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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 07:50

COFFS COAST fishers rallied in response to a call from OzFish Unlimited to join in a clean-up around Boambee Creek on Saturday 18 November. OzFish Unlimited is a recreational fishing conservation charity, working through its Keep it Clean partnership with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Fisheries to do the dirty work caused by...

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 07:45

THE 184th anniversary of her great great grandfather’s birth, on 19 October, had North Bank Road resident Jenni McLennan (nee Tyson) poring over her Tyson family history. “We have four generations of Tyson males, all born and still living in the valley. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 05:39
Preparation time: 20 min.Baking time: 25 to 30 min.Oven temperature: 375°F Broccoli and ham cubes bake in a savory custard, making a hearty casserole for a family meal. It is also an excellent choice to serve on a brunch buffet table. For 4 servings you will need:2 lbs. fresh broccoli½ tsp. saltWater2 medium onions, minced1 […]
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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 05:00

You gotta get this Tesla Cybertruck, bro. It’s great. Am I a paid spokesperson? Sort of. I’m a person who paid $8 a month to “spokes” for them.

This thing is awesome, bro.

You ever been driving down the road when a crazed band of gangbangers rolled through your suburban neighborhood and blasted up the side of your truck with Uzis and Gatling guns for no reason? No, but you could easily imagine a scenario where that happens, right? Well, if your imagination became a reality, you’d need the only truck on the market that keeps pointing out it’s bulletproof for some reason.

Does your neighborhood have a billionaire who throws rocks at your truck window? No? Good, Cybertruck can’t handle that.

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 04:23
How To Use China To Make Your Left Wing Government Succeed

Back in 2016 I wrote a piece called “Seven Rules For Running a Real Left Wing Government.” It proved to be one of my most popular pieces, particularly loved by activists. Since then I’ve often been asked for an more and I’ve finally written a partial update and companion piece.

The Sixth Rule was “Reduce Your Vulnerability to the World Trade System.”

This rule is still true, but how it is applied has changed — you can use a relationship with China to, over time, reduce your dependence on the old system which required you to stay poor and dependent..

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 03:31
The UK government is proposing to give the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) powers to force financial institutions to hand over personal information belonging to people who claim benefits from the state. The plans have been presented as an amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill, which returns to the House […]
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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 01:31

When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn’t.) Back in the 1970s, though, I believed that, by infecting my friend, he might have set in motion a process that would someday kill her. That he was an arrogant jerk made it that much easier for me to contemplate murdering him. But there was a larger context to my private dream of revenge. My anger was also fed by a growing awareness that so many of us were just then acquiring of the history of systematic patriarchal threats to, and constraints... Read more

Source: Is It Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:02

Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design. —The State of […]

The post Fly, my designers, fly! appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design.

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:01

Polar Vest
This down-filled vest is super soft and is guaranteed to keep kids warm and toasty. Your tween will flat-out refuse to wear it for no apparent reason other than “I just don’t like it,” even though it comes in what used to be her favorite color but apparently isn’t anymore.

Mountain Fleece Pants
These fleece-lined pants will keep the chill away on cold days. Unfortunately, your tween boy will opt for shorts even when it’s thirty degrees with a “real feel” temperature of twenty-four degrees.

Cozy Scarf
You might as well take your money and set it on fire because scarves are “cringe.”

Guns N’ Roses T-shirt
Your tween will wear this T-shirt but will not discuss Appetite for Destruction with you and will not entertain the idea that people who wear band shirts without listening to the actual bands are “posers.”

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:00

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For the first time ever, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s longtime columnist Rowdy Geirsson has translated his extensive archival research of anonymously recorded, authentic Norse lore into English. This new scholarly edition of The Impudent Edda comes with extensive footnotes and photos and offers readers a highly accessible yet deeply poetic rendition of fun and classic tales ranging from Odin’s unprovoked murder of an ancient witch, to Freyja’s voluntary experiment as a prostitute among lecherous dwarves, to Thor’s drunken and petty act of larceny on the eve of Ragnarök, the final world-shattering battle of the gods.