Watching Spain and Portugal very closely, but please don't jump to conclusions. Lots of bizarre root causes in big power grids.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

The liberal response:

Imagine trying to run an intelligence agency that's collecting a literally unfathomable amount of invasive signals intelligence from around the entire globe--and then being told you need to delete internal and external pages that include very common words like "inclusion"

if you offer dracula a little bit of your blood for free he'll probably respect you more

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

chronotrains.com is cool

This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media

Appalling. Remote controlled drones being used to hover over, look at, and then cynically shoot children ranks amongst the sickest cowardice ever. Best not highlight who is doing it though, hey BBC?

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[creation of trees] god: when it’s warm you’ll be covered in leaves tree: like a big coat? god: yes but when it’s cold they’ll all fall off tree: (eyes narrow) how long have you been doing this job

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