Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Highest score ever (and first 100)! www.maptap.gg August 4 98🎯 80✨ 93🏆 100🎯 85😁 Final score: 919

GiFs aren't loading for me, so please enjoy this Nelson Muntz compilation instead: youtu.be/dZQR_4gMVv0?...

The Simpsons - Every Nelson Muntz "Haw-Haw!"

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Bob Ballentine@raballentine.bsky.social · yesterday

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David Ellison writes a Times op-ed promising CNN will stay straight down the middle right as he tries to close a deal a lawsuit is holding up. Amanpour already watched him gut CBS and 60 Minutes. Trust me bro is not a governance model, it is a press release with better placement.

David Ellison Declares Intentions for CNN in NY Times Op-ed

"Great news organizations like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle," Ellison wrote Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed.

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d ago

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is so much fun and wildly original. It's definitely flawed and it doesn't all work, but it is P weirdly great and thrillingly human in a way that didn't used to feel so unusual.

Wow! Emma Swift knocks it out of the park singing positively 4th Street at the Million Dollar Bob Dylan Birthday Bash in Nashville. (Tasty lead guitar from Rick Lollar, too.) @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social youtu.be/wHcJY8DucYs?...

The Million Dollar Bash (Approximately): An East Nashville Tribute To 85 Years Of Bob Dylan. 5/24/26

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Very good advice. We all need something nurturing we can return to when things get awful. (Especially lately when so much seems so awful!)

scubapopeye.bsky.social@scubapopeye.bsky.social · 3d ago

You can’t spend every minute of every day being angry. Find one thing that makes you happy and hold onto it. Doesn’t matter what it is. Just be happy for a moment. For me it’s music. Find your joy.

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

This is close to the best I've ever done... www.maptap.gg August 3 81🌟 86🎓 89👑 92🏆 78👏 Final score: 855

Much as I love it when anyone covers XTC, I couldn't make it through a full minute of Phish doing "Melt the Guns" live. Especially when I saw that Phish's live version was more than 15 minutes long. Here's the original in all its glory: youtu.be/eBGc5h1yWHQ?...

XTC - Melt the Guns - 1982

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This is WILD

‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...

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I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

This would have been a good data point to have had in 2021...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

The bank says its AML team conducted a careful review that identified suspicious transaction patterns and made the decision under federal anti-money laundering obligations. 2/2

100% agree.

Charles Johnson@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 4d ago

A Fantastic Documentary: “XTC- This Is Pop” #blogpost

Hey, only one totally wrong continent today!! www.maptap.gg August 1 90👑 97🔥 89🎉 72😁 16🤬 Final score: 629

It’s awfully quiet…

This is Pepe le Pew. He has been to the beach many times over the years, but still gets just as excited about it. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: pepedog808)

I have just been prescribed a medicated mouthwash that costs $3,480.92 Stop voting against healthcare

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Clever posts of yore: @tonydeyo I told my son today that I remember when my elementary school got its first computer, and I might as well have said I had tickets to Lincoln's inauguration. @thatcarlygirl Me: Cancel print job. Printer: Nope. Fuck you. #printer #printers #history

Sharing this for Kat Jr. (my son) King needs immediate medical attention and I’m grateful if anyone could donate or share. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥️ gofund.me/0b7be8261

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

look the maptap game can be hard but, like, not this hard

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW

Moreno shelled out more than $400,000 to settle a wage-theft lawsuit in Massachusetts in which “he was forced to admit to shredding overtime-­payment records.” He eventually settled more than a dozen claims of wage theft at his dealerships in the commonwealth.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

Israel is spending 1 BILLION dollars to convince you their genocide is cool quincyinst.org/research/the...

The Eighth Front: Inside Israel’s $1 Billion Influence Campaign

The Israeli government has spent more than $1 billion in direct expenditures on public diplomacy since the Hamas–led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a dramatic escalation in such spending. This represents Is...

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It has rained more here in the past 4 weeks than it did in the past year in Los Angeles, including more than 4 inches yesterday. As someone who has always loved rain and frequently felt rain-deprived in L.A., I am here for this! 💙🌧⛈️☔️💙

Sad to wake up to this sad news. RIP, Glen.

Sarah Shachat@sarahshachat.bsky.social · last wk.

Ah, Christ. Today's jam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPE...