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U.S. Politics in Real Time 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

FBI Is Not Fully Convinced Trump Was Struck by a Bullet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-is-not-fully-convinced-trump-was-struck-by-a-bullet?ref=home?ref=home

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PerryM ✅ 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The F B I ... Christopher Wray?

?? Fake blood? Hair that bleeds? A low flying crow?

Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose an event has two possible explanations. The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation.

As Director of the FBI, that dumb ass should be assuming nothing .. he should know!

KB Sez 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just So Everyone Knows:

You can be Anti-Bombing innocent civilians and not be Anti-Israel

You can be anti-killing innocent children as collateral damage and not be Anti-Semitic

You can be anti-Netanyahu and his radical right-wing agenda and mad campaign to kill every living person in Gaza and not be anti-Israel

Brian Gettler 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Boutique tax credits" is a wonderfully named concept that explains so much contemporary dysfunction. It refers to public spending hiding in the tax code, spending that escapes much of the democratic process, favors both the wealthy and private service providers, and undercuts the ability to create publicly run services that target a much broader socioeconomic base.

See: Neil Brooks, “The Case Against Boutique Tax Credits and Similar Tax Expenditures,” Canadian Tax Journal 64, 1 (2016): 65-133

Robert Sanscartier 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Canada among five “other petrostates” dooming Paris climate goals with oil and gas ramp-up

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/26/news/canada-among-five-other-petrostates-dooming-paris-climate-goals-oil-and-gas-ramp

#canada #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Canada among five “other petrostates” dooming Paris climate goals with oil and gas ramp-up

Canada, United States, Norway, United Kingdom and Australia called "climate hypocrites" for claiming environmental leadership while granting record numbers of oil and gas drilling licenses in 2024, says a new report by independent think tank IISD.

^{Darius Snieckus (Canada's National Observer)}

#Climate #Canadá #environment #pollution #ecology #massextinction #globalburning #climatedestruction #climatesuicide

Retro Librarian 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

New Lady in Town (1984) - Dynasty - TV Guide
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#Dynasty #DiahannCarroll #tvshow #Television #TvGuide #Retro #BlackFriday #BlackFedi #vintage

Diahann stairs at the viewer while the rest of the cast stand in the back.

#télévision #Retro #vintage #blackfriday #tvshow #BlackFedi #tvguide #Dynasty #diahanncarroll

CelloMom On Cars 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Vibrio bacteria in #seafood: increased risk due to climate change and antimicrobial resistance

"The prevalence of Vibrio in seafood is expected to increase both globally and in Europe because of #ClimateChange, especially in low-salinity or brackish waters, according to EFSA’s latest assessment. Additionally, resistance to last-resort #antibiotics is increasingly found in some Vibrio species."

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/vibrio-bacteria-seafood-increased-risk-due-climate-change-and-antimicrobial-resistance

Vibrio bacteria in seafood: increased risk due to climate change and antimicrobial resistance

This is the finding of EFSA’s opinion on public health aspects of Vibrio spp. related to the consumption of seafood in the EU.

^{European Food Safety Authority}

#ClimateChange #antibiotics #seafood

CelloMom On Cars 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Vibrio is a type of bacteria that can enter the human body after eating “uncooked or undercooked shellfish" or through an open wound in brackish water (the water found in areas where rivers meet the sea).

And while right now the bacteria is rare, the medical journal StatPearls noted that V. vulnificus “has the highest number of seafood-related deaths in the United States.” "

https://www.foodandwine.com/bacteria-in-seafood-climate-change-8683520

So it's back to eating shellfish in colder months only.

Seafood Is Getting Riskier to Eat Due to Climate Change, According to Science

The Earth just experienced its hottest day in recent history, and it's causing an alarming uptick of Vibrio vulnificus — a dangerous, flesh-eating bacteria found in seafood. Here's what to know.

^{Stacey Leasca (Food & Wine)}

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Phil Edwards 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Shaun of the Dead is returning to cinemas to celebrate the film’s 20th Anniversary. Details here https://bit.ly/3SmVj4p

#ShaunoftheDead #rerelease #EdgarWright #SimonPegg #NickFrost #film #zombie

#film #zombie #shaunofthedead #rerelease #edgarwright #simonpegg #nickfrost

AJ Sadauskas 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I just followed @index, which is the blog for the team that's working to bring Ghost to the Fediverse.

I think it's also the first Ghost blog on the Fedi?

Anyways.

This project is really exciting. It means there'll soon be an open-sourced Substack-style blogging and newsletter platform that you can follow from the Fedi.

#Ghost #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

#ActivityPub #fediverse #Ghost #Fedi @.ghost/activitypub/users/index

Robert Sanscartier 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

The Bethany Beach firefly is so rare that it's likely to become the first of America’s fireflies to be put on the Endangered Species List later this year

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/changing-climate/the-flickering-glow-of-summers-fireflies-too-important-to-lose-too-small-to-notice-them-gone/3673134/

#GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

Fireflies once seemed plentiful and cool, easy to catch and watch, and they served as an introduction to the world of nature around us. Entomologists keep…

^{Seth Borenstein (NBC4 Washington)}

#Climate #environment #pollution #ecology #massextinction #globalburning #climatedestruction #climatesuicide

Auschwitz Memorial 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

26 July 1927 | A French Jewish girl, Fanny Brauch, was born in Paris.

In August 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Black and white photograph of a young woman, looking directly at the camera with a subtle smile, wearing a striped blouse with buttons.

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RedAlert (Michael) 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@auschwitzmuseum

#keinvergessen
#KämpfenBeginntMitErinnern
#niewiederfaschismus

#niewiederistjetzt ‼️

#AllezusammengegendenFaschismus
#afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt
#stopptDieBrandstifter
#WirSindDieBrandmauer

#keinvergessen #NiewiederFaschismus #niewiederistjetzt #wirsinddiebrandmauer #AlleZusammenGegenDenFaschismus #kampfenbeginntmiterinnern #afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt #stopptDieBrandstifter

Meercat ✅ 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Jan Rosenow 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"But what about China?"

China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/

China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined - Global Energy Monitor

China is cementing its position as the global leader in renewables development with180 GW of utility-scale solar and 159 GW of wind power already under construction1 .

^{Global Energy Monitor}

Kevin Leecaster 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It would be better if China's deployment of record levels of renewable energy capacity were put into context on why they're doing it.

They've not done anything towards lowering their emissions because they just keep increasing the amount of energy they're using to build three quarters of all the consumer products purchased on the planet.

Sure they're building massive solar farms, but they also imported the most coal than ever last month too.

Electricity demand in the USA and China from 2000 to present

乌云 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

在家干了一整天的活，已经算出幻觉了。刚才在吃 Costco 那个甜到吐的饼干的时候，听见饼干跟我说：鹅ィ門㈣餹，甜衜锿慯。

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乌云 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

这是我的护身符（不是），我捏着它，以时刻提醒我：算了，calculated.

fivestone 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ウ · 云算法

Steve Schwinghamer 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Cat in basket update:

The (other) cat is in the (other) basket.

A handsome grey tuxedo cat exudes tragic elegance while sitting up in white basket. Since he's a fifteen-pound chonker and the basket is a repurposed small fruit basket, there's clearly some tension with the fits-sits principle happening.

#cat

Cat West 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://apnews.com/article/conviction-overturned-missouri-christopher-dunn-19a632c90b2e571f6a5e52ac9dba62d8

Missouri prison ignores court order to free wrongfully convicted inmate

For the second time in weeks, a Missouri prison has ignored a court order to release an inmate whose murder conviction was overturned.

^{JIM SALTER (AP News)}

Steve Herman 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

France’s high-speed rail system sabotaged hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240726-france-s-high-speed-train-network-paralysed-by-malicious-acts

France's high-speed train lines paralysed by 'malicious acts' hours before Olympics

French train operator SNCF on Friday said that the country’s high-speed network had been targeted by "malicious acts" including arson attacks, disrupting travel for hundreds of thousands of people just hours before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Pa…

^{FRANCE 24}

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Evan 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Maybe the site didn’t want to speculate, but it seems likely that this was Russia considering what else they’ve done so far https://journa.host/@fulelo/112851555617208238

John Mastodone indeed! 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Everybody fully protects airports but never railway structure, so make this a call for future actions

cluaran 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

How will we solve the world’s #water wars? An ancient Spanish court offers one answer

From Los Angeles to Cairo, the global water crisis is escalating – but Valencia’s Tribunal de les Aigües could inspire a solution

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/water-war-world-spain-crisis-los-angeles-cairo-valencia

#142holdheap #Environment

How will we solve the world’s water wars? An ancient Spanish court offers one answer

From Los Angeles to Cairo, the global water crisis is escalating – but Valencia’s Tribunal de les Aigües could inspire a solution, says author Roman Krznaric

^{Roman Krznaric (The Guardian)}

#water #environment #142holdheap

jamais+37 phil 6 months ago • diaspora

earendil

2024-07-26 10:34:35

#nature
Firefly Squid by TokyoViews

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taz (inoffiziell) 6 months ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

In Paris sind wegen der Terrorgefahr 45.000 Sicherheitskräfte im Einsatz. Die Eröffnungsfeier an der Seine ist besonders herausfordernd.#Sicherheit #Paris #OlympischeSpiele2024 #Sport #Schwerpunkt

Olympische Spiele: Überall nur noch Sicherheitszonen

^taz.de

#sport #Paris #Sicherheit #Schwerpunkt #OlympischeSpiele2024

Cormacs Coast 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A patch of fossilized communal Coral eroding out of the Burren limestone - visible traces of the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #Coral #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #Ireland

#coral #ireland #Fossil #WildAtlanticWay #walkingtours #DiscoverIreland #KeepDiscovering #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #irishfossils

pzmyers 🦑 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Vivian Wilson exposes Elon Musk's parental incompetence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/vivian-wilson-strikes-back/

Vivian Wilson strikes back!

After Elon Musk declared his daughter dead because she was trans, I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. It has. Vivian Wilson has delivered an interview that is pure fire. “I think he was …

^Pharyngula

Anna Kennard 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"From the day failures in the 70s to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed to Trump's getting elected despite bragging about assaulting women to his corrupt illegitimate super-majority on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the GOP’s war on women and embrace of misogyny is hardly new. But the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket has revealed a very simple and unsettling truth — Republican men are really bizarre when it comes to women."https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/a-feature-not-a-bug?r=1oktco&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

A Feature, not a Bug

Is Republican misogyny compulsory?

^{Mary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)}

Low Quality Facts 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Incredible.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

If the human brain was a computer, it could store five megabits of data.

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Mary Hilton 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@mcSlibinas I know.
I was there...with the computers. Tandy CoCo's.

@mcSlibinas

mcSlibinas 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@fmhilton oh, our computers also better than 1984.
It's because our 1984 is better or it's unrelated fact? 🤔

@Mary Hilton

Transgender World 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Three French drag artists took the main stage ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, making history as some of the first in drag to carry an Olympic torch.

https://glaad.org/french-drag-artists-made-history-as-first-in-drag-to-carry-the-olympic-torch/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

French Drag Artists Made History as First in Drag to Carry an Olympic Torch

^{Tony Morrison (GLAAD)}

#LGBTQ #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA

Tom Grzybow 6 months ago • diaspora

Latest on 2024 race as Harris kicks off campaign

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/kamala-harris-biden-trump-election-07-23-24/index.html

Who is standing for the _poor?_

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frater chaos 6 months ago • diaspora

we don't really have separate elections for pres and veep. they are a team.

there are weird cases where it can happen, which is why you keep seeing this thing about the pres and the veep can't be from the same state. Technically, they can, but the electors can only vote for a single position from the state the elector is representing. So if Kamala chose Newsom, all the California electors would have to choose which of the two to vote for, and then their other vote would have to be for someone else from another state (and Cali has 49 electors, one of the biggest states as electors go)

It can literally lead to a situation where you have a pres from one party and a veep from the other. (not too likely though, because as far as I know, no pres has ever tried choosing a veep from the same state)

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Tom Grzybow 6 months ago • diaspora

I'm glad I asked.

;-{

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Mongabay 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Congo rainforest is home to one of Africa’s least-known and most threatened monkeys: the golden-bellied mangabey.

Golden-bellied mangabeys form extraordinarily large troops of dozens of individuals, and field observations reveal a complex social structure reminiscent of that of humans.

By Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/drcs-golden-bellied-mangabeys-a-little-known-but-much-threatened-monkey/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #EndangeredSpecies

#News #wildlife #environment #animals #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies

unusual_whales 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Business activity grew at its fastest pace in 27 months during July, according to the latest S&P Global flash US composite PMI.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options

The Japan Times 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As much as half of a town at the heart of Canada’s national park system has been destroyed by a pair of wildfires that roared in from two sides. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/07/26/canada-wildfire-tourist-spot/ #environment #canada #wildfires #jaspernationalpark #jasper #jasperwildfire #alberta

Wildfire roars through a Canadian town popular with tourists

The town is in the heart of Jasper National Park, which is one of Canada’s premier tourist destinations, receiving about 2.5 million visitors each year.

^{Ian Austen (The Japan Times)}

#Canadá #alberta #environment #wildfires #Jasper #jaspernationalpark #jasperwildfire

Ned Hamson 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei

Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei

Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings

^{Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)}

Yazumo 🏴🏳️‍🌈 6 months ago • diaspora

ADHDean Is Being A Fanboy 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just got told I can no longer hang out at Lamaze classes selling shirts that say BIRTHWORMS

Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Obamas endorse Kamala Harris for Democratic nominee.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5052627/obama-endorses-harris-election

Kevin Leecaster 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Do you want to know why someone would price their memoir at $150?

Because they know they're not going to sell many of the books so might as well try to make as much money as possible from each of the scores of sales.
https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C94eeC9ppDJ

George Conway (@gtconway3) on Threads

“‘Melania’ will be released by Skyhorse Publishing, which has published such Donald Trump supporters as … Rudolph Giuliani and attorney Alan Dershowitz. Skyhorse also has worked with third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

^Threads

Sasyecat 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We'll get the real story when she's a widow, along with his offspring, except coked up Donnie and no brains Eric.

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Brian Jopek 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Fucking vote is absolutely correct.
#FuckProject2025
#FuckTheHeritageFoundation
#VoteBlueGoddamit

#fucktheheritagefoundation #fuckproject2025 #votebluegoddamit

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DEDGirl 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Nazani There are not enough “fit” families to adopt the children we have already. Again, that’s not reality. Even working husbands won’t be able to afford most rents on that 1 income, so who’s unfit? Are they going to take all the kids away from “nuclear” families that can’t afford to live on 1 income, ‘cause that’s millions of American families. 🤷‍♀️ Are they going to lower rents or raise wages so this can be their reality. No.

@Nazani

Nazani 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@DEDGirl I would bet that some kind of Nazi-inspired collection into group homes for "suitable" children is what they want.

@DEDGirl

jamais+37 phil 6 months ago • diaspora

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Steve Schwinghamer 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"... the market alone couldn't assure a good life for everyone. Given its shortcomings, bureaucrats and politicians from across the political spectrum believed they were right to use the power of the state to improve the lives of all Canadians."

- Tina Loo, "Moved by the State, " p25

Like many things about modern governance, this sounds okay until it really doesn't. At least these 1940s-1970s folks weren't trusting matters of state to the stupid invisible hand.

#CdnHist

#cdnhist

M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™ 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

With new-to-me e-mail accounts I suffer from ADD — Attachment Deficit Disorder.

Mary Hilton 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Our health care system is broken and you can tell how.
Infant mortality rose in 2022.
There is NO excuse for this, but the GOP thinks it's "every baby for itself' once it's born.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/us-infant-mortality-increased/61700447

CDC: US infant mortality increased in 2022 for the first time in decades

The infant mortality rate in the United States rose in 2022, the first jump in 20 years.

^{Deidre McPhillips (WMTW)}

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