Suspect in deadly synagogue shooting near San Diego wrote anti-Semitic manifesto

I am so fed up with this. We should publicly name every white supremacist, writer, blogger and politician that inspires these things. Hound them and expose them for the monsters they are. Starting with that orange dusted Russian investment property with dementia currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Unfortunately, it's a #fictionalevent as part of an excersise for Planetary Defense Conference to decide how to actual deal with an incoming city killer  and who needs to know what, and what if anything to do about it?

Had my hopes up for a minute but so it goes.

There's a fairly shite article from CNeT here

ESA's Twitter account is roleplaying the end of a small part of the world

So if we can redirect it, where exactly do we want the asteroid to land?

Oh sweet meteor of death.
Fall upon us and deliver us in fire
To peace everlasting

I know I said I'd let everyone else catch up... but BA said it's too quiet in here. And this doesn't really affect the overall plot.

No date stamp yet. Think of this as a coda for Arc 1, before things get hairy in Arc 2.

Ottawa had a once-in-a-century flood two years ago. This year's flooding is worse.

Water flowing over the top of a hydroelectric dam east of Ottawa, on a tributary that drains into the Ottawa River downstream of Ottawa and upstream of Montreal:



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The shoreline at the beach near Ottawa's water treatment plant, as of yesterday:



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Here's a detour that's washed out:



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Ottawa is under a state of emergency.

Oh, and we're getting another 35mm of rain/snow today and tomorrow.

(I live on high ground, and I have enough bottled potable water to last two days - more than enough time to drive out of town, buy more, and drive back. Don't worry about me.)


Oh, yes - we aren't the only ones affected.

The Trans-Canada Highway is washed out between Mattawa and Deep River. Traffic is being diverted through Algonquin Park, adding over an hour to travel time.

The Trans-Canada Highway is washed out between Fredericton and Moncton. Traffic is being diverted along the Bay of Fundy via Saint John, adding over a half-hour to travel time.

And, while the TCH is okay in Quebec, many of the cities along the St. Laurence aren't... including Montreal.

Going to be on CoH a LOT this weekend.

I'll be getting @Vyperpunk into the SG, @Mag Flashlight is already in, we'll be inviting anyone that I remember or posts here, I'll update this post as more folks get joined up and officered.

We'll be running on Torchbearer server, vs the new Excelsior machine.

i25 public server, bring your IOs, bring your fists!

Google has a fantastic Avengers: Endgame easter egg today.  

Search on "thanos", and then click the Infinity Gauntlet that appears over in the summary panel on the right.  

Click it again to "undo".

Works on both mobile and desktop.

be back tomorrow night.. 

Rad/Rad tank, I'd love to have a Rad/Rad scrap and a Rad blaster..  EVERYONE gets contaminated!

Just spent a little over an hour stuck in an elevator.

Amazing how peaceful it was to just do nothing... except when building security kept asking whether I was okay. (I would have played music, but I forgot to recharge my phone. Hence, do nothing.)

I'll be talking with my contact in building security tomorrow about it. For now, it's just nice to be able to sit down.

I know this is a loose fic for "other people's _Fan_fiction", but I've been digging on a couple of web serials that are really doing good by me

The first is Overgeared - the beginning is _hard_, Grid is an absolute shit of a person.  But once he gets his feet under him, he starts to really improve as a person.  Korean, _very_ Korean, VRMMO based light novel. Ongoing.

https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/overgeared


The second is..  an odd duck. And NSFW!




https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/8894/e...rge-chests


The MC is..  a complicated topic.  The LitRPG elements are strong, and over time, the author has really improved.  However, I found the story compelling from the get-go, and with the recent spoilery significant changes to the status of the MC, even more so.  The sexual content is thick on the ground, but it's _on the ground_.  The MC is completely asexual.  Which doesn't help his poor extreme masochist succubus minion at all.  Or his masochistic battle demon minion. 

The spinoff, 'Small Chests are Fine Too' is a good read as well.  Worth spacing it, starting it when Fizzy leaves the group and then switching back to the main book once finished.

For my sins, I inherited my father's 21' Hewescraft Sea Runner.. 

Got the first level inside cleaning done, going to try and get the second level cleaning (vacuum out and spray off the dirt from the boxes) and rebuild the fuel system this weekend.

"BOAT" stands for "Bring Out Another Thousand", I'm here to tell ya.. 

Anyone else do boating, or spend time on the water?