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I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

**theme song immediately begins playing in my head 🎶**

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might be late with this but you can do a free trial of Criterion Channel
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A laser cut wooden magnet showing two human figures, their heads bent together as if sharing a romantic moment. The text on the magnet says 'Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that that your breath away. DONNER MEMORIAL STATE PARK. 2025.' The font is Papyrus. It's funny because the Donner party notoriously resorted to cannibalism while snowed in during the winter of 1846.

Everyone pack up and go home, I've found the best possible tourist trap gift shop purchase.

Make that 8️⃣ walk-offs!

What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? | Aeon Essays It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius

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This is the funniest movie production fact I’ve ever read

Cosmic Ear- Traces LP

This is a great new release from everyone's favorite Finnish jazz label that we wish we could rename something better- We Jazz.

"Cosmic Ear is a new group bringing together Christer Bothén, Mats Gustafsson, Goran Kajfeš, Kansan Zetterberg and Juan Romero"
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Follow these folks for a sane EV

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Are you keeping up?

maybe online gambling has gone a little too far

also, need the Pizzaballa odds for real

13 Reviews by Roger Ebert for the 2025 Day4Empathy | Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert We're giving the site back to Roger today. Here's why.

Roger Ebert famously said that movies are a machine that generates empathy. Here are 13 reviews chosen by our editors and readers that reflect this message. #Day4Empathy

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds' The economy is bad. Here's how we're doing, and how you can help us.

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds' and what we’ve changed

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Dying US man uses his last months for community service in all 50 states Doug Ruch embarked on ‘dying to serve tour’ after learning he had fewer than 18 months left amid cancer battle

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at the office tapping the sign when people try to chat me up

Guitarist/composer @maryhalvorson.bsky.social's new album, 'About Ghosts,' is due June 13. You can pre-order it and hear the album track "Carved From" now at maryhalvorson.lnk.to/aboutghosts

probably the glorious mullet just peeking out from under the lid

This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal.

Transcript here:

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It doesn't matter how you got sober, whether it was a recovery program, therapy, god, MAT, a nudge from the judge, support from family & friends, or any other conceivable method, you are a miracle! #SoberSky

Fantastic!

Axel F might like a word re: most famous 80's synth riff

Below are the spiritual principles of recovery listed in order with the corresponding step: 1. Acceptance 2. Hope 3. Faith 4. Courage 5. Honesty 6. Patience 7. Humility 8. Willingness 9. Brotherly Love 10. Integrity 11. Self-discipline 12. Service

“We are to not only embrace, work and live by spiritual principles; we are to become these spiritual principles. If we remember these things, we will receive gifts, rewards and promises beyond our wildest dreams. This is the miracle of recovery." -www.aacle.org #AA #SoberSky

Photo of “LOADED” Oreos, described as being flavored “with real Oreo crumbs” in the cream filling, demonstrating once again that capitalism is the most efficient and innovative system

Those mad lads have done it, they’ve made Oreo-flavored Oreos

Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the bed

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Chaotic Good Jazz #20 20 Live Albums I Love

Who else loves a good live album?

The 20th issue of Chaotic Good Jazz is now live on Substack, featuring 20 live albums your ears need to hear.

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Mesmerizing duo album by Iyer and Smith Vijay Iyer’s and Wadada Leo Smith’s second duo album is uncompromising and daring in its artistic pursuit of originality and beauty. Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life (ECM, 2025) You can…

“stunningly beautiful”

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Out now! ecm.lnk.to/DefiantLife

Roses are red
Violets are blue

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.