social.outsourcedmath.com


This is one of Bob Newhart’s all-time great routines.


https://youtu.be/STbCh4HzBhE
Adam Hunt diaspora
While it was funny in 1964, slagging women drivers does seem a bit dated in 2024.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1364479/ Naaan mais d’toute façon y s’ressemblent tous ! #france #Memes #rance
Naaan mais d’toute façon y s’ressemblent tous !

Can you imagine if someone, anyone had said, "You won't have to worry about voting in 4 years.", during the Cold War?

How are they all not being investigated as threats to the nation?!
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Dodo III. mastodon (AP)
Siesta. #dogsofmastodon
Two Chihuahuas and a Castro Laboreiro sleeping.

Project 2025 mastodon (AP)
Page xiv:

'we are forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.”'

#Project2025

Project 2025 mastodon (AP)
Page 9:

"there are many executive tools a courageous conservative President can use to handcuff the bureaucracy … bring the Administrative State to heel"

#projecr2025

oh looky, more Republicans frauding

Campaign volunteers indicted in Queens voter fraud scheme


Six campaign volunteers, including the daughter of a City Council candidate in Queens, were indicted Thursday on voter fraud charges for allegedly submitting bogus absentee ballots, officials said.

The suspects were charged with trying to rig a Council race for Republican candidate Yu-Ching James Pai, who was running in a June 2023 primary for the District 20 Council seat in Queens.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/25/campaign-volunteers-indicted-in-queens-voter-fraud-scheme/

backup: https://archive.ph/AVSgG
tomgrzybow diaspora
parts of Queens

My brother who lives in Queens tells me that many of the Filipinos there are Trump fans. I'm guessing that if you come from a place where Marcos and Duterte were presidents, Trump seems quite OK.
tomgrzybow diaspora
"Republicans, They are a virus disease."

I leave the rest up to your imagination.
:~>

Zack Labe mastodon (AP)
A record hot June - red shading shows warmer than average temperatures...

The average global air temperature was:
+1.21°C above 1951-1980 baseline
+1.38°C above 1921-1950 baseline
+1.50°C above 1880-1920 baseline

Data source code: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sources_v4/
Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies in June 2024 across the entire planet. Most all areas were warmer than average, except for parts of Antarctica and Southern Ocean. This data set is from NASA's GISTEMPv4 using anomalies with a 1951-1980 climate baseline.
Bargearse ActivityPub
Look at eastern Australia that's where I am, down the bottom, usually Aus. is the outlier but the other way. Very weird but oddly also very average

https://xkcd.com/1321/

-3C predicted here tomorrow.

they've finally identified a culprit

Boar's Head recall: USDA lists 9 products to toss as listeria spreads - The Baltimore Banner


Boar’s Head recall list: 9 products

The Boar’s Head recall of over 200,000 pounds shipped nationwide applies to meats sliced at a deli counter, not prepackaged meats. It includes a number of multi-pound packages stamped with an Aug. 10 sell-by date.

Consumers who might still have the recalled meats shouldn’t eat them, and officials said they should thoroughly clean their refrigerators to prevent contamination of other foods.
  • Strassburger Brand Liverwurst Made in Virginia
    • Virginia Ham Old Fashioned Ham
    • Italian Cappy Style Ham
    • Extra Hot Italian Cappy Style Ham
  • Bologna
    • Beef Salami
    • Steakhouse Roasted Bacon Heat & Eat (sell-by date of Aug. 15.)
    • Garlic Bologna
    • Beef Bologna

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/public-health/boars-head-recall-listeria-maryland-VZDQUSMS5ZGTTPJ7JXFXPWCAVQ/

backup: https://archive.ph/dCJwR

JFC, they've knuckled under to his tantrum

FBI says Trump was indeed struck by bullet during assassination attempt


“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said in a statement.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/trump-struck-bullet-assassination-attempt-fbi/61713353
Bob Lai diaspora
... fragmented into smaller pieces ...

AFAIK, a bullet does not spall unless it hits something first.

If the injury was a scratch across the upper edge of DJT's ear, where's the rest of the !!@#$% bullet? If it hit something else first, what was it? What would that be?

There would have to be other fragments traveling outward, but nothing else was apparently hit (including DJT) by these fragments? But, just as a shattered teleprompter would support the 'debris' theory, seeing an actual injury, hearing a credible report from an attending physician, and not this fakery with a pristine white gauze pad gently taped over DJT's ear would convince me there was some kind of significant injury.

You have the gun. You have whatever was left in his clip. You know EXACTLY what kind of ammunition he used, and whether or not it is cheap-ass, bargain-bin shit, home-made, or from Clippy the Ammo Vending Machine.

It's time to give us the facts, and not sea stories.

levels checker mastodon (AP)
reaching dangerous deceit levels

(98%) ■■■■■■■■■□

AI6YR Ben mastodon (AP)
Spaceflight Now: Make-or-break tests on tap for Boeing’s Starliner capsule https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/07/26/make-or-break-tests-on-tap-for-boeings-starliner-capsule/

#boeing #starliner
AI6YR Ben mastodon (AP)
**must read this article while listening to this tune... 🎵 "Three hour tour... three hour tour..." 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1364475/ Loch Glass #Scotland #UnitedKingdom
Loch Glass

Kim Perales mastodon (AP)
When VP Harris is leading, will the NYT & other #media outlets continue to extol #TFG?

"Imagine being the editor that says 'yeah, sure write another story on Trump attacking his opponent. Never mind all that dictator, you'll never vote again stuff.

Although there's no mention of " you won't have to vote anymore," I do have to credit to the fact checking in the Times piece on that outlandish MAGA claim about abortions after birth. More media need to do that, too."
-J Schulze

#USPol #Harris
Excerpt: Trump, Honing Attack on Harris, Casts Her as a Far-Left Threat:
Another, but this time with a clarification, but it's toward the end of the article: No state law permits the killing of babies after birth:
This entry was edited (4 months ago)
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Runyan50 mastodon (AP)
Exactly how do you rip a baby out of the woman after birth? Can’t we just report that #MAGA did some more unhinged ranting and that medical officials still refused to medicate him?
#MAGA

The ecosystem, the planet is fighting back like a fever destroying the invading virus

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/27/g-s1-13869/californias-largest-wildfire-explodes-in-size


Crooks&Liars mastodon (AP)
Great post from @GOVERNING, @DougJBalloon and @LemieuxLGM.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/mike-s-blog-round-12?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=91376

#Cupofteasocial
Today's #mugshot is for anyone attending a #Pride march today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Good morning lovely people 💕
Happy Saturday to you all 💕
Today is proceeding in an orderly manner 🥰
Large tankard shaped mug of tea on a bedside cabinet.  It has a pink background and a unicorn head with a black horn and multi coloured mane.
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Sharonbw mastodon (AP)
Good morning! We’ve got a nice start to the day here- sunny with cool temperatures. It will be a good porch day.
Enjoy your Saturday!
Uncle Harvey mastodon (AP)
@Sharonbw
Lucky you. It's still dark n muggy n wet here today. So do me a big favor n sit n sip in the sunshine for just a bit longer for me .👍😎💪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kXLZXqmlO8&t=7s


27 Jul 2024: “You Never Know” by Dave Matthews Band - I feel like this song is underrated and under appreciated. I think it’s great. #SongOfTheDay #AdamsSongOfTheDay https://apple.co/3w4IIdL

Bugspriet mastodon (AP)
#decathlon ich habe Fragen
Badeschlappen - Das Verkaufsregal ist mit "Laufsport" beschriftet
Bugspriet mastodon (AP)
Ich habe erst kürzlich gelernt, dass diese Badeschuhe "Adiletten" genannt werden. Nach der Marke Adidas.
Da ich lange nur den Billignachbau aus Aldi-Nord kannte, hab ich dazu immer Aldiletten gesagt.


ST20 diaspora
Très utile une brouette 😁
C'est sans doute vrai, mais il faut aussi avoir appris à s'en servir ... 🤔 😈

Tengrain (🇺🇦) mastodon (AP)
Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud (Part Infinity) https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-part-infinity/

Trump, in 2016, standing in front of a podium on top of a red carpet with the Presidential Seal of the United States giving what looks like a Nazi salute.
“A Strong Man for Troubled Times”

78-year-old, 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump was rallying some White Christian Nationalists (at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, so I think the description fits) to vote for him, and let it slip out:
The former president urged attendees at the faith-themed event to vote — “Vote early. Vote absentee. Vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote,” he said — and promised that in four years, “we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

This is not his first rodeo. He’s said this a few times now, and never explains it, and more alarmingly, the press moves on and doesn’t ask about it. Here it is in context:

Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again. pic.twitter.com/DBGcBr3Wht

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 27, 2024


Draw your own conclusions of what Mr. Dictator-on-Day-One meant.

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-part-infinity/



Tengrain (🇺🇦) mastodon (AP)
We Hate To Interrupt Your Weekend... https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/we-hate-to-interrupt-your-weekend-31/

Small wooden treasure awarded to Joey Bishop by the Friars Club in 1968. The chest is painted brown with gold detailing. A plate engraved
Small wooden treasure awarded to Joey Bishop by the Friars Club in 1968. The chest is painted brown with gold detailing. A plate engraved “Friar Joey Bishop” is attached to the top of the chest. The chest has a hinged lid that opens to reveal a King’s Ransom Scotch whiskey bottle and has three glasses, one tumbler, and two shot glasses.
(Image credit: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian)

…especially on the confluence of National Scotch Day and Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day (“One thing leads to another,” says I picking up Tevya the Wandering Jew plant in my north window), but we would be remiss if we did not alert you that our pal Burr Deming has posted his best-of-the-web links complete with wry commentary at the essential blog Fair and Unbalanced.

We will of course keep this post on top and fresher posts —if any!— will be below.

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/we-hate-to-interrupt-your-weekend-31/


katharine mastodon (AP)
I’m bored with all the denial and incompetence.

Nearly 2 weeks after attempted assassination, FBI confirms Trump was hit by a bullet


The agency said the former president was struck by a bullet or a fragment of a bullet on July 13 during a political rally in Butler, Pa.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Sex Testing at the Olympics: The History of Discrimination Against Trans Athletes and Women | Teen Vogue
The modern Olympics started in 1896, founded by Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat. He had conflicting motives. On one hand, his idea for a global sports competition stemmed from anxieties about French masculinity following a war defeat. He saw sports as a way to masculinize French men.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sex-testing-at-the-olympics-history
Behind the history of discrimination against trans athletes.
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all the automakers are taking it in the nads rn, but the worst of the Big Three was something like 20% (not sure if I posted that)

Tesla Sales Tank as Elon Musk Endorses Far Right


Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago, the second consecutive quarterly decline.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sales-tank-elon-musk-145108383.html
tomgrzybow diaspora
He is an idiot. Not only does he market the worlds ugliest and least practical pickup truck, but he continues to alienate potential customers for his cars.

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL Children with ADHD receive an estimated 20,000 more negative messages before age 10 and avoid failure more than other peers.

https://www.additudemag.com/children-with-adhd-avoid-failure-punishment/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ediypp/til_children_with_adhd_receive_an_estimated_20000/

Eugen Rochko mastodon (AP)
In Grasmere, on a bridge over the river Rothay.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
A woman with dark hair, wearing a beige trench coat, leans on the stone edge of a bridge, sticking her tongue out mockingly to the camera man.
Eye mastodon (AP)
This is such a brilliant photo! 😄👏👍 She obviously has a good sense of humour 🤗

redj 18 diaspora
Les Œufs Limpides

Recorded At – Théâtre De La Ville (France)
Original Lp Album
Kébec-Disc ‎– KDL 6495
France 1979

https://youtu.be/-YhCKBLU6hQ?t=401
Marc Favreau - Sol

#humour, #jdm, #sol, #olympiques
« Si vous donnez à un pirate de l'air, faut pas vous attendre à ce qu'il vous rende la pareille ! »


#AI #GenerativeAI #Automation #AIArt #VideoGames: "In other words: Even now, a year and a half into the AI boom, it’s *still* unclear whether a) this will be a truly transformative and disruptive force, at least in the eyes of employers and executives, b) it will stick around, propped up by reams of venture capital for years making a middling kind of impact in different sectors, a destabilizing but not totally destructive force for workers, or c) collapse in a spectacular bursting bubble, and going the way of the metaverse or web3.

But underlying all this, and the root cause for much of the most vociferous despair and outrage, I think, is the uniquely depressing fact that we are having some of these conversations in the first place, at all. The pitch of automation has historically been that it will do the dangerous, dirty, and dull jobs so that we humans can focus on the stuff that allows for human flourishing. So why are we here, watching concept artists lose their jobs to software trained on previous artists’ work, auto-generating output at the press of a button? Why are we automating the job of translators, who have a unique knowledge of their local language and culture, and can artfully translate works into a new medium with its meaning intact? Why do we want to live in a world where instead of an actual voice actor we have AI voice actors synthesized into a mush from all those who came before them?"

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-great-and-justified-rage-over

Tomi T Ahonen mastodon (AP)
Their side ALWAYS gives us grumpy old men (white men) as their candidate for President

We can do better. We DID do better in 2008 when we offered Obama

[does crossy thing]

who took us to a landslide win over grumpy old men. Then we FAILED Obama's promise of hope... and JOY

Kamala Harris is that

StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
Dear white people, many racists are going to say horribly racist things. Put them on the racist list for future shunning. YOU CAN’T FORGET WHO DOES WHAT. YOU CAN’T ACCEPT THEM BACK INTO YOUR COMMUNITY.
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Church of Jeff mastodon (AP)
— people don’t understand how much of a gift the freedom of speech really is. Not only are you allowed to express yourself, but racists and fascist are out there self-identifying themselves for everyone to see and take note.

After 4 years, Google backtracks on its discontinuation of third-party cookies


NPR's Scott Simon asks Julia Angwin of Proof News about Google's decision not to remove cookies from its Chrome browser.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Whuffo diaspora
In Chrome's settings, under Privacy, there's an option to block third party cookies. I've had that turned on for a long time and it hasn't caused me any problems.

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