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If You Would Rather Not Receive Our Presidents’ Day Sale Emails This Year, We Totally Get It

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 00:00

We here at Sleeplinen know this time of year can trigger all kinds of feelings. For many, Presidents’ Day is a loaded holiday. For some Americans, the wounds are fresh. For others, this is another bad chapter in a long book of injustice. But for all of you, we want to be a space where you can shop for luxury bed linens.

That said, if you’d rather not receive our Presidents’ Day Sale emails this year, we totally get it.

We’ll still be going forward with our annual Presidents’ Day Sale, but we encourage everyone in our community to take care of themselves. For instance, take a break from the world and cover your eyes with 20 percent off our Sleeplinen Velvet Sleep Mask.

We put a tremendous amount of thought and care into our marketing. It’s difficult to work anywhere right now, but we feel it is particularly difficult to work here at a bedding company, at a time when the current US president falls asleep in televised meetings. There have been so, so many promotional emails we could have sent about this, but we chose not to. For you.

Hatchet Man

https://www.monbiot.com/2026/02/13/hatchet-man/
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:56
Peter Mandelson was not one bad apple: he was brought in repeatedly by governments to do their dirty work. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  10th February 2026 History is being rewritten. The story we are told is that an evil man called Peter Mandelson, pursuing his own interests, went rogue to collaborate with […]

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:00
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Silver: East Versus West

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 13:12
In my long post about silver prices, I talked about a reversion to the mean. This is something that frequently happens in life: something overshoots the norm and then it swings back and overshoots the abnormal. Slowly but surely it finally settles smack in the middle of the bell curve, to use a shit metaphor. […]

Give Us Access to Your Ring Camera and Maybe We’ll Find Your Dog

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 05:30

“A new feature from Ring Camera is causing a stir online. The AI-powered ‘search party’ feature helps locate lost pets, but some are questioning its impact on privacy.” — NBC News

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Oh no, did Buster get out again? Because your white-picket-fence suburban dream doesn’t actually include a physical fence? That’s terrible. Hopefully, he doesn’t run in the direction of the freeway right over there. Time is of the essence to get him back—let us help you; give us access to your Ring camera. Give us access to every Ring camera in your neighborhood.

We at Ring believe dogs are part of the family. And family is more important than silly, abstract, constitutional things like a citizen’s “right to privacy.” Ring’s Search Party is a one-of-a-kind AI tool that is for finding dogs, and totally not for spying on you and your neighbors, monitoring and cataloging all of your movements and interactions twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. Relax.

Measuring banking resilience to adverse outcomes

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2026/02/12/measuring-banking-resilience-to-advers…
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 01:00
Giovanni Covi and Tihana Škrinjarić The ability of the banking system to absorb shocks and continue providing vital financial services is important because it underpins the smooth functioning of the broader economy. We propose a methodology that serves as a valuable tool for monitoring banking system stability. It quantifies the resilience of the banking system … Continue reading Measuring banking resilience to adverse outcomes →

Will You Be My Situation-tine?

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 00:00

For people in relationships, February 14 is a day to celebrate love and romance with a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a thoughtfully written card. But for those in less clear-cut dynamics, Valentine’s Day creates a difficult quandary: How to acknowledge your insignificant other without jeopardizing the carefully crafted gray area of your situationship. They’re definitely not your Valentine, but they’re still… something. And surely that something deserves a card too?

Reviews of New Food: Trolli Gummi Pops

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 00:00

As a child, my secret “cool kid” skill was the ability to eat the sourest candy—the kind that children only pop into their mouths when dared by the neighborhood bully—and shrug it off like it was absolutely nothing. The mean kids would encourage me to eat yet another Warhead or Tear Jerker, but I’d wolf it and stare back at their surprised faces without so much as an eye twitch. I not only tolerated the sourness well, I reveled in it. Warheads, sour gummies of any shape, entire lemons: If it had that puckering taste, I would demolish it.

No sour confection is safe when I am near. So when my friend Wyatt first introduced me to Trolli sour gummies years ago, I promptly asked him to hide the bag from me. Because for me, there was only eating Trolli sour gummies until I burned away all my taste buds, and my lips, teeth, and tongue turned toilet-cleaner blue.

Recently, I discovered the appropriately named “frozen novelties” aisle in my local Kroger. That’s where, as I paused to consider which flavor of vegan ice cream to take home, I found Trolli Gummi Pops staring back at me. They more than called to me; they screamed.