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Clearly wildfire smoke entering Canada

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Brandy Jenson writes:

"male cult leader: I have received a new revelation from the lord

me: let me guess. he wants you to have multip—

cult leader: I am to have multiple wives"

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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/25/0

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[1] [2] [3]You idiot! “You’re getting too close to the rocks,” I said. “Turn the boat,” I said. “Turn the boat!” “I’ll do the steering,” you said. “Quit worrying, you said. … You stupid pinhead! [4] [5] Sorry, Bob … Once a year I just have to say that.

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I'm so glad the liquor store was closed when this happened a couple hours ago, between being off my anxiety med and literally getting shot at, I am very anxious.

The part of the city I live in is quite weird. It's kinda suburban and calm, but also very druggy. There's a really old medical university I didn't even know existed until I moved here, the HUD housing I live in, then a motel. About 2 miles away from one of the main downtown districts. Bunch of drugged out homeless people everywhere, someone asks to buy drugs off me every time I walk to the store. Fortunately for the sake of my sobriety, people in this city like meth or occasionally crack, and I fucking hate meth. Downer people here are actually quite rare, so my chances of just coming across a drug I actually have cravings for is low, not including alcohol obviously. Unfortunately, though stimulants make people do more stupid things than downers typically cause, and that's where our story is today. And to be clear, I'm not placing a moral judgement on these people, in fact I am very glad that the villain of our story is just "addict got too high and did stupid shit" and not mecha Hitler.

I called an Uber from work to a gas station a quarter mile away from my house so I could pick up a 2 liter of RC Cola with my tip money from my shift. I start walking home, and I just walk by an empty lot, and I hear two gunshots and see flashes coming from the field. Mind you, this field is like the size of a very small residential lot, this was extremely close to me. I didn't run or panic in the moment, I just turned around and walked away.

On my alternate route to the apartment, some of the homeless people who have befriended me since I've started living in the area started talking to me and walking with me. I look unique, I'm friendly, and I just got out of homelessness. Also, something about the way I look just triggers people's protective instincts.

Anyways, Jay was the name of the main guy I was talking to after all this, homeless meth addict that sleeps in the grocery store parking lot by my house. Sometimes I'll pay him and his friends to help carry my groceries to my apartment's front step. If I'm just walking to the gas station across the street, I'll stop by the Aldi parking lot to say hi and give them some cigs, they're lovely people. Jay is one of those When Jay heard about the guy shooting at me, he gave me context. The guy who shot at me wasn't trying to kill me or rob me or anything like that, the actual story is way dumber. He just likes to shoot at people to scare them when he gets too high. Well apparently seeing me get shot at raged Jay out because "I remind him of his son" (transphobic but kinda sweet?) and Jay did something about it. Probably didn't help that Jay was also high, but wow that was an intense end to my night. Sucks that I can't sleep because I work a late night shift again tomorrow. But between being off my anxiety med and the anxiety of tonight, I don't think I'll be able to sleep

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From Kimsan Thy

Locking eyes with a Great Horned Owlet...a pretty magical moment

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Tuskegee Experiments Leak Published (1972)

Tue Jul 25, 1972

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Image: A white doctor draws blood from one of the Tuskegee test subjects [Wikipedia]


On this day in 1972, whistleblower Peter Buxtun, a social worker and epidemiologist, leaked the story of the Tuskegee Experiments to the Washington Star, leading to a national scandal and the study's quick termination.

The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male", more commonly known as the Tuskegee Experiments, was an unethical study done by United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where black study participants were not told of their syphilitic condition, given toxic treatments, and falsely told they were receiving free healthcare from the federal government. Lasting from 1932 until 1972, all of its participants were poor, rural black men with very limited access to health information.

In November 1966, Buxtun had filed an official protest on ethical grounds with the PHS's "Division of Venereal Diseases" and another protest in November 1968, however his concerns were dismissed both times. In 1968, black statistician and PHS employee William Carter Jenkins also called for an end to the study in his magazine The Drum.

It wasn't until Buxtun leaked the story to the Washington Star that the study became public knowledge and a national scandal. In 1974, as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP on behalf of study participants and their descendants, the U.S. government paid $10 million ($51.8 million in 2019) and agreed to provide free medical treatment to surviving participants and surviving family members infected as a consequence of the study.

The Tuskegee Experiments were not the only syphilis experiments performed by the U.S. government against non-white people - from 1946 to 1948, the U.S. conducted a similar study in Guatemala in which doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects, leading to at least 83 deaths.

The Guatemalan experiments were led by physician John Charles Cutler, who also participated in the late stages of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Cutler never faced criminal charges for his actions.


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Just took a quick peek in this community, mostly just seeing spacex posts lol. Is anyone here into day trading small caps? Or is anyone here a new investor? Just trying to generate conversation. Thank you for your time.

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Title textok goodnight

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I hope you all learnt something today.

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Linus did so well at the vet yesterday! They said he needs to lose some weight but who doesn't?! Not pictured: Polly who was huddled in the corner who also got a clean bill of health but does not like new people, places or things.

Originally posted on my site: https://michaelharley.net/photos/2026/07/25/

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No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures The Pentagon is taking a “shameful approach” to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, Leon Panetta, a former defence secretary and CIA director, has told the Guardian. The defence department has not held a press briefing for two-and-a-half months. Officials have faced accusations that they are engaged in a cover-up designed to hide the true cost of Donald Trump’s war of choic...

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As a large outbreak of cyclospora has ravaged the Midwest, Democrats have frequently pinned blame on the Trump administration for terminating a monitoring program for the parasite. But the surveillance that ended is different from the system used to detect outbreaks.

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From Misty O'Neil Epstein

ssshhh I have a secret

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