CURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!
Jam-Covered Corgi 💻📊✡️
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I work with startups. How do we understand what people want, how they think, & how they decide? CMU, INSEAD; GOOG/ LNKD/SFIX/etc. #innovation, #behavioraleconomics, #servicedesign, #HCI, #strategy. Occasional #UXRants & #productivity. ellenb7248@pm.me
People vote on vibes (brand). They rationalize it with a fig leaf of logic. This is good.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h agoA new @abdulelsayed.bsky.social ad out from Senate Majority PAC — stark contrast to the Mike Rogers fearmongering that has already started
Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Grieving. Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved. Geographe Marine Research. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s... #globalmuseum #dolphins
that’s right, it’s going to be jeff bezos
The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
I just want to be able to rate rideshares based on whether or not they smell funny
USAID’s own inspector general says the agency lost the ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the funding freeze and mass staff cuts—oversight is now largely nonoperational. No one can rule out that money reaching violent extremist groups or vanishing in conflict zones.
Americans Deserve to Know What Happened to Billions in USAID Funds
A public accounting of USAID’s budgetary and aid funds after the freeze and staff cuts left oversight nonoperational.
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I will support the candidates who will prosecute the lawbreaking of this administration.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d ago“Federal law enforcement is protecting one party and prosecuting its opposition…They are confident they can avoid consequences. If they can break the law with impunity, elections are the only consequence they face, [so] they have every incentive to steal them.” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.
“The first frame gets the advantage.” When the headline is all many people read, whatever comes first becomes the story.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 6d agoA simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."
Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
GOOD TROUBLE: We could be a couple days from Judge Sullivan making a bombshell ruling in the Epstein Files redactions case brought by @katiephang.bsky.social. Everyone call your senator and tell them to VOTE NO on Blanche, or at least WAIT for Judge Sullivan.
The SAVE Act is stalled and looks dead in the Senate — but they keep trying to revive it. Stay loud and tell your Senators to kill it for good.
Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act
Contact Congress today!
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UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
Europe Announces World Cup Boycott Over FIFA Investment Deal With Kushner Family
UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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🚨BREAKING: California’s top election official demanded the (DHS explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, bluntly questioning both the department’s results and how it obtained California voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Serious doubts about the reliability of your data’: California bluntly challenges DHS over sweeping noncitizen voter claims
California has not provided its statewide voter registration list to DHS or any other federal agency. State law prohibits the disclosure of sensitive voter information, including Social Security numbe...
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Whatever. Leak the files if you want to do something.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.FLAG: The Senate has just adopted by unanimous consent a non-binding resolution opposing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell for any crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s not that older people are less capable with technology. (Anyone GenX or younger grew up with it.) it’s that we have ZERO fcking patience & better things to do with our time.
Ersatz Cliff@www.cliffordvickrey.com · last wk.the more I age, the more I detest software at a visceral, personal level. Every pointless deprecation, bullshit API change, vibe-coded regression, violation of semver, godawful UI change in tooling I use, etc. that I have to put up with is time not spent enjoying my brief time on Earth
The regime knows it can’t win in November without sabotaging the midterms. It’s up to all of us to get into election protection formation. We’re organizing in all 50 states to protect everyone’s right to cast a ballot and have it counted. Join the Hands Off Our Vote kickoff call on Thursday👇
Hands Off Our Vote! · Indivisible
Join Indivisibles across the country for the kickoff call for Hands Off Our Vote, Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get coun...
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for a sweeping executive order that would place major new restrictions on mail-in voting for November’s midterm elections.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go into effect before the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ asks Supreme Court to greenlight anti-mail voting order before midterms
Read more here.
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The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.
I meet amazing ppl all the time. Mia Hansson is one of them. 10 yrs & 58 metres in, she is stitch by stitch recreating the Bayeux Tapestry Her full-time job is caring for her disabled son & no, she doesn’t have tix for the exhibition! C’mon @britishmuseum @mo_bakshi ©️BBC/BritishMuseum #globalmuseum
Obama prob feeling better that McConnell denied him a Supreme Court Justice now that McConnell revealing he’s powerful enough to run the United States Senate LITERALLY FROM HELL
Republicans just approved a budget blueprint that does far more than fund the war with Iran. Buried inside the $95 billion package is $10 billion to implement new nationwide voting restrictions demanded by Trump.
Obama’s biggest failure was not forcing Garland onto the SCt bench. He should have declared that after 30 days he’d consider the Senate was waiving its A&C mandate & sent Garland over to the building.
Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2w agoIf Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
