Not a protein analysis system

Russian engineering doesn’t stand still, and this time they've created something resembling a vehicle for moving through pipes.

Judging by its size, camera, and remote control, the device is likely intended for transporting cargo, not People.

Today in insane parenting sentences I’ve uttered: don’t hammer your brother, thank you.

Trump just fired Erika McEntarfer for doing her job—releasing an accurate jobs report. He can’t handle the facts.

Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell is headed to a cushy, low-security prison… waiting for her Trump pardon.

Facts get punished. Criminals get comfort. That’s the Trump doctrine.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...

um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Massive white patio with the White House in the background

Verdant garden with trees, grass, and flowers

The Rose Garden at the White House is now just a big swath of white paving stones circled by drains shaped like American flags and with a presidential seal at each corner.

The photo on the right was what it looked like in 2015 (before Trump’s first term when they uprooted all the trees).

The shield

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

@mcmansionhell.bsky.social enjoy.

Is the way it’s subtly wrong that kills me. The forum wars over butter to sprinkle ratio, someone claiming chocolate sprinkles (and using a Dutch photo), being corrected to “hundreds and thousands mate”.

MOST EXTREME DAY IN HISTORY (again)

Dozens of thousands of records are falling in >160 countries,with many countries like Japan and Oman breaking their NATIONAL records of highest temperatures.
Once again,we have to update the most record breaking day in history is July 30 ,2025

Trump spent a *third* of his campaign budget on virulent transphobia.

Telling trans people to not worry, after having a $200 million target painted on them for *months* with barely any pushback from the Dems, is wildly unhelpful.

I submit a sizeable proportion of the Middlesex Ladies Cricket team

The lacrosse player names discourse is also amazing. From www.reddit.com/r/NameNerdCi...

“Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries.”

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

Eisenhower said parents had legitimate concerns about ‘sweet little girls’ not being required to sit in school ‘alongside some big black bucks.’

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

By agreeing to the 15% plus purchases (and backing off on planned services regulation?), it is much more likely that this is a durable outcome.
Worse, the EU has effectively legitimised the actions of a US administration riding roughshod over the global trade regime.
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this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

In person face to face training all day today. Blah.

Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.

MOST EXTRAORDINARY DAY IN HISTORY

We are seeing something unbeiievable:
Dozens of thousands of records are being brutalized in over 160 countries, locally broken by over 10C.

Every single DAY of this month has broken more recrods than any single MONTH in history.
Wait for DOZENS of posts.

This morning I lay in bed and watched the sun rise. Sadly, I’d been up since 5 and had just got back into bed, but oh well.

Teaching the toddler dog etiquette (he adores them). Always speak to the person first, let the dog sniff you, never approach a dog that is tied up or eating, guide dogs are working etc. Have had super positive interactions so far - but lots of comments that it’s not that common? Am I weird?

I have yet to read a single story about men adopting AI at work (without being told) at a higher rate than women that presents it as anything other than men being smart. Not one story about how it implies they're lazier and less ethical.
Because that's not the narrative that's being pushed about AI.