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Still, it's only fair that people seeking asylum in Britain should be shown just what really it is they're seeking. The hotel thing was rather a bait-and-switch. For maximum verisimilitude, the utility company should break in without a warrant and shut off their power.

indy100.com/news/asylum-seeker

Nikki Haley: “We need to acknowledge the whole issue. And the whole issue is [the shooter in Nashville] was struggling and there was nobody there to help her.”'

Wow, tell me the shooter was white without telling me the shooter was white. i don''t recall her ever mentioning that George Floyd was struggling and there was nobody there to help him. And he wasn't murdering schoolchildren.

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

@pieist @pebonilla “Graduation requirements include ten units of history, ten units of biology or anatomy, at least one foreign language, and at least one year throwing sharp pieces of metal at mentally ill people.”

Never really understood why nobody ever wanted to come over and play Manholes of Venus™️ until I stumbled on this historic document just now.

It remains absolutely wild to me that Jalopnik, of all things, has one of the most enlightened editorial views on car culture and windshield-perspective.

This is a blistering editorial that would get you fired from just about any mainstream newspaper for writing.

jalopnik.com/its-not-the-bike-

I was just telling a friend about the series "Reilly, Ace of Spies." Just one of the best things ever made, of any kind at all. I just looked it up. It was in 1983. Fuck do I feel old now.

Still puzzled about the Twit-In-Chief: 

Does Musk really still not get what verification was for, or is he just playing, Trump-style, to what he supposes -- unfortunately fairly accurately -- is an aggrieved rabble's infinite capacity for resentment?

If you're tired of the way TV promotes content, on services you don't even subscribe to, even in "Apps Only" mode, I recommend the Projectivy launcher. It's exactly functional enough: essentially what you wish the native launcher was.

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.

The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#cities #cars #bikes #Holland #Dutch #city

Get your money's worth from Netflix by only watching the most obscure movies from deep in the search results. They save on bandwidth charges by caching the popular stuff locally and then encouraging everyone to watch it, but if we each make them stream different weird content from some remote server just for us we'll bring them to their knees! Fight the power, man.

None of the lies, the malfeasance, the self-dealing, the corrupt cronyism... only, finally, a particularly naked instance of "I am actually better than you" conduct that was blatant and symbolic enough to strike home.

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Funny the thing that finally stuck to Boris Johnson after all these years is The Great British "Oi, So You Think You're Better Than Us?"

Considering that's exactly what he has always thought and has never made any effort to hide beyond mussing his hair.

... hang on, there are some mysterious new charges on my credit card. Several of them mention cheese trays and room service.

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Well, I caught him a few days ago. Had to do the same trick of herding him into a humane trap that he won't go into voluntarily.

Took him to an overgrown area near the Columbia river,; hopefully he'll find his way to some sort of survivable habitat. If nothing else there's a hotel nearby...

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@FLGLchicago
Fun fact; the COVID death rate in the US currently is twice the opioid death rate
But one is "over" and the other is a crisis and an epidemic

I don't know about you but I genuinely feel that the little glass hut on top of the Pontiff's touring float should be called the Pope-A-Cabana

You can always spot the most contentious part of a Wikipedia article by the number of sentences that begin "Oh yeah well" or whose subject is "your mom".

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