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Some comparisons of presidential libraries & museums I found quite interesting: [image: 1783192475561-5613-resized.jpg]

I'd love to get MrsA the jasmine earrings (July)

Happy Independency Day to all here. On the occasion of your first 250 years, a British thank you: Thanks first for jazz, for Waller, Tatum, Monk, Corea, Jarrett. And so many many more. Fabulous contribution to the world. Thanks for the truly epic trips to the moon, and the joy of watching idiots trying to prove it all simply never happened. Thanks for your spectacular National Parks. Thanks for your faux monarchies, love em or hate em. Their pictures on currency, naming rights, wholesale cashing in by members of the various dynastic families. For wonderful skyscrapers and for New York in particular. And Disneyland of course. For being a world leader in so many things. Comedies, advertising, capitalism, gerrymandering; and yes, gun deaths & school shootings. So we celebrate your first 250 and look forward to more of the American Dream; to the return of Freedom, Justice and the American Way.

I was quite young but remember those early days. ‘The gay cancer’ Karposi’s Sarcoma. Ever read ‘And The Band Played On’? They made it into a TV movie too. I remember Alan Alda playing some NIH bigwig.

"Shit hole county."

I have been tracking this and similar developments/shifts in recovery protocol because of my tendon problems. All the newer protocols for Achilles tendonitis call for relative rest, which means you avoid only specific activities but otherwise stay active. This avoid muscle atrophy and encourages/improves blood flow, helping healing, whereas as total rest does neither of those. The other thing I’m following are the new findings that anti-inflammatories can impede healing. I take a prescription nsaid for knees and joint pain, but I also have a tear in my Achilles tendon, and I have to wonder if it’s slowing down the healing for that. But I’m hesitant to stop the nsaid, the last time I went off it for a week, I could hardly bear it…

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All the crows I know are assholes.

Meanwhile in Portland (west coast), our highs have been in the 60s since the weekend. We may get up to 72 tomorrow.

@wtg said: His entire presidency is a huge branding and money-making exercise. Anyone who thinks he gives a damn about the country is deluding themselves. Exactly.

There are so many logistic, not to mention human rights, problems with this. Oh wait, logistic messes? Human rights violations? Those are right in the Trump administration's wheelhouse.

Guess it's not just happening at Ford. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html

@CHAS said: Somehow that is not comforting. Let’s see if this makes you feel better: Now that human has figured this out, eventually AI will learn it and improve on it.

England 2 DR Congo 1 After the game Harry Kane got the team in a line in front of the stands packed with fans and is leading the team and the fans in a song. Have never seen that. Kane is a superb player and captain of the team.

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