The head operatives of the GIW create a secure message chat to discuss the future plans after having successfully capturing the menace Phantom… not realizing they added reporter of the Daily Planet Clark Kent to the group chat.

Clark thinks it’s a fake but he uses his supersight and x-ray vision to look at the supposed secret base location and sure enough, it was real.

Sorry Lois but he might just gain the prestigious CIA Award for Excellence in Journalism first.

Just imagine it.

Clark slowly waiting and watching the group chat, collecting the information and avoiding Bruce, just doing his job and hoping no one in the organization sees they added an investigative reporter to the gc long enough for him to write a lengthy exposé.

That and when Lois finds out after Clark is unsuccessfully assassinated by a GIW sniper because the bullet just bounces off of him? Oh she’s pissed. He has the scoop of the century and didn’t tell her, his wife, and now she owes him $50 now for getting the CIA award before him. He’s sleeping on the couch tonight.

Alternate POV chapter of Jimmy Olsen being given the task to gain photo evidence and getting accidentally roped into some absolutely wild shenanigans, stumbling into liberating an entire damn facility all by himself and taking some beautifully criminalizing photos of the GIW along the way.

I am CACKLING this is hilarious and legit the perfect plot for a fic. I would read fifty yes please and thank you.

The Jimmy side plot is essential. Every time he tags along to take pictures he gets his own wild adventure. Sometimes he gets transformed or teleported or rescues a princess.

I propose this time Jimmy gets get the Pulitzer for the very first non-fuzzy picture of the ghost zone. It’s because he uses an old film camera that belonged to an old uncle that died in the same room it was stored, so it’s got natural ecto radiation imbued in the lenses or something.

And while sprinting through the GIW base (got separated from Clark) he’s snapping pictures of all the horrifying things the government has done to these beings - and a portal opens in front of him. Jimmy can’t slow down in time so he accidentally tackles Phantom, the ghost hero who came to help because someone somehow (Clark) destroyed the anti-ghost shield around the base.

Phantom and Jimmy fall backward into the ghost zone and Jimmy is still snapping pictures like crazy while this kid starts yelling and asking questions and then shoves him back through the portal. Phantom goes off to fight and help save ghosts with Superman (when did he get here? where is Clark?) and Jimmy changes out the roll of film for a new one to keep going.

Once the day is saved and he’s back in his dark room developing film he finds crisp clear photos of a very different dimension.

Meanwhile Clark is pouting while sleeping on the couch.

Essential tags via @stealingyourbones

Jimmy's photos are studied and scrutinized by scientists for years after they were taken. Can you imagine the elation Perry White would have upon seeing the photos? They were sitting on an absolute goldmine. He gives Kent permission to only focus on this assignment and nothing else. He wants that front page story and he wants it by the end of the week. It gives Clark (and Superman) perfect time to gather more information on the GIW, the more damning the better.

YOU DREW THAT SO FAST AGAHFKDLAHAVFJF

I adore the angle. Jimmy’s legs. The floating island castle. The ectopus looking curious behind Danny. The little bit of blood (another thing the scientists latch onto because it’s red, unlike the other ghosts found at the base).

🇺🇸tony's chocolonely chocolate bar recall due to rocks🇺🇸

literally, due to rocks. they got rocks in them

april 2, 2025

emphasis mine.

this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.

I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.

they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet

emphasis mine.

please do not the rocks. thank you

Can we just call the current Russia what it is? A terrorist state and a danger to multiple nations' securities! Idc if this sounds anti-Russia, that country brought nothing good to Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The U.S. beekeeping industry is in crisis over the shocking and unexplained deaths of hundreds of millions of bees over the last eight months.

It's an unfolding disaster for the industry. Blake Shook, one of the nation's top beekeepers, has found tens of thousands of dead insects at his businesses. He said that he's never seen losses like this.

"The data is showing us this is the worst bee loss in recorded history," Shook told CBS Saturday Morning.

Hey everybody! Chodesh tov! Long time no posts. My apologies. I'm chronically ill and my condition took a severe turn for the worse in Elul from which I still haven't recovered. This blog's posting schedule was one of many casualties to that calamity.

So I'm here asking for assistance in the form of assistants. I want 1-3 other yids willing to write and post daily holiday summaries with me. The next six months will be pretty smooth sailing-- I got that far last year and I've got a spreadsheet with the events for each day. The from Cheshvan 5786 onwards to Adar things get a little bit more complicated because there are a lot more gaps in my spreadsheet that still need to be filled with research. I'm looking for a wide range of Jewish history including the entire diaspora and all Jewish movements, but because most of the sources I can find with compendiums of Jewish "on this day" trivia are both Orthodox and Ashkenazi in approach, they haven't been quite as diverse yet as I'd like.

So here's the call for applicants. If you're interested in serving as an assistant on this blog, check out this spreadsheet and then send me a quick holiday writeup for a day in Kislev or Tevet that strikes your fancy. Or, if your skills lie in research rather than writing, send in an event or commemoration for one of the days marked with ??? on the spreadsheet. With your help I'm hoping to get things back up and running here soon so we can all enjoy a daily Jewish holiday.

Natural Disaster Cost Increasing

by AtlasandEconomy/reddit

and FEMA and with it all mechanisms for disaster recovery are being dismantled

In breakthrough, Israeli-led team activates dormant bone marrow cells for transplants

you know what's funny is I've never in my life had an account hacked because someone guessed my password but I have had my information compromised because of the shitty cybersecurity of organizations like this one that insist I make a permanent account and store my personal information with them indefinitely so that I can make a single purchase or pay a single bill or apply for a single job I won't even get at least a dozen times in my life

I think we should make a new rule that, if any goy wants to talk about and give their opinion on Judaism and Jewish culture and what’s happening between Israel and Palestine.

They should have to spend a full one minute (that’s sixty seconds) talking about the very bare bones basic “this is what I know about Judaism and Jews” and if they can’t even get through that without stating something blatantly false and/or making Judaism out to be anything like Christianity, they shouldn’t be allowed to keep talking AND they have to gibe the Jew who’s time they just wasted $50.

Reminder that in Australia there is no law against lying on political ads. Do not believe everything you hear/see in political ads this year!

(Bluesky's nuclear block function means the original post isn't visible here, but the context is yet another leftist doing the "Dems bad, don't us for refusing to support Dems, etc., etc." song and dance)

You know, the second to last post is true for a lot of these Very Online leftists, I think. They actually do know the parties aren't the same, deep down, but they can't possibly risk being seen as Cringe and a bootlicker by saying so, leaving them to hope everyone else acts like an adult and does the work for them

This is a good reason to have scientific studies saying stuff like, "On average, trans people report happiness when they transition with loving family support and unhappiness when people dump acid on their head," like, yes it is intuitive, yes we knew that, but someday the study that is being passed around under the heading "water is wet," is going to be used to guide a court decision. And sometimes, when the the weather is fair and God smiles, it will result in some judge pounding the anti-trans arguments absolutely flat with a level of precise violence heretofore only seen in people making schnitzels, and that is a thing of beauty.

i taught a baking class for 12 year olds today and we made your garden variety chocolate chip cookies, but i’m a big believer in Questioning Everything and the who/what/where/why/when/how behind things, so the first part of the class was purposely letting the kids do things the wrong way, to show and explain why we do things the way we do.

“why do we bake cookies at 180 for 9 minutes when we could do 400 for 2 minutes?” -enter the godawful lump of coal with a still gross wet and uncooked inside

“why do we have to scoop out little cookies instead of doing the whole tray?” -ok well that one you can technically do if the spread is even. you just end up with one giant, structurally unsound cookie. “PLEASE CAN WE MAKE GIANT COOKIES” (we did make 1 giant tray cookie)

we talked a lot about why consistency is important, but i don’t think it really hammered home until i said “okay everyone gets ONE cookie, that’s fair, right?” and then handed out cookies of hugely varying sizes. + baked one fat lump of a cookie that still wasn’t done at the 9 minutes, vs the regular one i put in that came out charred by the time the first was actually done.

we also made a row of cookies where each one had one single differing ingredient omitted, like a cookie with no flour, or a cookie with no butter, and laid them all out on a single tray to bake together to see how each ingredient affects the outcome.

two of the little girls added cocoa to their cookie doughs until it matched the colour of each others skin to make best friend cookies, and that almost made me tear up a bit 🥺

got briefly distracted (…for over half an hour…) talking about how eggs form when someone cracked an egg and it had 2 yolks

expertly tolerated being asked how old i am (just turned 31 the other day) which was immediately followed by asking if i watched the moon landing live on tv

was so focused on keeping track of all the kids that in the end i forgot to make a cookie for myself, but it’s ok because one of the girls gave me this

tiny……….

the class went well and they asked if i wanted to do another one in a couple weeks and i said yeah, and they’re taking uh… fuck, what’s the word for inventory when it’s people?? attendance?? whatever, they’re trying to see who’s interested to get a feel of if it’d be 1 three hour class again or if there’s too many kids so we’d do a couple classes. anyways, i love the emails from Concerned Parents.

“will there be knives involved?” we are baking cookies.

“what temperatures does the oven get to/will it be hot enough to burn?” we are baking cookies.

“will there be [insert ingredient used in cookies]?” we are baking cookies.

“are you using fahrenheit or celsius?” ??????? d-does it matter?? it’s going to get Hot. (also celsius; this is ontario)

“are the ovens childproof?” no?? i’m assuming you’re asking if i’m going to let your kids reach into the ovens while i’m staring out a window in another room. i will not be allowing your children to use the ovens. they will not be left unattended. 

“why is the library baking class taking place at the high school?” the library does not have 10 ovens. the library does not even have 1 oven. the high school has many ovens.

“what if i don’t want my child to have cookies? can you let her make muffins instead?” this is a baking class for cookies. we are baking cookies.

“cookies aren’t healthy. why don’t you make [insert whatever]” do you know how many cookies i can make with a $40 budget and a trip to the bulk store? we are making cookies.

“who needs a class to bake a cookie, why not teach something more valuable?” IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE COOKIES, KAREN, IT’S ABOUT FAMILIARIZING CHILDREN WITH THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BAKING/COOKING/FOOD, ABOUT TRYING NEW THINGS, MAKING MISTAKES AND REALIZING THAT THE MISTAKES ARE NOT ONLY OKAY TO MAKE BUT VALUABLE IN AND OF THEMSELVES, FAMILIARIZING THEM WITH INDEPENDENCE, THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THINGS CAN COME TOGETHER TO FORM A NEW AND BETTER WHOLE, ALL WHILE HAVING TRYING TO INJECT A MODICUM OF JOY INTO THEIR LITTLE LIVES. SORRY THAT THERE ARE CONCEPTS AT PLAY YOU CAN’T SEEN TO UNDERSTAND HERE. MAYBE YOU SHOULD COME JOIN AND I’LL LET YOU MAKE A FUCKING COOKIE.

Hello to all Australians seeing the post! It is currently the 28th of March 2025, and the election has been announced for May 3rd!

If you are eligible to vote, make sure to check if you’re enrolled to vote and ensure that you’ll be able to vote!

This is a very important election so we’ve all got to do our bits!

Oh my god, apparently Trump is trying to separately tariff Norfolk Island at 29%. Norfolk Island is a territory of Australia and has a population of approximately 2000 people.

Guys what the fuck

Norfolk Island doesn't export anything to the US.

The same article states he's also imposed tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands... which are uninhabited.

He put a tariff on an island that only has a joint US/UK military base on it...

Bet the big dollar political donors made some calls:

He put tariffs on uninhabited islands, y'all.