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Re the Hormuz, not saying I'm an expert on the sitch, but are we really too proud to try historically vetted measures like sacrificing a high ranking member of the royal family to propitiate the sea god

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

its great fun till your dad somehow gets all the way to Blighttown without knowing you can rest at bonfires and you have to realise that you have less skill at your hobby than a 76 yr old who thinks all this is dumb anyway

This is absolutely the kind of author I will spend a few hrs reading things from via Project Gutenberg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
"Although one of the most popular writers of his day in terms of book sales, he acquired a literary reputation for low-brow output in poor taste."

New archbishop of Canterbury to undertake six-day pilgrimage Dame Sarah Mullally's six-day walk begins at Southwark Cathedral and travels along the Becket Way to Canterbury Cathedral.

new Canterbury Tales about to drop

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Diplomatic staff at the American consulate in Erbil were also forced to shelter-in-place when the facility came under attack from Iran before they were ultimately flown out of the country by the British Royal Air Force due to constraints on the U.S. military, which would normally carry out such a mission, according to the officials.

Amid discussions on TODAY's call to evacuate, this story from Wednesday did not get enough attention.

abcnews.com/Internationa...

whole buncha ppl who make 8 figures waking up today with epiphanies about why the woke geography teacher spent all that time in high school on straits and canals

If you, like me, are mystified by the number of your higher ed colleagues absolutely flinging themselves, lemming-style, over the AI cliff, this article is for you. You are not crazy, you are not alone.

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

To say nothing of the insult involved imposing this condition when Robert Bowers killed 11 in the Tree of Life shooting because he believed Jews were behind the great replacement conspiracy theory. You protect a place of worship because it is used by people under threat in your care, full stop.

designs for the obverse of a dollar coin featuring Trump, via https://www.usmint.gov/news/media-kit/semiq-dollar-coin

You know what we're not griping about enough? That Donald Trump's face is going to be on U.S. currency—on $1 coins—later this year. This will be the first time a living president has appeared solo on a coin, and one of the very few times a living individual has ever been on U.S. coinage.

NPR is doing a thing

oh, and, let this be today's reminder: EVERYTHING is Twain Studies

This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.

• If there's one thing controversial CBS News editor Bari Weiss has earned praise for it's her hands-on booking of big names for the network. But there's one booking she seems to have blown up: New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, who had been in talks to appear for an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning with Robert Costa. Mamdani's team, I'm told, has long been averse to appearing on CBS given the coverage his campaign got from Weiss's The Free Press, but her recent social media post reacting with a fire emoji to an Iranian activist's diatribe against Mamdani was the "nail in the coffin" for him appearing on the network, two sources with knowledge told me. "Bari and her people have a clear axe to grind for him," said one former CBS producer. (CBS News did not respond to a request for comment.) And the network's turn away from news and toward opinion is proving to be a broader problem. "It's not just Zohran," the source said. "It's really

lol. CBS had been trying to get Zohran Mamdani for an interview, but Bari Weiss' deranged tweeting caused him to turn it down

link.vanityfair.com/view/5df1007...

Wife: "And what happened?"
2LT: "I went near one and I got bit, ma'am."
Wife: "And?"
2LT: "I'm about go get a lot of shots that will make me hate my life, ma'am."
Wife: "I don't understand. Why?"
2LT: "My platoon sergeant said it would be an awesome picture for the Christmas party, ma'am."

Fake Garbage Pail Kids card with a logo that says Skeleton Pile Kids. The card is "Extinct Adam." There's a giant guy is a T-rex skeleton costume lying in a huge hole in the ground while two little paleontologist people work on excavating him.

Skeleton Pile Kids card for "Easy Blake Oven." A guy in a skeleton costume and wearing a chef's hat is taking a tray out of the oven; there's a cooked human head on the tray.

Skeleton Pile Kids card for "Brittle Brenda." A lady in a skeleton drum major costume is marching while she's starting to crack and crumble into little pieces.

Skeleton Pile Kids card for "Batshit Bridey." A lady in a skeleton bat costume is hanging upside-down in a belfry, her eyes are spirals and there are little stars and symbols floating around her head, indicating that she's crazy.

Many years ago I was in a Mardi Gras krewe that was all skeletons, and I drew ~30 of my fellow members as parodies of Garbage Pail Kids -- mainly as a way to learn how to use my Wacom tablet. Here are some of my favorites! Each person's skull and outfit is based on one of their Mardi Gras costumes.

why we don't have t-shirts with him on them or a softball league named after him i don't know. we love kitschy bullshit like that. we have bigfoot everywhere but bigfoot isn't even uniquely ours. but no love for the humble scud. where is the scud's signature vegan donut

today i learned there's a little tiny freshwater crustacean beastie that's only found here in portland and nowhere else in the world and he is called the STUMPTOWN SCUD (Ramellogammarus similimanus)

I'm struggling to explain to non-fans how 'they found two missing episodes' feels. I think it might genuinely be a whole human emotion only accessible to Dr Who fans, like we're deep sea fish who can smell magnets.

Last night I put my purse somewhere other than its usual spot so it would be out of my way and I said to myself “now remember that you did this or you’ll be looking all over the house for it tomorrow” and friends, you will never guess at the wacky hijinks that just transpired

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

"After two months of sitting through board meetings dominated by Moms for Liberty, the librarian at the other high school, Kate Stover, and I began inviting parents to come and voice their own perspectives."

Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”?

Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

Certain dudes are still upset with me when I said in 2012 that here in the US, being a straight white male is living on the lowest difficulty setting of life. From here on out I'm just going to refer them to these DOGE staffer depositions, and then tell them to go fuck themselves.

As long as this remains unaddressed with the same force as AI?

As long as everyone keeps rushing to move to réification over solution.

As long as this is treated as “unplanned” and “unexpected” not grounded in a history

America will continue in this vein

I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while.

It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.

EVERYONE should be going bonkers on the first amendment implications.

And yet it's one of those things that is quietly being relegated to a few opinion columns.

It's wild to see members of the Trump administration tell the press what to print, what headlines to choose, and who should run the newsrooms. Absolutely wild.

That's what can be even more interesting about this case, having a compare/contrast moment of those. I only know about the CA stuff a small amount because those cases came up in media law classes, because Hollywood.