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Time for your truth pill. Maybe hard to swallow, but trust me, it's gonna help you get better.

INVENTOR: ive got a great new toy idea for you, it's called... the Radio Flyer

TOY EXEC: oh wow, so it's like a plane that flies via... radio?

INVENTOR: it's not a plane

TOY EXEC: oh...Kay, so it's

INVENTOR: its a little red wagon

TOY EXEC: with ... a radio on it?

INVENTOR: theres no radio

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Gen Zalphas: lol who still has a printer?

Also Gen Zalphas: hey I'm forwarding a PDF form I need you to print out for me

How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’ The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

"Legalize comedy."

Dr. Frankenstein warning the village while continuing development on the Monster.

Getting excited for the Sioux Falls Juneteenth cookout tomorrow.

Even the anthropomorphism in this cartoon is part of the baggage.

Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.

Actually listening to women telling you it hurts and believing them... What a groundbreaking concept! 🙄

The medical world has a long way to go in addressing misogyny and racism.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Tell me again why Vishnu Bunny had to GTFO last summer with barely 30 days' notice? 8 months in and still boarded up. What was once a jewel in the crown of downtown is now a bloody eyesore. New owners should be fined for every day it sits empty, counting from day one. Do better, Sioux Falls!

Edda Fields-Black Wins Pulitzer For Groundbreaking Book On Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River Raid Edda Fields-Black, a Miami native, won the Pulitzer for her emphasis on first-hand accounts of the Combahee River Raid.

Bought it. www.blackenterprise.com/edda-fields-...

So tired of breathlessly hyperbolic YouTube headlines. I'm not even blaming the content creators per se, it's YT that almost forces them into creating wildly misleading video titles just to stand out from the crowd. And no, it's not just political stuff, it's camera stuff and computer stuff too.

I absolutely love my Bombas grippy slippers.

Same. When I had mine in August I didn't sell much, but what I sold came with some nice compliments. And a very good friendship came out of it as well.

Forgot to mention Geddy in my previous post...

My initial thought was, wow, I'm surprised Bezos is allowing that. But I think his losses due to tariffs will be greater than his fealty to the one who put them in place.

Me listening to Jaco, Victor, Verdine, Nile, Mohini et al.

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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If Sting recorded "Englishman in New York" today it would be about having his green card revoked and getting deported.

Pope Francis: "It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

DOGE Oil Executive Put in Charge of National Park Service DOGE now has 'free rein' over NPS and BLM forest management, wildfire preparation, financial management, training, and more.

Called it. gearjunkie.com/outdoor/doge...

Truly a showstopper.

Google AI learns to speak dolphin Now this is the sort of application of AI that really intrigues me. Researchers have developed DolphinGemma, the first large language model (LLM) for understanding dolphin language. It could help us t...

Google Translate: "So long, and thanks for all the fish." newatlas.com/biology/buil...

Idea for "soft resistance": blend speaking like Bob & Doug McKenzie into normal conversation.