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Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
February 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
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The irony here is that Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, key popularizer of this secret Politico funding theory, actually were secretly and illegally paid millions of dollars by the Russian government. (They claim they didn't know the money was from Russia.) www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
Even some of Tenet’s right-wing stars wondered why it existed. Now, a new federal indictment claims it was a Russian propaganda operation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The irony here is that Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, key popularizer of this secret Politico funding theory, actually were secretly and illegally paid millions of dollars by the Russian government. (They claim they didn't know the money was from Russia.) www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Today's National #Chocolate #Fondue Day! Here's the original recipe, from the restaurant where it was invented. mind-palate.com/chocolate-fo...
Chocolate Fondue: its true history and the original recipe - The Mind Palate
It's rare to be able to pin down the actual point of origin of a fad food or drink. But with chocolate fondue, we can! Discover its origin story here.
mind-palate.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today's National #Chocolate #Fondue Day! Here's the original recipe, from the restaurant where it was invented. mind-palate.com/chocolate-fo...
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Sen. @schatz.bsky.social heading to the Senate floor to oppose nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought >>>
February 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Sen. @schatz.bsky.social heading to the Senate floor to oppose nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought >>>
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Voting against Trump < 50%
Fetterman: 17% (partially due to high absence rate)
Gallego: 39%
Hassan: 42%
Shaheen: 42%
Kelly: 47%
Ossoff: 47%(partially due to high absence rate)
Voting against Trump > 90%
Hirono: 94%
Warren: 94%
Markey: 92%
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fetterman: 17% (partially due to high absence rate)
Gallego: 39%
Hassan: 42%
Shaheen: 42%
Kelly: 47%
Ossoff: 47%(partially due to high absence rate)
Voting against Trump > 90%
Hirono: 94%
Warren: 94%
Markey: 92%
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Voting against Trump < 50%
Fetterman: 17% (partially due to high absence rate)
Gallego: 39%
Hassan: 42%
Shaheen: 42%
Kelly: 47%
Ossoff: 47%(partially due to high absence rate)
Voting against Trump > 90%
Hirono: 94%
Warren: 94%
Markey: 92%
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fetterman: 17% (partially due to high absence rate)
Gallego: 39%
Hassan: 42%
Shaheen: 42%
Kelly: 47%
Ossoff: 47%(partially due to high absence rate)
Voting against Trump > 90%
Hirono: 94%
Warren: 94%
Markey: 92%
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Maybe he can get some tips from Justice Thomas
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Maybe he can get some tips from Justice Thomas
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If we lose NOAA we lose much of our ability to track and predict severe weather phenomena in enough time to organize evacuations and make plans to shelter in place.
Entire communities will be left vulnerable to increasingly devastating storms and people WILL die.
Entire communities will be left vulnerable to increasingly devastating storms and people WILL die.
NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD.
*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.
By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:
*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.
By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:
This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If we lose NOAA we lose much of our ability to track and predict severe weather phenomena in enough time to organize evacuations and make plans to shelter in place.
Entire communities will be left vulnerable to increasingly devastating storms and people WILL die.
Entire communities will be left vulnerable to increasingly devastating storms and people WILL die.
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To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.
January 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.
February 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.
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Andrew Natsios, who ran USAID under President George W. Bush and is a lifelong conservative Republican, calls such moves “illegal” and “outrageous.” What Musk and Rubio are doing “is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Andrew Natsios, who ran USAID under President George W. Bush and is a lifelong conservative Republican, calls such moves “illegal” and “outrageous.” What Musk and Rubio are doing “is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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NEW: NOAA staff ordered to 🛑 communication with foreign nationals (colleagues too). Source: Agency feels exposed due to wind energy profile. Staff directed to turn in info on foreign partners for high-level vetting. Satellite service got incommunicado orders.
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
www.wired.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
NEW: NOAA staff ordered to 🛑 communication with foreign nationals (colleagues too). Source: Agency feels exposed due to wind energy profile. Staff directed to turn in info on foreign partners for high-level vetting. Satellite service got incommunicado orders.
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Ultracrepidarian [uhl-truh-krehp-ih-DAYR-ee-uhn]
(n.) One who gives opinions and advice on matters that they know little or nothing about.
(adj.) Pertaining to one who is talking about things beyond their scope of knowledge.
(n.) One who gives opinions and advice on matters that they know little or nothing about.
(adj.) Pertaining to one who is talking about things beyond their scope of knowledge.
June 26, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Ultracrepidarian [uhl-truh-krehp-ih-DAYR-ee-uhn]
(n.) One who gives opinions and advice on matters that they know little or nothing about.
(adj.) Pertaining to one who is talking about things beyond their scope of knowledge.
(n.) One who gives opinions and advice on matters that they know little or nothing about.
(adj.) Pertaining to one who is talking about things beyond their scope of knowledge.
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*slaps roof of car* went to the store
May 20, 2024 at 7:08 PM
*slaps roof of car* went to the store
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Just a terrible idea to name your boat this
May 20, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Just a terrible idea to name your boat this
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Amazing evening at opening of the new Fantasy Exhibition at The British Library. They had work by Terry Pratchett @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Gelfling costumes, Earthsea stuff & brilliant speech by Susan Cooper. If you love fantasy do go see the exhibition. There are some fab events, some virtual
October 27, 2023 at 7:55 AM
Amazing evening at opening of the new Fantasy Exhibition at The British Library. They had work by Terry Pratchett @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Gelfling costumes, Earthsea stuff & brilliant speech by Susan Cooper. If you love fantasy do go see the exhibition. There are some fab events, some virtual
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Le Guin started writing A Wizard of Earthsea at the beginning of September 1966. Charles, her husband, took over the kids as soon as he was done grading finals and she finished the first draft two days before Christmas.
Two pages from Ursula K Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea manuscript. On display in the UK for the first time. At the British Library Fantasy exhibition. Go today with your extra hour?
November 1, 2023 at 2:54 AM
Le Guin started writing A Wizard of Earthsea at the beginning of September 1966. Charles, her husband, took over the kids as soon as he was done grading finals and she finished the first draft two days before Christmas.
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
1. Author royalty rate is 7.5% on paperbacks but that's not of RRP, it's of PRICE RECEIVED as in what the bookseller has paid for the book. So eg a £7.99 book could net author only 29p per copy. (Or less.)
1. Author royalty rate is 7.5% on paperbacks but that's not of RRP, it's of PRICE RECEIVED as in what the bookseller has paid for the book. So eg a £7.99 book could net author only 29p per copy. (Or less.)
October 25, 2023 at 7:07 AM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
1. Author royalty rate is 7.5% on paperbacks but that's not of RRP, it's of PRICE RECEIVED as in what the bookseller has paid for the book. So eg a £7.99 book could net author only 29p per copy. (Or less.)
1. Author royalty rate is 7.5% on paperbacks but that's not of RRP, it's of PRICE RECEIVED as in what the bookseller has paid for the book. So eg a £7.99 book could net author only 29p per copy. (Or less.)