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President Trump is up on the roof of the White House and still taking questions from reporters: REPORTER: "Mr. President, what are you doing up there? TRUMP: "Taking a little look!" An American original.

President Trump is now shouting answers to questions from reporters on the White House rooftop. 🤣 Once in a lifetime president.

The dude is 79 years old and climbing on roofs! LOL!

REPORTER: "Mr. President, what are you doing up there?" PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Taking a little look!" Another classic 🤣

MAGA influencers are raving about Trump walking on a roof:

"An American original"
"🤣 Once in a lifetime president."
"79 years old and climbing on roofs! LOL!"
"Another classic 🤣"

Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff

Trump on roof

Trump on roof

(h/t @helenkennedy.bsky.social)

ISM Services PMI Employment index since 2005

ISM Services Prices index (advanced 3m) vs core PCE 3m/3m. The ISM Prices index implies core PCE near 4%.

ISM New Orders index for past 20y

This was a *very* bad report. Employment down, implies ~4% annualized core PCE, and demand is clearly weak given new orders.

*US JULY ISM SERVICES PMI FALLS TO 50.1 FROM 50.8; EST. 51.5

Experts, underwater basket weavers, can't fix a pipe: "this will blow the economy up in six months"

You, a genius, five months later: "HAHAHA IDIOTS IT'S BEEN FIVE MONTHS WHERE'S THE BOOM"

Harry Potter Audiobooks Reveals Cast Led By Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed & Michelle Gomez; Cush Gumbo To Narrate; Release Dates Set Pottermore Publishing and Audible are unveiling the star-studded cast lineup for Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

Welp. That's Dr. House in the bin...

Cuomo promises "things will get worse" when it comes to terrorism and mass protest, which is why he wants to expand the cops who I have personally witnessed breaking a dozen or so bones for absolutely no reason. Mamdani is right. SRG is a waste of money. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/04/c...

If you’re calling to strengthen the police state to crack down on mass protests, then you’re just trying to make it harder to oppose Trump’s authoritarianism.

No Democrat should support that.

Yes, and this also applies to before Trump took office. All the crackdowns on student protests under Biden paved the way for Trump 2.0's accelerated authoritarianism.

Trump on his EU trade deal: "The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want with it."

“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally Remember to check for ticks after your next stroll through the woods or long grasses.

“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

A new Trump trope that's in brain now

"I saved China"

he trotted it out again this morning

US imports from China in the last month we have data for (June) were the lowest since the GFC

Folks, George W Bush was an absolutely TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE President. PLEASE understand this.

Not "worse than Trump" in an objective sense but the experience of going from the 1990s to the 2000s was a much steeper fall from stability and prosperity than going from post GFC to Trump

Brooke Rollins leaves open the possibility that the Trump administration might try to ban native born Chinese-Americans from buying farmland

Chilling.

Rollins: there are always "exceptions" but we have to "change the rule"...Obviously if someone's been here multiples of generations there's no issue...but we've gotta start somewhere."

It's true that lowering capacity factors for fossil gas generators helps, but I think even most energy wonks don't appreciate how much methane is emitted from the supply chain that feeds those generators. It's enormous and the leaks are about the same whether the plant runs 80% or 20% of the time.

Furthermore, the primary way that transitions happen is by lowering the capacity factors of FF sources. Not shutting down resources, but utilizing them less and less. This isn't a horrible thing from the standpoint of maintaining stability for rare climactic events. ...

This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why

If Joe Biden had told a cable show that non-whites were made for farm labor and insisted his approval rating was in the 70s and then climbed onto the roof of the fucking White House …

Rebuttals to Criticisms of Rules-Heavy TTRPGs Also be sure to check out the contrasting defense of rules lite games! Why Complexity Isn’t a Flaw Defending Depth, Structure, and the Joy of Mastery Tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) offer a mix of creativity, strategy, and storytelling, but there’s often a rift between rules-light and rule

I didn't just write a defense of rules light games. I rebut common criticisms of rules heavy games too! The only hot take here is TTRPGs are wonderful and variety is great! Come see why I think rules heavy games don't deserve the heat.
thoughtpunks.com/reb...

#TTRPG #Blog

The BIG problem is because of massive car manufacturing influence, most media and political energy is going to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars and less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, since it’s the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

I'm far too chill for a crisis but I think I might be going through some kind of mid-life kerfuffle.

AYFKM Herrmann? If you need me, I'll be walking into the sea.

November 2011

I quit.

I no longer write cyberpunk. I now find I write current day fiction. The sad thing? The horror I write seems nicer than the actual neo-futurism we now live it. It's not scary, dark, and cool. It's just...gross? yeah.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?