Happiest of birthdays to you, George!

Photo of a fundraising mailer with the phrase “.94 cents of every dollar is reinvested into our programs.”

Um…. Spending less than a penny of each dollar donated doesn’t sound like a good investment. (0.94 cents is much less than 94 cents.)

So it’s T.A.C.O. Tuesday again. Huh.

Just in time for the stock market to react again.

The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids — and adults — to screens Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

I recently realized that I have been using the same white noise generator now for 26 years, almost every night. It's lasted longer than any other device in my possession. The only problem is that the plastic is breaking down and getting sticky ... but today, I fixed that! (1/3)

“Deterioration of the polyurethane ester PUR(ES) in the Speedo swimwear collection and monitoring the chemical ageing by ATR-FTIR measurement of the urethane peak
September 2015”

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The company sent it to me when I was a tech journalist, hoping for a review. Welp, here's my much-deserved good review, 26 years later. The Adaptive Sound Technologies sleep + sound is excellent, and will last you decades. That is the rarest thing in late capitalism. www.soundofsleep.com/soundsleep/

The author scam emails are continuing to evolve.

Over the weekend I received one impersonating an employee of a local NPR station. They'd gotten many details right, including the station name and a program they ran... but the employee name was slightly misspelled.

Anyway, be careful y'all.

Link is to an op-ed by Cheryl Chumply, who pushes the view that multi-billionaires earned their money by their own ingenuity and hard work! How ridiculous does that sound?!! Bio includes “Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available…”

Okay then, today’s rabbit hole is educating myself about the Bay of Pigs invasion!

Second edition

A red tailed hawk starting to take flight off a telephone pole with high voltage signage

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES

This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote

But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…

The “crisis” is white people.

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

900+ signatures and counting. We'd love to hand over 1,000. Maybe you'll make light work of that, too. 😈

It’s funny, Connor. I used to be demanding of our corporate artists. Change this, do this, don’t do that. But as soon as “AI” came out, I’d let any old dogshit go to print. It turned out that all I wanted the whole time was to be in charge.

it's funny

STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth


TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'?

STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime


TAPPER: You're changing his words!

How the AI oligarchy devoured America

This is the cover story for "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country.

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Palantir is also claiming in this same statement that Germany went too far in constructing its postwar identity around guilt for the Holocaust, which is the exact narrative that the German far-right is running on and winning in elections.

Pennsylvania Republicans Recycle Trans Sports Ban for Election Season Late Friday afternoon, when most people were logging off for the weekend, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans quietly introduced Senate Bill 1293. There was no accompanying memo, no new policy argument, and no real warning. What they introduced instead was something much more familiar: a recycled attack. SB1293 is not new legislation. It is, word-for-word, the same bill as Senate Bill 9…

Copy. Paste. Campaign. PA Republicans reintroduced a trans sports ban on Friday that already passed the Senate in 2025. They didn’t change the bill. They changed the timing. Primary election is May 19. This is campaign content, not governance.

Perry North. 4071 Franklin Road - Incarnation of the Lord Church. Caller says a thin guy in a robe went into the church and is yelling out of tune at the choir.

Wishing my Pittsburgh skeets feed filtered out post about The Pitt.

How do people flee from homes they don’t actually live in?

Wait, AI is appropriating em dashes? Weird choice. I didn’t think em dashes were very popular with humans nowadays.

Caitlyn Jenner tells right-wing podcast she's 'a hypocrite' to accept 'Woman of the Year' award Jenner also revealed she lost her “F” marker on her U.S. passport and has appealed for help to President Trump

Oh and Trump supporter Caitlyn Jenner is mad because her renewed passport says she’s male so she can’t leave the country.

(This headline doesn’t make my point but I wanted to give Out the clicks.)

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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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I blame misogyny. Caring about people is feminine and feminine is bad.

But I should check out that book.

Banked turns? Sounds like fun!

Hey, Donald. Negotiating a temporary cease fire in a war you created yourself for no good reason does not give you credit as a “peacemaker”.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/vozuOJA