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Folks, folks, FOLKS!

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

“Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens.”

Land is not permanent - but we think it is Entire civilizations depend on something that is subject to change and over which humans have no control.

We expect our cities to last forever. Yet the land on which we build them is constantly changing. Our folly, perhaps, is to think that only we have the right to reshape land.

My reflections on recent visits to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and Turkey. coppolacomment.substack.com/p/land-is-no...

Keir Starmer is a barefaced liar and if he had any decency, he would resign.

A total ban on phones in schools is a completely batshit, over the top, policy which shows, yet again, how out of touch Labour is with the reality of many people's lives. This will be totally unworkable for many people, including young carers as mentioned below. #r4today
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6 reasons solar farms make great grazing | Lightsource bp Agrivoltaics, the combination of agriculture and solar electricity generation, demonstrates how solar can provide the best of both worlds.

Yes, apparently it can work well, though needs to be designed properly to allow for the animals lightsourcebp.com/news/six-rea...

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court finds that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution, and a ban on public funding for abortion is unconstitutional.

This should be triumphed as a massive success in society... meanwhile right wingers are deeply worried by it.

Side note, Sweden's number is 1.7/1000.
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New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

Rapidly falling teen births since 1991

The provisional fertility rate for teenagers in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15–19, down 7% from 2024 (12.6) and another record low for this age group (Table 1, Figure 2) (4,5,9–11). The rate has decreased by 72% since 2007 (41.5), the most recent period of continued decline, and by 81% since 1991 (61.8), the most recent peak. The number of births to females ages 15–19 was 125,933 in 2025, down 8% from 2024

One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vs...

A misshapen carrot that appears to be standing on 2 legs and crossing its arms in a hip-hop hand gesture

Then, applying for a research grant to teach carrots hip hop

Next, teaching a potato to run an OnlyFans

Also, broccoli apparently grows *better* amongst solar panels!
insideclimatenews.org/news/3006202...

Inside Clean Energy: Yes, There Are Benefits of Growing Broccoli Beneath Solar Panels - Inside Climate News Despite being “yucky” according to some picky eaters, broccoli is well-suited to grow alongside solar panels, according to a new study. The research from Chonnam National University in South Korea is ...

In many cases you can do both, without problem. Apparently broccoli, in particular, grows *better* amongst solar panels

insideclimatenews.org/news/3006202...

Headline: Scientists have taught spinach to send emails. Engineers have used nanotechnology which allows plants to communicate with humans. The news has left people checking whether it's February 1st or April 1st. Illustrated with a photo of rows of young spinach plants.

Stranger things have happened...

You can co-locate most veg with solar and get low-to-no reduction in farming output.

With broccoli, the brain-fart is even worse; because of the lower evaporation rates, the plants are under less stress and produce the same volume of product but it's better quality

www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12...

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The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Dundee Reform candidate blasted his own party leader Nigel Farage in X-rated rant Arthur Keith turned on Reform UK last year and claimed he was “f***ing sick of political w***ers” in a social media rant.

Reform candidate for Dundee - Arthur Keith - was selected to represent the party despite calling Farage "deplorable" and his team "a complete set of c*nts" just last year.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

I want to try one, or three 😙

Korean street lava cream cube bread!

It's a square bread blowtorched to produce a super crispy caramelized shell, and it's stuffed with so much creamy filling it's literally overflowing.

Every bite explodes with milky and caramel flavors.

#trend #korean #foodie

Cartoon by Andy Marlette. A class of about 20 very small children, wearing school backpacks, approach the Pearly Gates anxiously. Several are holding hands with two women teachers. Saint Peter, huge in comparison, with great wings half-furled, stoops low to listen to the leading child and rests a hand reassuringly on his shoulder. The child says: "Hi, we're here from the place with the God-given right to guns."

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The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Ford CEO Draws Line In Sand: Keep Chinese EVs Out Of US – 'Should Not Let Them Into Our Country' Ford Motor Company paused its electric-vehicle growth efforts, but is pivoting to a major push in 2027. With lower-cost production methods and new models in development, the legacy automaker’s CEO wan...

Just checking on how the Invisible Hand of the Market is doing

https://www.theonion.info/

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson