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TNT Sports Quadruples Down on Savannah Bananas, Will Televise Banana Ball Championship
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Léon XIV : première messe pour influenceurs catholiques organisée par le Vatican Le pape Léon XIV a mis en garde ce 29 juillet contre le danger de porter atteinte à la "dignité humaine" dans un contexte croissant d'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) et à une époque dominée par "la science et la technique". france24.com/fr/vid%C3%A9o/202…




67 years ago today, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law.

Welp. It had a good run.

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ChatGPT just got smarter: OpenAI’s Study Mode helps students learn step-by-step
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Some pictures of the ride. I would have documented it but after taking a somewhat speculative side path after getting kicked out of the construction site I accidentally barged into, I discovered that it was not in fact a path. It was actually a jungle made of poison oak and thorns.
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I recorded the ride, hilariously. I’m really looking forward to watching this nonsense.
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I’ve made better decisions in my life, but I’ve probably also made worse ones also.
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Two paths diverged in the woods, and I, I took one that wasn’t a path at all, and now my entire lower body itches like crazy which is not the difference that needed making.
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My best experiences of walking through the woods are walking cross country. Off the beaten track.
Enjoy your itchy legs.
Signs of life, as I say.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And I should have worn long pants.
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Watching this recording now that I'm home and hopefully disinfected, this is the part of the exercise where a reasonable person might have said, hmm, hmmmm.

Getting here was an escalative exercise from "path" to "overgrown path" to "no path" to whatever this is.

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Not sure where this was but the mosquitos loved it.
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A wise man once said, never step on anything soft in the forest, never step on anything hard in the jungle.

This was the "get up this hill, I can see something resembling a trail up there" and "ok we're gonna make it" part of the exercise.

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If you look at this area on Trailforks, I'm 90% sure that where I was was trudging through that dotted line there where Catalyst used to be, that just... no longer exists. As experiences go, I can't wholeheartedly recommend it. I'm looking forward to my legs not itching, and I should probably look into a bike with gears if I'm going to be stranding myself at the north end of these black-level trails. Doing this on a high-ratio singlelspeed is very difficult.
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a reasonable person might have pondered their next steps at this point.

But me, I’m fully with you on the “I bet I can go just a little further” path.

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You're definitely getting your heat acclimatization in (cf that GCN video on modern performance you linked to a while back which had one guy riding a stationary bike in a 40C room for an hour, and the pros do this regularly to prepare for races).


Robert Downey Jr. shared a new video that includes a couple of interesting issues from Marvel Comics while AvengersDoomsday filming continues. 🎥

Are you excited for his portrayal as Victor Von Doom? 🤔 Watch here: bit.ly/3IQGXY0




They want to "protect their daughters" from Drag Queens, but not powerful men in secret files.

It was never about their daughters.



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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:

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those circumstances sound a lot like Spontanlizenzergreifung, if you ask me.

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europesays.com/2285733/ Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation | Gaza #Israel


Watermelon Man 🍉
#KingCurtis
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'Insane': JFK’s niece says MAGA efforts to rename Kennedy Center after Trump 'makes my blood boil' alternet.org/kennedy-center-tr…


🪷 29 July is #TigerDay #InternationalTigerDay This Mosaic of a #centaur rescuing his mate from a tiger adorned Hadrian's Villa. It's a metaphor for the true-life incident when #Hadrian and #Antinous charged a lion in Egypt & the Emperor saved his life. antinousstars.blogspot.com/202… 🪷


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol





Anyone out there have any positive experiences with posture analysis apps? It occurs to me that such tools would be very useful to me in drafting custom garment patterns.

(To be clear, I am of the firm opinion that striving to perfect one's posture in order to improve general health is total bunkum. As a tailor, it's my job to perfect the fit, not the body.)



EU to Ukraine: Funding at risk without anti-corruption reforms

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That frog has an electrical receptacle on its back! It’s a NEMA toad


europesays.com/2285731/ The Iran-Israel Conflict and the U.S. Role: 11 Documentaries to Watch #Conflicts #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCrisis







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That is absolutely understandable why the text was upsetting. Healing takes time, it is seldom a straightforward process and being in pain and so limited in your usual activities has mental and emotional impacts which add to an already hard struggle. 💕🧡
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Very happy to have a print shown at the Isle of Riso exhibition, in the Scottish Highlands

📍 Assembly Hall Cafe, WASPS Inverness Creative Academy, Midmills Building, Stephen’s Street, Inverness, IV2 3JP
🗓️ 27 June – 17 August 2025

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Caitlin Clark’s stalker gets sentenced to more than 2 years in prison after guilty plea
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-07-29/caitlin-clark-stalker-prison-sentence-guilty-plea?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Actually, my experience is that most drivers are too courteous. They often stop when they have the clear right of way, not realizing that the car in the next lane isn't going to stop, and making the cyclist feel obliged to cross when it's clearly not safe to do so.
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@ormand.bsky.social Agreed, many are as you say, courteous to the point of infuriating in the manner they endanger the biker by their ignorance, or unwillingness to act on right of way. But the two guys in the video are anything but courteous and I love to see them get their comeuppance.



"I’m reminded of the final scene in the Academy Award–winning 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg. ... [T]he film makes a vital point about the corrosive, long-term effect of any judicial willingness to suspend the rule of law."

Trump’s Supreme Court Enablers Will Face History’s Verdict

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USA-EU-Deal: Warum die versprochenen Energie-Importe Fragen aufwerfen

Die EU muss viel erklären, seit sie zugestimmt hat, in den USA für sehr viel Geld Energie zu kaufen. Denn es ist völlig unklar, ob es tatsächlich zu dem 750-Milliarden-Deal kommt. Von Christian Feld.

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#EU #USA #ZollDeal #EnergieImporte



europesays.com/2285729/ ‘The accusations are politically motivated’: Iran says it’s not involved in Gaza talks #baqaei #Conflicts #Gaza #Iran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCrisis #Tehran


email is a machine for me to make very noticeable mistakes in writing in front of important and powerful people
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social media is a machine for me to continually "publish" writing with very noticeable typos in it
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...wherein the "send" button doubles as a "immediately spot the obvious, embarassing mistake".