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I think all this talk of toxic yuri neglects other equally important categories such as flammable yuri, biohazardous yuri, and radioactive yuri.

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overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

hey yall this game is great and free and on steam and kinda macabre

Also while I was writing this thread Oman just evacuated its oil terminal and ceased shipping from one of the last producing ports in the gulf and oil hit 100/barrel again jfc

Much of the money in AI isnt just in stocks/investment rounds or GPUs, tons of it is in the "spend" on data centers, which is to say, on Commercial Real Estate, which before the AI spend was on the verge of collapse/crisis ("maturity wall") CRE was extremely concentrated in private credit markets

"private credit" is a rebrand of what used to be called shadow banking, it's just massive capital loans that dont have the same reporting/collateral requirements, and it has EXPLODED in the last decade, from hundreds of millions to trillions. Putting caps on redemption implies the existence of a run

An Asia-based Bloomberg reporter just said "the people im talking to are more worried about private credit markets than about the war in Iran" which like

It’s amazingly cheap if you need long distance, low observable, accurate fires. The issue is that America keeps picking presidents that think the solution to IR problems is long distance accurate fires, and that problem is getting way worse.

So the point of the bill is that Democrat-majority counties had in fact established these protections and the state decided to dismantle them

Reynolds signs Iowa law barring local trans civil rights protections City and county civil rights commissions may no longer protect Iowans from gender identity-based discrimination under a law signed by Gov. Reynolds.

Within just a few hours of this morning's genocide warning from the Lemkin Institute, the 4th Circuit ruled that trans adults can have our care banned and be forced by any means to "appreciate our sex", and Iowa made it ILLEGAL to protect trans people.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

"The U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence." - The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, 3/11/26

We actually do need hardcore, knuckle busting partisanship with the stated goal of breaking the political and institutional power of the Republican Party. Raze the party, burn it down, and salt the ashes.

No Trump “Bridge Payments” yet. A signed one page document stating corn and soybean acres planted in 2025 was all that was required by the FDA.

Urea fertilizer went from $400 to $700/ton this week and we buy 50 tons. Diesel jumped $1/ gallon this week to $4.70, we buy 1500 gallons a month.

Type Help by William Rous The Unsolvable Mystery

not included in the bundle are the free web game Type Help, and the demo for Titanium Court, which should also be sought out immediately:

william-rous.itch.io/type-help

store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

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good luck w that

Trees, glitched and color-distorted by a circuit-bent camera

Ducks in a lake, glitched and color-distorted by a circuit-bent camera

Trees, glitched and color-distorted by a circuit-bent camera

A heavily glitched field

A walk in the park at civil twilight, getting a feel for my new circuit-bent 2001 Sony Cybershot camera. All effects and colors are in-camera.

Kristi Noem's $220M Horseback Riding Ad Dwarfed the Budgets of These 2026 Oscar Nominees Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem used $220 million in taxpayer money to create a minute-long anti-immigration ad. That's more than the combined production and marketing budgets of nearly every 2026 ...

Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:

* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent

Another crazy thing is that this doesn't really seem like a joint operation but rather two separate tangentially related forces attacking the same enemy. It all sounds like there isn't really any command over this.

Holy f'in god. I worked on policies regarding the Death Master File when I worked at SSA and if you could have seen how hard we fought to keep that data private and out of other agencies' hands. And now someone has it on a thumb drive?!!

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

The ICE detention center purchases appear to be money laundering:

Harris, Fuller headed to runoff in race to replace Greene Trump-backed Republican emerges from crowded GOP field as Democrats target rare opening in deep-red district.

Now the next phase of the race begins. Both campaigns are barely pausing. And with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House, the stakes could extend far beyond this corner of Georgia. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The fact they think an opt-OUT is the right solution shows how much they don't understand any of this (nor does their legal team).

Jojo, a very handsome Treeing Walker Coonhound, lying on a quilt in front of a fire You know, back when he was alive and whatnot.

He liked fresh blueberries too, but I had to squeeze them open the first time because he didn’t understand they were food*

*not raised by a wolf obvs

One of Jojo’s favorite treats after a summer walk was a fistful of frozen blueberries

article confirms no one willing to tell grandpa that the game is up

Any answer other than “the president is a historically stupid man only now he has dementia” is journalistic malpractice