This article is weird. France isn't switching to Linux because Windows is bad - it's switching because Microsoft is a US company, US companies fall under US law, and thus simply cannot be trusted with EU data. Windows can't "solve" this. There's no "fix" here.
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"We lost 13 men"
At least three of these fatalities were women:
♦️Capt. Ariana Savino
♦️Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt
♦️Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor
I found this out with about 30 seconds of Googling.
The Commander-in-Chief still doesn't know.
We had a mass longevity movement in the 20th century. It was called public health. It included vaccines, antibiotics, nutritional programmes, maternal support, cancer research.
These are the types of raised/tabled crossings that I want US cities to start building. They're continuous for people walking and biking instead of continuous for drivers (even if they're raised up).
The revision of the English National History Curriculum under Gove required that children were taught chronologically. Which is why prehistory is taught in KS1, with the least capacity to understand the way that story is constructed & why students come to uni focused on modern history.>
This artwork, titled "Towards the Forest Canopy," is a vibrant linocut and acrylic piece that uses a "frog-eye view" to look straight up into the trees. The viewer is positioned at the base of two massive tree trunks, which angle sharply toward the center of the frame. This creates a sense of height and verticality. High above, the branches meet in a dense, interlocking pattern. Patches of blue sky are sern through the foliage, providing a stark, contrast to the textured detail of the trees. On the right side, a small bird—likely a native Australian honeyeater or parrot—is captured in mid-flight.
Gail Kellett is a South Australian artist based on the Fleurieu Peninsula, known for her linocut prints of the Australian flora and fauna that surround her home.
After printing she hand-paints the works using bold acrylics (or sometimes watercolors) to achieve a high level of vibrancy and detail.
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Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
sometimes, bad faith actors and bad people take hold of something otherwise innocent, and by association destroy it or make it also bad. They ruin it by proxy. That sucks.
but it happens, and it isn't the fault of those who point that out or discuss it. It's the fault of those who ruined it
A recent illustration of the “universal vaccine” approach came in a study led by Drs. Adam Grippin and Steven Lin of MD Anderson Cancer Center. They reviewed records of more than a thousand cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and found that getting an mRNA-based Covid vaccine was linked to a significantly better response to cancer drugs. Patients with small cell lung cancer who had gotten a Covid shot within 100 days of starting treatment lived nearly twice as long as those who hadn’t. For those with melanoma, researchers couldn’t calculate the difference in survival time because so many of the patients who had gotten a Covid vaccine were still alive.
A side note in a study on cancer vaccines. I had checkpoint inhibitors and I think 9 Covid shots so far. Coming up on 10 years since my stage 4 metastatic melanoma was confirmed. Unheard of result just 11 years ago.
Artist: Dennis Goris
How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...
Background image: a close-up photo showing the white-gloved hands of two individuals pointing to black and white photos in a scrapbook sitting on a wood table. Text reads: We're Hiring! Interpreter - Cataloguer Two Canada Summer Jobs positions (8 weeks, beginning July 7, 2026) Must meet program eligibility requirements (see website for details) Application deadline: May 20, 2026 https://www.klmuseumarchives.ca/employment-opportunities
Are you between the ages of 15 and 30 and passionate about local history?
We are now hiring for two Canada Summer Jobs positions (starting date July 7). See website for details and program restrictions.
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This discourse rolls around every six months and I'm always happy to chime in: ELEMENTARY is a great TV show qua TV show and best modern interpretation of Holmes, including that one you're thinking of, which was more of one dude's intermittent hobby, which also somehow turned into CRIME DR. WHO.
You can’t spend years trying to force people off door-to-door Wheeltrans service if you don’t have working elevators.
This isn’t an “inconvenience,” it’s an affront to everyone with accessibility needs.
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Actually, the first name Davy proposed was was alumium (note the missing ‘in’), from the English word alum and the Latin suffix -ium. European chemists then argued it should be named from ‘alumina’ and Berzelius in particular argued for ‘aluminium’. Davy then published something with ‘aluminum’…
AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...
Another post in support for more urban greenery. Look at these pictures from 1977 and 2024 in Erskineville (Sydney). A vacant block on the corner of Erskineville Rd & Albert St is now Green Bans Park. Source: buff.ly/hYodffy
Murray and Pierre? That alt text needs some work :-)
Murray and Pierre return to the lab after an evening out to find a blue glow emanating from the aparatus
On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende.
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Madam Curie’ (1970)
CEO of Poke People In The Eye Stick™ has issued a statement saying “If we have to obtain permission every time someone gets poked in the eye, that would produce an inordinate amount of paperwork, and there’s a chance some people might say no.”
Alt text is not a caption, its a description of the image for folks that can't see it.
Imagine someone can't see the image you included in your post.
Does the post make sense? Is there info missing? A joke? Something beautiful?
Use the Alt text so engagement doesn't rely on the image.
Not sure why when we discuss early COVID the median person has to be childless, has no family in LTC, doesn't work an essential job, and didn't deal with unexpected illnesses/injuries in the early 2020s.
All these things are really fucking stressful and impacted a LOT of people during that time.
An old copy of Swallows and Amazons that I bought in a charity shop
A newspaper clipping about Mavis Guzelian that was tucked inside the cover
One of my charity shop finds had a clipping tucked inside the cover.
TTC SERVICE ALERT ON APRIL 25th Alerts 1 へ Service alert The Passenger Assistance Intercom in subway stations are not working. As a safety precaution, all elevators are out of service until this issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Wow. Emergency phone failure forces elevators to shut down in the toronto transit system.
Imagine if a university like YorkU shut down its elevators every time the emergency phones stopped working.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
totally fascinated by this protest in Western Sahara. It is illegal to display the flag, so activists tied them to feral cats. Troops had to ridiculously chase cats around to confiscate them. A brilliant "dilemma action". ht @HiddenBrain
petition to rename the toronto raptors (named for a movie craze with no relation to canada, dumb mascot isn’t even a raptor it’s a t-rex) to the toronto raptors (the bird of prey, many of which are native to ontario, the mascot could be a great horned owl which is fucking beautiful, go birds)
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
I agree with the sentiment. But while the Earthrise image emphasises Earth's fragile environment, it does so by contrasting it with a supposedly dead and barren Moon. A dead Moon justifies mining with no environmental constraints. The Moon has a right to its ecological integrity.
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