mctsonic

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“M-cee-tee sonique, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way." Loud music & drums takes/sci-fi/InfoSec & Sysadmin takes. Feminist, Pro-LGBTQ+ rights, Anti-fascist. Pro-science.

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Ansel Adams took very good photos of our national parks if you need a visually arresting element for your Facebook post

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Happy 71 birthday to the amazing Cyndi Lauper!

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If I were a right wing operative this would be the perfect time to float some false photos and reports to the media. They’re in a feeding frenzy, chances are pretty good they won’t fact check shit.

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this is so fucked

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videos like this always make me want to play in a tear-the-walls-apart hardcore band again

DRUG CHURCH - 4K - MULTICAM FULL SET - SAINT LUKES, GLASGOW - 06.02.24youtu.be Drug Church playing Saint Luke's in Glasgow on Tuesday 6th February 2024. Filmed by David Tan, Greg Hall and Kathryn McBride Colouring by Tom Hobson Audio Mixed by Cameron Wilson of Lunchbox Prod Audio Recorded by Joe Liddle

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After the Chevron decision, expect waaaay more participation at cyber-related hearings & legislative markups on Capitol Hill and less energy going towards comments during agency rule-makings, former admin + Hill staffers tell me. more in today's @axios.com Codebook: www.axios.com/2024/07/02/c...

The Supreme Court decision to rescind agencies' powers could hurt cyber regulations, experts warnwww.axios.com Agencies had been reinterpreting existing laws to get critical infrastructure to practice basic cyber hygiene.

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lol literally the same excuse the US secret service used when it deleted those Trump Jan 6 communications. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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When the France election results are good

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far right beliefs are deeply unpopular, which is why one of their main beliefs is making sure a popular vote doesn't get to decide anything

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This is your regular reminder that scams are now the background noise of our lives. They will take a million shots at you and threat actors only need you to let your guard down once. www.itbrew.com/stories/2024...

Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to youwww.itbrew.com Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.

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THIS. The "there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats" people need to read this and vote blue. They. Have. Different. Policies. They "opt out" of feeding poor students. Democrats enable feeding poor students. Voting blue means a material difference in people's LIVES.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords. www.tomshardware.com... #RockYou2024 #CyberSecurity #Security #CyberCrime #Crime

Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwordswww.tomshardware.com The leak dropped on the 4th of July. Here's what you need to know

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I love the smell of fraud in the morning. “‘In other words, the payment would be routed through a middleman, to hide the fact that the Campaign had settled, from the public and the FEC,’ Delgado said in a sworn court declaration.”

Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Wow, maybe competence and experience really does matter for public services. Who knew? (Anyone who studies public organizations. Or, really, anyone with an ounce of common sense).

According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

Texas kids lose up to 4 months of learning with new uncertified teachers, study findswww.dallasnews.com Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math, the Texas Tech study found.

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According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

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For those still using the other place:

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There's already data on this. Abortion on the ballot increases Democratic turnout and helps elect Democrats.

Abortion issue is boosting Biden’s advantages in the suburbswww.nbcnews.com The state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin is only the latest example of how abortion is driving election results since the Dobbs decision.

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Julia Child on the telephone, Aubazine, 1952 One of the great photographs taken by Paul Child when the couple lived in the south of France.

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hell yeah i do katie

SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2 - The Aviation Geek Clubtheaviationgeekclub.com SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2

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I think it’s clear that Paul Westerberg wrote his mom’s obituary. Let’s go Twins! m.startribune.com/obituaries/d...

Obituary for Mary Lou (Philipp) Westerbergm.startribune.com

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Why the East half of Texas is floating and the West half is parched.

Texas weather extremes likely to become normal, scientists saywww.texastribune.org Climate scientists say that extreme rain and drought are likely to become more common due to climate change.

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Look what’s on the company’s website.

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Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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la public library, one of Butler's favorite places, is honoring it this summer: www.lapl.org/collections-...

Octavia E. Butler: Her Legacy Lives Onwww.lapl.org "People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back."—The Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler's dystopian science fiction classic, Parable of the Sower...

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This is the entire view of the right and one they’re pushing out tons of propaganda about. It’s why we get 10,000 stories of people shoplifting from Walgreens and nothing about tax cheats even though it involves multitudes more money. They want to define crime as existing entirely within the poor

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.