I feel like I should just say that the Somali folks in my neighborhood are cool, and their kids go to school with mine, and the kids are hilarious and sweet and rambunctious and full of kid-ness just like…you know…kids, and sambusas are yummy, and most Somali restaurants serve spaghetti (because of Italian colonial history, mostly straight-up Italian style but with a subtle Somali twist), and I’m glad my Somali neighbors are my neighbors, and ICE can GTFO now and forever, please and thank you.
Ban on kids’ companion chatbots advanced by Senate committee – Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2026/04/30/ban-on-kids-companion-chatbots-advanced-by-senate-committee/
That doesn't sound at all sinister.
"...Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has declared a "special and permanent state of emergency" "
(BBC live blog on Parent Israeli preemptive (?) attack on Iran, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t )
Dyonic hairy black holes in $U(1)$ gauge-invariant scalar-vector-tensor theories: Cubic and quartic interactions
Masaki Kitagawa, Naoki Tsukamoto, Ryotaro Kase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04884
The latest Trump wanna-be assassin:
“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
…..
“I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.”
…..
“Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.”
#usa #trump #theAmericanFascist #WHCD
It's official! This Sunday will be the last "leap forward" in BC!
As of next November, the Vancouver time zone in British Columbia, Canada will be referred to as "Pacific Time" and will be -7GMT permanently. (same as Yukon Territory which did this 2 years ago)
The presser was pretty cute actually. They had kids with little clocks, and they danced.
I would have preferred staying at Standard Time, but this will be ok too. It's interesting that Premier Eby made a point of (gently, as there were kids) insisting the delay of 6 years since the overwhelming survey response from British Columbians to eliminate the time change was due to waiting for the US West Coast states to do the same.
Now, BC has decided to push, and to lead by example.
#BCPoli #DST #PacificTime #TimeChange #California #Oregon #Yukon #WashingtonState