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The ancient builders of Stonehenge placed the giant stones with such precision that each year on the summer solstice, you can see pictures of them all over social media.

#solstice

Every "imagine how they would have reacted if Obama had done this" post is less an indictment of MAGA than of the feckless Democratic party.
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Now with alt text

There we go. US Government tightens post-quantum cryptography transition deadlines for high-value systems to 2030 for key exchange and 2031 for signatures.

Also, speeding up the CMVP (FIPS 140 validation) processes. That’s how you know the rush is real.

The quantum computers are (potentially) coming.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/

Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background

The White House
Study finds narcissism the only trait that predicted objections to remote work. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — the more they favored return-to-office mandates. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html
Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week

It’s all about them.

The New York Times
Why am I posting so much about the #ReflectingPool debacle?
Partly because it is so emblematic of the incompetence & corruption of Trump & his government. But also because of what it says about their hatred & dismissal of #science & expertise. Any # of real experts would have stopped this if consulted.
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down?

That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3motbm5wbr22u
Truest cartoon to date.

"Thanks humans"

Poster from the Thomas House bar in Dublin 🇮🇪. All AI posters and flyers are not accepted. Love it!

#AI #Ireland #IE

It's Berkeley Breathed's 69th birthday, which seems the perfect day to share the only Bloom County I was ever moved to snip from a newspaper. Though actually, in this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad timeline, any day is the perfect day to share this February 26, 1989 installment.