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Ask your doctor if you’re eligible for an anti-depressant that hits as hard as a rainbow in the cabin of a Honda City Cabriolet

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You do not, in fact, have to wait until paragraph 5 of this story to explain that cod liver oil is not, in fact a "remedy" in any way www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

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America peaked with van art

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A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

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My friend, over morning coffee: "Ridehail companies say surge pricing is good b/c the higher prices attract more drivers, which increases supply. OK, but then what's the point of surge pricing for robotaxis, which have no drivers?" Good question.

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Tiny toes! Eastern chipmunk ....

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things are far from ok, but a major loss in the first major case during the peak move fast and break things phase of a fascist takeover is a big deal actually. Them getting this one would have a resounding message that Congress is no longer a thing and it's a fully captive nation

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Variations on a theme. Grown right here!

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Redbubble bootleg Crass shirts is so funny on like 10 levels

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NGC 1514 (MIRI image). M. Hakan Özsaraç Science NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...

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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management! Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

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I spent some time with this nice Northern Pygmy-Owl this morning. #birds #owls #nature

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JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

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if your party leadership cannot galvanize a popular movement against a guy this despised, they should not be in politics.

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hey, if you’re like me and run a labeler where you’ve been graciously applying hand crafted labels to people’s accounts, i made an open source bot that will do this for you and you’re welcome to use it it even automates the grace

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Actual work has started on a suburb in Utrecht that will have space for 12,000 residents, three schools, two supermarkets, offices, restaurants and a gym – but no cars. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/03/work...

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A few years ago, I drove to see Harold Budd play the Toledo Ohio Museum of Art, towards the end of his life (although I did not know it at the time). He gave a lecture the day after the performance. In the lecture, he said that he had known Albert Ayler(!) when they were both in the army(!). 1/2

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New op-ed from me: yes, House Republicans really are coming for your Medicaid and SNAP. In this piece, I explain why the Republicans who say, "oh, we're not actually going for Medicaid and SNAP" are bullshitting you. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Chipmunks are awake, apparently #mammals

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Western Gray Squirrel. #ClassicMono #SqrlPix #Mammals

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Wünsche allen einen fröhlichen Montag🌞

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The contempt this administration has for... literally everyone is off the charts and it definitely doesn't get framed like it should in media

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The funny thing is with Project 2025 I already knew and prepared some of my emotional support piers for this shit I just wish the American voter cared they wrote all this all out on paper.

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Opinion: if Musk’s involvement ends up exposing sensitive data to our adversaries, a few billion in government waste will be the least of our problems.

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George Lowe, the voice actor best known for Space Ghost Coast to Coast, has died at 67

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“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists. Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it! stateofthepeople.media

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Sometimes OCR errors improve texts This article takes an unknown person to task for denigrating printers & begins "NOBODY BUT A PRINTER.—Such was the sneering remark…referring to the profession we follow with pride" but the OCR transcribes "Nobody but a Printer—Bitch" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

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Keeping on the shorebird theme, this long-billed curlew caught a crab! 🦀 🍽️ #birds

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Turns out Kevin cut class the day the other Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels learned: You can actually store food in your cheek pouches! So yeah, he just stores it in his belleh! #mammals #becurious

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Liquid nitrogen is incredibly cheap if you buy it in bulk. It's a byproduct of welding/industrial gas production. The gas suppliers use cryogenic coolers to chill the air we breathe to concentrate O2, argon, CO2, N2. Nitrogen is literally the byproduct.

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W.A.S.T.E.

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Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has already destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

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-2.8%. Really, really bad. Q4 2008 was -1.9%.

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New — Social Security Administration (SSA) employees received an email today from HR announcing that nearly all telework is terminated immediately and everyone is expected in the office this wednesday, per a copy of the email I reviewed.

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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.

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BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.

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Brutal honey bee losses over winter in TX. Probably related to the failed fall rains leaving bees to overwinter on low reserves. Also reinforces how our ag systems should not rely so heavily on a single imported species for pollination.

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Some figures on the potential death toll from Musk's pointless destruction of USAID, from a memo written by a fired official. He will be remembered as one of the great monsters of history. 1/x

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After Cuomo’s rally yesterday, his attorney publicly defended his decision to subpoena one of his accuser’s gynecological records and said they would publicly discuss her medical records if they weren’t subject to a confidentiality agreement. www.instagram.com/reel/DGuQI4E...

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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down in Mare Crisium on March 2 at 3:34 a.m. EST. Post-landing, it captured stunning images, including a lunar sunrise, marking a significant milestone in private lunar exploration. Credit : Firefly Aerospace

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This may be of some relevance to contemporary policy debates.

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I can confirm Politico's reporting on the Trump NSC's cyber team: Bulazel, Goldman, Work, and Brose, with a clear theme of embracing a more confrontational approach to cyber operations against adversaries. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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I think they suspended my Twitter account for a "copyright violation." That alleged violation was... MY OWN BOOK. And now I can't get into it.

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just so everyone understands what this will likely appear as 1) some number of benefit checks are interrupted in an opening salvo 2) some number of affected beneficiaries immediately sue because they have a statutory entitlement to that money from the Congress 3) checks resume under court order

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