On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time.

Hello friends. Can we do a mass report of this Facebook account? Intellectual property, targeted harassment etc whatever takes your fancy.

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard is wearing a high quality mask at the start of the race. He said: “I hear already that there’s some sickness in some teams and I’ve had a history of being sick in my last two Grand Tours, so as you said: ‘Better safe than sorry.’” Great job! 👏

celebs walking muppets: thread

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Heavy ICE activity in Chicagoland continued today (if recent trends hold, it's likely to continue for the foreseeable future). Rapid response reports and photos/videos shared online indicate detainments today in Chicago's heavily Latine Albany Park, Humboldt Park, Gage Park and Pilsen communities.

Things to tell a beginner artist to learn first: 1) Don't stuck your crayon up your nose 2)Don't eat the paste 3)Don't sniff the glue 4)Don't dip your paintbrush in your drink 5)Don't start a land war in Asia

George E. Johnson, a businessman and pioneer of Black hair care products, died on Monday. He was 99. He founded Johnson Products in 1954 and went on to make a fortune on products like AfroSheen and UltraSheen.

His company was said to be the first Black-owned firm to be listed on a major American stock exchange. He also founded a bank and was the exclusive sponsor for the legendary TV show "Soul Train."

I refuse to abandon the tenets of transformative/restorative justice and repair or the belief that no person is irredeemable. I also refuse to allow those tenets to be co-opted, distorted, or misrepresented by people (and their supporters) who do harm in an attempt to avoid accountability/repair.

For more than a centurye, *King Lear* by Shakespeare was alterid to have a happye endinge. People onlye startid readinge *Beowulf* yn the 19th centurye. Ther ys no stable "classic literature" categorye -- everye tyme, place, and moment doth see a worke differentlye, and that ys how it sholde be.

Silence is the wrong response. That’s why today we are publishing ‘The Machines Are Coming For Your Masthead”, a report on our experiences, small press publishing in the age of AI. Read the blog. Download the report. Share your thoughts - we want to hear them. (20/20 - fin)

Just a reminder that I’ve got a new book out in September, but you can actually buy an eArc now, if so inclined. Or preorder at your bookstore / retailer of choice. Is it the best book you’ll read where a dragon nearly eats the world? I dunno. But it’d be nice for me if you bought it

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Headline tantamount to “officer-involved shooting”

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

so you stanned for a guy with a nazi tattoo

The wizard puts a very gentle heat spell on a pillow for the little cat to sit on.

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

Great news for UK folks. US needs to also make these standards a legal requirement.

puppeting a senator who decided to die in office is basically the modern version of puppeting a boy king as regent

Gosh, could it possibly be because of all the shows they cancel after one season, so nobody thinks to bother looking for a second? Or could it be because we now have to wait 2-3 years between seasons? It's a ✨ mystery ✨

Re Maine, the most important things the Ds can do right now is show the Rs how you excise an abuser from your ranks. It can be done. It must be. Most importantly, so they can show the Rs the standard they should be held to.

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ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Platner's campaign. Pass it on. Directions below: (And if you do this, please share that you did so on social media). help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

Also, the assumption that this is all going to be fixed if the Democrats retake control of the government is a fever dream. They have no recent track record of significantly cleaning up GOP messes. And when it comes to militarism, they tend to go along with whatever Overton dragging the GOP has done

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border. www.wired.com/story/how-pa...

Always worth thinking on the anniversary of the NHS - at what age would you and/or your loved ones have died without it? Me - 18 months old.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

I do think that this is an important fact-check. As the article highlights, a group closely aligned with AIPAC released the advertisement. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

The entire catalogue of humanities courses at MIT is free and open source on the Internet. ocw.mit.edu/search/?q=Hu...

I hope all your dogs and cats and tender human hearts are ok.

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Okay, because they didn't let us pay rent until mid month, there's a late fee attached to my rent, an automatic payment came out,and I need to buy cat supplies. I am doing an #urgent fundraiser for $200 to keep myself out of overdraft and the cats fed and in clean litter. Sorry for this. #helpsky

The real lie we tell ourselves is that homelessness only happens to other people. For millions of Americans, it is simply what happens when every margin for error disappears at the same time. 5/5

Gender reveal but the gender is "war" or something

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Correction: mirro_hero

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July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic!

I'm not saying Microsoft and Sony are colluding to do away with physical discs. I have no evidence of that. I'm just saying, from my entirely outside perspective, this whole thing smacks of collusion.

Another great tip from Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani! Opening a hydrant to cool off can waste up to 1,000 gallons of water per minute & reduce the water pressure FDNY needs to fight fires. Contact NYC311 to request a spray cap, or stop by a local firehouse!

the older your cat is, the more you need to hype them up when they enter the room. gasp like you've seen David Tennant at a Costco in Victorville. ask, “who’s this handsome king??” as if you genuinely do not know. blast “Crazy in Love” from your phone. whatever it takes.

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

To me that expansion of understanding and application is a never-ending project, and this land back just announced Thursday is itself revolutionary in that sense.