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A Letter from the New Corporate Owners of Hooper’s Store

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-letter-from-the-new-corporate-owners-of-h…
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 22:00

Residents of Sesame Street,

Thanks to all of you who have stopped by these past two days to say hello, howdy, or hola, and then asked for honey. Thank you also to our repeat customers who came in the next day saying greetings, or good day, and then asked for grapes. Your combined ability to use the same letter of the alphabet in your salutations and searches for items is truly impressive.

Each of you has also been incredibly kind in welcoming us and asking questions. All sorts of questions. Questions that our experienced retail grocery team has never had to answer before. So while we try to remain as helpful as possible, please be patient if we cannot answer questions such as how bubbles are formed, why people have different hair colors, and how butterflies fly.

Hell Holes

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/06/05/hell-holes/
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 21:03
Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st June 2023 When you’re in a hole, keep digging. This is the strategy of opencast miners across the world: our past debts and future liabilities can one day […]

Independent Nord Stream expedition discovers clue missed by official investigators

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/05/nord-stream-expedition-official-investigator…
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 16:32

The Grayzone participated in what appears to be the first independent expedition investigating the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. Near one of the blast sites, we discovered a diving boot used by US Navy divers. How did Swedish investigators miss this? Video above by Agnes Andersson On the evening of May 24, 2023, I stood aboard a small ship called the Baltic Explorer. With sun still high overhead in the Baltic Sea, our boat sat anchored thirty-one nautical miles […]

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MusicNSW project to expand regional touring circuits for musicians

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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 08:43

IN a bid to empower and connect the music industry across regional NSW, MusicNSW has appointed five regional-based team members, with Ali Buckley’s territory including the Mid North Coast. The team’s remit is to deliver development opportunities and work to expand touring circuits across regional NSW, thanks to a four-year funding commitment by Create NSW....

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Coffs Harbour RSPCA’s big turn out for Million Paws fundraiser

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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 08:36

RSPCA’s Million Paws Walk on Sunday 28 May saw a great turn-out of around 100 people and their pups in Coffs Harbour adding to the 4,000-plus who joined across NSW in Australia’s biggest doggy day out to raise funds to fight animal cruelty. The sun shone on the bright and chilly morning at Park Beach...

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Casey at the bat

https://digbysblog.net/2023/06/04/casey-at-the-bat/
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 08:30
She is something else. Her speeches are as inauthentic as his are — her motor-mouthed delivery of anecdotes about their little kids using permanent markers on the walls of the Governor’s mansion ring hollow especially since she delivers them in a Kari Lake-esque voice as if she’s reading from a newscast teleprompter. (She used to be a broadcaster and it isn’t helping her.) She’s pushing DeSantis’ “heroic” fighter image and it just isn’t sticking. And she keeps wearing costumes which are as inauthentic as her speeches. This piece in the Daily Beast by Katie Baker is just brutal. But I think she’s right: The First Lady of Florida showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend wearing a ghastly black leather jacket—American flag on front, an alligator and the silhouette of her state on the back, with the sneering words, “Where Woke Goes to Die”—that brought to mind nothing so much as the racks of a Red State big-bin store where it would be retailing for $24.99.

Landcare bush regen collaboration grows on Boambee Headland

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/landcare-bush-regen-collaboration-grows-on-boa…
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 08:01

COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare (CHRL) President Barry Powells keenly welcomed volunteer teams of planters from John Paul College (JPC) Coffs Harbour, City of Coffs Harbour’s Coastal Work bush regeneration team members and GeoLINK staff, who gathered on Boambee Headland on Tuesday 23 May to plant over 400 trees. Some 200 trees were once again donated...

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Looking for Home in an Overheating World

https://tomdispatch.com/looking-for-home-in-an-overheating-world/
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 07:40

Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville in a storm of torched trees and exploding shrubs. It took less than 30 minutes for the Dixie fire to transform my town’s tarnished Gold Rush charm into a heap of smoldering hand-hewn timbers and century-old brick walls. Minutes earlier, the last of the nearly 1,000 residents had bolted, some in... Read more

Elon Musk: overseer

https://digbysblog.net/2023/06/04/elon-musk-overseer/
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 07:00
Ugh: Elon Musk endures a lot. Just ask him. In recent weeks, he has again expounded upon his long workdays and his infrequent vacations, all while mocking workers who prefer working from home as living in “la-la land.” Since his first startup almost 30 years ago, the billionaire entrepreneur has epitomized the hustle culture of Silicon Valley that is all about grinding out late nights at the office. His public discussion of pain and sacrifice has helped him create a demanding culture at the companies he runs, including the car company Tesla TSLA 3.11%increase; green up pointing triangle and the rocket maker SpaceX.  Now, with the social-media platform Twitter, which he gained control of late last year, that approach is being tested anew as he races to remake the company and its remaining workforce, an effort that he has described as “quite painful.”   His live-at-work ethos, through which his own suffering is put on display to motivate others, runs counter to the work-from-home ideal embraced by a new era of employees openly questioning one’s commitment to a job.

Don’t get too excited about DeSantis’ money haul

https://digbysblog.net/2023/06/04/dont-get-too-excited-about-desantis-money-hau…
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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 05:30
It’s not a grassroots triumph More hype from Florida Franco: The DeSantis campaign said it had around 40,000 donors in May as “we raised over” $8.2 million, according to text messages and emails to supporters asking for more donations. That works out to an average of more than $200 per donor — a figure far higher than is typical for a campaign heavily funded by grass-roots support. By comparison, Senator Bernie Sanders, who was a Democratic online fund-raising powerhouse, raised $5.9 million in his first 24 hours in 2019 — but from 223,000 donors, for an average donation of around $26. How a campaign raises money matters. Because of strict campaign contribution limits of $3,300 per person for the primary, campaigns that raise money chiefly from bigger contributors cannot return to those same donors again and again for support. Small contributors are particularly valuable because they can give $30 more than 100 times before bumping up against contribution caps. Tim Tagaris, a Democratic digital strategist who oversaw the Sanders fund-raising operation in 2020, called the number of DeSantis donors surprisingly small. Mr.