Almost every phrase selling Germany to prospective scientists/ scholars / workers currently in the U.S. makes you reflect.

so... lets say you wanted info. on housing assistance and went to a website like HUD.gov... this is what you're greeted with.

So the government would target a business who refused to print posters ?
Didn’t SCOTUS rule a few years ago that a baker had the right to refuse to bake a cake for a same sex wedding?
Full nyt article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Waiting for Shakespeare in Jamaica …
The annual …and futile … effort to get free tickets to Shakespeare in the park.
This line in Queens had ~400 people in it. The earliest showed up at 5am for a noon distribution of tix.

Is this available in the US?

What world is this?

Was yesterday years old when I HEARD a squirrel.
Any squirrels experts out there know what it’s called, when they do it, why Etc. ?

Unforced errors.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usa...

Laying out some costs of the disruptions to USAID.

Thanks for the link.
Author of the article seems to extrapolate quite a bit on a survey of cyclone activity in the South Indian Ocean- going so far as to list hurricanes in Florida
Study however seems to show evidence to support his political argument.

if guinea worm was averaging 100k deaths in 1980- assuming it stayed the same … that would be 4.5mm lives saved today.
Epidemiologists can probably do more accurate estimates but pretty stunning.
(Also the graph is logarithmic- so the line is much much steeper. )

Finally there’s no link to a tracking url for the alleged package- just a request to add your cc info to charge you 30 cents.
This probably alerts them of a legit cc and you’ll be paying for tvs in Beijing or Belize or Buffalo real fast.

The first url in the text looks like usps but then when you click back into it- the web address changes to a one registered through Alibaba
@uspshelp.bsky.social wouldn’t do that either.

Almost fell for a scam today- so you won’t have to;
a text from what claims to be usps delivery-
here are 3 clues :
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+63 means from the Philippines.
USPS won’t do that

And using Gemini and chat gpt these are the two images generated with that alt text -
Yours is better :-)

So I read the caption / alt text of the image and immediately assumed it was the “prompt” used to generate the image.

Perhaps a sign of the times …