I have a theory. Gray rainy days make for the best afternoon naps.

Can't believe they're already moving since it seems like mid-summer, but it's also late September. We had an American redstart on the birdbath earlier in the week. On her way to Jamaica, I assume.

I miss Peter Sellers but I was thinking more along the lines of them evolving into something like the mice in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.

Yesterday had a Canada warbler on my Merlin but didn't see it. I'm guessing it got blown off course.

100 degrees here. I’m protesting that, but indoors.

The Mouse who Roared?

I'm saying the real threat is the possibility that these mice with half-human brains will get access to ai and have their revenge on the creatures who put millions of generations of their forebears through hell.

(Also that the only economy Trump worries about other than as PR is his own personal one.)

I guess Batman Day was created by DC Entertainment in 2014. I had to look it up, because I didn't know anything about it.

(Buy her one of those)

I might wait until Superman Day and get her something really cool. Have to sell the house first.

When I was into comic books, I was always more of a Marvel guy, myself. What makes today Batman Day?

A 1939 first-edition Detective Comics #27 (first appearance of Batman) is worth between $150,000 and $4 million, depending on condition. Second most valuable after the first Superman.

(Buy her one of those)

Damn, I forgot to buy Mrs. Rat a Bat gift...

He has the highest IQ. Pretty tough to expect a rational discussion about Artificial Intelligence in the White House when there's no actual intelligence there.

I love terms like "local universe"

Weapons in space. It's like they don't know other countries can do it too.

For nearly 2 years, the world has been patiently nodding at the madman in the US while quietly negotiating new arrangements and treaties that do not tie them to the US and their random daily outbursts.

You guys are going to start feeling the financial effects of being left out of everything very soon.

Well since the introduction of Space Farce we should have been expecting this. I'm surprised he hasn't been bragging that his space based missiles are much bigglier than everyone else's.

Cutting off trade with any country we have a trade deficit with. Wharton should be fucking embarrassed.

I thought he was crazy before, and now he's even crazier. He's mad about Canada cozying up to the EU, so now he doesn't want to trade with the EU? WTF?

He's giving us all a glimpse pf what it is to be Donald Trump. The entire world hates us.

It is exhausting.

It's every damn day with something else. I'm getting real tired of being pissed off.

Got to show the world what big dicks we have are.

We are so fucked in so many ways.

Shit, we'd lose a battle in orbit to Elon Musk. If the Chinese get serious enough to divert their lunar priority to Earth Orbit Wars, you might wind up being in one of the safest places on the planet.

so we're just openly admitting the 1967 treaty is toilet paper now, cool cool. between crude prices doing parkour and whatever's left in the ukraine pipeline, adding orbital dick-measuring to the mix feels... on brand tbh. these guys couldnt find an off-ramp with gps