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3 Realistic Draft Day Trades Dallas Cowboys Could Pull Off https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/3-realistic-draft-day-trades-dallas-cowboys-could-pull-off

An eventful day at the home office so far... just spent the last 20 minutes trying to clean up the mess of pushing bag of besan (chick pea) flour off the top shelf in the pantry, which burst on impact, maximising dispersion on the coffee making stuff & the rest of the pantry. Much blue air was created. But before that had a magical few minutes when a pīwakawaka flew into the house, happily flew around a bit, & happily flew back out again.

Don't forget #Georgia, its run off day! Go #Vote!

Daughter dropped the grand-dog off for his 8 day stay while she's away. But now I'm feeling a touch guilty because we're getting ready to go out to lunch - without him!
#Dogs

A leap forward in the Dutch energy market: as of this month, all connections with a smart meter (>90%) are allocated based on actual use over the day, not just yearly volume. This means that suppliers will feel the need for e.g. new off-peak periods and help consumers with smarter energy use
https://www.

CBC Reporting: “Trump says only deal with Iran would be 'unconditional surrender’”
This sounds way way too close to Gaza rhetoric.
We cannot allow this axis of idiotic evil to wipe another people off the map.
#IranUSIsraelWar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/iran-israel-us-war-day-7-9.7109761

…The Met Gala was just this past Monday wasn’t it? The same day I saw my cousin and her husband in Plymouth, MA. My head is so clouded.

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

Her I was, thinking Putin’s abortive war against #Ukraine might be the trigger to WWIII, but it seems to be not working out lately. And now ol’ Donnie boy is trying to pull off a copycat job at #Iran with the same 2 day, I mean 4-5 week, I mean 3-4 month oops multi-year “plan” that’s blowing up (heh) into an…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Liam Kazar:
🎵 Day Off
#LiamKazar
https://liamkazar.bandcamp.com/track/day-off
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JL5D1WoDl8Q8xUk6ojieW

I was just looking at the watch again and noticed SR621 is listed on the face next to the model number. That is obviously the battery type. Why would they list this, unless you could do something with the information but there is no way to open the back.
Now I wonder if it is possible to carefully prise off the crystal to get to the module and from there the battery. 🤔
I'm not gonna try now but I might attempt it one day when the battery does run out.

Just days after a nationwide public comment period closed on a draft federal offshore drilling plan
—one that drew more than 270,000 responses
—the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opened a new 30-day window.
This time, the agency is inviting oil and gas companies to nominate specific blocks of ocean off Central and Southern California for potential leasing

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer mass of news stories surrounding the two biggest cyber-related stories of the day, OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon, and the cyber activity surrounding the Iran war?
Don't miss today's monster Metacurity that summarizes all the developments in these two arenas and more, including
--OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow,
--Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and …

OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and phone networks, Iranian hacking groups' efforts have been negligible and opportunistic, Internet collapse in Iran has cut off hackers, Gulf ships bombarded with GPS attacks, Starlink has sustained Iran's Handala hackers, much more

In my 40s, I now realize older folks don't want to sound old; the world makes them sound old. "Back in my day..." is a coping mechanism, and I now wholeheartedly embrace it as a self-identifying curmudgeon.
Get off my lawn now.

There's many things bad about Amazon, but at the end of the day it's either me spending two hours of my life plus gas to grab something and then maybe it's out of stock or I can't even get it at all locally or Amazon using an electric delivery van to drop it off at my door often on the same day.

#WhichYear 3/5/26
4402 pts (top 19%)
4.6 avg. years off
1️⃣ ⚪ 1️⃣ 6️⃣ 🎯
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

Patriots' Mike Vrabel addresses stepping away for Day 3 of NFL Draft amid off-field matter

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-vrabel-counseling-off-field-patriots-nfl-dr…

A permanent webcast of #ArtemisII has begun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs and will first cover tanking and run all the way to splashdown (separate webcasts will cover special mission phases like lift-off). Also live updates will be published on the page https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ just set up.

Google sets a 2029 deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, aiming to "secure the quantum era" as "frontiers may be closer than they appear" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.

It’s Monday morning, 6.30 am. Day off today. About to make a mug of coffee.

Writing a client estimate tonight was exhausting. I put it off all day (but also I was in pain all day) but I got it done an hour before the day is over so that's just a huge win for my small business today. 😜

🧺 Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
https://www.

Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.

Last day of #DGfS2026 is being kicked off by @… 🤩 #linguistics

#WhichYear 5/2/26
4233 pts (top 49%)
5.2 avg. years off
1️⃣ 1️⃣ ⚪ 7️⃣ 🎯
https://whichyr.com

My kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)

'One day, they'll say this all used to be fields' - Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/one-day-theyll-say-used-33391918

'One day, they'll say this all used to be fields'
It's rural grassland just off the M60 on the border of Rochdale and Bury, but the Simister Bowlee plans will soon see it change forever

2026 NFL Day 2 mock draft: When do Carson Beck, Garrett Nussmeier come off the board?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-day-2-rounds-2-3/

I read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian

Its been a roller coaster of a day, with a rather big political fight about resouce allocation at work. And it ain’t over yet; I lost today’s skrimish but have to facts on my side and am determined to win in the end. Especially since it turns out many of the descision makers have been misled…
But it’s bloody exhausting, and I wish people would just play with open cards and on a fair playing field off the bat.

You know the classic story of the foolish employer who paid software developers per bug fixed? If you haven’t, you can guess the outcome: program called off when one developer “fixed“ hundreds of bugs in a single day (that they’d intentionally introduced).
This is just like that, except not like it at all: the “fake bugs” — ICE agents abducting random people to make a buck — are the •intended• effect.

Watch Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Draft Live Stream For Day 3 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/watch-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-live-stream-day-3

Last day of $13 tees from my Threadless store (and up to 40% off everything):
#sale

Sri Lanka and Myanmar are rationing fuel.
The Philippines has instituted four-day workweeks to conserve gasoline and electricity.
Bangladesh briefly closed its universities to reserve power for homes and businesses.
Across India, families and restaurants are cooking over wood fires for want of gas.
Airlines are canceling flights.
As painful as the first phase of the energy crisis set off by the war with Iran has been,
what comes next will be worse.
…

Opinion | Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.
Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

#WhichYear 3/4/26
3195 pts
13.8 avg. years off
🎯 4️⃣ 7️⃣ ⚪ ⚪
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/116429883958535292
“Your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians.”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
Fuck you, Alex. I hope someone wipes that smug smile off your face one day, you …

Sonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…

Five teams that topped their Round 1: Steelers shake off draft-day gut punch, Bills cash in after trading back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-draft…

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/openai-chatbot-gpt4o-valentin…

#FollowFriday
@…
https://captain-justice.ca/follow-frid

Follow Friday: 404Media
Back in my day, News programs and magazines actually reported on facts. Get off my lawn.

Why yes, I *did* hop out of bed when my wife’s usual 5:00am alarm went off… even though it is a day off for me (public holiday) but not for her.
Why did I do this when I could have stayed in bed??
Two words… ** 🥌 Olympic CURLING! 🥌 **
🎉🎉🤣🤣🎉🎉

As a teen I fell off the other side if this damn dam... It had pipes sticking out every few feet and I bounced off of every one of 'em on the way down. Amazingly I did not break anything.
By-the-way, this photo shows the downstream side - the concrete apron is used in many films (such as in the film clip - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Official Trailer - below after the photo.)
I drove past just the other day and low and behold there was yet another film crew filming someth…

Dallas Cowboys Day 2 Mock Draft Features Jerry Cooking Again With Trade Up https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-day-2-nfl-mock-draft-jerry-cooking-again-with-trade-up

So, on Day 3 of
Turn Off AutoCorrect On iOS:
So far, so good.
Biggest thing I’ve had to get used to is having actually do my own capitalization.
On the whole, however, I’ve been having to go back and correct a LOT less and obviously not been getting weird, stupid words inserted.

57.4 kWh today, a new record by a massive margin. Exported 12.1 of that because I was generating 10.9 kW at peak while burning closer to 5.
Tomorrow is looking to be a nice day and I'm also gonna be hopping up on the roof to wipe some of the pollen off the array which should buy me a few percent more generation as well, so we'll see how much I end up getting then.

2026 NFL Draft Odds: Back Ty Simpson as 1st-Rounder, Over 4.5 Corners on Day 1 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-draft-odds-first-round-quarterbacks-cornerbacks

It's Boxster roof prep day tomorrow, so I spent a few minutes during lunchtime to mask off the windows and near bits of bodywork.
I'm hoping that having left it in the garage for a few days, the roof has dried sufficiently after the wash.
#boxster #porsche

Turning it off once a day keeps Copilot away.

2026-01-14: The Day the Telnet Died https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/

Some sneak video from the filming of Neuromancer in London. You immediately know what scene this is, if you've read the book: (sorry abt the tictok link - it's not an app I use and I wasn't sure how to get the video off of it - best viewed without sound)
https://www.

I take one of these pictures nearly every day, but having a sleeping dragon by your side can really take the edge off of things when you get a moment to catch your breath.
#dogsofmastodon

"The Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider that it is not accurate to say junior and mid-level engineers are required to get sign off from senior engineers for any AI-assisted changes."
Ich glaube es würde jedem Senior auch enorm viel Spaß machen, den ganzen Tag auf Gebrochenes schauen zu müssen…

Janne Korhonen argues,
“When you hear the warnings beeping and flashing all the time,
it is only a natural reaction to lose focus
- and be paralysed by fear and despair.
That's why airplanes, for example, have toggles that turn the alarms off.
So that the pilots can concentrate better on working the problem.
Pilots and especially astronauts are trained to "work the problem."
Even, perhaps especially, if the situation seems truly hop…

2026-01-14: Il giorno in cui telnet morì
Il 14 gennaio 2026, il traffico #telnet globale osservato dai sensori di GreyNoise è crollato. Una riduzione sostenuta del 59%, diciotto ASN completamente silenziosi e cinque paesi completamente scomparsi dai nostri dati. Sei giorni dopo, la CVE-2026-24061 è scomparsa. La coincidenza è una delle possibili spiegazioni.

Drew Allar looking healthy as he shows off arm strength at Penn State's pro day https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129051/2026/03/18/drew-allar-penn-state-pro-day-nfl-draft/

Thank crunchy it's Friday! Half-day today, but I've a lot to get through before I can clock off. Nearly all of it is content-creation for new courses I'm going to be launching later in the year.
My main challenge is distilling all the ideas into some workable, launch-able courses.

It's all deference at the end of the day but inferring verification in the process of adding something you need ID in a known secure environment that isn't beholden to as shareholder expectations in of itself for seems like it'd come with the least friction, might actually make for a more substantive outcome, you can report back to govts that it's been fulfilled and that they can fuck off now.

The programme is taking Presidents Day off, but there will be a replay to tune into at 8pm ET tonight!

#WhichYear 3/2/26
4015 pts (top 40%)
7.6 avg. years off
3️⃣ 2️⃣ 5️⃣ ⚪ ⚪
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

My neighbor has a dog that barks constantly day and night.
They leave it in their back patio which faces the side of our house.
Day and night I get to hear the high pitch constant barking. Occasionally I sic the county on them who tells them they cannot leave it back there yipping.
They bring it inside for a few days then its back out again as they can't stand it barking either but he is attached to the damn thing.
One should not piss off nerds. Here are the parts …

To finish off a beastly day: this No Kings protester thinks that things are BAAAD
#photo #photography #nokings #protest

Monday Morning: https://eyebeemania.net/2026/03/30/monday-morning.html

Monday Morning
Sigh. But only two days this week and then another week off!

Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.

Currently 46° outside. The snow and ice are finally melting off the driveway enough to get the bike or for a ride. Had it out earlier picking up some candy for my wife for valentine's day and it immediately made me feel better than I have in months.
#motorcycles

Still not feeling great, but figured today would be a great day to finally test out the entirety of the custom FF6 cart I built so long ago. Broke out the Sony PVM-2530, got everything hooked up, and now it's time to beat all of the things down.
The SNES is modded with Voultar's SNESRGB mod, and the video/audio goes out via a SCART connector into the SCART switch (`gscart`), then into the CMPTR adapter, _then_ into the Sony PVM.
I do have two SCART switches, and if you…

I've had a pretty nice day off. Stayed in bed and read until 9 am!!!
To be fair I did go out to Civic with a friend last night to see Luke Heggie, we ate dinner at Verity Lane afterwards. And had dessert! Plus we both had a couple of glasses of wine. Nice.
Newbie bus driver got lost on the way home - he had to circle abound and re-enter Woden temporary interchange because he did it the wrong way which took ages. And then we had to tell him which way to turn. Husband couldn…

Shrinking (TV Series 2023– ) ⭐ 8.1 | Comedy, Drama
33m | TV-MA

Starting off my third day at #IETF125 with the Birds of a Feather (BoF) named:
Coordinating Agent To Agent List of efforts
(CATALIST)
Essentially, this is a session to look at all the various efforts the #IETF has been doing around

Despite the small team size,
Mastodon operates two large, production Mastodon instances:
mastodon.social
Runs on Kubernetes with autoscaling between 9 and 15 nodes (16 cores, 64 GB RAM each). Web frontend scale between 5 and 20 pods, while various Sidekiq worker pools scale between 10 and 40 pods. On average, mastodon.social has 70–80 pods running at any given time. This platform handles up to 300,000 active users per day and approximately 10 million requests per minute.
ma…

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector are actually used in production. To help close that gap, the SIG began collecting stories directly from end users—across industries, architectures, and company sizes. This post kicks off a new series focused specifically on organizations�…

3 prospects Cowboys should consider trading up for on Day 2 at LB, CB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/24/cowboys-draft-dealing-3-prospects-worth-trading-2026-nfl-draft…

#WhichYear 4/22/26
4138 pts (top 29%)
6.2 avg. years off
3️⃣ 4️⃣ 🔟 ⚪ 🎯
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I watched a documentary from PBS about the history of funk last night (We Want the Funk!). It's worth the 1.5 hours if you're interested. Still, it didn't include any music by - or even mention - Curtis Mayfield. Even if he's maybe better understood as a soul/R&B artist, it seems to me funk wouldn't have been the same without him. So naturally, I've dusted off some old albums and have been listening to him all day.
Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up" (19…

Build infrastructure all day.
Build software all evening.
At least it keeps me off the street.

#Wordle 1,716 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 <1% of 228,615 (14)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 10% of 51 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 91/99
Luck 79/99
Went for a walk while it was snowing earlier w/ my sister. Now that I'm back home and not going anywhere, I've got a cup of cocoa and a corn muffin and just got this wordle in 3. Day is off to a good start and I plan on keeping it this way.

The programme is taking Presidents Day off, but there will be a replay to tune into at 8pm ET tonight!

Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

NFL's negotiating period for free agents kicks off today at noon ET https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-negotiating-period-for-free-agents-kicks-off-today-at-noon-et

I had a delightfully relaxed day with a friend today.
We grazed on smoked cheese, prosciutto, and quince paste. And finished off with some Maltesers for dessert. All accompanied with a couple of bottles of Moscato.
We also watched 3 movies:
The Emu War (Brollie)
Shaun of the Dead (ITV)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (hard drive)
#Suburbia

Five thirty am, Thursday. Day off. Wide awake. The foremost task is brewing coffee.

Trump is a boor and a warring maniac bombing a country "back to the stone ages" because why not when you're just trying to keep up with your mentors in Israel and Russia.
But it's not Saturday so I guess no protests in the USA... maybe next month. Because Midterms.
——
"Trump, on Wednesday, commented that Macron's wife Brigitte "treats him extremely badly”.”
"Macron said these comments were inelegant and unworthy and did not merit a response.”
"On strategic matters, the French president said the Trump administration was constantly giving out contrary signals.”
"There’s too much talk" he said, adding "it’s going off in every direction. But we all need stability, calm, a return to peace. It’s not a show."
"If you want to be serious, you can’t say each day the opposite of what you said the day before."
——
#IsraelIranWar #RussiaUkraineWar #USA #TheAmericanFascist #Israel #Genocide #Gaza #France #NATO #Macron

The Raiders' Blueprint for a Perfect Fourth Round https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-blueprint-for-a-perfect-fourth-round

A bombshell claim, stating that FBI Director Kash Patel will be fired within five weeks, surfaced on Saturday.
This comes a day after The Atlantic reported that the 46-year-old was ‘paranoid’ about losing his job
and had a ‘freak out’ episode this month.
The publication further cited sources and current and ex officials to add that Patel is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication.

'Kash Patel has five weeks': Bombshell firing claim follows FBI's chief's ‘freak off’ response
A bombshell claim, stating that FBI Director Kash Patel will be fired within five weeks, surfaced on Saturday

#WhichYear 3/20/26
4354 pts (top 15%)
4.8 avg. years off
⚪ 4️⃣ 2️⃣ 🎯 1️⃣
https://whichyr.com

Day off today. I’ve done some journaling, and now I’m working on post-processing photos from yesterday’s Spring Gathering at Brooklands. The urge to indulge in my mistress keeps interrupting me, though. She’s very demanding. I’m already on my third. I’ve added a photo of her.

2026 NFL free agency winners and losers: Raiders, Titans break the bank; Patrick Mahomes rejoices

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agency-2026-winners-losers-day-1/…

Group in Alley Near Commons During Earth Day Celebration
#photo #photography #groupportrait #ithacacommons

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

Almost 6am on Saturday morning. The first of nine days off. Nothing concrete planned, let’s see what the day brings.

#WhichYear 4/13/26
3872 pts
8.4 avg. years off
🎯 4️⃣ ⚪ 4️⃣ 9️⃣
https://whichyr.com

Maxx Crosby commits to the Raiders following failed trade to the Ravens https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/maxx-crosby-commits-to-the-raiders-following-failed-trade-to-the-ravens

#WhichYear 3/14/26
4397 pts (top 31%)
4.4 avg. years off
2️⃣ 1️⃣ ⚪ 3️⃣ 2️⃣
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

#WhichYear 4/12/26
3627 pts (top 44%)
8.8 avg. years off
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Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.
Republican "Southern Strategy":
Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

It’s Friday, and I’ve got a busy weekend ahead. Working on Saturday, outing on Sunday. Then a day off on Monday!

The Trump administration is quietly pursuing a regulatory change
that would strip federal nutrition assistance from an estimated 6 million low-income Americans
—including nearly two million children
—as it spends billions on an illegal, open-ended war on Iran that has killed more than a thousand people
and plunged the global economy into chaos.
The change sought by the US Department of Agriculture would curb broad-based categorical eligibility in the "Supplem…

While Spending Billions on Iran War, Trump Quietly Moves to Boot Millions More Off Food Aid | Common Dreams
"Americans can't afford their groceries, they can't afford their medicine, they can't afford the cost of living, and yet we're dropping a billion dollars of bombs, it seems, every day in Iran," said one Senate Democrat.