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Going to seed in Penn’s Woods. Friend to all dogs, felines and raccoons. Fan of football, Aruba, Syracuse, books, and the sad Chicago Bears.
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Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and who was among the last living service members who survived the surprise attack, died on March 1 at 102.
Jessie Mahaffey, Survivor of Pearl Harbor Attack, Dies at 102
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he survived the sinking of another Navy ship in the Pacific.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and who was among the last living service members who survived the surprise attack, died on March 1 at 102.
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An alleged modern-day Bonnie and Clyde have been charged with going on a two-week armed robbery spree across Los Angeles, pausing only to get married in Vegas.
Partners in crime get hitched in Vegas in middle of SoCal armed robbery spree, authorities say
An alleged modern-day Bonnie and Clyde have been charged with going on a two-week armed robbery spree across Los Angeles, pausing only to get married.
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
An alleged modern-day Bonnie and Clyde have been charged with going on a two-week armed robbery spree across Los Angeles, pausing only to get married in Vegas.
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Now that a new James Bond is almost certainly coming our way via Amazon, we ranked all 27 films from worst to best, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
All 27 James Bond movies ranked, according to critics
Now that a new James Bond is almost certainly coming our way via Amazon, we ranked all 27 films from worst to best, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
www.businessinsider.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Now that a new James Bond is almost certainly coming our way via Amazon, we ranked all 27 films from worst to best, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
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For this week’s cover of the magazine, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art. #NewYorkerCovers
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For this week’s cover of the magazine, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art. #NewYorkerCovers
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“How could a movie so arrestingly strange, with so many layers of deadpan absurdity and film-noir pastiche, also be tender and moving beyond words?” @justincchang.bsky.social writes about the impact “Mulholland Drive” had on him, and about mourning the loss of David Lynch.
Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
In L.A., the death of the director of “Mulholland Drive” and “Inland Empire” leaves an unfillable void.
www.newyorker.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“How could a movie so arrestingly strange, with so many layers of deadpan absurdity and film-noir pastiche, also be tender and moving beyond words?” @justincchang.bsky.social writes about the impact “Mulholland Drive” had on him, and about mourning the loss of David Lynch.
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‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into their first film
‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into their first film
They were quizzed endlessly and one wrong answer could have blown the lot. The makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin relive the tactics – and cups of tea – that got it green lit
Bernard MacMahon says he knew he was taking a massive risk. The Irish-British…
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into their first film
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NEW: Two close encounters with copperheads, nearly six decades apart, have reshaped biology educator and freelance journalist Don Lyman's appreciation of nature. 🧪
www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...
www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...
How Two Close Encounters with Copperheads Changed Don Lyman
As I watched the snake crawl off into the darkness, I thought back to the copperhead incident of my youth that happened in those same woods.
www.thexylom.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
NEW: Two close encounters with copperheads, nearly six decades apart, have reshaped biology educator and freelance journalist Don Lyman's appreciation of nature. 🧪
www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...
www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...
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I do try to spread general positivity and good history, but am finding that harder to accomplish these days.
Anyway, here’s a shot of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry’s monument along the site of Hancock’s defense at Gettysburg.
Anyway, here’s a shot of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry’s monument along the site of Hancock’s defense at Gettysburg.
January 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I do try to spread general positivity and good history, but am finding that harder to accomplish these days.
Anyway, here’s a shot of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry’s monument along the site of Hancock’s defense at Gettysburg.
Anyway, here’s a shot of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry’s monument along the site of Hancock’s defense at Gettysburg.
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I won't give it away but I loved reading this - wait for it in the 11th paragraph! LOLLL. And the 15 paragraph highlighting the difference is ... ok I have to read this book! @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The penultimate paragraph is depressing AF apple.news/AWtzLmXdXQLG...
The penultimate paragraph is depressing AF apple.news/AWtzLmXdXQLG...
The Paranoid Thriller That Foretold Trump’s Foreign Policy — The Atlantic
Some of the president’s policies are stranger than fiction. January 23, 2025 This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you di...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I won't give it away but I loved reading this - wait for it in the 11th paragraph! LOLLL. And the 15 paragraph highlighting the difference is ... ok I have to read this book! @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The penultimate paragraph is depressing AF apple.news/AWtzLmXdXQLG...
The penultimate paragraph is depressing AF apple.news/AWtzLmXdXQLG...
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Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded on approach to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. As it broke up, two 3.8-Megaton B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out.
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded on approach to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. As it broke up, two 3.8-Megaton B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out.
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Leo has stopped listening to the news and tuned into his favorite sunbeam. 🌤️
January 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Leo has stopped listening to the news and tuned into his favorite sunbeam. 🌤️
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“Serling was following a path laid down by writers and artists in a lot of different cultures who had more to lose than their income—including ones who were, at that very moment, being persecuted by dictators.” — I wrote about Rod Serling today. No reason. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from "The Twilight Zone" | Features | Roger Ebert
A look back at a show that never shied away from commenting on the world around it.
www.rogerebert.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Serling was following a path laid down by writers and artists in a lot of different cultures who had more to lose than their income—including ones who were, at that very moment, being persecuted by dictators.” — I wrote about Rod Serling today. No reason. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
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Also interesting because... not all birds can walk! Crows can, as can eagles, herons, and turkeys. Often birds that can walk spend a lot of time on the ground and tend to have larger legs than birds that can't, like the passerines, such as warblers and tanagers. Why? 1/?
I’m sitting alone in the cottage watching a crow walk around in the snowy field across the road and it’s utterly delightful. There’s something so charming about the way crows walk.
Nature minding its own business.
Nature minding its own business.
January 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Also interesting because... not all birds can walk! Crows can, as can eagles, herons, and turkeys. Often birds that can walk spend a lot of time on the ground and tend to have larger legs than birds that can't, like the passerines, such as warblers and tanagers. Why? 1/?
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"Policymakers need to decide when to let the rising seas or expanding deserts take over land where people used to be and build new, affordable housing for those people in safer areas." - @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance
Homeowners in increasingly risky areas can’t obtain adequate coverage as insurers flee the state to avoid losses.
www.bloomberg.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Policymakers need to decide when to let the rising seas or expanding deserts take over land where people used to be and build new, affordable housing for those people in safer areas." - @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The US’s S&P 500 index has risen more than 20% for the second year in a row, marking its best two-year run of performance this century. www.ft.com/content/b413...
December 31, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The US’s S&P 500 index has risen more than 20% for the second year in a row, marking its best two-year run of performance this century. www.ft.com/content/b413...
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Persian Achaemenid rhyton (drinking vessel or vessel for pouring libations) made of lapis lazuli and gold. 6th-5th century BCE. Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg, Switzerland (6.7.63).
📷 Abegg-Stiftung. #AncientBlueSky
📷 Abegg-Stiftung. #AncientBlueSky
December 2, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Persian Achaemenid rhyton (drinking vessel or vessel for pouring libations) made of lapis lazuli and gold. 6th-5th century BCE. Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg, Switzerland (6.7.63).
📷 Abegg-Stiftung. #AncientBlueSky
📷 Abegg-Stiftung. #AncientBlueSky
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Must have banged his head really hard when he took that fall
Mitch McConnell: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Must have banged his head really hard when he took that fall
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I wish Warren Zevon were alive to write a song called “Busted At A McDonald’s In Altoona.”
December 10, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I wish Warren Zevon were alive to write a song called “Busted At A McDonald’s In Altoona.”
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Honored to see "On Freedom" on a list of best nonfiction books of 2024
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Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | Amazon.com
Immerse into and discover the world around you. Best nonfiction reads from Amazon Editors' list of 2024 is here to captivate.
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December 7, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Honored to see "On Freedom" on a list of best nonfiction books of 2024
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"Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones"
www.ft.com/content/31b6...
www.ft.com/content/31b6...
Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones
Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents
www.ft.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:46 AM
"Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones"
www.ft.com/content/31b6...
www.ft.com/content/31b6...
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The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since 1956.
World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74
Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has outlived at least three mates and the researcher who outfitted her with a tracking band in 1956.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2024 at 1:34 PM
The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since 1956.
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Sometimes the best howls are lazy 😂
December 6, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Sometimes the best howls are lazy 😂