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Here's everything you need to know to have a traditional Valentine's Day/Lupercalia as it was before the church slapped a Saint on it.
First, priests would sacrifice a goat &a dog to Romulus&Remus, legendary founders of Rome, at the cave where as babies they were allegedly suckled by a she-wolf.
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
Bandcamp pays artists about 80% of sales. And prohibits AI music.
If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.
"The Donut Lab solid state battery is made entirely from abundant, affordable, and geopolitically safe materials, does not rely on rare or sensitive elements, and demonstrates a lower cost than lithium-ion."
Heck. Can all of that be true at the same time?
Incredibly promising news to start the new year…
If reconciliation actually meant something, this would be the final word
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
FFS! Canada Post is NOT a business. It is a public service, like parks and fire departments. Decide what services it should provide and fund it properly.
Are we expecting police departments or highway maintenance to turn a profit?
Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense.
People aren't scared of new tech.
They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening.
They're scared of thirsty data centres.
This isn't hard.
The loathsome zeitgeist of "having *done* without having to *do*", that started in the creative arts, now burrows outwards through the corpse of human experience.
In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
Canadian Tire hilariousness first thing 🤣🤣🤣
I want those gummies Tod
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Impressive. Via xcancel.com/The_x_Truth/...
Stay. If only to give me more mutual platforms to follow you back
The walk to beach is food for my body, as evening beckons with a sun-kissed dusk, as cotton soft candy colored clouds wrap their strands around my soul.... my spirit shook by awareness of how fortunate I am to be a witness. A winner in Mother Nature's eternal game. ✍️ @mdanielsmith.bsky.social
This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
🇨🇦 Nuclear Laboratory to be taken over by 🇺🇸!? WTF @mark-carney.bsky.social?!
Pls sign this HoC petition! No f’ing way!
“Canada is poised to award a multi-billion dollar contract — the largest federal contract ever — to a consortium of U.S. companies;”
#cdnpoli
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The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
I saw this at the beginning of the invasion but was unable to find it again, thankfully someone posted it yesterday on Twitter. A very wry explanation of what’s been happening in Palestine for the past 75 years.
Announcement that the Smithsonian has removed Trump from the impeachment exhibit at the American History Museum.
Your semi-regular reminder that Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, worked as a records editor for the Ministry of Truth, continuously rewriting the historical record to ensure that it matched the Party’s preferred version of events.
I know we probably know this but:
New York’s murder rate is one of the lowest in America’s cities, at 5.3 per 100,000.
That’s still four times higher than London’s, which is around 1.3 per 100,000.
So if Mamdani turns NY into London…all good?
How did I miss this story earlier in the week…Daniel Ek has “doubled down” on investments in military drones and AI. Original source is FT, here is that article past paywall archive.ph/2025.06.18-1...
