For those of you who don't know about Leonard Zeskind or his book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, you should.

The NYT obit did a nice job summarizing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Ghislaine's dad is the new Pope? This guy's everywhere

I've found a way to read that Atlantic article and answered my own question (yes). Thanks for sharing this very cool research and paradigm shift! Olfaction rules

Cool! As a layperson I'm puzzling out how this is different from the idea of 'neuroplasticity.' Is 'neuroplasticity' the idea that we can relearn with different parts of the brain after, say, a stroke, but this new finding is that what we learn never stays fixed in the brain to begin with?

*fanfolk is more inclusive (but less rhymey)

Inter-Conservative pitchfork sharpening has begun, and I'm here for it! 🍿

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poil...

There was no useful granular polling in the riding (pretty much everything I saw was way wrong on who the best second pick would be) and so yeah, it was brutal 😔 But we don't f#@&¡ng need better polling, we need electoral reform!

PP was running for governor of the 51st state and Carney emerged as the guy to stop that. It was a force of nature Jagmeet had no chance against. I don't blame him, he was a good guy, but unlucky

Yeah, here's why we'll probably not know the full results for many more hours:
youtu.be/TanL5c87Jq0?...

And we Canadians are so glad we don't ever have to utter the words "prime minister Peepee"