The cops did what now??

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

#MyFTReadingReview readingreview.ft.com/index.html?i...

Actually, the OCR isn't usually sharply cut because the economy is going *well* ...

Being from Edinburgh I should know where this church is, although it can be a bit of a bugger to find at times...

Yay, new season of Sandman on Netflix

Together we must be united as a country make the necessary sacrifices during these hard times so we can help pay for these landlord tax cuts! 🫡✊ yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/actively-e...

Rome, what a city!

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next

Came all the way to St Peters Basilica and all I got was this lousy halo...

Morena!

Sunny Scottish Sunday stroll around Hillside and Leith

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!

Why do we, the most powerful nation on Earth, act like the most weak and shortsighted?

WTF

Pretty much

As if we haven't heard enough about David Seymour's opinions lately.... I stopped reading when I got to the bit where we don't need earthquake standards because not that many people have died in earthquakes compared to cancer.

The ACT rede: "An ye harm none of the businesses who donate to my party, do what ye will."

Boosting this for people in NZ - this is what Seymour and friends want for us…

If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?

This happened before actually, it led to World War I

Weird to realise there are now twice as many humans on the planet compared to when I was born.

Neil Gaiman... him too. archive.ph/79BtW

Over 60 German universities have left platform X, citing its failure to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship. It’s vital to stop giving such platforms power; leaving hits their revenue stream, sending a clear message that inclusivity and accountability are non-negotiable.

Aye, it's increasing minimum wages that's driving up inflation right enough...

Belfast murals

Game of Thrones - Dark Hedges

What a glorious day in the capital

Garner: "What goes up must come down, but in Luxon’s case, what didn’t go up very far needed to go further, & now it’s coming back down it won’t take long before it’s all over. I think his popularity, if you can call it that, has peaked – & if he had a honeymoon,(we) must've missed it..." 🤔 #nzpoli

Morena!

What a morning in Wellington

That's better, freshly shorn!

The reckless fantasy of promising major projects based on their 2016 costs is starting to bite for the government. www.politik.co.nz/paying-for-n...

Edinburgh

Morena!

So hold it Enron, Lehman Brothers and others cooked the books and what happened to those CEOs? Isn't this an accounting scandal and not an error. This is white collar crime 101

You can't beat Wellington on a good day!

Happy St Andrew's Day!

This went on for months and I finished the second semester of that year and he started saying that we needed to move to Austin, Texas IMMEDIATELY so that he could work in the computer game industry, his dream job. He did not have a job there. He had not applied for one.

Best player to ever wear an England shirt..

Decent walk and coffee company this morning

You love to see it. Hydro storage in NZ is near its nominal maximum. Average renewable percentage for the last week is 96 percent. Right now, we're generating more power from solar than from gas.