#inktober day 14: lady

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

News: Sen. Thomas Tillis To Ask For DOD IG Investigation Of Starlink Ukraine Cutoff

Senator Thom Tillis: The latest reporting suggests this strategic snafu may have occurred more locally within DOD Starshield systems, not with Starlink or SpaceX... we’ll be asking the DOD Inspector General to initiate an investigation and report back to Congress ... At best, this was an unacceptable error or lapse, and at worst a conscience decision to clear the field for a Russian attack.

#Ukraine

When you have adequate English skills and top tier comeback skills

I was grilled by my 5yr old neighbor re how come she never sees me, I'm not really her neighbor, and I probably don't even live next door anymore. tough but fair.

I’ve decided to dress as my true self (Sea Hag) this Halloween. I’m thinking seaweed in the curls and my regular degular haggardly face.

What else should I do to zhoozh up the sea hagginess?

But you know how some books have an intriguing title? Like "The Sot-Weed Factor" or "The Crying of Lot 49"? So when you pick up the book and look at the title you're like wtf, but you read it and then you're oh that's what the title means.

Having read "Ode to the Half-Broken" I am still just guessing what the title is about.

I just finished "Ode to the Half-Broken" by Suzanne Palmer. It is pretty good. I would expect some award nominations, but since it was just published a couple months ago, that will have to wait.

I stopped using my watch overnight to conserve energy for the day and accidentally improved my sleep quality. I think all the sleep tracking/data caused me a lot of anxiety. And instead of relying on my internal cues and feelings, I was depending on a tech to tell me how I felt about my sleep.

There’s a lesson here somewhere if you feel like it. I, for one, am not telling anyone what to do or feel.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are preparing an ambitious 100-days agenda focused on delivering their campaign promises — making life more affordable and conducting vast oversight of the Trump administration — if the party seizes majority control in next month’s elections.

https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-democrats-affordability-corruption-018019529b14a6b3bc4a343a4e17c44f?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

“Nearly eight months into discovery, after seven depositions of BBC witnesses, and with only two months of discovery remaining, the BBC still has not been able to depose, and does not even have a schedule to depose, the most central figure in this case: Plaintiff himself,” BBC lawyer Charles Tobin wrote. “There is hardly a more crucial and relevant piece of discovery in a defamation lawsuit than the deposition of the Plaintiff.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/13/Trump-deposition-BBC-lawsuit

SpaceX is now requesting 456 launches per year from Boca Chica https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-20963.pdf

As my colleague pointed out, that's more than the current launch rate for the world (245 launches so far this year according to https://orbitalradar.com/satellite-launch-log), from a single site that was sold to the public as a testing and development site.

When the cataloger of our fabulous new miniature books collection comes by and asks, “Do you want to see something pretty?” you say yes.

what the hell happened

Coming soon to a software product near you.

#ICE🚨is hiring 142 intel contractors with top secret clearances to collect & analyze info to inform raid targets. "Looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency." #Surveillance program:🚨experts said➡️sig expansion of ICEs ability to reach into private lives.

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an int spying agency -a nightmare in the making.”

A weapon:🚨the govt will use against not only undoc IMMs +likely, everyone else, too.
#DHS #USPol
https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/

MAGA Congress critter Andy Harris crashed out and whined Alito-style at people calling out his obvious lies. I was going to make fun of it myself but the great Adam Parkhomenko does it oh so much better. 💀

https://www.thealtmedia.com/p/andy-aint-so-dandy

#MAGA #Maryland #Republicans

This was a PRESIDENT, A LEADER!

He had integrity and was moral. Let's hope that we can find another.