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Florida Woman and Florida Man wish you a safe and happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July from Florida!

(But c’mon, dude — be a gent and take the backpack.)

Thanks to David Janes for the find!

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The only phrase more frightening than “I would like to speak to your manager”

Patricia McCloskley pointing her pistol, with the caption “Look at me -- I’m the manager now”.

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The story of 2020 (so far) as hilariously told from one of the “Ant-Man” opening scenes

This is a 23-image Facebook find, and you need to read it all. Trust me on this one.

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Happy Canada Day 2020!

And is there a better way to mark Canada Day than by watching Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds’ YouTube classic, Explaining Canada Day to Americans? I think not:

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Florida of the day: Please don’t microwave library books

Facebook post with photo of book with scorch marks around its embedded RFID chip: Temple Terrace and all Hillsborough County Library Cooperative libraries quarantine all materials for 72 hours after they are returned. Please do NOT attempt to microwave library materials as the RFID tags, located inside, will catch fire. Stay safe out there.
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The public library of Temple Terrace (a Tampa neighborhood just a little north of Seminole Heights, where I live) had to post a Facebook notice telling people not to microwave books that they borrow.

It’s generally a bad idea to microwave paper, including money…

…but it’s even worse to microwave library books, as they have RFID tags, which are made of a thin layer of metal. Microwaves heat up thin layers of metal really quickly, bringing them up to the temperature that will ignite paper:

The library quarantines returned books for 72 hours before loaning them out again, which is believed to be enough time for contaminated surfaces to become safe:

Remember, viruses aren’t made of living cells. From a certain point of view, they’re just chemicals — DNA, protein, and fat — but they’re chemicals that have a knack for replicating themselves by rewriting the DNA of cells that they infiltrate:

So yes, keep borrowing books and other materials from the library. Wash your hands after using them. But don’t microwave them!

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“I’ll give you my Bloody Mary pitcher when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

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The McCloskeys are the comedy gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks to Alistair Morton for the find!

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Tweet of the day (or: Straight outta mansion!)

Screen capture of tweet by “VernorsHerzog” with photo of St. Louis husband and wife pointing guns at a Black Lives Matter protest: "Fox News has done to our parents what they thought gangsta rap would do to us."
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Need context? See the previous article.

The image of the McCloskeys above matches the imagery in the video for the best white-bread interpretation of a gangsta rap classic — Dynamite Hack’s cover of Boyz in the Hood — that I have to close with it: