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Science Lab: Use the sour defensive debut as fuel to sweeten the next Cowboys' meal https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-use-the-sour-defensive-debut-as-fuel-to-sweeten-the-next-cowboys-meal

Hopefully, it's more of a midlife incident than a crisis, but this weekend I dumpster dived for 1,587 pounds of photovoltaics. Feeling a little sore. I hope 7.6W/lb isn't a bad deal. I'm still dismayed that the school district is just throwing them out.
#DIY #solar

Peggy Flanagan,
the progressive lieutenant governor of Minnesota,
clinched the victory in the state’s Democratic primary for US Senate,
beating out moderate US representative Angie Craig.
The AP called the race, with Flanagan leading with nearly 59% of the vote.

Minnesota progressive wins Senate primary over anti-ICE sentiments, as Wisconsin governor’s race remains close – live
Peggy Flanagan sweeps Minnesota Senate primary; in Wisconsin, moderate David Crowley and Democratic socialist Francesca Hong face tight race to be Democratic nominee for governor

Für 60 Dollar pro Laib sorgt #Roggenbrot in New York für Aufmerksamkeit.
Eine österreichische Bäckerfamilie verkauft in Soho 1,5 Kilogramm schwere Roggen-Sauerteigbrote aus importierten Rohstoffen. Trotz Kritik am hohen Preis stehen Kunden Schlange.
Kräftiges Roggenbrot ist in den #USA w…

Butterstulle wird Luxus: Deutsches Roggenbrot erobert New York
60 Dollar für ein Roggenbrot: In New York stehen Menschen dafür Schlange. Ein österreichischer Bäcker bringt deutsches Butterbrot-Feeling nach Soho - und entfacht damit eine Debatte über Luxus und Heimatgeschmack.

Lisa Demuth, the Republican speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives,
secured the Republican nomination for governor,
-- edging out pillow salesman Mike Lindell, who had received Trump’s endorsement in the race.
Demuth became speaker last year in an evenly divided House, becoming the first Black person in the role.

Minnesota progressive wins Senate primary over anti-ICE sentiments, as Wisconsin governor’s race remains close – live
Peggy Flanagan sweeps Minnesota Senate primary; in Wisconsin, moderate David Crowley and Democratic socialist Francesca Hong face tight race to be Democratic nominee for governor

Radio presenter Tony Livesey leaves the BBC after claims he introduced a woman to accused sexual predator David Sullivan while at Sullivan's Sport Newspapers (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/03/tony-…

Radio presenter Tony Livesey leaves BBC after David Sullivan allegations
Staff at 5 Live told he will not return following claims about his previous career at Sullivan’s Sport newspapers

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Belarus and the strategic depth of Moscow.
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From Berezina to the Shaheds: A Silent Flank That Never Went Quiet
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Just finished "What Elephants Know" by Eric Dinerstein. Leaves me with very mixed feelings: it's a novel in many ways about Nepal, and I don't doubt that the author's experience living there gives him a not-insignificant window into the culture, plus there are multiple people mentioned in the acknowledgements as judging faithfulness to Nepali culture. I myself have no direct connection to the country, nor enough knowledge to see any clear inaccuracies in the writing, nor ways in which it directly disrespects the culture.
That said, my instincts say this is a portrayal of the culture and country that probably elides much about the downsides of foreign influence and the monarchy (something I naturally distrust as an anarchist). At minimum, the internal contradiction is clear between the police as an inept and dangerous institution when encountered directly, but as a clean and unproblematic way to resolve problems with criminals when the Maroons subplot needs wrapping up. This is typical of neoliberals who have begun to acknowledge the most obvious problems with police but who refuse to admit the necessity of police abolition. Furthermore, there's a strong thread of white saviorism thrown in, and a big piece of meritocracy to go along with it. This story presents only highly particular fictionalized solutions to the real structural problems facing the elephants and other animals it describes, and the solutions it imagines require reliance on institutions which are in the real world fundamentally untrustworthy.
I enjoyed learning about the ecology of the Nepali borderlands, and about the cultures surrounding elephants there, plus some of the diversity of religions and cultures that interact in the area, and the story was satisfyingly written in terms of the main character's trials and responses to them, if I disregard the issues mentioned above.
If anyone has recommendations for novels in English (including via translation) by actual Nepali authors, I'd love to hear them, as I'll be looking for that perspective to balance this one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Greeting Andy Burnham after he was sworn in as an MP were a slew of cabinet ministers
- including the chief whip Jonathan Reynolds and the energy secretary Ed Miliband
- who came in flanked by two Treasury ministers, Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson.
Around 200 MPs were in the hall to greet Burnham, now officially the MP for Makerfield.
He arrived with Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader and the MP Jo Platt
- who holds Burnham’s old constituency of Leigh.
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David Mattingly
#art #scifi #SwordAndSorcery #DavidMattingly