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Sat, 11/04/2026 - 19:04

​Coming out of DrupalCon Chicago 2026, we're starting the #ai-learners club, where we share tips and tricks and answer questions about how to use Drupal and AI together. Think of it kind of like Drupal Dojo, but for AI.

​For our inaugural meeting, the topic is: What's your Drupal + AI setup?

​Join us on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30am Pacific (What is that in my timezone?) for a live "show and tell" of what folks who attend are using for things like: models, modules, skills, tools, agents, IDEs, workflows... whatever! Let's share what's working and what's not and try and help each other level up. :)

​Note: The session will be recorded and uploaded afterwards for those who can't make it live. But it's way more fun if you can! ;)

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Sat, 11/04/2026 - 03:00

How do I find my local H&R Block?
Enter your zip code on our website to find an H&R Block near you. Alternatively, just drive by any property that used to contain a Spirit Halloween.

Can I file my taxes online?
You can, but it hurts our feelings when you use our services without coming in to talk to us.

Fine. I’ll come in person. But what happens after my taxes are filed?
You will possibly receive a refund via direct deposit once your tax dollars are deposited into the steaming gullet of the Great War Pig.

I’m sorry, what?
The Great War Pig.

Is that his name or his job?
His name is unspeakable, though you know it in the rotten depths of your heart.

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Sat, 11/04/2026 - 01:32
När Lunds universitets internrevision granskade 80 fakturor efter tjänsteresor var det bara sex som var helt korrekta … Internrevisionens slutsats var att kontrollen måste skärpas. Nyheten fick Andreas Walther på Fysiska institutionen att gå i taket. – Ungefär varje år tillkommer det nya regler och nya dokumentationskrav. Men det kommer inga nya resurser, säger han. […]
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Sat, 11/04/2026 - 00:41
OK, I don’t remember anything about this cocktail. Because I mixed this one up about a year ago. Thankfully, I found my blog notebook, which I thought was lost forever. So here are my musings: Frosted glasses are so pretty! No Maraschino cherry–had a strawberry. This is okay, I’m not a huge fan of Brandy.Continue reading 2-in-1 International Recipe Card Collection: Classic (1977)
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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 23:01

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Fishing apparel mentioned:

  • A tarpon-wear shirt
  • Old bib-front overalls
  • Bow ties and club blazers
  • Jean shorts
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It will come as no surprise to longtime readers of Thomas McGuane’s work that while I was speaking with him, I was moved by his kindness, his incisive insight, and, above all, his mischievous sense of fun. The craic was exceptional. We are both writers, anglers, and equestrians, and we’d both recently fished for Atlantic salmon in arctic Norway. We laughed a lot during our conversation: in helplessness, in disbelief, in despair, and at the inherent comedy of life.

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 22:00

“The Birth Rate Is Falling, and It Has Nothing to Do with the Cost of Housing, Health Care, or Childcare. It’s Women”

“The Falling Birth Rate: A Crisis with Many Complex Causes, All of Them Female”

“Women Cite ‘Financial Instability’ for Not Having Children. What Aren’t They Telling Us?”

“Did Feminism Ruin the Birth Rate?”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? College-Educated Women”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Non-College-Educated Women”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Women Whose Educational Status We Were Unable to Confirm”

“Experts Agree: The Birth Rate Crisis Is Multifaceted, Structural, and Female”

“Did IUDs Ruin the Birth Rate?”

“We Spent Six Months Investigating the Birth Rate Crisis and Found Women at Every Turn”

“Birth Rates Are Down Across the Western World. One Variable Has Remained Constant: Women”

“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 21:18

‘Come to Highgate, I’ll give you a quick guided pop tour,’ writes dandy, flâneur and musician Dickon Edwards in a November 1999 diary entry. ‘Here’s where Keith Moon threw a champagne bottle through a dividing wall and framed it for a photo. Here’s where Jo Whiley nearly got me run over. Here’s where Brett Anderson […]

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 21:17

What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves. Even as Americans grow, for the second time, disillusioned with a Trump presidency, we have put drapes […]

The post Jimmy Carter was right appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 19:17

The right to protest is not a privilege; it is a basic democratic freedom. What we are witnessing now in Britain is a serious and deliberate assault on that freedom.  The government’s recent Crime and Policing Bill would hand senior police officers the powers to decide where, when or whether a protest may take place. […]

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 18:00

Phil Armstrong Published online 10th April 2026 Modern Monetary Theory and International Trade: Developments on the Base Case for Analysis   Abstract  Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)’s approach to international trade …

The post Modern Monetary Theory and International Trade: Developments on the Base Case for Analysis appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 12:55
Stumbled upon this chart of US corporate profits vs. corporate taxes. The important part isn’t the taxes, it’s the profits. (Note that this is nominal and doesn’t include inflation adjustment, not that American inflation numbers mean anything anyway.) Now let’s look at another chart. This one of his how much profit companies that produce actual […]
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Fri, 10/04/2026 - 10:07
The New South Wales gold rush began more than 400 million years ago. It was an age of fire, that ended with ice. Australia was part of the super-continent Gondwana, which was not yet south. By continent standards it was moving fast. By the end of this era, the Ordovician, it would be at the […]