US Cyclospora cases mount as CDC lags on tracking - your tax dollars not at work. Thanks DOGE! Good job Trump. Never been a finer time for explosive diarrhea.

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Saw a bunch of fireflies at Cooper Park in Brooklyn last week. Bioluminescence feels like magic.

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For a hot minute, and for the first time in months, I'm at inbox zero, and same for instant messaging. (Procrastinating on some light interview prep is a helluva drug)

I gotta decide if it's worth trying to keep up as a daily discipline or not. Like, I really don't want to think about most of this crap over the weekend, but even a weekend's worth of pileup is the snowball that starts rolling...

We had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan

Worry is but undernourished enthusiasm.

Just finished watching the whole series. Great stuff! A few episodes clanked (in a klutzy sitcom wacky events kind of way) but overall it was lovely, and I loved watching the actors enjoy their characters.

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This video just told me "Tears of the Kingdom" is a bit of a pun - tiers, as in there's a sky-ish realm above and an underground realm below. I'm annoyed I never even thought in those terms before.

Coney Island! At Area 53 in Brooklyn, and then catching some fireworks.

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

LOL. Why are MAGA conservatives like that? 25 Times The Smartest Solution Was Also The Silliest One - some clever hacks (also ones I know are problematic, like "NASA spent millions on a pen for space, Russians used pencil" -- those little graphite bits in zero-G are not good for sensitive systems and air quality!)

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