IT engineer/MSP; ๐โโฌ dad; lover of ๐ฝ๐๐ท๐ปโท๐ฅพ๐ป๐๐ 9x๐ โ๏ธ๐ท๐ด๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐จ๐ท๐ฆ๐บ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช
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My #blackbear visitor returned last night! This time she bit a hole in the plastic globe from my front porch light. Iโm a bit worried sheโs becoming more aggressive. Other neighbors are reporting similar aggressions. #bear #nature #wildanimals #wildlife โ at Boone, NC
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History will never forget the name Captain Picard.
Thank you for inspiring the Next Generation of explorers. โจ
ALT Two interacting galaxies against the black of space. Together, they fill most of the right side of the image. They have a rounded center shape, with two extended arms. The arms both extend back, shaped roughly like the starship Enterprise. A third smaller galaxy spirals to its left.
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This.
My take: Putin gave up nothing by releasing a 74-year-old American held as a pawn for this type of moment. Putin is not a humanitarian, despite how Mr Witkoff addressed him. And whereas President Trump says he gave up nothing for Stephen Hubbard's release, you will hear all the experts correctly say that he did: busting his own sanctions for a diesel deal with Putin that could put $4 billion into his war chest; inviting Putin to the G20; and dumping Putin's victim, Ukraine, face down in the mud, as it tries to defend its sovereignty and its freedom. Youโve heard the historians call all this appeasement, going against America's own democratic values.
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/poโฆ
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DO YOU STAND WITH JOJO?
Joanne Carducci, who you know on Twitter as as JoJo From Jerz, told a podcast this week that a Trump Lawyer sent her a letter threatening that she would lose her home, be bankrupted unless she retracted some of her posts.
Although the letter was sent months ago this is the first time JoJo has made it public.
Your Thoughts?
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BREAKING: LOL! Trump gets publicly humiliated at his big White House helipad event after the major outlets refused to give him a press pool โ resulting in a lack of audio for his ranting remarks.
This one really backfired bigly on him...
"Yeah thereโ Okay, so there is no microphone because... There's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there," said a Newsmax host reporting on the incident. "So maybe, Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit."
The video showed Trump cutting a ribbon to celebrate his hideous new White House helipad, but viewers couldn't hear what he was saying because of the press pool's absence. Since the reporters didn't show up, there were no high-quality professional microphones present.
On Friday, Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House on the grounds that they're supposedly "fake news," which just means that they accurately report on his disastrous administration.
In retaliation, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News banded together to announce that they would be suspending press pool coverage of Trump.
"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should reject a news organization because it objects to its reporting," they said in a joint statement.
The press pool is a dedicated, rotating group of journalists, complete with cameras and audio equipment, that travels with the President to provide outlets with a steady stream of updates on his latest remarks and actions. They also provide video footage when he delivers a speech or attends a noteworthy event. It's clearly something that the attention-obsessed Trump took for granted. He failed to game this attack on the free press out and now he's paying the price.
And you just know that this is exactly the kind of thing that gets under his skin. He's fixated on all of these "renovations" and building projects, and he was presumably looking forward to this helipad unveiling. What should have been a moment of gloating and self-congratulation turned into a display of muted helplessness.
Please โค๏ธ and share to thank the news outlets for taking a stand!
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๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ง๐คโAND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTHโฆโ
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australianโs response to Trumpโs rant that โNATO does nothing for Americaโ is absolutely devastating:
โMate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults canโt cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them havenโt even been convicted of anything.
Theyโre simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. Youโre the only developed nation where thatโs happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cubaโs.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasnโt changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal โ found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban โ is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
โNATO wasnโt there when we needed them.โ
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasnโt even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You donโt care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you havenโt shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?โ
.@AppleTV your sign in problems are getting old. I have no problems w/ any other service & Iโm subscribed to 6 or 7, but on a regular basis your junk kicks me out & makes me sign back in. Now you canโt sign in at all. Your status page shows all โ
. Stop lying & admit your flaws.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump's new Chair of the Federal Reserve just admitted that it was Trump's Iran policy that caused energy prices to skyrocket. Woah.
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De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.
I canโt love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.
I canโt love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.
I canโt love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.
I canโt love a country thatโs led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.
And let me just say it: I canโt love a country thatโs led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
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Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to open an email via notifications, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows 11!
The funniest part? If I ignore the notification, open Outlook manually, find the email myself, and click it, I can finish faster than the notification flow.
It's all because Outlook for Windows is literally Microsoft Edge running Outlook .com in a browser window.
New Outlook runs through WebView2 with around 10 separate processes: GPU process, service worker, utility processes, manager, and more. It uses roughly 490MB to 636MB RAM while idle, compared to Outlook Classic sitting around 117MB to 148MB.
CPU usage is also worse: around 4% idle on new Outlook versus under 1% on Classic in my testing.
Microsoft shut down Mail and Calendar, keeps pushing enterprises toward this web wrapper, and still wants people to believe it is the future of email on Windows.
SHAME!
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Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. Itโs House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.
And for anyone who says โobviously this will never get passedโ thatโs not the point. The point is itโs fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. Itโs insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and itโs happening right now in front of our eyes.
