Watching the updates spilling in from Kentucky, these last few hours, has been a truly astonishing experience. They've had a terrible night.
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"Still isn't clear what that was for." Thanks for everything, Pete. We'll remember those good ol' days. They couldn't'a been without you.
First, what he said was amazing in and of itself. To the other, though, there really is someone called Lord Wolfson of Tredegar.
Can we please fix the Tex sabotage, or is that just another something we do to disrupt communication? (Clearly, users aren't adjusting.)
Chandra spies exoplanet candidate … in M51. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2021/m51/m51_paper.pdf
#BackToSchool #MassShootings: At least two dead in mass shooting at Virginia high school. Early report says four shot, two dead.
I would make the note about starting Jury Duty, today, but I was sent to another facility where a sign on the door told me I was extraneous.
Extraordinary wildfire photo by Zach Fuecker https://bit.ly/3ghM1DT | "Twentyfive Mile Aerial Attack" video https://youtu.be/fB0_vZoFlVY
Coaches indicted: Murder 2 charges against high school basketball coaches for heat death of 16 y/o Imani Bell: https://bit.ly/3AJTPpC
2021: 220 shootings by children in 225 days so far: Toddler slays mother during work Zoom call → https://bit.ly/2XregcC
Photos from Hiroshima, 6 August 1945: https://bit.ly/3fGKEOu
NOTE: Yes, we are aware of the spambot fronting out of Russia; just report as the messages come in, we'll try to clean 'em out as we go.
science enthusiast
"Bridge 14. Feb. 45", poem by Karl Kirchwey (The Yale Review, Summer 2021) https://bit.ly/2SY6jcV
Leneal Lamont Frazier is dead. Minneapolis PD has accidentally killed the uncle of the woman who recorded the murder of George Floyd.
That time Facebook censored a cartoon, and then followed up by offering the artist a chance to pay to promote it. https://bit.ly/3xTETE2
It's one thing to not be superstitious. It's quite another thing, some days, to try to leave the house.
57 years: Their names are James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Henry ("Mickey") Schwerner.
OMG are you still here? We had so much more in common than you ever thought. Remember how we were getting routinely banned for our legit beliefs? I wish we still had High Society group to remind us of that. If you remember it, so would you, but you denounced it at the time.
But I still respect you.
But I still respect you.
The power of disinformation: "Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows" (NPR) https://n.pr/3yeONAT