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*endless screaming*

I can see some problems in implementing this - states with no load based pricing, the battery unit is outside, the battery is solely dedicated to the AC - but the idea itself seems sound.

My friend emerging from the smoke at the anti-ICE protests in Broadview, IL yesterday. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

My husband - who is a historian - said something last night that has been in my mind ever since. He said, "the epilogue of 1984 is written in English - not Newspeak. It's meant to let you know that this story is over and in the end, we won."

The ritualized politeness of Persian culture confuses AI because meaning is hidden by context. I wonder if AI is equally bad at a teenager's sarcasm? And if positive reinforcement would similarly increase the chances of correct interpretation by the AI? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

Based on KFF's (an independent health policy org) calculator, my monthly cost will roughly double.

CALIFORNIA STREAMING.

I've loved these feather sculptures by Kate MccGwire for years! I saw them in London and they are even more striking in person. If you can get to Nottingham, don't hesitate to see this show. mymodernmet.com/kate-mccgwir...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

I love this piece of art! Delft Blue and Phthalo Blue (2024) by Zipora Fried

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover the best kind of informative book - funny and insightful with just the right amount of dick jokes. Could only be better by expanding it into a coffee table book. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thrust-mic...

This came to me in a vision

Wow!

i've tried a lot of fidget toys and such and the problem with all of them is that they do not accurately replicate the behavior that i am trying to avoid, which is "fucking with my fingernails until they bleed"

Postal services around the world halt parcel delivery to the US. UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, India, Korea among many others say that the US tariff system and the elimination of the de minimis rule that exempted lower priced items makes charging correct fees impossible.

(iron man jeff bridges voice) lyndon JOHNSON built this! in ONE TERM! with a bunch of RACISTS!! don’t fucking tell me it can’t be done!!

someone is putting up signs in LA that says, "Whatever you allow the government to do to others will happen to you" and they slap so good job to that anonymous cool person

This is a great resource! I believe they soft launched the legal hotline a couple weeks ago and it will go live for everyone 8/25/25. More info at www.ilprideconnect.org/legal-hotline

This cicada Tiffany style lamp made by the very talented Cady Poorman is amazing! She's also made moth and bee lamps and a ton of cool stained glass pieces. www.instagram.com/cady_the_cre...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Brilliantly creative and brilliantly performed!

The Pfizer covid vaccine is the only one currently authorized in the US for healthy kids 6 months to 5 years old

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

"Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis." Rebecca Solnit, 'The Faraway Nearby'

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖 #Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

Ordered! lwrt.bigcartel.com/product/burn...

Raf has really taken to this new pillow. #ProofOfCat

Capitalism. Ruins. Everything. Around. Me.

Truth

When Galileo’s body was exhumed in 1737, three of his fingers were cut off. One of them is now encased in a glass egg in the Galileo Museum in Florence. The mummified finger points to the heavens its owner had spent a lifetime pondering through the lens of his telescope. #history #histsci #histmed

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

When we finally start to build community and solidarity.

The job stealing self check out lane of the library world.

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

And religious freedom trumps all other kinds of freedom

Amazing that the the artist, Kendra Haste, can create such lifelike forms out of chicken wire fencing. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/kend...

Outside groups organize to form unbiased, independent vaccine panel including Michael Osterholm, Regents Professor at the University of MN School of Public Health www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

This is because the parade flopped, isn't it?

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event