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The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska

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Who wore it better?

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You can make a meaningful donation to Ukraine yourself, right here. u24.gov.ua

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How ordinary Americans became numb to authoritarianism—step by chilling step… hartmannreport.com/p/the-normal...

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This is America: Episode 17: TACO Tuesday 🌮🐔 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

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At Xcel Energy’s Sherco Solar project, thousands of solar panels stretch across a field of native plants and flowers. If those plants grow too tall, they could block the sun. Xcel is getting help from hundreds of sheep, which graze beneath the solar panels and keep the vegetation tidy.

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Tibby! Undated postcard from my collection.

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New anti-drug PSA

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ChatGPT o4-mini-high wrote me a wonderful Nagios plugin in Perl to use SNMP to monitor for AC compressor high head pressure alarm events on a Liebert. Took a second prompt to tweak the input options. Looks like something fancy someone published on the Nagios Exchange. Even has a usage help output. 🤓

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Quote of the day. The challenged Tariff Orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined.

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T-24 hours until lift off. Are you ready? Around this time tomorrow our 65th Electron rocket will be on its way to orbit to deploy the latest of BlackSky's new high-res Gen-3 satellites to its constellation. Find out more: rocketlabcorp.com/next-mission

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this is where i live btw

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A NEW DEEP FIELD FROM JWST 🤩🌌 some of these galaxies may have existed as early as 200 MILLION years after the big bang!

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No thoughts just fluff.

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BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

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yay it's done! ⭐🪐☕Space Nighthawks 🚀🐱🥞🌃 the print is up too www.inprnt.com/gallery/spac...

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From @rhersher.bsky.social A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

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"On Tyranny" will be #2 on the NYT paperback and #13 in the combined e-book and paperback this week. I am glad it’s useful. New hardback is just out. And free posters to use and share are here. timothysnyder.org/resources/

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Wings like whispers, eyes like fire. Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography

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There are people that actually read and believe all of Donald Trump’s social media posts

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Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

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The Crash Course Coin--which is essential for funding Crash Courses in subjects from sex ed to religion to political theory--is not a meme coin. It is a coin. A physical coin. We send it to you as thanks for helping thousands of people learn with Crash Course. Get yours: crashcoursecoin.com

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Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...

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