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GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵 starts HERE: 1/...

Hope Hicks is back on the stand.

Merchan: "Good afternoon Ms. Hicks. Remember you're still under oath."

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff I mean, who would?

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff Ah, "can't remember" its the best.

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1715.

A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. He also drew a predictive map showing the path of totality across Great Britain. The original map was about 20 miles off the observed eclipse path, mainly due to his use of inaccurate lunar ephemeris. After the eclipse, he corrected the eclipse path, and added the path and description of the 1724 total solar eclipse.

lightninhopkins,
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@gutenberg_org I think he might have been really smart.

AnarchistArt, to random
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lightninhopkins,
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@AnarchistArt I don't think the top one is a legit image. Its bendy at the corners.

lightninhopkins, to random
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Argh!! I will never beat Slay the Spire.

donni, to random
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Life is thousands of normal and boring days, and then one day when you decide to wrestle an elephant

lightninhopkins,
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@donni Makes all the boring days worth it. Ahhh.

Daojoan, to random
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The conservative paradox is a desperate need to be seen as both powerful dominators and persecuted victims.

lightninhopkins,
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@Daojoan Claiming victimhood to excuse horrendous behavior has a long history. Tell people who to hurt to "get even" and it works magic.

QasimRashid, to random
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BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.

lightninhopkins,
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@QasimRashid This is nonsense. You can criticize any government without being racist or xenophobic. It's just performative politics. Which is all the house does anymore.

lightninhopkins,
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@QasimRashid need to see if my rep voted yes.

dangillmor, to random
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Can Big Journalism connect some dots please?

Trump vows to effectively nationalize local police into a migrant deportation force -- stopping people on the street and herding millions into concentration camps, supposedly before dropping them off somewhere south of the border.

That's grotesque, and terrible, in every way.

But you are naive if you imagine that this national cops squad would be disbanded, or the concentration camps closed, after the mass deportations.

Vote.

lightninhopkins,
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@dangillmor Know what is funny. Most cops know criminals. Part of the job. Then they buy from criminals. Then they rob the "criminals".

They used to just play some poker together.

alexwild, to random
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

lightninhopkins,
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@shansterable @alexwild Yep, when the Big 10 starts pulling the players up north and out west panic will ensue in the SEC.

Silly that is what will be the catalyst for change, but its likely true.

mattsheffield, to random
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Video footage out of Northeastern University reveals ‘Kill the Jews’ remark used to explain police intervention was actually made by a pro-Israel counterprotester
https://huntnewsnu.com/77835/encampment/video-footage-reveals-kill-the-jews-remark-used-to-justify-police-intervention-made-by-pro-israel-counterprotester-in-provocation/

lightninhopkins,
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@mattsheffield This is my surprised face 😐

heidilifeldman, (edited ) to random
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Hey, American college students, it would be helpful for the U.S., the world, Palestinians, and Israelis, if you would turn your attention to defeating Donald Trump in November. Read about his fascist plans in this recent extended interview with him. https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

lightninhopkins,
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@heidilifeldman I think people can protest against genocide and vote against Trump at the same time.

Vibracobra23, to random
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Carfury Menhir in Madron, West Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the north-north-west on 5 July 2003.

lightninhopkins,
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@Vibracobra23 clearly a weiner.

cstross, to random
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This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s.
https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433

lightninhopkins,
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@cstross hehe, I learned COBOL if you need a hand. That's funny.

toxi, to photography
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Otherworldly light, layers and scenery in the upper Höllental (Hell's Valley)

lightninhopkins,
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@toxi damn, that looks awesome.

lightninhopkins,
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@toxi wait, is that Japan?

doomscroller, to Cats
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Might want to avoid feeding cats unpateurized milk in the relevant areas.
4 more cats test positive for H5N1 bird flu in the U.S.
"Three of the new cases were found at two dairy farms in Curry County, New Mexico and all of them died, according to the state’s Agriculture Department. The fourth case was found at a dairy farm in Wood County, Ohio." https://bnonews.com/index.php/2024/04/4-more-cats-test-positive-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-the-u-s/

lightninhopkins,
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@doomscroller they seem to recover OK. So maybe not a big deal?

kcarruthers, to random
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Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’

US senator says Israeli PM is using antisemitism to distract attention from ‘extremist and racist government’ policies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war

lightninhopkins,
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@kcarruthers yep.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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By the way, I always post here first because people will tell me my errors (without being rude LOL).

I don't hire a proofreader because I don't monetize. I feel like I should get double pay for today's blog post, but 2 x zero = zero 😂

Also I tend to discuss ideas here first because I get so many smart and interesting responses.

I think I've either muted, blocked, or scared away the people who like to yell at me.

lightninhopkins,
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@Teri_Kanefield it's pretty nice overall.

AnarchistArt, to random
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lightninhopkins,
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@AnarchistArt you misspelled Weeknd.

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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Catching some morning rays at a hotel.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
💃 Wife

lightninhopkins,
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@Gargron might be better if she was smoking a heater.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Realizing that everything about modern conservatism was a complete fucking lie was the shock to the system it took to wake me up from my post-9/11 dumbass stupor.

lightninhopkins,
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@Green_Footballs been a lie since Reagan.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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The Biden impeachment is over despite 'the best efforts of the House GOP’s worst people' https://www.rawstory.com/comer-biden-impeachment-2667929762/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

lightninhopkins,
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@realTuckFrumper They should wear clown suits, oh wait, they are already wearing ties.

mcc, to random
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Something I've been noticing about search engines (well, google) recently is how bad they are at respecting word order in cases where it matters. Like, you search "convert x to y" and they match "convert y to x". Or this morning I'm searching "inset diamond in square equation" and i am indeed finding overwhelmingly things that contain both the words "diamond" and "equation", such as the "diamond method" for quadratics. But nothing related to insetting diamonds in squares.

lightninhopkins,
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@mcc try chatGPT. It's honestly better.

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