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A CoinStar receipt, of $11.95 in coins including 425 pennies, donated to Feeding America.

Two things at once:

- Get pennies back into circulation
- Donate to food banks

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

Mostly vampires.

Tonight's Dem victories show we’re a big tent party that wins when we fight for the people—affordability, healthcare, & democracy.

Grateful for every candidate, organizer, & voter.

I feel so hopeful & resolved to keep defending our communities & governing like lives depend on it, because they do.

I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

This has to be one of the greatest gags in schism history

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Remembering the end of Practical Magic when every woman in town gathers together to exorcise the evil, sweep its vaporized remains out of the house, and then get drunk on margaritas.

I want that for all of us. We deserve it.

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:

Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.

#NoKings

Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Per Capita Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decreased in Every US State between 2005 & 2023 - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Per capita CO2 emissions from primary energy consumption decreased in every state from 2005 to 2023, according to recently…

Per capita CO₂ emissions have declined in every state in America. Between 2005 and 2023, energy-related CO₂ emissions per person declined in all 50 US states. The nationwide average drop was 29%, a major structural change in the world’s second-largest emitter. buff.ly/GOf44Ie
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

A menu sign in a cafe advertising a buffalo carnitas quesadilla titled “BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO”, an example of how the word “buffalo” can be repeated any number of times and still be a grammatical sentence

Revival Cafe in Cambridge embracing the infinite buffalo

That’s odd - I picked up a box of Auras at a Cambridge CVS a few weeks ago.

Love this. Churches ringing their bells for protests & popular uprisings has a long history. Out my window is Florence’s Badia bell tower, built 978 CE but rebuilt in 1330 because the tower was demolished in 1255 as punishment for ringing its bells to support a workers’ revolt 💪🔔

Hybrid workers… so ants came up with the concept of mules long before humans did.

This is why I’ve been donating to Democracy Forward since the election.

They understood the assignment. They studied Project 2025 and prepared lawsuits.

I saw tentworms doing that a couple weeks ago and it was fascinating

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

The book “Inventing the Renaissance”, as seen by a person in a hammock on a sunny day in the New Hampshire forest

Spent the week camping in New Hampshire. “Inventing the Renaissance” by @adapalmer.bsky.social is excellent hammock reading.