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Judge lets Trump's ballroom construction proceed (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

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Samsung’s 2026 Micro RGB LED TVs can actually fit in your living room

The new Micro RGB TVs range in size from 100 inches down to 55 inches and join the 115-inch MR95F released in the fall.



#harmony : the just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole

- French: harmonie

- Italian: armonia

- Portuguese: harmonia

- Spanish: armonía

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#BBC Man, 87, waits seven hours for ambulance on garden centre floor w.st/eHZnJ
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#BBC Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick to face murder charges in parents' deaths w.st/seVb4
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Five years ago I told my family not to buy me Christmas presents but to buy toys and donate them. All I wanted was a pic of the stuff they buy. Thing is, it was only meant to be that one year, but they do it every year now. I want some pressies but can't tell them to stop.


Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries (Rebecca Santana/Associated Press)

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Knowing a housemate was bringing a new girlfriend back, I spent some time with a wet finger and coffee granules creating horrific skidmarks in the underwear he had hanging up to dry


Kensington is pausing production of its Expert Mouse TB800 EQ trackball.

Some users have reported a potential dead zone in the trackball’s sensor when “interacting with the ball between approximately the 10–1 o’clock positions,” Kensington says in a statement. Inventory may be limited while the company’s “engineering teams are actively evaluating firmware, sensor calibration, and software options to determine what improvements may be possible.”

Kensington’s new trackball comes packed with scroll wheels



To stay slim, I don't eat any chips with curved edges. Today I picked through a whole bag of oven chips and selected only the straight ones so I could eat them all. Never felt so alive.


Mike Johnson, Speaker Irrelevant (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)

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Gravel drives are a FUCK YOU to anyone in a wheelchair or with walking difficulties. Give us a solid path from the pavement to your front door.


Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.
in reply to BoneHo-ho-houseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

Indeed. All you have to do is leave two spaces after a full stop; no LLM does that. (Wildly overusing semicolons, like a C++ programmer, also helps.)


RICHARD GRÉGOIRE 1944-2025
Celui qui a fait entendre Les filles de Caleb n’est plus

« Dès les premiers coups d’archet, on sait qu’on entre dans l’univers à la fois trouble et romanesque des Filles de Caleb. »

Mario Girard — Arts
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There should be a one question customer satisfaction survey at half time at football matches. If more than half the people in the stadium are dissatisfied then all ticket holders and TV rights holders should get their money back for that particular match.
in reply to BoneHo-ho-houseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

Right. I assume that a dissatisfied crowd would cause the match to be abandoned, but Anon doesn't actually say so.
in reply to C++ Wage Slave

@CppGuy Well definitely that but also, it would be in your interest to vote your dissatisfaction just to go for free, even if you were lying. A ticket becomes a voluntary donation at that point.


Bari Weiss' much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop (Justin Baragona/The Independent)

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Unemployment rate hit a four-year high last month (Alicia Wallace/CNN)

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