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I was given new shorts as a gift. And they still had the security tag. This seems to happen to me too often. They are easy enough to break off but this one had the dye capsules. The trick is to not pry against the tag. Slip the crowbar in between the two halves of the tag and use a screwdriver to pry the back off against the metal bar.

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Gift article from WaPo.
At the #capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents
Owners of Florida’s Capybara Café say they are surprised by its popularity, hosting about 100 customers per day.
By Kyle Melnick
https://

At the capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents
Owners of Florida’s Capybara Café say they are surprised by its popularity, hosting about 100 customers per day.

@… Yeah, ordered it months ago, it was a gift from my partner. 😊
I’m planning on mostly playing Switch 1 games. Part of the reason I didn’t get the first one is that for the first couple of years, it was lacking in games, and after that, it felt like a lot of money for such an underpowered device.
Not enjoying the game prices though.

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

The New MAGA World Order
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanchait, “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
(No paywall)

Trump’s Immoral World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
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https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

Some thoughts on bluesky, gift article on WaPo. #Fediverse happily sails under the radar here. Slow and steady wins the race, is what I'm thinking. Seems Megan McArdle thinks staying on X is a viable strategy.
https://wapo.st/4mXOdBb

when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?

A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings

The mighty hunter brings a gift

The New MAGA World Order
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanchait, “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
(No paywall)

Trump’s Immoral World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

> And in the gift shop, because the whole exhibit was about inequality, they made two t-shirts and two types of a micro brew specially made for the exhibit. [...] So you could get the king's beer or the commoner's beer. And then you could get a t-shirt with the king's beer label on it or the commoner's beer label on it. And I talked with the gift shop people and they said, “Yeah, and everybody buys the king's beer and the commoner's shirt.”

This, too, can be done. (One third of the maple syrup is totally fine, and far less oil is needed than specified.) And extremely bone-healthy! #nommention
https:…

Lemon-Miso Tofu With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Inspired by Cantonese-style lemon chicken, this vegetarian version features crispy tofu and broccoli coated in a citrusy sweet and savory sauce. This lemon sauce is neither overly sweet nor tart, but has a soft umami hum thanks to the addition of miso paste. The simple technique of dusting the tofu with cornstarch before pan-frying delivers crispy tofu that is light yet robust enough to carry the sauce. (The tofu and broccoli can also be cooked in an air-fryer with comparable results; see Tip f…

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
A historical guide to surviving and thriving in the court of Trump
https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/06/06/a-historical-guide-to-surviving-and-thriving-in-the-court-of-trump?giftId=a04100b1-948e-42b1-9c50-660430689d86&utm_campaign=gifted_article

The Silence of the Generals -- As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg ... (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/silence-generals/683106/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweC9SKhWuL8c7oypTub1ifvo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p157#a250610p157

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones’: Billionaire’s donation to SFPD accepted
San Francisco police commission accepts tech billionaire's gift, to provide cops with drones, cameras and a massive new office

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

🧪Explore this gift article from The New York Times.
You can read it for free without a subscription.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-ni…

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Hunan Chicken (mit Gojuchang statt red pepper chilis), a feast of the hot and sour. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Hunan Chicken Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The cuisine of the Hunan province is one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines, but what sets it apart from the others is its use of bold hot and sour flavors. Chiles, vinegar and fermented black beans are staples in Hunan cuisine, and this recipe uses all three. Hunan chicken originated in China and made its way to the United States in the 1970s, where the flavor profile was adapted to please the American palate. Here, bite-size pieces of chicken are marinated in soy sauce, making them ten…

Calamus 30 A promise and gift to California
Well they can't all be winners. A tedious poem of Western fantasy. Appropriately aspirational for 1860 but not a particularly interesting nor unique sentiment. Also an unkept promise: Whitman never reached the west coast.
Looking for my gay reading, all I have is this:
I and robust love belong among you
I do like Whitman's lustiness, in this case his "robust love". We know a thing or two about that in California.

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

a great idea for #graduation gifts!
🎓 🎓 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 🎓 🎓
with @…

Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown gives his mother epic, heartwarming gift https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-gives-his-mother-epic-heartwarming-gift

“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”
👊🇺🇸🔥
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/20…

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweH25hY2p_rsKIBWUs1l7ZV4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p59#a250608p59

Trump officially violates Emoluments clause by taking a bribe… again.
https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-WZ2HYSHPR3WMNXB1Zz2RYw:a:3195441-/0

Trump administration officially accepts jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One
The United States has officially accepted a Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner as a gift from the Qatari government, and the Air Force has been tasked with upgrading it to be used as a new plane for President Trump, according to an Air Force spokesperson. The spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of …

Simple yet effective #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025664-chilled-tofu-with-g…

Chilled Tofu With Gochujang Sauce Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This silken tofu, draped in a tangy, savory, chile-sweet gochujang sauce, is a warm weather epiphany: No cooking whatsoever. The sauce is essentially a chojang, a portmanteau of the Korean words for vinegar, cho, and for gochujang, the fiery fermented red chile paste, one of South Korea’s most delicious exports. Often served alongside salted boiled broccoli with sesame, this sauce is also excellent with tofu or on cold, crisp lettuce or hydrating cucumber and pepper. Make a double batch of th…

💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
#

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

No way - this was such a sweet surprise! @… sent me an unexpected gift: a framed version of the original work he did that ended up as the cover of my recent album on @… Records, ‘Regenesis’. :-)
Lovely things still happen.

🥍 They Invented the Game. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the Olympics?. Gift Article https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/magazine/lacrosse-olympics-indigenous-haudenosaunee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.2VLS.AGKeuuhuUKeS&smid=tw-share

Ahaha, nach meinem "Dude 1 & Dude 2"-Rant hatte ich gar nicht auf LinkedIn geschaut und deswegen ist mir die Dudeception der fragilen Männlichkeit dort gar nicht aufgefallen.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:733231169199…

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy
iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-musk-breakup-feud/683065/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyTTQDPq9pZ3wuJhd4MQSKRQ
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p157#a250606p157

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”
👊🇺🇸🔥
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/20…

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Unconstitutional Conservatives -- Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law ... (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-unconstitutional-conservative-republican/682987/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZBUToihj1vqMp3WylhCDR8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p39#a250531p39

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Dear Joe,
Happy april fools. By the way, I got you a matterbaby as a gift.
Best,

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

DISCLAIMER: Ich brauche weiterhin niemanden, der mich über das deutsche Atomprojekt aufklärt, liebe Dudes im Internet. Versucht euch einmal zurückzuhalten, ja? Danke!
Meine Antwort zur deutschen Atombombe & die Reaktionen darauf oder "The Gift That Keeps on Giving".
1/5

I got annoyed waiting for the parts to fix my Elna so I bid on and won this Featherweight that I will give as a gift. Needs a clean and a new pedal/cord but otherwise excellent. #sewing #sewingmachines

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
N.A.S.A. feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift of Gab & Z‐Trip:
🎵 The People Tree
#NASA #DavidByrne #Chali2na #GiftofGab #ZTrip

Shut up and play yer banjo!
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/dear-james-banjo-work-life-balance/…

Dear James: I Miss Playing the Banjo
But I also have to make a living. Is there a way to balance both?

Shut up and play yer banjo!
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/dear-james-banjo-work-life-balance/…

Dear James: I Miss Playing the Banjo
But I also have to make a living. Is there a way to balance both?