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I have been driving, cycling and walking past this old house for years* waiting for it to fail completely but it is still holds up for the most part.
* My wife has been paying attention to it since she was a young girl.

I'm not the target audience, but that second paragraph hit me in the gut
"But for many of us, the first real injustices that mattered to us, that ripped our hearts out, weren't the failings of our parents' relationships, or the boys we crushed on who didn't love us, but the Black girls who we wanted to see us and be- friend us instead either ignored or bullied us."

Can we please stop making non-Christians the boogeyman? The school was wrong from the get-go, and the comment about Satanic symbols didn't help their case.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-dispute-over-a-students-parking

A dispute over a student's parking spot shows how schools keep failing Religious Freedom 101
A New York school told a Christian girl she couldn't paint Bible verses in her parking spot because then they'd have to "approve a Satanic symbol"

Ashley King went to a bar on a Bali vacation in 2011, and woke up blind just a few days later
— a result of drinks spiked with methanol.
"I woke up in my hostel and I wasn't able to breathe. And shortly after I wasn't able to see,"
said King, a 32-year-old Calgary woman who is sharing her story in a new podcast called Static: A Party Girl's Memoir.
King was 19 at the time, on her last night in Bali before flying to New Zealand the next day.
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This woman went blind after a night out in Bali. She's warning other tourists about methanol in their drinks | CBC Radio
Ashley King woke up blind after her drinks were tainted with methanol during a vacation in Bali. She’s warning others of the fatal consequences of methanol poisoning.

Signatures and bias assessment of rotation in galaxy cluster members
Davide Castellani, Giovanni Ferrami, Claudio Grillo, Giuseppe Bertin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18354 https:…

Signatures and bias assessment of rotation in galaxy cluster members
We investigate the possible presence of systematic rotation in the member galaxies of a sample of 17 nearby ($z<0.1$), rich (at least 80 identified members) Abell clusters. We also assess the extent to which low-number statistics may influence the recovery of the rotation parameters. Following the methods often used in the context of globular clusters and of clusters of galaxies, we estimate a representative value of the systematic rotation velocity and the position angle of the projected rotat…

Continued Rapid Radio Brightening of the Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz
Yvette Cendes, Edo Berger, Paz Beniamini, Ramandeep Gill, Tatsuya Matsumoto, Kate D. Alexander, Michael F. Bietenholz, Aprajita Hajela, Collin T. Christy, Ryan Chornock, Sebastian Gomez, Mark A. Gurwell, Garrett K. Keating, Tanmoy Laskar, Raffaella Margutti, Ramprasad Rao, Natalie Velez, Mark H. Wieringa

Continued Rapid Radio Brightening of the Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz
We present ongoing radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018hyz, which was first detected in the radio at 972 days after disruption, following multiple non-detections from earlier searches. The new observations presented here span approximately 1370-2160 days and 0.88-240 GHz. We find that the light curves continue to rise at all frequencies during this time period, following a power law of about F ~ t^3 (compared to F_nu ~ t^5.7 at 972-1400 days), and reaching a peak lumino…