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Rita's sign reads: DIETING IS HARD GIVE UP Now THAT is some brilliant ad copy.

Plumber in Colorado.. "we fix what chat GPT said you should try!"

#CatsOfMastodon Caution sign shows 3 cats with their paws out. Translation: Be careful of cats jumping out (literally: flying out). ネコ飛び出し注意 Neko tobidashi chuui

Former Miss Switzerland reveals she was sexually assaulted by Trump in 1993. EXCLUSIVE: Beatrice Keul says #Trump sexually assaulted her after a 1993 beauty pageant, then warned her not to speak out. https://thepunchup.substack.com/p/trump-allegedly-threatened-beauty/ Keul says Trump first “jumped” on her, kissed her, & tried to lift her dress. “He was grabbing & touching my body everywhere he could,” she claims, adding, “It was violent, it was quick, it was intense. I was screaming for help, & nobody came. It was bad.” @ktdoggett@c.im

Free Bird Energy from A Cat Named Calvin. From this YouTube Channel @catnamedcalvin@www.youtube.com #CatsOfMastodon

The new @realinfowars premieres July 2, 2026 5:00PM PDT @realinfowars@youtube.com I'm excited! I was one of the first 100 YouTube subscribers. I've followed the take over of #infowars from #AlexJones since the beginning. I want to thank @bencollins@mastodon.social & the Onion Staff & their lawyers for all their hard work getting here. We need more laughter in the world. @lolgop@journa.host @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @emptywheel@mastodon.social @nicolesandler@mstdn.social

NEW: #cyclospora tainted lettuce shipped to #Walmart & Sysco, the U.S.’s largest food distributor & still being sent out up until Thursday July 16, 2026 Late on July 17, 2026 #TaylorFarms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states Great reporting by Paris Martineau at #ConsumerReportshttps://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-recalls/taylor-farms-pulls-mexican-lettuce-linked-to-cyclospora-para-a7871344748/ #FoodSafety #FDA

#BloomScrolling Double Delight Hybrid tea rose in Calistoga California on July 4th, 2026

Today, June 30, 2026 Ben Collins, the CEO of @theonion@mastodon.online , posted this on Bsky. "Tim Onion has died." Tim Onion is what Collins called himself when posting about The Onion. @oneunderscore__@mastodon.social I believe this is related to the fact that in 3 days, The Onion will assume control of Alex Jones' INFOWars. So I made a graphic about it. Thank you Ben & #TheOnion writing team. I look forward to laughter & joy coming out of #InfoWars instead of the lies & hate of #AlexJones.

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start Look. I'm a huge space fan. I don't want to root for explosions. But... they do make for cool footage. Since SpaceX is REALLY an AI company now, how long until they think they don't need to launch physical rockets, but just create VIDEO of the launch? https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/spacex-scrubs-starship-launch-after-some-of-its-engines-didnt-start/

The public could've known where the #cyclospora tainted lettuce was sent within 24 hours under a new law. It was supposed to go into effect Jan 20, 2026. But the FDA proposed pushing it to July 2028 & Congress agreed. Had it been operating, the 27 state distribution list & the real names of outlets selling & serving the lettuce would've been in FDA’s hands in a day — in May. Instead we got them in the 3rd week of July, from a corporate website, as abbreviations. https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-posted-its-own-recall-it-went-to-27-states-not-5-and-the-list-includes-bags-sold-in-grocery-stores/

My friend @jimstewartson@toad.social was featured at the start of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. Jim's the man who won the lawsuit against Kash Patel, the Googly-eyed Chud. He's an anti-disinformation activist & does amazing work. Read all about what he has written about Patel & why. I subscribe to his newsletter & attend his Zoom meetings. Subscribe at https://www.mind-war.com/ Jim was also sued by General Flynn, in a blantant case of lawfair.

"All out of missiles Whiskey Pete? Buy some new Trump blimps! They will strike terror into the hearts of Iranians! " Plus Trump gets a taste of the revenue because the blimp maker uses his image! #IranWar

Tommy Smothers: Soap, Soap, Soap, Soap, Soap, Soap, Soap, Soap. Dick Smothers: What are you singing? Tommy: About 8 bars. #Soap #Jokes

#Vegan Cherry Cobbler for #4th0fJuly on 1776 - 1976 plate in Calistoga California recipe: https://www.mydarlingvegan.com/vegan-cherry-cobbler/

You know it's really f-ed up that 50% of Americans can't afford healthcare because the Big Ugly bill took the money to create Miller's paramilitary force to snatch up brown people. I'm listening live to @emptywheel@mastodon.social talk about where the money is going. I didn't know that GEO Group is paid $15,000 a day to cage detainees! Listen live 3ET/415 here youtu.be/xHniLtIO7Bs on the @nicolesandler@mstdn.social show She's also swearing about the #SCOTUS rulings. #Uspol #ICE

#BloomScrolling Bougainvillea, #SanFrancisco 6-28-2026 Usually I up the saturation, but sometimes I overdo it, so this shot is just as it came out of my Samsung 10+

The corps have stopped the #USDA & #FDA from protecting consumers first when it comes to food safety. One of the ways they did it was by suing the agency that announced who shipped tainted food & who distributed it. The system is set up to protect the corps & not the public. We don't have the lobbying power big Ag does. This failure to NAME the stores carrying the products & report the details is dangerous to public health, Here's the #FDA report FROM #TaylorFarmshttps://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/taylor-fresh-foods-recalls-iceberg-lettuce-central-mexico-because-possible-health-risk

#Vegan Cherry Cobbler for #4th0fJuly Made with fresh sweet cherries & canned tart cherries. I bought the fresh cherries on sale for $1.99 a pound & the Oregon Fruit Co canned ones for $7.49 each at Safeway on July 2, 2026. https://www.mydarlingvegan.com/vegan-cherry-cobbler/

Seeing the Patriot Front in DC reminds me of the time the White Nationalist group was confused by the turnstiles at NYC’s World Trade Center PATH station, so I combined their pathetic incompetence with the classic turnstile scene with Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles.

Taylor Farms STILL hasn't given details to the public on where the #cyclospora tainted iceberg lettuce was shipped. "the F.D.A. said on its website that Taylor Farms “has not publicly provided distribution information or a list of customers who received the product that was voluntarily removed from the market.” Why not? "F.D.A. regulations do not require the company to do so, a source of frustration for food safety leaders." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/health/taylor-farms-iceberg-lettuce-recall.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y1A.YZJh.sv7MYlp_PtkO&smid=url-share Gift link. https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/07-26/index.html

I don't really want to react to what nonsense Elon Musk tweeted today about Anne Hathaway (it was based on something she said in 2018), BUT it does give me an chance to post this great clip of her singing Find Somebody to Love, from the 2004 movie Elle Enchanted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8hW7AeoQI I really loved that movie. Great use of music, dance and a clever script.

A beautiful family reunion in the Mission. #SanFrancisco #CyberTruck

In 1975 I didn't want to pay 10 cents for a pay phone call to tell my parenta to pick me up at my school. I discovered that if you put the dime in and dialed the number then when they picked up the phone you said quickly, "Comepickmeupatschool" then hung up, you could get your dime back! It was annoying when my sister picked up because she didn't know the trick & talked to long. Just her answer was too long. "Spocko Residence Michael Burham speaking." as we were trained to do.

Imagine being Nakul Duggal, Exec VP at Qualcomm presenting your new IQ10 chip for robotics at COMPUTEX in Taipei. A robot brings it out on a tray. This robot represents years of development & $100's of millions of dollars in investment. You take the chip & then... Watch until 32 seconds. #AIFail #RobotFailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3y2hyV-YM

#BloomScrolling Calceolaria orange and Coleus. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Botanical Garden on July 21, 2026 Calceolaria comes in many amazing colors. It is also called the pocketbook plant, I can kind of see that, but what I see is Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors saying, "Feed me Seymour!"

Remember the #ToddBlanche audition tape? "I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime and if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that's an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that's an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the DAG, that's an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, 'Thank you very much. I love you, sir.' So I don't I don't have any goals." #uspol

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" [ SUCH AS DECIDING TO NOT VACCINATE THEIR KIDS! ] (Trump was nodding off while Jay was talking) Trump: I think we'll, you know, the expression is, we have really no choice. And nothing bad can happen from what we're doing. Nothing bad can happen. It's possible it doesn't work. I don't think that's much of a possibility, frankly. We'll learn a lot.

Well gee @gilduran@journa.host that was kind of mean. @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online was trying to encourage you to post here more. We know we aren't Bsky, nor do we want to be. I'm a believer of talking to multiple audiences, understanding that they don't all have the same reach, but they play different roles in messages.

I don't care about how Trump insulted the press at the #WHCD. I DO care about how the Trump admin's DOJ really attacks journalists. @emptywheel@mastodon.social talked to @nicolesandler@mstdn.social about the the indictment of Journalist Georgia Fort. She asked "Did Harmeet Dhillon's people give the grand jury fabricated info to get an indictment?" We'll find out soon since the judge just gave Fort's defense team access to the Grand Jury transcript. Full show here: https://www.youtube.com/live/G6xg9hwDNis?si=PjbzdvPAk532S6BH&t=1099 @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @LOLGOP

Trump got the National Guard to patrol the Reflecting Pool with machine guns & a surveillance bot to tell citizen tourists "No loitering" But what he wanted was a bot like Enforcement Droid 209 to use physical force on the invisible radical left vandals in scuba gear weilding box cutters.

#BloomScrolling Mister Lincoln Hybrid tea rose.

If Mitch McConnell is irreversible incapacitated, who are the people propping him up? His wife? His staff? Is that legal? Are Democrats not bringing it up because of Feinstein's time with diminished capacity? Bidens? Is this like the movie Dave, where the staff kept the public from knowing about the President's stroke?

I just read a story on Reddit #LeopardsAteMyFace about a Trump supporter who's deep in the Qanon rabbit hole is frustrated with Trump & pleads to extraterrestrials for them to release intergalactic technology Trump is hiding Specificly the #Medbedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/7MOIcjtG70 I made a video about the AI video Trump posted about Medbeds in Sept 2025 & the 2013 movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon & Jodie Foster, where the elites kept advanced health care for themselves. Medbeds!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social as @jimstewartson@toad.social has written, they use a lot of psychology tools & tricks to win people over. And then, if they get out, or try to get out, they have systems set up to punish them. You can lose your money, your support system & you and your family will be put under attack. Meanwhile the people the Group used to attack aren't waiting with open arms. They were harmed & are angry. They want people that hurt them to pay. @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116909746044495697 I have a relative who doesn't believe in human caused climate change. He now works to block solar being installed in rural states. He says that it's unreliable. He doesn't like that the government subsidizes solar & wind. His views got a fossil company to notice him & hire him to block solar installations. So it's working out great for him, financially. And, since his views are shared by the President of the US, he can point to that too. Since I'm broke environmentalist, he's the winner.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I'm VERY interested in this scam. I remember one of the early Russian phishing schemes. They studied the person they were phishing to determine what they'd most likely open. Who it would come from mattered. The topic was time sensitive, so the target let their guard down. Also, they paid attention to details & didn't make common mistakes like misspelling OR perfect spelling! It worked! They got DNC & RNC emails. The tech wasn't key, it was understanding the target's mind & habits.

Elon's Nazi salute reminded me of the salute used in the Mirror Universe of #StarTrek. I'm sure it doesn't mean anything.

"We really need to talk more about how shitty government services are after Trump accepts bribes. Would Trump have accepted this shitty deal, basically capitulating to Iran, if not for the 400 million dollar flying bribery palace he got from Qatar?" @emptywheel@mastodon.social on @nicolesandler@mstdn.social show, watch live 3ET/12PT or replay at nicolesandler.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMnnRs9u8o #Qatar #uspol #AirforceOne #Iran

Frankly success stories are boring for the news. #RachelMaddow wants people to know pushback works. But peaceful protests & fights that stop lawlessness don't have "legs," they are one minute stories in a world with 30 new atrocities an hour. So I'm glad she shows us that protests, like this one in Mt. Kisco NY, matter. What we do has an impact, things DO change, even if MSM only covers conflict. Here's the whole story, with context, & humor & my 2:56 clip https://youtu.be/LBJtPhTEoj4?si=jJpwGsrVxo1pb7d0 #uspol

Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up By Paris Martineau, Consumer Reports A map of the 27 states impacted by the recall: AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI. #explosivediarrhea #cyclospora

@mattblaze@federate.social I love this story. I use that one simple trick (read the manual) all the time. I also use Google (web, not AI) with the name of the product, the problem and "fixed" or "solved" in my query. I taught this method to a friend, who thought I was a tech genius. I admit I miss helping saving the day, but she loves knowing how to fix her own tech.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I saw a very insightful video about the #MAGA cult #ElonMusk & how the right uses fear & bribes to keep people in, & punish people who leave Wajahat Ali: Ashley, why are the women part of this? Ashley: [people] say with their full chest "Why didn't you leave sooner?" While simultaneously saying these are violent tyrants who are shooting people in the streets. That's exactly why you don't leave, because they make examples out of people. https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/how-elon-musk-and-the-maga-hate-machine

#BloomScrolling Gladiolus in Calistoga California, July 4th, 2026

Trump's crappy scale model arch* has the same energy as the tiny Stonehenge from This Is Spinal Tap. *As seen at the Great American Failed State Fair

For all of the other parasite-linked lettuce listed on the recall page, we don't know where precisely it was sold or served, by who, or under what brand names. That is uh... not good! Every other recall notice I've covered had these basic details available. paris martineau @paris.nyc Consumer Reports #Parasite #cyclospora #ICEbergLettuce#TaylorFarms #FoodRecall #FDA

From paris martineau @paris.nyc Consumer Reports: What we know so far is that the recalled iceberg lettuce was sent to Walmart stores and many major foodservice distributors, including Sysco, in 27 states between June 29 and July 16. The only product names we know are from Walmart: Marketside Bagged Iceberg Salad and Bagged Shredded Iceberg Salad #cyclospora #foodSafety#explosivediarrhea #foodrecall #Lettucehttps://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-recalls/taylor-farms-pulls-mexican-lettuce-linked-to-cyclospora-para-a7871344748/

@gilduran@journa.host I hear ya, we are all doing the best we can. I talk about these issues with @jimstewartson@toad.social every week. @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

@gilduran@journa.host okay, cool cool cool. Just know you are welcome here, with a nice glass of Tranya. @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online