It’s Cinco de Mayo! To celebrate, I’m opening the vaults and sharing a tequila cocktail. Since this post includes a lot of Real Housewives content, here’s a Fun Fact: on Friday I dragged Mr. Sauce, Esq. to the Philadelphia Live Casino and Hotel to see Countess Cabaret starring Countess Luann of RHONY fame. Is sheContinue reading Jose Cuervo Scapulada (1979)
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When I talk about the environment I usually say “Climate change & Environmental Degradation.” It’s important to understand that while these two reinforce each other, they aren’t the same thing.
A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an “alarming” fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published yesterday.
The 2024 Bugs Matter report revealed the numbers of flying insects found stuck to vehicle number plates had dropped by nearly 63 per cent since 2021.
Pg. 49: Your ox dies from dysentery. Two days later, you die from grief.
Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear devastation, there is no market for Lisa Frank–inspired iPhone cases. Your microbusiness fails.
Pg. 48: A man named John Cigarettes offers you a cigarette. You accept the cigarette. You like how it makes you feel. It’s almost like the world stops while you smoke. When you finish the cigarette, you ask John for another. “Sorry,” he says, “I’m all out.” But you can tell that his pack of cigarettes is full, and that John is not telling the truth. When you return to the Church of the Holy Redeemer and Fiefdom of the Executor of Heretics, you tell them that John is a heretic. They find and crucify John.
The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.
The post Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions … Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; […]
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Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it
- by Chris F Westbury & Daniel King
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These symbols of romance are geometrical enigmas
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Saltwater is killing trees along low-lying coasts, and marshes may move in
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What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides
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Open source projects thrive because of the people and institutions that nurture them behind the scenes—empowering innovation, collaboration, and digital freedom. One impactful institution is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL). The Drupal community owes much of our success and growth to the Open Source Lab when they supported the project in 2005 by hosting our servers.
Today, OSL needs our support.
About the Open Source Lab
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a nonprofit organization with a powerful legacy in the open source ecosystem. For years, it has provided secure, reliable hosting services to some of the most widely used and mission-critical open source projects like Apache, CentOS, Debian, Django, Docker, Eclipse, Mozilla Firefox, GNOME, Go, KDE, Node.JS, OpenBSD, OpenSSL, postgreSQL, Rust, sqlite, The Tor Project, Yum, and yes, Drupal.
A day after being attacked by a pro-Israel mob, protesters were shot by rubber bullets — whose use is restricted by California law.
The post Police Shot Them in the Head With Rubber Bullets. Now UCLA Gaza Protesters Are Suing. appeared first on The Intercept.
A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st May 2025 It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis to drop the podcast he hosted in his own […]
Last week, the – 2025 Canadian federal election – was held and the Liberal Party won for the fourth consecutive time securing 169 seats (in the 343-seat House of Commons), just short of a majority. They also won the popular vote (43.7 per cent of the vote – up 11.1 per cent), which was the…
On 8 January, almost as soon as the Christmas holidays were over, workers at Solace Women’s Aid in Tower Hamlets were informed by email that the organisation would be making up to a third of their staff redundant in the following 13 days. The email cited ‘funding issues’. Solace Tower Hamlets is the primary independent […]
In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction. Only 22% think the Bush administration’s policies make sense, the lowest... Read more
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Low-rating news channel, Sky News Australia, have taken a break from mourning the loss of their idol, Peter Dutton, to wonder how their viewers, all 10 of them, didn’t swing the election in the Coalition’s favour. ”It baffles me, I... Read More ›