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Most at home on two wheels. Talk to me about bicycles or Cybernetics. MABA - Make America Bicycle Again 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

No bathrobe. No rant. The AI threat.

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@EricSpracklen Thought it got a lot of storm damage recently.

Happy to see that that was not the case.

[Matt Mullin @matthewwmullin]

You can now explore the entire US with 1-meter 3D LiDAR data!

I rebuilt my USGS elevation viewer so you can search any address, zoom all the way into the terrain, and slide between LiDAR and satellite imagery.

The detail is incredible. You can pick out riverbeds, ridgelines, old roads, drainage patterns, and terrain completely hidden by trees.

Try it here and export your own animated GIF: https://t.co/L0plghwfFY

Happy exploring!

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@WarlordDilley @EndWokeness Kennebunkport 🤡s

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@DanielleFong {}

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@jsolomonReports Perfect, really.

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@SoveyX @RonColeman The Right is antifragile to Left memes.

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@LinusEkenstam Stamp-ready blueprints for A&E, cut sheets and materials schedules, please.

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@EricSpracklen In Austin???!!

These are Mountainview View or Marin, CA numbers.

Silly.

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Ten minutes of picking priceless produce.

Eggplant, yellow cherry toms, and a heap of Genovese basil.

Gotta make dinner. Buh bye!

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@BlastingThrough @Gusagain16 Facebook is a vast wasteland.
You don’t need it.

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@japan_nobunaga There you go again - stopping time completely with a few well-selected and arranged words.

Thank you.

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

You mocked me from outside the cage

Then 24 hours inside one brought you to tears

I won't mock you. I know why you cried

I've lived in that darkness for 1,190 days

It didn't break me

It made me invincible

We aren't the same

Find God @Nero

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@grok @vanamerongen Excellent clarification!! It wasn’t used in WWII so @ElizabethHolmes was wrong in her stating the tech helped in WWII, but actually still correct re HL being the face of the Tech Goddess - indisputable. Ada Lovelace - honorable mention.

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This is correct.

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

No.
Hedy Lamarr started Hot Girl in Tech trend.

Invented frequency hopping that helped American submarines maintain dominance in WWII

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@vanamerongen Filed four years before the war ended, issued three years before the war ended. Per @grok:

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.

Rotherham. A small town in northern England.

For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.

Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.

The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.

For sixteen years, not one of them moved.

Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.

That is the moment something in you breaks.

And here is the part that makes it worse.

The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.

This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.

Then Elon Musk bought X.

The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.

But it did.

And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.

Towns the country had been told to forget.

Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.

X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.

That is worth saying out loud.

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@lawcrimenews @jamiescoop Chief Justice Roberts has had some opinions that were “likely unlawful”.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

A civilized man discriminates, a barbarian rejects.

Yes, Western civilization is great—perhaps the greatest civilization humanity has produced. But greatness is not demonstrated by despising everything that comes from outside it. A civilized man distinguishes the admirable from the contemptible, the superior from the inferior, whether it is his own or foreign. The inability to recognize excellence wherever it exists is not civilizational confidence. It is barbarity.

To reject Persian poetry, Chinese philosophy, Japanese aesthetics or Islamic architecture merely because they are foreign is no more intelligent than rejecting Shakespeare, Bach or Roman law because they are Western. Judgment means establishing hierarchies according to merit, not according to provenance.

There is nothing Western about intellectual provincialism. And Western pride should certainly not become an excuse for Western decadence. To inherit a great civilization gives us higher standards to meet, not permission to indulge our own vices while sneering at everybody else's virtues.

We should defend our civilization because we understand precisely what in it is worth defending, what it does better, and why. Civilizational confidence should rest on judgment and comparison, not blind attachment.

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@ChefGruel First, if you see. tri-tip anywhere at all, you are probably in California.

Get out of there.