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Did a Brooklyn Couple Kill a Neighbor’s Trees for a Better View in Maine?

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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Stop Acting Like This Is Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

“Yuck”: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt The test grew out of a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference.

Hope?

Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament Mac fan paid $900 to color-match iconic Apple beige-gray “Platinum” plastic for everyone.

This gives me a weird amount of hope for the world.

POIDH…

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

A collage of six different high fashion outfits from the 2025 Met Gala.

MaineGeneral Health cutting mental health, disabilities services for children Advocates say key diagnostic services for children will be harder to obtain, placing the blame for the cuts on the Mills administration.

The newspaper is a pretty shitty way to find out about this: MaineGeneral Health cutting mental health, disabilities services for children
www.centralmaine.com/2025/05/05/m...
(Via Central Maine)

I’m tried off the mantra for my life being “you’re right, but there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won’t make good surrogates.

No surprise humans want the shiny thing instead of doing boring, useful work: “With Colossal’s budget, [we] could tackle the real threats to the survival of elephants: human-elephant conflict, loss of habitat and connectivity, poaching, and the spread of invasive plants unpalatable to elephants.”

These should be in every store, all the time, always.

Journalism certainly seems to be getting more cowardly.

I steadfastly refuse! 🎶

Technicalities save lives

People are sick of Democrats because with us, nothing is ever pure or easy. If one person takes offense, we’ll stop working on a policy or message that will help five people to avoid the offense. We are constantly playing the trolley problem—and losing.

Trump administration accidentally texted secret bombing plans to a reporter “Shocking recklessness” in leak of detailed Yemen bombing plan in Signal chat.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Would it be in poor taste to suggest something as simple as “known alcoholic suffers relapse at work”?

TIL I might be a coward: there was roadwork and a lane was closed. Traffic, predictably, merged before it needed or was “supposed” to. Rather than follow suit, I kept going to the cones and did the “zipper” merge the Internet says is better for everyone. The heart palpitations, tho’! Yikes!

Watch Elliott’s lifesaving CPR video myhrt.org/5t9h8 and support Elliott with a donation today! myhrt.org/5t9h9.

Watch Avery’s lifesaving CPR video myhrt.org/5t8x2 and support Avery with a donation today! myhrt.org/5t8x1.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The AccuWeather thing was from last term: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn...

Uninspired typography and page design are so disappointing. Don’t volunteer for something if you don’t know how to put in the effort.

Thoughts on what’d happen if Ukraine took the minerals deal to China?

Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash (Gift Article) After a monthlong honeymoon for the G.O.P. at the start of President Trump’s term, lawmakers are confronting a groundswell of fear and disaffection in districts around the country.

Hope? “But the pushback in recent days has come not only in highly competitive districts but also in deeply Republican ones, suggesting a broader problem for the party.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

A collage of a family enjoying their library books.

Successful library trip!

A closer look at federal records shows Musk’s claims are vastly overstated, and the $55 billion figure lacks any real documentation. Share to help stop the spread of misinformation.

Free advice for @nytimes.com:
Stop using “skeptic” when the correct term is “denier”

But I had to delete the original post—apparently there’s no edit feature yet…

@breeminneapolis.bsky.social ✅

A screen grab from the Headspace iOS application showing a 365-day run streak

Surely this means I’ve achieved transcendence:

The news is terrible and I hate it.