Family friends set up this GoFund me (confirmed by @PressHerald). Chip in a few bucks for his wife and three year-old daughter? gofundme.com/f/justice-and-…
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Tim Spalding 🇺🇦
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Tim Spalding 🇺🇦
@librarythingtim
@LibraryThing founder. Lead @TalpaSearch developer. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic.
Portland, Maine Katılım Mayıs 2007
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Visited the intersection in Biddeford where Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot by ICE yesterday. There was a continual stream of Mainers bringing votives candle and flowers. The asphalt where his body lay, bleeding out, was still distinctly red. God rest his soul, God help his family, the immigrants of Maine and this country.
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@Suzanne08053 Yeah. I found that amazing. She has court police now. A few years ago the individual justices didn’t have that. They’d have just barged right in with guns drawn because some rando with a fake number said someone was waving a gun there.
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@librarythingtim Also, you'd think that in the DC area, the local police would have a cross-referenced list of addresses that have federal security details, and would be able to contact the detail before showing up.
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Threats against the judiciary are threats against this country. Also, I can't believe you can swat a Supreme Court justice's house. Yeah, her detail stopped the cops before they barged in, but good grief. Police need much better protections against such abuse.
Carrie Severino@JCNSeverino
Must Watch: Justice Amy Coney Barrett reveals how escalating threats against the Supreme Court have affected her family, including a recent swatting incident targeting her home. “Maybe I lack imagination, but I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one.”
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Impeach and remove for suggesting US troops should fight “Communists” within America.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Mike Johnson: "You heard the president talk about how he wants to effectively double the funding for national defense. Look, we live in dangerous times. We're fighting communism on our own shores."
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@DrDavidVernon I love Nabokov. You don't feel it declines as it goes?
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One of my favourite books — a literary Garden of Earthly Delights surveying heaven and hell.
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Friends, one of the Holy Spirit’s names is “Vinculum Amoris,” the chain of love, because the Spirit is the love that connects the Father and the Son.
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AI companies promise general intelligence, but are themselves quite limited. Amodei is surely a genius, but he doesn't know anything about economics, so his opinions there aren't worth anything. It's also perfectly clear no one at OpenAI has the marketing and social intelligence of a toad.
Claude@claudeai
There’s hope in hard questions.
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@shirtsthtgohard Yeah, but it would be spelled Hough-Tittesbury.
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@ChristopherHale He keeps doing it because the Pope is like the War Powers Act. Every time you stop and start, it's a new war, and he's against it again.
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Pope Leo XIV has spoken out against this insane war for five straight months.
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*Yeah, I know, relatively few Latin inscriptions in Turkey. Mostly Greek and—where we were, some Lycian. But the topics relate, and anyway I taught him how to read an ancient site. He took Greek in high school.
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We home-schooled our kid for 4 out of 12 years, mostly abroad. (My wife and I can both work anywhere.) He learned Latin while touring ancient sites in Turkey, zoology in New Zealand and Irish history in Ireland. These were wonderful years. I use LLMs to code, so I'm not against them. But I don't think it would have been much help teaching him, and I'm glad he barely touched a screen, let alone interacted with some soulless AI tutor. If there's a single educational technology that's improved young kids' education since the mechanical pencil, I haven't seen it.
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When home-schooling succeeds, it's because parents don't act like and don't treat their children like machines.
Jesse Genet@jessegenet
Great! Now do verified homeschooling parents 🤓
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@xthemasterand Elon Musk did not think you were mean enough.
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God did not let me send a tweet just now. I think he thought it was too mean.
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The Bible should be banned in school classes and libraries. And not just the Bible—anything that mentions God.
They're available on Amazon, so they're not banned!
Am I doing this right, MAGA Twitter?
Stephen King@StephenKing
They banned DIFFERENT SEASONS in Utah. Contains STAND BY ME and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, stories of friendship and courage. Readable by teens, too. What's wrong with these people?
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A three-football-field slash whose perpetrators weren't seen on camera at the time and has healed completely since.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "We drained the beautiful 'Reflecting Pool' today in order to fix the scars and damage that was done by the Vandals two weeks ago. We wanted to wait until after the July 4th Weekend. The slashes were 300 yards long, and the floor of the pool was cut and then pulled upward, with great force, by these thugs. The Parks Department had to empty the water in order to fix the water tight basin. It will be refilled and put back into service soon. These Country hating sleazebags should pay a big price for the damage done. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT"
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🚨BREAKING: The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it.
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If someone posted a picture of themselves from one of these angles, and men made sexual comments, we'd rightly say "People have bodies. Don't be gross and weird."
civilization enjoyer@civ_enjoy
European Athletics have released new photography guidelines. It's a pity our sport our sport is going from celebrating the athletic physique to hiding it.
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Necessity really is the mother of invention in Ukraine. They don't have as many people, but they're not running out of technical talent and metal to build killer robots.
Play this out. Gulf states with money but few people will get much better armies. And while Estonia has twice as many people as Luxembourg, Luxembourg has twice the GDP. Time for NATO to demand they field a gleaming robot army.
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Charlie Kirk called Pope Francis a “corrupt Marxist” and a “heretic.”
CatholicVote@CatholicVote
A new statue of Charlie Kirk will be unveiled on September 10, the first anniversary of his assassination.
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