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Amazon added 2 wish lists to mine. Under "Manage list" I found "Alexa can add items to your list" is the default. And there's "Alexa can add items and read your list".

I keep shopping research(brands, sizes...) there which Alexa could undo so I opted for Alexa to keep it's grubby paws off my lists.
December 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
When I'm trying to save characters in a post, Bluesky's insistence on the Oxford comma can get very annoying.
December 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Wild-born calves Zigi and Lenny are already practising their wrestling moves. Sulwe, the only girl in the pileup, holds her own – never far from the action. They're only here because we rescued their mothers, orphans themselves, many years ago. Meet our grandcalves:
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Lots of misinformation on the web about how a base tan protects you from melanoma.

Based on the fact that his skin is so tanned it looks like old saddle leather and he's never gotten skin cancer, I'm surprised RFK Jr. isn't leading that fight and having the government ban SPF labels.
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
At this rate, by next summer, he's going to take a wrecking ball to the West Wing as well to fit it.

Either that or he'll just build it on the Mall, knocking down the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument to make room for the ballroom.
Watch the east wing morph into a high-rise Trump Hotel
Wait.... Is that ballroom model getting bigger every new meeting?

This one is as big as the White House and the Wing.
December 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The annual dropping of the credit scores is early this year.

I'm not buying anything so my score doesn't really matter but every year, right after Giving Tuesday, my score takes a hit because usage of my credit cards goes up. That's the most cockamamie way of determining solvency I can imagine.
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I have totally abandoned the idea of grammar on social media. In the process of editing for the number of characters, I am guaranteed to hit "send" with clashing tenses or some other idiocy uncaught by casual proofing.
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Fun with Verizon. My router is dying from old age. Options:
They'll send me a new router: $18
Recommend sending new box & everything: $34
I can't install that so service call: $99
I can pick up the router at a Verizon store: $0
Pickup everything also free but, since I can't install them: $99
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Every time something is labeled "MS NOW", I expect to see Gloria Steinem talking about the National Organization for Women.

A terrible example of rebranding.
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I woke up this morning, thought about it for a while and decided it was definitely Sunday. Hours later, despite what the calendar says, I'm not sure that my initial reaction was wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
@bole7y.bsky.social Trying to remember who told me they were I big Stephen Mangan fan. I think it was you. If I'm having a senior moment 😵‍💫, ignore the link. It's a very good interview.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfQj...
James O'Brien meets Stephen Mangan | Full Disclosure
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just heard that more New Yorkers have voted this year than voted in 2024.

It's going to be a landslide for Mamdani.

I ranked him 3rd in the primaries. I think he'll be fine, but if all he accomplishes is to convince Andrew Cuomo once and for all that NY doesn't want him, it was worth my vote.
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What happened with Trumps germ-phobia? He never seems to take any precautions.
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Warped priorities: 17 NYT news stories on the Louvre jewel heist (so far); 3 NYT news stories on 7 MILLION PEOPLE attending No KIngs Day events (including one on late-night comedians and one on Trump's "brown liquid" video.)
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Never thought I'd say this but... Thank you Prince Andrew.

Your sense of entitlement as you pile lie upon lie is helping to keep up the Epstein files in the news. You may be a slimy child molester but, at last, you are contributing something positive to the world.

#Epstein
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Why did Republicans gut health care? To fund tax breaks for billionaires.

Why’d they gut child nutrition benefits? Tax breaks for billionaires.

Why’d they add $30 TRILLION to the debt? Tax breaks for billionaires!!!

They’re fighting for billionaires. We’re fighting for YOU.
Why did Republicans gut health care? To fund tax breaks for billionaires.
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The administration keeps saying the shutdown is occurring because Democrats won't sign the "bipartisan Republican bill".

Republican is one party. Bipartisan is both parties. The bill is either Republican OR bipartisan. It can't be both.

#shutdown
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Happy Birthday, Dame Julie Andrews. I hope your day is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bA...
Victor/Victoria (Julie Andrews) - Le Jazz Hot
YouTube video by Vέκτᾰρ
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
There's a rumor that Hugh Laurie is being consisered for the role of Mr. Sinister in the Marvel universe.

Of course it could be pure rumor, they could consider and decide no, or it could be offered and he could reject the offer.

#House #HughLaurie
@marykir.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My fridge died last night. The building only buys ones that are too wide for the slot mine goes into (🤦) so I got a used one — 10x nicer than my old one but milk *must* go on the deep shelves in the door. There's no room in the body.

I keep thinking how disappointed Wilson would be.
#House
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
time.com/7319963/bruc...
September 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today is a very strange day for Hulu to send out emails about price increases.
September 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM