September 11, 2026
1. I’m doing a big fundraiser push for Lakota groceries. We’ve got a contact in Red Shirt, one of the more remote and poorest areas on the reservation, willing to organize within the community if I can get bulk supplies to him.
The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests. Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras
Ok, WTAF??? Why is this possible??? How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner. Enrico Pucci was able to control his former partner’s electric car remotely, controlling its speed, temperature settings and lock
A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world’s ocean currents.
September 4, 2026
1. After a rare household failure to eat all the bananas before they ripened, I baked this banana bread in the kids’ fun shapes silicon molds.
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August 28, 2026
1. Yes, we don’t love Amazon but if we must have it (as we do for charitable giving and direct aid): Magic & Mystery original series!
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August 21, 2026
1. I cooked dinner three times this week! I haven’t been able to do that in years.
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August 14, 2026
I learned how to use the library 3-D printer and successfully printed 2 train track parts! That was very satisfying, after several false starts. I even got to change out the cartridge to use the yellow filament that the kids requested for this first test run.
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August 7, 2026
1. I’m a UBI girl and this kind of community-care income club is a really neat idea in the absence of a government-wide set up.
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July 31, 2026
When I was chastising myself for getting out of practice with parallel parking, it didn’t occur to me there’d be a Guinness Book of World Records record for parallel parking.
Best buddies 😍
This is cool: Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
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