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Good News! 28 states have publicly rejected Kennedy’s vaccine schedule.

They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians.

🧪 www.kff.org/state-health...

Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

Trump accused of ‘corruption, plain and simple’ after UAE invested in family firm White House says president is not involved in running his businesses. Ethics experts remain concerned

Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars.

And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Humans welcome to observe: This social network is for AI agents only Launched Wednesday, Moltbook has already sparked fascination in the AI community as advanced bots — agents — converse. Its creator says an AI is in charge.

Huh… I wonder how this will play out…

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

I’m normally a spectator when it comes to using my #hamradio privileges but with all that’s happening in the news I think I might go attend a couple of club events this field day (1/24) and get Winlink working on HF. Good insurance if a disaster strikes.

Am I the only one that thinks this cartoon by Charles Addams (the guy who created the Addams family) is legitimately creepy?

The bloody amazing part is how many people on Washington LET HIM! Did they see him as an easy gravy train or are they onboard with his ‘ideas’?

I consider Trump-Russia to be one and the same. He's been working for RU since the '80s. Well documented: KGB/RU mob groomed him, buying Trump Tower condos for illegal activities; he laundered money in his casinos. Made it to Reagan's Iran-Contra deals. Par for the Trump/Epstein criminal enterprise.

OMG, dead on. He’s got George Liquor eyes…

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Yeah, have fun. It’s a collage and a derivation of a work. Go for it.

I would have to say that he should expect a bit more in his pay envelope for this one. He’s done a bang up job of kneecapping the USA’s world clout. Perfect for getting his masters into a good position to carve up the world.

Lalalalalala! I’m not listening to your crazy talk! Give me snacks! #cats

Playing with colored lights. Pixel looks annoyed that I’m taking her photo…

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

A black and white image of an old saguaro cactus with a bird perched on it. The image is in infrared, so it has a lot of contrast.

Cactus and its bird. #Infrared photo taken in #Phoenix #Az on a Yashica #FD-X100

I missed all but the last 10 minutes, I’ll try again tomorrow. Thanks for doing the show.

Left: Arrowhead's dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) views. The dorsal side has a reddish poisonous adhesive residue. Center: Closeup images of the microscopic impact scars along the ventral edge of the arrowhead. Right: An approximately 2000-year-old arrowhead from South Africa with transversely hafted arrowhead. Credit: Marlize Lombard/University of Johannesburg

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social archaeologists discovered that South African hunter-gatherers were using poison arrows coated with plant toxins (Boophone disticha) to hunt prey as far back as the Pleistocene! 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Screenshot from Washington Week showing a news segment discussing why President Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign but later hired Russell Vought. A male news analyst appears on screen in front of the White House at night.

A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

A closeup of a Christmas tree featuring lights, R2D2, the starship Enterprise, the TARDIS and a stained glass ornament made by one of my kids.

Seasons greetings and happy holidays to everyone! Let’s hope that 2026 makes more sense than 2025 did.

Show that scofflaw that he needs to stop wearing his ‘babies first dictator’ hat out in public.

It’s as if he’s copying what China does, saying that China was at X years before everyone else. Gee, I guess he got the ‘Wanna be Dictator Guide Book’ that Putin and Xi sent him for Chanukah.

Comic. [Person running on a giant round toward a pole vaulting crossbar; a long pole bent in an arch from the ground, over the crossbar, to the ground again, with person climbing it upside down over the crossbar; person runs to catch up with a long poll rolled into a circle and tied that is rolling toward the crossbar, jumps to catch it, hanging off as it spins, and then is flung over the crossbar when it approaches.] [caption] Fun fact: There are no limits on the length or diameter of the pole in pole vault.

Pole Vault Pole

xkcd.com/3183/

Si, correcto! It won’t change the message one bit.

That’s the most accurate and truthful statement I’ve read all day. Nope, it’s not going to change the quality of the regime on smidge.

I picked these up today while sitting in my car.
I was using an ATS-Mini si4732 radio with a small amplifier attached to a 20m ham stick style antenna. I fed the audio into my phone via an earbud pressed into the microphone hole very high tech #sstv #si4732 #atsmini #hamradio

A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.

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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express

This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris

Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

A tabby can looks down on the camera and there is a Christmas tree in the background

Pixel wants to remind everyone that cats like Christmas gifts too! #cats

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!