ComeOnPeople (Smile On Your Brother)

@comeonpeopl.bsky.social

Student of History, Believer in the Social Contract, Afraid of Ignorance, Lover of Editorial Cartoons, Fascinated by people's discarded grocery lists. No she/he/they status or R/D affiliation because that's just an asterisk on who I am.

JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.

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this is why we are building passivhaus social housing in seattle the airtightness and 3pane/triple sealed windows, plus heat recovery ventilation work to protect residents from wildfire smoke. it's even possible w/ centralized or semi-centralized systems to prefilter smoke

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 2d ago

Wildfire smoke from a trifecta of catastrophic wildfires will roll in Tuesday and could cause the air quality to be unhealthy and reduce visibility.

“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.

Historian Rutger Bregman is a well-respected proponent of a universal basic income. The Guardian has called him “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas.” The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series. Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

My latest piece Hand carved from a chunk of black birch I found downed in the forest while I was camping about a month ago. Got lucky and the wood is already mostly seasoned, so no real cracking. It’s extremely hard wood!

A hand-carved wooden spoon stands upright against a plain white wall. The long, slender handle curves into two stacked spiral loops at the top, creating a sculptural, organic design. The shallow oval bowl shows visible wood grain and knots, and the unfinished light-colored wood has a smooth, matte surface. Soft natural light casts a faint shadow to the left.

On this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.

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