Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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I’m sure it’s happened before but I can’t recall a candidate winning a statewide nomination while being outspent ~9:1

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

Unfathomable

The $30 million AIPAC wasted in Michigan, wasted trying to help Haley Stevens, could have been used to fully fund and deliver 6 million malaria nets to sub-Saharan Africa. Or, it could have fully paid for universal free school breakfasts in Mississippi, America's poorest state.

It’s not quite right to say the Trump regime used up virtually all of America’s best missiles in the war on Iran this year, only to gain nothing (in fact, to lose valuable things). Because the Trump regime used up someone of America’s best missiles in a war in Yemen last year, only to gain nothing.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

Capitalism: where consumers are supposed to make the best choices based on info, eg price. But I spent last week trying to get quotes for an elective surgery from different hospitals. Insurance doesn't cover it, but wow, I could not get prices. How am I supposed to make a good decision?

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

This is 100% right though. If drivers are running aground on these things because they can’t see it easily at night and/or in rain, that’s a design flaw. Cars hitting barriers isn’t always necessarily proof of recklessness that has been mitigated, but instead an indication that something’s amiss.

Best article I've read about the Odyssey. "Civilizations begin to fall not only when their enemies grow strong, but when the winners decide the rules were written for the losers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded | Jamil Smith

The Greeks learn at Troy that breaking the rules works, then carry the lesson home. Nolan’s film shows how an exception becomes a habit of power

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you: google letting people change satellite images with ai is bad robert moses:

Too bad it will be used for evil, because this has a lot of funny possibilities.

404 Media@404media.co · 5d ago

NEW: “I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam... What on earth is Google doing?” Google new AI tool lets anyone make up completely bullshit satellite images....

Catching 74 distracted drivers in six hours is good, but what would be better is redesigning the street so drivers are forced to pay attention.

A N.J. cop disguised himself as a shrub — and helped catch 74 distracted drivers in one day

The Dunellen department said the "shrub" was busy during the six-hour enforcement operation.

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One of the barely-reported stories of the just-ended Tour de France is how two pro cyclists, Brandon McNulty and Xandro Meurisse, were hit by road-raging drivers, in separate incidents, on the same day (which was a time trial stage).

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Every time a pro cyclist is hit by a driver it's a good reminder of how silly so much of the victim blaming around bicyclists is. These are the best, most skilled riders in the world and even they get hit! Turns out it's not about the rider.

lord, i see what you've done for other cities....

Resonates. "In western society, white people have too often been permitted to be thinkers and leaders, while brown bodies are fixed in roles of labour or dependency. Only those with power have the privilege of forgetting their bodies. The powerless are rarely allowed to be anything else."

I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body

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99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

Today I found myself asking the question: how many members of Congress are too old to drive safely? As of this week, 26 were 80 or older (when it begins to get questionable). Six are over 85. One is 92. It's wacky to me that they'll probably stop driving before they stop running our country.

Everybody loves the North End, nobody brave enough to copy it

El Brento@andbrent.bsky.social · last wk.

Miss the North End all the time, lived on Hanover near the harbor for four years.

Flexposts back up on Arlington street next to Public Garden.

Trends we can’t ignore. “Friday's incident is the latest in a string of fatal shootings by Austin police of unarmed Black boys and men”

Austin policing under scrutiny following shooting of unarmed Black teen

Chief says the shooting was "potentially a suicide by police."

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kIDs tHEsE daYS

A new housing development near Lake Stevens is bulldozing a forest and calling itself The Timbers. Is this sprawling, car-dependent place really the best place to build new homes? Couldn’t we be allowing more housing in our core cities and protecting these forests?

I can find no article published in the New York Times in recent years about whether there is Muslim representation on any commission, panel, or agency in NYC's government.

Only 70 years ago, a white Virginia librarian was arrested for sitting next to a Black person at a public political meaning in Arlington, VA.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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58 days of relentless resistance. 🦩 Albanians are standing up against land grabs, corruption, and authoritarian overreach to defend their public lands and democratic rights. When the people unite, real change happens. Keep raising your voices, Albania! 🇦🇱

Mike Luckovich has done it again.

I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.

Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley

Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…

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