RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/117336435336009573

@carlton Look at this one. It's the result of a remarkable automation effort🍸🐈

@RedQueenCoder

I saw this story about the fake poll in the LA Mayor's race, and it turns out he did one in Wisconsin too, showing Hong ahead by 20🍸🙀

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/fake-polling-website-median-strategies

I definitely could've gotten this quicker if I had guessed differently! 🍸😹 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/

@gruber have you ever seen this Thomas Eakins painting? I had never even heard of it and it is in Philadelphia🍸😺

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gross_Clinic

#FensterFreitag

Zuck testifies in Los Angeles courtroom🍸😺

Books on the table

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#bookstodon

Use an appropriate sized teddy bear🍸😺

#Bookstodon

Russ Buettner in the acknowledgments to people who helped him on the book "lucky loser: how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success". #TrumpLoser #SQL #BigData

Well I'll be gob smacked🍸🙀 I simply had no idea that this whole deal with the search for the holy Grail, was that it had been brought to England by Joseph, and that King Arthur was a direct descendent of Jesus. No wonder people keep rewriting this madcap story!🍸🙀
#KingArthur

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35304508

From yesterday's Good Trouble demonstration in Belfast Maine 🍸🐈 #USPolitics

I am reading a book. It's a good book. 🍸🐈What book are you reading, and (optional, obviously) what book do you think Donald Trump read?🍸😹 alternatively, tell me what YOU are reading 🍸🐈

A swim in the pond in the rain p 4🍸😺

#USPol large protest in Studio City, California🍸🐈

See also: When you visit a state, know who its representatives are, and don't put the senator in handcuffs when they try to ask you a question. #uspol

From: @smach
https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/114672217208001164

Spending a bit more time than expected at gate 71B. Fortunately, LRB story on Greenland goes on and on. 🍸😹 Did i mention it continues?🍸🙀

It is! 🍸😺

@gruber great story about Gorton, who knew!🍸😺 meanwhile, reading, Tim Severin's book about exploring the Mississippi, it was reading so rapidly, and the reading was so easy, that I had to look at the Colophon & came up with a reference to a Philadelphia type foundry that I'm sure will be of interest to you🍸😺

The results of US president Donald Trump's very successful price reduction policies on eggs… The prices are terrific
🍸😹 but there are no eggs🍸🙀

#inflation #Eggprices

@gruber just wondering why that free app you wrote about that tells me the air quality only works with API keys from a cloud service that requires you to input the serial number of your device🍸😼 No other app I've installed ever asked that. Did you do that? It seems unwise 🍸🐈