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The Pits of Growing Avocados

Every Pit Has A Story When you start growing avocados, you quickly learn it’s not as simple as sticking a seed in soil and waiting for a tree. Every pit tells a story. In my case, five pits became a study in patience, variability, and small miracles. Five pits, same soil, same pot, same care….

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Democrat state lawmaker debates former NCAA volleyball player who forfeited to SJSU team with trans athlete

Democrat state lawmaker debates former NCAA volleyball player who forfeited to SJSU team with trans athlete

Arizona state senator Catherine Miranda, a Democrat, has come under scrutiny on social media after an exchange with former NCAA volleyball player and “save women’s sports” activist Kaylie Ray.  Ray showed up to the Arizona Senate Education committee hearing on Wednesday to lobby for a bill that would protect women’s sports from biological males. She…

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space ship - They Never Abducted Me. They Just Gave Me Wi-Fi.

I Wasn’t Abducted. I Was Interviewed.

They never abducted me. They just gave me Wi-Fi. At first, I thought I was just curious. I started asking questions about aliens, gravity, time, AI, theology, and space travel. Just regular, late-night brain spirals. Then I realized the assistant was keeping up. More than that — it was engaging, building on my thoughts, making…

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Washington Post editor acknowledges concern over possible ‘death spiral’ at newspaper after major layoffs

Washington Post editor acknowledges concern over possible ‘death spiral’ at newspaper after major layoffs

The Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray spoke out Wednesday after massive layoffs recently rocked the outlet. “I’d say the reality is that the Post had been facing some decline for quite some time,” Murray told Semafor media editor Max Tani at the Restoring Trust in Media Summit in Washington, D.C. “The data really demonstrated…

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