icymi: I went long on the ~mysteriously~ murky Tabasco origin story
Ravenous@weareravenous.com · last wk.The hot sauce made in Louisiana can now be found all over the globe. How it got there is complicated.
Ravenous@weareravenous.com · last wk.
The @helldude.bsky.social has excellent taste in icy moons. www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...
Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space
Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus.
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I'm good with 100. If the court wants to act like a partisan legislature, let's make it one. If we're lucky maybe it'll eventually collapse under its own weight, and we can just start over.
Noah Rosenblum@narosenblum.bsky.social · 4w agoTotally agree. It’s bad for the law if outcomes turn on a single vote. It would be better for democracy if the institutional judiciary supervened over the personality of individual jurists.
someone tell iran that we call our trooos warfighters now, they probably just hadnt heard about that yet
After cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems, CISA says critical infrastructure operators should disconnect internet-exposed PLCs and other OT assets "as soon as possible." www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
CISA Urges Water and Wastewater Systems Sector to Protect OT Against Activity Targeting PLCs | CISA
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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Matthew McConaughey: You Just Got to Keep Livin'
Alt: Matthew McConaughey: You Just Got to Keep Livin'
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Bill Hanstock@sundownmotel.bsky.social · 2mo agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
When Kelsey Mitchell reached All-Star status, she could have stopped there. Instead, she's reached a new level of scoring since then. On what her ability to put the ball in the hoop is doing for her Indiana Fever, from our @tonyreast.bsky.social #WNBA www.theixsports.com/features/how...
How Kelsey Mitchell reached a new level of scoring prowess | The IX Basketball
Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell keeps scoring, and the Indiana Fever keep winning despite Mitchell's disinterest in the numbers.
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Celtics Stock Up/Stock Down: Rookies Impress In Summer League Win Over Hornets www.si.com/nba/celtics/...
Celtics Stock Up/Stock Down: Rookies Impress In Summer League Win Over Hornets
Las Vegas — The Boston Celtics ran away from the Charlotte Hornets in their second Las Vegas Summer League game, winning 87-75. They got off to another slow sta
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"Verify your age" I remember where I was when Armstrong stepped off the ladder.
Specter177🐊@specter177.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Verify your age" I remember where I was on 9/11
Tilly Norwood has died. The thumb drive she was stored on fell out of her creator’s back pocket and into the toilet, which was then flushed.
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
This Alan Shipnuck dive into Phil Mickelson's behavior is illuminating and disturbing
Exclusive: Phil Mickelson’s Long History of Misconduct
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INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
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The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...
Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.
i wrote about 'the wemby moment'
@realgmnba.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe NBA Looks Reborn Under Victor Wembanyama (John Wilmes on how Wemby is beginning to triumph over the NBA's talent-rich era in a fashion that's equally crude and majestic) https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/285713/The-NBA-Looks-Reborn-Under-Victor-Wembanyama
More from the WNBA refereeing beat! “We didn’t meet as often with our stakeholders, and it just started to drift away, and we found ourselves with a game that was too rough. And now we’re living with the process of cleaning that up.”
WNBA Leaders Say Officiating Changes Are Working Amid Uptick in Fouls
League leadership told SI that the increase in calls was expected and it will take time for everyone to adjust to new guidelines.
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listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
seeing a ton of criticism about this but the second paragraph of the article notes that it is a publicity stunt and that fewer than 100 will be made. only slightly further down: "there is no cloud connection, no Wi-Fi, and no artificial intelligence features whatsoever"
WIRED@wired.com · 6mo agoThe pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
Celtics vs. Sixers Game 1 Player Grades and Stats: Tatum, Brown Power Blowout Win www.si.com/nba/celtics/...
Celtics vs. Sixers Game 1 Player Grades and Stats: Tatum, Brown Power Blowout Win
BOSTON — Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combined for 51 points in a wire-to-wire win over the Sixers in Game 1 of their opening round series. The Boston Celtics
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Just as a very general rule, when a Supreme Court pundit writes the sort of book about the Supreme Court that a sitting Supreme Court justice feels comfortable promoting in public, you should be skeptical of everything else that Supreme Court pundit says about the Supreme Court, forever
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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But that's all for this one folks, so thank you for attending Story Time with Shiv, and have a great rest of your evening. /fin