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Blog Notes
I’m back at the desk here, but still have work to do unloading and catching up after a two day drive home from Columbus, OH. Many thanks as usual to my busy guest bloggers who take time out of their own lives to fill in during my absence! I should be back to regular programming tomorrow, (depending on how long it takes to get the kinks out of the display issues affecting some users).
Thanks for your patience!
A Chance To Express Encouragement
It’s fundraising week over at my place.
If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, and ad-free, by all means do.
SDA Technical Update
Please know that Lance & Kate are aware of the strange appearance of the site when one is not logged in. It will be fixed as soon as possible.
Source Code for the Swedish Digital Id System Has Been Hacked
Pass The Moisturiser
Blog Notes
Despite years of search engine demotion, we’re nicely holding our own. Many thanks, my droogies.
The Year That Was
The Year Reheated, in which he marvel at the mental contortions of our self-imagined betters:
In July, we revisited our experiment in multiculturalism and indiscriminate immigration, in which uninvited newcomers have to be reminded that torturing animals and loitering by school gates in order to film children are activities not generally approved of by the indigenous. There followed a menu of other cultural subtleties not being grasped by new arrivals – say, queuing, courtesy and not raping schoolchildren – along with efforts by governments to tactfully convey local customs, while suppressing any noticing of what must not be noticed. Apparently, we must explain civilisation to those unfamiliar with the concept, while pretending that no such corrective measures are required or taking place.
Via the pages of British Vogue, Ms Hanna Flint expressed her dismay that new adaptations of works by Emily Brontë and Jane Austen have “cast the protagonists as white once again.” Ms Flint bemoaned the “factory setting of a white perspective” in tales about white people, and the lack of “historical inclusivity” in adaptations of novels set in rural England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ms Flint informed us that she is “left somewhat cold” by period-appropriate pallor. A train of thought that terminated before arriving at the possibility that others, perhaps some larger number, might be left somewhat cold by modish anachronism and jarring racial contrivance.
We also visited Loughborough University, where senior lecturer Dr Ben Roberts has devised, at taxpayer expense, an unorthodox use for yoghurt – namely, smearing it on windows so as to slightly lower indoor temperatures during that rarest and briefest of phenomena, the British heatwave. Dr Roberts assured those intrigued that, as soon as the yoghurt has dried, “the smell disappears.”
Oh, there’s more.
Tidings
Blog Notes
A note on User Registrations: With the institution of account registration for SDA commentors, one of my daily rituals is deletion of spam account sign ups.
While most of these are blindingly obvious or have been flagged for forum abuse, others are more discrete. When in doubt, my default is to delete. If you are a legitimate reader whose sign up was removed in error, shoot me an email and we’ll get you fixed up.
A word of advice: use your regular email address and complete all of the fields in your account. The more creative you are (throw-away email domains, etc) the more likely your privileges will be denied.
The Internet’s Not Well
It stayed back at the hotel.
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
Good Man Gone
Jim Robinson, the visionary founder of Free Republic and one of the internet’s earliest conservative pioneers, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 27, 2025, in Fresno, California. He was 79. […]
In 1996, from his Fresno home, Robinson launched Free Republic as a small discussion board for conservative viewpoints. What began as a side project quickly grew into a national movement. By early 1997, “Freepers,” as members called themselves, were exchanging ideas, posting news links, and organizing events long before social media made such activism commonplace.
During the Clinton impeachment era, Free Republic became a hub of conservative grassroots energy, proof that ordinary citizens could wield collective influence through the internet.
The Small Matter Of The Bar Tab
Yes, it’s fundraising week over at my place.
If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, and ad-free, by all means do.
2,000,000
I mentioned a few days ago that we were closing in our 2 millionth comment here at SDA, and then went about my business. But trust Robert – he decided to dig into it over the weekend, and his analysis is good enough for me.
Congrats to “Unknown Jane”, now you’re famous!
Blog Notes
Well done, my droogies. (No, I can’t identify who will write “comment 2M”, so don’t go flooding the posts in hopes of a prize.)
2025 Fundraiser Followup
To our readers and blog authors — your support of SDA has been outstanding through the years, and 2025 is no exception. I spent last evening sending notes to all who contributed, but a handful of those bounced back — so I’m here this morning to thank you all again, and let those whom I may have missed know that we truly appreciate the support.
While I could monetize the site with ads and pop-ups, I prefer the voluntary funding model because it preserves our editorial independence and keeps your reading experience free of that particular annoyance.
As we push well past our 20th year, you can trust that SDA endures because we have something to say – not because we’re working a grift or pushing narratives on behalf of an undisclosed funding source. It’s gratifying to know so many of you appreciate what we do here. Thank you all, as always!
2025 Website Security Fundraiser
The business model of SDA has always been “this blog runs on the volunteer effort of people who enjoy yelling at radios, but your donations are appreciated”.
That said, there are costs involved, and the most significant is the annual renewal of the security plan license.
If you’ve recently donated or contribute monthly, please ignore this – you’ve done your part.
However, if it’s been a while, we’d appreciate a bit of jingle in the tip jar to cover that expense. Any funds raised over and above that cost will be shared with the guest bloggers. Etransfer is the preferred method, but there’s a link to the Pirates of Paypal on the sidebar as well.
A huge thanks to all you glorious misfits who help make Small Dead Animals the deplorable thorn in the side of left-thinking Canadians everywhere. It’s with your help that we make the magic happen.
(Security Item Addendum: If you’ve signed up as a subscriber in order to comment, only to find your account deleted, it’s because your signup or email info are consistent with spam account activity. I suppose it’s possible that you’re a retired grain farmer from Perdue using biplie354@anon.store.ru as your email, but you’re getting nuked all the same. If I did happen to delete your account in error, send me an email).
The Small Matter Of The Bar Tab
It’s fundraising week over at my place. If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, and ad-free, by all means do.
Advice For The Newbies
Too many high follower accounts have still to learn the wisdom of "shut up and watch for a while". https://t.co/kb6AOVYf7h
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 24, 2025
“Mischief is important”
Most of this still holds true: The NormBlog interivew of me – 20 years later.