I recall last year when a friend of mine at the state department told me they had disbanded the food safety team at the Department of agriculture... California Lettuce Growers Skip Harvest, Plow Their Crops Back Into the Ground - The Wall Street Journal

So my passport expires in 2027. Looks like I will not be doing any international travel until Jan 20, 2029, at the earliest.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

Nobody asked for this

TFW you sign out of 90% of your Slack groups in one fell swoop

Freedom

ALT: Freedom

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Great stuff in here

Mike Blumenthal@mikeblumenthal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cyrus Shepard, founder of Zyppy, joins @gsterling.bsky.social & Mike Blumenthal for P2 of the Near Memo local brand-building series — this time on the technical side: how Google and AI systems actually model a brand, and what a local business can do about it. www.nearmedia.co/ep-266-cyrus...

Getting a little too close for comfort

I KNOW YOU WERE WONDERING WHEN THE NEXT POST ON AI WAS GOING TO SHOW UP IN YOUR FEED. AI in Local Search is probably the most under-hyped part of this industry, yet perhaps one of the most important for the majority of businesses. So where are those damn gurus sharing their hot Local AI tips?

The key to recovery is to first admit you have a problem. Just asked AI to give Argentina a hard-ass halftime pep talk:

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Best Dressed Man in the World Cup spotting!

He looks and sounds ill, and he's complaining. Losers complain. If you're in control you keep your mouth shut and put the other side in their place.

In honor of POTUS' mountain of flyshit he will unload tonight, my wife and I are seeing The Odyssey in IMAX, like real Americans.

The AI transcription summarized this well

Dear Mitch youtu.be/btPfmWrS6AY?...

Begone! Before somebody drops a house on you, too!

YouTube video by Honey LaBronx

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Reflecting Pool getting the full Platner

Mingyu Steal Spotlight

ALT: Mingyu Steal Spotlight

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If Balogun hadn't played at least we'd have bitching rights

Animal abuse

Proud to share a country with Joey Chestnut

Franklin BBQ 4th of July 9:30am

So I find myself unexpectedly at the moment at a MAGA Party...

despite Vanilla Ice’s clear desire to collaborate, he listened and stopped

Wolfgang Baur@wolfgangbaur.bsky.social · last mo.

Weep with me, for Vanilla Ice has cancelled his Freedom 250 concert at America’s State Fair. www.themirror.com/entertainmen...

daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

Om

This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.

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You've peed your last black eye

Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's@ri.oldfolkshome.org · last mo.

You've quieted your last riot.

Been with @om almost as long as I've been with the Web. He has been a part of my Internet experience just as much as the http protocol. RIP om.co/2026/06/24/1...

Om Malik, 1966-2026

Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…

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cuando Ochoa salta al campo

Novela

ALT: Novela

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Our new 404 page is live: www.localseoguide.com/oops I call it "Reflecting On Our Errors"

How do you say "choke" in French?

Angus Gunn is playing like a damn bawbag

First politician to support a law that requires all chatbots to have a "zero personality" setting gets my vote.

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.