Mike Stucka

YouTube video by Nino Loner A 'science' experiment with a fake hand ;)

I'm delighted for the good news and brighter day.

If you need a weirder look into the human mind, here's an arm jumping when it's a fake, rubber arm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=14A0...

WOW. Rep. Glenn @ivey.house.gov: I just got back from Selma for the Bloody Sunday anniversary. We toured old slave quarters, they looked like what we just saw upstairs [in ICE holding facility]. In fact, they might've been a little bit better than what we saw upstairs."

Just shy of a month ago.

I have been accused of being a nerd and of being able to share fertilizer, but few seem to regard those as a double positive. =( =)

Chart from linked article, showing what % of of each major fertilizer type (nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium) the US imports, 2000-2024. N has gone down from 21% imported to 6%. Phosphorus is a little up from 2% to 13%. Potassium has gone from 76% to 94%.

The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use.

The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA.

When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran.

So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS.

farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...

Weird that story doesn't actually mention the nixed implementation of safety recommendations from the crash that's mentioned in the story.

NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship

A refresher on what Rubio once said about the Jan. 6 insurrection that Tarrio helped provoke:

"3rd world style anti-American anarchy"

“disgusting”

“unpatriotic"

“inexcusable”

"national embarrassment"

"one of the saddest days in our history"

I met a Cujo yesterday. She was nice.

Wait, there's mountains?

Why are the Taliban here?

Why aren't the Kurds helping us?

I like how it's just strikes in a place, untied to any sort of actual strategy.

This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”

I'm sorry what? Why?

The price of oil is spiking tonight.

It's up 50% just *this weekend.*

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio meets with Secretary Rubio

Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump pardoned them.

Tarrio and his men planned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tarrio even claimed credit for it, messaging others: “Make no mistake…We did this…”

Now he’s meeting with Sec. Rubio.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

This is an extraordinary reporting job by 2 Charleston journalists, meticulously fact-checking the Epstein victim who has accused Trump of abusive behavior.

Bottom line: Many details of what she told the FBI check out, though none relate directly to Trump.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Excellent, and thank you, and sorry. =)

Your parenthetical: It's kind of impressive how much worse a person her daddy was. If you need to scream for a while the critical search is: le pen hitler youth knife.

My son you will never meet On December 31, at a routine OB appointment, the doctor couldn’t find our baby’s heartbeat.

“This way, we got to see him. To hold him. To say goodbye face to face.

That was two months ago.”

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It's on nurse sharks -- maybe we're supposed to shuffle our feet as we approach the link?

Unravelling the skin of the nurse shark: A morphological description of the placoid scales of Ginglymostoma cirratum - PubMed Ginglymostoma cirratum, commonly known as the nurse shark, is a nocturnally active benthic shark, often found in western and eastern Atlantic waters. Although this shark has been well explored in many biological aspects, few studies have thoroughly examined the morphology of its dermal denticles (or …

That appears to be the correct DOI but the link doesn't work from there or PubMed.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744195/

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

I was not expecting a Google product to be looking like the craycray scamming of the Alex Jones Show.

I was watching a video on a guitar head repair on YouTube last night -- and my God, there were two very long and very insane health advertisements geared toward old people in the first like, seven minutes? Biblical treatments for toenail fungus was one, I think.

Remember when the dictator of Syria was tooling around a warzone driving a Honda? Something to be said for hiding in plain sight. In the United States, at least, there's a sizable vault in every school system's office. I've got a closed bank branch two miles from my house.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Reminding myself that the ability to still be shocked - for our hearts to continue to recoil and break anew - is a good thing.

May we never, ever get used to this, until the day we don’t have to.

That's a follow!

The two main data sources for federal government contracts: Sam.gov and USASpending.com.

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If you missed this #NICAR26 talk I suggest taking a look at these slides as there's a lot of great data out there on government contracts.

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