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All About Birds – 25 Jun 21 Birds Need Clean Air Safeguards Just as Much as We Do. Here's Why From the Summer 2021 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. For decades, songbirds were used to signal hazardous air. Caged canaries brought deep underground into coal mines served as living, breathing carbon monoxide detectors for workers...

“A button controlling the President, Senator? For gods sakes. This is 2021… we’ve got an app for that.” /s

Cutting the president’s video/audio was probably a system they were researching with Trump. It was badly needed after all… How exactly you’d implement that is not really clear to me (after all not all news videos are routed through the white house) but I can understand Trumps handlers for having dearly wanted such a switch… edit: Btw, the way it’s written here it looks...

Wonkette – 14 Sep 21 San Francisco Schools Avoid COVID Outbreaks With No Weird Tricks, Just Common... Seems like Texas, Florida, others could learn something here.

The wife and I stumbled on Corner Gas and can’t get enough, not sure what we’ll do after we get through all six seasons. It’s a genius show with awards coming out the wazoo and laugh out loud funny. God bless Canada and Brent Butt. All six seasons are on IMDb TV on your favorite streaming device.

I once made a gift, a realistic badger plush toy Plush Badger Soft Toy | Eco Friendly Toys . The gift recipient had a big tomcat, that arrived just after the badger was unboxed and put on the table. The cat jumped on the table hissing and meowing, next had some suspect, and sniffed under the tail of the toy, and the jumped off...

This is what the Fraternal Order of Police posted after the incident: 1026×970 110 KB They basically kidnapped the kid to use as a social media prop.

The Video Toaster was legendary when I was a kid with my A500, but there wasn’t many in the UK because they only worked with NTSC rather than PAL.

I don’t know if this is what pushed him over the edge, but still it is quite traumatic for me to watch this. A good childhood friend of my became psychotic in his teens and subsequently drank himself to death. In the ~2 years leading up to his psychosis he had started to use increasing amounts of weed, and just before his first real...

VeronicaConnor: Another common theme in tech bro libertarians is a casual disregard for the expertise of others. As seen in Elon Musk’s attempts to reinvent transport. I’ve already posted a takedown of Hyperloop, so here’s one on the Boring Company. Pedestrian Observations – 15 Dec 17 Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring Four years ago, I broke my comment section by declaring that...

TotalPolitics.com – 31 Aug 17 Michael Howard finally answers question that Jeremy Paxman asked him 12 times ‘My recollection is that I didn’t threaten to overrule him.’

TornPaperNapkin: It’s like some one designed a level of hell Perfect if you’re trying to get to the other other place though: en.m.wikipedia.org Stylite A stylite (from Greek στυλίτης, stylitēs, "pillar dweller", derived from στῦλος, stȳlos, "pillar", Classical Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܢܐ‎ ʼasṯonáyé) or pillar-saint is a type of Christian ascetic who lives on pillars, preaching, fasting and praying. Stylites believe that the mortification of their...

Back in the mid90s, everyone had ONE friend with Video Toaster. At $2500, I kind of doubt that is true? I mean, I know Americans have generally been very wealthy for quite some time, but “everyone knew someone with a $2500 toy” sounds … like it would be limited to some rather select circles.

abutilon: Yikes! What could possibly go wrong when we rely on a building material that requires human blood? On the other hand, there might be a purpose for Elon Musk that stops him from being put in the airlock. Feed him and bleed him.

prooftheory: A half pound of salt every month seems like a lot. (This box was made as a gag for people to wrap their real, presumably more desirable presents in, as a prank on the gift recipient. But then the market for specialty salts really took off a few years later so it seems slightly less silly now.) 7 Likes p...

twitter.com WeRateDogs® @dog_rates Oh c’mon. We only rate dogs. This is a Silly Seaside T-Rex. Please evacuate the beach immediately. Thank you… 13/10 https://t.co/SK5qDDcVA9 11:47 PM - 14 Sep 2021 120K 11K

ficuswhisperer: This cost CA taxpayers $276 million. So much for Republican “fiscal responsibility”, eh? For them, anything that hurts democracy in general is probably money well spent.

Old news (2016). VTT Finland’s old nuclear research reactor to be decommissioned – New Centre for... ​​Just as VTT is decommissioning its nuclear research reactor, which has served faithfully since 1962, it is also creating a new, modern research environment for projects supporting nuclear safety.​

BBC News Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day Hunting is under scrutiny after more than 1,400 dolphins were killed in one day - a reported record.

It somehow defines you, doesn’t it? I grew up next to a range of English hills just over 400m at their peak. I spent a little time in Norfolk, and always felt jittery because it was so flat.

eap: SGI had the coolest case SGIs had some great industrial design, but so did Sun (although not as good). Such great alternatives to the typical plain beige boxes of the time.

The seapods crack me up. It’s as though they based their whole concept of living on Subnautica, not realizing that magic sci-fi replicators aren’t a real thing.

Here is an update on the guy who swam through shark and killer whale infested waters (his words) from Kunashir in Russia to Hokkaido in Japan. His name has been given as Vasfeniks (or Wasfeniks) Nokaldo (or Nokardo, or possibly Nokald or Nokard). Sorry, the name has been transliterated into Japanese and so I have no idea how it is actually spelled and Japanese...

First time I met Brad Carvey I got brought in to see Traz and shown what would be my office for a few months. The place was dark and lit with can lights on the floor giving color effects on the walls. In the office was a bed and a guy with a huge beard was sleeping there. They woke him him and introduced...

Brainspore: but he might have potential as a standalone character in a lower-stakes espionage type setting. Part of me would have liked to have seen what he did during his Ronin phase after his family were snapped out of existence, but that is probably far darker than Marvel and Disney want to go.

the_borderer: Do a Jeremy Paxman Can we clone him? Or at least have him give master class lessons to all other “journalists” showing how to stay on the fucking message?

Now they know how we felt growing up in the '60s & '70s with the threat of nuclear war and over-population threatening our not-so-distant futures. Reminds me of a dozen or more comics that dealt with the end of the world that seem quaint in retrospect. So, what else is new? Or, in other words, the more things change, the more they remain the...

I hate that it is so hard to leave a country. I don’t want to live here anymore.

Carbonman: TANSTAAFL is still an excellent cautionary acronym, though. It’s one that is often wilfully misunderstood for political purposes. I don’t think Heinlein expanded it beyond financial cost, so he and all the other ayn-caps failed to understand that their tax-free lunch comes at the cost of increased crime, homelessness and sickness.

Yle Uutiset Pockets of anti-vaccination sentiment may see locally-targeted restrictions While in general Finland's coronavirus vaccine take-up is approaching target levels, some communities are lagging far behind, and could be subject to continuing restrictions as the rest of society opens up.

A series for Ironheart has been announced, America Chavez is going to be in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Ms Marvel is getting her own series, which leads into her appearance in The Marvels. And Cassie Lang is going to be in Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania. I wonder if, at some point, we’re going to meet Hulkling in a Captain...

Yle Uutiset Source of Saturday night's loud boom still a mystery in Helsinki People in more than half a dozen neighbourhoods of the city said they heard the sound at just before midnight.

twitter.com The Independent @Independent Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers ‘justified’ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… 2:50 PM - 13 Sep 2021 730 770

ejeffrey: But the renewable energy they consume could instead be used to replace fossil fuel generation. Not really, because it is situated in Iceland. About 85% of the total primary energy supply in Iceland is derived from domestically produced renewable energy sources. Roughly 65% geothermal and 20% hydropower. The remaining 15% (again, this is total primary energy) is fossil fuels used for running cars,...

HuffPost – 13 Sep 21 Right-Wing Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Mocked AIDS Victims Dies Of COVID-19 Bob Enyart fought mask mandates and refused the vaccine. “ However, Enyart might be best remembered for his cruelty. As Denver’s Westword noted: “He would gleefully read obituaries of AIDS sufferers while cranking ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen”

ludd: It’ll be OK until they start looking like Daleks. No. It’ll be ok until Daleks realise that looking like Singaporean robots is a better strategy.

allenk: I found Singapore to be strangely like NYC (where I grew up), in terms of size, population, cosmopolitan-ness, and wealth. So what is the LGBTQ+ community like, compared to NYC?

CNN – 3 Aug 15 HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia | CNN This is why we can't have nice hitchhiking robots.

Federal flag license plate? Does he not know about states’ rights? “Craighead claimed he was “on patrol”” Ah - a reconnaissance mission. Identifying targets, routes and defenses.