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Norfolk Coast by John Nash c. 1971
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
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@myrmepropagandist I was at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday. Watching the leaf cutters, I noticed piles of brown dust-like material outside the glass bulbs that serve as fungus growing chambers. There were piles outside most of the chambers, empty, full, or partly full.
My guess is that they were piles of dead ants. The docent didn't know.
I'm wondering whether you have a second to tell me what they were.
Thanks!
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Colorful houses in Istanbul
#photography #travelphotography #travel #architecture #istanbul #turkey
A little mushroom village in the hollow of a mossy stump right there on the trail—how could I resist?
#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Spring #Nature #Plants #Moss #Fungi #Mushrooms #Trails #TrailRunning #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography
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"Trump inherited an incredible economy. To have a successful first 100 days all Donald Trump needed to do was limit himself to golf and stealing"
-David Frum
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Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not, till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
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May we instead speak up and act on behalf of those less fortunate, in favor of justice and what is right. Pope Francis did so on Easter. After he met JD Vance, his deputy read an Easter prayer supporting migrants.
I don’t know that there is another figure who can fill the void in the same way as Pope Francis did, other than a new Pope who espouses similar teachings and actions. May he rest in peace and may we collectively step up to have similar impact.
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Link to: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-increase-tariffs-us-goods-125-up-84-finance-ministry-says-2025-04-11/Daring Fireball
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 15 completed
Guincho trails
I was not expecting this many single tracks today. It was really nice.
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Fun route.
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St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork
Photo: Keystone View Co. / U. of Indiana
Not sure of date, but a different library has another photo of Cork from the same publisher dated 1902
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Highway robbery as 'Historic Idaho sign goes missing days before donation to Museum of Idaho':
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From the latest edition of the SCA Weekly News:
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#SaveOurSigns #SignPainting #Ghostsigns #Idaho
Historic Stinker Station sign, which is currently missing. | Courtesy of Museum of Idaho. IDAHO FALLS — An iconic piece of Idaho history has gone missing, and the Museum of Idaho is desperate to find it.Kaitlyn Hart (EastIdahoNews.com)
Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a #recession
Texas senator’s comments another sign of #Republican unease over ‘reciprocal #tariffs’ and stock market plunge
But we will let the dear leader do what he wants… I don’t see a groundswell of republicans standing up to #trump and President #Musk and the heritage foundation in any meaningful way
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Texas senator’s comments another sign of Republican unease over ‘reciprocal tariffs’ and stock market plungeEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
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Anyone who didn't vote, voted for Jill Stein or voted for trump are complicit and need to be held accountable for their action. Period.
I've encouraged people to make a list so they dont' forget who in their circles or communities voted for trump or helped him get elected because they're going to start complaining and pretending they didn't and they need to outted
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We the People means everyone!
#HandsOff #StopTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnAllOfThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain
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@Madame
Op mij maakt het heel veel indruk en het geeft mij hoop.
Keep it going !!!!
#removeTrump #removeMusk #impeachTrump #imprisonMusk #uspol
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Je wordt overigens op je wenken bediend: volgens CNN demonstreerden er vandaag "millions of people".
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Dus net hoopte je op miljoenen, en nu het er miljoenen zijn vindt je dat ook maar weer niks.
Jo, dit soort cynisme, daar hebben we dus precies helemaal niks aan.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 14/2025 completed
Sintra downtown and surroundings. That last climb…
Climbing to the court room of Sintra
Some extra photos
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Couloir de la Peyrouse.
L'exemple type du couloir du Balcon Est du Vercors qui est facile en neige (si elle est bien portante ce qui était pas le cas là), affreux dans la pierraille l'été !!
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😢 Zelensky: 3-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital. 7-year-old Radyslav. Arina, who will also be 7 forever. 9-year-old German. 15-year-old Danylo. 15-year-old Nikita. 15-year-old Alina. Konstantin, who will be 16 forever. Nikita is 17 years old. These are the children who were killed by a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
Unfortunately, 9 adults also died. Another 62 people were injured in the strike, including 12 children.
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Hey lookit - another one of them “administrative mistakes”!
Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.
While on his way to work on Monday, the 73-year-old grandfather was picked up by immigration enforcement agents near his Lafayette home. He sits today in an ICE processing center in Pine Prairie, a village in rural Evangeline Parish. - Claire Taylor
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The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.The Advocate
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Cruelty is Job 1 for this administration.
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"I said 'No, Papa. They're not coming for you,'" she recalled. "'They want bad guys and you're not a bad guy.'"
Why do I get the feeling from the article that she used to be in favor of ICE removing the ‘bad people?’
"Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem when he divided your height by your birthday, and it came out way too high. You would probably decide that you need a new doctor.
This is basically the story of Donald Trump’s new round of import taxes (tariffs) on our trading partners. Trump somehow decided that trade was bankrupting the country, even though we were creating jobs rapidly, the economy was growing at a strong pace, and inflation was slowing to normal rates when he took office."
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That's brilliant.
For some reason it made me think of this:
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18k on an empty stomache, stupid or smart?
Well it was pretty hard. At least the sunset was pretty.
Absolutely glorious and thrilling to see the solar eclipse today in London ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆
Made a solar projector using a colander! And also watching the Greenwich live stream: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sola…
Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomerswww.rmg.co.uk
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I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app. So a few brief thoughts.Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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It's kinda plausible that the Empire might bring in an 8 1/2 foot canary yellow biped bird in for questioning, plus Big Bird is being his usual cheery self.
This is the 1970s so he might get into an argument with Vader over whether Mr. Snuffleupagus is real.
Playing Boycott Bingo at the supermarket. ‘Jackpot!’ come the cries from different aisles as the Sort Stjerne (the black star) confirms that our favourite snack, our preferred coffee beans, those loo rolls on special offer, are European. And therefore Not American.
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"What did you do during the war, Great-Auntie?"
"Why, I took photos in the supermarket and tooted them, child."
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I'm reminded of these incredible supermarket staff who are the opposite of everyone fearfully erasing websites & social programmes in the US now. They braved vilification too, only belatedly being recognised as principled people who inspired a mass boycott.
‘In 1984, a 21-year-old Irish shopworker refused to serve a customer buying two South African grapefruits. Mary Manning was suspended from Dunnes Stores and 10 of her colleagues walked out alongside her in protest.’
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goodsBBC News
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I think this is great. It is so hard to know exactly where some products come from.
There seem to be just a few large corporations controlling most of the production. While intentionally hiding the origin. (looking at you Nestlé)
Drop what you're doing and read this incredible story, which recounts how a reporter for The Atlantic was inadvertently included in a private Signal discussion group that appears to have included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sec. of State Marco Rubio and other administration officials discussing plans for an upcoming U.S. military assault on Yemen.
The reporter, Jeff Goldberg, said he was convinced it was all an elaborate hoax as they laid out the pros and cons of specific attack options, and discussed targets over the course of a week. That is, until they shared on the Signal chat exactly where and when the targets in Yemen would be hit, and then those targets got hit exactly when they'd said.
"The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen."
"I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
"According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city."
"I went back to the Signal channel. At 1:48, “Michael Waltz” had provided the group an update. Again, I won’t quote from this text, except to note that he described the operation as an “amazing job.” A few minutes later, “John Ratcliffe” wrote, “A good start.” Not long after, Waltz responded with three emoji: a fist, an American flag, and fire. Others soon joined in, including “MAR,” who wrote, “Good Job Pete and your team!!,” and “Susie Wiles,” who texted, “Kudos to all – most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really great. God bless.” “Steve Witkoff” responded with five emoji: two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags."
"I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion."
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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I dropped what I was doing and now I'm parked in a ditch. What do I do next?
I caught this story earlier. Absolute incompetence! I almost want to get off of Signal just because these fuck heads are using it.
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@danie10 cellcrypt. disa.mil/~/media/files/disa/fa…
o and btw, I just now found out they have an XMPP server
but also you might be right in some instence, because DSO (basically a military version of github) has this on matrix
repo1.dso.mil/dsop/opensource/…
so the military certainly knows it exists and probably uses it.
I wonder if they ever modified it to run on post quantum cryptography algorithms
The NYT is reporting that the National Security Council has confirmed the screw up:
“At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Brian Hughes, the National Security Council spokesman, said in an emailed statement. He called the thread “a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials.”
"Several Defense Department officials said that having the type of conversation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others had in a Signal chat group could be a violation of the Espionage Act. Revealing operational war plans before planned strikes could also put American troops directly into harm’s way, the officials said."
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"...we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain"
THAT'S what they're reviewing? They're not reviewing how a non-sanctioned app was used to send top secret government information? How this was clearly done on non-secure devices?
And yet they'll still complain about #HillarysEmails
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how come no one is asking;
who did they think they were looping in?
Was it their handler? tRump lies about everything, someone wanted proof.
Was it their stock broker? when we start a war with a country usually the stock market reacts. Brokers for venture #capitalist need to know what is going to happen so they can front run the market for you.
My bet is on the broker.
#democracy is more than voting.
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@Dhmspector That thought had definitely occurred to me. I'd not been aware of and/or forgotten that Signal auto-deletes content, in violation of US gov't data retention laws.
Thanks.
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@Wolfi As I've seen discussed elsewhere, there are other problems presented:
OpSec is exceedingly poor here.
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What I haven’t (yet) seen mention of, is that this sets back the US intelligence community a generation.
Goldberg says it twice: once that they were texting “related to actual and current intelligence operations,” and once that their texts if read by an adversary could “harm American … intelligence personnel,” in “shocking recklessness.”
Who would risk serving their country in HUMINT overseas, knowing these asswipes are burning agents in group chats with randos?
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What nobody is talking about is
Hegseth: POTUS retains 24 hour decision space
Steven Miller: nah man, POTUS is golfing. I know what the President wants, just do it.
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Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.Jeanna Smialek (The New York Times)
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Of course, the White House claims no classified data was shared. What else would they say?
Calling Goldberg's coverage of this monumental and unprecedented OPSEC fail by a US presidential administration "sensationalist" is beyond the pale. Given the volume of sensitive information shared with him unsolicited via Signal, Mr. Goldberg's reporting demonstrated that he exercised remarkable restraint in not publishing a great deal of what he was given.
Whether it's sending Com kids in to monkey with taxpayer databases, setting up Starlink antennas on top of the White House complex for "faster Wi-Fi," or granting TS/SCI clearances to anyone without a thorough background check, this administration’s overall approach to security measures is to go around them, or just pretend they don’t exist for a good reason.
The administration is really hoping they can just sweep this one under the rug. That can't be allowed to happen, because this is not going to be an isolated event.
From the NYT:
"Two of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials denied that classified information was shared in an encrypted group chat in which details of an attack on Yemen were discussed in the presence of a journalist who had been mistakenly added to the conversation."
"The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a previously scheduled briefing on global threats with Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director; and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. Pressed repeatedly about the security breach, Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe both denied that classified material had been shared in the chat. Mr. Patel declined to say if the F.B.I. had begun an investigation."
"The White House also sought to downplay the serious nature of the extraordinary security breach, as bipartisan criticism of the incident grew on Tuesday and leading Democrats called for the resignation of the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who set up the group chat, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who reportedly shared classified war plans in it."
Here are the latest developments:
Defending Waltz: President Trump defended Mr. Waltz, saying in an interview with NBC News that the national security adviser had “learned a lesson” and suggested a staff member was to blame for including a journalist in the secret group chat.
Bipartisan criticism: The vice chairman of the intelligence committee, Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, denounced what he called “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” by the country’s top intelligence officials. Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters that the White House should “be honest and own up” to what happened.
"Damage control: The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said no classified material was sent to the group chat, and she attacked the journalist who revealed it, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, as “sensationalist.” Her statement came a day after Mr. Hegseth suggested the leak was a “hoax” even as the White House confirmed that messages he sent to it appeared to be authentic."
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee denounced what he called “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” by the country’s top intelligence officials, after a journalist was mistakenly included in a group chat about a strike in Yemen.The New York Times
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, and 13 of his Senate...www.kaine.senate.gov
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I thought 'DUI hire with prison gang tattoos' Hegseth's denial was interesting. Technically he's correct that he didn't share classified material via text message - if by 'text message' you mean traditional SMS or RCS carried by cell carriers.
Kind of like saying "I've never even driven out to the old quarry where they found the bodies" when you were a passenger in the car.
"suggested a staff member was to blame" = completely unfamiliar with the concept and practice of responsibility.
Not suprised, mind you. Just (again) pissed off and disgusted.
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@swelljoe How is it unfair? Humpty Hump was an engaging instructor with a lifetime of experience and a distinctive voice that kept one's attention. When he spoke, people listened. His advice was always salient and memorable.
We couldn't have asked for a better OPSEC instructor.
this is really bad Opsec. There is an inadvertent negative though. Unfortunately Signal is now being called "unsecure" by media, which is not the same in this context as "insecure" I hope that part doesn't stick to the Signal Foundation in people's minds.
They shouldn't be using Signal, but only because it wasn't approved by the government for use. Signal is secure. It's just not DOD approved on device or for this sensitive govt communication.
ABC posted: abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-…
The messages were shared via an unsecure group chat on Signal.Fritz Farrow (ABC News)
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Remember when Pete Hegseth said anyone reckless with sensitive government information should be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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That's a long term memory item so yeah, it's gone. Not remembering helps with denial of severe problems. No guilt! Whoo hoo. Add in increasingly rigid thinking.
With my dad I called it Pickle Brain. The official term is alcoholic dementia.
@FrozenPeach @rob11563
Yes -- Korsakoff Syndrome.
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/…
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a type of memory disorder that requires immediate treatment. It’s caused by a lack of vitamin B1, often due to alcohol overuse.Cleveland Clinic
By this point it has become hard to see pointing out their hypocrisy as anything more than a waste of effort.
Worse - their strategy is to exhaust us; even highlighting their errors has become tiring..
#doom
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What a hypocrite Hegseth is. It is a pity that people who are caught past out drunk (Hegseth) while in office, don’t get fired also…
“The sworn statement, submitted in response to a request from Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was signed by Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth. It states that she was with Hegseth when he passed out from drunkenness in the bathroom of a bar”
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Remember when #Trump very likely sold #nuclear secrets to a #Saudi murderer?
Remember when #Trump kept #topsecret documents in his shitter?
Breaking our #nationalsecurity with no #consequences makes perfect sense when you understand that these people are all grossly #unqualified & likely #Russian #assets.
Tulsi Gabbard said the same thing.
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