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One cat, five guitars, twenty out of control house plants. Living in the Napa Valley for 30 years. (Any of you that are still on IRC, we have a chan (+30 yrs) at undernet #newsgarden. I'm CBI)
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My Congressman Mike Thompson is righteously pissed about the Padilla throwdown. Dude's fuming. Only other time I've seen him close to this pissed is when a gaggle of Tea Partiers showed up at an ACA roundtable with a bunch of hospital CEO's and started screaming vile shit in his face.

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A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

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Thanks www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/arti...

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I love the bottom of the second, two on, two out, 2-2 scenario. Have since I was a kid.

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Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island had a massive eruption yesterday

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Heh. Saw and ad for the new Samsung phone and happened to catch the small print toward the end. Said Galaxy AI/Gemini would be free for the rest of 2025. They added that crap to an update and totally bloatwared my phone, which already took forever to get rid of Bixby and the rest of their crap.

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www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa...

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For decades, there had been whispers of a vast trove of 20th-century guitars, in private hands, somewhere in the tri-state area. Now, for the first time, what is considered the world’s finest collection of vintage guitars will be showcased publicly.

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Oooh, kitty.

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Pairi Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, Belgium "At first, Yappah only built her nest when Dorianne was far away. Then, one day, she stayed. And kept building, with Dorianne watching. Now, she takes the branches directly from her hand. Branch by branch, a real bond has formed."

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Pretty good lookin egg, yeah?

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For those of you who want to enjoy the fact that rich people are no longer as rich as their balance sheets because of a lack of liquidity in private investments www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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