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Alright this is more of a record for us for next year. One jar of salsa didn't seal-the lid was flawed from the get go but we tried anyway-...

I actually do! Made it back when I had a blog thermosea.blogspot.com/2009/11/gree... I tried pickles too but don't love the texture of tomato pickles thermosea.blogspot.com/2009/11/gree...

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Green tomato salsa

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

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Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

Green tomato chutney or salsa. Green tomatoes have a really unique flavor, they just have to be cooked first (no raw salsa)

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4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Worst case, they announce this, then fold anyway.

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Maybe? Its been the explicit gop platform for a couple decades and hasn't hurt them.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

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Holy shit.

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The half hour or so before we left today, mom was more awake and aware than she'd been the previous 5 days. She seemed to know that we were there and talking. Her responses are mostly smiles and laughs which is nice to hear and see.

I'm so sorry for you too. There really is nothing besides empathy but its not nothing, thank you.

Thank you. I don't see her very often, dad and my youngest brother take care of her full time. For the past few years, every visit feels like the last because "she can't lose much more function and still live" but she does.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026

My mom was diagnosed with early onset frontal temporal dementia 12 years ago. Back then i was sad and worried about what it would be like for her to die in 5-7 years. It didn't occur to me how much sadder it is to see her trapped in her still mostly healthy body but unable to interact with anything.

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John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era.

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm in Louisiana this weekend. The hotel has some morning tv show on in the breakfast room. I've seen 2 of the fucking trump campaign ads that we are paying for.

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That money they're burning was stolen from us.

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Collabora is their mobile suite. No ms office anywhere!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The baby and I got up early enough this morning to go down to the coast to check out the songbird and butterfly sanctuary. We lasted less than 5 min before the bugs chased us away. So we went to the beach instead. Unfortunately the ferry wasn't running so didn't get to see any porpoises.

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“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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I watched that and schitts creek over and over while doing late night data analysis during the height of covid. The ending wrecks me every time.

Kendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Charge the ceo or cto with every reckless driving "accident". Robots are not responsible for their actions, a human must be.

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Now that I'm not running a sequencing center, I'm suggesting seqcoast for microbiome.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The plaintiffs are suing to restore visitation rights and ask a court to force the county to disgorge the hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits it has made from video calls." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Families of Inmates Fight Against Jails That Profit From Visits

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Kendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite not feeling good, I did manage to have shrimp for dinner keeping my % meals with shrimp while in Louisiana above 50. Shrimp and corn chowder from the always delicious Buffi's

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Kendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bah have a cold while visiting my parents. I masked on the plane and it's only been 2 days, so this cold probably came from my kids. Hopefully I won't get mom or dad sick.

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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What "speed to power" with onsite generation is doing to data center communities: With no environmental reviews, DataOne, the Microsoft-linked data center, has been allowed to operate onsite gas-fired power generators w capacity to emit more than half the NOx put out by NJ’s entire power sector.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.

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Much important work. Problems solved because no one will remember the failing ai when they are dazzled by si

Yeah i don't think anything that fails to function in meatspace is actually going to change everything (or much of anything other than decimating retirement accounts when the bubble bursts)

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We take shoes off when we come inside and have for their entire life. So why aren't the shoes by the door?!?!

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026

Oh I'm sorry for expecting a technology that's "changing everything" to function in meatspace.

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So where does Congress get its information about complex topics? From lobbyists. Some of them--the most aggressive and well-financed--are from industry. Others are from professional groups or single-issue orgs. Some are from public interest nonprofits. And everyone rocks up with different facts. 8/

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Applied for a FAS job with the most annoying validator-if you typed the code at any sort of a normal speed it would hop to the next field and copy all previous letters. Is that the check? That you notice the fields are being filled with multiple characters?

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Here's the thing about letting a few unelected ivy league lawyers overturn laws that our elected representatives pass-we don't have to, so lets stop. Also, pack that court. By a lot. Not 13 justices, 100. And they have to come from a variety of backgrounds.

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Oh that is pretty. I wasn't super interested in CB when we went a couple of years ago but there was quite a bit of smoke in the air. We should go back. And go back to NL.

Praise the equinox goddess, middle kid has decided that he likes eggs again. It's been a rough few years of scrambling (ba da bump) to get him enough protein for breakfast.

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Hospital ai vs insurance ai is a beautiful computer centipede for siphoning money out of healthcare and into hospital and insurance profits. Centralized costing via universal healthcare would fix that.

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Wash dishes. Clean the house. Find the kid's other fucking shoe. All tasks that I'd love a robot to do. But nope, all they have for us is summarize the email we just wrote and read our kids bedtime stories. Nope and nope.

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