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NME – 1 Apr 23 This is what Chris Rock saw when Will Smith slapped him, according to AI An artist has shared a series of AI images that have recreated Chris Rock’s POV from the 2022 Oscars, where he was slapped by Will Smith Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

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POLITICO – 4 Sep 20 Donald Trump’s war on soup US president enlightens us on why a ‘big bag of soup’ is a more effective weapon than a brick.

No, Asda is cheap enough to buy two, that way I could still have soup even if one should accidentally spill near a random celebrity.

Mother Jones How a dubious claim of cement milkshakes in Portland became a right-wing meme The police claimed that left-wing protesters were hurling cement drinks. There's no evidence to back that up.

the Guardian – 1 Apr 23 ‘Rebuilding is part of our resistance’: how Ukraine is bringing Bucha back to... The town infamous for a massacre at hands of Russia has become a symbol of Ukraine’s reconstruction effort, but experts say the influx of money from the west will bring challenges in such a corrupt country

knoxblox: So, what’s the law for vegetarians/vegans? Are strawberries off limits now? The Buddha says that insect life is karmically inoperative. (Actually that was Roger Zelazney in “Lord of Light”, but it works for me.)

twitter.com LeBron James @KingJames Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️ 4:16 PM - 31 Mar 2023 230K 18K

Narwalt: I agree with all of the above except for the “beloved CFLs” part. That was sarcasm. I know so many people who still insist they are worse than the old filament bulbs. But now that they are on the way out, I note that people are claiming exactly the same things about the superiority of CFLs over LEDs. Personally, I can’t see it...

j9c: lowering their standards for grammar, vocabulary If you take a chunk of text from any mainstream liberal, upmarket, English language newspaper and analyse it for reading level, breakdown of parts of speech (% verbs, adverbs, nouns etc.) and the like they will be almost exactly the same All of them. Like down to the 0.1% if you take a few tens of thousands...

thomdunn: Please, they’d be Irish if anything By the LoTR they are Russian (Saruman being Germany). While the Middle East and Africa do occur, barely, and treated dismissively, they weren’t his main focus. He and his chums hated communism with a passion and were big fans of Franco (I can’t remember anything he said about Mussolini but it would be very, very odd for...

That’s a good one. Also make sure you have checked vedur.is for the forecast (quick tip - it’ll be raining) and if you intend to drive anywhere DO NOT ignore the warnings on: safetravel.is - it’s a small country, but away from Reykjavík, very sparsely populated and the weather conditions can turn savage in a few minutes.

I’m really hoping he tries to make a break for Russia - heading to the airport in a golf cart, followed by the entirety of the FBI blue lights flashing and sirens howling.

Yep - and Fox News immediately went back to being Trump cheerleaders: the Guardian – 31 Mar 23 ‘He is a bad-ass’: Fox News makes amends with Trump as he faces indictment The relationship between the former president and the network had cooled but Fox offered a full-throated defence of Trump on Thursday night