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Designing some animal themed ttrpg luck coins on my laser engraver. Name your animal...!
One of the reasons you don't elect rapists is that they're the exact type to destroy something they can't totally control.
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 7d agoThe Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.
Rare river otter spotted in Niagara wetland, pointing to species' comeback in southwestern #Ontario Otter sighting 'speaks well of habitat restoration and water quality,' wetland project manager says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Rare river otter spotted in Niagara wetland, pointing to species' comeback in southwestern Ontario | CBC News
A local photographer captured images of a river otter in the Grimsby Wetlands early this month. Experts say otters used to be rare in southwestern Ontario, but this and other sightings point to a welc...
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🌊 Nearly 90 California lawmakers have sent a clear message: No new offshore drilling and continued strong protection for California’s iconic coast! 🧵
Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/231207/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the "epicenter of AI development," Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers -- at least ...
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The ol' slumlord special: slap a coat of latex on everything
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Mamdani was (baselessly!) grilled about antisemitism by the national media for months before his election and Platner had a fucking nazi tattoo and appeared on an antisemitic YouTuber's channel and the national media was like, hey, boys will be boys. GOSH WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM I WONDER.
When a journalistic organization fires people who act like journalists, they are signaling that they are no longer interested in journalism.
Honestly, right now there is an opportunity for a search company to make good on the promise Google abandoned.
maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social · 3mo ago"why use google?" webpage from 1999
Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off
America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom' https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/05/18/0130213/americas-library-of-congress-officially-inducts-the-soundtrack-for-the-videogame-doom?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom'
America's Library of Congress "is preserving a little piece of Hell," jokes Engadget, "by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry." The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer's self-tit...
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I'm listening to In The Waves by Rachel Lance. History is cruel.
Cleaning the shed. Stumbled upon an archeology site. So far in the past that I can't even deduce FB way of just adding a photo for context
Pretty happy to be close to finishing my first #carpentry project using a cleat
This cannot be reformed. This can only be abolished and then punished.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
There is simply no world in which this clothing choice is a coincidence.
