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Impending death of Trump

September 2, 2025 - 15:52 -- Admin

There are many Americans who have noticed Trump’s swollen ankles, the large bruises on his hands, and his increasingly incoherent speech, and speculate that he is in rapid terminal decline, and will soon die. The White House itself has announced that Trump is suffering from chronic venous insufficiency1.

Christofacism

August 31, 2025 - 11:44 -- Admin

I wrote a piece about the religious bastardry afoot in the US about 18 months ago which argued the Christian nationalism was a misnomer, and that christofascism was a much more accurate term1.

Sovereign citizens

August 29, 2025 - 11:41 -- Admin

As a concept, the sovereign citizen movement, individuals identifying as sovereign citizens or something similar have existed in Australia for decades. These beliefs have been manifest in the various ways these people attempt to dissociate themselves from societal structures1.

Unchristian

August 25, 2025 - 16:29 -- Admin

While so many modern christians are despicable bigots whose main aim in life seems to be to make life miserable for people who are not like them, perhaps one of the worst was a bloke called James Dobson who founded the ultraconservative Christian organisation Focus on the Family in 1977. He died a day or so ago at the age of 89. Born in 1936 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dobson was initially a child psychologist who launched a radio show to counsel Christians on parenting1.

A workplace psychopath

August 24, 2025 - 15:05 -- Admin

I was forced to work with a workplace psychopath for a decade or so. Most of the time, it had little effect, because my day-to-day work was something he knew little about and I was largely left to my own devices. However, there were a few times when we interacted. We edited a book some years ago, and as I was an experienced editor, I did most of the work compiling the volume. He wrote the two page foreword.

When you thought it couldn’t get more stupid, it is

August 21, 2025 - 10:17 -- Admin

In 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a satellite designed to take precise measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help guide the response to climate change. Unfortunately, the satellite did not make it into its planned orbit. So, in 2014, NASA launched the replacement OCO-2, which has been collecting a huge number of high-resolution measurements, which provides greater spatial distribution of carbon dioxide over the entire planet.

Spam

August 19, 2025 - 13:49 -- Admin

I have been posting stuff on the Blotreport for over eight years now, and I receive an enormous amount of spam, sometimes up to 60 a day, which my wonderful spam filter invariably catches. When I started back in early 2017, a fair proportion of the spam was porn, both gay and straight. That eventually faded away and was replaced, strangely, by several other themes, including a spate of “buy a house in Bali” spam.

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