Hoyle

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Lurker turned reply-guy, i guess
dad to a 3yo, engineer, reader of speculative fiction, idk other stuff. he/him

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Ancient Indians and Egyptians were so deeply intertwined beyond everything they taught us in school that at this point if you told me they voted for each other's kings I'd believe you

Fascinating site they’re excavating in Egypt on the Red Sea.

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Was just going through my photos from my PDX trip and found this video of @golikehellmachine.com and the rest of Tragic Lovers rocking out. youtu.be/A2DBJx4WXn0?...

Tragic Lovers - “Silent Sea” live at Shanghai Tunnel Bar PDX 6/8/2024youtu.be

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So DC water is out, which sucks, but on a positive note I got really into the DC water supply in 2022 and this is a great time to bring out fun facts The water's out because they found turbidity at Dalecarlia Reservoir west of the city, where DC has gotten much of its water supply since the 1850s

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This election is about values, not policies. It was *always* about values and not policies. This was obvious to anyone with half a brain-cell from the first day that Trump announced he'd be running again. Every single comms person who does not get that should be given their severance and a reference

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- Gary Provost

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President Biden announced that immigrant spouses of American citizens may apply for permanent residency without leaving the country, washing away their fears of being separated from their families and putting them on a path to U.S. citizenship.

White House announces plan to aid longtime undocumented immigrantswapo.st President Biden’s policy will clear the way for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for legal residency.

@juicysteak117.gay hey guys check this out

Let’s fuckin goooo

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damn, dude

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this is an absolutely incredible resource for free, well-formatted, public domain ebooks in epub, kepub, and azw formats standardebooks.org

Standard Ebooksstandardebooks.org Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

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Okay. I am probably going to regret wading into this again, but The Discourse about child protection issues on Bluesky has escalated to the point where people are making extremely serious accusations against the head of Bluesky T&S, and y'all need to stop. It is unhinged QAnon batshittery.

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Today on Volts: Brett Christophers stirred up a lot of controversy & discussion with his book The Price Is Wrong, which argues that renewables aren't profitable enough to scale with private money. He & I go deep on the details. Extremely deep.

Are markets the right tool for decarbonizing electricity?www.volts.wtf In his book The Price Is Wrong, Brett Christophers argues that, contrary to recent economic triumphalism among renewables advocates, wind and solar are not profitable enough to attract the private cap...

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“In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans’ ability to own a home or buy a car, the Biden administration will propose a rule Tuesday to ban medical debt from credit reports.”

In sweeping change, Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit reportsapple.news The rule will be announced Tuesday and could go into effect sometime next year.

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No, in this case you're absolutely right. Many people here seem to think "capitalism" means "a thing about the economy that I don't like." And the thing that they would like: a world without scarcity. But until we get to that world, we have to use some system to allocate scarce resources.

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To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

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NY state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal: I’ve gotten more telephone calls, emails, texts & voicemails in support of congestion pricing than any other other issue - ever - during my decade in the NYS Senate (that even includes hatred from anti-vaxxers )

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Who decided that when bluetooth devices get low on battery they should continually keep cutting out to remind you their battery is about to die, effectively making 10% the same as 0%? I just want to talk

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Seems bad

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Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt congestion pricing in NYC — if it holds — is a generational setback for US climate policy. It is worse than the Mountain Valley pipeline or Willow project in Alaska, and it will have lacerating national implications. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/economy/kath...

Kathy Hochul’s Climate Betrayalheatmap.news Delaying congestion pricing is one of the worst climate policy decisions made by any Democrat in recent memory.

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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES The official American Immigration Council analysis of Biden's EO/reg. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/ame...

An American Immigration Council Analysis of the President’s 212(f)www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org On June 4, the Biden administration issued a presidential proclamation and an Interim Final Rule restricting access to asylum for people crossing into the United States without legal status. The

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I’m so sorry @kenwhite.bsky.social but www.mediaite.com/sports/disgr...

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dad last month: want a signed copy of the Two Towers? me: ARE YOU SERIOUS dad: sure will send with your cousin 1 month later: me: I got the book Dad: good me: This is signed by someone called Ajay Dad: Yes obviously why would I give you a book signed by Tolkien and not keep it are you crazy

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longtime fans will know ive been trying to communicate via radio signals reflected off the moon. last summer’s attempts all ended in failure WELL FOLKS—GUESS WHAT I PULLED OFF AT 2AM BY THIS RANDOM BARN I HAVE TOUCHED THE FUCKIN MOON (highlighted message is a dude in italy responding to my call)

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

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34 COUNTS???!

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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

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They’ve rejected the request for private meetings, which means Democrats can either insist on public hearings or roll over and play dead.

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts responds to Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse, writes that Justice Alito responded regarding recusal questions and that a meeting with Durbin and Whitehouse “would be inadvisable.” Background on Alito’s letter: www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...

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Today on Volts: making steel generates ~10% of global carbon emissions. Now a new startup, Boston Metal, promises steel with no combustion, no emissions, & no waste. The process, "molten oxide electrolysis," runs on clean electricity! Love it.

Making carbon-free steel with clean electricitywww.volts.wtf Steel production generates almost 10% of global carbon emissions and has long been considered “hard to abate.” Enter Boston Metal, a startup that aims to make carbon-free steel using only (sing it wit...

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god i hope rubio does this and then trump picks tom cotton or something.

I didn't see this coming exactly. Trump asks a sitting Florida senator to move to another state if he wants to be in consideration for a VP job. That senator then says sure. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...