Pyperkub

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University Sysadmin, UCLA Alum, Science/Space geek, Fantasy/SF Fan, College Sports (especially Bruins!) fan.

Image showing the smoke plumes from the pacific northwest fires and canadian fires.
snip from the article: As it happened, Bishop had spent much of the school year reporting on student journalism controversies. She’d made a short documentary on the censorship-driven collapse of nearby Novato High’s newspaper, covered the forced reassignment of a journalism adviser at Lowell High School in San Francisco, and reported on a Virginia student newsroom that successfully resisted administrative control—and for all that work, Bishop had earned third place in a competition for California Student Journalist of the Year.
2 pins from the bakshi Lord of the Rings promotions Frodo Lives "May the hair on your toes never fall out"
snip from OP article: When San Francisco responded to two cases this year, “we set out to interview all exposed persons and determine if they were immune to measles, and this turned out to be hundreds of individuals,” said Tobolowsky. “And this is not unusual for measles.”
snip from table 7 showing the questionnaire: 1. Before I was 12 years old, I had a bedtime routine (for example, my parents tucked me in, my parents read me a book, I took a bath). 2. At least one of my parents was unpredictable. 3. One of my parents could go from calm to furious (very angry) in an instant. 4. My parents had a stable relationship with each other. 5. In my house, things I needed were often misplaced so that I could not find them.
image of thread: heartbreaking: local cat has never been fed in entire life, says local cat sources close to cat claim cat may have actually been fed between four to six hours ago. these claims are still under investigation Breaking News: cat was fed 20 minutes ago by the last person to walk into the kitchen. Cat claims fake mews. We now have exclusive footage shot by our News at Nine chopper that confirms there's literally still food in the cat's bowl right now.
Cover image of The Economist October 19th, 2024 "The envy of the world- America's economy, a special report"
Image of a brownie bowl and spatula, ready to be licked clean
Cover image of Nghi Vo's Siren Queen
Cover image of the novella from the link
Image of the Daily Star - Day seven: Will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?
Image of the entry that Fahrenheit 451 is on the linked bestseller list.
snip of a tweet saying this is an unverified rumor from an account called @DC_Reporter on xitter.
Old SF with the Embarcadero Freeway
Image of The Midnight Meat Train promo poster
Image of the US Capital on Fire January 6th 2021.
Cartoon with a person sitting at a computer on the left wall, with a bunch of stuff (laundry,wrappers and other clutter) shoved to the upper and lower walls leaving a clean, v-shaped area with a view of a door and picture on the right wall. Caption- "Video chat is a chance for my internet friends to get to know the real me." by @chrishallbeck
Deckard from the original Blade Runner looking at a computer, captioned with a "I'm not a robot" Captcha
Image of a saucepan with a few types of dried chilis and garlic ready to simmer
Image of the top 5 stories at Ars #1 (circled in red) "Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy" 2,3,4 and then #5 (also circled in red and linked to #1): "Sony announces end of PlayStation discs, parts of digital store in the same day"
Paper sign in window which reads: Notice: We will not be open on the 4th of July because we will be closed.
screenshot of a social media exchange: The Flat Earth Society post - "The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe." (globe is circled in red) Response by Physics-Astronomy.com - "Say that again, but slowly"
Snip of lyrics to The Clash - Know your rights! This is a public service announcement... with guitar! [Chorus] Know your rights All three of 'em [Verse 1] Number one You have the right not to be killed Murder is a crime Unless it was done By a Policeman Or an aristocrat
snip from article in OP: Put more crisply, if you’re so worried about left-wing candidates getting nominations, stop sounding like a wuss in the midst of a grave national crisis. This isn’t just good intra-party politics, it’s essential on the substance. It’s critical to win the 2026 midterms. But it’s critical you win majorities with leadership and back benches who understand political power and are ready to wield it to maximum extent possible under the law and Constitution. Not norms and traditions. Everything that isn’t illegal. Full stop.
snip from link: e can confirm that numerous loyalist employees have received at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to nearly $40,000 per agent. We can also confirm you have depleted the FBI reserve accounts for bonus payments at such a frenzied rate that some of the payments have bounced back from exhausted accounts.
Image of Diana Rigg in her leather Avengers outfit
Image of the Defender Arcade Video Game, with the ship carrying a caught human.
Arrested Development Analyst/Therapist card for Tobias Funke, M.D. analrapist
Image from link of 4 corners fire potential on June 27th
snip from link: FIFA treats the rainbow flag as a statement of human rights and will allow fans to wave them inside the Seattle stadium, according to Hana Tadesse, a spokesperson for Seattle FIFA World Cup 2026.
snip from link: Over a week of mostly city driving, the C-HR reported an average of 3.8 miles/kWh (16.4 kWh/100 km), but also only estimated 149 miles of range with 72 percent state of charge in the battery, which might be down to the extremely hot and humid weather in DC but makes it hard to extrapolate out to a number that matches the official EPA range, which is 273 miles (439 km) when fitted with 20-inch wheels. (The 18-inch wheels on the C-HR SE add 14 miles/23 km in range.)
snip from link: Mathew: But we’re young too. Issey’s 18 and I’m 17, so we feel that people can identify with our band really because we’re so young and because we’ve got that sort of youthful impact. It’s interesting when you’re so young but your sound and certainly your image seems rooted in the Mod Revival. How did you first fall in love with the genre? Mathew: It’s interesting because when the band started I wasn’t into it, but it all came from my dad seeing me getting into music and showing me the stuff he liked. The Jam, Small Faces and even stuff like The Kinks, XTC and The Specials. But I’d extend the British music of the 2000s in there too, like The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys. I love all that stuff. Issey: Taste is always hereditary as well, so it’s come from what we’ve heard at home and our dad saw The Jam four times back in the day so he’s a lifelong fan.
snip from link: June 2026 | Released June 05, 2026 +$2.99T Change in gross national debt Jun 03, 2025 to Jun 03, 2026 $290,860 Gross national debt per household Jun 03, 2026 3.386 percent Avg. int. rate on total marketable debt May 2026
Image of US Soccer player Alex Freeman's goal vs Australia on Juneteenth.
A standing room only sports bar with the USA-Australia world cup match on the tvs
Panel one: "Every Sysadmin Ever - I fear no man" with shadow image of interviewee. Panel 2 (same interviewee) "But that thing" Panel 3: Photo of Multifunction Printer Panel 4: (same interviewee) - "it scares me"
1st stanza of lyrics to Oingo Boingo's Insects: Tiny insects in my hair Tiny insects everywhere Tiny insects in my pants Watching insects make romance Insects make me— make me want to dance, dance, dance They make want to dance, dance, dance Those insects make me want to dance!
snip from link with headline- Crews battle massive Boyle Heights warehouse fire and ammonia leak; shelter-in-place order issued and image of the fire
snip from link: 1933 - The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was created within DOL to handle all immigration matters. 1940 - INS moved from DOL to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Attorney General reconstituted the previous Board of Review as the newly-created Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). While the previous Board of Review had authority to make recommendations regarding case appeals, the BIA had authority to decide case appeals. The BIA was and remains an independent adjudicatory body that is responsible solely to the Attorney General in reviewing and deciding immigration case appeals. 5 Fed. Reg. 3,502 (Sept. 4, 1940).
cover of Xmen #143 Xmas at the Mansion with Kitty Pryde being hunted by an 'Alien'.
The Princess Bride - Fezzik and Vizzini on the railing as the princess is in the water with the Shrieking Eels - "Those are the shrieking eels."
snip from link: What about the people who support him, and his team? What about the city whose name is on the front of his uniform, a city that fully backs his team? Is that not important to him and his band of homophobic brothers? What about the gay teammates that he’s almost certainly had? The gay employees of the Giants team who work hard to give him a first-class experience and have his every need catered to? The gay media members who tell his story? Let alone all the straight teammates, employees, fans and broadcasters who have gay best friends, gay children, gay loved ones?
snip from link of Krukow's quote: I think that you have the right as a player to believe and say whatever you want. But you have to take a broader look at the city you’re playing in. What makes San Francisco so great is the acceptance of others — ethnicities, opinions, cultures — and that extends to the gay community. I would just hope they would understand the demographic of San Francisco and respect people for who they are. What you do to your uniform, that has weight to it. You can offend people. And why would you do that?"
Krimnal Sopina (image of upside down pentagram with 6,6,6 in the upper half stamp) Please go to court. You can crack this case wide open, cochise. Thank you, the cops Krimnal Sopina
Spider-Man/MJ Wedding issue cover
snip from link: — Separately on Monday, the NCAA filed its request for an expedited appeal of the Lubbock court ruling that granted Sorsby a temporary injunction. Included in the filing: “Every day this injunction remains in effect, the harm compounds: the NCAA’s governance authority erodes, copycat litigation becomes more likely, and the integrity of every contest in which an ineligible athlete competes is called into question.” Notably, the appeal would be heard by the Texas Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo, where every judge is a Texas Tech graduate.
snip from link: As the scope of the outbreak is still coming into view, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released modeling of how it could unfold. The key finding was that if public health interventions aren’t implemented swiftly and strongly—with contact tracing and case isolation—then the outbreak could rival or exceed the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. That’s the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which totaled over 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths. In one of the CDC modeling’s worst-case scenarios, in which only 20 percent of Ebola cases are isolated, most simulations projected more than 20,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths within just three months.
book image of Annalee Newitz Automatic Noodle
January 6th US Capitol Building on Fire.
Image of Royce Hall at UCLA from Powell Library
Weebles Wobble but they don't fall down ad
snip from link: He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed. The real revolution, John Adams insisted in old age, was not the war. It was the thing that came before the war: a change in the principles, sentiments, and affections of the people, a revolution in the American mind that the fighting only ratified. Wood made studying that change his life’s work. Then he asked the harder question Adams did not: What happens once such ideas are loose in the world, and their authors can no longer call them back? To understand why that was a fighting claim, you have to recall what came before him. When Wood began his work, the reigning interpretation of the Revolution was the one Charles Beard, an early 20th-century historian, had bequeathed two generations earlier. It was a story of interests. Behind the high talk of liberty stood creditors, speculators, and merchants protecting their property. The Constitution was a counterrevolution by the propertied classes, and the soaring language of the Founding was mostly a screen for the cash beneath it. The ideological language was irrelevant window dressing, in this telling.
form the SciAm article: According to NASA’s official timeline, Artemis III could launch as early as the second half of 2027, but many experts expect that schedule to slip. Originally conceived as the first U.S. crewed moon landing since 1972’s Apollo 17, NASA overhauled the mission’s scope earlier this year to make it a test flight in low-Earth orbit. There the four astronauts will seek to rendezvous NASA’s Orion crew capsule with two separate Human Landing System (HLS) vehicles. In future Artemis missions, such HLS spacecraft will ferry crews from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon and back.
snip from link: Walters tapped the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that published Project 2025 and the blueprints that preceded it, to help rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards. The Legislature did not reject the rewrite, so the standards now include roughly 40 points about the Bible, Jesus and Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 presidential election results and the origins of COVID-19. If the new standards survive a legal challenge, they could be in place until they’re up for review again in six years. But while Oklahoma made these shifts, it has consistently ranked near the bottom on national measures of student performance. Scores on eighth grade reading and math in national evaluations are abysmal. Only New Mexico’s proficiency rates rank lower. The high school dropout rate is one of the highest in the country, while spending on education is one of the lowest.
Giles and Ms Calendar from Buffy s1 - I robot... you Jane: Ms. Calendar: Oh, you are a *big* snob. You, you think that knowledge should be kept in these carefully guarded repositories where only a handful of white guys can get at it. Giles: Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better. Ms. Calendar: This isn't a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here. Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well...
Image of the xenomorph from Alien From the perspective of the Xenomorph, '79 Alien is basically Die Hard. He's all alone, everyone is trying to kill him (including a guy with a beard), he's crawling through air vents, it's a Japanese company and for all we know it's Christmas.
Image of the Buffy DVD boxes of seasons 1-7, with season 1 open in front- Into each generation a slayer is born....
snip from link in OP: Western Sydney University acknowledged in response to enquiries that Professor Cath Ellis, a pro vice chancellor in quality and integrity, had used AI to write the article published by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Sunday, drawing on her previous research in the field.
Sign outside the bleachers at Wrigley Field: Cubs vs the artist formerly known as Oakland @ 7:05
Image of the US fires from the airnow link.