Tom Raia

YouTube video by Cahal Dunne - Topic The Pheasant Plucker

Happy first day of the Pittsburgh Irish Festival.

YouTube video by MrQuickSmoke Cheers - The Kelly Song

Cheers comfort post.

You had mail: AOL finally discontinues dial-up Internet service More than 40 years after starting as a very early Apple service, AOL is finally ending its dial-up Internet service, shuttering a service that helped usher in the Internet age for tens of millions of ...

You had mail: AOL finally discontinues dial-up Internet service
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This whole story is insane

Haven’t really been able to get into Yellowstone, but 1883 and 1923 were both just perfect. Yeah there’s some idiosyncrasies, but the stories are so well written, the casting is fantastic, and it’s worth it just for the score. But you could lose all that and just stare all day at the scenery. 🏞️

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.

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Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74 The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

RIP Bill Atkinson. An Apple legend.
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Depreciated Apple Filing Protocol will soon disappear from macOS Apple Filing Protocol is one of Apple's original file-sharing technologies. Its client software will soon be gone from macOS forever.

Nearly forgot about AFP but more importantly the Chooser!

Norm! 😢

1. This is incredible…everyone was saying the MS 13 was added to the photo as a translation of the symbols on his knuckles.

Now Trump is going against them and saying he actually has the MS 13 on his knuckles when that’s clearly a lie.

(Via @atrupar.com)

I’m on a Spirit airlines flight where the copilot never showed up. They know he’s on the airport property but unable to reach him. So they found a passenger who also happens to be a pilot and spent two hours begging the FAA to let him be the copilot. They said are you crazy? Had to get United pilot

Vermont

State Sen. Becca White, D-Windsor, a friend of Mohsen Mahdawi, was with him Monday morning when friends quizzed him on the Constitution.

He went into the 11 a.m. appointment with his lawyer and a friend. Around noon, she got a text from someone inside saying Mahdawi was put in handcuffs.

German stock market futures down 5%

Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 7%

Japan’s TOPIX down 9% after hitting a circuit breaker.

Australia’s ASX200 down 6%

Rep. Jayapal: "If you try to eliminate birthright citizenship, jail people for free speech, slash funding, use Cold War-era regulations to do mass deportations, then yeah. You're going to get nationwide injunctions. So maybe if you don't like the injunctions, stop doing the illegal stuff."

Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk — The Hill Susan Crawford was projected to win an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, keeping the high court’s 4-3 liberal majority intact and delivering a blow to Elon Musk and President Trump, accor...

I feel better about the money he wasted on this race.

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.

A gay makeup artist named Andry José Hernández Romero was among the Venezuelans President Trump deported to El Salvador. Andry’s offense? Having the wrong tattoos.

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Higgins boat, packed with soldiers, getting ready to land at Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.

On 6 June 1944, while Americans were fighting at Omaha Beach, Canadians were fighting at Juno Beach. Our brothers, who fought and died by our side – who helped us defeat Fascism, are not our enemy. They are our true friends. Canadians are our brothers and sisters and I stand with them 100%.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans — The Atlantic U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Why don’t they just live tweet their plans while they’re at it.

Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.

You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.

What I most remember about it is when it first came out there was a clip of Cusack and Black telling people to visit the high fidelity website. You didn’t really see that for a movie back then so it always stuck in my head as unique. I try finding it every time this movie pops up but never have.

Great job screwing up the Oscars, Hulu. Impressive.

Germany’s Merz seeks ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.

Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.

The front page of The Onion newspaper from July 20, 1969, that reads "HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON"

On This Day In History: July 20, 1969

Trump officials pitch Zelenskyy on U.S. owning 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals The Trump administration indicated U.S. troops could be deployed to provide security in connection with the minerals if there's a peace deal with Russia, sources told NBC News.

The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the U.S. be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, four U.S. officials say.

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

Wow that interception. Incredible. Go Birds!

Fly Eagles Fly! 🦅