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Thank you for reaching out.

After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Have to have ferrets on banknotes because of woke

'Everything gone': Venezuelan family says they lost their home and jobs after being detained for 2 months Adriana Laya and Miguel Alberto Caicedo thought their worst nightmare was over when they were released with their two children from a detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Venezuelan family says they lost their home, jobs after being detained for 2 months

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People shouldn’t have to use klarna for their bills and/or groceries.

Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300% Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve

"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer."
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the truly most bizarre thing about the shoe situation is why these men aren't just buying *the exact same shoe* in a size that fits, instead of clombering around in the too-big ones he bought. He wouldn't know!

More flowers!

It's just going to get more and more beautiful from here. I love spring!

#BloomScrolling 🌿

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.

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This Gloves-In-A-Bottle Hand Lotion Has Changed Lives, According To Reviewers With Troubled Skin It's quite literally saved the skin of nurses, teachers and other frequent hand washers.

It's quite literally saved the skin of nurses, teachers and other frequent hand washers.

An archaeological trench showing various gullys and ditches. Some of these contain runs of short orange ceramic water pipes that fit together not unlike lego to create continuous lengths of pipe.

We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨‍🔧💦

So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.

(1960s excavation photo)

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A brown and white osprey is standing on tippytoes in a defensive posture with its wings spread wide and its head feathers sticking out and its beak open. It is on a large nest made of sticks, and is facing toward an unseen assailant flying in from the upper right.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WingsOpenNotFlying (birds with wings open but not flying) we have an Osprey who was quite upset and put on an impressive threat display when a rival osprey came too close to its nest. Eventually there was a brief mid-air tussle.

#birds #photography

How about introducing a bill to increase federal spending on a clean energy transition you stupid stupid motherfuckers

I know this is a very long shot, but...

Can anyone possibly point me towards an English translation of volume 1 of The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures (1886)? So far, I can only find it in German, & sadly, while I could have read that 25 years ago, I really can't anymore. Alas!

A quote from Hannah Beatrice of Loneliness Awareness Week explaining why libraries are central to the campaign.

Led by Marmalade Trust, Loneliness Awareness Week 2026 aims to 'give loneliness a voice' by creating space for people to explain what loneliness means for them.

Libraries are encouraged to get involved - here are lots of practical suggestions!

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/build-c...

DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit Trump gets donations, you get surcharges.

New in PN: DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit

"Thanks to the Trump administration’s corruption, a mafia-like monopoly survives, and Americans will continue to pay exorbitant fees to see live music.

*Trump take ticket* … along with everything else."

The least important part of this, but Avenger is a bit of a silly name for a minesweeper. For a destroyer, sure. Not for a small ship that removes threats.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

They helped organize January 6th

Now A MAGA Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts

The trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition.

Corruption
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Sali's favourite eye shadow does not contain polluting PFAS chemicals which is good news. She doesnt mention this in the product review but just letting you know. Use the Yuka App if you want to check products before you buy.

As I've commented before, every day I remove Copilot from my work computer and the next day it's back, because of a login script built into our Windows image.

I used to be proud to work in tech. Now I spend a lot of days with a degree of shame for what the industry has done.

Exclusive | Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen’s Houthi militants.

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

James Comer Says Trump DOJ Shut Down Epstein Investigation James Comer said Trump's DOJ asked New Mexico investigators to shut down a 2019 investigation into a ranch owned by convicted predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The federal government asked New Mexico to stop their investigation, I believe, back in 2019 of that ranch. So there’s just so many questions about how the government failed, the victims and how government failed in trying to prosecute Epstein sooner. I mean, this whole thing doesn’t make sense.

A Friend's Death to Mourn, and to Serve Time for - Bolts An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.

The Alabama governor commuted the death sentence of a man, set to be executed, who was convicted under the felony murder doctrine — meaning he wasn’t the person to commit a murder.

Bolts reported last year on how Alabama is extraordinarily prone to prosecute people for murder under felony murder.

We exist only if appropriately "certified" by the state. What with ICE's fuckery, this should make everyone's butt twitch. A Lot.

Think. About. It.

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violence

“The research concluded that chatbots had become an ‘accelerant for harm’”.

Tell Your Senators: Oppose Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary Contact Congress today!

Kristi Noem was an absolute failure at DHS. A complete disgrace. But Trump’s new pick is somehow worse.

So we need everyone on board as loud as possible telling their Senators to vote no on this disaster of a nominee!