Traditional dairy farms are protective against allergies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dQ...
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Traditional dairy farms are protective against allergies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dQ...
When we develop them, we call them dogs or canines. When China develops them we call them wolves. youtu.be/h31tqI-5JRY?...
So much for regional efforts www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/m...
More on China's military flex www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meanwhile, Massie breaks ranks to force release of all the Epstein files. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump loves a military parade. Too bad he has to miss the party to stay home and plow under the US for them. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
Evolution is so odd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtDK...
A fed judge in CA decided Trump's use of troops in LA violated the posse comitatus act. Here's about that act from the @brennancenter.org www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
Would you bet your life on #ai? What are the malpractice implications?
When I got divorced a quarter century ago, I was feeling so nasty at my ex, I got a silver necklace with a feather pendant to remind me to keep my soul light, in my own interest. Worked pretty well as a sort of mindfulness exercise.
As a retired union member I appreciate you. ;)
#ai
MAGAs would probably say the same about slavery, labor rights,...
Fact is, marketing studies say that romance (sizzle) sells much bigger than deets (steak).
#ai is just from the last couple years, right? ;)
Du jour #cybersecurity www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/l...
Wars are simple and easy to win www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Sousveillance hacktivism www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Save the tech brats. 🧵 😄
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
This just fun. There was no gift article option, so I assume it's free. We ranked 5,700 national holidays, including real, fun and silly ones - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Oh come on, go all the way and give him Valor and Fitness, too. He deserves all of them equally. ;) apnews.com/article/trum...
Joke's on us. How to make friends and influence people -- that's Trump's charm offensive. Or offensive charm... www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Hitler invades Poland
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Birdwatching MAGAs? Bookmarking for more in depth reading.
Don't tell the American that pizza was invented in the states. ;)
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Even the men and women of the National Guard seem flummoxed, at times, over what exactly they are supposed to be doing in the nation’s capital, @AshleyRParker and @nancyayoussef write. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The people who brought you the weekend have been marginalized.
Oh noes, more antisemitism. /s www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Judge: "show me how you are complying with my court order to not fire one person at VOA, or face contempt charges." Kari Lake: [fires 500 more] www.cbsnews.com/news/voice-o...
I have no idea what to make of the waves of rumor regarding Trump's health.
Beachfront development www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
I know, I know. It's not May 1st. But happy Labor Day, anyway!
Adam Gaffin at @universalhub.com is just calling it like it is. Refreshing! www.universalhub.com/2025/east-bo...
In the US, games are video games, perhaps reported in the entertainment section. In India, games are reported in the sports section, even if they aren't competitive esports. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/espor...
Russia is crazy about alcohol, and there's a thread of this sort of tragedy in Nikita's story. populationandeconomics.pensoft.net/article/51653
This poor guy. Russia is crazy. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lunch and dinner: ratatouille, grainless tabouli, oil cured olives, black grapes, pondering cheese...
#ai
Moomins -- 80yo this year -- were created to be a comfort in time of war. Human imagination is resilient! www.moomin.com/en/moomin80
How to use up all the leftover chip flavor powder. This is the most popular chip in Canada! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-dre...
Just realizing that in many ways, English bubble and squeak is a close equivalent of fried rice. (Yes I watch cooking videos while I eat, lol...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVyJ...
It's the rainbow -- see it on the right? They are worried that kids are being recruited by the gays. /s
I could have named him before you "asked" but my fave was actually my geography teacher in jr high. He related everything to everything, rather than just getting us to memorize the major products of whatever country. It opened my eyes, and I think they've been staring in wonder ever since.
Tonight's dinner is basically tabouli with no cracked wheat. It's actually an amazing treat. Side of oil cured olives and feta.
Don't show up. gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
LOL, millions of adults have tacos for dinner every day. Your tacos are probably better for you than Taco Bell's, and the tacos that your abuela might have made would probably be even better. You are still adulting. Sorry. ;)
HA! Victory! Found the dead mouse. My apartment no longer smells putrid. Wilson helped me find it by staying away from that part of the apartment (the tea/coffee sideboard). He'll usually tag along when I'm making tea.
In the US Italian and Jewish communities, if you support ICE, you're forgetting your history. Under Wilson, they were pandering to nativists and did mass deportations. These were not all Italian/Jewish, but primarily. Sound familiar? h/t @liberalcurrents.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_...
OK at the risk of making too much of this: one thing I like to say is that the scientific revolution and the republic of letters was a small island (large relative to history mind you) in a larger ocean that was, as an information environment, absolute shit
AAA game studios are aiming at the top 33% of their potential market. $125K+/yr excludes most young people. You can't market games like collectable sneakers. Think: who has $80 of disposable income AND time to game? $70-80/game doesn't hit it for most people. www.statista.com/forecasts/49....
Somewhere in the apartment I have a dead mouse. I am not really physically capable of crawling around to find it and I can't wait until it desiccates. Hmmm... pest control suggests baking cookies...? www.fantasticpestcontrol.co.uk/mice/dead-mo...
🧵 is frayed
"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
Sigh. We fucking warned you.
History is never simple. Short form media is oversimplified, by nature.
"Social engineering" #ai #llm is just as scripted as social engineering most humans, because it's derived from human behavior. Most people would actually be stunned at how cookie cutter manipulation is, for the best odds. AI just replicates these stock patterns. GIGO.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
The UN was located in the US because we would never pull this kind of BS. Oops. www.axios.com/2025/08/29/u...
More kyivindependent.com/ex-parliamen...
I guess he wasn't getting polonium tea delivered? www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
When #ai replaces actual police work futurism.com/police-facia...
Make America Depressed Again (And send us all to "wellness farms?") futurism.com/neoscope/gov...
Have I mentioned how joyful Wilson and I are to be reunited? Oh, I never want to send him off again...
Me: baffled by Thai politics since 2006 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sovereign citizen nutjobs are deadly in Australia, too. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The term for the day is dismay. www.etymonline.com/word/dismay
Reinforcing paranoia has consequences. #ai www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Grok? Really? Federal waifus, here we come! www.wired.com/story/white-...
Du jour #cybersecurity www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Speaking of messes... www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c...
We are such a mess... futurism.com/electricity-...
"We don't need no stinkin' data." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
High on his own supply. How un-natalist of him. Shouldn't he be getting one of his employees pregnant? gizmodo.com/elon-musk-fa...
Due process -- one of the rights we fought a revolution over. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Ignorance is an amazing wellspring of deniability, I suppose?
Does our economy of unintended consequences (at least, unanticipated to some to some) feel like post-#brexit UK to anyone? A lot of leopards eating MAGA faces. gift article wapo.st/4nqyHx9
Musk discovers the economics of (government) efficiency. Who knew spaceflight would be complicated? arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Wilson is home and just calming down from extreme zoomies. He saw me drink water and got a peanut, I took my 8pm meds, and now we're having dinner, which I am not eating fast enough apparently. Back in the saddle.
Doggo was supposed to be home early afternoon. Then 4pm. Now expected 7:30pm. I am skeptical and feeling a bit unrequited.
I got 4# of white peaches thinking they would be peak flavor. They are big and gorgeous -- and most canned peaches in juice would leave them in the dust. Not even very juicy...
Uh oh, someone failed their loyalty oath... subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
Oh I get it, but this is not how decisions have been implemented in the very recent past
Illegal but de facto? WTF? gift article wapo.st/3HYgVC1
Escalation krcgtv.com/news/local/g...
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
I love @theresthistory.bsky.social but one of the co-hosts has the anti-woke virus. My comment on his attitude:
Wilson's on his way home. I think all the mice are gone. I need a sweep for the front door, as night before last I saw a mouse run into the apartment, coming under the front door. No wonder I've had all these mice. But all the bait traps had been gobbled up, and I'm not hearing skittering.
CDC top level resignations are up to four. Described as "chaos." Doing Putin's work. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...