J-quellin

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We've got a very cool (free!) Run for Something event coming up soon: Learn how to fight for public libraries by running for library board or other local offices that oversee libraries. www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...

Love Is Not Enough: How We Can Strengthen & Expand Public Libraries · Run for Somethingwww.mobilize.us Most public libraries are governed by elected and appointed officials on library boards. And even if you love your public library, odds are you might be in the dark about how your local library board ...

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pineapple princess 🔒

Why is this so true though

Had an interesting guest in the yard yesterday (young red-tailed hawk)! S/he was hanging out almost all day, enjoying the shade and puddles on the trampoline, perching on the fence and swingset. Moved on this morning, so my best guess is that just needed some rest after this week's storms. Anyway, 🥰

Vance is giving off real "intern sitting next to the boss" energy

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

Guess the time travelers have finally started arriving

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Gone, like a snowball on the Senate floor.

Former Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican known for his notorious climate denial, is dead at 89.

Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, Prolific Climate Denier, Dies At 89www.huffpost.com The longtime Oklahoma Republican leaves behind a long legacy of disinformation about the mounting threat of global warming.

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fascinating - shared w/no paywall www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketedwww.nytimes.com An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

Rafaela has been so good in clutch moments that I have started calling him Lil Papi in my head. Glad I decided to treat myself to a NESN subscription last month! 😁

Feel like there is something very pernicious about repurposing the song "This Is Me" in an ad for Wegovy.

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Modifying these for myself: 1) I have not supported Biden in any of his presidential primaries in my lifetime ('08, '20, and '24) 2) I did not watch the debate, but fully believe the reports back from it 3) I believe it's too late to replace him now, and that NYT etc. are fucking him for readership

Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership

The holy trinity of desk beverages

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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To recap the past 24 hours: Jake Tapper: who should be president Trump: I should be president Biden: no, I should be president Roberts: actually I am the president

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

Dont blame me, I voted for Elizabeth Warren

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Josephus Brown

I wrote a bill aiming to improve this a few years back and was told that people try basically every year, but it's impossible to do anything about it at the state level and very difficult at the federal level because they mainly originate outside of the US...

... and the tech is accessible enough that it's whack-a-mole/not worth the resources to prosecute. OTOH: the FCC did implement an authentication protocol to cut down on number spoofing, but it's still not everywhere...because requiring it would cost companies $ www.fcc.gov/call-authent...

Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authenticationwww.fcc.gov Caller ID authorization is a new system aimed at combating illegal caller ID spoofing. Such a system is critical to protecting Americans from scam spoofed robocalls and would erode the ability of call...

I already do this (MBTI always puts me at like 90% introvert), but it's kind of funny to see this coming on the heels of last week's WSJ "why are Millennials so phone-phobic??" article.

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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Oh haha!! I love it!!

Further question, why does every former Red Sox player that we face absolutely crush us in the first game of the series (Schwarber, Verdugo, tonight Turner)

I don't know why the Blue Jays play a snippet of Lisa Loeb's 90s hit "Stay" after every (opposing-team) strikeout, but I'm not all that mad about it.

Might go listen to the Reality Bites soundtrack later

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Coral Sheldon-Hess

Looks like an album cover! I love it!!

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Me: “I don’t need more notebooks. I know that.” Also me: “Ok. Just one of each. Just in case.”

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According to JAMA frequent blood donation has been shown to reduce the concentration of "forever chemicals" in the bloodstream by up to 1.1 ng/mL, and frequent plasma donors showed a reduction of 2.9 ng/mL. Having healthier blood

This is the kind of bird content I like to see!

Did I show you all my horrifying starling photo? Look at this scary baby! 🪶