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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

New: The FDA is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by @reuters.com.

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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

(Also, for those who are not clear on my tone: I think it's fabulous Ms. Yarros is doing so well. Her books bring people to stores, where they will pick up other books, and while they are waiting for the next book from her they will read other stuff. Blockbuster books are good for everyone, y'all)

Just note the Democrats could do everything in their power and still fail to stop the fascist administrative coup. I'd still like them to actually DO THAT, though.

Picture says “me researching golem lore” with a man pointing and the sentence The work is mysterious and important underneath

Me. Every day now.

Is it time to build a Golem?

I’d really like a boring year.

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

The pro-life party strikes again

The best response so far was from the Australian producer of Bluey, Ludo Studio. They were so kind.

The last few years have been hard, so I’ve made a concerted effort to reach out to all the artists/musicians/writers who have made things easier and thank them for their art. Sometimes I get a reply, most times I don’t, but I hope the small bits of positivity make them happy.

A VERY small toad (Gulf Coast Toad young of year) sits on the fingertip of the post author. Toad was safely released.

Tiny Toad!

I heard from @jencross.bsky.social were sharing these 🐸

Petty revenge scenario: to the girl who stole my fuzzy snap bracelet in high school drama class (I know who you are), I wish you the inescapable need to cut your own bangs and the instant regret that comes with it

Petty revenge scenarios: to the teens who threw half a pickle at my shirt from a car while I was waiting for the bus in 2002, I wish none of you will ever pick a good watermelon

There was a guy in my high school named Aaron Beanie. He ordering a sandwich on the class phone during algebra. He ran around with a fire extinguisher, asking where the fire was during the fire drill. One of those epic people that feels like a movie character. Hope he ended up somewhere awesome.

I think I’ll start a series on petty revenge scenarios: to the girl in my musical theatre group who laughed at 12 yr old me for calling concealer “erase” because that’s what my hippie mother called it, I wish you dissatisfying snail face masks.

My mom told me when she lived in the empty vats of the Hamm’s Brewery in the 70’s there was a dude living in one who would meditate while eating single grains of uncooked rice, one by one, with chopsticks. Must of done a number on his digestive system.

In middle school I wrote the full name of my crush in a heart in my social studies book, then totally forget and let him borrow it. He laughed, showed it to friends who laughed. I’m not big on revenge, but I hope as an adult he lost everything to day trading.

This was quick and fun to fill out. I love kids doing research.

Screenshot of an article: "The Lack of World-Building is One of the Biggest Problems with The Narnia Books" headline and subtitle: This will be one of Greta Gerwig's biggest hurdles in her adaptation. Below is a picture from a previous Narnia adaptation with the pevensies in king and queen clothes on horseback.

Did...Did Tolkien write this article?

What do electric sheep dream of?

3/3 We visited him one last time in the hospital, I gave him some Mexican jumping beans. I was told I couldn’t be rough with him, he couldn’t leave the bed. As the generation of children who grew up in SF during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic I am so fucking happy to read this headline.

2/3 We played with green army soldiers, and stretch Armstrong, we rough housed in the hallway and did races back and forth. About a year later my family moved away and didn’t really keep in touch with his family.

1/3 In 1989 when lived in some apartments on Valencia Street in the Mission, right next to the projects, and there is a family across the hall from us whose little boy was about my age. He had HIV.

Getting to those numbers would require something along the lines of ~$215M a year in subscription revenues for Substack. Currently, Substack takes a 10% cut of subscription prices from writers on its platform. So, uhhh... they'd need $2.9 *billion* in reader-paid subs. (Counting payment fees.)

I want to see an animation of a mimic chest singing Part Of Your World

Chicago, they’d have to get the band back together

Dreamt that Tim Walz was playing D&D in Vietnam. He spotted me some cash so I could buy cookies and seaweed. I was supposed to Venmo to repay him, but I woke up before I could.

We need to bring Primal Scream retreats back into vogue 

November means either writing a novel or growing a mustache. Choose your own adventure.