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Do you have a "Windows 10" machine you didn't upgrade to Windows 11

You should open this page and follow the instructions BEFORE WEDNESDAY. There are no downsides I know of & it means you get security updates for one more year. It may cost $30, or may not.

www.microsoft.com/en-ca/window...

the Retrowave text generator meme, with the text "Disappointed But Not Surprised"

wtf where did they post that?

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

The multidirectional borrowings of names (and words in general) across E/SE Asian languages will never cease to fascinate me. Lots of history encapsulated in one word.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

how, in the year of our lord two thousand twenty and five, are we still publishing retrospective studies with analyses this lazy

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

Whether it’s Trump being fluffed by some doctor with no credibility, or Bryan Johnson’s claims of “having a biological age of 21” being unquestioningly reported, the press seem utterly unable to do any research before writing. These are not validated metrics. They are not real. It is meaningless.

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

bitch what

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I kinda get what they think they're trying to say here, and I do want to see Hongkongers welcomed abroad, but this is also basically arguing that only immigrants with college degrees and money deserve have enough value as human beings to be allowed in to start a new life. I'm not down with that.

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Okay this is a good headline

watching this was such a fun way to learn a little about Ethernet

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

thanks for standing up for better trans healthcare!

erm, so 3D scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum (!!) have been used by the IDF to create animations of supposed terror sites, tunnels and bunkers they've destroyed (!!!) 🫠

this is like saying you're banning mercury compounds because they're toxic *except for* dimethylmercury, which you think is just fine

Toronto

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Black-and-white photo of the full moon, showing a lot of detail of the surface of the moon.

Still image of the performer Psy from the music video for Gangnam Style, captioned "LET'S DO THIS CHỮ NÔM STYLE"

We've just enjoyed the bright harvest moon of Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋, 추석 秋夕, 月見, Trung Thu, etc.), so how about a moon-related linguistics thread?

We'll look at an unusual Chữ Nôm graph and recover some lost 17th-century Vietnamese sounds, among other things.

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nah that's clearly the Toronto Police Headquarters at 40 College Street. you can see the Native Child and Family Services building at 30 College Street next door. maps.app.goo.gl/dNBd7twwDm8k...

This is amazing… the chemical that makes nachos cheese runny has a chemical formula that spells “Nacho”