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Fri, 03/01/2025 - 01:12

Drupal has a long history of community-made plush toys, baby bibs, stress balls, tree ornaments, card games, the list goes on. However these were often hard to get. What if you could get your Drupal swag made at home or a 3d printing service nearby?

I accidentally stumbled onto Klara Binon's work on a Drupal logo cookie cutter model. Asked her over the holidays to update it for the current Drupal (CMS) logo and now the updated cookie cutter model is available in STL format or bgcode format.

Drupal Cookie Cutter animation

Klara also shared this recipe for cookies that keep their shape:

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Fri, 03/01/2025 - 01:00
Coincidences or not? As authorities investigate Wednesday’s New Orleans truck attack on Bourbon Street and the Cybertruck explosion in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, one odd detail links the two. Or doesn’t. Both vehicles were rented using the peer-to-peer rental app, Turo. Axios reports that Clark County/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said “there was no immediate indication of a connection between the two events, but ‘we are investigating every aspect of this.’ “ The New York Times reports: The owner of the Ford pickup truck used in New Orleans recognized his vehicle when he saw footage showing the truck and license plate on the news. He had rented the truck to a 42-year-old Army veteran who then used it to ram into crowds on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more. […] In Las Vegas, the police said during a news conference that the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel’s lobby entrance, killing one and injuring at least seven others, was also rented from Turo.
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Fri, 03/01/2025 - 00:57

Originally published December 31, 2018.

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1. Learn to play the pianoforte moderately well. Stick to duets.

2. Stop taking long walks in the rain while underdressed.

3. Throw out the expired smelling salts. Replace promptly.

4. Avoid rakes with jaunty names that start with W. Perfect sideburns are not indicative of mature relationship potential.

5. Love my sisters but be slightly more interesting and intelligent than they are.

6. Forgive my father for mangling the line of inheritance.

7. Ignore my mother’s marriage advice. Especially if it involves a not-so-distant relation or anyone in the clergy.

8. Seriously, stick to that thing about the walks. Consumption’s the worst.

9. Argue less about who’s taking which carriage. We’ll all get there eventually.

10. Prepare witty discourse before the ball. Don’t get caught off guard mid-quadrille while not quite touching the man I hate right now but might marry.

11. Stop moaning about how poor I am in front of the servants.

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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 10:00
ABC News: Authorities are investigating a Tesla Cybertruck explosion on Wednesday outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel in Nevada as a possible act of terror. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said it was investigating a fire at the entrance to the tower. The public was told to avoid the area, though the police noted the fire had been put out. The driver pulled into the valet area of the hotel and the vehicle exploded, according to an official. The driver is apparently dead and, so far, the only casualty from the incident. Seven bystanders had minor injuries, authorities said. Investigators do not know what caused the blast, such as whether something was wrong with the vehicle or whether something external prompted it. Determining what was behind the explosion is the key focus of the probe. An official briefed on the probe told ABC News that the Tesla Cybertruck had a load of fireworks-style mortars onboard. Investigators are urgently working to determine a motive and whether the driver intended to set off an explosion and why. You CANNOT make this shit up.
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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 08:30
Will they finally catch on? I keep saying that reality is going to bite Trump eventually. I refuse to believe that his con game isn’t going to catch up with him and I don’t think for a moment that he’s got some kind of magic that transcends all reason. He’s a very lucky guy who happened into the political world at a time when celebrity, social media and right wing propaganda outlets were ascendant in our society and he exploited it like the grifter he is. But the cult he built is like all cults — it’s strong until it isn’t. And its strength is about to be tested. The New Republic’s Robert McCoy took a look at the weird phenomenon as well as the possible reckoning ahead: Consider these archetypal dispatches from the 2024 campaign trail. “A lot of people are happy to vote for [Trump] because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will,” an October New York Times “campaign notebook” entry observed.
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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 06:37

Danny Shaw has been traveling to Cuba since 1995 in support of the country’s socialist revolution. Unsatisfied with the official proclamations and guided tours for international leftists, he embarked on a project of first-hand ethnographic research across the country over the decades. With a command of Cuban Spanish, Shaw wandered off the beaten path, independently evaluating conditions in the country. Surveying the perspectives of some of the most marginalized populations in Havana, he assesses their responses to the US unilateral […]

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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 06:30
At this point we have very limited information about the attack in New Orleans last night. It’s a horrific assault which the authorities are saying they don’t believe was done as a lone act of terrorism. The story is unfolding and very little is known as yet except for the fact that the perpetrator was an American from Texas whom they think was flying an ISIS flag. If you’d been on Elon’s hellhole for the past few hours — or watching Fox News — you would have been told that he was an illegal immigrant who had come over the border unlawfully in the last few days, among other lies. I’m not going to speculate about what this is about but I wanted to alert everyone once more to the fact that Twitter is a cesspool of misinformation on any day but especially at times like these, much of it led by dishonest MAGA leaders. It’s a terrible space during any kind of emergency nowadays which is truly sad because it used to be so good. BlueSky doesn’t have the scale but if you got there at least you won’t be confronted with a bunch of MAGA weirdos, foreign bots and racist miscreants flooding the zone with lies.
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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 05:30
Remember yesterday when I called Elon the son Trump never had? Well… Donald Trump Jr. has trashed his father’s annual New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-a-Lago on his “Triggered with Don Jr.” podcast, calling it “amateur night” and saying guests have often treated him like a “freaking imbecile.” Footage of this year’s celebrations captured Donald and Melania Trump, running mate J.D. Vance (and his wife Usha) and partying MAGA supporters clapping and singing along to Village People’s “YMCA.” He was there but he wasn’t having any fun. Probably because Lara Trump was singing. And then there was this which angered Don Jr’s pals to no end: It seems his voters didn’t know about this, since he never mentioned it. In fact, he was on record opposing the H-1B visas for years: Many of the rubes won’t know about this or they’ll forgive him. But it’s caused a huge rift among the big MAGA grassroots leaders. It’s going to be a problem.
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Thu, 02/01/2025 - 02:30
He’s the smartest broke billionaire in the room No superlatives are too bigly to describe El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. Trump knows competence “I always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country. We need competent people. We need smart people coming into our country.” It takes a very stable genius to recognize other extraordinary people like RFK Jr. and foreign models. Trump knows social media Days ago, Trump filed an amicus brief on his desire to rescue TikTok from the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that will likely ban the app in the U.S. on January 19. Even the Wall Street Journal found Trump’s argument preposterous. He wants the Court to treat him (a private citizen) as though he’s co-president with Joe Biden before being sworn in (Raw Story): “The brief is extraordinary in several ways, none of them good,” the board said, later adding: “Mr. Trump wants the Court to treat him as if he’s already President before he’s inaugurated.” Trump for all intents and purposes is a “private citizen” until he’s inaugurated, the board countered.