East Wing ballroom construction at the White House “will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of.” - President Trump, July 31, 2025

🎁 I'm pleased to release version 2.0 of the open-source tool for creating Datawrapper charts with the Python programming language. 🧵

Wanted: continuous readout of Salesforce customer list🍸😾

>>This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!<<🍸🐈

Image of the concrete pound LA river, with a green trashcan next to the Riverside Trail. Some branches go over from above. A breach can be seen in the distance.

The rain has settled into a medium constant thrum that will produce 3 or 4 centimeters of water, topping off the pool & greening the plants nicely!🍸😺

Why oh why does the iphone dictation render "queries" as "cuiriz"? 🍸🙀 #whyohwhyohwhy

Keep ‘em coming “A federal judge in Oregon has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from deploying the National Guard into Portland after the president announced he would send in troops to protect what he calls a “war-ravaged” city.” […]

KOIN TV - A judge has granted a temporary restraining order, preventing deployment of federal troops to Portland, Oregon. https://www.koin.com/news/portland/us-district-judge-ruling-oregon-v-trump-national-guard-10042025/

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

Q How do you have a space party? A You have to planet!🍸😺 A Telescope turned up in the lost and found. We don't know who it belongs to, but we are looking into it.🍸🙀 There's a local factory here that makes wigs, and some thieves broke in and stole a lot of the wigs. Police are combing the area […]

🐍 The snake did it. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26175117-aphis-inspection-ins-0001415897/

Keep 'em coming Via Kyle Cheney: The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large […]

We're also planning to release more about how we stood up a low-cost alternative to expensive mapping services, so others can learn from our efforts and consider the same path. Stay tuned to this channel.

🌀 Here's a new twist for Reuters.com. This weekend, our team rolled out live, interactive maps that can track hurricanes and typhoons anywhere on Earth.

If you've been thinking of coming to California, please do it. We need you, and we can use your talents. make it so.🍸🐈 California! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOZWlLnkiSZ/?igsh=

I am thinking about hosting something to post photos and videos preferably with fediverse integration but Pixelfed and Loops seem a bit more on the heavy side and I don’t need most of the features. - can be two apps, can be one - single user or OIDC auth - doesn’t need to do any processing of […]

After they found this … everything was totally easy after that!🍸😹 #rosettastone

Russ Buettner in the acknowledgments to people who helped him on the book "lucky loser: how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success". #TrumpLoser #sql #bigdata

Flags in front of Library are not at half mast🍸🐈

I checked the out of the library, and it was terrific. I almost don't want to take it back🍸🙀 I would recommend it, it is a very short and fun read, thoroughly communicating the sense of parental desperation more than real humor. Sad to say, but you certainly can't read it to your child🍸😹

Great NYT editorial today about when students lock up their phones during school hours, soon they start getting tons of books out of the library. I left my phone at home on the way to the library today and instantly got a lot smarter! Except for the part […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I got a smaller phone with a bigger camera.🍸😺 some things moved across well and some were a bit of a pain. The most annoying? "Transfer canceled start over"🍸😹

Kind of nice sunrise this morning! (It still takes @icecubes two tries from the share sheet to get the photo in, but totally worth it for the alt text generation) #sunrise 🍸😺

An intellectual🍸😹

@twostraws 🍸😺 (the cat in this cartoon shtrip has a shpeech impediment)🍸😹

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-consumer-prices-increase-more-than-expected-august-2025-09-11/

I'm not sure there's a story here, but these funny looking scan things on the poster are actually Internet links the first two to the CDC and the third to Kaiser Permanente. However clicking on the first one it says "link moved", and then the next link is to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Margaret Sullivan on Julie K. Brown: 🍸🐈

A surfer in Santa Barbara, and a great egret. 🍸🐈#birdsofmastodon #surfensamstag

The glass is half full🍸😺 & perhaps issa bit ... tipsy? 🍸😹#martini #martinisofmastodon

Monarch Butterfly in flight and its shadow on yhe beach 🍸😺 #butterfly

In honor of #fensterfreitag a gate to a forest path with open window space on either side of the gate? 🍸😺

Deer attending the Michigan Open🍸😹

Mosquitoes captured by web of hardworking spider. 🍸🙀 #doomscrollingforbugs #deadbug

Bee blastoff, bougainvillea bract 🍸😺 #bloomscrolling

Listening to university of New South Wales centre for IDEAS podcast, on a morning hike up to this viewpoint would 100% do this again🍸😺 Donna Strickland, laser jock. 🍸🐈 https://overcast.fm/+AAzf64rxR6c

#unicorn zone 🍸😺

A day late for #fensterfreitag or a few months early, depending on how you look at it🍸😺

Sir Isaac Newton did not sleep well, perhaps because he kept doing shit like this, alrhough he did complain that thinking about gravity kept him awake 🍸🙀 #bodkin #newton #sleepproblems https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk//view/MS-ADD-03975/21

The same rose from the other direction #roses #bloomscrolling 🍸🐈

A rose, streetside w some nearby buds #rose

"I know they were here a minute ago!"🍸😹 #figs

I missed this one! (From James Gleick's @gleick review article in the most recent New York review of books🍸🙀 #amazon #alexa

So happy to share this #sunset with you 🍸😺

I came across this photo montage … but who are these people? Artists. Search ‘Sarah Sze La Guardia’ to see what they have in common. Travel mindfully, my friend. 🍸🐈 #airportartinstallations

I saw this airplane above and to the right of the tree, and took the sunset photo🍸😺

Greensburg, Indiana Honda plant today, where my mom's Honda was made in 2001🍸🐈 #honda

Top of a canyon hike 🍸😺