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Today would have been Ray Charles’ 95th birthday. This duet we sang for my 1981 CBS special was an all-time highlight of my career! You are missed.

Oh baby yall still on Twitter & they over there doing this?

Putting the Secret Service's nonsense framing aside, it's a pretty cool discovery. Those black boxes are SIM gateways which you plug sim cards into and they act like virtual cell phones. They then route the access over the internet so people can use the sim cards from anywhere in the world.🧵 1/3

with raised fists & black tape over their mouths, 8 undocumented women & valets, dressed in their blue work coats, stand in front of the entrance of a 5-star hotel. in support garbage collectors, waste sorters, construction equipment operators shout "Today, exploited, tomorrow, hired!" #Paris

Keep that shit cancelled brah

man who divided himself from fellow democrats to support a republican resolution says the resolution was a republican plot to divide democrats

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Two wonderful Lee Friedlander portraits of two musical greats who share a September 23 birthday: John Coltrane, 1960 Ray Charles, 1959 🎂🎂

I was surprised to learn that Louisiana has no Sinclair stations, and that Rhode Island has one. I suppose the reason is obvious now that I think about it.

The Arabic word for submit is Islam, holy shit bro.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

One day after this story, in which Grok enables, and even encourages, CSAM.

A small share of people, on Bluesky as elsewhere, produce most content seen by others. 4% of YouTube videos account for 94% of all video watched on the platform. Half of all YouTube videos have fewer than 35 views & 5% have zero views. Source: journalqd.org/article/view...

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” ~ Gordon Parks Parks, Self-Portrait, 1941 #GordonParks #photographer #photographerlife #madamepurrla

It's happened again. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

My favorite part of the Tylenol nonsense is that of course it's owned by a company I'd not heard of before: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenvue

Abusers creating abusers who abuse everyone by bragging about not going to therapy

Even with a prescription, I had to CALL the pharmacy to set up an appointment here in Louisiana.

“Still more, it should not be used, as it also has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation's separation of powers.”

I'll know I'm with the real Jesus when I don't have any work to do

I wish I could be as fascinating as the people who read a headline like this and still moan in the replies.

Workers in Italy went on strike. Why isn't this bigger news? Is it because they're striking against Israel's genocide of Palestinians?

I know it feels like Redford died a month ago, but "Sneakers" (1992) is free on YouTube:

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Apropos the Tylenol announcement today, a fascinating thing I learned from Dan Wang's BREAKNECK is that China cut off access to acetaminophen during the Zero COVID days because they didn't want people using fever reducers to conceal an infection.

During the so-called Spanish flu pandemic, there was a conspiracy theory in the USA that aspirin ... invented by a German pharmaceutical company ... was responsible for the flu. Trump's grandfather died in that pandemic. One of the first Americans to do do. Perhaps they carried on believing it.

LET THE OLD YEAR AND ITS CURSES CONCLUDE. (And no new ones) LET THE NEW YEAR AND ITS BLESSINGS BEGIN! SHANAH TOVAH!

🎶 Donald has only got one ball, Hegseth has two but very small, Homan is rather sim'lar, But poor old Miller has no balls at all!

1973

It's an excuse to make women's OB/GYN records available to the Govt. First they'll need to know who's taking Tylenol while pregnant. Next, they'll need to know who's pregnant, and then who *could* be pregnant, etc. The end goal is outlawing abortion, and charging women who have autistic babies.

Ask RFK Jr where his aunt went.

The white supremacy cancels out the extreme cognitive decline is the only conclusion I can reasonably draw at this point.

Re: the Amish thing. The whole fact check is worth a read. www.factcheck.org/2023/07/scic...

Even though English is a Germanic language, it has borrowed so many words that now only 26% of its vocabulary is actually Germanic. But if you look at just the top 100 most frequent words, nearly every one is of Germanic origin. The core of English vocabulary is still fundamentally Germanic.

Charles Sumner’s father was woke too From: Charles Sumner by Zaakir Tameez

translation: "We were absolutely in the right and have decided that Jimmy is now appropriately chastened for his gentle ribbing of a fascist's lack of empathy. We will be issuing no apology at this time."

This is horrible news: When I look for informative reporting on politics and elections in Washington state, most of what I find and learn from is from Crosscut/Cascade PBS. This will leave a huge void.

This is so embarrassing

what a terrible day to have eyes

This list seems at once both massive and under-inclusive. ‘Prince’ but not ‘Princess’? And no noble titles (Earl, Duke, Lord, etc.)

Maga meme

really wish more people read/ engage with this book www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elain...

Gendered administrative burdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

We tried to check out the one near Gulf Shores, mainly to get gas. So everyone just parks at a pump and then spends an hour inside? It was chaos personified and nothing but bad vibes. We got the gas and left.

I like this photo of Will Elder and Al Jaffee from 1936 when they were in high school together. Lifelong friends and their sense of humor very apparent.

“One of the things you learn from Marine Corps training is that it sets off all of your body’s alarms. You can’t breathe, you can’t see, it hurts, but it’s just the alarms. But boy, all of the nerves are screaming.” taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...