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A manhole cover from Shirakawa-go showing the typical gassho houses of the region

#ManholeCoverMonday from Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture, Japan 🇯🇵

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?

‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detention Jim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I don't have it yet but am keen to give it a try!

No. I need to visit the Washington County, IL courthouse and see what records they have. There is very little avail on FamilySearch for this county #genchat Icebreaker

I had to deal with those as well. Such a simple error that could have been caught and fixed at the QC stage if such QC existed on these projects!

Arizona tribal member nearly deported after Iowa jail issues ICE detainer by mistake Native American ICE detainer mistake nearly leads to deportation of Arizona tribal member after Iowa jail clerical error

Arizona tribal member nearly deported after Iowa jail issues ICE detainer by mistake azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...

The files look like this:

I've definitely found copies of UK wills pre-1925 on FamilySearch via FullText but only from an Affiliate Library.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

Guardian reviews are so random. I'm half-way through this series, and I will finish it, but 5 stars is really pushing it.

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I subscribed to both because a few years ago the Springfield, MA papers I needed were only in GenealogyBank, but then some of them moved over to Newspapers.com. I definitely use Newspapers.com the most.

#AncestryHour Behold the beautiful penmanship of my 4th GG Charles Randall who was working as a scrivener in Huntingdon, England when he was just 16 y.o. I've just posted on my blog a deep dive into his life and into Huntingdon c1800-1850 emilyrandall.space/blog/2025/11...

The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.

Second Lieutenant Herbert Ernest Randall... Second Lieutenant, Herbert Ernest Randall He served in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 7th Bn. Service Number 09566 Herbert was the son of Alfred Edmund and Constance Hannah Randall, of Coalbroo...

#RememberanceSunday RIP Herbert Ernest Randall, born 1896 Coalbrookdale, Salop; died of wounds in France 1918 www.findagrave.com/memorial/247...

Every time Newmarket is mentioned in this record set, it has been inexplicably indexed as Trelawnyd. I really wish Ancestry would QC these records and give them a look over before having them go "live."

The NAD+ infusions aren't working...

YouTube video by APTN News Results of genealogical report on American groups claiming to be Abenaki | APTN News

Abenakis in Quebec have the genealogical reports they’ve been waiting for in their ongoing issue with American groups claiming Indigenous ancestry. The groups were recognized by the state of Vermont as Abenaki tribes in 2011 and 2012. youtu.be/v_7FC7V5JBw?...

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

An 1800% rise in violence? Yeah, Jim Bob, sure.

I've seen 2 different posts on Reddit in which each poster claimed to have used ChatGPT to "analyze" their raw DNA file. In each case we tried to tell him/her that their result was pure gibberish but they just didn't get it.

“The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators,” Ellis said Thursday before stating her ruling. “That simply is untrue. And the government’s own evidence in this case belies that assertion.”

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

"International flights are exempt from the cuts" (for now)

Interesting... Clipping found in The Charlotte Observer published in Charlotte, North Carolina on 12/31/1981. Interesting...

That's interesting, because Greg Bovino's father went to prison for manslaughter in NC in 1981 after killing a woman while driving drunk www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

😮 That is crazy! Is the bully a professional genealogist?! Or someone who works at FamilySearch? They've probably done this to others, not just you.

So yeah... incidents like this are why we're on edge. Will they try this in Texas? Because I don't think they'd like it very much there either.

Woman in red Anne Boleyn costume

Man in purple and black Tudor costume

Tudor Halloween. Lookin' like we stepped out of a Hans Holbein painting. We received many compliments on our costumes.