https://www.lawdork.com/p/before-marriage-there-was-the-nearly

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tower-china-wind-farm-power/

https://decencyandsense.substack.com/p/lives-fortunes-sacred-honor

People keep asking me to add a Quick Look preview to Marked. I didn't want to embed one in the app because it's such a simplified version of Marked that I never saw the point. But to meet demand, I've submitted Marked QL to the App Store. Uses Apex (so it renders all flavors) and has all of Marked's themes (plus option to use custom style), MathJax, Highlight.js, Mermaid, etc. It's a good stopgap if you don't need all of Marked's flexibility but want some of its power at your fingertips/space bar.

So much winning https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-weather-forecasts-have-seemed-so-inaccurate-lately-2000779436

Stock trades by President.

The blatant corruption is just staggering

"Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally"

@donnydonny for @sludge

#news #uspol #trump #politics

https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/

A few weeks ago at an Australian conference on democracy, environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou delivered a remarkable speech that is well worth 15 mins of your time.

Natalie reflects on the contradictions of modern society — from climate inaction and political disengagement to social media, inequality, corporate power, and environmental collapse.

#NatalieKyriacou #ClimateChange #Democracy #Politics #Environment #SocialMedia #Future #Australia #reclaimingdemocracy

https://youtu.be/CtqIEwP7ZYc

This study is revealing.

Story: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-cletus-thinks-about-democracy

Unintended consequences —
"US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers" https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers
#SCOTUS #FTC #trumpvSlaughter #geopolitics

#BGStats says in June, I got in 21 plays of 13 different #BoardGames

New to me were: Great Western Trail: Argentina (fun but a lot), Kanban EV (fun, perhaps too complex), First Rat (a gamer's Shoots & Ladders, fantastic), Lightning Train (meh), 13 Leaves (a fine filler), Excalibur (reasonable party game)

Also new to me: the Concordia Aegyptus map , and the Power Grid Australia and India maps

I taught: Scout, Innovation, Concordia, and Arboretum

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/katie-phang-is-a-bad-ass?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Are you getting tired of STUNNING JWST images? I'm not. Here's an amazing new one: M82, the not-exploding Cigar Galaxy.

As usual, I don't just have the gorgeous pic, I also explain the science behind it.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-jwst-jaw-dropper-a-galaxy-that-looks-like-it-s-exploding-but-is-actually-doing-the-opposite

NASA's X-59 "frankenjet" tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

NASA’s quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/nasas-x-59-frankenjet-tests-supersonic-flight-without-the-sonic-boom/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Happy 100th Birthday Genius. #MelBrooks

New high end cocktail: The Reflecting Pool.
1- line your glass with a blue fruit roll up.
Then you're going to need:
2 oz rum
4 oz juice that is kinda yellow (pineapple, mango, orange, lemonade, whatever you like)
1 oz blue curacao (you can adjust for color)
Garnish with lime zest
The yellow and blue liquids make a lovely shade of algae and the rum eventually melts the blue fruit roll up, which is, IMHO, the best part.
Enjoy!

Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda.
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/

This is painfully embarrassing. https://www.comicsands.com/mace-trans-mice-meltdown?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/22/trump-supporters-company-pledges-1-million-fix-white-house-lawn-after-ufc-event/

Look! Sealant Team 6 is guarding the Strait of Warm-Ooze. 🤣🤣

#Trump #ReflectingPool #Algae #USpol #USpolitics