Weird Wednesdays: The Mushroom House

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This month’s house can be found in the Finger Lakes region of New York, in a town called Perinton…the Mushroom House.

The Mushroom House’s most distinctive feature is its iconic, curvaceous roofline. The structure is composed of multiple round, mushroom-shaped pods that are interconnected, each serving a specific purpose within the home. These pods are supported by sculptural, slender columns, which give the house a light, elevated feel, as if it’s floating above the ground. The varying sizes and heights of the pods create a dynamic, flowing form that contrasts with the straight, rigid lines typically found in modern architecture. This freeform design evokes the natural world, where irregular shapes and organic growth patterns are the norm. The use of concrete and other materials with rounded, smooth finishes further enhances the house’s organic aesthetic.

Inside, the Mushroom House continues its whimsical theme, with each pod serving as a distinct room or area. The interior spaces are designed to be open and fluid, with sweeping curves that flow from one room to the next. The round walls and ceilings give the interior an almost cavernous feel, creating a sense of spaciousness and openness. The organic design extends to the furniture and fixtures, which were custom-designed to fit the unique shape of the house. This ensures that every element, from the curved countertops to the circular windows, complements the overall aesthetic. The open layout maximizes the flow of natural light, creating a bright and airy atmosphere throughout the home.

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  1. Good Morning All!

    about 30* but cloudy–can’t see any stars.

    we have to go to the PO later this afternoon.

    About this house…when i saw the inside–all i could think of was, how do you clean that surface? the ceilings the center columns???

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    1. Morning, Pat! Really windy here this morning and cloudy, above freezing at least @ 35 & no snow. Wheezer came and ate some last night. I do not like this house at all and the interior ceilings/walls are creepy, IMO. Well, the whole thing is creepy to me. Yuck! Having said that….who cleans their ceilings & walls??!!?? NOT HAPPENING!!! LOL

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      1. Morning Filly!
        well I don’t clean my walls cuz they’re wood. But my mom? TWICE a year, she would clean her walls (a lot were paneling), ceilings, floors, every nook and cranny. when she couldn’t do the stairs anymore, I got recruited to do the upstairs. and the basement–well that was supposed to be my brother’s job–but he never touched after dad passed away–so when mom had to leave her house–it was about 14 years that it hadn’t been touched.

        oh…btw…we are probably going to go to the PO EARLY. hubby says rain/snow coming this afternoon and I don’t want to be on the tractor during that mess.

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        1. Yeah, even my adopted Mom never cleaned the walls but then our walls were plaster!!! LOL – be careful. Temp here has dropped to 29 now but at least the skies are clear.

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  5. Homeland Security
    @DHSgov
    REMINDER. “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.” @StephenM

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  6. Shipwreckedcrew
    @shipwreckedcrew
    I suspect we are about to see another round of USSS heads rolling down the WH driveway.

    I can’t imagine ANY merit based promotion process that would put that guy on the VP protective detail with 5 years of experience.

    Which means his assignment to that detail
    was not based on merit.

    Anyone involved in making that decision, or signing off on that decision, doesn’t have brains enough to hold their position.

    Among the Wildflowers
    @deaflibertarian
    How can someone who just became a citizen two years ago be able to work for the United States Secret Service?!

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  11. Just The News: “People Magazine drew widespread online criticism Tuesday for its critical obituary of “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams.

    Adams died Tuesday after a long battle with prostate cancer. The magazine published an article entitled “Scott Adams, disgraced Dilbert creator, dies at 68.” As of press time, the magazine appeared to have deleted the social media post, though the article remained live on People’s website. 

    The article highlighted Adams’s later-life shift to right-wing political views and highlighted a 2023 monologue for which he received considerable backlash. That incident saw Adams react to a poll that appeared to show a large portion of black Americans expressing anti-white racial animus.

    The magazine and article author Victoria Edel drew considerable flak for the critical obituary, with conservative commentators defending Adams.

    “This is the monstrosity who wrote this vile article. Scott Adams was a great man loved and mourned by millions. This person is a nobody, loved by no one. The world won’t even notice when she dies,” wrote the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who posted a photo of Edel.

    “Let’s call it what it is, because it’s part of an epidemic. It’s always an inside and out vile, overeducated white woman whose life is missing all the meaningful things the subject’s life possessed,” wrote pollster Richard Baris.”

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  12. A LOT of these shenanigans are on-going, no doubt in my mind!!!!

    Just The News: “A former congressional staffer was arrested for stealing about 240 government cellphones, according to U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro. Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Md., was arrested Friday, the Department of Justice announced Monday. He was an administrator from April 2020 to July 2023 for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a role in which he was authorized to order cell phones for committee staff members.

    Southerland allegedly ordered the new government cellphones – total value roughly $150,000 – to his home from January 2023 through May 2023. At that time, there were about 80 staffers working on the committee. He allegedly sold over 200 of the phones to a nearby pawn shop and directed an employee to sell them in parts, in order to bypass the House’s mobile device management software, which enables the phones to be remotely secured and monitored.

    One person bought one of the phones on eBay, which was sold whole, and when they turned on the phone, the House Technology Service Desk phone number was displayed. The person called the number, which led House employees to discover that several phones Southerland allegedly purchased were missing.

    According to an unsealed indictment dated Dec. 4, Southerland allegedly “willfully and knowingly embezzled, stole, and converted to his own use cellular telephones,” The Hill news outlet reported. DOJ prosecutors added that they will seek monetary restitution if Southerland is convicted.

    The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee didn’t respond to The Hill news outlet’s request for comment.”

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  13. EXCERPT: “It’s not just Somali nationals in Minnesota who’ve been charged in a widescale scheme to defraud taxpayer-funded federal welfare programs. Haitian and Yemeni immigrants have also been charged with stealing tens of millions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the Biden administration.

    SNAP is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state agencies. Recipients use EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards to purchase qualifying SNAP food items.

    U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, Republicans from Texas, argue foreign nationals who defraud the federal government should face consequences, including revoking potential citizenship privileges and deportation, The Center Square reported. If their bill becomes law, it could apply to two Haitians who owned Boston-area bodegas charged in a $7 million SNAP fraud scheme, among many others.

    Haitians Antonio Bonheur, a naturalized citizen, and Saul Alisme, a legal permanent resident, were charged with food stamp fraud by the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. Alisme’s Haitian passport was issued in March 2021, expiring in February 2031, according to the criminal complaint. He was issued a Social Security card in November 2024 – the same month Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s administration reported the alleged fraud to the Biden administration.

    Bonheur’s 150-square foot store began accepting SNAP in September 2021; Alisme’s 500-square foot store began accepting SNAP around May 2025, according to the charges. Despite the small square footage, they received up to $500,000 a month in SNAP money, “outpacing full-service supermarkets,” investigators allege.

    Bonheur’s monthly SNAP redemptions “regularly exceeded $100,000 – with many months exceeding $300,000 and, at times, $500,000. By comparison, one full-service supermarket in the same area redeems approximately $82,000 per month in SNAP benefits,” according to the charges…..”

    https://justthenews.com/fed-charges-yemeni-hatian-nationals-stole-millions-snap-benefits

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      1. LOL – I honestly don’t blame you at all! My time will come, no doubt – if not this winter, then next winter. I can’t recall any previous winter that was this warm!!!

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  16. “Report: Medicaid Paid Out $400 Million To Dead ‘Recipients’ In Just One Year: DHS identified improper Medicaid payments totaling over $408 million in just one year — and only half the payments were recovered.”

    The Federalist, By: Christopher Jacobs, January 14, 2026

    empty hospital room

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The ongoing scandal regarding Minnesota’s welfare-industrial complex demonstrates the extent to which government-created graft has “hidden” in front of the nation’s noses for not just years but decades. Another report released just before Christmas illustrates the depths of those fraudulent payments.

    Last summer, I wrote here about a report by Louisiana’s legislative auditor highlighting nearly $10 million in Medicaid payments that state made on behalf of deceased beneficiaries between February 2019 and last March. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most recent report shows that this type of government waste and abuse — or, depending on one’s perspective, fraud by insurance companies, who receive payments for “covering” dead people — occurs with regularity nationwide.

    Hundreds of Millions to ‘Cover’ Dead People

    The report came from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) and covered payments made to Medicaid managed care organizations from July 2021 through June 2022. The report arises because in most (but not all) cases, state Medicaid agencies do not directly administer benefits (i.e., pay doctors and hospitals who treat beneficiaries). Instead, they contract with managed care organizations and pay insurers a capitated (i.e., per-person) amount every month for that coverage. That dynamic represents a clear opportunity for fraud: If no one reports the beneficiary as deceased, the insurer will get paid to “cover” that person indefinitely.

    During that one year, OIG found a total of nearly 410,000 capitation payments of $50 or more — a total of $408.5 million worth ($263.3 million of which constituted federal funds) — made “on behalf of enrollees whose dates of death … preceded service periods covered by the monthly capitation payment.” (For instance, a February capitation payment for someone who died on Jan. 10.) Out of those nearly 410,000 capitation payments, the inspectors examined a representative sample of 100 in detail.

    The results were shocking, but not surprising:

    We found that Medicaid agencies made unallowable capitation payments after enrollees’ deaths for 99 of the 100 sample capitation payments. However, for 50 of those unallowable capitation payments, we found that Medicaid agencies recovered the overpayments before we provided them with the sample capitation payments for their review. 

    It’s worth repeating those findings again: All but one of the payments to insurers on behalf of dead people were improper or fraudulent. Yet the state Medicaid programs had only recovered half (50 out of 99) of those improper payments.

    Based on the cohort of 100 payments it sampled, OIG extrapolated that the unrecovered payments on behalf of deceased beneficiaries totaled $207.5 million, of which $138.6 million constituted the federal share (the states would pay the remaining nearly $69 million). But remember: The original universe of potentially improper payments totaled over $408 million, and OIG’s research found that 99 percent of potentially improper payments in its sample actually were improper.

    Change on the Horizon?

    It speaks to the low standards of the federal government that OIG’s report claimed only $207 million in unallowable payments by state Medicaid agencies. It should not count as a success that, in some cases, Medicaid programs had already recovered some improper payments from insurers — because they never should have made those improper payments in the first place.

    A footnote in the report demonstrated how this type of abuse is a choice that states consciously make. OIG noted that “Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming had no capitation payments with a service date after the month of the enrollee’s death.” In other words, these six states all imposed proper safeguards to ensure that Medicaid dollars did not go to dead beneficiaries, while 35 other states did not, leading to the improper payments. (The remaining states did not have significant amounts of capitated payments to managed care organizations and therefore would not face this type of fraud.)

    If this otherwise depressing government report contains a silver lining, it’s the reminder within it that Section 71104 of last year’s reconciliation bill contains a new requirement for all states to consult the Social Security Death Master File at least quarterly to remove dead beneficiaries. That should end, or at least sharply curtail, payments on behalf of dead beneficiaries when it takes effect next January. 

    But it speaks volumes about the failures of our welfare-industrial complex that most state Medicaid programs will engage in common-sense program integrity efforts only when forced to do so by Washington. As is usually the case in health care, everyone does an excellent job spending everyone else’s money — that is, until the taxpayers funding the welfare-industrial complex run out of money for government bureaucrats to spend.”

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  17. “Some jerkoff auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was caught on video heckling President Donald Trump as a “pedophile protector” when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday ahead of his address to the Detroit Economic Club. The video that has now gone viral shows Trump responded in kind by mouthing ‘Fuck you’ at the worker, twice, and, even though some people are saying he gave the guy the finger as he walked away, that’s just a product of over-active imaginations.

    Now, the union says the worker has been suspended while Ford looks into the matter. A representative from the UAW told Michigan Advance that they could confirm that he was suspended but the length of the suspension was unknown. The union was also uncertain about the process that would follow to investigate the matter. A message seeking comment from Ford to confirm if the worker was fired or suspended was not immediately returned on Tuesday evening.”

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  22. “This is the moment a routine day on the slopes turns into a race against time when a man is discovered buried beneath an avalanche in Switzerland. Footage (above) shows the scene from the point of view of Matteo Zilla as he skis across a seemingly calm mountainside in Engelberg.

    Zilla is suddenly stopped in his tracks when something unusual catches his eye in the distance. To his horror, a single arm is poking out from deep, freshly fallen snow. At first, Zilla believed he was heading to help someone who had simply lost their skis, recalling that he had seen a man struggling to walk uphill without them. But in a split second, the situation became clear.

    As Zilla later explained: “I saw a guy far away who was trying to walk up without skis, so I thought maybe he had lost them and I went down to help search. “But then I turned my head and saw a foot sticking out of the snow.” Realizing the man was completely buried, Matteo sprints towards him, and was able to dig the guy out. Both went down the hill for a couple brandies and a few deep breaths…”

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  38. Just The News: “President Donald Trump signs a bipartisan piece of legislation Wednesday afternoon at the White House, which requires schools to include whole milk and 2 percent milk in their lunch plans.

    The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, introduced by Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, was sent to the president’s desk on Jan. 6, 2026. 

    You can watch the signing ceremony here.”

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  40. 🌫️ Four States Told to Stay Indoors as Air Turns Toxic

    The EPA has warned residents across Oregon, Nevada, California, and Georgia to stay inside due to dangerous levels of PM2.5 pollution — microscopic particles that burrow deep into lungs and bloodstreams.

    At 3 a.m., all four states were listed as “unhealthy” on the AirNow map.

    Snowflakes collect pollution. Rain collects pollution. And now the air itself is basically lung sandpaper…

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  41. 👂 The Woman Who Kept Her Ear… On Her Foot

    After a factory accident tore off a woman’s ear, surgeons did something straight out of cyberpunk medicine: they grafted it onto her foot for five months to keep the tissue alive while her head healed. Now the ear has been successfully reattached where it belongs.

    It’s grotesque. It’s brilliant. And it’s a reminder that modern surgery is basically necromancy with insurance billing codes…

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  42. 🦉 The Snow Angel of Death

    A silent owl hunting across a snowy field, wings outstretched like an angel.

    Then: A mouse never knew what happened.

    Nature is beautiful.
    Nature is brutal.
    And sometimes it looks like a feathered grim reaper drifting across winter.

    RIP, tiny rodent.

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  43. “Iran at a Crossroads: How long can a government endure when it rules only through fear?”

    Roger Stone, Jan 14, 2026

    “Iran now stands on the cusp of a historic inflection point, a moment freighted with consequence not merely for the Middle East but for the entire geopolitical architecture of the modern world. To comprehend the convulsions presently roiling the Islamic Republic, Americans must first reacquaint themselves with a truth deliberately obscured by decades of propaganda and academic obfuscation: Iran was once a sophisticated, Westernized, and forward looking nation before it was hijacked by clerical extremism.

    Prior to 1979, Iran was among the most cosmopolitan societies in the region. Tehran was a thriving metropolis of universities, theaters, and international commerce. Iranian women dressed freely. Students studied abroad. The country, though imperfect under the Shah, was oriented toward modernity, economic development, and engagement with the West. Iran was not governed by medieval dogma. It was a nation advancing, however unevenly, toward the future.

    That trajectory was violently derailed by the Iranian Revolution. In a seismic political rupture, radical clerics led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah and erected a theocratic state predicated on ideological absolutism and religious coercion. This was not a revolution of liberty. It was a revolution of repression.

    Almost immediately, the new regime defined the United States as its principal enemy, not because America had invaded Iran, but because America embodied everything the mullahs despised: pluralism, secular governance, and individual sovereignty.

    This animus culminated in one of the most ignominious episodes in American diplomatic history. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and seized fifty two American diplomats and citizens. For 445 days they were held hostage, subjected to psychological torment, and paraded before the world as trophies of revolutionary vengeance. This was not a spontaneous mob action. It was a calculated act of state sponsored terrorism, designed to signal that the new regime would govern through intimidation and theatrical cruelty.

    From this cauldron of radicalism emerged the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the IRGC, the most pernicious and powerful institution in Iran today. The IRGC is not merely a military force. It is a sprawling, shadowy empire that controls vast sectors of the Iranian economy, from energy and construction to banking and telecommunications.

    It runs intelligence operations, oversees domestic repression, and commands terrorist proxies across the Middle East, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria. Its core mission is not national defense. Its mission is to perpetuate the Islamist regime and export its revolutionary ideology through violence and subversion.

    Because of this malignant conduct, Iran is subjected to sweeping economic sanctions imposed primarily by the United States and its allies. These sanctions are not symbolic. They are designed to isolate the regime from the global financial system, restrict its ability to sell oil, block access to foreign currency, and prevent it from acquiring technology and materials that could be used for weapons development or internal repression. Sanctions mean that Iranian banks are largely cut off from international markets. They mean foreign companies risk severe penalties if they do business with Tehran. They mean the regime has far less revenue to fund terrorism, nuclear ambitions, and the luxurious lifestyles of its ruling elite.

    Yet the true victims of this system are not the clerics. They are the Iranian people. The men and women of Iran increasingly reject the suffocating yoke of the mullahs. Again and again they have poured into the streets demanding dignity, accountability, and the right to choose their own political destiny. They are not asking for cosmetic reforms. They are demanding the end of a regime that has bankrupted their economy, brutalized their youth, and imprisoned their future.

    Women defy compulsory veiling. Students chant for freedom. Workers protest corruption and deprivation. These are not the acts of a contented populace. These are the unmistakable symptoms of a society yearning to breathe.

    The regime clings to power only through relentless repression enforced by the IRGC and its paramilitary auxiliaries. Protesters are beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and in some cases killed. Journalists are silenced. Dissidents vanish into the maw of a judicial system designed to crush dissent rather than dispense justice. Yet despite this reign of terror, the demonstrations persist. Why? Because the human appetite for liberty is irrepressible.

    What is unfolding in Iran today is not a fleeting disturbance. It is the slow, inexorable erosion of a theocratic edifice that has lost the consent of the governed. History teaches us that no regime, however brutal, can survive indefinitely once its people withdraw their allegiance.

    The Iranian people remember who they were before 1979. They remember a nation that was part of the modern world rather than a pariah state ruled by zealots. They know they were not born to live under clerical despotism. They know they deserve the right to determine their own future.

    How long can a government endure when it rules only through fear? How long can an ideology survive when it is rejected by the very people it claims to represent?

    The answer is written not in the proclamations of the mullahs, but in the courage of the Iranian people. And when this regime finally collapses, it will not be because of foreign conquest. It will be because a proud nation reclaimed its stolen destiny.”

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  44. Mom is settled in the rehab center in Beatrice – being a bitch to Sis and Mandy and her brain is more scrambled than it was yesterday. But she’s happy with the TV and the 30 stations from which she gets to choose! LOL

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  46. “Five-Year-Old Brought In To Explain Difference Between Boys And Girls To Supreme Court”

    Politics · Jan 14, 2026 · BabylonBee.com

    Image for article: Five-Year-Old Brought In To Explain Difference Between Boys And Girls To Supreme Court

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court took a break from deliberations regarding individuals competing in sports designated for the opposite sex to bring in an expert five-year-old boy to explain the difference between boys and girls.

    “Boys have wee-wees and girls have vee-vees,” said Hunter Plath, a five-year-old boy from Iowa.

    According to court records, the explanation elicited various responses from the justices. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were seemingly astonished, saying, “Ohhhhhhhh!” Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh only giggled.

    Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly rolled his eyes as the two most liberal justices of the court followed up with questions on precisely what a “wee-wee” was, but were rebuffed by the child who simply answered, “I’m not allowed to say. My mom won’t let me.”

    Law experts believe the court will eventually uphold the right of states to enforce their own laws on transgender athletes, especially if the liberal justices can find out what a wee-wee is.

    At publishing time, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sought more help understanding the matter from retired children’s educator Barney the Dinosaur.

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  50. what utter bullshit AND suspicious timing

    Liz Collin
    @lizcollin
    NEW: We’re hearing from multiple sources that dozens of Minneapolis police officers (60-70 so far) have turned in paperwork for Minnesota’s new paid leave program.

    It allows up to 20 weeks of paid leave for personal or family reasons and comes at a time when morale is said to be at an “all-time low.”

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