Electric Toy Stoves: A Hot History Lesson
Imagine learning to cook on a toy stove that could heat to 260 °C. The 1930 Lionel range was as educational as it was hazardous.Allison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
In a world of dipshit politicians, Zelensky is a beacon of light.
From: @benroyce
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This fucking guyHe's one for the ages
Ukrainians are angry at a tone in Western #media lately that #Ukraine is losing
#Disinfo from the usual #socialMedia #troll farms and #plutocrat influenced channels shilling a #narrative for a corrupt #agenda
So what does #Zelensky do?
He goes to the frontline in #Kupiansk and films himself there
While the #West repeats #Kremlin lies that #Russia controls it
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Zelensky is something else
Tough, crafty, true
In a world of dipshits
Don't miss this important webinar to look beyond the headlines and get a deeper understanding of one of the world's most protracted resource wars & humanitarian disasters:
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Die Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder beim Camp in Polen im Sommer 2025 feiern eine Frau von unfassbarer Stärke. Aber in Deutschland ist sie kaum bekannt.Bayerischer Rundfunk
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I need help dealing with the landlady
Hi, about a month ago I moved apartments (displaced worker-student), and from the beginning I have been asking for both a contract and receipts, which theBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
A Bad Boss Hall of Fame entry: Employees are expected to buy enough of his kid's wrapping paper to win a school contest. Here's why the sort of exploitation is terrible all around, and how to get out of it: slate.com/advice/2025/...
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A AAA game for the Alien franchise is back in the works
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/a-aaa-game-for-the-alien-franchise-is-back-in-the-works-204401214.html?src=rss&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A AAA game for the Alien franchise is back in the works
A new arcade survival horror game in the Alien franchise is expected to be released in 2028.Jackson Chen (Engadget)
#christmas2025 #childrensbooks #stockingstuffers
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New in PN: Kevin Kruse on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy
"He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the White House over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters." publicnotice.co/p/kevin-kruse-…
Kevin Kruse on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy
"Trump is engaged in a constant war with the media like we’ve never seen from a president before."Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
Me: Hey Facebook- here's your twice annual kid update/our family xmas card
FB:
(Great, uh, algorithm you've got there. 😅 Spouse: Craft a ... what!? Me: idk; I didn't click on it. Spouse: Oookayyy. Merry Christmas 😬 )
I mean, it's the whole Internet tracking/advertising ecosystem... but especially big social media.
I run an ad blocker, my spouse doesn't. It's always amusing to see ads for very specific pieces of $$$ vintage electronic test equipment show up on her screen while she's looking at some recipe website. I know she wasn't the one looking for it!
@IrrationalMethod
Oh, I actually meant the divorce ad in the OP. Yes, about the shared IP, but also, sometimes it seems to be slightly looser geotargeting.
Some of those neighbor-shifts were in apartments, but some were not.
Yes, I have had a really uncanny Mastodon-to-LinkedIn promoted post. I don't remember exactly, but something very specific about multilingual publishing. And some other targeted posts that were not quite that niche, but sus.
Someone I really miss from Twitter is Shoshana Wodinsky, who earlier in her career had the best posts about adtech. Her verdict was: yikes.
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You must read this incredible @fieseler.bsky.social story of a man who seems to have genuine conservationist commitments but who, as a self-described “libertarian,” also worked at a fossil-funded think tank & single-handedly organized the recent local…
United Airlines flight safely returns to Dulles airport after engine failure during takeoff
The Federal Aviation Administration says a plane experienced an engine failure while taking off from Dulles International Airport before safely returning to the airport.The Associated Press (WTOP News)
One engine out of two going down is anticipated ... but rarely do both go out ... rarely, but it has happened, and as Mr. Murphy and his law tell us, it happened at the worst possible time...
Maybe a year after the event below happened I was in the cockpit of an American 767 and I asked "Where is the Delta switch?" I got an instant answer from both front seats - both pilots pointed to the now very clearly red/black colored, flip-cover-protected switches on the center console.
The image is a screenshot of a transit notification, with a light blue background. The notification details information about a train arrival. The top line states “Today, December 13th” with a small calendar icon to the right. Below that is “161 Northeast Regional”. Further down, it reads “Baltimore, MD Penn Station”. The next section shows “Estimated Arrival 4:53pm”, followed by an orange circle with the text “Delayed 8 mins” and finally, “Scheduled 4:45pm”.
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