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[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

[Mario @mariomakesit]

god it’s good to watch an actually divergent design process

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take that shit down.

A landmark University of Delaware study (Frick and Tallamy, 1996) counted nearly 14,000 insects killed by residential bug zappers over a single summer.

Mosquitoes were 31 of them. A mere 0.22%.

The other 99.78% were moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and the night-shift pollinators your yard depends on.

Mosquitoes don't navigate by light. They find you by your carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is invisible to them and lethal to almost everything else.

Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against bug zappers because they may increase mosquito populations by killing the predators that eat them.

What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside.

Bug zappers are 1970s technology built on a 1970s misunderstanding of mosquitoes. It's time to take it down.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This man owns a hotel and found something very concerning

If you google their hotel, the top results are booking sites run entering by AI. If you call them, that’s also AI

He called. The AI claims to be his hotel and is taking bookings as if they work for the hotel

“AI is stealing our hotel bookings and there doesn't seem to be anyone we can contact about it because they are entirely staffed by AI receptionists”

“Worst case they're stealing people's credit cards — best case they're, you know, getting kickbacks maybe from like Expedia or Booking we don't really work with”

“in either case they're making the customer experience worse and it's making it more expensive for the customers, which doesn't feel like the goal with AI and surely impersonating companies there’s gotta be some legislation around that”

He actually films and shows the calls. This is not good

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis. Like two guys are (maybe) getting demoted… while people are having their faces broken and getting dumped in a state park. Honestly hard to process.

[Evan DeSimone @Smorgasboredom]

At least once a week i think of that tweet about how millennials are the one generation born after they took lead out of paint and before smartphones.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

We are one bad incident...one bad adrenaline-fueled moment from another Boston Massacre or Kent State type occurrence.And there will be cheers from some Americans when that happens. And the Administration will support it and justify it and warn of more to come.Think about that.

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

There is a little sweet spot in there for those born around 78-84 who aren’t really Gen X, nor are they really Millennials. The last to grow up with landlines, 3 channels, and filmstrips, and the first to grow up with the internet, MTV, and cable.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Walkinshaw: It is absolutely horrific. We’ve been through this in Virginia. In 2017, U.S. Park Police shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar, who was unarmed, while driving his car. After an investigation, the DOJ refused to press charges against those officers. They were, however, indicted in Virginia—so that option exists under the law in Minnesota as well.

On the Oversight Committee, we’re going to vote to subpoena DHS for all documents related to this shooting.

.@PabloReports: Is it time to start looking at DHS’s budget?

Walkinshaw: Absolutely.

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[_its_not_real_ @_its_not_real_]

Absolutely wild how dead the open internet is. Everything is on TikTok, Instagram, Discord, or Facebook groups now. None of those are searchable (if Google even worked). Reddit wikis and discussion are ghost towns. Non-academic research is impossible.

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

[CarterNixon @CarterNixon]

Funniest thing about trump and Epstein being close isn’t just that they were friends it’s that it is the only evidence we have of him having any friends at all. His only friend ever was this guy lol

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

A truck in Whatcom County dumped loads of sand to help redirect rising floodwaters as an atmospheric river soaked western Washington with up to 14 inches of rain in just 72 hours.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

I’m gonna point out the moron here.

When John Kennedy was a democrat, (yeah, he too was a democrat) he didn’t talk like he was a backwoods hillbilly that married his cousin.

No, he added the stupidity and the hillbilly when he changed parties to dumb himself down for his new constituents.

That’s you, MAGA. 😁

[John Hagner @JHagner]

A long time ago, DC decided that Democrats were the only adults in the room. The GOP could run on, and win on, a platform of destroying the institutions that made the country run, and the people who benefit from them wouldn't really object, because Dems would always step in.

[carter hambley @carterhambley]

if the ribbon is pink, breast cancer aware. if the ribbon is blue, pig at state fair

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Or…don’t bread on me.