2025-12-21 17:50:13
Religion Clause: HHS Proposes Rules to Bar Hospitals from Performing Gender Affirming Care to Minors
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/hhs-proposes-rules-to-bar-hospitals.html
Religion Clause: HHS Proposes Rules to Bar Hospitals from Performing Gender Affirming Care to Minors
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/hhs-proposes-rules-to-bar-hospitals.html
*picks up loose brick from an old stone wall and munches it like a chocolate bar*
Cataloging our old CDs which I have never done before. Naturally I'm doing in in a spreadsheet with an API call to pull the data from the bar codes (lot of my old ones don't have them) and then building out an #11ty page with the covers - sortable by year, artist and genre. What fun!
We went out for dinner to a local sports type bar thingy and as we were leaving the waiter asked if we were coming in on Sunday for the Gold Medal hockey game. Apparently they open at 8am and bars across the country have been given provincial authorization to do the same. So I would stay off the roads tomorrow after noon as drinking and driving becomes an Olympic event.
#TeamCanada
The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning?
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelve years beyond high school before being trusted to cut into a human body. A lawyer spent seven years and a bar exam before being permitted to argue before a judge.
An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel
Plans
features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8,
which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet,
but now Immigrat…
Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…
WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720 - an iron bar in the #RingNebula: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/1/staf2139/8425243?login=false -> Mysterious iron 'bar' discovered in famous nebula: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/mysterious-iron-bar-discovered-famous-nebula
Using the right kind of “boost” you can turn Rofi into an hypercharged bar.
100% legal, zero rehab required, and dangerously addictive in the nerdiest way possible :)
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_rofi2/
Climbing onto a bar stool, a piece of string asked for a beer.
"Wait a minute. Aren't you a string?"
"Well, yes, I am."
"Sorry. We don't serve strings here."
The determined string left the bar and stopped a passer-by. "Excuse,
me," it said, "would you shred my ends and tie me up like a pretzel?" The
passer-by obliged, and the string re-entered the bar. "May I have a beer,
please?" …
Today I peeled away the already wrecked metal casing of the Samsung BAR USB drive, noticed that the actual USB thing really is just the µSD-card sized blue insert inside the metal case, plugged it into a USB port, wondered why it didn't show up, took it out and burned the hell out of my fingers, because it was HOT 😂, destroyed the little sucker with pliers and tossed it. 🗑️
I wonder if it was broken before or if they actually used the metal casing for some electrical connection? 🤔
UPDATED: Bari Weiss Destroyed The 60 Minutes Brand In One Day | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/bari-weiss-disgrace-journalism-after-her
Kleine, unbekannte Bands unterstützen, weil mit Streaming verdienen solche Bands ja nichts. Also eine EP einer aufstrebenden kanadischen Band direkt in deren Online-Shop gekauft. CD kostete knapp 10€. Dann fast 20€ Fracht nach Deutschland, €1,70 Zoll und €7,50 "Auslagenpauschale" für die Zollbearbeitung. Die €9,20 möchte die Post in bar und "bitte möglichst passend". Ich unterstütze also überwiegend irgendwelche internationalen Transportdienstleister, anstatt eine kanadis…
The Virginia State Bar rejects a disciplinary complaint from a press freedom group against a DOJ lawyer over the raid of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/virgini…
I too am mad at Denmark for not awarding me the Kinder Bueno bar... Or whatever. I'm not good at geography or history or anything really.
Not-really-hot take:
Thinking `<button role="link">` is ever acceptable in place of `<a href>` is dogmatic transubstantiation belief nonsense.
Does not…
• fire on Space;
• show URL in status bar;
• have right-click options;
• etc.
It is never meat. Er, I mean, a link.
Really liking those config options on Noctalia.
#slackware
But this new Nazi bar has vegan sausages…
#Bluesky
Does anyone make a decent ~$200 soundbar for PCs with a USB input? I just tried a cheap Creative Stage SE 2.0 Bluetooth Sound Bar and it is garbage.
«Dans cette mise Š l’enquête, une partie des anciens plans du bâtiment sont visibles. On peut voir notamment la porte intérieure du bar. Elle mesure 1 mètre 50, avec ouverture non réglementaire. En effet, l’ouverture doit se faire dans la direction de fuite, ce qui n’est pas le cas sur le plan. La porte de la véranda s’ouvre également dans le mauvais sens, vers l’intérieur.»
Raising The Bar Perth 2025
Raising the Bar and The University of Western Australia hosted 10 free talks across 5 lively Perth venues, creating another unforgettable evening of ideas, insights, and conversation...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/raisin
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: But I'll be seeing you and Bar again, won't I?
ZEE: That's not allowed, I'm afraid.
BARR: Zee and I have work to do.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/387 B7B4
Today I released version 0.7 of my print-in place single-paddle Morse code key.
This will function as release notes:
Neue brisante Details - Feuerdrama: Wollten Barbetreiber im Jet fliehen? #News #Nachrichten
At Milan sports bar, Super Bowl 60 packs house with Winter Olympic nomads https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032085/2026/02/08/super-bowl-lx-milan-cortina-olympics-bar/
RE: #bar
A snake walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'How did you do that?
https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …
Europa kann Bart De Wever dankbar sein – Das hätten vor einem Jahr nur wenige erwartet, ich auch nicht! Von Bart Eeckhout.
https://europa.blog/de/europa-kann-bart-de-wever-dankbar-sein-das-haetten-vor-einem-jahr-nur…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
#MarvinGaye
https://shamako.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-inner-city-blues-shamakos-bar-del-porto-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hReWjUHqPqkHi31G7izL4
The poster, FWIW, is shown here: #auspol
POL-OS: Osnabrück: Einbruch in Bar - Spielautomaten aufgebrochen - Polizei sucht Zeugen Osnabrück (ots) - In der Zeit von Freitag 0:00 Uhr bis Freitag 17:30 Uhr kam es zu einem Einbruch in eine Bar an der Süntelstraße. Bislang unbekannte Täter verschafften sich gewaltsam Zutritt zu den Räumlichkeiten. Im Inneren brachen sie zwei ... https://www.
How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies "green belt" land to boost construction (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-small-english-town-swept-u…
📢 Schweizer Polizei geht nach Feuer in Bar von Dutzenden Toten und mehr als 100 Verletzten aus
Nach dem Brand in einer Bar in Crans-Montana in der Schweiz geht die Polizei von Dutzenden Toten aus. Eine genaue Opferzahl nannte sie nicht. Mehr als 100 Menschen wurden demnach verletzt. Die Ermittler gehen von einem Unglück aus.
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Every year for 10yrs, I went to "Quark's Bar" in Las Vegas during COMDEX & had a "Liquid Latinum" for my birthday... until they closed. 😢
▶️ Did you ever visit Quark’s Bar at Star Trek: The Experience?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhDA0ri4ntc&a…
House Rejects Measure to Bar Strikes Inside Venezuela (Robert Jimison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-venezuela-house-vote.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p142#a251217p142
Today in #iOS26: playing a playlist to my sound bar via AirPlay, and after each song ends the next one starts playing silently, even though volume is up et cetera. If I restart the new song, then it plays without any other issues, until the next song.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Arthur Sullivan, William Gilbert, Richard Suart, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 When I, good friends, was called to the bar (Trial by Jury)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OMaPvDv9AKR9pZ3Y3hXTo
Sonnet 046 - XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all t…
The Trump administration is preparing to upend a foundational safeguard of the Department of Justice,
by proposing a rule that would effectively bar DOJ attorneys from recusing themselves from cases due to conflicts of interest.
The rule, expected to be filed in the Federal Register as early as this week,
would grant Attorney General Pam Bondi final authority over all recusals.
Under the proposal, career prosecutors and political appointees alike would be required to…
Oh say can you see by the television's glowing light,
What so loudly we rage at the halftime show's streaming?
Whose broad swipes and bright screens through the performative fight,
O'er the comments we scroll, always angrily screaming?
And the outrage we share, the hot takes everywhere,
Gave proof through the night that our team was still there;
Oh say does that star-spangled banner still wave,
O'er the land of live TV and the home of the st…
Nazi bar is offline. Good.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@watson_news/115914717026374028
OK, das ist eigentlich eine Pokerrunde, oder? 1 Milliarde in bar, damit man mitspielen darf?
San Francisco Bar Area companies who are supporting ICE deserve to have more attention.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/1qfhae0/map_of_bay_area_businesses_contracting_with_ice/
Or, you know, leave the Nazi bar.
#Bluesky
Of course it's not only the money which is broken.
The music industry is also very crappy. Major pop stars rake in billions while most artists starve. There's only three record companies left, acting as gate keepers determining which sings get the payola to get radio play and Spotify basically gave up paying small artists in order to give Joe Rogan hundreds of millions of dollars.
Terrible situation.
So can bitcoin and lightning fix this?
Thus the after party here in Manchester.
Musicians and rappers at the event embrace V4V, value for value. Busking on the internet. Payment links on screen and on the live stream as they play.
Ainsley Costello tells us that her first song on fountain.fm made her a million sats, way more than any Spotify stream could make even if they still paid small artists.
She played us that song and then a whole range of artists took to the stage, live streamed over nostr, with donations coming in from all over the world.
All of them were talented and entertaining, but in particular Green Sands were tight and energetic and rocking, Edwin Williamson was deep and baritone and country, Roger 9000 really pumped the crowd with his bitcoin based songs and great tiny digital guitar and The Crypto raptor gets a special mention.
It was a really fun party, with musicians who all believe there is a better way than the terrible music industry.
Fast change overs and short sets means there were like ten acts in four hours among a friendly crowd in a dirty dive bar who all shared this common cause.
Full act list, all of whom are with checking out.
Ainsley Costello
The crypto raptor
Andy prince
Green sands
Edwin Williamson
Nathan abbot
G o l d
Longy
Roger 9000
Fable
#bitfest #music #v4v #bitcoin
I mentioned a little while back that I was considering starting a new browser project using WebKitGtk. The result, written in Vala, is nearing minimum viability. Right now it's nothing special, just a simple tabbed browser that's missing a lot of features, but the skeleton is good and you already get some goodies that Gnome Web doesn't give you:
- Ability to hide the tab bar
- Ability to hide the address bar and other controls
- When the tab bar is hidden, am overv…
Sweden and Finland push EU to bar port services for Russian energy shipments: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/sweden-and-finland-push-eu.html
64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa
DHS officials doubt Noem's plane with bar and queen bed is for deportations: 'Far-fetched' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/noem-luxury-plane/
Pero qué fantasía es esta https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750
I tried to disable the "Game Bar" that pops up when you press Windows G... what a rabbit hole. I'm rarely on Windows and I know to stay away now. All search results on all those useless Windows sites are wrong. Microsoft removed the option to disable the hotkey from its system settings! On Windows Pro you could use a group policy. After some f-word-riddled Copilot prompting the bot admitted that there's no way to disable the hotkey except for editing the registry.
Today was hardly the ideal day to be grodgelling in the dirt like one of Jinian Footseer's gobblemoles, but then today was not the ideal day for the cattle to demolish the garden gatepost. Fortunately, I did have a replacement steel gatepost ready to go in.
#crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting
Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/u…
Les autorités communales et cantonales nous racontent que tout était en ordre, et M. Parmelin nous rappelle qu’il n’y a pas de «risque zéro». C’est honteux.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/202
Summary of the recent optimization work in ngscopeclient (not counting core/driver stuff, just filters)
I'm now making a pass through the entire filter library in alphabetical order removing some deprecated APIs, adding error reporting, and doing trivial GPU optimizations where I find them but not spending more than a few hours on a filter unless it's something like the CDR or eye that is really critical.
None of these are what I would consider "done". I'm f…
Doing a perfectly normal Boston thing: seeing Dillinja at one of the oldest drum & bass nights in the country at a LFC sports bar with the obligatory pic of JFK behind the bar.
Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
This is so much more of a shitshow than even I realized. Alan Wong was making major amendments and sending them to his prospective co-sponsors in literally the last *hour* before the deadline.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-great-highway-ballot-measure-…
Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.
Don't tell me that's a coincidence.
Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--European authorities dismantle the Cryptomixer service,
--Indian government wants smartphone makers to preload state-owned security app,
--Indian government wants to bar comms apps from working on SIM-less devices,
--Korea launches probe into Coupang breach and threatens punitive damages,
--DPRK hackers target S. Koreans with fake tax invoices,
--Malware-laden…
The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
#MarvinGaye
https://shamako.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-inner-city-blues-shamakos-bar-del-porto-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hReWjUHqPqkHi31G7izL4
Texas becomes first state to end American Bar Association oversight of law schools (Toluwani Osibamowo/Houston Public Media)
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2026/01/07/540073/texas-supreme-court-ends-american-bar-association-law-school-accreditation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p4#a260108p4
📢 Behörden: Etwa 40 Tote und 115 Verletzte nach Brand in Schweizer Bar
Bei dem Feuer in einer Bar im Schweizer Skiort Crans-Montana sind nach offiziellen Angaben ungefähr 40 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Etwa 115 Menschen seien verletzt worden, die meisten schwer, sagte der Kommandant der Walliser Kantonspolizei, Gisler.
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POL-STD: Einbrecher in Stader Bar Stade (ots) - Unbekannte sind in der Zeit zwischen Dienstag, den 10.02., 23:30 h und Donnerstag, den 12.02.,19:30 h in Stade in der Bahnhofstraße nach dem gewaltsamen Öffnen eines Fensters in das Innere einer dortigen Bar eingedrungen und haben ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/p…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
bar italia:
🎵 Fundraiser
#baritalia
https://baritalia.bandcamp.com/track/fundraiser
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IBsWEOUwPCDJLwyzsbiBP
Ganzes Hotel evakuiert - Brand in Après-Ski-Bar: Jetzt steht Ursache fest #News #Nachrichten
LŠ, je suis tout Š fait d’accord avec M. Ganzer: «Ce que je constate, ce sont des manquements. Et des manquements ne doivent pas arriver dans un pays tel que le nôtre.»
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/202
Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…
Some progress on Simple Web Browser today.
- Forward/Back/Reload implemented
- Control buttons are sensitive only when they do something (ie, forward button is greyed out if you can't go forward)
- Added a shortcut to focus the address bar
- Change text in address bar and window title when changing tabs
https://codeber…
FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN: #6
Bathrooms:
A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, toothpaste,
shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man
would not be able to identify most of these items.
Groceries:
A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store
and buys these things. A man w…
DHS threatens Sister Norma Pimentel's migrant aid with 6-year funding ban
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/12/dhs-seeks-to-bar-federal-funds-from-sister-norma-catholic-charities-of-the-rio-grande-valley/
Wishing C had the ability to do compile-time polymorphism.
Like, I have base class Foo with Bar/Baz derived from it.
I want to be able to put a method DoSomething() in Foo and call it on a Bar or Baz object in a template, without putting a vtable in Foo or incurring the overhead of a virtual method call.
You can sort of get this effect by having Bar/Baz be separate classes with no common base and make the template just call T.Foo() for parameter T, but this eliminates som…
Bar in deep red Idaho delights Trump administration by offering free beer to anyone who helps deport illegal migrants (Victoria Churchill/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15339521/Bar-Idaho-Trump-administration-free-deport-illegal-migrants.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p34#a251130p34
Globally January was the fifth-warmest January on record, 0.28°C cooler than the warmest January on record in 2025.
It was 1.47°C warmer than the estimated pre-industrial January average for 1850-1900.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft
💥 painted to look like a civilian plane
in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September,
according to officials briefed on the matter.
The aircraft also
💥carried its munitions inside the fuselage,
rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
⭐️The nonmilitary appearance is significant,
according to legal specialists,
👉because the …
OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
Also: “Black,” “Native American,” “disability”
Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/head-start-dei-women-race-599220b1cd39e3d6c585f8fe7811a59c
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth's crackdown on 'biased' schools (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/us-military-top-universities-tuition-assistance
http://www.memeorandum.com/260213/p113#a260213p113
The beautiful white village of Grazalema (Andalusia, Spain) had already been evacuated because of terrible amounts of rain. January had 1295 mm, an all-time high monthly total. But after today's 78 mm (and counting), February now already stands at 1373 mm, that's more than double in any February before!
Excellente enquête sur les contrôles anti-feu Š #CransMontana. Les faits sont accablants.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/v…
A Google bug report apparently leaks the planned Android desktop interface, showing a taller status bar, a new mouse cursor, Chrome extensions, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
From their debut 1980 album
⭐️I Just Can't Stop It,
the wonderful Birmingham
ska-reggae outfit,
best known for their hit
⭐️Mirror In The Bathroom,
was among the 2 Tone label's finest bands
(alongside ❤️The Specials).
They released this upbeat and unambiguous protest against the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher after her first year in office.
Although she stayed in power for more than a decade,
changing the pol…
Started collecting some performance data on ngscopeclient filters as I go through and optimize/refactor.
This is nowhere near the entire filter suite, and a few rows are missing data right now.
8B/10B is still running on the CPU, as you can probably guess from the abysmal throughput, but I had it in one of my test filter graphs so I included the data.