"Richard “Kinky” Friedman, a Texas icon who infused his songs, fiction, and campaign speeches with a unique and crass humor, died early Thursday, June 27....
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"It's one of those tools that might not look like much from screenshots or a quick "dip" into it but it is actually quite flexible...
"he’s told average citizens they can post whatever they want in the party’s spaces in exchange for a “donation.” In effect. he’s selling the spaces,...
"Maybe it is futile but I'm not going to stop trying just because it's hard. I have every right to try and block them or...
"The human, after drinking liquids, must pee. So if you're about to go somewhere where peeing is impossible, maybe don't drink a lot of liquids."...
"No prime minister has ever lost their seat at a general election, according to the Institute for Government." #uk #politics 🍜 Latest election poll: Rishi...
"The magic trick that’s made Perplexity worth 10 figures, in other words, appears to be that it’s both doing what it says it isn’t and...
"Atami hit the big time during the madness of the bubble years, as along with money being readily available in general, it also became a...
"Welcome to Tiny Awards 2024. Last year, we decided to launch Tiny Awards, a small prize to celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces...
"The post-COVID global surge of illnesses – viral and bacterial, common and historically rare – is a mystery that researchers and scientists are still trying...
"Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and...
"I wanted to share a (not exhaustive) list of 50 useful and indisputable facts on the Palestinian / Israeli conflict." #palestine #israel 🍜 50 Completely...
"For young people right now it is an issue as important as where they will move when they leave home." #germany #kebab #inflation 🍜 Germans...
"If you're into ebooks and have, like me, only ever been within the Kindle ecosystem, I would highly recommend giving Kobo, and this device specially,...
"The foreign ministry’s press service said that the statements given by Shi would not be generated by AI but “written and verified by real people”."...
"“Ultimately, school administrators must recognize how surveillance undermines their core responsibility: creating a positive environment for learning, engagement, expression, and self-realization,”" #protest #surveillance #us 🍜...
"Biden and a growing number of lawmakers from both major political parties have been pushing for the DEA decision as marijuana has become increasingly decriminalized...
"As a result, town officials say they’ll set up a vinyl black curtain, some 20 meters long and 2.5 meters high, to black out the...
"Now, I have an excuse when someone asks me why they've not been read; I can simply shrug my shoulders, and say "Tsundoku", and then...
"Usually, it is easy to lose one's balance if the train shakes too much or goes too fast, but the trains on the Akita Nairiku...