TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

15 April 2026

An "art car" parade (Houston, 2025)

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The video is almost two hours long - a thorough documentation of the parade, apparently without any commentary, best approached for casual v...

Home brewing alcohol no longer unconstitutional

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As reported this week in The Guardian : A US appeals court on Friday declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling to be unc...

Autonomous weapons are not just science fiction

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Autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots") were the basis for the Terminator movies and uncounted spinoffs and copycats.  But th...
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14 April 2026

America needs another New Deal

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An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's April 13 " Letters from an American " - Just as there is a blueprint for destroying d...
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13 April 2026

The world's oldest gorilla

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Details from Deutsche Welle : At 69 years old , Lady Fatou on Monday became not only the Berlin Zoo's longest-residing tenant but also m...
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12 April 2026

Breaking news

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Screencap this afternoon from the France 24 site.  Putin's ally Orban loses despite Trump's support: “My Administration stands ready...
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Daddy, what is a "late night rage tweet"?

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Here you go, sweetheart.  Read this and weep.  This is a spontaneous public rant by a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the...
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American negotiators arrive in Pakistan for peace talks

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I can't imagine anyone had serious hopes that peace could be negotiated during the recent summit in Pakistan, when the U.S. positions in...
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09 April 2026

"Relapsing into individuality"

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I came across an interesting quote from one of my favorite authors : “ As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invent...
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Reinstituting U.S. military draft registration

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A very interesting headline in The Hill this morning.  Details re the implementation at the link. I came of age during the 1960s, when the ...
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08 April 2026

Worldwide toilet paper consumption

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I'm not particularly surprised that the U.S. leads the world in this metric, but the numbers are unexpected.  Per capita usage of 141 r...
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Zweeeeëg explained

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If I'm going to blog words tonight (in order to avoid you-know-what/you-know-who), we might as well look at this wonderful word meaning ...
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Word for the day: deranged

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It's a word most people recognize and vaguely understand, but I was curious about the etymology. From French déranger , from Old French ...
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Kinetic art

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TYWKWDBI doesn't do any product promotions or have sponsored posts, but I'm going to post this video because the technology behind t...
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07 April 2026

Lusitano stallion

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One of the winning photos in the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards open competition. Celestial Dance . Shortlist, Motion. This young Lusita...
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