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Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh on fire 😕

This evening!

Photo of a guy in a kayak or canoe smiling and giving a thumbs up. He has a mustache, and a blue zip fleece, and is wearing a Sierra Nevada hat.

Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...

No wonder he had to join ICE.

Dumb and violent? Have we got a job for you…

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Thou shalt not use tariffs to tax working class Americans and then pretend the money is being paid by foreign countries.

NewWire tweets: "Americans set to pay more for cars, coffee, adn clothing as average U.S. tariff rate jumps to high not seen since Great Depression — WaPo"

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

Mexico says the US is welcome to fight cartels within US territory and carry out their war anywhere else. President Sheinbaum rejects any US operations within Mexican territory, assures, that any fighting Trump plans on doing will need to be elsewhere or his side of the border.

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Liar Liar

Ted Cruz who stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun while Texans froze to death needs to shut the hell up!

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

This venomous fish is invading the Mediterranean. One solution? Eat them. Lionfish have no natural predators and reproduce on a massive scale. Can the Mediterranean diet adapt to help limit their spread?

The venomous lionfish have no natural predators and reproduce on a massive scale.

To slow the spread, environmentalists are trying to build demand for buying and eating them — emphasizing that, yes, they are delicious fried or in soup.

I’m not surprised

Welp

Record-setting rains in Wisconsin led to life-threatening flash flooding in Milwaukee and the surrounding area overnight Saturday to Sunday, prompting widespread flood alerts and the early closure of the Wisconsin State Fair. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

Trump considering deploying up to 1,000 National Guard to D.C. The number of Guard who would be assigned is still in flux, the officials say, and most of the troops would likely be pulled from the D.C. National Guard.

Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. We’re far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust... 🥺 #cat #catday #bluesky

Why don’t we just hand Texas, Florida, or Oklahoma to Russia? We can call it a “territory swap” for goodwill. Americans can just leave and go somewhere else or live under Russian rule. Absurd, right? Stop suggesting people should just give up their home to an invader.