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Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth.

All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.

I know the cafe in Mullion Cove is fabulous. Because I’ve been there. Just saying.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

So she is admitting that you can actually identify as something other than what you were assigned at birth?

NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"

Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

So Trump was OK with his sex trafficker friend until he "stole" a 17-year-old girl from Trump's Mar-a-Lago spa. Got it.

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

In retrospect, weakness had one large advantage. Because American officers were trained to look ahead at a massive mobilization of all types of units, they gave great stress to matters of supply and lo-gistics. After all, unless troops were going to starve to death in basic training or go to war with broomsticks, these matters required thought. American officers shared the pragmatic character of their countrymen and were not hindered by any irrational cult of the war-rior. This has often been criticized. The Army approached its task in a very businesslike way. It wanted mobility, firepower, and staying power. That meant it planned an Army built around mechanization, artillery, and aircraft backed by a massive supply base. In many ar-mies, Japan was a prime example, matters of supply were looked upon as the realm of second-rate officers. If Hitler had chosen an American officer to lead the Wehrmacht into Russia, the Führer would have received lengthy memos concerning trucks, mud, high-viscosity motor oil, and dozens of other subjects of weighty bore-dom. The sort of officer who studied railway timetables before World War I was discredited in Germany, Japan, and Russia. This was not the case in the United States. Over time such an attitude paid off handsomely. Although the Army proved far too weak to create good infantry at the start of the war, when the machine finally began to roll in mid-1943, the results were impressive. When

I don’t think I’ve seen a cleaner summation of the American strengths in WW2 that contributed to Allied victory.

Approach over London #avgeek

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Up next, our story about the pilot who 'chose' to eject from a crashing aeroplane seconds before it exploded in a massive fireball as it hit the ground.

this reductive, sexist bullshit needs to fuck off until the end of time

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Digital artwork of the hydroplane Bluebird at speed before the wooded slopes of a lake

70 years ago today, Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record, after six years of trying. A new world record of 202mph was set, smashing the previous mark of 178mph
First Of Many depicts Donald Campbell in Bluebird on his way to the record on Ullswater. Prints available in due course

FIFA is considering moving the World Cup games to Canada in response to escalating fascism in the US.

Good. They should. And the Olympics should follow suit.

Refuse to normalize or reward fascism.

The US is not a safe place to visit & we should all vote with our dollar and go elsewhere.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened #riat25 #avgeek

The great James Doohan, gone 20 years ago today.

He once received a letter from a fan who had threatened suicide — and he reached out to her.

“To me, it was the best thing I ever did in my life.” 💕

#RIP

Working with the best ATC team in the world, another successful display delivered. Empty and quiet tower now, before the busy Monday of departures day. #avgeek #riat25

Elephants are born weighing 250lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for Transphobes.

616 was an Auxiliary Air Force squadron so perhaps likely to be an older average age as those joined pre-war had to pay for their own pilot licence? Only formed in 38 and converted to Spits Oct '39, so maybe some of those older pilots may still not have been very experienced in our eyes.

Uncanny.

Everyone and everything smelling of tobacco whether you smoked or not. Oh! And there never being a bin in a public place because the IRA kept blowing them up.

(I am not very nostalgic).

There's no justification for using Twitter, folks. Not saying you have to delete your account, but if you're actively using it... come on.

Imagine being commander-in-chief of the world’s largest military and still being afraid of Rosie O’Donnell.

A fascinating and very long thread exposing the situation in Bosnia in 1995. Seems an age ago now and mostly forgotten in the wider memory of the 90s.

WSJ reports news from two days ago and calls it an exclusive.

The @wsj.com is a fine publication filled with some of the world’s best journalists. It was a team I was honored to be a part of. But calling this “Exclusive” while citing our “earlier reported” work on paragraph 14 is self-important, unprofessional and most importantly inaccurate.