Pickled Greenland shark for breakfast?

Window trees building clouds

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Really bad photographer | Icelandair US

When RantWoman travels, RantWoman likes to immerse herself in local cuisine, culture, and history as well as geography. Consider the question, delivered to Gemini "what do people in Iceland eat for breakfast?" 

At home RantWoman cycles among homemade porridge of the week, cold pizza, and sometimes other leftovers, often with a banana or hard-boiled egg.

Thank you Gemini, sort of. Submitting the question in natural language is cool. Here are a couple snippets from the first screen of results.

Why you should be eating an Icelandic breakfast

(summary: the basic low-fat, high-fiber, high protein regimen recommended in many places.

I tried a traditional Icelandic breakfast, and it was nothing short of intense — especially when the fermented shark hit the table. From creamy skyr, fresh rye bread, and liver pâté, to the infamous hákarl (a national dish made from fermented Greenland shark), this meal is unlike any breakfast I’ve had before. It’s all part of the unique and bold food culture of Iceland. #IcelandFood #IcelandBreakfast #TraditionalIcelandicFood #Hákarl #Skyr | Strictly Dumpling | Facebook

Thank you Gemini? 

Porridge or muesli? Checks out.

Good yogurt? checks out.

Rye bread or rye crisp: RantWoman likes both fine.

Pickled Greenland shark? RantWoman likes pickled herring on flatbread but does not eat it very often. As for Greenland shark...? 

How I Learned to Eat Fermented Shark with Iceland ProCruises - Food, Wine & Travel

So definitely a bit more of a big deal than mere pickled herring. RantWoman is fascinated to learn more about Greenland sharks. RantWoman also hopes that pickled Greenland shark is not an every day menu item.

As for Gemini

1. RantWoman is still not sold on Gemini offering to "help" abut email.

2. RantWoman appreciates getting info from multiple platforms but is lazy about wanting to sign in or even to read user agreements for these same platforms, especially since one BIG driver of whether RantWoman is going to come back to a site or portal is how easy it is for RantWoman to use. This is probably a trial and error iterative process. Most of the time RantWoman can live with that except RantWoman tends to want info NOW and in easily digestible form.

But speaking of easily digestible, RantWoman will check out other meal customs another time.

FIFA travel advisory

 #FIFA  #FAFO

Probably if RantWoman posts vids like this, YouTube will send RantWoman more FIFA content.

Readers can search on #FIFA or #FIFAWorldCup for other previous posts cataloguing previous videos

RantWoman would SO like to have a president who does not generate the kinds of warnings and boycott threats that President #StableGenius is ginning up.

RantWoman is firing up her transit knowledge bank preparing to have as normal a life as possible. RantWoman is glad to know some other conversations are taking place and is has full confidence in very articulate voices involved. Stay tuned.

The World Cup Ban ⚽🔥 They Tried to Stop Iran - YouTube

If we are VERY lucky RantWoman will also manage enough soccer literacy to at least hold her own for conversations with far more rabid fans. Maybe

Trump FREAKS OUT as MAJOR EVENT COLLAPSES

Germany Drops 2026 World Cup BOMBSHELL — FIFA's 2026 Master Plan Is Falling Apart in Real Time - YouTube

World Cup Mess WORSENS As U.S. Gets Slapped With Travel Warning

Trump's RECKLESS Move Just Destroyed 2026 World Cup Tourism

Trae Crowder distills the state of the war

 #Iran #Ceasefire

Get into Good Trouble. Get into FUN trouble.

 Another RantWoman YouTube channel rec.

Content warning: clips of President #StableGenius talking. Enough said?

RantWoman does not have time to wade through / curate all the internet content out there. The Dangerous ones apparently do. They present new collections every few days.

Here is their take on the Monday presser by President #StableGenius. 

They also have a vid about best signs of #NoKingsDay, complete with decent description of what the signs say, as well as a weekly compilation of videos that have gone viral. RantWoman finds some of the compiled videos more digestible than others. Oh Well

The Week's news distilled by Belle

One of RantWoman's favorite YouTube channels: concise, on point, frank. 

And plenty to seed those break time conversations....

Every White-haired protestor and lots of others: protesting one person

 If you watch one #NoKIngsDay video, go for Lawrence O'donell.

From Glenn Kirschner

No Kings, No Trump!

Bernie Sanders and others in Minneapolis

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at No Kings rally in St. Paul at the Minnesota State Capitol

bernie sanders is going mega viral..

Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at No Kings rally in St. Paul; LIVE VIDEO

Live at the Minnesota Capitol: Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers perform at No Kings rally

No Kings: Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at St. Paul Rally

And from random red state media

No Kings rally protest coverage in Kansas City

12 news in Phoenix

No Kings Day protests across the Valley

ARKANSAS

Latest News | 'No Kings' protests held in Arkansas and around the nation

with a segment on soccer / futbol and Latinos

Another round of 'No Kings' protests ignite throughout the US in key cities

Great clips!

Omaha

Thousands turn out for 'No Kings' Rally in Benson

Iowa City

DITV: 'No Kings' Protest Returns to Iowa City for a 3rd Time

Rockford IL

Thousands gather in Rockford for “No Kings” rally, part of nationwide protests

Boise / Twin Falls (oops: No Kings 2.0, a few months ago.)

No Kings Protest in Boise & Twin Falls

Thousands rally in Seattle during nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks at No Kings Rally | Seattle No Kings Rally

The dangerous ones

The FUNNIEST Signs From No Kings Day

Stephen Colbert

Millions March Against Trump’s War & Deportations | Trump's Improv War | Global Helium Crisis

Jon Stewart

No Kings Rallies Can’t Stop CPAC's Trump Glazing & Iran War Hits One Month | The Daily Show

News rundown. More concise. Less ranty than some other youtubes. MOB BOSS

A new channel, all President #StableGenius all the time, but clear, sincere, not ranty. 

There's something seriously wrong with this guy

A ray of Electoral Light in Europe

 RantWoman would SO prefer that the US have a president who is not a global laughingstock.

That said, if the President shooting himself in the foot all over the world inspires people vigorously to vote down the proliferation of voices like him on the world stage, perhaps he has earned some kind of PRIZE. 

Perhaps.

RantWoman never advises taking anything for granted, but RantWoman also appreciates literate, concise political commentary.

The BS Ballroom is NOT AN OFFICIAL ACT

RantWoman has decided several times not to go to law school, but RantWoman has, in the comment rant below the video, RantWoman would like to propose a project for a fresh aspiring lawyer. 

Time to test the #SCOTUS concept of "official acts?" What is the emergency??? Has the local #StableGenius violated so many laws, architectural and construction standards, procedures, constrains on bribery... that SOMEONE can make a case that immunity does not apply? I assume there is no chance the current DoJ would do it, but who might have standing to sue???? If President #StableGenius did not like the White House, why did he run for re-election??? Surely he can afford to live somewhere else and build his own dang ballroom. Besides, what's one more civil judgment for the #StableGenius to ignore??? When he finally slouches off this mortal coil, probate for his estate could be SO much fun....

Moscow melts down without internet: forward to yesterday

 Roman telling it!

Update:

Something INSANE is Happening in Moscow Right Now - YouTube

Russia borrowing the Iran playbook

Interesting that Roman seems not to have connected with a lot of RUMORS...

Nope. Not COVID, but...

    

#pandemic #COVID19 #COVID 

What's left of RantMom
in her new home

Possibly of interest:

RantWoman and the RSOF: Jessie Cornwell Memorial Invitation, updated

RantMom "departed for other realms exactly two months ago. Therefore, we interrupt the daily war coverage for...

--meditations on obituary writing process wrangling a whole life story into plausible obituary versions for different platforms

--effort both to collaborate with Little Sister and to tread among family religious and other emotional landmines.

--inchoate ranting about one popular obituary platform whose accessibility for RantWoman SUCKS.

Uhhh, how about just do the COVID piece?

Ding! Ding!

Adapted from the current draft of the obituary:

(RantMom) became good friends with the first Ida Culver Ravenna Resident to die of COVID. She tested positive herself cleared the virus and did not develop symptoms. The pandemic lockdown was very hard for everyone. The staff's meticulous observance of rules and safety practices as well as use of vaccines as soon as they became available ensured that COVID did not hit that community nearly as hard as other retirement facilities. 

(RantMom) and several other residents of Ida culver Ravenna moved to The Lakeshore, along with numerous other residents of Ida Culver Ravenna. At the Lakeshore, residents enjoyed an expansive view of Lake Washington and resident bald eagles nesting in a tree near the dining room. Art shows, special speakers,  music and dance performances and other activities kept life as lively as (RantMom)  wanted. 

The last year of RantMom's life at the Lakeshore was rough: Her younger brother died of prostate cancer. She had a lingering bout of actual COVID, not just testing positive and clearing the virus without symptoms as she had done previously. 

Other chronic issues were becoming more and more draining. Even so, she continued to volunteer weekly at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. To RantMom, this was a means to pay forward the excellent medical care she had received during her multiple battles with cancer.

RantMom's last few weeks were a blur of hospital, skilled nursing, and ultimately placement at the Agape Senior Care at Montlake -- with its extremely loving directors and staff -- where she passed away peacefully thirty years and six months to the day after (RantDad).

Reprise on the topic of RantMom and #COVID

Adventures of RantWoman: Dinner and Plague

Adventures of RantWoman: Tested Negative!

(Part of RantWoman's own experience with "the 'rona."

There are probably other posts that reference both COVID and RantMom but this has to be enough for now

Adventures of RantWoman: Virus plus car ride plus pastor plus pandemic and worship plus pentecost

Adventures of RantWoman: Today in Corona Virus News

Adventures of RantWoman: Data Dump plus Neil Degrasse Tyson suggesting people listen to Science

precautions at a different retirement community

Adventures of RantWoman: Pollen or Plague? With a side of #DigitalInclusion

War is not healthy for children and other living things: reprise of the Gulf War

 

Hitting hospitals is a war crime.

Double taps are double war crime.

Anthropic sues on First Amendment grounds over Pentagon effort to call them a "supply chain risk"

" A Constitutional showdown?"

For anyone who hasn't noticed: linguistic circumlocutions US style

One of RantWoman's go-to voices about #Russia, Russian culture the #SpecialMilitaryOperation and related topics

Roman is a Russian expat currently living in Portugal. If you like his content, please like, subscribe, pick a financial support option.

And a side of Desi Lydic

Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's Iran Not-War | The Daily Show

American Council of the Blind calls for open transparent investigation of the death of Nurun Amin Shah Alam

 Statement verbatim

Statement from the American Council of the Blind on the Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam

Posted on March 2, 2026

Statement from the American Council of the Blind on the Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam
March 2, 2026

The American Council of the Blind (ACB) is deeply saddened by the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee who was blind and died in Buffalo, New York, shortly after his release from federal custody.

People who are blind or have low vision, like all people with disabilities, deserve to be treated with dignity and provided reasonable accommodations in their interactions with government agencies. Serious questions remain about the circumstances surrounding Mr. Shah Alam’s death, including whether his disability and communication needs were appropriately considered at each stage.

ACB urges a full and transparent investigation into what occurred, with particular attention to how disability-related needs were addressed. That review should identify clear steps to help prevent similar tragedies in the future and ensure that policies and practices fully protect the rights and safety of people with disabilities, including those who are blind or have low vision.

For information about reasonable accommodations and the rights of people with disabilities in interactions with immigration enforcement, refer to: https://www.ice.gov/leadership/ocrc/disability-access#main-content

Post: Edit

See also the statement from tne National Federation of the Blind.

Statement regarding Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam | National Federation of the Blind

May Mr. Nurun Amin Shah Alam rest in peace.

 First #RamadanMubarak to all who are observing the fast

Second, Heartfelt condolences to the family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam and the entire Rohingya community living through the nightmare of his death during ramadan

Trump’s ICE Hits HORRIFYING NEW LOW After DEADLY Decision

Clear reporting about issues with cause of death determination

Comment RantWoman posted

1. Mobility aids are NOT Weapons. WTF with the weapons charges for what multiple sources have said are CURTAIN RODS? Thank you for the description of two poles. I could not make that out in the body cam video released by Buffalo PD. Curtain rods are, of course, not standard white canes many people use, but other people do use walking poles for all kinds of reasons. 2. LOTS of blind people, even blind professionals with excellent travel skills get lost sometimes. It seems like Mr. Shah Alam is charged for: --getting lost while brown --getting lost while Muslim --getting lost while blind --getting lost while not speaking English. --accidentally trespassing 3. The body cam video of the original arrest you mentioned featured a female officer SCREAMING at Mr. Shah Alam to drop the poles or she was going to taser him, like he has any clue what a taser is. Then there is a melee, reportedly by two officers who somehow could not de-escalate the situation.

In other words, Mr. Shah Alam was WAY overcharged for what should have MAYBE been a simple trespassing issue. What is the source for hearing that Mr. Shah Alam's family and attorney were waiting for him when he was released? Reporting I have seen says there were no efforts to contact family or attorney. This case is heartbreaking and infuriating on so many levels, and so much worse for the Muslim communities because it's Ramadan. And unfortunately, except for the extra issues because of blindness and medical fragility, this case is all too similar t DHS general Deport First and due process be damned policies.

Scott Jennings' DEPRAVED Take On Refugee Death STUNS CNN Panel

TYT reporting with more details of situation and perspective from Cenk Uygur and TYT voices. And Cenk makes the case about why would any jurisdiction tell ICE / CBP about immigrants in custody if they are going to be treated this badly.

RantWoman now can't locate her reply comment rant about assertion that Mr. Shah Alam was able to make known his wishes via some kind of translation device. Hopefully Gov. Hochul, AG James, and Congress will add questions about validation of any such system used to questions about this outrage.

Nearly blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after Border Patrol drop off miles from his home 

Blind Refugee "Abandoned By Border Patrol" in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers

Blistering comments from mayor of Buffalo abotu why Buffalo does not cooperate with administrative warrants

Discussion by immigration attorney of Rohingya refugee situation, many elements of immigration law including efforts by Mr. Shah Alam's attorney to negotiate a plea deal.

How the System Intentionally Killed Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya Refugee

Reuters report after funeral

A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, 56-year old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of US Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street https://t.co/ayXj0QU7AY pic.twitter.com/srFTreb7Er

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 27, 2026

Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol | Reuters

RantWoman means to add links to accounts from Reuters of community and family comments as well as items from several other sources.

Buffalo NY "Border Patrol" officers leave nearly blind Rohingya REFUGEE to die in the snow.

 RantWoman's laundry is going to have to wait.

First, HEARTFELT condolences to the family of Mr. Nurun Alam and to everyone in the Rohingya refugee community in Buffalo NY.

RantWoman is shaking her tree of blind people contacts to see whether any blind people in Buffalo NY are familiar with the story below of Mr. Nurun Alam, a Rohingya REFUGEE. If RantWoman were a properly politic advocate, she might also collaborate with others to craft a carefully worded statement about why blind people--LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE US--should care about immigrant neighbors, blind or low vision immigrants, and assaults on Constitutional and civil rights, not to mention all the ways ICE/ CBP are making life MORE unsafe for everyone in the US. RantWoman will be grateful if all these comments lead to such statements. 

In the meantime....

RantWoman's head is exploding about the heart-wrenching story of a nearly blind Rohingya REFUGEE left to die in Buffalo NY by Border Patrol agents. Aside from that outrageous level of cruelty, the whole story should make every jurisdiction in the country think twice or three or a dozen or seventeen times about handing ANYONE but the most dangerous criminals over on Border Patrol (ICE/ CBP) detainers. 

According to the TV news report linked below, Mr. Alam was originally arrested in 2025 after an encounter with 2 Buffalo Police Department officers. RantWoman has not found reports of the original altercation but one post on X referred to some kind of stick that may have been used as a walking stick. Mr. Alam was held in the Erie County jail until there was some kind of plea deal, someone recently posted bond and he was picked up by "Border Patrol" Border Patrol apparently figured out there was no reason to deport him. There was also no reason just to dump him out in the cold to die in the snow.

RantWoman does not endorse middle-aged blind people getting into hand-to-hand battles with police officers. That said, several elements of the story make RantWoman wonder whether, in a properly functioning Department of Justice, there would be grounds for a federal civil rights investigation.

Google turned up reference to a now-deleted missing persons report on Facebook that described mr. Alam as about 5'7" and slightly built. So two officers? COME ON. De-escalation ANYONE? Someone? Anyone?

Next, we have someone who speaks minimal English quite possibly has age-related hearing loss, and probably has no idea what police officers might be barking at him.

Next we have a REFUGEE who probably does not have great associations with anyone in uniform but who, if he has any vision at all, probably reacts very badly to police officers.

Next, the "walking stick." RantWoman would definitely like to know more about whether Mr. Alam used whatever he was carrying as some kind of a mobility aid, either for support or as a tool for navigating his environment.

RantWoman is not a lawyer and HOPES that someone with more authority will re-investigate the original case.

For now, focus on the outrageous behavior by CBP and a fragile LEGAL REFUGEE left to die alone in the snow.

Documentation / media selections below. 

Here are such media accounts and statements as RantWoman has been able easily to assemble, along with an observation that Grok, the Twitter /X AI validates accounts from several official sources.

TV Coverage of previous arrest

Border Patrol dump blind refugee 5 miles away from home—he was found dead on the street.

Officers dropped him off in front of a donut shop—didn't notify his lawyer or family he was even released.

When reported missing—local police said he was in ICE custody and stopped looking… pic.twitter.com/DKhS77qVqv

— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@LongTimeHistory) February 26, 2026

Investigative report

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. : Investigative Post

Another Tweet

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan provided the following statement to News 4:

"A vulnerable man — nearly blind and unable to speak English — was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location."

"That decision from U.S. Customs and Border… pic.twitter.com/ScSf4uj9Ik

— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@LongTimeHistory) February 26, 2026

Michael Fanone on people pretending to be ICE

 

Rose Monday in Germany ahead of Mardi Gras

 Humor. Some will consider it tasteless humor. It's German. RantWoman laughed VERY hard.

Laissez les bonnes temps roulez

Former President Obama ahead of Presidents Day

 

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