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Nov. 12th, 2025 12:00 am
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I need a new mouse, as the scroll wheel on my current one has suddenly started playing up. I'm back to the old days before we had scroll wheels! I expect I'll get a Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse, as I've used those for years and they do the trick. No messing around with wireless mice and batteries for me! It wasn't an especially nice day's weather, with a damp morning and a thoroughly wet afternoon and evening. As such, no thrilling photos. This one is from Jubilee Gardens in Bewdley. This tree has been popular for kids to climb for decades, but the most accessible large branch was becoming unstable. Just for once, instead of simply cutting it off or banning climbing altogether, they did this! It works, too.
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Posted by Coral Murphy Marcos (now); Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

The justices, anticipating the shutdown will end soon, avoid substantive legal ruling about whether lower-court orders to keep full Snap payments going amid shutdown are correct

As the supreme court deliberates on the fate of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs – which he maintains are a matter of “national security” as justices appeared skeptical during oral arguments on the case last week – the president said that the US would be forced to hand “in excess of three trillion dollars” if the levies are scrapped, in a late night post on Truth Social.

He added:

It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a ‘drubbing.’ That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country – Possibly non-sustainable!

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Posted by PA Media

  • Italian served a three-month suspension in February 2025

  • Djokovic adds that timing of punishment was ‘very odd’

Novak Djokovic has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month doping ban will hang over him like a “cloud” – and questioned the timing of the sanction last year.

Sinner served a three-month ban in February 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) accepted his explanation that a banned anabolic steroid, clostebol, entered his system accidentally.

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Posted by Coral Murphy Marcos

Alyssa Wilson, a resident at a sober living home, stole a minivan and was chased for hours until crossing the border

A woman who had been staying at a women’s sobriety home in California stole a minivan and was chased by police for hours until she crossed over to Mexico on Monday.

A second woman, Nicolle Walters, 45, reported to authorities that her 2004 gray Toyota Sienna was missing, along with her car key, according to a statement by the Ventura county sheriff’s office. Walters, owner and operator of two women’s sober living homes, identified the suspect as Alyssa Wilson, one of the residents at Diana’s House Sober Living in Thousand Oaks, which is about an hour’s drive north-west of Los Angeles.

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Posted by Sophie Downey at the NV Arena

Chelsea breezed past Austrian outfit St Pölten to seal their second Women’s Champions League victory of the campaign. Two goals from Catarina Macario, a finish from Wieke Kaptein, a double for Sam Kerr on her return to the starting lineup and an unfortunate Lisa Ebert own goal moved them up to second at the halfway stage of the league phase.

It was the perfect night for Kerr who was making her first start for the Blues in 692 days. It has been a long road back for the Australian but with goals in the WSL and now the Champions League, she is starting to gain momentum as she builds up minutes and confidence. There was also a welcome back to the lineup for Naomi Girma, who missed the start of the season with a hamstring problem, while Lauren James got a 15-minute cameo as she made her return from the ankle injury she picked up in the Euro 2025 final.

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Trying And Failing To Get A Vaccine

Nov. 11th, 2025 11:26 pm
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Posted by Athena Scalzi

It’s that time of year again where I always manage to get COVID. I have gotten COVID literally every single year since 2020, and pretty much exclusively around the holidays. I also happen to be flying to San Francisco this week and hanging out with a bunch of people while there, so I figured today was a good day to walk into my local Kroger and get a COVID shot.

Well, I ended up leaving without one, as I was told that unless I had a medical diagnosis or condition that required I get one per a doctor’s order, I couldn’t get one. I was baffled, since I could’ve sworn that for the past five years Kroger has been nonstop advertising walk-in vaccines, so I inquired further. I was told that it’s because of the new administration. Because why wouldn’t that be the reason?

Basically, she said that unless I had a “reason” to get the shot, my insurance wasn’t going to cover it. So I asked what if I just paid out of pocket, and she said it would be over two hundred dollars, and that I should try CVS or Walgreens to see if it was cheaper there.

I’m literally just, like, dumbfounded right now. I know that (thankfully) I can just pay out of pocket, or try a different place, or see if they’ll accept insurance or whatever, but what the fuck? Needing insurance to get a vaccine is bullshit. Needing a reason to get a vaccine is bullshit. I walked in to a clinic that advertised walk-in COVID shots, and left without one. That’s bullshit!

Anyway, I just wanted to come on here and vent, and see if anyone else has had a similar experience in the past few months? I want to get a flu shot, as well, and I’m hoping I don’t run into the same fucking issue.

Let me know in the comments.

-AMS

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Posted by Coral Murphy Marcos (now); Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

The justices, anticipating the shutdown will end soon, avoid substantive legal ruling about whether lower-court orders to keep full Snap payments going amid shutdown are correct

As the supreme court deliberates on the fate of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs – which he maintains are a matter of “national security” as justices appeared skeptical during oral arguments on the case last week – the president said that the US would be forced to hand “in excess of three trillion dollars” if the levies are scrapped, in a late night post on Truth Social.

He added:

It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a ‘drubbing.’ That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country – Possibly non-sustainable!

Continue reading...
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Posted by Lauren Farrugia

I’ve learned that grief and love can coexist, not as opposites but as two currents running in the same river

Pregnancy after loss is full of contradictions. It is hope that feels cautious, like it might dissolve if you breathe too hard. It is learning to live again inside a body that remembers grief.

I am now officially in my third trimester, and each day brings small signs of life: a flutter, a roll, a hiccup, the steady rhythm of his heart. I am growing a baby I will meet, hold and raise. But I have also carried a baby I never got to meet. For 13 weeks, my body held her. It nurtured her, protected her, grew her placenta, still believing she was safe. And in a way, she was. My husband told me then: “She only ever knew love and warmth”, and that has never left me.

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Posted by PA Media

  • Italian served a three-month suspension in February 2025

  • Djokovic adds that timing of punishment was ‘very odd’

Novak Djokovic has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month doping ban will hang over him like a “cloud” – and questioned the timing of the sanction last year.

Sinner served a three-month ban in February 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accepted his explanation that a banned anabolic steroid, clostebol, entered his system accidentally.

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Posted by Sophie Downey at the NV Arena

Chelsea breezed past Austrian outfit St Pölten to seal their second Women’s Champions League victory of the campaign. Two goals from Catarina Macario, a finish from Wieke Kaptein, a double for Sam Kerr on her return to the starting lineup and an unfortunate Lisa Ebert own goal moved them up to second at the halfway stage of the league phase.

It was the perfect night for Kerr who was making her first start for the Blues in 692 days. It has been a long road back for the Australian but with goals in the WSL and now the Champions League, she is starting to gain momentum as she builds up minutes and confidence. There was also a welcome back to the lineup for Naomi Girma, who missed the start of the season with a hamstring problem, while Lauren James got a 15-minute cameo as she made her return from the ankle injury she suffered at the Euro 2025 final.

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Skigill

Nov. 11th, 2025 06:03 pm
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Today's cheap indie video game rec, found via a review at Ars Technica, is Skigill, which costs $5, currently $3.50 as a launch discount, and it is definitely at least as much fun as, say, a fancy caffeinated beverage of your choice, although admittedly it's less tasty.

It is yet another Vampire Survivors-esque "bullet heaven" roguelite auto-shooter -- you know, the kind where you dodge the enemies and the game does the aiming and firing for you. You know the kind of game I mean. The gimmick of Skigill here is that it is for people who really, really love RPG skill trees. You are actually running around on a giant skill tree, and as you kill enemies and collect XP, you can stand on any node of the skill tree (that is linked to one you have previously unlocked) and it will put your points in that skill, unlock new weapons, etc. So you are leveling up and building your character based on where you are running around.

There is of course also a second skill tree that you can access between runs and use to get yourself permanent stat increases. You know how this genre works.

It's in Early Access but there is enough content in here that it's pretty playable. The Mac port insists it is 32-bit and will not work, but this is lies; it works just fine on my M1 Air.

The game has extremely retro yellow-on-black pixel graphics and a chiptune soundtrack. The one downside is that the dev is committed to having no tutorial and in fact no in-game text whatsoever, which means I have absolutely no idea what most of these little symbols are or what they do or what my character is or how come when I stand on a skill node it doesn't unlock even though it looks like I have enough XP, which means I probably don't understand what the numbers in the game represent. But I will never know what I am doing wrong, because the game will never tell me.

Still, it's fun, if you like this genre of game. And skill trees.
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Posted by Coral Murphy Marcos (now); Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

Democratic senator from Pennsylvania tells Fox News it was ‘wrong’ to shut government and that he ‘never got any outreach’ from Chuck Schumer

As the supreme court deliberates on the fate of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs – which he maintains are a matter of “national security” as justices appeared skeptical during oral arguments on the case last week – the president said that the US would be forced to hand “in excess of three trillion dollars” if the levies are scrapped, in a late night post on Truth Social.

He added:

It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a ‘drubbing.’ That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country – Possibly non-sustainable!

Continue reading...
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Posted by Jack Seale

Celebs read out fan fiction about themselves, while fuzzy lookalikes graphically act it out. If Giedroyc weren’t host, this would be unbearable

Is there no format that can’t be made to work by hiring Mel Giedroyc to host it? With or without Sue Perkins alongside her, the presence of Giedroyc makes any kind of chat/quiz/contest caper watchable. You can hand her virtually nothing and she’ll turn it into something welcoming and cheekily funny. To demonstrate this beyond dispute, E4 has come up with No Strings Attached, a profoundly silly piece of flim-flam that is objectively awful, and with any other presenter would be unbearable.

The result of a commissioning process that can only be explained by severe staff/budget cuts, a complex blackmail situation or a rogue shipment of hallucinogenic cocaine, No Strings Attached proceeds as follows. A celebrity sits in an armchair opposite La Droyc. Each of them clutches a sheaf of paper, upon which is printed a piece of erotic fiction – written specially for the show by amateur writers who have previously churned out weird fanfic on the internet – where the celeb is the protagonist. As the famous-ish person reads aloud the story of their imaginary sexual escapades, Mel follows the text and reacts, encourages and guides. Lest this become visually stale, we cut regularly to puppets that are performing the actions described, in explicit furry detail.

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Posted by Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Victims and survivors “will be put in harm’s way” with “devastating consequences”, domestic abuse commissioner says

Violent partners will be allowed to “return to harassing, stalking and abusing” with impunity under a bill before parliament that is supposed to ease prison overcrowding, a watchdog has warned the lord chancellor.

In a letter to David Lammy, the domestic abuse commissioner, Dame Nicole Jacobs, said the sentencing bill’s aim to re-release the vast majority of offenders recalled to prison after 56 days would mean that victims and survivors “will be put in harm’s way” and lead to “devastating consequences”.

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Posted by David Hytner

He may no longer be the ‘Guernsey Grealish’ but deeper role at Bournemouth has earned midfielder a first senior call-up

There was a time, as Alex Scott made his name at Bristol City, when he was known affectionately as the “Guernsey Grealish”. It was the hairstyle, the low socks, the sense of adventure about his midfield play. As Scott puts it, the club’s manager, Nigel Pearson, gave him “a lot of freedom to go out and almost do what I wanted”.

It changed after he made his £25m move to Bournemouth in the summer of 2023; there was a greater need for tactical discipline, for defensive responsibility. He became more of a No 8. So, less like an early years Jack Grealish, who is now on loan at Everton from Manchester City.

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Posted by Ed Aarons

Only England have qualified so far, and there is sure to be drama aplenty over the next week as everyone else battles to join them

Could the unthinkable happen? Germany have never failed to qualify for the World Cup but the four-time champions can’t afford slip-ups if they are to seal top spot after losing against Slovakia in their opening game. Julian Nagelsmann’s side lead Slovakia on goal difference and need to beat Luxembourg on Friday and see whether Northern Ireland – guaranteed a playoff after finishing top of their Nations League group – can do them any favours in Slovakia on the same night. Germany finish against Slovakia in Leipzig on Monday in what could be a winner-takes-all showdown. Teams finishing second go into the playoffs.

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Does Leon want to be a real boy?

Nov. 11th, 2025 03:55 pm
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And by Leon, I mean Leon Muskbrat, the world's richest manchild.

(He's officially Leon 'cause the Prez called him that twice, so that makes it official.)

3am Saturday morning, Leon posted a Grok-generated video of a 'woman' that resembles his ex-wife and weirdly-named child's mother Grimes, who smiles and says "I will always love you" in a very bad lip sync.

I'm a little unclear whether he thinks this was a spiffy tech demo or showing off something that he did or just what this was.

The 87-y/o acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates had a very interesting observation:

“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history,” Oates wrote.

“In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world,'” Oates concluded.


WOW. Pity he can't take Tylenol for such a burn as it might cause him to become autistic.

He, of course, retorted and tried to disprove her observations and, in doing so, pretty much reinforced them.

But I was thinking about her statement of how it could be used as a metric about what a lot of political figures post about. Now, Leon, AKA the Ketamine Kid, AKA The Edgelord, AKA the frat boy who never grew up and hires gamers so that he himself can appear to be a skilled online gamer, this clearly applies. I can't imagine how boring a conversation with him would be: he'd probably have to steer it towards himself and his companies so as to have something to talk about!

(tagged under Tesla since I don't have, and don't want to add, a Musk tag)

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ai-girlfriend-love-grok-desperate-2000683797
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