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Memorial Day Tribute 

On this Memorial Day, I remember SSG James Hunter, a military journalist that encountered an IED while augmenting a foot patrol, the first military journalist who died in the line of duty since the Vietnam War.

It's important to know that a lot of the book ban horseshit going on right now is being driven by a vanishingly tiny number of people: *Eleven* people filed 60% of the 1000+ challenges the Washington Post reviewed.

Gift link: wapo.st/3MSf6Gx

Elon’s new Twitter Autopilot drives Ron DeSantis presidential campaign announcement into nearest tree.

Happy Towel Day to all you hoopy froods in the Fediverse!

Have a cuppa tea to celebrate the brilliance that was Douglas Adams.

Today was the 30th anniversary of the first episode of Babylon 5, the genre-reshaping series blending politics and religion in one 5 year long story arc, mostly written by one person.

It was crazy hard watching this show - it was syndicated, popped up and disappeared for months at a time and was like nothing before it for the world-building and strong storyline.

Impeccably cast, hands down the finest low budget SF series ever made. Powerful stuff.

#babylon5

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I want to migrate my account to a new instance, but it appears that there's a snag when the new instance has defederated the old one. How does one migrate in that situation?

#uspol 

I agree, Warnock will prevail, they're smashing early voting records nearly everyday. A condition that tends to favor the Democrat ticket.

Markle Ω  
Prediction: Warnock wins by 5 points. 🙂

#uspol 

Both parts passed the House of Reps today. It now goes to the Senate tomorrow for a vote, and at least 3 GOP senators said they are on board to vote in the 7 paid sick days. Hopefully there are more, it needs at least 60 votes to pass there.

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#uspol 

Senator Bernie Sanders pushed forward an amendment that would guarantee all national agreement railroad workers 7 days of paid sick day time. Right now railroad workers get zero. The other agreement only includes 1. They vote on this TODAY. For our economy, it's imperative we take care of our workers that work outdoors, long hours, schedules that disrupt most family living, in unclean industrial environments. Please support the 7 sick pay days for the railroad workers.

"You should trust your immune system!" My immune system thinks peanuts are dangerous

Hottest take so far: If you don’t pay me, you’re against free speech. #musk #twitter

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Therapist: You need to stop doing weird things, going out might help

Me: I went to the park today

Therapist: There you go! I hope you got something from that

Me *opens coat* this duck

The Intel 8086 was released in 1978, starting the x86 line that still dominates computing. I'm reverse-engineering the chip by studying the silicon die, and I think I've spotted a bug fix in the silicon. They didn't have microcode updates then so they patched the silicon. 🧵

The #Schrödinger's cat now becomes the "Schrödinger's plates": as you can see, they are both broken and not broken until you open the door 😉

#quantummechanics

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