Happy Martini Day! I promised in the French Springtime Brunch post that I’d be sharing with you the recipe for Mr. Sauce’s welcome drink: The iconic cocktail from Vanderpump Rules, the PUMPTINI! So, how did we end up making drinks from a Bravo reality TV show about a group of LA restaurant workers (who areContinue reading For National Martini Day: The Pumptini
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He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest of all the Viking kings. At that peak of power, he ordered his courtiers to place a throne on the seashore. There, according to a contemporaneous account, he shouted at the rising tide: “Thou, too, are subject to my command, as the land on which I am seated is mine and no one has ever resisted my commands with impunity. I command you then not to flow over my land, nor presume to wet the feet... Read more
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Does Doctor Who really need fixing? If it does, we've got a four-point plan that might just work (but some of you are going to hate it).
Gone are the days of storming the gates. In this new era of resistance, we A/B test the gates, analyze the bounce rate of our demands, and push our uprising to GitHub for feedback.
Yes, the revolution is here.
No, it is not televised.
It’s currently available as a limited-access newsletter
and a lightly branded Discord server.
We don’t burn flags—we adjust brand guidelines.
We don’t chant—we run sentiment analysis.
We don’t topple systems—we disrupt them gently, with curated UX flows and tasteful earth tones.
Core Pillars of the Optimized Revolution:
1. Personalization
Each citizen receives a tailored resistance journey based on their cookies, voting record, and Spotify Wrapped.
2. Seamless Integration
Our protests sync with Google Calendar. Choose “in-person,” “virtual,” or “spiritually aligned.”
3. Performance Metrics
Anger is tracked via Fitbit. Tear gas exposure now counts toward your Apple Health goals.
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Doctors trying to save starving children and parents trying to feed their families spoke with The Intercept.
The post Children Are Starving in Gaza, as Soldiers Kill People Looking for Food appeared first on The Intercept.
When my daughter was bullied, I decided to homeschool her. A chain reaction ensued
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- by Allison J Pugh
They trekked for 2,000 years across formidable terrain
The post How Neanderthals Got to Siberia appeared first on Nautilus.
Protecting Asian species may have shifted poachers’ focus to African birds
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As Government cuts to disabled people's benefits lead to more dehumanising rhetoric, Penny Pepper reminds us that disability is an embedded reality of human experience as much as it always has been
Clementine Boucher and Luke Hurst, of the cross-party think tank Compass, share practical insights from its conference in London in May, focusing on how a ‘decade of radical renewal’ can become a reality
Protection should be the default state of the oceans. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th June 2025 I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). […]
New in Drupal 11.2
The second feature release of Drupal 11 improves backend and frontend performance and scalability, completes the introduction of OOP support of hooks, adds JSON Schema support, includes AVIF image format capability, supports SDC variants, and more.
Extension and site installation is three to four times as fast as Drupal 11.1.0
Thanks to various optimizations to container rebuilding and the installer, installing Drupal itself or extensions is now three to four times as fast. There are similar improvements when using the user interface, but it is more apparent when using Drush. In this video, we show Drupal 11.2 installing 60 modules in 5.7 seconds while Drupal 11.1 takes four times as much to do the same:
Beneath a torn plastic sheet, Saif Al-Hibl lies on the sand. A displaced man from the Al-Manshiyah neighborhood in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, he bought the shredded tent on credit after relentless Israeli bombardment left him and his family homeless. ‘The heat inside the tent is unbearable’, he says bitterly. ‘What brought us here […]
Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” which it describes as “a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Four ultra-wealthy executives from top tech companies were sworn in to […]
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The post US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels appeared first on The Grayzone.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (June 19, 2025) – Labour Force, Australia – for May 2025, which revealed that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1 per cent for the second consecutive month. There was a small decrease in overall employment (-2,500) which was offset by a…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright submitted a resume to Congress with what appears to be false information about working in solar energy. He’s repeated the claim in almost every public appearance since.