Why "modest"?
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Why "modest"?
Why do you feel the need to do this?
More cow bell.
MAGA has such a steady hand guiding the ship of state - not! 🚣♂️
A link would help.
On This Day in History: August 29, 1883 The Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened in Scotland, the very first of more than 2,500 libraries Carnegie would fund. His legacy is complicated, but this part was very good. What library changed your life?
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Some public libraries have it.
There's some odd phrasing by Trump, et al, refer to a presifdent as having rights, not powers.
The "you" of the theme song's lyric could be Aki.
Please, no photos of these.
Get a little dicey: youtu.be/FIjnTKr8FS0?...
Looking forward to tge results. Thank you for good microphone setup.
It’s summer bank holiday and it’s actually sunny. Doesn’t feel right at all.
Not my black cat, but it could be.
Map of S’moregon (Oregon) From The Foodnited States of America See all 50 states: brilliantmaps.com/foodnited...
In a golf cart?
Women's colleges have gotten feelers if they admit trans women - according to my daughter who will be a 2nd year student at one.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Not for the looks. It's ugly.
Could you check the download link. For me it went to "Age of Invisible Machines: A Guide to Orchestrating AI Agents..."
Putin sure knows a lot about fair and honest elections. 🙃 "“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump said. He added that Putin told him no other countries use mail-in voting... Dozens of other countries use it."
Avi Loeb is a crank.
I discovered him in Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Local report: connecticut.news12.com/norwalk-offi...
Hat tip to the South Norwalk police chief.
Also: Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Released today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvHW...
"...within our district..." of about 24,000 people that votes about 75% Democratic.
I remember when we had a functioning president.
This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.
I like the frogs for Willimantic.
Food art
Link?
Barenaked Ladles.
Weekend or Weeknd?
Ian Fleming died on this day in 1964 from a heart attack. Aged just 56, he had suffered from poor health for many years largely due to his heavy smoking. #JamesBond #dates #OTD
Doufus in Chief.
"Federal documents didn’t specify how much the Air Force is willing to pay for the targets but noted that they don’t need to be in working condition. For testing and training, they just need to have working tires and be able to roll." Cybertrucks depreciate quickly.
Total jerk. 20 years ago all I got was "Your passport is invalid" because I hadn't signed it yet. No harm, no foul once I did.
Desi Lydic had the only good take: youtu.be/LWnHWbeeFxA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EP0...
The Wayback Machine browser extension is another great asset.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYVi...
Dave Scott and Al Worden having dinner on the recovery ship USS Okinawa #Apollo15 August 7, 1971 contactlight.de forallmankind.de
Betrayal.
Pedantic: "deploy to the moon" is more accurate phrase than "build a nuclear reactor on the moon." Can you imagine building a reactor in near vacuum?
Ellen Nakashima?
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
Apollo 15 complete landing, OTD 1971, 16 min w/ notations #Apollo15 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxqK...
The International Astronomical Union has recommended brightness limits for satellites, but companies aren’t abiding by them. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne... . . #astronomy #stargazing #satellites #darksky #starlink
ringo of the day heat wave edition #ringostarr
We've got 33C/92F here in New England (US).
Food art
Goldfnger scene: youtu.be/WTBvu-fTTIk?...
Credit to author Robert Harris.
Between Moon landing and EVA, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein on CBS, July 20, 1969 (9 min.): youtu.be/4PLTkYJ7C40
Tour Guided Meditation for Inner Peace youtu.be/R0t_OGli0jg?...
In Germany they had Volkswagen but in #Orkney we had Goatswagon. 🐐
Knowing nothing of the votes or name of the state, where would you like to live?
Detailed, annotated Apollo 11 landing in real time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1S...
I'm married to a former Colbert writer, which means I got to meet him occasionally at holiday parties. This also meant I was the *most unimportant* person at those parties. He remembered my name, joked with me and asked how my writing was going every single time. He's just a really, really nice man.
Source please.
CNN has Trump at 44%. RCP average is 45.8%, and that includes Rassmussen. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...
Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host. "Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
$115?
Today is #WorldEmojiDay ❤️ If you still think a library is just about 📚 and people telling you to 🤫 then we've got 📰 for you. They're a 🏛️ full of 📚📽️💿💻🖨️📶📱🎮🧵🎨 and ℹ️ to help you 🧠 about the 🌎. The 👩👨 who work in them 😍 to help and they won't even ask you for 💷.
Thanks.
You really need to source screen shots.
Describe model + fault(s) or no click.
Not my cat.
Refered URL?
The beetle invasion was first detected during a routine library cleaning. cnn.it/4kB7820
Notice the two who aren't on that line? One is partially a state college.
No matter how valid it might be, is Vox still as preachy as they were?
If the one source is Trump, it's just words.
3 seriously right leaning compared to 1 left leaning. Yet, much as I like Quinnipiac for being local, it's long standing left leaning trend makes me wish people wouldn't cite it without noting that trend. Same for the right leaners.
Good column. Did your copy really read "prospect for one of the most hardest-foughtSenate races..."
Best to focus on news instead of yourselves.
Every time I go to cancel the NYT, they drop the price to about $1 per week.
This appears to be an unattributed quote repost from: bsky.app/profile/chri...
It would help to provide a source link.
2 hours 10 minutes max.
Sometmes, like here, the surface is the same as what's underneath.
Millions of dogs will have a happier 4th.
I hope it is only dormant and can be revived.
They weren't ever "pledges, principles, and policy demands." They were just empty words.
Happy Birthday Harrison Schmitt Born on July 3 1935, Schmitt was the only geologist to walk on the moon as Lunar Module Pilot for #Apollo17 contactlight.de forallmankind.de
Farts, oops, need to be wrong so Tang.
Found somewhere:
The Sun looks angry.
Maybe make another account for non NOAA posts.
Not so sure on the source data. Does Delaware really have a 15 foot Amish man?
Watching Dallas vs Indiana in #WNBA . (Amz Prime) Good competitive game - a little more intense than NCAA, and good to see Paige Buekers as a UConn fan.
I saw a restrained, objective briefing from one podium and then there was the SECDEF pretty different from the other.
Sponsored post? Not clicking. Getting near an unfollow.
Worse yet, Lieberman won and was the last hold out among Dems against the ACA public option, ostensibly because he didn't like some of the people who were for it.
Johan Vaaler, 1899, some US sources around the same time: www.thoughtco.com/history-of-t...
5530 lbs! Definitly heavyweight.