Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@qoto.org

A metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home this week was a meteorite, experts say.

The AP reports (and has photos): https://apnews.com/article/meteorite-hits-home-hopewell-new-jersey-91fecf2eb7e5ffb938bfb68920dc6011

#Meteorite #Space #Science

#WhoToFollow

Managing editor of the Kremlin critical medium, Meduza, Kevin Rothrock is now on #Mastodon.
He used to have over 100,000 followers on The Dying Bird, so let us show Elonir Muskovic, that you can build an even larger following on Mastodon — please follow Kevin right here:

@kevinrothrock

Trying a new productivity hack.

A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with #loneliness.
The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores...

I don’t know how many people who follow me get gel nails done (or do them at home) but please read up on acrylate allergies if you do. It’s an easy, painful allergy to get, especially from home gel kits, and once you do, it can ruin your life. You will not be able to get most dental work, or implants that need to be adhered to bone (like hip/joint replacements). Even surgical glue to close incisions. Plus so much more: acrylates are in so many common products, from utensils to hair gels.

A prunt is a small blob of glass fused to another piece of glass. Prunts are applied primarily as decoration, but also help provide a firm grip in the absence of a handle. Prunts may be impressed into decorative shapes, such as raspberries, blackberries, or lion's heads.- wiki

In this clip — an update on the debt limit — you can hear not only a museum-quality default to both sides mindlessness, but the sound of a news organization, NPR, utterly confounded by its subject, helpless and paralyzed, unable to think, unwilling to try.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071444/biden-holds-high-stakes-debt-ceiling-talks-that-include-gop-leaders

It's so surreal. They're still doing, "When will those squabbling politicians put aside partisanship and compromise for the greater good?" after all this.

Hat tip, @dankennedy_nu

#journalism #uspol

Deer deliver in the strangest of places! If you find a fawn in your yard, leave it alone, do not touch, move or feed it. They have no scent and predators cannot find them unless humans interfere. Mom leaves during the day for 2 primary reasons: to feed, and to keep her scent away. Mom will return, but not until dusk and not if humans are around. If you discover the gift of a fawn enjoy the experience, and let the Mom do what comes naturally. Please share, thank you. #wildlife

Of course CNN is pretending that giving Trump its platform tonight is about journalism.

Come on, folks. Even engaging in this discussion is a waste of time.

It's about money, period.

Yet Big Journalism is, indeed, wasting time and resources it could be devoting to actual journalism.

"Legal analyst Joyce White Vance added, 'It’s a remarkable thing when jurors have to be cautioned that revealing their identities could put them at risk...when the defendant was the former president of the United States.'"

#Trump #crime #criminal #SexualAssault #violence
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" 'This sale is indecent,' Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), said Tuesday."

"Not only did the funds that allowed the purchase of this jewelry come in part from the Ayranisation of Jewish property conducted by Nazi Germany, this sale is also to finance a foundation with the mission to safeguard the name of a former Nazi for posterity."

Jewelry with Nazi links up for auction despite criticism

https://www.rawstory.com/jewelry-with-nazi-links-up-for-auction-despite-criticism/

I have some time to think about it, because *of course* I will finish my current project (a sweater) before I start something new as per page 72 of the knitters code of responsibility and ethics.

Really, WaPo? Really?
E. Jean Carroll dressed to win https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-donald-trump-style/

Holy crap, DOJ has indicted George Santos, too! The wheels of justice grinding away.

Brian Fallon comments on Roy Woods's statements,

"A billionaire named Harlan Crow is flying Clarence Thomas all over the world on unreported trips like an Instagram model taking Clarence to the Maldives and the beaches and all – paid for his mama’s house – a billionaire paid for Clarence Thomas mama’s house. This man bought a Supreme Court justice.”

Fallon: "As that Roy Wood monologue suggests, this is a comedic level of corruption at this point.”

#ClarenceThomas

https://www.alternet.org/comedic-level-of-corruption/

Good morning everyone! It’s nearly 5am, I’m standing at a lonely bus stop and I’m in my way to try and visit every train and Metro station in Montreal in a day.

Follow along here to share in the mirth, and we’ll also see how long a single Mastodon thread can become!

🚇🚉

#Montreal #transit

A jury of their peers, mind you.

Congratulations to AG Garland and his Justice Department team. To those critical of Garland's tenure, this is a strong counterargument.

May Tarrio and his counterparts have a long stay in prison. Imagine losing your freedom for Donald Trump, a guy who wouldn’t stop his limo to help you if you were on fire, much less give a single penny in your legal defense.

Jury convicts Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys on seditious conspiracy charge-
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1172530436/proud-boys-jan-6-sedition-trial-verdict

Biden administration issues new warning about medical credit cards https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050423_medical_credit_cards/biden-administration-issues-new-warning-medical-credit-cards/
The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned Americans about the growing risks of medical credit cards and other loans for medical bills, warning in a new report that high interest rates can deepen patients’ debts and threaten their financial security.
#Tucson #Arizona

Mexicans don't understand why you're celebrating Cinco de Mayo https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050515_cinco_de_mayo/mexicans-dont-understand-why-youre-celebrating-cinco-de-mayo/
South of the border, Cinco de Mayo is no big deal.
#Tucson #Arizona

Good Day!
On the Cliffs by Dame Laura Knight 1917
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)