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🇺🇸👀 Trump: Epstein took people and because he took people, I said don’t do it anymore—they work for me.

He took some others and once he did that, that was the end of him. When they steal people, I don’t like it.



NYC gunman targeted NFL over alleged brain injury, mayor says twp.ai/E6ARmX


Secret Service investigates agent who allegedly tried to sneak wife onto Trump’s plane twp.ai/E6ARmT


What we know about the New York shooting gunman and NYPD victim twp.ai/E6ARmS


Trump says India will likely face a 20% to 25% tariff twp.ai/9PVCaN


🪷 29 July is #NationalLipstickDay #Antinous' lips 29.7x21cm colored pencils and gouache on toned paper by #ManoloYanes 2018. #Antinoos and #Hadrian. When you look into the eyes of an LGBTQIA+ person, #Antinous looks back: antinousstars.blogspot.com/202… #LipstickDay #Lipstick 🪷


I don't think any TV network covered FEMA's announcement of more than half a billion in grants for states to create FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS across the United States. This is something that would have sounded like a psychotic delusion that only existed in the minds of the Tea Party a decade ago.

US states to get $608 million ...



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Today in 1848, 177 years ago: Great Irish Famine: Tipperary Revolution of 1848, failed nationalist revolution against British forces.

#OnThisDay



Hello, Mastodon friends!
I got up early and managed to get both dogs walked before a morning medical appointment. We don't have a heat advisory right now, but it's plenty warm and humid, and I'm glad the outdoor stuff is done.
Parts of the Midwest, including northern Iowa, did get a derecho overnight with lots of property damage in many places. The storm had weakened by the time it came through here in the wee hours.
Now on to the day's tasks.
Have a good, safe day, all!


Third Whistleblower Accuses Trump Judicial Nominee of Misleading Lawmakers About Eric Adams’ Corruption Case twp.ai/E6ARmU


'The Voice,' 'SNL' get fall premiere dates on NBC twp.ai/E6ARmY




These Are the Most Expensive Retirement Towns in America twp.ai/E6ARmN


Human dignity must be protected from rise of AI, Pope says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wv9xvr4zo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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TNT Sports Quadruples Down on Savannah Bananas, Will Televise Banana Ball Championship
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tnt-sports-savannah-bananas-banana-ball-championship-1236331154/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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📰 Why Ukraine can't afford to demobilize its soldiers

🔗 kyivindependent.com/why-ukrain…

#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine




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

Welp. It had a good run.

npr.org/2025/07/26/nx-s1-54813…



Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B+ over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)

wired.com/story/mark-zuckerber…
techmeme.com/250729/p29#a25072…




ChatGPT just got smarter: OpenAI’s Study Mode helps students learn step-by-step
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatgpt-just-got-smarter-openais-study-mode-helps-students-learn-step-by-step/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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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




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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…


🎞️ Expert explains Russia’s reaction to Trump’s new deadline for peace in Ukraine

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=Id5XsIRnea…

#Explainer #News #Report #RussianWar #TV #Ukraine #Video



🪷 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




Waymo plots Dallas robotaxi launch, stays ahead of Tesla in Texas turf war - Alphabet’s driverless darling taps Avis to manage the fleet for 2026 debut With Tesla hor... - go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…



Anyone with a plastic lawn or a coffee pod machine should have a cumulative 25% increase applied to their council tax.
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I'm waiting for the newest rise in kids with magnifying glasses. In the 80's it was kids burning ants. Fast forward to modern day and it'll be kids melting lawns.