✪ “I’m reading the scriptwriters' guide for [Star Trek] TOS and it’s cracking me up in many places. It’s so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.” tumblr.com

✪ “Sanitation and custodial workers deserve far more money and respect than they generally get.” tumblr.com

✪ “Things you will see on a road trip across america…. if anyone ever wonders why i love america so much despite its many political and cultural flaws, this is why. this post explains it perfectly.” tumblr.com

✪ The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much. theregister.com. A facial database of millions of citizens is a terrible weapon for an autocratic regime, which is what the U.S. is now for many people and fast on its way to becoming for everyone.

✪ Slave camps used to run online scams are tied up in the Cambodia-Thailand border conflict. “… the scam center industry in Cambodia is estimated to generate over $12.5 billion annually – in other words, around half the country’s GDP,” says Angela Suriyasenee, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) think tank. theregister.com

✪ Not the Onion: ICE arrested a carpenter named Jesus. Jesus Teran is here in this country legally, and he was arrested after checking in for an ICE appointment. “‘He’s been faithfully appearing at ICE appointments for more than four years, he was following the protocols of ICE, he was complying with everything he’s supposed to do. All of a sudden, he’s detained,’ said the Rev. Jay Donahue, senior parochial vicar at St. Oscar Romero Parish.” jwz.org

✪ Atomic Keyboard is doing a Kickstarter to replicate the Macrodata Refinement Keyboard from Severance. “For Work That’s Mysterious and Important.” kickstarter.com. Via jwz.org.

✪ “if i had a william dollars, i would make a game where you play a courier in a pre-industrial setting, carrying parcels to various places on a route. and the game would start with your first day on the job, getting your map and your camping supplies and your first day’s advance pay, and then your boss goes okay let’s get you your mule. and you go to the stables and you meet your mule. and it’s like, okay, standard video game mount, you know how this works. you press a to pet the mule. the mule does not allow you to pet it. the mule attempts to bite you.” tumblr.com

✪ American Nazification: ICE put a double-amputee in solitary confinement after he refused to get into his cell because it had an inch of water and he couldn’t get his prosthetic legs wet. Rodney Taylor, born in Liberia, is in the U.S. legally. theguardian.com

✪ Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve. theatlantic.com. Hamas and Israel are partners in genocide.

✪ Curate your own newspaper with RSS. By Molly White. citationneeded.news. I love RSS. I have used RSS readers multiple time daily for more than 20 years. One of the first things I do when I get to my desk, while I’m eating breakfast and even before coffee, is check my RSS reader.

Stocking up on fireworks for the 4th of July. (Nat Farbman. 1954)

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Woman with spotted dress and elaborate curled hair, Jersey (UK), 1864

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