RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/117043377815182932 Damn nature, you CRAZY!

jcrabapple@jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 10h ago

🐛 Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead insects as camouflage The caterpillar, a newly described species of Hyposmocoma found only on a single mountainside on Oahu, builds a silk case and decorates it with beetle wings, ant heads, and spider legs scavenged from […]

2/ We may need voters to protect each other against intimidating "poll monitors," similar to what groups used to do when they surrounded/shielded patients as they entered abortion clinics. That's where we are now.

“Drought causes 'collapse' in France's vegetable production: 'Even with irrigation, young plants have not survived' Cauliflower, peas and lettuce are suffering from a lack of water and successive heatwaves. The industry describes the situation as a 'disaster,' …” 8/2/26

Drought causes 'collapse' in France's vegetable production: 'Even with irrigation, young plants have not survived'

Cauliflower, peas and lettuce are suffering from a lack of water and successive heatwaves. The industry describes the situation as a 'disaster,' especially across western France, as the ability to sow...

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@gottalaff.bsky.social such important article! Free link: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is _excellent_... Great script, pacing, acting, and action. It's packed to the gills yet never feels like it's too much all at once. A great exploration of all the characters, all while effortlessly teeing up other films without distracting from it's own story. See it!

Everybody wants a rock star, but do you know what makes a rock star a rock star? THE ROCK BAND THEY ARE IN.

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"

The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.

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📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is the only major writing system invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth. King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the […]

RE: https://aus.social/@perkinsy/117006314371109767 “IN THE REAL WORLD, INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IS RARELY THE STRONGEST PREDICTOR OF GROUP OUTCOMES. IN FACT, THE STRONGEST PREDICTORS OF DEVELOPERS' SELF-REPORTED PRODUCTIVITY TEND TO BE SOCIAL” (emphasis mine)

New monkey just dropped https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-monkey-species-endangered

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😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/

Excellent new DJ Cummerbund mashup https://youtu.be/evQNbPBIz2I?is=6h2CE884-zN7JTU-

No. Absolutely not, Blanche.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

During a call organized by the White House Faith Office last night, Todd Blanche said that his goal is to make sure that "God is front and center again" and that "being a Christian in this country ... is actually a benefit."

Gavin Newsom's California Forever Problem. It's the billionaires versus the people, and your future presidential nominee has chosen a side. Guess which one. www.thenerdreich.com/will-gavin-n...

Gavin Newsom‘s California Forever Problem

California Forever failed at the ballot box. Now Gov. Newsom's office is trying to push the tech billionaire-backed megacity through Sacramento

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Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

Exclusive | Inside Gavin Newsom’s desperate bid to save billionaire pals’ dream city

Newsom has been quietly whipping support for California’s billionaire-backed megacity as it faces the loss of a key tenant.

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@Nonilex Why line not go up? We tortured all those immigrants, kicked people off health care and food assistance, and wiped out environmental regulations and civil rights enforcement. Are we not bombing other countries hard enough? Do women still have too many rights?

[Microdosing LLMs, self inflicted vibe coding, slopgazing. Long-ish] I had never top to bottom vibe coded something before - like full on "do not look at the code, just keep rolling the dice" - and I was sort of confused about how people in forums would say they were "working for months" on […]

Office 2021 reaches end-of-support in October. Five years? So much for "lifetime license." Ridiculous. And, hey, look... Here's this.

LibreOffice, yours for a lifetime - TDF Community Blog

On 13 October 2026, Microsoft ends support for Office 2021. No more security updates, no more fixes, no more assurances. The software will still launch. It will still open your files. But from that da...

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I love this kind of forensic dismantling of dickwads by @parkermolloy.com.

Imagining a Guy: Names Edition

The Post found a progressive who doesn’t exist and caught her betraying a belief she doesn’t hold.

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There's always a tweet

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

Reminds me of this old chestnut.

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Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · last wk.

The sanctions themselves are much of the bill text, they are no doubt very tough even in view of the many sanctions previously placed on Russia. HOWEVER! Read to the end and you’ll find the broadest presidential waiver you'll ever see in this kind of legislation. This means exactly what it says:

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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"The targets of noncitizen terrorist removal proceedings — including legal permanent residents — are not permitted to review the classified evidence against them, and unlike criminal proceedings, they are barred from legally challenging how the evidence was collected by the government. "

CBS News@cbsnews.com · last wk.

The Justice Department is now attempting to use a decades-old, secretive federal immigration court that has never been used in a test case that could allow it to expedite the deportation of suspected "alien terrorists."

Dylan Mulvaney's response to Trump's recent attacks on her at the WHCD is worth watching. www.readtpa.com/p/the-punchl...

The Punchline

Dylan Mulvaney did nothing wrong. That's the point.

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This is... inspiring, actually? 🤔 https://youtu.be/NwWIubDKEkw?is=Zc5Nt0nZJTOUhsHB

We feed Cassie, our ackie monitor, little round live roaches. We've been very careful to avoid doing anything that would result in any being loose in the house, but the inevitable has now happened, and kitty Nutmeg was _here for it_.

As someone who counted among the earliest fans of TMBG, I'm not sure how I feel about this. 🤔 https://youtu.be/osQWZXnwcIc?is=xhlky-kxoDuhXc-8

This looks amazing!! I'm sold. 🤩 https://youtu.be/FlLSwMOeYfg?is=6-aN4_d4aGFIAU5q

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116997796047312210 I don't really understand Rand Paul's conclusions or intent with this release, but it sure looks exonerative on pretty much every front where anyone has ever attempted to impugn Fauci's integrity. The man is a national hero, though I dread what […]

Nonilex@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

#GiftArticle #Fauci’s diary reveals his thoughts on a ‘rambling’ #Trump, his own fame, the #FarRight’s politicization of the #COVID #pandemic & more Released by #GOP Sen. #RandPaul, diary entries from the federal scientist who helped lead the covid response spotlight the internal battle over […]