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@everythingis42.bsky.social
Feminist. Writer. Camper. Pythoner. Neurospicy. From an Actual Small Town. Unironically described as 'feisty.' Will yell about baseball, football, comfort tv, food, and various other distractions.
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All of my heroines have resting bitch face.
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"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Leaf blowers are the AI of rakes: An unnecessary tool for the lazy that creates a bizarre dependency and unnatural loyalty among users, while harming the environment and making society worse
I have never loved anything more than being woken up bright and early by a man walking around aimlessly with a leaf blower
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Leaf blowers are the AI of rakes: An unnecessary tool for the lazy that creates a bizarre dependency and unnatural loyalty among users, while harming the environment and making society worse
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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listen there was simply no way to know that Brian Kelly would be extremely unpleasant to deal with
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
listen there was simply no way to know that Brian Kelly would be extremely unpleasant to deal with
S-tier Steely Dan
I'll watch this video prettty much any time the youtube algorithm wants to show it to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCX6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCX6...
My Old School - Steely Dan | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
S-tier Steely Dan
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Replacing "air traffic controllers" with "true patriots" seems like a good way to kill lots of people
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
But he promises $10,000 bonuses to controllers who have shown up without fail during the more-than-monthlong shutdown.
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Replacing "air traffic controllers" with "true patriots" seems like a good way to kill lots of people
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Great day to head to Whitefish Bay!
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Great day to head to Whitefish Bay!
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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The transition to clean energy is about economics.
Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The transition to clean energy is about economics.
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“Now it’s like, ‘If you ever threw a pass, do you want to be a quarterback?’” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department struggles as thousands exit — and few are replaced
The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, in part because of a lack of qualified candidates.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“Now it’s like, ‘If you ever threw a pass, do you want to be a quarterback?’” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
the worst person you know, yadda yadda
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
the worst person you know, yadda yadda
wonderful.
The Senate passing a bill that is NOT the House CR means the House has to also vote on it. Dems are doing harm reduction and forced the repubs to cave and pass a different bill than the House. Now let's see what House repubs do.
Honestly, this is likely as good of a deal as the Democrats are going to get.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
wonderful.
the thing about this shutdown is....... at any point has the GOP even as much as hinted that they'd budge from their position?
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
the thing about this shutdown is....... at any point has the GOP even as much as hinted that they'd budge from their position?
This week's sourdough pizza crust definitely beats my last attempt
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This week's sourdough pizza crust definitely beats my last attempt
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While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane.
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
When Pete Buttigieg says he would take medicine that makes gay men straight. What do you think is Mr. Buttigieg's attitude towards gays, men and medicine?
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane.
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
in a surprise to no one, AI slop is ruining Pinterest
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
in a surprise to no one, AI slop is ruining Pinterest
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Old horsehair fishing nets from Brittany, once used to catch monkfish, are now shielding Ukraine’s frontlines from Russian drones. 280km of repurposed netting, sent by Kernic Solidarités, is being stretched across trenches and roads, forming traps that snare drones like flies in a web.
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Old horsehair fishing nets from Brittany, once used to catch monkfish, are now shielding Ukraine’s frontlines from Russian drones. 280km of repurposed netting, sent by Kernic Solidarités, is being stretched across trenches and roads, forming traps that snare drones like flies in a web.
a deceptively powerful way to kill the planet, one crappy AI-generated image/video at a time!
Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here’s how to make the most of it. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Adobe Firefly Is the Best-Kept Secret in Generative AI. Here’s How to Use It
Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here’s how to make the most of it.
www.wired.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
a deceptively powerful way to kill the planet, one crappy AI-generated image/video at a time!
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damn that’s french as hell
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
damn that’s french as hell
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Unpaid, exhausted, and out of options—America’s air traffic controllers are resigning mid-crisis as Trump’s shutdown drags on. ✈️⚠️👇
Air Traffic Controllers Begin Quitting as Shutdown Chaos Grounds America
The sky is no longer the limit—it’s the latest casualty of Washington’s dysfunction. As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history enters its sixth week, air traffic controllers—the profession…
allchronology.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Unpaid, exhausted, and out of options—America’s air traffic controllers are resigning mid-crisis as Trump’s shutdown drags on. ✈️⚠️👇
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Take the time to read this thread. Shame on Heritage and everyone who will not condemn their erasure of American service and sacrifice
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Take the time to read this thread. Shame on Heritage and everyone who will not condemn their erasure of American service and sacrifice
what the fuck
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
what the fuck