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Went to the Moon twice, flew in space 4 times, commanded Apollo 13 - Jim Lovell has died at 97. A superb, humble and inspiring man. Rest in peace.
August 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Went to the Moon twice, flew in space 4 times, commanded Apollo 13 - Jim Lovell has died at 97. A superb, humble and inspiring man. Rest in peace.
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A lovely tribute.
"Imagine your life’s goal of walking on the Moon has suddenly, without warning, slipped away, and you have no time to mourn that loss. You have to get your crew back safely, and things are looking pretty damn grim."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-legacy...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-legacy...
The Legacy of the Washing Machine Pilot
Rest in peace, Mr. Lovell.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A lovely tribute.
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I've been rereading JFK's speeches, and it's pretty crazy how many banger quotes he had in fewer than three years of his presidency. Just a ridiculous number of quotes that no one's got close to matching since. He's probably only second to Lincoln in the rhetorical game.
August 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I've been rereading JFK's speeches, and it's pretty crazy how many banger quotes he had in fewer than three years of his presidency. Just a ridiculous number of quotes that no one's got close to matching since. He's probably only second to Lincoln in the rhetorical game.
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Delighted that my #RoyalMail assisted postal correspondence with 95yo Mr Pritchard continues. In his 1st letter he asked about cosmology, so I sent him the best book there is (if you haven't read @astrokatie.com's The End of Everything, you should). Good news - he loved it: "Astonishingly good!" 🤗🔭
August 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Delighted that my #RoyalMail assisted postal correspondence with 95yo Mr Pritchard continues. In his 1st letter he asked about cosmology, so I sent him the best book there is (if you haven't read @astrokatie.com's The End of Everything, you should). Good news - he loved it: "Astonishingly good!" 🤗🔭
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The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
August 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
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Tyranny is not born overnight. It’s built one compromise at a time.
August 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tyranny is not born overnight. It’s built one compromise at a time.
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Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone really, really, really fucking hate Kristi Noem. My god, what an episode.
August 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Trey Parker and Matt Stone really, really, really fucking hate Kristi Noem. My god, what an episode.
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“Florida Man” is quickly being replaced with “Texas Man”.
TLDR: Man from Dallas FAFO while on a hunting expedition and was sent to his everlasting glory by a buffalo.
www.wfaa.com/article/news...
TLDR: Man from Dallas FAFO while on a hunting expedition and was sent to his everlasting glory by a buffalo.
www.wfaa.com/article/news...
Dallas real estate executive killed by buffalo during South African hunting safari
Asher Watkins died after he was attacked by a buffalo while on a hunting safari in South Africa, Coenraad Vermaak Safaris said in a statement.
www.wfaa.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Florida Man” is quickly being replaced with “Texas Man”.
TLDR: Man from Dallas FAFO while on a hunting expedition and was sent to his everlasting glory by a buffalo.
www.wfaa.com/article/news...
TLDR: Man from Dallas FAFO while on a hunting expedition and was sent to his everlasting glory by a buffalo.
www.wfaa.com/article/news...
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Epstein victims speak out: This "smacks of a cover up."
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Epstein victims speak out: This ‘smacks of a cover up’
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
www.politico.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Epstein victims speak out: This "smacks of a cover up."
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
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You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
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Anyone have experience with services that connect you online with (human!) conversation partners for learning languages? If so, please recommend here.
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Anyone have experience with services that connect you online with (human!) conversation partners for learning languages? If so, please recommend here.
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President Trump continues to decimate the senior ranks of the FBI with the unlawful firings of career agents, all of whom hold non-political career positions with civil service protections.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
A New Round Of Unlawful Purges Hits FBI
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
President Trump continues to decimate the senior ranks of the FBI with the unlawful firings of career agents, all of whom hold non-political career positions with civil service protections.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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A peacock showing off its art.
August 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A peacock showing off its art.
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Our quince is doing amazingly well this year and is starting to get a slight blush.
www.pictorem.com/2423587/gold...
#quince #fruit #gardening #IrisRichardsonArtist #art #food #wallart #artprints #artshop #giftideas #macro #photography
www.pictorem.com/2423587/gold...
#quince #fruit #gardening #IrisRichardsonArtist #art #food #wallart #artprints #artshop #giftideas #macro #photography
August 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our quince is doing amazingly well this year and is starting to get a slight blush.
www.pictorem.com/2423587/gold...
#quince #fruit #gardening #IrisRichardsonArtist #art #food #wallart #artprints #artshop #giftideas #macro #photography
www.pictorem.com/2423587/gold...
#quince #fruit #gardening #IrisRichardsonArtist #art #food #wallart #artprints #artshop #giftideas #macro #photography
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Great Blue Heron sunbathing. A strange looking pose, but I'll bet it feels good to let down those massive wings and take in the sun. It was very hot this day.
#birds
#GreatBlueHeron
#birds
#GreatBlueHeron
August 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Great Blue Heron sunbathing. A strange looking pose, but I'll bet it feels good to let down those massive wings and take in the sun. It was very hot this day.
#birds
#GreatBlueHeron
#birds
#GreatBlueHeron
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Texas Dems' departure has halted other conservative priorities for Gov. Abbott's special session, including new abortion restrictions and a “bathroom bill."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-ant...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-ant...
How Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Bills Are Impacted by Texas Democrats Fleeing the State
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Texas Dems' departure has halted other conservative priorities for Gov. Abbott's special session, including new abortion restrictions and a “bathroom bill."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-ant...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-ant...
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This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
August 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
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“This is like two teams coming out of the locker room at halftime and the team that’s ahead saying they want to change the rules in the second half to make sure they win. If they’re gonna cheat, we’re not gonna play.”
— Texas State Rep. James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
— Texas State Rep. James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“This is like two teams coming out of the locker room at halftime and the team that’s ahead saying they want to change the rules in the second half to make sure they win. If they’re gonna cheat, we’re not gonna play.”
— Texas State Rep. James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
— Texas State Rep. James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
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Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
August 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
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That local gang of punk kids just wandered across my yard again.
August 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
That local gang of punk kids just wandered across my yard again.
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"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts... You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade."
August 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts... You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade."
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.