My wife removing herself momentarily from her game: Do you smell toast?
Me sitting next to her on the couch halfway through a peanut butter and jelly toast sammich: Hmmm? Toafftt? Nppphhhh!
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“The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. It would take decades, however, before we finally came face to face with the colossal squid.
Under sombre, mausoleum lighting at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa rests a monster. Its enormous body lies in a huge glass coffin, thick tentacles trailing beneath a strange, mottled body…”
https://bbc.com/future/article/20250130-colossal-squid-the-eerie-ambassador-from-the-abyss
[#]BBC #Nature #Science #Ocean #Biology #ColossalSquid #Oceanology
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“Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published Wednesday.”
https://apnews.com/article/genetic-diversity-species-population-63f472525b1b43d975e5abad0a37d045
[#]APNews #Nature #Science #Biology
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“According to WSJ, Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to lose the frivolous lawsuit Trump launched after Facebook exercised its prerogative under the First Amendment not to platform Trump’s insurrection anymore in 2021.
(snip)
Most people — including Elizabeth Warren, in the WSJ story — are focusing on how this is effectively a bribe, a $22 million donation…”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/30/mark-zuckerberg-agrees-to-turn-meta-back-into-a-pogrom-machine/
[#]EmptyWheel #FaceBook #USPol #USPolitics #Trump
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Sebastián Andrés Vis,
You can make a link directly to your website address by adding and placing it in one of the “extra fields,” if you edit your profile via the web interface. Most apps also give you the option. 👋🏻
@Typy
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(snip) “Here’s the CourtListener docket.
Because there’s a great deal of doomerism, because a lot of people spent yesterday wailing, “Why doesn’t anyone do anything,” I think it crucially important to lay out who did what, so people can understand the agency involved.”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/29/judge-alikhan-didnt-halt-trumps-funding-freeze-alone-democracy-forward-did-too/
[#]EmptyWheel #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Do you love Tolkien’s use of language? Better yet, do you love how he made languages in his Universe?
I think it might please you to give this bot a follow. From the bio:
“This bot is a tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien and his work. It publishes one word from the invented languages of Tolkien :Tolkien: every day at 5.00 GMT.”
@lambebot
[#]Tolkien
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I did not remember that the Beetlejuice cartoon riffed verrrry heavily on PeeWee’s Playhouse. Beetlejuice has the “Roadhouse.” It goes on and on. Good gods they must have been in catboots to not get sued. I saw it on cartoon rewind. Many bongs were ripped to this show in my long ago.
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Wow, watching the playoffs in Canada and a full minute pro-tiktok commercial just ran. Huh.
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It kinda looks to me like tiktok punked their own users by shutting themselves down when they never had to close at all. It stinks.
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“In an interview with Marc Elias the other day, Dan Goldman made a number of alarming claims. He said that before the release of Jack Smith’s January 6 report, “we didn’t really know about … the extensive litigation that the Special Counsel had to go through just to get this evidence.” That is, Goldman admitted that he missed the unsealing, in October, of the very documents Jack Smith cited to describe that process (which I wrote..”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/found-dozens-of-damning-documents-about-trumps-hoarding-of-classified-documents/
[#]EmptyWheel #USPol #USPolitics #Trump
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Yahoo finance out here contrasting differences in a Marist poll. I find this an interesting article. Many of the graphics show dismal prospects for a majority of Americans should they face practically any type of economic upheaval. Nonetheless a majority feel they will be better off under the next Administration. Does it suggests a real disconnect in expectations? It looks to me it depends on how much money you got in the game.
n=3131+/-2.1 percentage pts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/state-of-savings-report-110009028.html
[#]USPol #USA
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The great thing about watching the NFL in Canada is you just don’t get any commercials for prescription medications. It’s nice not hearing “….serious side effects include…”
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Man, I really like the influx of great people over on pixelfed.social. Daniel’s day has no doubt been long and hard with the incredible growth his instance is experiencing. Sooo many new introductions in the home feed! 😊😊
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“Pete Hegseth is wildly unqualified to run DOD. He described yesterday the most people he had ever supervised was 100. The non-profit budgets that went broke under his stewardship were in the $10 million range. He has never supervised an audit yet claims he’ll be the guy who finally ensures the Pentagon passes one.”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/how-right-wingers-rushed-to-dei-hire-pete-hegseth/
[#]EmptyWheel #ConfirmationHearings #USPol #USPolitics #USA
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“By now you’ve heard about Peter Thiel’s batshit column, in which (with no explanation) he suggests Trump’s second term might bring about an apocálypsis that his first term did not, a revelation of all the secrets that, Thiel claims, “the media organizations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs” have been keeping.
Among the secrets Thiel thinks Trump will tell in his second term that he did not in his first are …”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/12/the-fisa-702-canard-at-the-core-of-trump-debates/
[#]EmptyWheel #USPol #USPolitics
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The channel I’m watching is telling me it’s the 25 Anniversary for Farscape. I’m pretty sure that was last year, because maths, but what do I really know?
Remember Farscape? I do. I was around and a viewer when it premiered on the fairly new SciFi Channel in March of ‘99.
The show is still a joy to watch.
I think of Scorpius as one of the great antagonists in television science fiction.
[#]ScienceFiction #Television #Farscape #90s
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“My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to red hot to hot to warm. But at some point past “warm,” we get to lukewarm, and then cool, and then chilly. In other words, if it continues at some point “deceleration” transitions into “deterioration.” A “soft landing” would require that the deceleration end, and the numbers stabilize.”
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2025/01/december-jobs-report-ho-ho-ho-santa.html
[#]TheBonddadBlog #USEconomics #Economics #USPol #Jobs
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Most ordinary folks who don’t follow politics, I think you deserve a heads up.
The bad:
I expect an absolute firehose of horse-hockey to flood everything everywhere tomorrow when You Know Who is sentenced.
The good:
Follow #Cats and #CatsOfMastodon or #DogsOfMastodon for smiles.
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“An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1.2 million years.”
https://apnews.com/article/antarctica-old-ice-core-climate-change-epica-6f76c57abf254dd9cb698f767db5507b
[#]APNews #Science #Antarctic #IceCore
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