Someone's kindness made me cry today.
My son's been attending a kids sewing class at a local fabric store.
The owner saw how much he loves it, and had offered to sell us a machine at a discount for him to use at home, but it was still out of reach for us financially. I told her we'd save up for it for Christmas.
Today she gave us that sewing machine free. She said she wanted him to be able to continue to sew at home.
Enabling his passion is such a priceless gift and I'm incredibly thankful.
BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.
The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of full blown Christian theocracy. Nothing good can come of this.
“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump said during one 2024 fundraiser, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”
“Trump later claimed he relayed a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, telling him that the US would bomb Beijing in response” https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app
Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” in retaliation, according to audio provided to CNN.
“Climate change is turning ordinary weather into these disasters.”
New from Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News: Over 100 are dead in Kerr County, including 28 children. As the world continues to burn fossil fuels, scientists say disasters like this are becoming the new normal. https://www.texasobserver.org/climate-change-kerr-county-flood/
#ClimateChange #KerrCounty #flooding #weather #environment #politics #USpol #Texas #CentralTexas #news
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
I used to get regular notifications that I was to do a survey hosted on SurveyMonkey . I would delete them . Then the company asked why so few were responding to their surveys.
Well if you never announce you are doing them and have a another party with a weird name do them for you what did you expect?
@katemorley Clockify notifications in Pumble by Cake!
I have no idea what's going on there, but it sounds entertaining at least.
Instantly reminded me of Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.
"My small RECTory ABUTs her estate."
Pumble his clock!
@katemorley she pumbles my cake til i clockify
*throws myself out of window*
If someone told me I could get clockify notifications directly in Pumble, even without mentioning CAKE.com, I fear what I might do.
"Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday, and you're not feelin' real well, does anyone ever say to you, 'You can now receive clockify notifications directly in Pumble (by CAKE.com)''?
A Plumbus is an all-purpose home device. Everyone in the Rick and Morty universe has one, so nobody ever explains what it does or how it works. It was first shown in the episode, "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate" where it was seen twice on the Interdimensional TV. First, when Stealy stole one from a workplace and again in an episode of How They Do It that shows the viewers how plumbuses are made. It is described as a common household and office item that is also used as an accent...
@katemorley It's not just productivity software. I saw this headline on hacker news the other day:
> Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
Sounds like absolute nonsense if you're not 100% in the know.
@urlyman @katemorley "Video unavailable
This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
Oh well...
@mrcopilot Brass Eye was a surreal and satirical comedy show in the 90s. They persuaded some prominent celebrities at the time to make public info appeals in all seriousness about a new recreational drug that was sweeping the UK with terrible consequences. But the show has made it all up. The invented drug was called Cake
I love that when I went to cake.com to find out WTF it is, it has the slogan:
"Imagine work being simple"
Yep, keep imagining.
@targetdrone @katemorley a pumble is equivalent to a cockwomble.
Or ought to be, anyway.
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