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Unionized Hearst staffers represented by the WGA East conducted half-day walkouts on Tuesday after a month of contract negotiations with management failed (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/hearst-magazines-union-walkouts-co…

Hearst Magazines Union Stages Series Of Walkouts After Failing To Reach Contract Deal
Unionized staffers at Hearst Magazines are taking staging half-day walkouts Tuesday after a month of contracts talks with management failed to reach a deal.

After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

Thank you to @…, who bade us party whilst it all burns down. #VivaLaDecadence!
1. System of a Down, “Shimmy”—https://youtu.…

Before we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…

Cairn ist endlich da. Ein feines Indie-Game, dass das Kletter-Feeling wirklich einigermaßen realistisch rüberbringt (unbedingt mit Controller spielen!).
Von der Comic-ähnlichen Naturoptik bin ich sowieso immer ein großer Fan - das erinnert mich tatsächlich etwas an Firewatch. Bei schöner Aussicht einen Berg hochzuklettern macht nämlich auch am PC Spaß - vor allem jetzt im Winter.

"Een Kamerlid dat opklimt
binnen de hiërarchie van een fractie kan doorgaans op bewondering en wellicht ook enige jaloezie rekenen van zijn directe collega's in Den Haag. Alleen bij de PVV komt er een andere emotie boven: medelijden."
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Zonder trouwe adjudanten heeft Wilders baat bij radicaal-rechtse versplintering
Na het ‘verraad’ van zeven Kamerleden heerst binnen de PVV-fractie achterdocht en woede. PVV-leider Geert Wilders moet vrezen voor zijn dominantie op de uiterst rechtse flank van de Kamer.

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟