This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

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Pivoting from "would dad approve" to "would a bug approve" makes landscaping a lot more enjoyable

“Hope is an element of struggle, is it not?” he said. “As we used to say in the old days, ‘A luta continua’.”

Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars

The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted

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Right eye: cataract-free but still blurry-while-healing 20/20 lens implant in eye. Left eye: cataract-laden with Mr. Magoo eyeglass lens tiny distance from eye. Brain: Behold the two portals to alternate dimensions!

Tips for staying cool - maximise exposure to hard cool surfaces Frank:

buying one of those obnoxiously large trucks with a gun rack just so i have somewhere to mount poseidon’s trident

This is what “AI” is actually doing, right now. “In Wells and Spilda’s report, they describe how these apps buy nurses’ credit history from data brokers…then reduce the wage on offer for nurses with a lot of credit card debt. Those nurses, after all, are more economically desperate”. (168)

Leucophyllum (“white leaf”; tribe Leucophylleae) has 17 Mexico & adjacent USA. Three spp occur in the USA, including L. frutescens of s. & w. Texas. This species is widely used as an ornamental shrub in warm parts of the USA, from California to Florida. #Scrophulariaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

There are no "rogue" agents. There is only shitty code.

Temporarily a cyclops (right eye cataract surgery done).

If the world bores you, look closer. There are unseen universes you might have missed. 🌿🤗

Today’s #birdoftheday Alt theme #Memories: bird captures you have reason to remember" Scooter, the first roadrunner to visit regularly. Sometimes he would just sit down next to me on the patio for 5-10 minutes 🥰 #birds

Martian Jewels ear of corn. 🌱🌽

A classic mom moment at CostCo: a mom accepts a free sample, walks away with young teen son following. She tastes the sample, makes a face of genuine gagging disgust, then immediately pushes the sample toward the rapidly retreating teen's face, saying brightly, "Try it!"

For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky

The attack on workers begins and ends with Black women - The Boston Globe

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.

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July 23, 2026 🌱 The Canada goldenrod is taller than me and preparing to bloom.

Garden Diary@gardendiary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

June 4, 2026 🌱 The Canada goldenrod forest.

Absolutely fucking crazy the extent to which the greatest rapper of all time has still got it The flow is flawless youtu.be/110X6Jc4jcs?...

Rakim - A Different Kind [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Rakim

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If you're heartbroken by what ICE is doing in our country and want to be apart of community this weekend, JOIN or HOST a nationwide vigil to honor Lorenzo and Johan’s lives and the lives of all the others who have been killed by ICE. 🗓️ Tomorrow, Saturday, July 25th

"The gun went rogue!" said no one when the terrible fatal accident happened on the film set of "Rust" in 2021.

We joined Maoist Communist Union, International Socialist Alternative (Revolutionary), Freedom Socialist Party and more last Friday in united-front demonstrations in defense of Cuba. Some photos of the protests from NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle:

Can't imagine ChatGPT will ever get near the emergency room nurse who, glancing at me as I lumbered down a hallway at 11pm, said at a distance of 40 feet, "You have a migraine."

Wikipedia workers have unionized, and they're demanding recognition. Wiki Workers United in the U.S. is demanding voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia. WWU-US is organizing with the CWA. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Wiki Workers United U.S. Branch Demands Voluntary Recognition from Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia

Today, Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US)/Communications Workers of America (CWA) demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and siste...

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The Insider asked me to write about who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz. "As things currently stand, Iran sets the terms of risk while the United States retains the capacity to set the terms of consequence. Importantly, these are not the same thing." theins.press/en/opinion/s...

Open but off-limits: Who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?

At this moment, no one can say with certainty who controls the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone understands that the United States holds all of the strongest cards,…

theins.press

High of 105°F today, went to check on the spiders and they looked distressed. Worried they were getting dehydrated so I misted nearby and I'll be damned, she swung down off her web to drink and cool off.

ICE OUT NOW!

Britain has only two native oaks. In the San Francisco area of California alone there are nine 😯🌳

Bookmarks usually mean "I don't have time to read this right now" or "I have trouble finding things" or "I tapped bookmark by accident" or "I liked 400 things today so I better bookmark this instead." Rarely does it mean "Going to call the internet police!"

A Rattlesnake Master appreciation post. This is the first year I'm getting a decent flowering and I'm enchanted. It's also supposedly deer resistant. I've only tried it behind the deer fence so far. Does anyone else with deer in their gardens daily have experience to share? 🌱 #nativeplants