there's an extremely racist and russophobic narrative that's become dominant in european media about how russia is an asian and non-european country. this narrative is directly out of nazi state propaganda and ultimately straight out of mein kampf.

these racist comments by the hungarian opposition leader should be firmly condemned as extreme right and uneuropean.

fwiw, the r1* haplogroup that defines europe is asian in origin and hungarian comes from an asiatic origin language family. modern hungarians have intermixed with europeans, but the hungarians came to europe as asiatic steppe nomads. the division between europe and russia is a racist false dichotomy that can nether be defined linguistically nor genetically and has no basis in science.

there is no imaginary boundary between "europe" and "russia".

the idea that that boundary exists is literal nazi fucking bullshit and these comments should be condemned as the xenophobic, russophobic and extreme right nazi bullshit that they are.

up and down but quite a warm march overall.

that was what, 6 days over 20? is that right?

it's 7:

https://weatherspark.com/h/m/16508/2026/3/Historical-Weather-in-March-2026-in-Windsor-Ontario-Canada

this was supposed to be a joke.

if people have difficulty grappling with just how broken and how backwards the supreme court in the united states is, get your head around the fact that it just legalized exorcism as a medical practice, on free speech grounds, in 2026.

i don't see what conversion therapy has to do with free speech at all, and i don't think this ruling would have been published if the court was talking about any other comparable product. 

is selling snake oil as medicine free speech in the united states? no. there are regulatory oversights to address medicines that don't work, or are harmful.

conversion therapy is both ineffective and extremely harmful and there is a federal ban against it here in canada. the united nations lists it not as a medical practice but as a form of torture.

it's medically comparable to exorcism. that's a direct comparison.

this is a bizarre ruling that demonstrates the kind of transphobia the united states is currently in the grips of. 

as a result of this ruling, i'd expect to see things like witchcraft, exorcism and bloodletting return to american healthcare. it's a firm embrace of dark age logic.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5808916-justice-jackson-dissent-conversion-therapy/

grown ass adults paying hundreds of dollars to go to a barbie event. what did you expect? an escort?

prices for kids are more affordable and i hope they had fun.

and i hope the loser adults that paid to go to this functionally subsidized the costs for the kids. that sounds like a business plan and a wealth redistribution plan at the same time, to me.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/barbie-dream-fest-9.7148269

if you always wondered about if the moon landing was staged or not, the scope of the artemis mission, almost 60 years later, should raise further eyebrows.

nasa, just admit it.

i hope the issue upstairs doesn't drag out. i want to go outside to play. but it's also clear that my options for nightlife in windsor are not as strong as they were five years ago and i may have difficulties finding places to go here. i'm really waiting for the bridge to open.

there is a private sector bus over, but it's $15 both ways and it has no bicycle rack and the hours are shit.

what i'm going to do as i find venues is go back for the last five years on a venue-by-venue basis and try to figure out what i missed. i'll point out the shows i would have gone to, and take note of some of the shows i can say i would have skipped, but noted existed.

i have mentioned before that due to changes that have occurred, including changes in my age, i may find myself most interested in techno & classical music. i don't listen to rap music, i don't listen to folk music, i don't listen to heavy metal, i don't listen to indie-pop or pop-punk and i don't listen to opera. those are the big NOOOOOOOOOOs that will cause me to get up and walk out of somewhere. my understanding is that they also, together, compose the entirety of the alternative music scene at this point, leaving me with minimal options i would find interesting. i might listen to pop music in principle, but pop music has been garbage for decades.

i don't want to shit on gen z too much. i have not had the opportunity to acquaint myself with very many members of gen z, as i have broadly considered born in the 90s to be a red flag to stay ten feet away from. i'm transgendered. they'll lock me up for saying hello to a 16 year old, and i've had more than a few knocking on my door, because i look like i'm 20. still. i just don't answer that door. that pretty girl across the street ten years ago must be in her late 20s now and i hope she figured things out and i hope she understands the complete and total stonewall, in hindsight. nope. you're not getting me on that. not even on a bullshit charge that never happened. no fucking way.

if you can get into the show, we can talk there. don't follow me around. don't try to talk to me on the street. i am too old now to tell the difference between 15 and 25 by eyesight alone, i need to id you, and i'm not going to do that.

so, i don't know any of these kids, i've never said so much as a fucking word to any of them, and i don't want to jump to conclusions, a priori. i'll have to figure this out. but i'm gen x, and i could barely tolerate most millennials. i expect to notice a sizable generation gap for the first time in my life, decide the kids are shit and just go to the goddamned symphony instead. i expect to be hot enough to go dancing, still, but i wasn't sure for a while. i'm going to have to shake the stalkers off by just existing. 

i'm not going to like music popular amongst young people at this point and i don't really give a fuck. i just hope i have options that do cater to my tastes, and i'm able to find some shows that aren't the symphony. if not, it can be a fun night to schedule symphonies around techno shows.

the struggle in 2026 is going to be finding interesting art rock shows, which wasn't the case when i left off in 2020.

and then i had my quarterly stomach ache, which happens when the seasons flip. that knocked me out hard after the shower.

i'm looking better than i have in a while.

it's not the first warm spell here this year, but we've had lingering cold snaps. the quarterly stomach ache doesn't mean it's summer. it means it's spring. so, we won't have any more winter days for the rest of the year, now. we may still have yicky spring days.

it's the first summer night of the year but i am inside and will be for a few more weeks, as i wait for the losers upstairs to clear out and fuck off.

however, i took advantage of the warmth and humidity to take my first decent shower in almost a year, and does it ever feel good to get out.

it won't last. it's still march but it's a nice change after this horrendously cold, yucky winter.