Erratic Reader

I am not mechanically competent, but someone needed to clean the heads on the VCR at the library's digital conversion station.
When I opened it up, this donated machine had a thick layer of brown dirt inside. I cleaned it with canned air, and a dessicated spider came out.
Feeling sneezy.

You plan ahead of time, then you implement. This should ha e been worked out before the stupid "Liberation Day."
It still wouldn't have worked, but it would have been a lot less destabilizing.

But if someone (esp. if that someone is not White) has a "hiccup" with their papers, Johnson & Co. won't extend any grace.

Police officers go unmasked and have name tags while working in jurisdictions where they live. Neighbors might run into them at the grocery store. These federal agents don't live in these communities. They could at least have badge numbers on their uniforms.

Glad some people are putting the brakes on this.

David Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer for reporting on how Trump DID NOT give the money to charities that he claimed/promised. RIP @washingtonpost.com
www.pulitzer.org/winners/davi...

It would be laughable if the stakes weren't so high.

Columbus didn't sing in English.

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My kid's school provides take-home meals to fasting students. This makes me happy.

The brown one looks like toast.

If I want to read AI slop, can't I just generate my own in a day? What do I need her for?

What a sad, small weirdo.

"It's free."

The bill is narrow. VA directly sets the condition that it may do this only when another state redraws its lines befor the usual decennial review.

We will follow the regular order unless others start screwing with it.

It is so hilariously endearing when kids do this.
But only In hindsight.

I like how narrow the bill is. VA directly sets the condition that it may do this only when another state redraws its lines befor the usual decennial review.

We will follow the regular order unless others start screwing with it.

So simple and so powerful.

I wore gloves during a TV news spot on archives once because "people expect it."

I love weird souvenirs and this squishy bear keychain I picked up from Brontë patronage gift shop is one of my favorites. My theory is was that the red dots in the bear’s body symbolize tuberculosis.

This is stunningon a couple of levels.

I made popcorn in a pot on the stove and it puts that microwave and movie theater stuff to shame.
Pairs nicely with Sauvignon Blanc.

But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears.

Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

All men are not this way. My husband did all he could, from massaging me during pregnancy, switching "shifts" with me when the baby had colic, & taking over dinners when my work schedule got wonky. Men are perfectly capable of not being shitbags. This behavior is unacceptable. Hope she gets help.

Delicious.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

If he hadn't publicly called Somalis and Haitians terrible things, if he did not post and say racist, sexist, and just about every other -ist things regularly, if he hadn't been fact checked 10s of thousands of times for lying, some folks might give him the benefit of the doubt.
There is no doubt.

How much money has the government spent detaining, undetaining, and moving people around? How many people who are threats to Americans' safety (unlike Liam Ramos) could have been jailed or deported using that money?