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All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

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It appears libro fm is having a sale for Bookstore Romance Day. You can find all the books on sale here:

Opinion | Let’s Not Make America Gilded Again

Gift link (I figured out how to do it)

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Love this photo! 😍

Rafe, Xeni and Meegan by Rebekah Weatherspoon. "The Doctor and The Nanny The Heiress and the Scotsman The Teacher and the millionaire" Rafe Cover, the bust of a white man with red hair and read beard on a black background Xeni Cover, the bust of a black woman with her mass of hair up in a loose bun. She's wearing a purple tank top and sunglasses tilted down on a teal and pink background. Meegan Cover, a white woman with brown hair and blue eyes on a pink background 3 high heat contemporary romance. there's pegging in xeni and they do some real freaky shit in Meegan.

RAFE, XENI. & MEEGAN are here!
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This story in particular is a great resource to read, bookmark, and share with your networks outside of Bluesky. Let's make Lex's dream come true by clicking through and sharing widely!

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Official Arthur Protect PBS Adult Tee Arthur is produced by public media station GBH in Boston. Net proceeds from the sale of this t-shirt will go to support GBH.

saw people asking for merch to help support PBS. So far this is the best tshirt I've found. There's one for kids too. The whole family can be pissed off together.
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

If there’s one piece of advice I’d give any writer, it’s keep going, if you can and have the means to. Just keep going. Do your best to not get discouraged when things aren’t immediately successful. Every single thing you do is a brick in the foundation of a house you can’t see.

First images of ICE migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.

Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

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Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

Plan A: Spend the summer at camp hiding from your influencer mother.

Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.

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Did the tourism industry get drunk and impulsively lay off all their lobbyists? Maybe all the foreign tourism bigwigs died of Covid? Why is there no pushback against the destruction of a $200 billion industry?

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JUST IN: Earthquake felt in New York City M3.0, epicenter near Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey

I'm glad you enjoyed getting to know Toni, Seb, and the Lillys! 🤩🎸

Please do the thing if you can. We've always been members of our local station but I just upped our donation substantially.

Officials scour mountainous area for suspect in Montana bar shooting that killed 4 Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

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Casar: "If Donald Trump succeeds in ending the protections of the Voting Rights Act for people of color here in Austin, then pretty soon he could succeed in ending those protections for people across America."

New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social

Smithsonian explains why a Trump reference was removed from impeachment exhibit "A future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments," according to a statement from the Smithsonian.

"A future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments," according to a statement from the Smithsonian.

Federal Reserve governor to resign early, handing Trump an immediate opening on board Federal Reserve Board Governor Adriana Kugler is stepping down from Fed, creating an unexpected opening for President Trump to shape the Federal Reserve.

Breaking news: Adriana Kugler is unexpectedly stepping down from the Federal Reserve’s powerful board of governors, creating an early vacancy that will give President Trump an early opportunity to shape the Fed’s leadership.

Less staff, even less trust: Some states say they can't rely on Trump's DHS for election security Staffing cuts and politics have left some state election heads unsure of how they would work with the federal government if they are hacked.

Cuts to the federal government’s election security work and the politicization of Homeland Security have left some state election heads unsure of how they would work with the government if they are hacked.

Experts say a lack of communication could lead to more and worse hacks surrounding elections.

Hot 2025 Summer Reads — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People We're both staying very still in front of air conditioners this week, so that means we're very happy to have a bunch of books at the ready! We're teeing up your piles of summer reads with our quarterl...

June and July are gone, but there's still plenty of summer reading ahead. Good thing we organized our Hot 2025 Summer Reads by month.

FYI there is still time to read a Ms. Bev book for #JenkinsJuly, Prisoner of Love is a 78 page banger with FOUR love scenes.

Ice Cream Lover Baldwin Village, Book 2 Amazon | Kobo | B&N | Apple | Google Play | Smashwords | Goodreads Drew Lum hates ice cream.  Ever since my fiancée left me at the altar and skewered me i…

A grumpy x sunshine summer romance!

Just a few more days to get your free copy of Ice Cream Lover! The ebook goes back to full price on August 1. Available at Amazon, Kobo, B&N, Apple, and Google Play.

In reversal, Defense Department will continue providing crucial satellite weather data About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

They ended cancer research for this.

First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage. The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place.

The Tea app was meant to make dating safer for women. Instead, @faith-hill.bsky.social argues, data breaches have left its users exposed to the kind of abuse they were seeking protection from in the first place: