☁️ Yesterday evening, a giant hole suddenly opened in the clouds over Mount Hood, Oregon. Known as a Fallstreak Hole, this rare phenomenon forms when supercooled cloud droplets freeze into ice crystals, leaving behind a dramatic circular opening in the sky.
Tired, leaky brain.
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Passionate about nearly everything. Supporting everything except hateful sociopaths.
Morning Kitten and Friend (Noticing a lot of cat/deer friendships blossoming lately)
MSM lemmings: vigorous political debates appealing to voters is actually how it's supposed to work, NOT the blind fearful obedience to a corrupt criminal, like you've chosen. "When voters speak, their parties and political commentators should listen."🎯🎯
The misleading narrative of Democratic disunity.
August 5, 2026
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Yellow Bittern 36cm belongs to the heron family, it blends into its marshy and reed-filled habitats, making it a master of camouflage Live in the mashy rice paddies, reed beds across Asia, India and Japan, Indonesia Diet: small fish, frogs aquatic insects Large feet allows it to walk on plants
Name a song with the word "Everything" in the title or lyrics...🎶
I lulled myself to sleep with a black screen sleep video on YouTube. When I woke up, the TV was tuned to PBS with a dog sitting there watching it attentively. To have done that, she had to turn off the YouTube app, turned on Dish Network and changed the channel by rolling over the remote.
Story of many many Americans lives.. the medical stuff shouldn’t be political But somehow that has become Toxic too????
They’re just showing how much suffering they can squeeze out of people who already don’t have much left. And the worst part is they’re proud of it. The cruelty isn’t a side effect - it’s the whole damn point. Read here: prospect.org/2026/07/31/t...
Dr. Laurie Leshin became the first female director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech in 2022. A geochemist & planetary scientist, she is the University Professor for Space Futures at Arizona State University. She was born #OTD in 1966. #WomenInSTEM #geochemistry
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
The latest El Niño forecast by the ECM is suggesting a record shattering +4°C event. Impacts; - Record breaking global warmth (1.7-1.8°C) - Catastrophic marine heatwaves Potential to be one of the most disruptive climate anomalies we’ve ever observed.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate (Gift Article)
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.
And narcissistic personality disorder, and, at this stage, psychosis.
Trump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
ALT: Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
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Developers beware: these ad-tracking libraries will give up your users’ location data by default to third parties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location
An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location
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NEWS: Democrats sweep Republican-backed initiatives across America. Trump faces massive embarrassment has his endorsed candidate loses to someone who dropped out. UFC loses $30 million on White House fight. And major Epstein news coming. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Democrats Sweep GOP-Backed Initiatives, Trump Embarrassed in Michigan, UFC Loses $30 Million on Trump Fight
Good morning everyone.
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ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
Emperor shrimp molting on top of a sea slug (rude!): #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
WE NEED 4 SEATS TO FLIP THE SENATE. JOSH TUREK SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM. I was researching Josh and came across one of his signature issues: Right to Repair. I had no idea how important this was. Most people in big cities probably don’t either. 🧵
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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