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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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"A correction was made on Sept. 9, 2014: An earlier version of a summary with this article misstated the former title of Dick Cheney. He was vice president, not president."

Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.

@jackifus.bsky.social it’s settled.

“The report argues that future Democratic administrations must “flip the risk profile and prioritize fights worth having,” including “leaning into controversy” to facilitate “breaking through” and demonstrating that government is “on the side of regular people.””

Okay!

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

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Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review DECATUR, IL—A three-member panel of 10-year-old Michael Nogroski’s fellow classmates at Nathaniel Macon Elementary School unanimously agreed Tuesday that his 327-word essay "Otters" did not meet the r...

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Is that…Alice Cooper? No thank you, I shall decline to google. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUo...

Woof. Rough one. archive.ph/2025.10.28-1...

All muppets except for ONE human actor.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Eh. 1500 year gap, bring the drama.

Mar Awa is also from Chicago and went to Jesuit Loyola for undergrad. I wish his wiki had more information on his favorite sports’ teams so we could get to the bottom of this international scandal.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa_III

Schism: Now guaranteed.

Oh! He is a Sox fan!

I wonder if the patriarch is a Sox fan and we’ll have a new schism.

Some deeply telling quotations in here, such as “During the interview, Bovino said, “I take my orders from the executive branch.” That statement, according to the court filing, “suggests disdain for this Court’s authority to enjoin his unlawful conduct.””

There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(

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@jackifus.bsky.social

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Oct. 23, 1947: An Appeal to the World The NAACP sent to the U.N. a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens.

#tdih 1947

The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.

Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

No kings except for Bubbles

I think to make it more fair Ohtani should go play for the Brewers for the last two innings.

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