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White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex t...

Elon Musk’s team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year… www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Call the local police and tell them that masked men are restraining a five-year-old girl.

“I would like an image of a skeleton wearing burial clothes, in a coffin, holding a money gun that is shooting dollars towards the camera.”

#OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

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I’m not seeing much coverage of this. Seems to me it would outlaw movies and television that feature non-cis characters, i.e. almost everything published in the past several years.

I would’ve said January 20.

A friend shared this with me today.🤣

Apparently so. I read this on my iPhone and when someone posts a hard to read screenshot, I have my phone scan it so I figure I might as well post it for others and then I need to break it up into Bluesky-sized chunks. I’m sure somebody has already invented a solution, I just need to find it.

(6) And what greater opportunity to insist that we cannot lose valuable facilities and equipment, nor squander the cre-ativity, knowledge and abilities of engineers, skilled trades and produc tion workers?

(5) What better time to launch such a project than now, in the face of having to overcome both the immediate economic crisis and the looming environmental crisis?

(4) Homes will have to be retrofitted and appliances modified. The use of solar panels and wind turbines will spread, new electricity grids will have to be developed, and urban infrastructure will have to be reinvented to accommodate the changes in transportation and energy use.

(3) develop new transportation systems. They can participate in altering, in line with environmental demands, the machinery in every workplace and the motors that run the machinery. They can be applied to new systems of production that recycle used materials and final products (such as cars).

(2) the component plants that have the capacity to make more than a specific component, and by a workforce anxious to do useful work—is limitless.
The equipment and skills can be used to not only build different cars, and different car components, but to expand public transit and

Using text recognition on the image:

(1) If we are serious about incorporating environmental needs into the economy, this means changing everything about how we produce and consume and how we travel and live. The potential work to be done in this regard-in the tool and die shops that are closing,

Given my background, I can imagine a grilled cheese and banana sandwich but I suspect it would be even greasier.

Not too coincidentally, Elvis also enjoyed grilled peanut butter and banana with bacon. I ate one of those about a decade ago during a visit to Graceland and and found it very tasty but quite oily. It seems like something that would go well dipped in kitty litter.

I was born in Mississippi and raised in western Tennessee. As a child, my mother would frequently fix us peanut butter and banana sandwiches for lunch. After not eating them for several decades, I decided to start fixing them for breakfast.

Biden Aims to Go Out With a Bellicose Bang Having failed thus far to ignite Nuclear Armageddon, what’s up next for the U.S. military industrial complex? I’ll tell you: New bases in Europe, 47 of

I don’t know why this popped up in my feed, but was about halfway through the first paragraph before my opinion switched from “stupid” to “Russian disinformation”. I was able to finish the article, but my rug now has a bare spot where my jaw kept hitting it.
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An experiment. Can you like this post if (and only if) you play and buy video games.

Some people over on Twitter/X seem to think it's only game developers here.

(reposts welcome to spread the word)

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I did NOT approve this.

The Compton Hill Water Tower is falling apart. Can St. Louis save it? The Compton Hill Water Tower is plagued with cracks and falling stone. A push to save it is picking up steam.

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My youngest son is autistic and two of us have climbed the stairs to the top of the Compton Hill water tower more times than I can count. Until it’s the most recent closure, we went up at once a month during the summer and at least one full moon every year.