Someone Else's Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony by Tom Stevenson, 2023
Someone’s Else’s Empire coolly reassesses Britain’s relationship with the United States. Elite descriptions of Britain’s position in the world (‘punching above our weight’) are untenable, Tom Stevenson argues. Yet there is a refusal, in most parts of society, to examine the assumptions behind them.
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My lemons are a little orange in colour. This photo makes them look even more orangey. We live on the side of a hill, and you can see the solar panels on our roof peaking under the branches.
I'm posting this because the flowers right now are making the entire property smell gorgeous! So sweet! So fresh! The bees seem to think so as well!
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I'm looking for action today from any of the judges who have released Trump on bail. Since he's running for President he'll say, "It's just 'political speech"
But as @glennkirschner2 has explained over and over, because of his pre-trial status in felony convictions, his speech has limits.
We can't just throw up our hands and say, "Well wait until the election!" I want the judges to look at this and have a ruling on this. Because I don't think he'll stop making threats.
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Credits: Babak Tafreshi, TWAN, ESO Ultra HD Expedition
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A Second Trump Presidency Could Threaten Already Shrinking Freedoms for Protest and Dissent
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Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the FBI & Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a joint statement on Russian election influence efforts,
“The IC assesses that Russian influence actors manufactured a recent video that falsely depicted individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple counties in Georgia."
"The Georgia Secretary of State has already refuted the video’s claims as false."
#infosec
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"Tellingly, instead of denouncing Hinchcliffe’s joke, Trump’s response to the MSG debacle was to hold a staged roundtable event in PA where a Puerto Rican slathered him with praise, saying, 'Puerto Rico stands behind you, and Puerto Rico loves you.'"
Here's the link to the #DOJ 's Election Threats Task Force reporting form justice.gov/voting/election-th…
The Task Force investigates & prosecutes threats to election workers. They just announced that
Brian Ogstad was sentenced to 30 months in prison for threatening Arizona election workers.
allaboutarizonanews.com/alabam…
universetoday.com/169047/remem…
In May 2023, the ESA’s Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) sent a signal to Earth to simulate a possible extraterrestrial transmission. As part of the multidisciplinary art project “A Sign in Space,” the purpose was to engage citizen scientists in helping to decode it. After a year of attempts, the father-daughter team of Ken and Keli Chaffin managed to crack the code after days of simulations.
Donald Trump tells the biggest anti-trans lie of his campaign - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/donald-trump-tells-the-biggest-anti-trans-lie-of-his-campaign/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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in reply to Muse • • •That color (and shape) looks like Meyers Lemons. (We have both Eureka and Meyers varieties growing at our house.) Have you tried Mexican limes - it took our tree several years to produce, but now it is giving us more nice small round limes than we can use.
(We've got other citrus as well, such as kumquats and bergamot.)
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in reply to Muse • • •We are at the northern limit for Mexican ("key") limes, most people here grow the Persian variety and a few people do the kieffer (sp) limes for the leaves to use in cooking.
I wish we could do Santa Rosa plums - the best plums - but those want the kind of heat that is on the other side of the mountains. Blenheim apricots also want a lot more heat than we have. (Same for oranges.) Lemons like the cooler coastal weather we have.
My mother had several avacado trees - they like the southern California coastal weather, but it's too cool here.
We are also doing a California native coastal apple - Sierra Beauty. It was a lost variety until one tree was discovered in the Anderson valley (near Mendocino). All Sierra Beauty trees are descended from that one tree.
We have several large commercial apple growers in the area; and one national apple juice brand (Martinellis). I am surprised at the lack of apple ciders.
I wanted to do a California Mission olive - they seem to do reasonably well here, although they do like more heat. But it is a producing olive and t
... show moreWe are at the northern limit for Mexican ("key") limes, most people here grow the Persian variety and a few people do the kieffer (sp) limes for the leaves to use in cooking.
I wish we could do Santa Rosa plums - the best plums - but those want the kind of heat that is on the other side of the mountains. Blenheim apricots also want a lot more heat than we have. (Same for oranges.) Lemons like the cooler coastal weather we have.
My mother had several avacado trees - they like the southern California coastal weather, but it's too cool here.
We are also doing a California native coastal apple - Sierra Beauty. It was a lost variety until one tree was discovered in the Anderson valley (near Mendocino). All Sierra Beauty trees are descended from that one tree.
We have several large commercial apple growers in the area; and one national apple juice brand (Martinellis). I am surprised at the lack of apple ciders.
I wanted to do a California Mission olive - they seem to do reasonably well here, although they do like more heat. But it is a producing olive and those are messy trees. So we have an olive tree that doesn't produce much.
I wanted to do passion fruit, but it is beyond invasive, and it tends to provide home for rats.
Santa Cruz is strawberry (and artichoke) territory, so I figure why should I try to grow what others do better. (Although we do have some large growers who go for color and size rather than flavor.)
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