I find it culturally fascinating that Barnaby Joyce, despite his drunken philandering, would actually increase his vote in New England during an election that demolished the coalition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/neng
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Nancy Sinatra:
🎵 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
#NancySinatra
https://borgg.bandcamp.com/track/nancy-sinatra-bang-bang-b-rgg-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VJ82z9vp7hvBzthdGWtNa
When my wife and I are watching things, we're always amused at how many characters in TV shows and movies are named Tommy or Billy. These are obviously fairly common names, but the amount of times we've noticed it in all kinds of different shows like X-Files, SVU etc is so often that it's comical-- it's bizarre. And sometimes in episodes right next to each other in a season. Just a ton of fictional guys out there with these two names across age groups, all over popular cultur…
I’m well out of my depth here: my historical knowledge to speak to the issues is thin; my cultural knowledge is almost nonexistent. Reading that Standing Together site, seeing how they’ve crafted what they write, I see just how much nuance and awareness I •don’t• have.
I’m grateful to the people who’ve helped me learn, and who’ve pointed me to these resources — in this case @… and @…. Sometimes the Internet really is good for something.
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Estamos preparados para um evento nunca visto que pode ou não acontecer.
-- Dan Quayle, ex-vice-presidente americano
Bra podcast på 40 minuter kring menstruation och träning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UQRCX89f6HI
China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links
https://apnews.com/article/chian-taiwan-hacking-wanted-kuma-f937096e3163470b21597b4ec809d799
Joni Ernst's Medicaid Quip Could Cost Iowa GOP (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joni-ernsts-medicaid-quip-could-cost-iowa-gop.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p133#a250603p133
"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."