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.