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Here’s What Happened When A Lost Kitten Wandered Onto A NYC Subway The cat distribution system comes for us all eventually.

Here’s What Happened When A Lost Kitten Wandered Onto A NYC Subway twistedsifter.com/2025/08/here...

Wherever Rep. Mike Flood goes, the Handmaids follow. Chanting, filming, staring. Like Gilead with better lighting. You vote to gut women’s rights, you get chased by the dystopia you built. Under His Eye, bro.

Yup

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US-Gesundheitsminister Kennedy streicht Gelder für mRNA-Impfstoffe Der als Impfskeptiker bekannte US-Gesundheitsminister Kennedy will eine halbe Milliarde Dollar an Bundesmitteln für die Entwicklung neuer mRNA-Impfstoffe streichen. Letztere hatten entschieden dazu be...

I know this is very childish of me, as “Gesundheitsminister” is a perfectly ordinary, respectful German word ... but to my Anglophone ear it just sounds like an evil troll from a Brothers Grimm tale who kidnaps children and makes them sneeze non-stop until they drop dead.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

6 August 1902 | A Polish Jew, Icek Miljoner, was born in Radomsko. A carpenter.

In #Auschwitz from 16 October 1941.
No. 21618
He perished in the camp on 2 November 1941.

Could they please tell their counterparts in Ottawa?

I don’t think he’s going for population control but I do think some of his sincerely held beliefs about vaccines and disease stem from a eugenics perspective, which is maybe worse

Viewers Like Us: A Love Letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Dear PBS, So, I don’t say this enough, but I really doggone love you. You launched my passion for history. You made me read more books. And you made me tolerate and almost become interested i…

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Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment” CEO Stockton Rush does not come off well.

Report: Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment.” CEO Stockton Rush does not come off well. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants

ICE was planning to offer bonuses to ICE agents for each person deported more quickly.

Giving people even less access to their procedural rights.

Gift article.

This Silliness of the "Cost of Thriving Index" In 2020, the Manhattan Institute published the Cost of Thriving Index (COTI).

Good roundup of critiques here: michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/this-silli...

2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index | American Compass American Compass's annual Cost-of-Thriving Index tracks the catastrophic erosion of middle-class life in America

He has an alternative inflation measure that ignores the ability to substitute goods in response to rising prices. americancompass.org/2023-cost-of...

MKX issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Aug 6, 3:35 AM CDT
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New studies of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS show that it's a lot smaller than those early estimates, which were really upper limits. Our interstellar visitor is no more than 5 km (3 miles) wide, probably smaller.

Which makes sense--small objects are a lot more common than big ones. 🧪🔭

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Help us hunt for the faintest galaxies in the universe! Check out the @zooniverse.bsky.social DELVE dwarf galaxy quest project 🔭🧪☄️✨ DELVE Dwarf Galaxy Quest: Milky Way Neighbors » About — Zooniverse share.google/9gsXG1HCBwv0...

One time my parents ride on lawnmower was missing from the closed (but not locked) garage, BUT the lawns were mowed. They waited a few hrs and then a neighbour showed up “hope it’s ok I borrowed your mower! Did your lawn while I was at it though”

AI result at the top of the search stack for "George Washington"

When you search "George Washington" on Google, the AI result which comes back (a) immediately corrects your spelling even if you spelled it right; and (b) returns that dumb AI pic which imagines what Washington would look like if he were president today.

The future is so dumb.

MADISON WI Aug 5
Climate Report:
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Low: 55
Precip: 0.0"
Snow: 0.0" Snow Depth: 0"
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Truly amazing.

help now my spouse is having me committed again.

Photograph of a Little Wattlebird surrounded by green foliage. The bird is brown, grey, and white, with a black beak and grey eyes. Much of the surrounding foliage - foreground and background - is out of focus, creating a soft vignette effect.

Little Wattlebird in a grevillea plant.
#birds

You are likely thinking of Biontech a German startup that is now publicly traded. They are not a subsidiary of any other company.
Lots of mRNA research is happening outside of the US, does not mean the US cuts won't leave a big gap.

A starfield has the Andromeda galaxy in the center. Streaking down from the top is a green line with several bright segments -- a meteor captured coincidently. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Meteor before Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

6 August 1921 | A Pole, Jan Kubas, was born in Przemyśl.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 648
He perished in the camp in 1942.

*deep sigh* yeah.

God, I'm just struggling with the fact that even if we could tell that story to every American, the only takeaway would be 'commies bad.'

Ten bucks says one of the Ivies names a new building after him on RFK's orders.

Lots of people are about to learn the name Trofim Lysenko

Feeling a sudden pained bolt of empathy shoot through my soul for Nikolai Vavilov.

Thus always under tyrants.