Sean

Given that we share over 99% of our DNA, everyone has West African dna

Yeah, I get there are a lot of people who stayed late in the office to keep cool

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

Now I'm picturing buskers playing yakety sax as the feds chase some rando all around Pike place

Years ago we panicked when we could find a foster cat in the small bathroom she was in.... Until we opened a drawer and she sat up wondering what we were doing

@kelseyhightower.com Watching you at Platform con 2025, first saw you at Dockercon 2015... I love that you're still putting music in your command lines

If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487
girightshotline.org

25 years of living with cats and until just this year never saw a cat do that. But our newest special girl reacts just that way when we stroke the bridge of her nose.

So cute!

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

If you want to improve your mask game, or are just looking for more information on how to choose a good respirator, I’ve got you covered.

My article explores how to find a good mask, how to fit test, how to don & doff and more:

www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witne...

Oh look, you get an amateur diplomat whose only accomplishments are being a dodgy real estate developer and it turns out they’re in over their head.

Too many tech people are terrible at communicating. And for some reason they end up being the leads

I'd hate to see what analogy they would use for C values, pointers and handles... Yeah the wall of string

Yeah, I understand what they're talking about and find the metaphor confusing

I'm just helping out until the stage coach shows up... Or sometime like that

We know how to kill every virus in existence... What we don't know is how to do it and keep the host alive

Now you started my wife singing that... Kitten girl kitten girl...

Oh please...please let her be Rasputin.... It ended so well

The Guardian - US VP Vance’s team had the outflow of a lake in Ohio changed to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels

Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 people sickened Florida health officials say 21 people, including six children, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk, and seven were hospitalized.

The reason we pasteurize milk is to ensure it does not kill you.

Cover of the book Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

They will use it to run their prison colony...

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

And people who can afford better bots get the better jobs...

Happy TOSS Birthday to Wah Chang, unheralded creator of many things, including the Laser pistol, tricorder, Talosian head makeup, and much more. Going uncredited because he wasn't in the union, so they couldn't legally hire him to do design work. Crazy story. #TOSSatNight

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

Amen

I'm gonna start a nuclear war if you don't stop talking about EPSTEIN!

It's worse, Trump has hated wind farms for decades. Before he was getting bribes from oil. It's pure pettiness, IIRC he's sued Scotland for 'ruining' a golf course because the permitted wind farms you can't even see from the golf course

So, just 2 friends of Jeffrey Epstein having out?