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Florence the Machine:
🎵 Cosmic Love
#Florence theMachine
https://damehooks.bandcamp.com/track/florence-the-machine-cosmic-love-future-drill-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1myEOhXztRxUVfaAEQiKkU

In the state department of past administrations,
how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings.
Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.
Now they tweet from the hip.
“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational…

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

Working with an #acting #coaching client on different elements of their vocal production technique and character inner life, and wonderful seeing and hearing them use an increased awareness of how they're producing speech to do new things.

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Chicks On Speed:
🎵 Wordy Rappinghood
#NowPlaying #ChicksOnSpeed
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OHG25qtSq9E6EIT03NNCb

So glad to see Trump's constant push for destroying the planet comes back to bite him on his "special day"
US gripped by extreme heatwave, disrupting 250th anniversary and World Cup celebrations
Edit: un-paywalled version, thanks to those posting it in answers:

US gripped by extreme heatwave, disrupting 250th anniversary and World Cup celebrations
Temperatures neared 40°C (104°F) in New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, on Thursday and Friday, causing widespread power outages and prompting organizers to delay the start of Independence Day celebrations.

Dear American Cousins. Happy July 4th:
"On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Mr. Trump has personally pulled in at least US$2.2-billion since his return to office, more than half of which came from his family’s cryptocurrency business, which he has promoted and facilitated as President. The scale of personal enrichment that has taken place is mind-boggling, the level of audacity inconceivable."

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Epistemic Pluralism & #Astrobiology: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-025-09760-6 -> Many Ways to Know About Life in the Universe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-198-many-ways-to-know-about-life-in-the-universe/id1246395860?i=1000764110564 (podcast). The Catastrophic Consequences of Agnosticism for Life Searches and a Possible Workaround: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02969 (somehow related).

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://sakr.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-mortal-orchestra-cant-keep-checking-my-phone-sakr-ding-dub-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IGidq5qjagmNmwFsmNeIn