now that wildfires are devastating California, and California is primarily Democrat, Republicans are withholding aide until Democrats meet Republicans demands.
• The Department of Defense is about to be led by a Fox weekend co-host with no leadership experience, a lot of alcoholism, and even more assaults on women.

Addressing the misunderstandings of Poisson's Spot.

Catholic priest Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara was caught sexually assaulting a teen under the age of 16 and having a massive stash of child pornography, but, because our culture still thinks priests deserve special treatment, he will only serve a single year in jail.

What? Joe Rogan interviews shills for religious propaganda lets them say any old lies and believes them uncritically? Surely you can't be serious!

Feeling: Okay

Over the weekend I had my girls watch My Neighbor Totoro for the first time. They loved it.

New video game fonts include Phantom II, Pop Flamer, and Robot Bowl for the Arcade, Rampage and Shinobi for the NES, and Shinobi for the Master System.

• Trump's sentencing was a mockery of justice. Guilty on 34 counts of election fraud, and the sentence was, no punishment at all. I understand that this was done since any real punishment would be ignored since Republicans made US presidents kings, but, since Trump now has our tax dollars to spend on legal matters, but there is still the principle of it, and he will certainly appeal the sentence in order to try an expunge his record anyway. This is just another example of politicians not being held accountable.
• It's not enough for Trump to just say crazy things like he will invade Canada, Mexico, Denmark, and Panama, if he wants other countries to capitulate, he actually has to do crazy things. So far in his presidential career, the only crazy things he's done is sell-out his own country for very little personal gain, which isn't going to scare other nations.
• When it comes to the wildfires in California, Republicans really love to blame the hiring of black people and women.
• By attacking the free press and making it easier to sue news outlets who don't practice journalistic ethics, Republicans are ensuring that those organizations which are the least likely to be honest are going to suffer the most. This is going to be a wake up call for them because they don't realize the outlets from which they get their news are the most dishonest. Here's to Fox being sued out of existence.
• Republican Glenn Youngkin has a bold idea: let companies pollute more and pay fewer taxes, problem solved!
• Once again making it clear where his loyalties lie, Elon Musk endorsed the closest thing Germany has left to the Nazi party.

Some actual science behind fluoridated water and where there may be real areas of concern.

What would Jesus do? City Church in Texas had a unique approach to homeless. When they sought shelter from the heat in the shade of their building, church officials hit them with pepper spray.

Feeling: Okay

I finished reading Island of the Blue Dolphins.

New video game fonts include Battletoads and Lock N' Chase for the Game Boy, Pinball Quest for the NES, Rip Cord for the arcade, and Shinobi for the Game Gear.

• Republicans are once again trying to overturn same-sex marriage.
• Facebook ended it's fact-checking program after Republicans complained that the truth was biased against them, but, it turns out, for the past two years, they could have lied all they wanted if they just paid more money.
• Even though he was found guilty by a jury of his peers on all 34 counts, Trump asked the US Supreme Court to block the sentencing in his illegal hush money case. Four of the Republican judges (Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh) again said US presidents are kings and completely above the law, even for crimes they committed before they were president, but, thankfully, a couple Republican judges aren't so completely evil that they would completely abandon any semblance of justice, and Trump's request was denied. In other good news, an appeals court ruled that Jack Smith is allowed to release his report on Trump's insurrection case. Although he's already been acquitted for his crimes, we may at least learn more about how he tried to overthrow democracy, that is, if the Supreme Court allows it.
• Everything Trump is saying about the California wildfires is a lie, but, it came from Trump's mouth, so, of course it was a lie.
• Russian gas has finally been cut off from the EU. While this will help push Europe away from the nation run by a genocidal dictator, and decrease money going into Russia, both of which are good, for the near future, heat and fuel are going to be a lot more expensive, if available at all.
• The Justice Department is suing six major property renters for price-fixing including Greystar, LivCor, Camden, Cushman/Wakefield/Pinnacle, Willow Bridge, and Cortland. While this is good news for renters, once a property mogul takes office, expect it to be shut down.
• Humans have polluted the Earth so much that we've now hit the 1.5 degree Celsius limit scientists have warned us about for decades. This is where things don't just get worse linearly, they start getting worse exponentially. Unfortunately, most nations, especially the USA, are only increasing their pollution output.
• Adding tolls to busy areas isn't winning over many people.

A look at why AI art is so bad, and probably won't get much better any time soon, despite how much money is being dumped into it.

Turns out the Creation Museum hires men who sexually assault teenage boys.

Feeling: Okay

I threw out some compost in the back yard last night and saw Lucy's paw prints in the snow. Knowing that they'll melt away soon made me sad.

New video game fonts include the BIOS fonts of the TI-99/4A home computer, Bonk's Adventure, Contra: The Alien Wars, The Rescue of Princess Blobette, and Shanghai for the Game Boy, and Crash for the arcade. This has pushed my collection to 200 fonts!

I added a lot of updates to my Trump complaints section on violence and domestic terrorism.

• Great Britain is pushing forward on renewable energy and it now makes up over 56% of the nation's energy production, but here in the USA, Trump is still stupidly claiming windmills cause cancer. These shifts to green energy are necessary if we want to survive because years of unbridled polluting has caused severe climate change which is increasing temperatures around the globe and making semi-arid regions drier and more prone to wildfires. As this problem get worse, we see major wildfires all over the planet, and, currently, California cities are in flames. Republicans, rather than even attempt to understand the problem, let alone recognize the scientific consensus, are just blaming Democrats. I guess they should have taken Trump's advice and raked 384,000,000 acres of forest.
• Trump is still trying to cover up his election crimes, but the highest court in New York has declined to help him.
• He's not even president yet, but things under Trump are already getting absolutely awful. When he isn't threatening to invade our allies, he's giving big corporations a greenlight to destroy the country and blocking every report of his crimes. Rather than fight against his corruption, many Americans would rather just put their heads in the sand.
• Once again proving they've become evil, Google has donated $1,000,000 to Trump.

How it's possible to shine light through solid metal.

Taking a critical approach to the recent claims of Ayaan Hirsi Ali: part 1 and part 2.

Feeling: Okay

Missing my Lucy something fierce, but I feel good knowing I did the right thing for her.

New video game fonts include Double Dragon II, Felix the Cat, Pocket Bomber Man, and The Real Ghostbusters for the Game Boy and Dead Eye for the arcade.

• Showing solidarity with Israel's genocide, Trump said that "all hell will break out" if Hamas doesn't release the remaining hostages. I wonder if those people who refused to vote for Kamala Harris because she wasn't tough on Israel are proud of themselves?
• Just like Hitler did with the neighboring nations of Germany to justify WWII, Trump says the USA needs to expand into new territory for growth and security, so he's riling up his base saying he won't rule out a military invasion of Denmark and Panama.
• Trump is really trying to block the release of Jack Smith's investigation into his failed attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. He's convinced the inexperienced judge he appointed, Judge Aileen Cannon, to temporarily prevent its release and is petitioning Merrick Garland to permanently block it.
• Republicans really gaslit the country on the anniversary of their failed January 6th insurrection. So, as a reminder, here is a look at what the newspaper headlines looked like the next day.
• I love that Congress cheered for Harris over Trump, but I don't love how Republicans are blaming immigrants for the terrorist attacks conducted by native-born Americans.
• Trump is begging the US Supreme Court to throw out his criminal hush money conviction so he won't have to pardon himself.
• Because there aren't any other pressing issues going on, Republican and famed anti-Semite Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a bill on behalf of Trump to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."
• With the political victory of Conservatives, more companies are dropping support for hiring women, people of color, and various minorities, including McDonald's.
• Because Republicans just can't lose gracefully, they are challenging the victory of Allison Riggs, a Democrat who was ran for her state's Supreme Court and won with a very narrow margin. However, the state's existing Supreme Court, which is majority Republican, and will still have a majority even with Riggs's win, is blocking the certification process.

What video game development was like in the 1980s.

Why the printing press broke the English language.

Feeling: Sad

Our dog Lucy wasn't eating much and throwing up her food so we took her to the vet. They said she had pancreatitis, gave us some meds, and switched her to a very low-fat diet. She was doing well on that for a week, but she slowly stopped eating the new food, lost more weight, and became jaundice. We took her back and they did a liver X-ray and found a mass. We did a few more tests, and they said we could do a biopsy, but none of the possible outcomes would be favorable. She continued to refuse any low-fat foods and lost more weight. Knowing that there wasn't anything else we could do, we started giving her anything she would eat, but even that was short lived, and she started refusing all foods. Today, we decided to put her down. She was the best dog I ever had, and was with us for ten wonderful years. I'm going to miss her exceptionally. I made a collage of photos of her.

Illy has been having a lot of bad bloody noses lately, probably a mix of the cold dry air and having a cold, so we're working on making her but they're definitely scaring her.

• Trump's lawyers are trying to block Attorney General Jack Smith from releasing the investigation results of two of Trump's biggest crimes: his attempt to steal the 2020 election across several states, and Trump's stolen Top Secret documents which he ordered his lawyers to hide from the FBI. Thankfully, Smith says he will follow protocol and redact the results the expected amount, and release them.
• Trump's hail Mary attempt to prevent sentencing against him in his hush money scandal was denied.
• Facebook has added Trump supporter and UFC president Dana White to it's Meta board. In a related turn of events, Facebook says they will stop fact-checking posts because the truth is unfair to Republicans. Instead, they will take the same approach used by Nazi web site X.
• Despite all the Conservative fear and hatred, the actual number of teens receiving gender-affirming care is extremely low. Of the over 60,000,000 teens living in the USA, fewer than 1,000 have received puberty blockers.
• $5,000,000 in tax dollars go to a private Catholic school who intended to use much of it to spread lies about abortion.

Doom: The Art Gallery Experience.

The last episode of Nancy Rothwell's Christmas Lectures.

How the male-run media teaches us to distrust women.

Feeling: Okay

Illness went away faster than usual, I guess because I was sick just a little while ago and my immune system was still on full alert.

Over the weekend, I beat the unlicensed NES game Solitaire.

New video game fonts include DuckTales, Lemmings, Mickey's Dangerous Chase, Tetris Plus, and Wordtris for the Game Boy.

• There isn't an angry mob if politically-illiterate Democrats storming the Capitol, murdering police, and trying to overthrow democracy in the name of their dictator... but I still can't tell the two parties apart. Also, the surviving police officers from January 6th say Trump has betrayed them by lying that the insurrection never happened, and his plans to pardon almost all of the criminals.
• Trump will be sentenced for one of his many felonies on January 10th, ten days before he's sworn in as president. What an embarrassing time to be an American.
• A Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist has quit the Washington Post after her editor refused to publish her political cartoon which depicted several people including the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, kneeling and offering money to Trump, which he has literally done. This, in addition to several other forms of censorship Bezos has cause to the paper, has validated my decision to cancel my subscription.
• So much for Net Neutrality.
• Biden may have been a disappointing president, but at least he appointed more women of color judges than any president in history.
• Looks like the veteran who killed himself in a Cybertruck in front of a Trump building had a long history of mental illness due to his service. We as a nation failed to provide proper healthcare, and, since Trump doesn't believe soldiers need healthcare when they suffer traumatic brain injuries, don't expect any progress from him.

Learning about how the time of day affects all living creatures.

Orthodox Christian Joshua Cummings proudly admitted that he destroyed the religious statue of another religion several times, says he will continue to do it, and said, even after getting caught, he hasn't faced any legal consequences because the police are on his side. He is also the same kind of person who says Christians are the more persecuted religion in history.

Why arguments alone should not be sufficient for proving the existence of the supernatural.

Some thought experiments which may cause an existential crisis.

101 things we learned in 2024.

Feeling: Sick

Yup, definitely sick again. Emily and Gabby have both been sniffling and sneezing for the past couple days, and it found its way to me.

New video game fonts include Bionic Commando, Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Operation C, and Penguin Wars for the Game Boy.

• The New Orleans terrorist was a US citizen from Texas and veteran of the US Army. As predicted, Trump and his fellow Republicans blamed the murders on immigrants.
• Patrick Thomas Egan was arrested after choking a journalist and person of color while shouting "This is Trump's America now!"

Apple has to pay $95,000,000 in a settlement because it was illegally harvesting user's private information through it's Siri app.

Smart women are awesome.

Why everyone's family tree is filled with incest.

Feeling: Blah

My daughters and I successfully stayed up to midnight to watch the ball drop, ate a lot of junk food, and made a mess with confetti. And, now we're feeling a bit sick.

I beat the Flash game The Company of Myself.

New video game fonts include The Guardian Legend, Metroid, and Toki for the NES and Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy. I had to add more to my 1-bit-per-pixel graphic program to get The Guardian Legend's characters which are not stored in the ROM like normal NES graphics.

• Finland said they found a 60-mile anchor drag mark along the sea floor where a Russia ship purposely severed an undersea power cable. By cutting off their access to electricity, Russia hopes to both make Europe more dependent on Russian fuel and punish Europe for helping to protect Ukraine.
• It's not enough that Twitter has fully embraced white supremacists and Nazis, Elon Musk himself has now changed his profile picture to Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that was appropriated by white supremacists.
• Two recent US soldiers have turned terrorist. The New Orleans mass-murdering gunman was a US citizen from Texas and a retired commander in the US Army. But, since he's a person of color, that is all Republicans will focus on. The Cybertruck driver who blew up his vehicle full of fireworks and fuel canisters in front of a Trump building appears to be a master sargent and apparently shot himself just after setting off the bomb.
• At least there is a little good news, 21 states are increasing their minimum wages in 2025. When you look at the list, it's almost exclusively those hippie Democrat states. Too bad Republicans will keep the federal minimum wage at $7.25, a completely unlivable amount.

I have little patience for science communicators who try to mix their own bigotry into their science like Richard Dawkins, and, while I actively promote female scientists, they're not innocent of this either; case in point, Sabine Hossenfelder. Thankfully, there are still great science teachers like Nancy Rothwell.