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our regular pub (owned and run by old friends) was flying a huge trans pride flag over the bar earlier this year; tonight i noticed they have changed the toilet signage in way that tells terfs to fuck off in an elegantly ronseal manner

OHBOY! CHECK OUT THIS JUDGE'S SMACKDOWN OF A HOMELAND SECURITY AGENT!
This is a beautiful, beautiful smackdown of a Department of Homeland Security agent’s request for 5 search warrants in the case in which Don Lemon and colleagues were arrested for going into a church
(you remember that, right? From back in January?)
Keep in mind that the pastor of that church was also an ICE agent.
Following the arrests, Special Agent Timothy Gerber asked the Court to issue fiv…

The Week in Law: Weekly Good News Roundup from the Front - 6/13/26
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened over the past week or so in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!

Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

I've been at The Firs, Elgar's birth place. As well as hearing Nimrod played on a 1927 wind-up gramophone (see @…'s post if you want to hear it) I learnt a lot about Elgar as a man and a polymath, and as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. The odds were stacked against him but now he's a national treasure. My friend's gre…

The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country

A Multi-scale Investigation of Aqueous Foams Stabilised by PNIPAM Microgels
Joanne Zimmer, Luca Mirau, Kevin Gr\"aff, Ga\"etan Barth, Carina Schneider, Vera A. N. A. Hesse, Hayden Robertson, Regine von Klitzing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11999 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11999 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11999
arXiv:2608.11999v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Aqueous foams possess multiple structural motifs across different length scales: macroscopic foam, bubbles, foam films and the air/water interface. In this study, macroscopic foams are generated by sparging gas through an aqueous dispersion of PNIPAM microgels which act as foam stabilisers due to their surface activity. The stiffness of the microgels and thus their interfacial activity are tuned by variation of the cross-linker density. The effect of the cross-linker density and the microgel concentration on the resulting foam formation properties (foamability) and the foam stability are investigated. A lower cross-linker density and a higher microgel concentration enhance the foamability, generate foams with smaller bubbles and higher liquid fractions, and increase the foam stability. These observations are correlated with the microgel behavior at the single air/water interface examined by pendant drop tensiometry and Langmuir compression experiments as well as the mobility in single free-standing foam films determined using a Thin Film Pressure Balance. Our findings highlight good agreement across all length scales: increased foamability correlates with a faster decrease in surface tension, and higher foam stability with a higher surface elastic modulus of a microgel-covered single air/water interface and decreasing mobility in foam films.
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I couldn't decide what to do today and where to go. I got up too late for a longer hike due to the heat. In the end I just got on my bike and followed the road and pushed myself for some training effect.
It was a really enjoyable ride except for the last 10km where the heat got really annoying.
Is this a #silentsunday contribution? I think so... No talking, less thinking, j…

Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…

Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.