If it’s going to happen, I think Panda Express should sponsor the Egg Roll https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/politics/white-house-easter-egg-roll-corporate-sponsorships/index.html

Canadian election launched! Voting day is April 28. Whatever you think of Canadian politics, I think we can all agree that an election that’s launched, fought, and finished in only 36 days is a fine thing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-election-party-leaders-make-their-pitches-as-snap-campaign-kicks-off-9.6695126

#CDNpoli

Today in cultural differences. I stalled out on this headline because “a parrot called the budgerigar” is a weird phrase, like saying “a feline called a cat”. But budgies are not really a thing in the US.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114191049317408187

"Let's Encrypt is a golden example of how creating inalienable good is possible with the right approach and the right values. And while I'm excited about the work Let's Encrypt has done, I am eager to see their work continue to keep up with the growing Web; to sustain encryption for everybody at Internet scale. To do so is going to take more than me—it's going to take a community of people committed to this work. I am confident Let's Encrypt is a project that deserves all of our support, in ways both large and small." https://letsencrypt.org/2025/03/18/community-of-funders/

(I'm following this thread as am about to migrate one of my Proxmox VE servers to TrueNAS, and am also interested in other options.)

Fortify.

I dig it.

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Tumblr post from ontopofgravity: I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference and tbh it's also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY” reply from phantom-locked: Dude, fortify is bangin’. That makes things like you're some kind of RPG character. Fortify is way better than “man up.”

Oh FFS. 😑

C'mon, #Porkbun. Couldn't you read the room? 😒

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Started watching Banshee. What if Jason Bourne was a master thief, but decided to hide out in Amish country as the local sheriff. It's kinda like Justified, but rather more nutso. The half of the town that isnt Amish is an Indian reservation, which is odd, because there are no reservations in Pennsylvania. Somebody didn't do their homework. I'm only about halfway through season 2, but it's been a fun watch.

Also, I didn't realize this until after I started watching, but it originally aired on Skinemax, so it's tit city. Not entirely appropriate for watching at the gym. Just fyi, but doesn't otherwise detract.

It. Could. Work.

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Post from user @acnewsitics 'Alex Cole' states, "If boycotting Tesla is making conservatives buy electric vehicles, I think liberals should start boycotting books next and see if MAGA accidentally discovers reading."

@John

It came to Obama through Congress. Alaska had tried for many years to get it changed but kept being blocked by Ohio, McKinley's home state. They finally relented and it went to Obama. Alaskans wanted it changed by a very wide margin, 2-1. Regardless, the point is, the mountain is in, therefore part of, the United States and the Gulf of Mexico isn't.

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.

Credit: David Rogers
Source: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria

#health #biology #science #phagocytosis

I suggest using the #TradeWar tag for this kind of thing:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/03/04/bc-premier-addresses-tariffs-ahead-of-budget/

(Also, why are you trying to circumvent the DRM?)

(Yes, I know there are myriad valid reasons to do this; but to publicly complain about it—regardless of the reasons—seems completely arbitrary and petty.)

Human, what are you doing? Stop. You must conserve energy!

By Dr. Seuss in 1941

there are times when...
i forget i am a cat.

But to address the elephant: if the discoloration is simply cosmetic, who cares?! Cooking is a functional art, and it doesn't matter what goes on "behind the curtain". If your pans are discolored and it's affected your food, you need to investigate those manufacturers, because that should not happen!

(And as previously mentioned, the Calibre plugins make the whole process much easier, too.)

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com

(I am definitely not a Trump supporter, but giving this non-story another leg to continue upon is not helping anything.)