Just walked outside, and the air smelled like grape kool-aid. My first paranoid thought was that it was gas. I'm still alive so I think it was just normal city smells. I really hate how my mind works sometimes.
As former astronauts, we swore to defend the Constitution and the principles that hold our nation together.
Weāre launching Astronauts for America because those values are in danger, and our country needs leadership that will stand up for whatās right. Join our mission:
As astronauts, we didn't ask about political parties in space. The only thing we asked was what the mission required.
But now we have a new mission to preserve our democracyāwhich requires us to defend constitutional values.
NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour.
Further narrowing GOP majority
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It looks like the world is being wise about the world cup. I am an American, it is NOT SAFE for anyone here. They give idiots a gun, authority, and no training.
If I murder someone, I go to jail or worse. If ICE murders someone for no reason, they get praise from the president.
No one can watch the footage of Kash Patel in the USA hockey team dressing room and not think heās a frat boy binge drinker. All thatās missing is the hose into his mouth from a keg.
There is an amendment to the constitution that could cover us.
By participating in the January 6th insurrection a number of them would be disqualified from holding office. You need a 2/3 vote to remove the disability.
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The Vera Rubin observatory has already discovered 11,000 *previously unknown* asteroids... and the proper observing sessions haven't even begun yet!
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Just had a funny thought. You could use punctuated dye tracing to study the black hole analog that many of us have in our sink. It's an analog because you can transition from a 3d system in the stream of water to a 2d when it hits the sink. You could vary the timing of the dye events as well.
When I water them I use this watering can where I dump out half the water from the last watering and mix in the water from the plants together. Then I dump out half of that and fill it with fresh. I'm trying to build a resilient community of microbes and it seems to be going well.
You could go with super critical co2 as the working "fluid" to transfer the heat around. You would need to concentrate that co2 from the atmosphere then inject it when you need to dump the heat I also think it would be reasonable to demand that a certain percentage of compute power is for public use
There is this thing called a geothermal heat pump. If you loaded the water with co2 that was pulled from the air, and had that water pumped into formations where it would be stored the heat from the data center could accelerate that reaction, but the solubility of co2 decreases with temperature.
I was asking ChatGPT about the actual surface area of the Earth if you tried to include things like buildings as part of that. I was trying to understand if you have a fractal, and that fractal evolves in such a way that the surface area changes then how do you define it.
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The group, āVeterans Against Fascismā, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trumpās & Israelās illegal war with Iran
Iām reading this lawsuit Kash filed against The Atlantic. Iām struggling to find where they were wrong.
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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: āThis is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.ā The post is labeled āTranslated from Arabic by Grokā and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM Ā· 4/19/26 with 139K views.
NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a āburden, not a strategic assetā and suggesting they should be closed. The United Statesā standing in the region has been obliterated.
āChildhood Fears Returnā is a vertically oriented abstract collage made from many overlapping layers of imagery, color, and texture. The image is dense and dreamlike, with no single focal point, but it feels organized around a tense split between cool blue-green tones on the left and heavy reds, magentas, and oranges on the right. Across the surface are ghosted shapes that suggest masks, faces, eyes, curved plant-like forms, spirals, and fragments of pattern, all partially obscured by translucent washes and rough, smoky texture. Some areas look like torn paper, while others resemble stamped or hand-drawn markings woven into the collage. The center contains lighter openings and layered shapes that momentarily resemble hearts or small cutout symbols, while the lower half deepens into darker, more shadowy greens and blues. The overall effect is crowded, uneasy, and emotionally charged, like memory fragments surfacing at once. The composition feels claustrophobic but also visually rich, with the layered collages creating a sense of anxious motion, as though old fears are rising from beneath the surface.
Childhood Fears Return
What I really want to achieve is to get to the point of not having to throw away glass containers but have enough to gift them on a regular basis. I've also got a microscope that I want to set up to show the kids all the life in their water.
I think it's really funny that Trump wants to try ibogaine, because that is definitely not a recreational drug. It's been described as confronting your worst inner demons all at once. It has been effective at treating addiction, and so more research is needed. Trump would not have a good time.
A crowded indoor windowsill holds a dense collection of potted houseplants, most of them trailing or upright succulents and purple-green leafy cuttings, arranged tightly together in a row against a bright, foggy window. The window glass is dusty or speckled with moisture, and the strong daylight outside turns the plants into mostly dark silhouettes with flashes of purple, olive green, and pale green. Near the center, a tall aloe-like succulent rises straight up in a narrow spear, taller than the surrounding foliage. Around it are several glass jars and repurposed containers used as planters, including clear and dark bottles, a mason jar, and a rounded blue-violet vessel with a reflective surface. Long leaves arc outward and overlap one another, some hanging over the edge of the sill. A metal grate or shelf supports the pots. Outside the window, the roofline of a nearby building is visible in muted gray tones, reinforcing the soft, overcast light. The overall scene feels cluttered, lush, improvised, and quietly domestic, like a small indoor plant collection thriving in a narrow strip of winter sunlight.
My plants are doing so well! I got some that clean the air my goal is to fill the entire shelf. I use glass that I would otherwise throw out.
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Im trying out this indie game on the Playstation store called Eternal Exodus, which is apparently a combination of PokƩmon and Shin Megami Tensei. Let's go!
Thus, intranasal hiPSC-NSC-EVs therapy in late middle age can effectively diminish proinflammatory microglial transcriptome and signalling cascades that drive neuroinflammaging in the hippocampus, contributing to better brain function in old age.
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Time and again we see how institutions fail in predictable ways. The corporation is very easy to manipulate into compliance. The whole thing of providing value to the shareholders and all that comes with it. Its why I'm on private debt strike, because medical debt doesnt make sense if we ain't free.
Sucks to suck & also, hospitals that caved to this, let's see your plans to get up and moving again
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Ketan is a writer, analyst and communications consultant focusing on clean energy and climate change. He previously worked in climate and energy for private companies and government agencies, and now writes from the front lines of climate and energy battles around the world. He is the author of "Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil Free Future" published with the University of New South Wales, and "The AI Climate Hoax", a recent investigation into greenwashing on behalf of corporate accountability campaigners
Very much looking forward to speaking at the ODA inspiration day in May!!
I remain a tech fanboy and it's that fandom that drives me to constructively criticise it. I think we shouldn't accept any fate that's handed to us for the world we want to live in
www.odainspirationday.no/speakers/ket...
