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While I am peacefully watching tv, police have cordoned off my front yard. Apparently someone was shot in front yard, blood on walkway and yard, but no body. At 8:45 I was outside in back yard and heard single gunshot but hearing gun shots isn’t unusual.

Most Americans make a FRACTION of the whopping $174,000 per year that Speaker Mike Johnson is whining about, and THEY don't have stocks. IN FACT, HE AND REPUBLICANS BLOCK AN INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE ALL THE TIME, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?????

@daveguitarjones Thanks for the giggle

It took me all day, but I finally finished. A pallet I made from an old coffee table.

@clarkmarz @priest_099 Ear worm!

@priest_099 1815 the battle of New Orleans

WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle

@NatalieO55130 @AuntHat_47 @ThrillaRilla369 Personal shoppers are not store employees. They’re independent business people.

@AuntHat_47 @ThrillaRilla369 I just had an altercation with a ‘personal’ shopper yesterday. I politely asked where a product was located. She rolled her eyes, shook her head, hemmed and hawed, so I said, “Never mind, that’s ok, I’ll go find a manager to help me.”

What is the most annoying thing about grocery shopping for you?

@AuntHat_47 @ThrillaRilla369 Sometimes my daughter arranges for my grocery shopping to be done and delivered, because physically I can’t. It’s not laziness. It’s a needed service.

@ThrillaRilla369 The workers who are doing the shopping for those too lazy to do their own.

@Demeter_Erinia Using road atlas, I’ve driven cross USA several times and never got lost. Road construction caused some manageable route changes.

Serious question… How did people get to places before GPS??

@Hania16836 I gave chalk to neighbor kids, who had fun drawing on their and my front walks. Spring rains have cleared chalk drawings already.

@NasheCeezet_zw While training an intern, her first job, I taught skills needed, being kind and patient. Couple of decades later, I was helping grandson’s Head Start teacher. A woman entered with her grandchild and immediately came to hug me. She was my former intern. Kindness is remembered.

My boss publicly humiliated an intern today. In front of the whole team. "Do you even know what you're doing?" "This is basic stuff." The kid looked like he was about to cry. Nobody defended him, not even me. Then the CEO walked in and saw the silence and the intern shaking. And asked one question: "Who deleted the client database?"

You have less holidays than a medieval peasant.

@japan_nobunaga 1950s USA in one-room country school, 1-8 grades, we students did the daily janitorial tasks.

In Japan, children clean their own schools. Every day. After lunch. About twenty minutes. Classrooms. Hallways. Toilets. Not because the schools are too poor to hire someone. Because in 1947, this country decided that cleaning your own space is part of becoming a person. The cleaning rag is on the school supply list. Right next to the pencils. Egypt teaches it now. So does Indonesia. So does Mongolia. Think about the last time you watched a seven-year-old mop a floor without complaining. Japan does that in every elementary school in the country. Not as punishment. As education.

@konstructivizm Dragon crèche

Imagine a silence so profound it swallows entire galaxies. There exists a void in space so incomprehensibly vast that a traveler moving at the speed of light — the fastest anything can go — would plunge through unbroken, starless darkness for 752,536,988 years before encountering even a single speck of matter.This is the Boötes Void (also known as the Great Nothing), one of the most staggering empty regions ever mapped in our observable universe. Spanning roughly 330 million light-years across, it contains almost nothing — just a lonely handful of galaxies where thousands should exist. It is a cosmic abyss so empty it defies our intuition about what “space” even means.Using deep-sky maps from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other powerful observatories, astronomers have revealed these enormous voids as dark, yawning gaps between the glowing filaments of galaxies that form the large-scale structure of the cosmos. In the early universe, gravity acted like a sculptor, pulling matter into vast cosmic webs and threads, leaving behind these immense, hollow pockets — nature’s ultimate voids.Even more strangely, galaxies seem to crowd nervously along the edges of these empty zones, as if shunning the desolation at their cores. The universe, it turns out, is not a uniformly filled expanse. It resembles a delicate cosmic spiderweb: shimmering strands of galaxies and clusters connected by thin filaments, with cavernous voids making up the majority of its volume.In a cosmos teeming with billions of galaxies, these voids stand as humbling reminders that much of existence is defined not by presence, but by absence. They challenge everything we think we know about “empty” and “full,” whispering of a universe far stranger, far lonelier, and far more mysterious than we ever dared imagine.A quiet kind of infinity — not shouting, simply being.

@Chicago_History Never mess with success

The Bulls logo is the only primary logo in NBA history that has remained completely unchanged since its inception in 1966, Sixty years ago. But as far as I can tell nobody has ever noticed if you flip it on its side, the semicircle above it's nose and the forehead lines spell out "CHI." #ChicagoHistory 🏀

You're being robbed.

Let this sink in. 🤔

I’m going to post this video every single day between now and the midterms.

@archeohistories @Dr_TheHistories A favorite photo

Inner Mongolian Child - the little 'Mongolian Girl' has a laugh with her Camel ..... The Bactrian or two-humped camel permits the Mongols to transport heavy loads through the desert and other inhospitable terrain. The camel is invaluable not only for transporting the folded gers and other household furnishings when the Mongols move to new pastureland, but also to carry goods designed for trade. A camel could endure the heat of the Gobi desert, could drink enormous quantities of water and then continue for days without liquid, required less pasture than other pack animals, and could extract food from the scruffiest shrubs or blades of grass — all ideal qualities for the daunting desert terrain of southern Mongolia. In addition to the camel's importance for transport, the Mongols valued the animal's wool, drank its milk (which can also be made into cheese), and ate its meat. No wonder then that "in the Mongol epoch the camel enjoyed the highest esteem he was attain in the Chinese lands" [in "The Camel in China Down to the Mongol Invasion" by Edward Schafer, Sinologica, 2 (1950), p. 190]. 📷 : The little Mongolian girl's name is Butedmaa and she was just 5, when this picture was taken in 2003 by photographer Han Chengli, who titled it "Inner Mongolian Child. #archaeohistories

While watching tv program on Vietnam war, I noticed decor of 1960s USA presidents’ office is minimal compared to current USA president’s over abundance.

They thought she was just another dumb blonde. She had an IQ higher than Einstein's—and used it to outsmart a Senate witch hunt. Judy Holliday made millions laugh playing dizzy, bird-brained characters who could barely string a sentence together. Her signature role—Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday"—was a platinum blonde chorus girl who seemed to know nothing about anything. Audiences ate it up. Critics called her performance "genius." But most assumed the act came naturally. It didn't. Behind the breathy voice and wide-eyed confusion was one of Hollywood's sharpest minds. Holliday was a voracious reader, political activist, and intellectual who could dissect complex issues with surgical precision. She once said: "You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over and keep the audience's attention." She proved it when the government came calling. In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade was destroying careers across Hollywood. Judy Holliday's name appeared in "Red Channels"—a blacklist of alleged Communist sympathizers. Two years later, she was summoned before a Senate subcommittee, facing questions that had already ruined dozens of actors, writers, and directors. Many who testified either named colleagues to save themselves or saw their careers obliterated. The stakes couldn't have been higher. Holliday walked into that hearing room and did something brilliant: she became Billie Dawn. She played dumb—spectacularly. She giggled at questions. She pretended not to understand legal terminology. She gave rambling, circular answers that went nowhere. Senators grew frustrated, then exhausted. But beneath the performance, she never slipped. She never gave them what they wanted. She never named a single name. After three months, the investigation concluded with no evidence of Communist Party membership. Holliday walked away with her integrity intact—and her career survived. Later, she wrote to a friend: "Maybe you're ashamed of me, because I played Billie Dawn. But I'm not ashamed of myself, because I didn't name names. That much I preserved." In 1951, she had beaten Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, and Anne Baxter to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. But her greatest performance wasn't on screen—it was in a Senate hearing room, where she proved that sometimes the smartest move is letting people underestimate you. The world saw a dumb blonde. Judy Holliday saw an opportunity—and turned perception into protection. That's not just smart. That's genius.