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Was up late for obnoxious reasons and feeling really grumpy about it, but the upside was there were dozens of fireflies! I know that doesn't sound like much if you're from New England or somewhere with lots of fireflies, but that's more fireflies than I've ever seen here! It was so cool!
So yeah, Saskatchewan has fireflies. (At least, if you live on an organic farm. I suspect that's another reason people here don't know there are fireflies: conventional farms kill them all...)
Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare
CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from DDOS attack yesterday
The max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood."
The Internet Archive does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack.
Thank you #cloudflare or we would have had a very bad Saturday at the @internetarchive
DDOS attacks are coming more frequently.
Attached: 1 video By now you've probably seen this unedited footage of Trump's birthday parade with the mostly empty bleachers so quiet that all you can hear is the squeaking of the tank. And as funny as this is, I want to call your attention to another aspect of this that seems to have not been reported on so widely - and that is how utterly joyless MAGA people and gatherings are. I live in Seattle, where the No Kings protest was basically a non-stop party in Cal Anderson Park all day long. There were musicians, dancers, performers, my god people put on fully acted PLAYS about Lady Liberty beating the shit out of "King" Donald. People were laughing and singing and chanting. There were jokes told, some people were handing out free snacks and bottled water. It was a party! No, strike that, it was a HANGOUT. It was like hanging out with 50,000 of your best friends. Now, watch the clip I posted again. Look at the people in the stands. Really LOOK. Zoom in if you have to. They're TIRED. They're wet, they're exhausted, some of them are angry. Most of them are just standing there immobile, miserably filming the one tank driving past them on their mobile phone as some droning voice gives them instructions about how to spend money at Coinbase from offscreen. There's no music. There's no laughter. There's no JOY. This is Trump's America. A joyless, artless tiresome wet blanket filled with the squeaking of tank treads and the cold sound of boots on asphalt. We could have had joy. But we got this instead.
The Great Pushback against the Republican party's anti-American attacks on our citizen continues. Here's our victories.
The world is still punishing Elon - and he should be. Swedish pension fund blacklists Tesla. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/swedish-pension-fund-ap7-blacklists-tesla-has-sold-entire-stake.html
Democrats want an investigation of Trump's LA response. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/13/congress/dems-demand-hearing-on-admins-l-a-response-00405439
Rolling stone says it - Trump's parade was a dismal failure. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/
Another look at how dismal Trump's parade was. https://newrepublic.com/article/196850/trump-birthday-military-parade-pathetic
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No Kings was a fantastic success - and we met a lot of great people. Let's stay in touch, check our Linktree for meetup and ways to get involved!