This is an update on my ongoing garage workshop conversion: it’s going well! However…

Cross post: https://lemmy.world/post/45816072

The ongoing humanitarian blockade has undermined the work of UNRWA, WFP, WHO, and other UN-affiliated organizations.

Bonus high-er thinking:

Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

The jury delivered its not guilty verdict on the Just Stop Oil supporters after approximately six hours of deliberation.

Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect its obligation to detain leaders on its territory sought by the Hague-based tribunal.

Over the weekend, The New York Times revealed the origins of the modern shadow docket, publishing internal memos that were circulated among the justices before the Roberts-led majority halted then-President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan in 2016.

After politely being told I can’t upload any more weird Frog and Toad memes (due to advocating violence?!?) by a mod from my old instance, I nuked my account and switched over here. I hope you enjoy more silly memes like this. :)

In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”: a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething, filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41519537

Jerry Rodriguez appeared to be a deeply aggrieved man—the victim of a scheme orchestrated by his girlfriend’s domineering ex-partner to “murder” not one, but two, of his “unborn children.” In a lawsuit filed in Galveston, Texas, last summer on behalf of “all current and future fathers… in the United States,” Rodriguez was portrayed as a devoted boyfriend who accompanied his girlfriend to ultrasound appointments and, eventually, pleaded with her not to go through with abortions that her ex was trying to force her to have.

FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

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Nova Launcher could soon introduce Nova AI, a built-in AI assistant complete with a chatbot, and a new Nova Plus subscription tier

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A police report, which The Informer received soon after the release of MPD’s statement, said at least a dozen officers arrived at the scene and recovered a white Ford E-150. Some of those officers, Williams said, went to great lengths to stop him from recording, even threatening to arrest him. 

In 1985, four Soviet diplomats in Lebanon were kidnapped by masked gunmen right outside the Soviet Embassy. The abductors called themselves the “Islamic Liberation Organization” a front cover for Hezbollah.

i just learned about bubbles last night and i’m already in love with it. it’s federated and you can login with a mastodon account to rate and comment.

Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News look like typical news websites. They have neatly designed homepages and active social media accounts, where they share reporting and videos on Middle Eastern geopolitics in Arabic and Farsi, respectively, as well as English. Al-Fassel’s X account states the publication’s mission is “to investigate events of great significance that are often overlooked by local and regional media, and to shed light on them.” The Pishtaz News X account says it was established “to investigate and expand upon important news that local and regional media often overlook.”

The Atlantic reported that FBI personnel have expressed concerns about the director’s unexplained absences and excessive drinking. He sued a few days later.

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April 20 has become an international counterculture holiday based on the celebration and consumption of cannabis. Events typically advocate for cannabis liberalization and legalization. Vivian McPeak, a founder of Seattle’s Hempfest, states that 4/20 is “half celebration and half call to action”.

If you’re like me, you probably need to update your image tag to this new major version. I’ll probably wait for a minor release first.

TNG s6e18 “Starship Mine” aka “Star Trek Does a Die Hard”

I’m on Webtoons for some reason

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Who’ll claim it first? Death metal? Black metal? Punk? Lotta commentary to be made about one picture. Bad Religion could get a two-for-one out of it.

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Was good. Slightly less salt next time.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video address released Sunday that Canada’s strong economic ties to the United States were once a strength but are now a weakness that must be corrected.

For quite a while I had been longing to measure the waterlevel in my well.

“We used our oil wealth to build an economic powerhouse. They used their wealth for nuclear programs that are nefarious, for missiles, drones, proxies, etc.,” she told host Jonathan Karl. “So whereas we tried to become and have become an international, global, responsible player, they are a pariah state. And they wanted to break that model, but they underestimated our resolve.”

Pattern from Pixelartitch on Etsy

The key problem is that they cause deforestation: