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Star Trek. Classical Guitar. Politics. Cats. Seriously. Don’t try to pick me up. Just don’t.
Here is Rose Harper's personnel file from #StarTrekSNW's "The Griffin Incident"⬆️. As can be seen, Harper previously served on the USS Exeter, Captain Ronald Tracey's ship from the #StarTrekTOS episode "The Omega Glory" (here in the remastered version of the episode ⬇️).
Only real heads will get this, but: The documents helpfully released today by John Solomon appear to indicate that the FBI never continued its counterintelligence investigation against Trump once Mueller was appointed www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 6h agoKeeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...
OMG so cool.
Lee Billings@leebillings.bsky.social · 7h agoThis video is embedded in the story but is worth calling out on its own, as it nicely conveys just how ridiculously small these whirlpools are (compared to the size of the sun) and how closely they align with validating numerical simulations. So cool! youtu.be/g9E2-sSHYjw
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Behold! These are the sharpest images of the sun's surface ever obtained, and they reveal something *wild*: never-before-seen whirlpools of plasma called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are fundamental to solar energy flow. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spec...
Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun
Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more
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2 North Carolina charter schools that closed mid-school year owe the state $377,000. DPI is trying to collect $264K from Monroe Charter Academy and $113K from Triad International Studies Academy for money spent beyond what was allowed before prematurely closing. #nced
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)
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A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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The suspicious transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell is just the most visible and outrageous example of what could become a quiet attack on the rule of the law:
Todd Blanche’s New Grip on the Federal Prison System
Critics worry a little-noticed policy shift could let the attorney general reward allies, punish enemies, and sideline longstanding Bureau of Prisons processes.
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
tRump swore he’d demand a Supreme Court rehearing “IMMEDIATELY” after they shot down his birthright citizenship order. Deadline came and went. He just… never filed. Court made the loss final. Another big threat that evaporated. www.wonderwall.com/politics/don...
Trump misses deadline to appeal birthright citizenship case
Donald Trump let the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling he was once so upset about go.
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City of Ord votes unanimously to remove its Flock cameras, a first in Nebraska
City of Ord votes unanimously to remove its Flock cameras, a first in Nebraska
The Ord City Council voted to remove two Flock cameras from its city limits at its meeting Monday, becoming the first city in Nebraska to outright reject the technology.
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Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS
Is anyone in Canada missing TOS and ENT from Paramount+? I have a friend there who has had all but two episodes dropped. This has to be a glitch right?
Spock Scanning in Star Trek TOS
ALT: Spock Scanning in Star Trek TOS
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Well…at least after today I don’t ever have to hear about Michigan right? RIGHT??
Random Tuesday Im Done
ALT: Random Tuesday Im Done
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Doing a little more research on the disturbing footage in #StarTrekVOY's "Random Thoughts", I nmoticed that the shot of a hand holding a dagger in ront of a fire ⬆️ was originally seen in the 1982 "The Beastmaster"⬇️ film with Marc Singer. 1/2
as millions of americans this year have had to give up their health insurance **specifically because** trump and republicans made the decision to send premiums skyrocketing, the administration now says everyone who's lost coverage must have been committing fraud: www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr., Oz claim fraud crackdown drove ACA enrollment drop, but analysts cite rising costs
Rising premiums forced many people in Affordable Care Act plans to give up their coverage. But the Trump administration claims a huge drop in enrollment is almost entirely due to its fraud crackdown.
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This dipshit was following me, he’s probably following you too
Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w agoDoes everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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I did something ith Janeway #augpalettee26 #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #art #limitedpalette
Kira Elric 🏳️🌈Team Tragedy 🏳️🌈 King of the Puffs@kiraelric.bsky.social · 4d agoHappy August Guys! ❤️🧡💛🤍💙 It's time for this month's Palette!! Rules are in the ALT Text, but you can only use these colors to make art of a character! Make sure you use the tag #augpalettee26 to share it with the community and I am so excited to see what you guys make with it! #art #limitedpalette
![August Monthly Palette
Draw any character using ONLY the colors in the palette.
If your art program can do it, it’s legal. Blend modes, overlays, etc - go crazy.
tag it with #Augpalette26 to share it with the community!
a palette of red, orange, yellow, cream and blue]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqqfh4cjqa43r4bruf36tyd3/bafkreih3avunfwby3xi3j4muwcqoxcyxxrqaoecq3hazxsa4u3oooehlqq)
