Hairy Otter and the Sorcerer's Stone
https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/the-surprising-way-sea-otters-use-rocks-as-tools-6-342190/
Lisa Melton
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Today I learned that in 1971, activists planned a "shit-in" to disrupt the Chicago O'Hare airport by occupying every bathroom stall and urinal. They did not actually execute the protest because just the threat of it brought City Hall to the negotiating table.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-ohare-shit-in-airports-occupied-infrastructures-and-excremental-politics
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Breaking, exclusive and spicy, from me:
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
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@adhdeanasl Here you go. Happy #bleptember to all!
And we're definitely doing it ON PURPOSE, and the lib media doing it KNOWS what they're doing. Here for example is a piece published in the SAME PAPER on the SAME DAY as we decided to treat Abdul El-Sayed responding to the Vice President essentially calling him a swarthy menace just because of his ethnicity while doing a dual loyalty trope these nazis usually reserve for Jewish targets of their ire, as potentially legit.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/hasan-piker-mike-rogers-media
So? They know exactly what they are doing.
Go back to that first article again okay? The Vice President of the United States just saying a US Senate candidate was inherently "evil" and then started talking about Islam, the implication being obvious. And now read the article - notice how Vances claims and AES's rebuttal are given EQUAL WEIGHT in the presentation, like either one might be true? Notice they spend more time on "shit Abdul has apologized for" even tho VANCE in the guy doing unacceptable racism?
The media in on the job.
Lisa Melton
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Dwight Silverman
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Tropical Storm Edouard was a bust in Houston on Tuesday with regard to rainfall, but the potential remains for it to be a potent rain-maker Tuesday night for areas north and northeast of Houston. Here’s why flooding in these areas is possible.
Nathan Dyer
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I don't really celebrate my birthday, but that doesn't mean you can't celebrate it for me! Donate to your favorite anti-genAI open source project, finally commission that artist you've been eyeing, give money to a queer/trans person that's struggling rn, and/or punch a Nazi for me. Give yourself permission for self-care. Live authentically. Just generally and genuinely be a cool and good person. We need as many of those as we can get especially now.
Lisa Melton
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A friendship can be sincere and transactional at the same time. Ask a cat.
Lisa Melton
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Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round.
This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
Meow Fuji.
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"Techniques Gentlemen Use in Heated Conversations" is a useful reminder of how to deal with conversations that are escalating in emotional intensity. Even if you're not a gentleman.
https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/heated-conversation-techniques/
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Just a reminder: if you wanna see Raffi Musiker and D'Vana Tendi leading a starship with the help of a paranoid supercomputer, now is the time to request Star Trek: Zero Point #1 from your comic book store
After Monday, they can't guarantee you a copy of this comic bc they'll have made their order.
okay but when can i see Raffi Cavoukian in an episode of Star Trek. he could even make jokes about Captain Kirk and baby belugas.
Question for travelers - Say you needed to go to San Francisco from Vermont for a trip on a Weds-Sat. It's about 9 hours of flying. Then you need to be back in SF a week later (flying on the next Friday). DO YOU FLY HOME IN BETWEEN? Or just stay in SF for the week?
I was just planning to fly home on Saturday and then fly out the next Friday, spending 5 days at home. (It's just plane trips!) But so far most people, including my family, seem to think I'm crazy!
@danyork it’s not crazy to fly back, and flying is fine and mostly chill even these days. I’d still stay in SF, though, if it wasn’t a financial issue. You’re out, so might as well take some time to explore/enjoy the area.
I mean, that’s six days to run through some very nice bakeries, definitely worth doing. 😁
The thing I love most about the US right's obsession with the Spartans, is that the Spartans weren't even good at war. They weren't. 🤷🏿♂️
They were obsessed with *battle*. But battle is not war. When you look at their war track record? They lost as much as they won against the poets, farmers and wine drinkers.🤡
Even their battle win loss record was 50/50, and only if you count battles where they fought as part of a coalition. When you look at battles where they fought alone? They lost more than they won.🤡
Why? A silly belief that they were superior, meant they didn't change tactics. They were predictable.
@mekkaokereke There is a whole class of people with a masturbatory fascination with “(((Warrior Cultures®))).” It’s about as suitable for public consumption as anything else people jack off to.
So we're just doing open raging Islamphobia now because a guy won a primary in Michigan, right?
And mate, I don't mean the GOP - you tell me the media would be covering this, this way, if it were any other marginalized group. Even the marginalized groups libs still shit on - you'd never get away with saying this shit out loud and treating it as newsworthy and debatable - yet that's the tone to all this coverage of El-Sayed's campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/abdul-el-sayed-jd-vance-evil
And we're definitely doing it ON PURPOSE, and the lib media doing it KNOWS what they're doing. Here for example is a piece published in the SAME PAPER on the SAME DAY as we decided to treat Abdul El-Sayed responding to the Vice President essentially calling him a swarthy menace just because of his ethnicity while doing a dual loyalty trope these nazis usually reserve for Jewish targets of their ire, as potentially legit.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/hasan-piker-mike-rogers-media
So? They know exactly what they are doing.
