"If I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write."

The rule Prof. Daniel Drezner is referring to is the OMB proposal which would require all federal grants to be approved by the president’s political appointees.

"This dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, ... of independent expert peer review as the primary measure of scientific merit."

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-administrations-existential
#UsPol #Science
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Tramp the dirt down.

Ryanair verrechnet dem Passagier, der wegen des gebrochenen Fensters halb raushing, jetzt nachträglich folgendes:

+ Frischluftzuschlag (Premium-Sauerstoff, ungefiltert): 149,99 €
+ Aero-Dynamik-Gebühr (Luftwiderstand durch heraushängenden Oberkörper): 45,50 €
+ Aktivierung des „Breakaway“-Panoramafensters: 99,00 €
+ Bergungszuschlag (Einsatz der Stewardess-Greifzange): 35,00 €
+ Extra verbrauchtes Kerosin (Passagier als Bremsklappe): 3,50 €

@strypey

If you're going to be there when someone you know dies then -

You're a stakeholder.
And them having made a Will, an Enduring Power of Attorney, an Enduring Power of Guardianship, and considered/discussed an Advanced Care Plan/Directive now, while they'll still competent and capable, will almost certainly make your life so much easier in the future.

You could do your own incapability / death documents now as you support them in getting their's done now. (hint hint)

@mo

Fight this any way you can! XAI built a data center and turbines next to my once quiet neighborhood. The low frequency noise negatively affects your body. Look up vibroacoustic disease.

I suffered sore throats, vertigo and anxiety (what I'm calling a horrible sense of dread). It gave me PTSD. I had to move away from the home and community I loved bc my state and local gov sold us out.

The data center mostly creates construction jobs that go to people from out of town and are temporary

@OneInterestingFact
> Collecting it wasn’t a project. Getting rid will be

I know this challenge. But I've moved houses, cities, and occasionally countries, so often that I've been forced to keep my clutter to a minimum. I don't envy people who've lived in the same house for decades and suddenly realise just how much stuff they've slowly accumulated.

One good piece advice I came across to avoid this; 1 thing in, 1 thing out. So every time you bring something home, a nano-declutter happens.

@pallenberg Good riddance.
Ab wann ist die Senatsmehrheit nochmal weg?

@quixoticgeek it's kinda astonishing to me, that despite the state of Queensland being known as a very sunshiney place, the only Queensland Rail facility that I know of that has solar panels installed, is the brand new Train Manufacturing facility in Torbenlea. All the stations, all the workshops, and all the stabling yards currently seem to be solar panel-less

I know they have the little wee individual solar panels on the yard lighting, but you'd think that they'd have them on the rooftops of train stations at least?

The final day of our 3 day game of #JetlagTheGame hide and seek Germany begins. I got part way to my hiding zone last night. So far progress is best described as deutschebahn being deutschebahn. I am very hungry, and really need to find some breakfast. I have just over an hour until @darkphoenix and @moof begin their pursuit.

Hatte ich heute frueh auch noch nicht auf der Bingo-Karte!
Donald Trumps Fusssoldaten fallen reihenweise um. Erst Mitch McConnell jetzt Lindsey Graham!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/12/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71/

The commodity form reduces everything to usually fighting the dog

"Sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment... These crimes were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, extreme misogyny, and the commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."

Were they committed against this backdrop - or are such crimes in fact always implicit in the 'othering' - the dehumanisation of people not quite like ourselves - that is a central feature of all right-wing ideology ?

@petrillic @azonenberg I’ve got an OG Reflow Master (prior to RMPro release) hacked nicely into a toaster oven. Hint: the SSR is a replacement for the thermostat, both logically and physically

@DataAngler There was someone who sent me a reply with offensive language and then blocked me because of this. 😂 So I hope you didn't take it as seriously as they did.

Hahahahahahaha fuck yeah

"Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, has died after sudden illness, his office says"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lindsey-graham-key-ally-of-donald-trump-has-died-after-sudden-illness-his-office-says

@karlauerbach
No.
51 R, 45 D, 2 IND (D-leaning), 2 vacancies if you count Mitch

All the people I've come across on here shitting on #quill because it lets people choose the features they want are clearly dumb enough to fail to realise that there are people that wanna do things in one app, not bounce between 20 different things, for instance, writing a readme, then needing to go to either GH Desktop or the terminal to then commit and push the changes, there are people that want to be able to do that right where they are, they just finished writing the file in the text editor, they then hit a few keys and bring up the GitHub commit dialog or whatever. If someone doesn't need the GitHub features, boom, they can get rid of them in a couple of key presses. Get a grip people!

Am Ploc. Beinn Damh behind.