I love (“love”) how Microsoft has decided the reason no one uses copilot is becuase we just don’t know how great it is, so now when I open Word or Excel I get a bunch of example pop-ups in the corner showing me exiting basic functions I could always do, but now in the form of a question.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵

Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing

A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.

bloomberg.com

Someone has put me on a Wikipedia list of British Jews and while this is accurate I’m not sure how I feel about being on a list of Jews???

Tula, WB's 16th warehouse has caught fire.

Judge rules New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings.

Judge rules New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings

The ruling comes after a federal judge earlier this year blocked a similar law in California that was enacted after a dramatic increase in immigration arrests.

nbcnews.to

The residents of Spokane, Washington, returned to what remained of their properties after multiple wildfires tore through the county. The authorities on Monday arrested a person they suspected of starting one of the fires. nyti.ms/4wGAKSH

ACAB

A group of women whose nude images were illegally obtained from their cellphones by a police officer during traffic stops in Missouri agreed on Friday to a $4 million settlement in a lawsuit over his actions, a lawyer for the victims said.

$4 Million Settlement in Suit Against Officer Who Took Nude Images From Women’s Phones

Julian Alcala, who was a police officer in Eastern Missouri, had illegally obtained the private images during traffic stops, the authorities said.

nyti.ms

Former Vice President Kamala Harris left out former President Joe Biden's name when asked a question about the "most effective" leaders in the U.S.

Kamala Harris awkwardly snubs Joe Biden in US presidents question

irishstar.com

Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before a Senate committee. “Did you literally lie to your own diary?” one representative asked him. Fauci pleaded the Fifth—to that, and to every other question he was asked.  www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Failures of the Fauci Hearing

Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss.

newyorker.com

Top dogs ride waves at annual World Dog Surfing Championships

Top dogs ride waves at annual World Dog Surfing Championships

PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) — Top dogs were riding waves Saturday at the annual World Dog Surfing Championships as hundreds of spectators cheered -- and barked -- from the Northern California

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Just this past week Iranian hackers have attacked municipal water infrastructure in seven different states and the media is only talking about Minnesota and briefly Wisconsin. Tehran-linked hackers were breaching online automated devices used to manage systems. This is the future

"did u spray paint those penises all over portland" "yes, lol" "it worked they filled the potholes!" "the what now"

tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d ago

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

A crude pothole graffiti tactic got Portland’s attention. Please don’t copy it, officials say

Nearby apartment dwellers had a bird's eye view of the graphic murals.

oregonlive.com

‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster

‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster

Alcohol is embedded in profession where long hours, loneliness and lobbying are the norm, report finds Parliament is “Britain’s last alcohol-soaked workplace” where MPs are offered free drinks as early as midday despite alcohol-related scandals, a report has revealed. Drinking is commonplace and some MPs have had their stomachs pumped after consuming so much alcohol that they ended up in hospital, one disclosed. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Time to stop the subsidies. bsky.app/profile/jame...

James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 4d ago

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

If they are lonely at westminister why don’t the arrange teams meetings with constituents to help them with their problems. The main problem for MP’s is lazyitus.

There's a problem with drinking culture in Westminster? Never... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?

A £10,000 bar tab was drunk, there was a ‘lot of anger’, and now ex-ministers are thinking how to cooperate in future

theguardian.com

I’ve never understood why we subsidise alcohol and food for MPs or why they’re allowed to drink whilst they’re working.

Concerns?? There is a simple way to deal with the problems. Shut the bars. No other public servants are provided with subsided alcohol. Long hours - try working in the NHS especially at night. Loneliness - try being a haulage driver or farmer. Lobbying - try being sober while people are talking

Why are elected representatives getting shitfaced at work? If I did that, I would expect to get the sack at the very least.

The bars of @ukparliament.parliament.uk are a subsidised offence to all of the people who would be fired for being drunk on the job. If you can’t stay sober working as a highly paid lawmaker; you should be banned from politics.

I work for the NHS and if I were drunk at work I'd be fired on the spot and rightly so. The fact MPs are allowed to get absolutely sloshed at work - and on the taxpayer's dime, no less - is totally insane.