LINUS, GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

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I have posted many pumpkin memes, and if you’re still out of the loop and wondering what in the pumpkin does this mean, you can read this.

“But I think one of the issues here is that if you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful. You’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth, and that’s one of the things that I try to do, and it’s certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they’re Catholic or Protestant,” he added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17474967

The alternative app store Aptoide filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the USA over alleged monopolization. Aptoide, provider of an alternative Android app store, accuses Google of excluding competing app stores from the market by monopolizing app distribution and billing, thus violating US antitrust law.

The Addams Family began not as a family, but as single nameless characters in Charles Addams’ single panel comics in the New Yorker.

I absolutely love pressure washing and I’m getting paid for it.

This… was a lot of feathers.

On Tuesday, the Democrat-controlled state legislature in Maine passed a ban on large data centers. It wasn’t exactly close. The state’s House passed it 79-62, and the Senate passed it 21-13—along party lines with a few exceptions, according to the Wall Street Journal. Governor Janet Mills’ signature is still needed before it becomes law, and the Journal says she has signaled interest in signing such a ban under certain circumstances.

edit: I posted this from my phone and it look normal enough, seeing it on my desktop shows the weird filter that seems to have been added to the image. I didn’t create this one. Sorry about that weirdness.

“Children are considered pretty sturdy up here in the North.

… with my grandaunt (born 1921) on her knee.

A legendary thread. We have never settled how many days there are in a week.

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice. 100+ models with CAD assets in STEP, DXF, DWG, and PDF. Source-available, with commercial use allowed for original compatible accessories within the license terms.

The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.

The Iran war set off the “most severe oil supply shock in history,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report on Tuesday, warning that high prices would slash demand for crude, the primary lifeblood of the global economy.

This appears to be part of the “Parents Decide Act” announced earlier in April by Gottheimer, as just one step in the process. So expect a lot more to come. Some bullet point plans from it:

Face reveaaaaal! Pls ignore my serious concentration face. I make the worst facial expressions when riding lmao.

The United States’ foreign router ban didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday China ​had been an unreliable global partner during the Middle East war by hoarding oil supplies and limiting exports ‌of some goods, mirroring its actions with medical goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.”

I enjoyed this article by Lars Wirzenius, who has known Linus Torvalds since the 80s.

France is saying “non” to Chinese photovoltaic components through a mix of protectionism and cybersecurity requirements as it readies a government-backed program of new solar energy projects.