A tiny TikTok creator company with no revenue and ties to China plans to buy $300million in Trump’s memecoin The firm, which employs eight people to create videos for TikTok, earned no revenue last year — yet somehow found a way to purchase as much as $300 million of $TRUMP. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiktok-china-trump-memecoin-gd-culture-group-b2750838.html

I really enjoyed the video, cheers

My maternal great-grandfather died of black lung. This was before I was born, so I only knew his wife, my maternal great grandmother. I (foolishly) didn’t realize black lung was still occurring.

I'll donate a hundred copies of this [image: 1747116041035-screenshot_20250512-231640_duckduckgo-2.jpg]

Salt and Straw is local to me. Some of their flavors are way out there! I had a Thanksgiving stuffing and gravy ice cream from them. Weird, but pretty good.

I do like a good biscuit and particularly one served with sausage gravy. I wouldn't have supposed that it would be so hard to recreate what I think of as a simple food from ingredients available in Ireland. I do admire a lot of what Rhiannon Giddens has accomplished in her varied musican/historian endeavors. Big Al

Wow. it's very bittersweet to read that. What a gift he has given his students, and the world. Also it reminds me about how many great physicians and researchers there are in this country .... they need to keep their funding........

The wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge are at least two weeks ahead of where they were last year. I went to the same place, and there was just a couple patches of bloomed out balsamroot left, unlike last year. [image: 1747007176709-img_1437.jpeg] [image: 1747007205837-img_1439.jpeg] Bitterroot is always pretty, too.

@AndyD said in He’s gone off the deep end: Is he at all serious? That's going to cost a bob or two I think this is part of his new reality show called The Potemkin Presidency. But he's still directing people to look at it, which is a waste of time and resources.

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

I watched the movie "Watch the Skies." In English, presumably lip synced with this AI technology. Even forgetting about the AI stuff, it's actually a very good movie on its own right. It's not one that emphasizes great cinematography, so you don't necessarily need to watch it on a big screen. But it tells a good story with a lot of heart. So I highly recommend it.

Joe, thanks. I expect the recommendations will be very specific. I remember something about a paste from a video. I compartmentalize tasks like this and just haven't found the right time to figure it out yet. I bought an adult tricycle. It's 24", 1 speed, and folds in half. It has a basket in the back of course and I plan to use it to get exercise, go the mailboxes, haul garbage to the dumpsters, and I've decided I'll ride on the sidewalks to my nearest CVS and Publix a little more than a mile away when I get lights and reflectors to make it safe. It's not assembled yet. I made a deal with housemate to assemble it. The bike shops balked at doing it and offered me prices of $240 and $250. I couldn't pay that. That would be ridiculous. I haven't had a bike in forever. I'm looking forward to it.

@Mik said in The future as imagined in the 1950s: Fallingwater writ large. No kidding! This came up in my feed this morning. From a house on the French Riviera that Sean Connery owned back in the 1970s: [image: im-12141289?width=784&size=1.3333333333333333&pixel_ratio=1.5] https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/sean-connerys-bond-villa-on-the-french-riviera-hits-the-market-for-23-5-million-4ba02d7a?mod=article_inline