Wednesday Link Roundup - 5 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Bustednuckles has daily routine.
Don Surber has highlights of the week.

EBL - Signing of the Declaration of Independence

2 August 1776: Declaration of Independence Formally Signed
EBL: Girls With Guns (Revolutionary War)

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.03.26

Elizabeth Nickson: The Delicious Humiliation of the Man Who Poisoned The World
First Street Journal: This afternoon’s rant

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 3 August 2026: Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition

Xbox has been hit with worldwide price increases. (WCCFTech)
I bought one a while back. One the one hand, it has since increased in price by nearly 50%. On the other hand, it's sitting in my closet.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The strange alliance. Angela Davis. All in the family.
China Carney’s Canada: Whine and poses. Staff in tears. Halal in Ontario.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - More Fauci Follies Follow

From AMAC, President Trump Fixes Biden’s Mess on Medicare Drug Premiums. "The Trump administration is doing the right thing by fixing a totally unworkable Biden-era Medicare subsidy program.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/2/2026

Four Flock Safety cameras in one Long Island town were vandalized in July as backlash against the software grows nationwide — with one wild case including claims a cop down south illegally used it to track her lover.

Political Hat - News of the Week (August 2nd, 2026)

French Government Moves to Euthanize Man Against His Wishes
Just days after France legalized “assisted suicide,” the French government has now ruled that doctors can euthanize a conscious patient against his wishes

Vlad Tepes - It is undeniable that the UK, and increasingly Canada, are totalitarian polities governed by Marxist principles: Links 1 for Aug. 3, 2026

3. CNN attempts to use RFK Jr. to hurt Trump’s reputation over the massive goat-love-making session that was Covid and the mRNA shots.

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Wedding Bells Links

“I didn’t know that the Fascists would come after ME!”
The winner happens to be the one we have on our beer list.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Unbelievable: Wacko Judge Stops The Ending Of TPS For Somalians
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 3 /26

Prominent Democrats have fueled this climate with reckless rhetoric. (intentional, not reckless! - jjs)
Leftist Violence Proves Politics’ Deadly Double Standard

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: ceuta as the bridge too far and the fulcrum of change

Bill Maher: The Communists Inside the Tent - Vaughn Cordle, CFA Teachers Union Brainwashing - Betsy McCaughey

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/04/2026

This lawyer was doing internet searches on Flock cameras and their legality, and after a few days of research, he looked outside, and across the street, a Flock technician was installing a Flock Camera pointed right at his house.

I leave you with 8-1-26, Meme dump to clear my desktop from Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!, Sunday’s oh gosh the weekend’s almost over meme drop 8-2-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Monday Morning Meme Madness from Twitchy.

Good Guys With Guns

From the New York Post we get the following. Hero civilian who fired back at In-N-Out shooter trained in self defense after witnessing another mass shooting

Police said the death toll would have undoubtedly been higher without the quick-thinking actions of Salinas and the off-duty cop

“These people are true heroes in our community,” Johnson said of the two men who returned fire. “They diverted the shooter and without a doubt saved many lives.”

Remember Jordan Salinas.

Jordan Salinas, 35, a healthcare worker and the full-time caregiver of his brother, who uses a wheelchair, had been horseback riding with his girlfriend the morning of the shooting when the couple pulled into the Twin Falls In-N-Out location for lunch and immediately noticed something amiss.

Hat tip to Crime Prevention Research Center - “Police said the death toll would have undoubtedly been higher without the quick-thinking actions of Salinas and the off-duty cop”

Do You Trust the Statistics Around COVID-19?

It is hard to believe numbers when it is clear everything else the government told us about the pandemic was a lie. Almost everything else. Lies, Damned Lies, and COVID-19 : The Other McCain

I have been ignoring (almost) everything about COVID at this point. I don't expect Fauci, or anyone else really, to be held accountable for the insanity. Apparently the recent kerfuffle is about a statement from David Frum. The Other McCain dug a little deeper into what his statistics were.

THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER? You’re making arguments about medical policy based on work by a polling company?

Public opinion is a funny thing. Even "expert opinion" can be an issue. If 2/3rds of the population of the Earth believe that the world is flat, does that make them right? Look up what "expert opinion" was during Galileo's day, and what they did to him for daring to challenge that opinion.

As for the details, click thru for those. I will leave you with only the following.

Some people are herd animals by nature, and these were the people most eager to comply with the crazy lockdown rules of “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” without ever questioning the logic of those rules.

Get Over It

Another song that comes to us by way of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. WXRT (Chicago's Finest Rock) was revisiting 1994 on 1 August.

This part of the lyrics seems almost prophetic.

You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

This song is "Get Over It" by Eagles from their 1994 album Hell Freezes Over. It was included in the 1999 "best of" collection.

Tuesday Links - 4 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Weird: Washington State Immigration Attorney Built Fraudulent Empire

I’m guessing this fraud wouldn’t be going on if the illegals weren’t in the U.S. Oh, and hey, where were these illegals getting all that money?

Jeff Davidson at Townhall - The Virtue-Signaling Virus That Won't Die

The internet has made moral posturing virtually effortless. Anyone can declare, "We support a healthy environment," or "We must leave the Earth better than we found it." Such statements sound admirable, but they cost the declarants nothing.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 1 August 2026: Port Elizabeth Edition

VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crunch)

Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of.

Congratulations, you are now a researcher.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: In The Bowels of the Draft

In other news, the After Action Report for Son of Silvercon IV is up at my substack. if you weren’t there, you missed a good party.

Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: DEMONS! SUMO! LIGHTNING DEATHS!

I recently finished reading Demons (or The Devils or The Possessed) by Dostoevsky, which I saw many others were reading. I have already read Crime & Punishment (many times), Brothers Karamazov (many times), The Idiot, The Gambler, and some lesser works, so I figured to dive into this one.

The Silicon Graybeard - Just like that, it's August in Central Florida

A sure indicator is when the UV Index says 11 on a scale of 1-10 and uses the description, "Potentially Fatal in one hour." We know that's aimed at visitors to the area who aren't used to it and don't pay much attention.

The Daily Caller - Trump Admin Rakes Maryland County Over Coals For Banning Guns In Churches

Churches and other places of worship have been attacked several times over the years, including in 2015, when a shooter killed nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church. A Mormon church was attacked in Grand Blanc, Michigan, in September 2025, while a San Diego mosque was targeted in May and the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was struck by a mass shooter in October 2018.

Francis Menton at Manhattan Contrarian - Don't Forget: There Are Two Multi-Trillion Dollar Pseudoscience Scams

The news this past week has been filled by Rand Paul’s Senate hearings exposing the extent of the scientific fraud perpetrated by ex-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in the matter of Covid-19. First Paul released Fauci’s “diaries,” otherwise known as personal musings recorded in various places on the government’s servers. Then Fauci was compelled to testify, whereupon he invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege more than 100 times and never provided a word of substantive testimony.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Cincinnati

This incident occured in April, but the local media stopped covering it once it was clear that the DA was going to rule self-defense. I've included a link to one of the news stories (so called) below the link to the video, but the video is really the point.

There is security camera video from two perspectives.

Hartwell is one of the 52 neighborhoods in Cincinnat.

This is the Active Self Protection video ASP Viewer WRECKS Armed Robber. Embedding of the video is forbidden, because it is age-restricted. It is 16 minutes long.

Here is a typical news story from WCPO, the Cincinnati affiliate of ABC. Police: 40-year-old dead after shooting in Hartwell

Cincinnati police said District 4 officers responded to De Camp Avenue at around 4 a.m. for a reported person shot. When they arrived, they found Robert Andrews, 40, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Three local media outlets covered the story before the video came out, because gun violence is all they care about.

Self-defense is a human right, and it might just be your legal right in Ohio.

The Democrats Have a Problem with Normal

Is anyone shocked at this point? Why Can't You Be Normal?! The Dems Are Nominating Total Freaks for Office.

n Maine, Nazi Graham Platner was booted after a rape allegation was lobbed against him. He was replaced by Troy Jackson, a Democrat with reported anger issues and someone who married his second cousin. Is it illegal or election-killing? No, but it does feed into the disturbing trend among Democrats: they can’t find normal people to run for office.

Click thru for a list.

You used to expect this from places like San Francisco. I'm old enough to remember when Sister Mary Boom Boom, Nun of the Above, ran for office in that city, and almost won. (People do want to vote for none of the above.) But I never expected this kind of insanity from Maine, or the rest of the items on the list.

Satanist weddings, beheading chickens, fake weddings, passing bills that protect child sex predators, hanging out with terrorists, hiring pedophiles—what is going on with the Democratic Party?

I miss Western Civilization. (Hat tip to MaddMedic)

People Are Being Stupid - Idaho Edition

The people being stupid are everywhere; the topic they are being stupid about is Idaho. Another Seriously dumb motherf.... - by Miguel Gonzalez

The Left, and some on the Right, are going on about how the "Idaho Hero" missed his shots, as if that means anything.

Really? Aren’t you a retarded cupcake full of stupid sprinkles? Let me ask you this. You are outside your home doing something, maybe painting the front porch or washing your car and suddenly you realize that somebody is shooting at you, but you have not been hit yet. The question is what you do next, continue as if nothing is happening (I mean, he is missing, right) or ... ?

It is just a coincidence that the bad guy decided to kill himself, just at the moment he encountered resistance. Pure coincidence. Or is it?

Lead Me To The Slaughter

Gore is a band I know very little about. I have seen them described as a Melodic Metalcore band. (That is a mixture of Death Metal, and Hardcore Punk, with maybe some other Metal influences.) They are from Texas and I found them by way of the Tidal streaming service and the playlist "The Metalist: Best New Metal & Hard Rock"

This is what Rocked had to say. Gore. Return With New Single “Lead Me To The Slaughter”

Texas metal four-piece GORE. — vocalist Haley Roughton, guitarist Alex Reyes, bassist Devin Birchfield, and drummer Wills Weller — are back and with a vengeance unparalleled.

The band says the song is about being indoctrinated into a cult. Lyrics can be found at this link.

This song is "Lead Me To The Slaughter" by Gore. It was released as a single in June of 2026.

Good Guy With a Gun in Idaho

The American mainstream media seems to be completely silent on this incident. This morning there are finally some mainstream reports, though a couple are still downplaying the role of the civilian. Three Dead Outside a Twin Falls In-N-Out, Armed Bystander Engaged the Shooter With a Suppressed Pistol Causing Him to Retreat - USA Carry

A bystander, possibly named Jordan Salinas, engaged the shooter with a handgun, although details about his involvement remain unverified.

X/Twitter seems convinced.

The mainstream media likes to pretend that good guys with guns never step up.

What stays with me is the direction he moved. A man was shooting people in a burger restaurant parking lot at four in the afternoon on a Saturday, and everyone in that lot was running the other way. Whatever the investigation eventually says about whose rounds landed where, a man with a pistol on his hip closed distance on that threat instead of leaving it to work through the crowd unopposed.

We do have law enforcement's confirmation of who the original (bad guy) shooter was. BREAKING: Twin Falls In-N-Out shooter identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams—motive unknown

Police have identified the suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, as 24-year-old Chad Williams. Williams is deceased after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

I'm sure more will be posted in the next couple of days.

Hat tip to Benny Johnson and his video Left-Wing Gunman OPENS Fire On In-N-Out…Then A Cowboy Steps Up And Does The UNTHINKABLE

The X post is included mostly for a handy link to the video from law enforcement.

🚨 BREAKING: Twin Falls, Idaho shooter's identity has just been RELEASED as 24-year-old Chad Williams, now dead

The shooter was engaged by an off-duty state trooper AND citizen Jordan Salinas during the incident, likely SAVING LIVES.

4 dead and 7 hurt. Pray for the victims and… pic.twitter.com/1kYEUhcOMR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 2, 2026

Water Systems Are Still Not Secure and Are Being Attacked

The first time I remember reading about an attack targeting water systems was in 2021. It seems not every system has taken action to secure against attacks since then. Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says

Some day cities, counties, states, and other public agencies will take security seriously. Unfortunately, today is not that day.

Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure.

The attacks come after 30 water systems in Minnesota were targeted.

The new federal advisory said the malicious cyber actors, or MCAs, targeted specific brands of control systems used by municipal water utilities, though the FBI and the EPA urged operators of all systems to take precautions.

This warning should not be necessary, but apparently a lot of government agencies still believe in the myth that "it can't happen to us." They basically believe that they live on magic dirt, or that their zip code protects them from cyberattack. Spoiler Alert: It does not.

Infrastructure should not be on the public internet. If you think your particular bit of infrastructure needs to be on the public internet, then you need every bit of intrusive security you can think of.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) - the agency named by the Department of Redundancy Department - has issued guidance in this area. CISA Joins Australia and Others to Publish Guidance to Isolate Operational Technology and Enabling Systems in Critical Infrastructure

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) published CI Fortify – Advice for Isolating Vital Systems. This joint guidance, led by ASD, helps critical infrastructure operators protect essential services from escalating cyber threats and ensure continuity of operations during cyber incidents or geopolitical crises.

The document can be found at this link. CI Fortify – Advice for isolating vital systems. The documentation is available in a couple of formats. The PDF is 16 pages long.

The information about the Minnesota attacks can be found at Iran hackers hit 30 Minnesota public water systems in coordinated cyberattack

The 2021 attack info can be found at In Florida city, a hacker tried to poison the drinking water.

I documented this mostly for my own reference, but if I lived in a more urban area, and relied on a municipal or county water agency, I might be tempted to write a FOIA request about cybersecurity efforts. You can't ask for details of the security, but you can ask for budget information.

And I still think the CISA logo looks to be straight out of the 1960s, or maybe the '50s.

UPDATE: This has now reached the regular news. Good Morning America has had a story on the situation. 7 states now targeted by cyberattacks on American water system: Sources

EV Silverado Fire

An electric Silverado that hadn't been driven or charged in two weeks, because the family that owned it was away from home, caught fire spontaneously.

This incident took place on 12 July 2026 in Troy, Michigan, which is about 15 miles north of downtown Detroit.

The family in question had enough sense to park the vehicle far enough away from the house, that there was only minimal damage to the structure.

This is the StacheD Training video Electric Silverado Catches Fire After Sitting for Two Weeks

Troy is the largest volunteer department in Michigan. We have six stations.

Pat, at StacheD is a firefighter, and an engineer. He usually tries to explain what is going on with the technology, and not just show photos, or video of fires. I appreciate the information he provides. In this case he details the construction of the battery pack. It was a 205 kilowatt battery, weighing in at about 3000 pounds. He has a diagram, that he uses to explain why fighting the fire was so difficult.

Once the battery is in thermal runaway, there's really no way to stop it, especially with pouch style cells.

It took about 4 hours to get the temperature down to where the vehicle could be transported to a junk yard. A firetruck had to follow the flat bed to the yard. The video is 8 minutes.

Statistics of Self-Defense

Gun Digest brings us statistics, and I love statistics. The Lifetime Likelihood Of Needing A Gun For Self-Defense

What are the odds that you’ll ever need to use a gun for self-defense? Here we break down the data.

John Corriea, of Active Self Protection, had to deal with a burglar in his own home. I usually call that a home invader, but I won't argue the terminology today.

The man fled, no shot was fired, and Correia walked away thinking about a question many armed citizens eventually ask. Realistically, what are the odds I will ever need my gun? In a video on his channel, he ran the numbers from two major firearms surveys and arrived at a startlingly large lifetime probability.

There are 2 sources for the data.

• 2021 National Firearms Survey, conducted by Georgetown professor William English
• 2021 Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, the federal government’s primary measure of crime

Click thru for the stats. (I'm not going to steal their fire.)

And you should be watching ASP videos.

Two Battery Fires in Germany

One was grid-scale battery storage, the other was a residential system.

The grid-scale battery storage unit was in Bautzen, Germany, which is about 60 kilometer drive east of Dresden, or about a 200 kilometer drive south of Berlin.

The residential fire was in Bentwisch, Germany, which is about a 220 kilometer drive north of Berlin.

The grid-scale battery was basically a shipping container filled with lithium-ion batteries. The residential system was smaller, but it resulted in an explosion that sent a couple of firefighters to the hospital.

This is the StacheD Training video Germany's Battery Storage Fires: 48 Hours vs. One Explosion

Families and Activists Don't Like Consequences

And the media mostly goes along for the ride, if it means they get to bash cops. ‘Family Demands Answers’

Reality includes things like Consequences for your actions.

Lets cut straight to the activists:

See, the normal operations of law enforcement are not “justice” if the outcomes aren’t satisfactory to activist types like Bella Chavez

What was that outcome? Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez was shot and killed by police when he opened fire on them on Sunday, 15 February 2026 in Elkhart, Indiana.

Say hello to Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because young Mr. Gomez shuffled off this mortal coil in February, after deciding to start a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana, which lasted only three seconds.

Elkhart, Indiana, is about 110 mile drive east of Chicago, Illinois, or about 150 mile drive north of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mr. Gomez was on parole for a crime he had already been convicted of. That didn't stop him from having 1 gun in his hand. A second firearm, with an illegal auto-switch installed was at his feet.

Gomez knew he was in trouble, and the only way he could think to get out of it was to kill both cops.

Read the whole thing. The details are interesting, and I have not included all of the interesting bits.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 1 August

The Right Way is first with Top of the News

U.S. Forces Block Attempted Iranian Surprise Attack ...
Like Don Quixote on a Three Legged Donkey - Diogenes Middle Finger News Service

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.29.26

Dana Loesch: News We Missed, Republicans Shouldn’t Be Dumb About Ken Paxton,
Don Surber: What a trillion dollars buys

EBL - The Horror of Event Horizon

Seven Things You May Not Have Known About Event Horizon
AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.29.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 31 July 2026: Wombats Aren't Us Edition

LLMs are broken and can't ever be fixed. (GitHub)
We've touched on this before. Computers have separate areas in memory reserved for instructions and data respectively, with strict controls over which is which.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Fauci Takes the Stand and the 5th

From Ace, Revealed: Five Months After Fauci Got Vaccinated, He Suffered a Pulmonary Infarction, an Adverse Effect Associated With the "Vaccine." He Kept This a Secret. "Anthony Fauci is Science, you know. He suffered the exact kind of adverse effect ..."

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.30.26

CDR Salamander: Someone Called A Code Red On The CNO
Chicago Boyz: Mamdani’s Grocery Store Discount

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/29/2026

Chicago Spent Millions to Help ‘People Who Cause Harm’
Chicago commemorated the Juneteenth weekend by shooting 39 people and leaving 6 of them dead and surpassing last year’s relatively mild 5 dead and 16 wounded weekend.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For July 31, 2026

So Rand Paul finally got Anthony Fauci to testify under oath for all his lies, only for the little weasel to take the Fifth nine zillion times.
“The Damning Fauci Diaries.”

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: VDH – Trump and Iran. Why Fauci matters. Al Jazeera. Fifth man
Conman Carney’s Canada: Lawful access vs privacy. Jews aren’t allowed here. The Elbows Up people are upset. Summer of our discontent. Old white women.

Vlad Tepes - Islamophobic WHO suggests Muslims stop drinking camel urine, and the usual list of horror stories: Links 1 for July 29, 2026

1. First, here’s a story you never thought you would see for a few reasons
Stop Drinking Camel Urine, World Health Organization Says

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 07.31.26

The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future
Victory Girls: New York Created An Official Government Bureau To Police Sheriffs, Not Criminals

The Glibertarians - Friday Morning Links

Trump Announces ‘Historic Agreement’ to Disarm Hamas
DOJ seeks to use special court to deport Afghan woman alleged to have ties to terrorists

Political Hat - Quick Takes – DEI In College: Band Not Doing Anything; Inclusive Systems; Queer Crip Lit

Bans on DEI are more of a suggestion…
DEI is still DEI, but some are hoping you don’t notice when it’s labeled something else.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links

"We were right about Covid"
Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 7/ 29 /26

Prosecuting a young mother for her angry words seems poisonously symbolic.
There Is No Justice in Minnesota

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: In Numbers 2026—Life After Illegal Immigration

His Name Was Seth Rich, Part III: The Guccifer 2.0 Deception Christopher Brunet
Legacy Media’s Fauci Love Affair Might’ve Buried COVID’s Origins Drew Holden

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 07/31/2026

Faith leaders at UFO disclosure meetings say intel people are showing them shocking pictures of aliens and telling them the current slow drip of videos is building tolerance in the population in preparation for something shocking like the government walking out an alien.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3986 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Bookworm Beat 7/31/26: The Fauci and Spain meme edition from Bookworm Room, and Calm down, here's your political and current event memes from Wirecutter.

Some Attackers Have 4 Legs

People need to control their animals. Dog shot and killed after attacking juvenile in Morton | 1470 & 100.3 WMBD

Two dogs were reported as loose, and animal control was in the area searching for them, when a city employee, and a Good Samaritan happened across the dogs attacking a child.

A Village of Morton employee and a private citizen stopped to help the victim. Morton Fire Department paramedics transported the juvenile to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries.

Before Morton Police arrived, one of the dogs charged at the citizen who had stopped to help. The citizen, a licensed concealed carry holder, fired a weapon and fatally shot the dog.

The second dog was captured by animal control. The owner of the two dogs is known, though they have not said what charges they may face.

Morton, Illinois, is about 5 miles east of Peoria, across the Illinois River. It is about 125 miles southwest of Chicago, though the drive will be closer to 160 miles.

People need to keep their animals under control, and they need to be held accountable for the injuries those animals inflict.

And self-defense against a dog, is still self-defense.

The History of the Weather Forecast

A tragedy on 25 October 1859 lead one man in Great Britain to create the idea of predicting the weather. On 1 August 1861 The Times (of London) published the world's first forecast.

630 people drowned in the Irish Sea in one night. ⛵💀

A British man studied the data afterwards. And invented something that every single person on earth uses every single day.

On 25 October 1859 the Royal Charter was hit by a hurricane off Anglesey. 450 people died. That same… pic.twitter.com/AKIY12DBRN

— Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) March 31, 2026

This is a link to the Proud Of Us UK video 630 People Drowned In One Night. One British Man Made Sure It Never Happened Again. 🇬🇧 over on YouTube

What happened to Great Britain?

The Pretender

The Foo Fighters was started by Dave Grohl after the demise of Nirvana, which resulted from the death of Kurt Cobain. I like some of their music.

This song was nominated for a couple of Grammys, and the video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award. It hit 47 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.

This song is "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters from their 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. It was the first single released from the album.