Graham C Lester
@grahamclester.bsky.social
From Furzedown, Southwest London. Living in the US since 1983. Currently in Kansas. Interests: culture, arts, science, humor. Been against Trump since the 1980s!
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Christmas Reimagined
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Time at last to release my V̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ P̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ Christmas Album, entitled Christmas Reimagined. Have a listen! It starts with a typical jolly holiday song then moves into a kind of concept album about the main players in the Nativity, ending with a few extra new songs:
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
Russia Is Hurting Too (Simon Tisdall)
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Russia Is Hurting Too (Simon Tisdall)
"It's December and all of Rome is in fever-pitch! Unrestricted festive fun at the state's expense is given free license. . . Preparations on an enormous scale. . . The Saturnalia holiday is meant to be different. . . but now celebrations begin so early there is hardly any difference at all"
Seneca
Seneca
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"It's December and all of Rome is in fever-pitch! Unrestricted festive fun at the state's expense is given free license. . . Preparations on an enormous scale. . . The Saturnalia holiday is meant to be different. . . but now celebrations begin so early there is hardly any difference at all"
Seneca
Seneca
500 games of Connections at four or five minutes each -- that's like a whole forty-hour work week!
December 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
500 games of Connections at four or five minutes each -- that's like a whole forty-hour work week!
What people, including me until just now, have forgotten is how Trump's support for Putin created the necessary conditions for a Russian invasion of Ukraine by undermining ahead of time the American support for the innocent victim that would normally have been taken for granted in such a situation.
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What people, including me until just now, have forgotten is how Trump's support for Putin created the necessary conditions for a Russian invasion of Ukraine by undermining ahead of time the American support for the innocent victim that would normally have been taken for granted in such a situation.
Time at last to release my V̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ P̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ Christmas Album, entitled Christmas Reimagined. Have a listen! It starts with a typical jolly holiday song then moves into a kind of concept album about the main players in the Nativity, ending with a few extra new songs:
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
Christmas Reimagined
open.spotify.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Time at last to release my V̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ P̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ Christmas Album, entitled Christmas Reimagined. Have a listen! It starts with a typical jolly holiday song then moves into a kind of concept album about the main players in the Nativity, ending with a few extra new songs:
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...
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I got a comment from CBP on this. They claim this woman was driving her "illegal alien boyfriend's" car and refused to show ID when stopped.
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I got a comment from CBP on this. They claim this woman was driving her "illegal alien boyfriend's" car and refused to show ID when stopped.
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
"The constant threat of arrest *is* freedom" -- another one Orwell missed.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"The constant threat of arrest *is* freedom" -- another one Orwell missed.
I wonder which corporation will be first to introduce the reverse CAPTCHA, where you have to prove that you are *not* a human before you are allowed to post anything. But maybe they already exist and we just weren't informed. I do get the impression that Facebook prefers AI writers. . .
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I wonder which corporation will be first to introduce the reverse CAPTCHA, where you have to prove that you are *not* a human before you are allowed to post anything. But maybe they already exist and we just weren't informed. I do get the impression that Facebook prefers AI writers. . .
Short sermon from a Missouri farmer:
youtu.be/AYdMP03_vC8?...
youtu.be/AYdMP03_vC8?...
The litmus test of racism…
YouTube video by Will Westmoreland
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Short sermon from a Missouri farmer:
youtu.be/AYdMP03_vC8?...
youtu.be/AYdMP03_vC8?...
Guy shot another guy who was carrying an AR-15 at a rally. He apparently thought the guy was about to carry out a mass shooting. But the guy had a legal right to carry the AR-15, so now the man who shot him finds himself charged with manslaughter. Just madness:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Safety volunteer charged in fatal shooting of ‘No Kings’ protester in Utah
Protest guard fired at armed man he mistakenly believed to be threat to protesters but accidentally killed a bystander
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Guy shot another guy who was carrying an AR-15 at a rally. He apparently thought the guy was about to carry out a mass shooting. But the guy had a legal right to carry the AR-15, so now the man who shot him finds himself charged with manslaughter. Just madness:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Graham C Lester
This is very cool -- three Amazon buildings in downtown Seattle are heated this way -- but you can't do it with the bloated, gigantic 1GW data centers they're trying to build these days. Gotta break them into smaller pieces.
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is very cool -- three Amazon buildings in downtown Seattle are heated this way -- but you can't do it with the bloated, gigantic 1GW data centers they're trying to build these days. Gotta break them into smaller pieces.
Reposted by Graham C Lester
The (Economic, Rhetorical, And Physical) Beatings Will Continue Until The Presidential Approval Rating Improves!
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-economic-rhetorical-and-physical-beatings-will-continue-until-the-presidential-approval-rating-improves/
The (Economic, Rhetorical, And Physical) Beatings Will Continue Until The Presidential Approval Rating Improves!
There is no shortage of physical beatings rained down by agents of this administration, spurred by Trump's personal directives.
abovethelaw.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The (Economic, Rhetorical, And Physical) Beatings Will Continue Until The Presidential Approval Rating Improves!
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-economic-rhetorical-and-physical-beatings-will-continue-until-the-presidential-approval-rating-improves/
"How we generate sustained long-term economic growth is an extremely important question, but it’s also a pretty hard one. . . Whether your personal financial contribution to a very poor person in a very poor village in a very poor country would make humanity better off on net is a pretty easy one."
We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good.
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
One million dollars
How you can live a happier life, crush our Substack rivals, and help people in need
www.slowboring.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"How we generate sustained long-term economic growth is an extremely important question, but it’s also a pretty hard one. . . Whether your personal financial contribution to a very poor person in a very poor village in a very poor country would make humanity better off on net is a pretty easy one."
"Kris Kobach (R) announced the charges just one day after Ceballos won reelection in Clearwater . . . Homeland Security has warned that it may begin deportation proceedings to send Ceballos back to Mexico — a country he has not lived in since early childhood."
wtfdetective.blog/republican-m...
wtfdetective.blog/republican-m...
“I always loved Trump, this is unfair”: Republican mayor can’t believe he’s facing deportation after 50 years in US
Joe Ceballos — a longtime Republican and the mayor of the small Kansas town of Clearwater — is now confronting felony voter fraud charges and the possibility
wtfdetective.blog
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Kris Kobach (R) announced the charges just one day after Ceballos won reelection in Clearwater . . . Homeland Security has warned that it may begin deportation proceedings to send Ceballos back to Mexico — a country he has not lived in since early childhood."
wtfdetective.blog/republican-m...
wtfdetective.blog/republican-m...
Apparently, more than two thirds of Laos's GDP comes from cyber fraud. There are several nations that seem to be dependent on it, affecting tens of millions of people:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Apparently, more than two thirds of Laos's GDP comes from cyber fraud. There are several nations that seem to be dependent on it, affecting tens of millions of people:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The war is fake but the war crimes are real.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The war is fake but the war crimes are real.
An archeology program with a fresh approach:
youtu.be/2xoNJHMp5Q0?...
youtu.be/2xoNJHMp5Q0?...
Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders - Series 1 Episode 1
YouTube video by Day Coffee
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
An archeology program with a fresh approach:
youtu.be/2xoNJHMp5Q0?...
youtu.be/2xoNJHMp5Q0?...
"This wholesale deregulation will allow banks to load up on more debt and have less of their own money available to absorb losses when their investments go south."
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
Opinion | The cost of Trump's bank deregulation could be catastrophic
"The Trump Administration is running into that historical trap, scrapping critical bank rules and the people who enforce them at record speed," Julie Siegel writes.
www.ms.now
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"This wholesale deregulation will allow banks to load up on more debt and have less of their own money available to absorb losses when their investments go south."
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
47 Violates Rule 47
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is. . .
(b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, *shipwreck*, wounds or sickness
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is. . .
(b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, *shipwreck*, wounds or sickness
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
ihl-databases.icrc.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
47 Violates Rule 47
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is. . .
(b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, *shipwreck*, wounds or sickness
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is. . .
(b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, *shipwreck*, wounds or sickness
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
Corporations are likely going to be able to install something like Grok directly into our brains so that we will have access to encyclopedic information that we cannot distinguish from our own thoughts, BUT it is going to be subtly programmed with the evil agenda of billionaire racists and fascists.
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Corporations are likely going to be able to install something like Grok directly into our brains so that we will have access to encyclopedic information that we cannot distinguish from our own thoughts, BUT it is going to be subtly programmed with the evil agenda of billionaire racists and fascists.
Could we transition to Medicare for all by automatically enrolling babies?
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Could we transition to Medicare for all by automatically enrolling babies?
Trump pardons top drug traffickers while murdering small-time hustlers in cold blood and without trial:
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving...
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Trump pardons top drug traffickers while murdering small-time hustlers in cold blood and without trial:
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
'Hegseth, following the first striking of a boat in the Caribbean in September, issued a verbal directive to U.S. service members to "kill everybody" with a second strike that would leave no survivors, according to a new report from the Washington Post.'
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Hegseth Ordered Second Strike to Kill Caribbean Boat Survivors: Report
The United States changed its protocols after Secretary Hegseth allegedly told officials to "kill everybody" onboard an a Caribbean vessel in September.
www.military.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
'Hegseth, following the first striking of a boat in the Caribbean in September, issued a verbal directive to U.S. service members to "kill everybody" with a second strike that would leave no survivors, according to a new report from the Washington Post.'
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Saheb described Cook County’s guaranteed basic income pilot as a "historic success" & said that when the federal government was "stepping back from its responsibilities to working families, Cook County is leading the way to ensure people can afford basic necessities."
www.foxnews.com/media/cook-c...
www.foxnews.com/media/cook-c...
Cook County in Illinois establishes permanent guaranteed income program
The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make a guaranteed basic income pilot program permanent.
www.foxnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Saheb described Cook County’s guaranteed basic income pilot as a "historic success" & said that when the federal government was "stepping back from its responsibilities to working families, Cook County is leading the way to ensure people can afford basic necessities."
www.foxnews.com/media/cook-c...
www.foxnews.com/media/cook-c...
People Ruin Lives (Song of the Week)
Something cynical and depressing to cleanse the palate in these difficult days between the season of gratitude and the season of Joy:
youtu.be/W1V5O0np6Y4?...
Something cynical and depressing to cleanse the palate in these difficult days between the season of gratitude and the season of Joy:
youtu.be/W1V5O0np6Y4?...
People Ruin Lives
YouTube video by Graham Lester's Entertainment Emporium
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
People Ruin Lives (Song of the Week)
Something cynical and depressing to cleanse the palate in these difficult days between the season of gratitude and the season of Joy:
youtu.be/W1V5O0np6Y4?...
Something cynical and depressing to cleanse the palate in these difficult days between the season of gratitude and the season of Joy:
youtu.be/W1V5O0np6Y4?...