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Dyyyinnnnng! No idea how it landed in my feed, but it is SO accurate 😭 Need to leave actual breadcrumbs to escape this parking lot...
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This is Horus. He got a lot of attention on a recent flight in Mexico. Clearly the other passengers have never flown with someone so handsome. 14/10 we're told he was very well behaved (TT: denniabuendagalvn, paulinagtza_, cheetahbash, cristianjbetancourt)

Flyer for event with headshots of JB Pritzker and Billy Ray captioned WHAT SHOULD THE DEMS DO NOW? IL. GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER AUGUST 18, 2025 IN CONVERSATION WITH BILLY RAY THE EBELL OF LOS ANGELES WRITERSBLOCPRESENTS.COM CELEBRATING 30 YEARS

LA folks! Writers Bloc is hosting JB Pritzker and @billyray5229.bsky.social at the Ebell on 8/18. If you’ve never been to a Writer’s Bloc event, you’re missing out. Go see the Great Khan of Illinois before he conquers Texas.

Tickets available here: writersblocpresents.com/main/jb-prit...

Florida, unlike the federal government, can be sued for civil rights violations and punished with monetary damages.

I've hit the "I'm not altogether sure I'm not at fault for being unable to find work, and all of my life decisions were trash" stage, myself...
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Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

Texas Democrats Evacuate After Bomb Threat At Chicago Hotel "This is what happens when Republican state leaders publicly call for us to be 'hunted down,'" one Texas Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday.

A group of Texas Democrats who fled the state to prevent Republicans from gerrymandering had to evacuate their Chicago hotel due to a bomb threat

Italian regulator hits Shein with 1 million euro greenwashing fine Italy's competition authority (AGCM) imposed a 1 million euro ($1.16 million) fine on China-founded online fast fashion retailer Shein on Monday for misleading customers about the environmental impact of its products.

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While I'm complaining about job search: f'ing LI Groups already 🙄 There's some secondary benefit to joining them, access to the individuals in the same group via Message (at least, used to be). But IMO they just encourage posting junk for posting's sake, & no way to hide the junk posts in your feed.

oh is tourism down across the board in the united states, that’s crazy

our new slogan “we will throw you in a fucking prison camp” doesn’t seem to be gaining traction with the tourism sector

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

love that, this many years on, I still get to complain about companies preferring entry level(ish) candidates with experience in x but no indication of how else one is supposed to get experience in x other than working in a role like the one they are hiring for... which asks for previous experience

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Arguably the greatest thing ever committed to print

Really interesting to look at the charts from around this time--they included Donna Summer and Chic, but also The Cars and Supertramp. And at the same time, here comes Bauhaus...

I'm now going to be pissed off about this dumbass "use case" all day--I overthink EVERYTHING & am pretty ok with my ability to text someone I know well that I'm running late, all on my own. Something has gone seriously wrong with society that this is a thing.

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

NEW: A team of security researchers have successfully pulled off the first-known instance of using prompt injection against an AI tool carry out an attack involving physical devices. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/google...

HHS slashes funding for mRNA vaccine development | CNN US Health and Human Services is “winding down” its mRNA vaccine development and will instead fund other vaccine platforms through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the agency...

My comments and interview with CNN this evening amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...

also they think it’s god’s will who lives and dies. it’s eugenics.

Tammy Bruce: "Beginning August 20, nationals of Malawi and Zambia applying for B1, B2, business ,and tourist visas will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000."

There are 1K+ copies that they were supposed to send me and kept putting off and putting off and now “oops out of time to send them to you ooooopsieees we’re such silly gooses aren’t we toying with your LIVELIHOOD” which makes me sus that like many others they were actually unreported sales

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

During the French Revolution in order to standardize what a meter is the government posted these on public walls so people could establish whether their measuring sticks were actually meters! This is the last surviving one of 15 originals.

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

So DeSantis decided to break Florida law (don't laugh, don't laugh) to hide the contracts for building 'Alligator Alcatraz'  talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

also this episode, where the inhabitants of the planet are "brainwashed" by the computer they are linked to, forgetting people that definitely existed & convinced their ever-altering situation has never changed (for the worse)
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a shadow of a robot is cast on the table ALT: a shadow of a robot is cast on the table

been thinking a lot about the Stargate SG-1 replicator storylines lately... no reason...
#AnEpisodeForEverything

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Do you follow baseball? Do you not follow baseball? It does not matter. Please listen to Phillies announcer John Kruk, with the team up by ten runs and not much happening, talking about what he learned at the Franklin Institute. You will not be sorry.

“This despair feels infinite and is therefore predictable and safe. Instead of living in some diaphanous house of cards built out of positivity and mutual respect, I’m living in an unheated, unlit cave at the base of a gloomy mountain called woe.”

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’

Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...