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Yesterday, feeling really funky after neurofeedback, I sat out in the yard pulling all the bulbs out of the dirt in the pots. Then, I filled them up with potting soil and planted all the succulents that I bought, along with almost all of the ones in the yard. There is just one huge concrete planter that I didn't deal with. I should probably order another three or four little plants to put in it. I got one little cactus this time and might get another one, since it is really cute. As much as I want to fill all the pots in the yard with succulents, I should probably use some of them for getting herbs going. I think I mentioned that the company that sold us the succulents also sent a card impregnated with lavender seeds, so I tore it in half and planted the two halves in small pots (that used to house succulents). Next, I should plant some rosemary, oregano, and sage. Rosemary isn't supposed to grow well from seed either, but I'll try. If I put all the pots around the concrete table in the yard, it is no problem to water everything. I'll try to do it on Sunday.

In other news, today, I finally got started on the messenger bag. I cut out the exterior and installed a zipper. I've forgotten the technique, but it is the really nice one where you make a really nice rectangle for the zipper, as opposed to the sewing two pieces together and putting the zipper across the seam. It is what you do for welt pockets, but I just skipped the welts and put in the zipper. Anyway, I'm happy with how it turned out. Then, I planned out the rest of the process for making the bag. Yay! Now, I can just check things off, which will be much easier.

We've been trying to deal with our water situation (and the stomach problems it is causing). Boiling helped me more or less. Drinking water from the building next door may have helped Joel but didn't help me. We were going to contact the water company, when we remembered the bottles of water in the shed from when I had the same problem in Lisbon. We thought it would help narrow down the problem, and it definitely seems to be the water, as I'm not having stomach problems now despite the heat. Anyway, then, I discovered that I had actually managed to buy ceramic water filters. Since we really don't want to contact the water company, Joel spent some time and got the filter set up. It occurred to me this morning that we spent 8 years filtering water with ceramic filters when we were in Russia, so this isn't new. However, we would like to get a less ghetto setup. Once we've actually tried the water and made sure that it doesn't bother our stomachs, we'll work on that.

Ten nights in Bangkok

Jun. 18th, 2025 10:13 pm
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I'm late with this post because of a date night switcheroo followed by being busy. And I can't believe how much has happened. Life seems to move faster now in some ways, not that time is passing faster but that a larger percentage of the hours I spend in a day are actually advancing the plot. So anyway, this covers ten days.


  • I did a pact, or "tiny experiment", a la the book Tiny Experiments. In particular I had a long email thread filled with lots of goodbye emails from people at Zillian, many of which (but not all of which) warranted a personalized reply, and it was so hard to address that I'd left it alone for a few weeks. A week ago Weds after spending 2-3 hours on email and still not touching it, I decided to start writing five emails to co-workers every day for a week. Which I did! Yes, including on my birthday. I didn't really know how many I would choose to write, but this last Wednesday, suddenly, only two remained. Now some people have written back to my replies, but, anyway, good pact.

  • The bug and I attended a full moon ritual & singing circle over at Blue-Green Street, and that was new for me.

  • I went out to the No Kings protests on Saturday, and saw some really excellent signs (including the only boots worth licking are the ones worn by goth girls). I enjoyed the march, then went on to the rest of Norwood's 50th birthday party, which indeed I was in that town for; ended up spending a lot of the party with another of his exes, who I was wildly incompatible with in 2015. A funny moment in time, this one, where we found ourselves both being exes from the same era. I hugged her goodbye and she said "you're still a fucking weirdo", which is 100% true.

  • My crossword puzzle collaborator and I got excited about a theme idea and started working on it in earnest, with a spreadsheet for possible theme entries etc, but then it became clear that it was too similar to another just-published puzzle and we decided to set that theme down. Back to the drawing board. Bit of a let-down, but I really appreciate how much time he's saving me by nixing ideas before I spend tons of time gridding them out... we'll get somewhere eventually.

  • I played a lot of Chants of Senaar, carved away on my tree stump, and finished reading Black River Orchard which is the most fun horror book I've read in a long time.

  • Early on Monday the bug left for Oregon, in order to help his mother in the aftermath of a hip surgery (which has now happened and gone well). I've been holding down the fort since then, which has meant a ton of cleaning. I had to take out the garbage/recycling/compost as well as tidy up everything for the cleaners. However, it was especially wonderful to have the squirrel over at my place on a Tuesday for once, and now the house is very clean.

  • Israel attacked Iran, holy shit. Also vice versa. I had one of my Israeli friends over on Monday for commiseration and hangouts.

  • Around and through this, handstand lessons have continued. Better focus means better results; Spring was happy with my press off a single folded-up panel mat on Tuesday. I wish I were doing more consistent, disciplined practicing on my own, but... that sort of thing is where the burnout lies, I guess. July will offer me more incentive to work on my own, when both my coaches are out for a while.



Today's been eventful. I spent most of the day in Salem poking around at all the little witchy shops, with friends; then came back and served dinner to five former co-workers (they're all better friends with each other than with me; I just volunteered to host their group, in exchange for my getting to peep their vibe). Right when that was finishing up, I got a text that Birdie, my bio-kid, has signed a lease for an apartment a ten-minute walk from me! Just across the square. OMG!! That's going to be crazy, just utterly bonkers, having her be local for a while.

And now I am really freaking tired. Time to fall over.

Farm share, week 2

Jun. 18th, 2025 06:16 pm
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  • 2 big bunches of broccolini
  • 2 bunches of red radishes with their greens
  • 2 bunches of Bright Lights Swiss chard
  • 1 pound of garlic scapes
  • 4 heads of lettuce (I chose a variety of colors and frillinesses)
  • 1 pound of mixed salad greens (swapped for more scapes, because while they looked nice, head lettuce will last longer, plus the weekly email suggested this was the last of the scapes)

First thoughts: pickled or pureed garlic scapes. Lots of green salad (I said I’d bring salad for Shabbat lunch, so that’s at least two heads of lettuce there; I’ll need to get things to go with, in addition to the radishes). Possibly some open-faced sandwiches with lettuce tops. Sauted chard with scapes, lemon, and walnut. Possibly use some of the broccolini greens in lieu of kale for a kale salad. Sauted broccolini and radish greens with scapes with some kind of pasta or rice.

eta: I’d planned to bring a kale salad for Shabbat lunch, but we didn’t get kale. I went back to look at the email sent out on Sunday, and it was pretty far off what actually came: he predicted kale and baby bok choy, instead of the radishes and broccolini that came.

Finished and upcoming

Jun. 17th, 2025 04:38 pm
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I just got a bunch of cute little succulents that I ordered, so I think I'm going to work on those tomorrow. I'll need to go through all the long rectangular planters, sort through the dirt to remove bulbs, and then plant the succulents with some additional potting soil. I can probably get that done tomorrow. I'm so excited! The plant place also sent me one of those cards with seeds embedded in it for lavender, which I've really wanted. So, I'll plant that too.

I got a bunch of fabric that I ordered for more shirts. It was funny to open the package, as all the colors were similar-looking muted greens and blues. They are all really pretty, and I look forward to wearing them. I was pretty sure I had gotten fabric for two sun shirts, and I did. So, I need to wash all that and then get to work sewing. I've been having trouble getting myself organized recently. Lots of trouble focusing. That has made getting work done on sewing harder. I'll eventually get this sorted out.

Also, I finished painting the card for my brother in law. It has a nebula, which was a real challenge. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Now, I've got a bunch of flower paintings coming up. I'm looking forward to their simplicity.

New blog post

Jun. 16th, 2025 12:30 pm
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New blog post in which a (broken?) bot scraper tries to DoS me, and what I had to do to prevent service degradation. https://www.sweharris.org/post/2025-06-16-scrapy-dos/

A walk in the park

Jun. 16th, 2025 04:38 pm
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In Lisbon, just a bit to the west of the city center (which is in the middle of the large Lisbon metropolitan area), there is a huge forest park on top of a hill. I don't think we use the name "forest park" in English, but that was what they were called in Russian, and I think it really helps differentiate between a couple of blocks of grass with some swing sets and a protected forest in the middle of the city. The writing group was going to be meeting there last Saturday, but some of my friends were going to meet at the usual place because of health issues. Also, I think I like walking by myself as much as I like walking with others. So, I decided to walk through the park by myself and then meet up with my friends in the usual writing group place, since I have three hours after tai chi before the writing group starts. It was super nice! Also, super dry. Still, I had a great time walking around. The problem, though, was that I walked too much, and then yesterday my brain was unhappy. Back when we used to travel with Sasha a lot, I discovered that 12,000 steps was about my limit, and that if I did more, I would be grouchy and moody the next day. I think the issue is that I burn through my blood sugar reserves, and then - grouchy. However, I think I'm in a place where I would be interested in getting back into hiking again, so I'm going to see if I can come up with some ways to get past the 12,000 step limit.
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I have a question about eye safety, maybe someone here can advise me on.

Apropos of the protests going on, I've seen a lot of helpful pointers about preparing for getting tear gassed or pepper sprayed, such as not to wear contacts and to have tight-fitting chemists' goggles. But not wearing vision correction is not an option for those who need it, and the alternative to contacts is glasses, which are apparently incompatible with most eye protection from gas or particulates.

I am aware of the existence of some models of full-face gas mask that have internal mounting hardware for glasses, but in addition to being expensive themselves, they require getting lenses made and fitted to the gas mask (i.e. not compatible with regular glasses). I'm surmising the existence of these means that other, cheaper, spectacle-compatible eye protection doesn't really exist, but I thought I'd ask.

My personal interest in the topic is less about protecting myself from chemical ordnance at protests – I only wish I could attend protests (though if things got spicy in the right location I suppose I could collect my fair share of tear gas at home) – than from wildfire smoke. The conjunction of the No Kings protests and the local air quality alerts from fires in Canada reminded me I should really be doing some preparation in this space.

I'm allergic to smoke. (It turns out it wasn't con crud I kept getting at Pennsic.) My reactivity to smoke only seems to be gradually getting worse over time. So when I've heard reports or seen pictures from the left coast of the sorts of wildfire smog they have there, I'm like "...not enough steroids in the world." I mostly manage this threat by not crossing the Mississippi, but it could happen here. Or upwind of here. It has. If not quite so "blot out the sun" bad, certainly bad enough for me to feel it.

So I've been looking at half-face elastomeric respirators, but that leave eyes unprotected.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I'm getting a lot of suggestions that aren't really helpful because:

1) Most safety goggles are for protection against impact or splashes, and as such literally have vent holes that make them useless against gases and airborne particulates.

2) Involve buying a prescription eyepiece. The whole point of my question was looking for alternatives to buying additional prescription lenses. Like I said, I am already aware of options that entail ordering custom lenses, I am looking for alternatives that don't involve that and are compatible with regular glasses the wearer already has.

There may not be any*, which would be good to know, but that is the question.

Allow me to put a finer point on this. If there is no affordable, readily available option for eye protection against gas/powder attacks for people who are dependent on vision correction, then that implies something important about protest safety that is entirely missing from all of the discourse of the sort that recommends having a gas mask to go to a protest.

* Since posting, I learned the term PAPR, and am now wondering why they're so expensive and whether that's a technology ripe for DIY.

On Senate markup selling public lands

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:07 pm
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John Tester on the Senate markup of the Reconciliation that includes selling 3 million acres of public lands. Except Montana, to get Zinke vote. That's around the size of Connecticut. And recreational and hunting use of public lands is a huge economic driver especially for small business.
Are you in an outdoorsy social media group? Make sure they know about this.
(I am listening to it oon1.8 speed, and it's about as fast as I usually talk if I'm a little excited.)

https://www.youtube.com/live/-Z24G0kcpIY



Trying to rush myself out up to MayDay so that I've gone somewhere before working on the apartment today. Eric Swalwell was fire and funny: https://www.youtube.com/live/KkenuPMgAbA

There's a lot to worry about today, and part of why I failed to go to bed last night is probably that. Trying to tell people to have situational awareness and I'm worried that what with a number of states calling up guard or emergency things will be far more tense with police than in the last several months.

And then there's the horrific news out of minnesota.

Got to get in the shower.

Shit's getting real

Jun. 14th, 2025 03:52 am
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There's over 2,000 listed NoKings.org events for the 14th, everywhere except dc. *

Which is amazeballs. It's actually closer to 2200.

Bad enough that the right wing crazies have finally gotten around to noticing there's a distributed protest movement and are acting threatening.

But I'm also seeing a number of states that have activated guard or emergency

And I'm seeing how a couple nights ago a bunch of people got arrested because they were prevented from leaving an area until after curfew.

And so the distributive protest movements have been absolutely remarkably unspicy.

I'm worried that's about to change. Maintain situational awareness and maybe do more of that protest prep than we have had any need for so far.
AltNPS essay on how did it escalate so fast

Meanwhile, also, I'm feeling really guilty for not going out to MayDay tonight since I've managed to stay up till nearly 4 for no apparent reason. And I haven't gotten much at all useful done on the apartment ahead of maintenance. Might still manage to get out to some of DC Joy day, which free DC put together deliberately to be somewhere far away from the parade.

* This is what 50501dc is doing: https://50501dc.com/event/louder-than-lies/

So nice! Protest advice

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:09 pm
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A friend of mine posted this nice article with helpful protest advice. I really like that she has thoughtful things to say about when you should or should not go, plus how to stay safe.

https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/should-you-go-to-a-protest-tomorrow

New flavor of crazy

Jun. 12th, 2025 05:10 pm
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I've noticed recently that I'm having a lot more flashing of remembering being in a certain place. I hear something, and I'm back at my mom's art gallery. I do something else, and I'm in another location (I told Joel, but I can't remember now). I'm guessing that this is a neurofeedback effect. Also, my anxiety is pretty bad.

Farm share, week 1

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:11 pm
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I re-upped with Stone Soup Farm; they’ve got good quality veggies, and while sometimes I wish they grew a wider variety of things, it can be useful to have enough to use in more than one recipe.

  • 2 bunches of green curly kale
  • 2 bunches of broccolini
  • 2 heads of lettuce (I chose red leaf varieties over green leaf; I don’t know why those almost always call me louder, but they do)
  • 1 pound of spinach (huge leaves: this is for cooking, not salad)
  • 1 pound of mixed salad greens (that might be ok to wilt into something towards the end of cooking)
  • 1 pound of garlic scapes

First thoughts: some kind of vegan saag using the spinach and some pureed garlic scalpes (perhaps some kale?) with tofu. Kale salad with lemon-tahini dressing and sunflower seeds (iron building salad). Stir-fried broccolini with onions, mushrooms, and tofu over rice (it feels so strange to wish I had carrots!). Green salad with tuna and a variety of pickles, plus some cucumber and tomatoes. Garlic scape puree for later use.

HEY THAT MOVIE IS TOTALLY GAY

Jun. 10th, 2025 06:25 pm
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Here's a random and utterly incomplete list of some queer movies where there's a happy ending. Sometimes after lots of violence, sometimes after doomful awkwardness, and sometimes just happy.

Pride (based on a true story)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film)
(Paramount+, Kanopy)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert
(Amazon Prime, Peacock)
30 years after the movie, folks managed to track down the actual bus used in filming:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/11/the-30-year-hunt-to-find-the-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-bus-my-jaw-was-on-the-ground

But I'm a Cheerleader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_I%27m_a_Cheerleader
(Paramount+)

Everything Everywhere All At Once
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once
(availble for digital rental etc, possibly not included on any streaming service's subscription at the moment)

The Kids Are All Right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Are_All_Right_(film)
(availble for digital rental etc, possibly not included on any streaming service's subscription at the moment)

Bound (The Wachowskis first directing credit, before The Matrix. Content note: the film earns its R rating with sexual content but also with some very intense moments of violence.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_(1996_film)
(Paramount+, Kanopy)

The Birdcage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birdcage
(Amazon Prime, Peacock)

Happiest Season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiest_Season
(Hulu)

Desert Hearts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Hearts
(Max, Criterion)

Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibly_True_Adventure_of_Two_Girls_in_Love
(Netflix, Kanopy)

Go Fish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fish_(film)
(Amazon Prime, Kanopy)

Here's some queer movies I haven't seen that I keep meaning to check out that I think are probably in the same category or at least aren't too doomful, maybe?
Ammonite
Booksmart
Bottoms
Bros
Carol
D.E.B.S.
Fire Island
Love Lies Bleeding
Moonlight
My Own Private Idaho
Nyad
Power of the Dog
Red, White, and Royal Blue
Rustin
Saving Face
TransAmerica
Will & Harper

More sewing

Jun. 10th, 2025 03:59 pm
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So, I've had a piece of cardboard over the top of the Ikea table that is my desk (a nice wood table, not particleboard) since we got it three years ago. It is not exactly filthy, but there is spilled candle wax, paint, water, grease from my arms, etc. Joel hates it. I totally don't care. However, today, as I was organizing my sewing bag (as opposed to the 7 or 8 boxes of sewing supplies) so that I could get started on my satchel, I came upon the material that I have been planning on using for the tablecloths for my desk. I don't dust, so the plan was that I would just change the tablecloth weekly and be done with it. A bit of quick measuring showed that I just needed to cut the material in half and hem it to make the tablecloths. So, instead of cutting out the bag, I did that. Then, with Joel's help, I removed the cardboard and put a tablecloth on. Yay! I'll have to eat and paint with a placemat (the tablecloths are off-white (because that was the cheap fabric that was at the store) and the lentils I eat have a lot of turmeric, which would absolutely stain), but that's fine. I'm super happy to have that done. I also organized the fabric and found the pattern for the satchel, so I'll be ready for cutting it out, maybe on Thursday.

Oh, and in other news, the AI and I have come up with a pattern for weaving baskets for the ledge just under the ceiling in the kitchen (which is like 6ft high at most). The ivy and pink jasmine are totally out of control in the yard, so I desperately need to get rid of them, but I don't want to just throw them away, since they are a good crafting material. I might work on the weaving on Wednesdays, since I'm less useful for thinking after neurofeedback. I might start tomorrow with trying to make a tiny basket-vase to hold a pretty grass head (seed head?) that Joel gave me. Oh, and I may also weave a coaster for a candle that is just sitting on my desk (and that I would like to not be directly on my desk). And a few other things!
* woven ball
* coaster
* small basket

ChatGPT wrote my code

Jun. 10th, 2025 09:32 am
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New blog post in which I asked ChatGPT to write some code for me; it went about as well as can be expected (TLDR; it mostly worked but smelled very bad): https://www.sweharris.org/post/2025-06-10-chatgpt-oauth/

Check those things off the list!

Jun. 9th, 2025 04:52 pm
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Phew! I got the monthly budget done (or whatever you call the "what we spent our money on" list). I need to start work on the podcast tomorrow, so I wanted to get the budget out of the way.

I think I said yesterday that I want to make a couple of long-sleeve shirts so I can avoid sunscreen, so I ordered some nice "washed cotton" in blue and "old green", which just sounds like the crappiest color. * laugh * I also got some more (slightly nicer) t-shirt fabric in colors I don't have. I had been planning on cutting out green fabric for the leaves for my nature themed shirts, but I don't look great in green (especially the bile-colored green that I was considering getting, since it looks more like leaves than kelly green), so I decided to go with white fabric that I can embroider. I could also dye it, if I wanted. A leaf in white (or, you know, grayish from having been washed a bunch) will still be recognizable as a leaf, so it will be fine.

It's time to get out there and go on a walk now. I'm having a weird brain day (even though I've been good and worn my glasses when going outside). I keep having the feeling I was working on something else. Probably, it is memories getting sorted incorrectly. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that I need another round of neurofeedback after this one to fix some new weird thing.

VNC into existing X desktop

Jun. 8th, 2025 03:57 pm
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After banging my head on the wall for a couple of days, I finally worked out how to "remote desktop" into an existing X session and not create a new one. So I documented it! https://www.sweharris.org/post/2025-06-08-vnc-x-desktop/

All the little things

Jun. 8th, 2025 05:28 pm
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I was all ready to go out on a walk when I realized that I hadn't eaten lunch yet (at 4pm), so I've now done that, but I've also realized that I should probably work on weeding the garden, so I'll probably do that instead of a walk (although I would prefer a walk, I think). I think I'm going to order some succulents online, since I'd really like to replace the plants in the rectangular windowbox style planters with all kinds of interesting succulents, which use way less water, are more sun tolerant, and are more attractive (in my opinion). I've also decided to make a couple long-sleeve sun shirts that are light enough to not be super hot but at the same time will make it so that I don't need sunscreen. I liked having a sun umbrella a lot and would use that instead, but it just doesn't work with my walking sticks, since I don't have a free hand to hold it. That's okay. So, the next step there is to order the fabric. I had hoped to work on cutting out my satchel today, but that isn't going to happen. Oh, well. Anyway, now it is time to run out and work on the yard.

I hate plumbing

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:17 am
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The worst part of owning a house are the DIY plumbing jobs. 'Cos water is a real PITA.

So my toilet fill valve needed replacing. I've done it before on the downstairs toilet, but now the other toilet needed fixing.

Now the process is pretty simple; turn off water at the stopcock, flush it, get as much water out of the cistern as possible, unscrew the fill pipe from the old valve (have something to catch water), unscrew the valve mount from underneath the cistern (catch the water), clean it up, put the new valve in, tighten the mount, connect the fill pipe, tighten, turn on the water. Adjust level.

In practice the stopcock hasn't been turned for 25+ years. Fortunately it was only stiff. The pipe disconnected cleanly.

The first main problem was removing the mount; it was so stiff and hard to turn that I ended up using a dremmel to cut it off. I just couldn't get the adjustable spanner to stay on to turn it.

Once I managed that putting the rest together was easy enough.

And now we're at the drip-drip phase of things. It's possible I need a new fill pipe connector 'cos the rubber seal may not be so good. Also the stopcock may be dripping 'cos it's so old and hadn't been turned for so long. And I may not have tightened the mount enough.

And that's why I hate plumbing; it's the drip drip drip of a slow leak whenever you touch anything!
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2025 Jun 7 11:40 am: [profile] benjalvarez1 on Twitter:

WATCH THIS: https://x.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1931375699786334704

Click through to see the video. You really, really should. Sound is irrelevant.

Text: "Tanks, fighting vehicles and howitzers arrive in Washington, D.C. ahead of next week's military parade. They departed from Texas on June 2." Two minutes and forty seconds.

Allegedly that train is a mile long and is transporting:

• 28 Abrams tanks (M1A2 main battle tank)
• 3 armored recovery vehicles (M88)
• 28 Bradleys (M2A3 infantry fighting vehicle)
• 5 Paladins (M109A7 self-propelled howitzer), and
• 28 Strykers (infantry carrier vehicle)

Source: 2025 Jun 6: @USAMilitaryChannel on YT [not official military channel]: "1-Mile Military Train -Texas to D.C. with Tanks, Armor, and More for Army's 250th Parade". I do not know if that source is reputable or if that inventory is accurate.

USA Today is reporting that "The military vehicles will be joined by 1,800 soldiers". (Source: 2025 Jun 6, USATODAY on YT: "Watch: Tanks, fighting vehicles head to DC for Trump's military parade", CW: face full of Trump, alt: screenshot).

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking that maybe the guy who attempted one coup already bringing a well-armed military force into our capitol city and, crucially, within artillery-range of the Pentagon, is just throwing himself a birthday party, but also maybe not.

ETA: For those of you confused by this, thinking, but doesn't he already control the military? You might want to watch this video about the rise of Xi Jinping.

Now, obviously, Trump would never play a long game like Xi did. But, 1) there are other ways to achieve the same end and 2) he doesn't have to, because his buddies, the Dominionists, did.
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