May 2025

06-May-2025 – Trump Slammed ‘Radical Left’ For Jailing Election Official — Here’s What The Republican DA Who Prosecuted Her Had to Say

Brief Summary: “Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP
President Donald Trump dropped a wild screed”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It feels like maybe there are starting to be cracks int he lunatic party.”

06-May-2025 – Bird Populations Are Declining Across North America

Brief Summary: ”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climat”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I don’t know about others but it probably doesn’t help that, for example, we have not been putting out bird seed, because of the bird flu problem. Not saying I am the cause, but there may be others doing the same.”

06-May-2025 – Cisgender woman says her gender was questioned in a Boston hotel restroom

Brief Summary: “A cisgender woman says her gender was questioned by a security guard in a hotel restroom in Boston o”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Another example of why this witch hunt is terrible for everyone.”

06-May-2025 – Trump Removes Protections From Marine Protected Areas — A Problem for Fish, Whales, Corals and Other Ocean Life

Brief Summary: ”
The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than”

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06-May-2025 – LEGO Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360) Officially Announced

Brief Summary: ”
A new LEGO Icons set has been revealed with the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360). Releasing on May “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s pretty neat. These NASA sets often are.”

06-May-2025 – Lady Gaga brings together more than two million people in Copacabana

Brief Summary: “The already historic concert of Lady Gagabaptized as “Mayhem on the beach”has been the first show of”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I can’t even beging to imagine the logistics behind 2 million people gathering together all at once.”

06-May-2025 – How Trump and Republicans Are Plotting the New American Sweatshops

Brief Summary: ”

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06-May-2025 – Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here’s everything Trump has done so far

Brief Summary: “Project 2025 is underway Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had “nothing to do” with”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Project 2025 is the true enemy behind the Trump charade.”

05-May-2025 – Masculinity Win! An Influencer Said I Wasn’t a Real Man, so I Started Doing Everything He Said

Brief Summary: “Throughout my life, I had always felt completely secure in my masculinity. Then, the unthinkable hap”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “This is so stupid funny (yes it’s a parody).”

05-May-2025 – Jill Sobule, singer from ‘I Kissed A Girl’ dies in a fire,

Brief Summary: “Jill Sobule, American singer and composer known for her success of 1995 ‘I Kissed A Girl’, has died “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “The better song of the title I Kissed a Girl”

04-May-2025 – Train With Morse Master

Brief Summary: “Morse code can be daunting to learn when you’re new to the game, particularly if you need it to pass”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “One day, I will learn morse code and get a HAM license. I know knowing Morse isn’t required anymore, but I still want to learn.”

03-May-2025 – LLM Ported To The C64, Kinda

Brief Summary: ““If there’s one thing the Commodore 64 is missing, it’s a large language model,” is a phrase nobody “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “‘Kinda'”

02-May-2025 – Non-Disaster Recovery

Brief Summary: “Every now and again I like to reset my Windows install to factory freshness. I do it often enough th”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “ToDo Maybe”

02-May-2025 – Reject Content Mills

Brief Summary: ”

Good Morning Folks. Yesterday the news broke that Polygon, a gaming website that I actually rea”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “These have always been a problem but they kind of used to just straight steal people’s blog posts directly and now they steal them by remixing them with LLMs.”

01-May-2025 – Wolf Alice have announced their new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, arriving later this month

Brief Summary: “Wolf Alice are set to release their new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ on 15th May.

The band shared de”

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28-Apr-2025 – Medicaid Cuts Will Raise Costs for Millions of Women

Brief Summary: “Over 70 million people, including 13 million women of reproductive age, are enrolled in Medicaid—Ame”

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28-Apr-2025 – Lab Gives Residents “The Avatar Welcome Pack”

Brief Summary: ” On Thursday April 24, Linden Lab announced they had given all residents a package of items, “The Av”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s actually pretty good. Senra was… iffy, but this is actual real “brand name” bodies and clothes.”

28-Apr-2025 – Guess Trump Is Arresting Judges Now

Brief Summary: “”Where law ends tyranny begins” by c_nilsen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.If you took a news bre”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “One more step towards a true tyranical government.”

28-Apr-2025 – There’s no evidence to suggest this is a widespread problem — but that won’t stop the GOP

Brief Summary: “Everyone’s talking about noncitizen voting as if it’s a big thing. Some prominent public officials w”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “See also basically every single major “problem” talking point the GOP uses to distract the Idiot Cult from real issues.”

27-Apr-2025 – Leaked memo shows Trump admin ordered ICE to conduct warrantless home invasions

Brief Summary: “The U.S. Department of Justice dubiously invoked a centuries-old law in directing immigration agents”

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