Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
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Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books
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Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books
Nobody reads books anymore. Whether or not that notion strikes you as true, you've probably heard it expressed fairly often in recent decades — just as you might have had you lived in the Roman Empire of late antiquity.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Trump administration announces 16th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat
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Pennsylvania voters retain three Democratic Supreme Court justices (NBC News)
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Election Day 2025 live updates: Spanberger wins Va.; Mamdani, Cuomo race for NYC mayor; NJ governor results counted
Voters across the country are heading to the polls today for a slew of key off-cycle races, including governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia and the New York City mayoral election.NBC News
TO WHIDDLE. To tell or discover. He whiddles; he peaches. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers all he knows. They whiddle beef, and we must brush; they cry out thieves, and we must make off. Cant.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
Update on the oat flour pumpkin muffins.
The recipe says to cook them for 22 minutes.
We're using silicone baking cups, ungreased, and put streusel on top.
We're at 40 minutes and they are still raw inside.
Wtf.
In good news:
1) the silicone baking cups released flawlessly, and the outside of the muffins has a good brown;
2) Mr Bostoniensis is extremely enthusiastic about the flavor of the half-raw muffin he tried.
The outsides were also in the oven above twice the expected time?
Could be the leavening agent is old and tired, whether baking powder or baking soda, and for this to mean the bubbles are uneven and thus the more bubbly upper/outer bits insulate the inner bits which polymerize in consequence.
I can recall a few recipes which neglected to note they were presupposing thoroughly industrial mixing machinery and that mere mortals would take much longer to get enough air in the dough, too.
Crossing streets in Glasgow city centre feels like you’re continually having to solve the worst Professor Layton puzzles
“If one side has a broken green light and the other side has a broken red light, and no lights are on, is it safe to cross?”
Good news is, I have 1.4k in wordcount today that I didn't have yesterday.
Not-so-good news? It's another damn portal fantasy. Looks like the third Underdark book wants to be born NOW, NO WAITING, GET TO WORK LILI.
I am enjoying a happy fun involuntary couple of weeks off work (new glasses coming before I can *try* to get back to the coal face: if that doesn't cut it, then $$$ for private surgery).
... It's a good series, m'kay?
Sensitive content
One of my kids likes to kick a ball around sometimes and doing that with them somehow gives me all the gender feelings.
The body language around football (not just playing, but applauding a good move, shouting "nice!" or "noooo!" or "goal!") feels both very male-coded *and* strangely right and good.
That’s the part I do understand—these limits, as well as the corresponding limits on what men are allowed to feel or express, are completely arbitrary.
Help with ficus propagation - All For Gardening
I’m hoping to propagate this 30 year old ficus (I assume ficus Benjamina) but am not 100% sure where I should cut. It has been in the family for a long timeGardener (All For Gardening)
#Dhaka, #Bangladesh
#Hindu devotees sit together with oil lamps to pray to Lokenath Brahmachari, a Hindu saint and philosopher, as they observe the Rakher Upobash festival at a temple.
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Dirty dancing in the ballroom…
Jennifer Rubin & Robert Weissmann: Taking Dirty Donations: Rob Weissman on the Donors Behind tRump's $350 million #Ballroom. "You don't want The President being able to solicit money from his friends and people who want to curry favor with him."
#WhiteHouse #corruption #autocracy #Amazon #Meta #Microsoft #Lockheed #Altria #Reynolds #tobacco
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What did I find in the alley? - All For Gardening
Can yall point me in the right direction on how to start using this thing? Most likely for greens to eat in the winter and then I’m open to suggestions.Gardener (All For Gardening)
Protest thread #65: Bridge Troll Rave!
Since it's now getting dark at 5pm most places, we're lighting up our signs and flags. Since we're got some boomers who remember the disco era, we've also got disco balls! We had a whole resistance party on the bridge again, demanding support for Ukraine and the release of the Epstein files.
We also had literal taco Tuesday, as one nice older man brought a bunch of fantastic homemade burritos as well as Halloween candy.
...middle fingers and ultra fragile men who blew exhaust on us out of their overcompensation trucks, but mostly we got mad honks from people stuck in traffic who loved our signs.
As one of the other women said to me, "The people who flip us off... I just wonder, what exactly do they object to? I remember when everybody agreed on exposing pedophiles and having a democracy." I heartily agreed. It's useful to gauge the public response, but it's not otherwise worth noting the middle fingers.
So now I'm back, it feels like Christmas Eve and we're already getting our first presents from Virginia and New Jersey!
I am going to watch election results and snuggle kitties and celebrate with all of y'all.
We got another bridge troll rave tomorrow.
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