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Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately.
This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).

How Doodles Became a Cutthroat Billion-Dollar Dog Industry Goldendoodles, labradoodles and bernedoodles are everywhere. Have we finally reached peak doodle?

This @bloomberg.com Businessweek story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just…all of it! It’s so good. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

mRNA vaccines not only stopped Covid in its tracks, they promised massive developments in other virulent diseases, including many forms of cancer. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has just dramatically increased the number of people who will die needlessly in the coming decade.

This is incredible

The access they got was really amazing.

Actual side by side split of Nikola Jokic NBA championship champagne celebration vs. Nikola Jokic random Serbian horse race victory champagne celebration

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Thanksgiving month involves rewatching all the Bob's Burgers Thanksgiving episodes in my house.

Telling the neighbor cat he's so handsome and then scolding him to stop pooping in my garden beds.

the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.

A kid TV show: "You'll always have your brother, through thick and thin. Not everyone can say that."
Kid 1: "Thick and thin."
Kid 2: "Thick and thin!"
Kid 1: "It's not that hard"

I love that color combination!

The yoke of a sweater in speckled gray. Different sections have different cable patterns on them.

My current WIP is my first cable sweater, the Cara Sweater in Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt. Have already learned the value of putting in lifelines! #showmeyourknits

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

YouTube video by Democracy Now! James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

Hell yes!

Ladies Love Collective Bargaining James!

Michael Baumgartner voted today for the MAGA budget bill, giving $117 Billion in tax cuts to the wealthy few, paid for by devastating cuts to Medicaid.

According to Apple Health, 54% of the CHILDREN in his district use Medicaid. He cares more about his wealthy donors than kids in his own district.

If you just look at social media instead of news sources, you might believe the “big beautiful bill” has passed already.

It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.

One of best public universities on one of the five most beautiful campuses in the country. Decimated.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

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"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

Happy Lottery day to you and yours.

A drawing of a crying green gator on its knees, begging "No more, please!"

I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

Time is a flat circle.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:

Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS

Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection

Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids

Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit

Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax