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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

The Russian Camp Where Abducted Ukrainian Children Reportedly Made Drones For the first time, evidence shows abducted Ukrainian children were forced by Russia to assemble drones and other military gear, according to a Yale report. Researchers say the practice could amount t...

Evidence has been found for the first time that abducted Ukrainian children were used by russia to assemble military equipment, according to the head of a Yale University team investigating the fate of nearly 20,000 minors reported to have been kidnapped or forcibly displaced.

Google has updated its maps. Now you can see the full, unfiltered scale of the devastation in Mariupol.

It’s especially striking: an invisible employment center next to a vanished school, sitting in a completely empty field. Just 3.5 years ago, that place overflowed with life.

Russia operates 'potentially unprecedented system' holding Ukrainian children in 210 facilities, Yale researchers say "The impact of the alleged crimes perpetuated by the Russian government is likely to leave generational scars," Yale researchers said, adding that Russia "aims to foldUkraine's children into the Russi...

⚡️Russia operates 'potentially unprecedented system' holding Ukrainian children in 210 facilities, Yale researchers say.

"The impact of the alleged crimes perpetuated by the Russian government is likely to leave generational scars," the report reads.

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Greetings from Kyiv!

Today is Ukraine’s National Flag Day.
I’m attending a lecture about our flag 🇺🇦

And I also have a letter about it (the flag, not the lecture) - free to read:
www.patreon.com/posts/110640...

Everything you didn’t know about Ukraine’s flag Though the flag’s two colors were banned at various points in history, they reemerged during national revivals and after Ukraine gained independence.

Aug. 23 is Day of the National Flag in Ukraine. Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag is not just a national marker, but a rallying symbol of resistance, particularly one against Russian aggression, a centuries-long fight for Ukrainians.

🎶Putin Huilo - Putin Huilo 🎶

Kharkiv right now celebrates its birthday with chants and songs💃

“This ocean
Will not be grasped…”

31 years ago today…

Thank you for sharing your stories with us Yara, and congratulations on the anniversary. Your letters are a highlight of my week, a steady pulse of hope.
We stand with you <3

'This is terror' — Russian bombs hit bus station, university in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 19 Emergency workers are still searching for more victims who may be buried under the rubble. "The Russians terrorize our people and all of Ukraine every day," Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Ivan Fedorov s...

⚡️'This is terror' — Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia bus station injures at least 19.

Emergency workers are still searching for more victims who may be buried under the rubble. "The Russians terrorize our people and all of Ukraine every day," Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Ivan Fedorov said.

I just saw a YouTube ad using neurodiversity to sell * checks notes* Intuit Quickbooks?! Capitalism is so gross.

I remark, “that’s not a knife!”

Hundreds of dark blood red petals radiate in a huge bloom. Next to it, a bud is poised to burst forth a cluster of maroon spikes

This one almost defies description, it’s hard to believe something this magnificent comes out of a shrivelled turd of a tuber. A ball the size of a grapefruit, the petals are curled in like tubes cut on the diagonal. The outside of the tube is a deep crimson, the inside streaked with a peach gold that gives the effect of a tropical sunset. This is the magic of gardening.

Sunflowers stand tall against the morning sky. Most are dark yellow with brown/orange centres, one is bright yellow. My favourite is a gorgeous dusty pink with a ring of yellow in the centre. I think it’s the autumn beauty variety I’ve been trying to grow the past few years! This year none that I planted came up. These are all growing in the middle of the gravel path! The rest of the seeds get devoured by birds in autumn.

Good morning, please enjoy some #bloomscrolling Getting a face full of these colours is a lovely way to start the day ✨

#flowers #gardening

Russia attacks Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles overnight Explosions rocked Kharkiv, Kamianske, and Dnipro as Russia launched waves of missiles, drones, and guided aerial bombs overnight on July 26. Kharkiv's Kyviskyi district has been hit twice by ballistic...

⚡️Russia attacks Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles overnight.

Explosions rocked Kharkiv, Kamianske, and Dnipro as Russia launched waves of missiles, drones, and guided aerial bombs overnight on July 26. Kharkiv's Kyviskyi district has been hit twice by ballistic missiles.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

President Zelenskyy said he would submit a draft law to strengthen independence of anti-corruption bodies - together with law enforcement and anti-corruption teams.

He added:
Everyone heard what people have been saying these days: on social media, to each other, on the streets. It wasn’t in vain.

Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!

Calm night in Kyiv again.
It feels so good.

Actually, I wanted to show you a painting I came across recently.
Tetyana Yablonska, Youth, 1969.
It tells so many stories.
I just love it.

Ukrainian art is still so undervalued.

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Writing MURDERBOT "taught me about my own neurodiversity. ... I have had a lot of people tell me that it helped them work out things about themselves and that it was just nice to see a character who thought and felt a lot of the same things they did." @marthawells.com with @clarakm.bsky.social

A lily with black, tongue-shaped petals and furry burnt orange stamens

Black lily has returned, glorious
#bloomscrolling #flowers #gardeningA

These flowers appear to be hanging upside down, many droopy arms covered in tiny silver hairs, their petals an impossibly iridescent purple

A fuzzy, yellow and orange bee sits in the middle of a flower the size of an orange. Scabiosa start off looking like a yellow-green pin cushion, then explode delicate mauve ruffles from each pin head, starting at the bottom until covered like a pompom

Today for our #bloomscrolling we have self-sown borage and a bee enjoying a pincushion flower

#gardening #flowers

If you’ve ever wondered how the Soviet Union was "born".
If your media says little about Ukraine -

You can read my latest Sunday Letter.
And maybe share it, so others can learn too.
www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

I’d pay $45 for a shirt knowing the profit was balancing out making the game more affordable for folks

Two apartment buildings and a kindergarten - that’s what Russian drones hit this night in the area not far from Kyiv. All the famous ‘military targets’

Screenshot of a mobile ad for “concrete cutting and removal in Vancouver and surrounding areas” with a picture of said equipment. Shame they do not service my area and that I have no concrete to cut or remove, I guess.

“Transform your space with our concrete placing and finishing services. Get a quote today!” with a pic of at least 7 people in high vis watching while their colleague smooths out a large patch of freshly poured concrete

“Core drilling for all applications!” with a pic of what I assume is said core driller, although what applications it has beyond tunnelling through your freshly poured concrete remains a mystery

Delight in confounding ad algorithms by subverting the dominant paradigm. Your ungovernable purchasing habits will lead to things like
*checks notes*
commercial concrete services in your area!

🔥 Enough.

Kyiv is burning... and you’re still 'deeply concerned'?

Russia terror-bombs civilians, the US is twisted, Europe sleepwalks. Only Ukraine fights. Alone!

As a European, I urge my leaders: stop waiting for peace. Act to achieve it. Peace through strength= sanctions + Patriots + SkyShield!

'Disingenuous' Hegseth paused Ukraine weapons despite Pentagon finding aid wouldn't hurt US readiness, NBC reports A senior military review had concluded that while some munitions stockpiles, including precision weapons, were low, they had not fallen below critical thresholds, according to NBC. Still, U.S. Defense...

⚡️'Disingenuous' Hegseth paused Ukraine weapons despite Pentagon finding aid wouldn't hurt US readiness, NBC reports.

A senior military review had concluded that while some munitions stockpiles, including precision weapons, were low, they had not fallen below critical thresholds, according to NBC.