It's a tough pill to swallow for centrists. On the one hand you have Haley Stevens, all-American, all-Michigan girl from the suburbs of Detroit. On the other hand you have Abdul El-Sayed, who is from the exact same suburb but looks like he might be evil.
These are the best ways to reuse garden skins. From compost pile additions to cold-steeped sprays, here’s what to use them for.
6 Smart Ways to Use Garlic Skins in the Garden Instead of Throwing Them Away
These are the best ways to reuse garden skins. From compost pile additions to cold-steeped sprays, here’s what to use them for.
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People seem to see strong social safety nets and taxes on the wealthy as a slippery slope to communist revolutions instead of an inoculation against them. And I am asking people to look at the pre-revolution economies of countries who have communist revolutions.
This good summary of Trump’s “whole-of-government” effort to subvert and control the 2026 and 2028 elections raises the question: Would Trump go to all this trouble for Vance, or Rubio, or anyone but…himself? Won’t Trump at least try to run in 2028?
It needs to be made more forcefully that every US citizen is a birthright citizen. They are saying that US law devalues citizenship and that they hate that law because it confers citizenship on those that they despise.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w agoEven worse, Mike Johnson casually slips in the claim that US citizenship is being "devalued" by "birth tourism." That's very loaded language, essentially declaring that the kids of undocumented immigrants are inferior. Status should not be a matter of bloodline. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2127...
Simon and Garfunkel, John Denver, James Taylor. Singer/Songwriters all the way
Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · last mo.what's the music your parents played all the time when you were a kid? for me, it's a dead heat between Neil Diamond and Linda Ronstadt
Fela Kuti's mother wasn't killed by being thrown off a building by the Nigerian military in response to the release of his protest album Zombie, and he didn't then send her coffin to the army barracks in Lagos, so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
John Bonham didn't hear a Vanilla Fudge song with a double kick pedal, assume it was just one foot doing all the work, and practice until he could play the fill in "Good Times, Bad Times" so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Steve Vai didn't imagine walking out of the ice cream shop with his favorite flavor, seeing the most gorgeous woman in the world, dropping the ice cream, watching her turn and scoff at him as she walks away, and then play that set of emotions as a guitar lick so you could tell me AI is inevitable
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵
I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard
One of my favorite poems for your saturday morning: A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert www.divasofverse.com/2013/12/a-br...
A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert
A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, th...
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There should be a Sandlot movie about this gang of multi-racial kids running through the streets of Pasadena, with one of them ending up in Japanese internment camp (while the neighborhood took care of his family home), and one of them ending up being Jackie Robinson.
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3mo agoJackie Robinson grew up in a diverse Pasadena neighborhood, & when one of those neighbors, his baseball teammate Shig Takayama, was incarcerated at Manzanar with his family, the Robinsons helped take care of their home. For my new column, a story of the worst & best of America through baseball. 🗃️
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
Remember, it was a Pope Leo who met Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome. Popes do participate in politics.
It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)
it's not even about the ridiculous things they keep saying, and it would really be great if any journalist would ever remind them of this, because the list of things they say you need an ID to do are not rights guaranteed to you by the U.S. Constitution, while voting is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoKatie Britt: "You can't go to work, you can't shovel snow in New York City without an ID"
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‘How grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were just as wonderful as the perfect moon.’ ~ The Sweetness of Dogs, Mary Oliver. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Henri van Assche, 1801.
The San Antonio Zoo is not on here but today is Waffles the giraffe’s third birthday and I just felt like this was need to know information today, with everything else being so terrible
