It took until probably 12/21 to figure out relationship between Trump speech and riot, but by all means brag that you would arrest Trump based on the same theory that helped him dodge impeachment. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoi…
My favourite three sandwiches are probably: - Reuben - Avocado and chicken - Oyster po' boy (if they aren't cheap on the oysters)
The last I've never made myself but I had one once that blew me away. I generally don't deep fry stuff, and my local attempts to buy have been weak and disappointing, so it will remain mostly elusive.
-slices of a good quality tomato + slices of mozzarella + large fresh basil leaves, open face on toasted bread. Drizzle with Greek olive oil. Works well on many diff types of bread
- smoked salmon with a smear of whole grain mustard on toast "buttered" with philadelphia light.
- my personal weirdness; any kind of fruit on bread, sometimes with a little cheese. Especially nice is thick slices of fresh pear on buttered toast.
hard to argue with a great Reuben. I have two other favorites: - a well made classic Cuban sandwich - there’s a chicken sandwich here in town called The Colonel: Sweet tea brined fried chicken, white BBQ sauce, scoop of pimento cheese, lettuce and tomato on a toasted bun. It’s so good.
I've always been intrigued by Shadow People and sleep paralysis. Anyway, here's a new spooky video from YOU FEEL COMPLETELY PECULIAR. Tell me if you know where I got the footage. I had the name in one of my burned drives. youtu.be/fbapxCrD3PI?si=G9Bjob…
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This post includes a timeline of the January 6 investigation as it was known on January 15. If you want to argue about pace of investigation, it's probably helpful to pretend familiarity with it. www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/w...
As part of Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein’s summary of the Jack Smith report, they argued that “Smith [came] to Garland’s defense” regarding his conduct of the January 6 investigation before Smith was appointed, pointing to Smith’s review of certain l…
During the 2022 election period, prosecutors had the first privilege waiver interviews and were busy exploiting all the phones they had seized in September (all known phones were seized before Jack Smith appointed).
Per the table released by Chuck Grassley, prosecutors sent out 38 subpoenas in the months before Jack Smith's appointment (13 of those were after the election). legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
BY FAR the biggest waste of time during election 2022 came from Jan6 Committee, which is responsible for the longest frivolous delay of the entire Jan6 investigation. In June, they told DOJ they would hand over all transcripts in September. They didn't release them until December.
I soci dell'Unione Italiana Giornalisti dell'Automotive, coadiuvati dalla giuria degli Opinion Leader, hanno designato le auto che parteciperanno alla fase finale del premio Auto Europa 2026 che prevede la proclamazione del modello vincitore il pross…
The U.S. government shutdown is affecting funding for a food assistance program used by nearly 42 million Americans. With benefits set to end Nov. 1, what challenges will people face, and what are states doing to help them? #SNAP #food #trump #poverty
Eine US-Abgeordnete lädt rechtspopulistische Politiker aus Europa nach Washington ein, auch die AfD. Ziel ist der Schulterschluss der rechten Bewegungen über den Atlantik hinweg.
Before returning to the mechanical meanderings of the polyphonic pickup, I took a detour to explore clock synchronization.
The clocks driving the host and the device are bound to drift slightly, after all, so the data rate of the device has to be adjusted in some way to maintain continuity.
Responding to new NHS England data showing patients are submitting millions of online consultation requests to GP practices, Ruth Rankine, primary care director at the NHS Confederation, said:
“It is great to see general practice embracing the digital agenda to improve access for patients and manage increasing demand, including the wider use of online consultation systems.
“Patients are clearly now using these systems to access the care they need in greater numbers."
Nanotyrannus species confirmed: It’s not just a baby T-rex "This fossil doesn't just settle the debate. It flips decades of T. rex research on its head." arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
Governor Wes Moore of #Maryland has released $10 million dollars from our state emergency fund to food banks. Not only are we facing down a lack of #SNAP funding at the end of the month but we have a lot of furloughed (and unpaid) Federal employees who can’t afford groceries.
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Und ihr heute so? Der Bus zum Venusberg, war gestern zur Vorbesprechung meiner heutigen OP, kam heute früh wieder zu einer Zeit, die nicht auf der Anzeigetafel, aber auf meinem Smartphone stand. Ich hab jetzt eine Krampfader weniger. Die hatte dafür Volumen für zwei. Die sollte man auch nicht alt werden lassen, habe ich gelernt. Frei nach dem Motto: Alles raus, was keine Miete zahlt! #uniklinikbonn
Ein Foto einer weißen Baumwolltuch mit dunkelgrünen vertikalen Streifen. Die Streifen sind regelmäßig und gleichmäßig über die gesamte Textur des Tuchs angeordnet. Die obere linke Ecke des Bildes zeigt einen Teil eines dunkelgrünen Stoffes, der sich wahrscheinlich auf einer Faltung liegt. Der Fokus liegt auf dem weißen und dunkelgrünen Tuch. In der unteren linken Ecke des Bildes steht der Text "Universitätsklinik Bonn".
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🔥 Un autobus Atac della linea 557 ha preso fuoco in piazza Cardinali, a Roma. Il mezzo è andato distrutto, ma non si registrano feriti. Sono in corso le verifiche per chiarire le cause del rogo. Dettagli 👉 odisseaquotidiana.com/2025/10/…
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However, I don't agree with all points made by @carissaveliz.
E.g. my #ebook reader (#kobo) does not share any data. Nor does it break easily (it's already eleven years in use). Epubs are updated, when I copy them, not by a publisher. The device runs the wonderful #Koreader, which is #freeSoftware.
Her argument probably applies to certain vendors, such as Kindle. The generalisation to all vendors is wrong.
Heeft iemand ergens al van een gemeente een " Model Na 31-2" of "Model N 10-1" gezien? Dit kan nu al op de gemeentelijke website staan. Ik ben DRINGEND op zoek naar processen-verbaal op *KANDIDAAT*-niveau. Dus met niet alleen stemmingen voor hele partijen. Stuur me die URL dan kan ik gaan rekenen! Delen = gewaardeerd
Canada was once known as a peacekeeping nation, but that reputation has faded. In the age of Trump's America, what part should we play? @jeyanjeganathan asks former UN ambassador @louiseblaisglobal and journalist @marche.stephen, host of the podcast "Gloves Off."
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Yet another #NameThatWare challenge. Those bodges seem to be factory, It is highly unlikely that somebody changed/repaired this thing.
Can you do a educated guess what this thing is and does? The perfect solution will have the exact product name.
Please use a CW for your answers. Googling is fair game. Please don't just write a single word as answer, instead describe your observations and deductions.
Meta today announced it is rolling out two new Threads features that will give users more control over the visibility of content on the platform.
First, new "mentions" and "people you follow" filters in the Activity tab will allow you to fine-tune the replies that are visible in the feed.
Second, a new "review and approve replies" option when drafting a post will allow you to approve replies to your post before they are visible to the public.
The features will be available in the Threads app on iPhone, and presumably on other platforms.
Threads is a social media platform that competes with X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky and Mastodon. Meta launched Threads in 2023, less than a year after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, and it works with an Instagram account.
Meta says Threads has hit 150 million daily active users.
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Subjecting the Public to famine & impoverishment while simultaneously withholding their access to healthcare services even though the Public has ALREADY PAID for its food assistance and healthcare, in order to finance at least $11 Trillion, so far, in redistribution of Public Goods to plutocrat billionaires* to ensure their perpetual nonparticipation in Society is something for which I've yet to hear the National Socialists / MAGA explicitly blame Biden. And they're usually so in-your-face, up-front with their scapegoating.
*Let us name names. Like Tim Mellon, Peter Thiel, & Rebekah Mercer: Those who literally purchased each of Our three branches, and installed the heinous replacement “government”, to achieve that certainty of their Public dismantlement.
The public goods they've stolen in the form of prepaid & allocated services cut/denied is a massmurderous tiny fraction of the cost of their massive redistribution so, from an economic perspective it's entirely unjustified by any logic. Just craven MAGA-parasitism.
One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.
“You might notice some delays as we (and more than 6,000 other libraries) transition to new wholesalers,” the Jacksonville Public Library told its community in a Facebook post. “We're keeping a close eye on things and doing everything we can to minimize any wait times.”
The libraries that do business with the distributor learned about the shut down earlier this month via Reddit.
Upon learning of her company’s closure, Jennifer Kennedy, a customer services account manager with Baker & Taylor, broke the news on October 6 on r/Libraries Reddit community.
“I just wanted the libraries to know,” Kennedy told 404 Media. “I didn’t want them to be held hostage waiting for books that would never come. I respect them too much for all this nonsense.”
Kennedy’s post prompted other current and former B&T employees to confirm the announcement and express concern for the competitors about to be inundated with requests from the libraries who would be scrambling for new suppliers.
B&T in Memoriam
Baker & Taylor has been in the book business just short of 200 years. Its primary focus was distributing physical copies of books to public libraries. The company also provided librarians with tools that helped them do their jobs more effectively related to collection development and processing.
But the company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership, and was sued by a competitor earlier this year for alleged data misuse and was almost acquired again in September, this time by a distributor that works with mass-market retailers like Walmart and Target. That deal fell through.
Since the internal announcement, Kennedy says customer service staff at B&T have not received guidance on how to respond to inquiries from libraries, leaving them on the frontline and in the dark on issues ranging from whether existing orders would be fulfilled to securing refunds for materials they may have already paid for.
“Some libraries didn’t realize we are much closed as of right now,” Kennedy added.
B&T did not respond when asked for comment.
Kennedy has been with B&T for 16 years. At a time when it's uncommon to remain with one company more than a few years, that’s exactly what many of B&T’s employees have been able to do, until now. The same was true of the libraries who did business with them. Andrew Harant, director of Cuyahoga Falls Library had to consider the library's longstanding business relationship with the company against the roughly 20 percent of books the library had ordered from the beginning of the year they had never received.
“For us, that was about 1,500 items,” which Harant told 404 Media that for a small library is a lot of books they were ordering and not receiving.
Release dates for new books come and go on B&T’s main software platform for viewing and managing orders, Title Source 360. Better known as TS360, Harant realized the platform was updating preordered books never received to on backorder, which was “not sustainable”.
In September, Cuyahoga Falls Library canceled all outstanding orders with B&T.
“We needed to step up and make sure that we’re getting the books for our patrons that they needed,” he said.
Cuyahoga Falls Library was fortunate to have an existing account with the other main distributor on the scene, Ingram Content Group. This has been true for many of the libraries 404 Media reached out to for this story.
“The easier part is re-ordering the book,” Shellie Cocking, Chief of Collections and Technical Services for the San Francisco Public Library, told 404 Media. “The harder part is replacing the tools you use to order books.”
Integrated Fallout
Of the ancillary services B&T offered customers, TS360 was Cocking’s favorite. It helped her streamline collection development tasks, for instance, anticipating how popular a title might be or determining how many quantities of a book to purchase, which for larger libraries with dozens of branches, could be complicated to figure out manually. Once titles were ordered in TS360, B&T shared a Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) record that was automatically shared with the library’s API integration using data derived from B&T’s record set. This product, BTCat, was the subject of a lawsuit brought by OCLC earlier this year.
OCLC owns WorldCat, the global union catalog of library collections that lets anyone see what libraries own what items. OCLC alleged in a U.S. district court filing that B&T misused their proprietary bibliographic records to populate its own competing cataloguing database. OCLC also accused B&T of inserted clauses into its contracts where there was overlap with the businesses and customers, requiring libraries to grant B&T access to their cataloging records so the libraries could then license the records back to B&T for BTCat. B&T has denied these claims, accusing OCLC of stifling fair competition in an already consolidated marketplace.
Marshall Breeding, an independent consultant who monitors library vendor mergers has been following all of this rather closely. He says B&T's closure creates a number of bottlenecks for libraries, the primary one being whether suppliers like Ingram or Brodart can absorb thousands of libraries as customers all at once.
“Maybe, maybe not,” Breeding told 404 Media. “It’s going to take them a while to set up the business relationships and technical things that have to be set up for libraries to automatically order books from the providers.”
But one thing is evident.
“Libraries are kind of in a weaker position just scrambling to find a vendor at all,” he added.
Less competition in the market makes for more challenging working conditions all around. Just ask Erin Hughes, director of the Wood Ridge Memorial Library in New Jersey, made the move over to Ingram after a series of negative experiences with B&T in 2021 from late and damaged deliveries to customer service calls that went poorly, to say the least. Hughes worries her experience with B&T will happen again, only this time with Ingram.
Since the Reddit announcement, she's noticed it's a little more difficult to get a rep on the phone and the number of shipments to the library is smaller. But the other way Hughes is seeing the problem play out involves the consortium her library belongs to. While she may have foregone B&T years ago, her network hasn't, which affects the operability of InterLibrary Loan lending.
“The resource sharing is going to be off for a bit,” Hughes told 404 Media.
“No, we do have a little bit of pause around Amazon,” she added. “But we’re at a point now where Ingram actually does supply most of the books for Amazon. So we’re already in the devil’s pocket. It’s all connected. It’s all integrated. And as much as I personally don’t care for the whole thing, I don’t really see a lot of other options.”
It's hard not to think this outcome was predictable and also preventable. We know what happens when private equity gets involved with businesses not expected to generate high growth or returns, as well as what happens when there's too little market competition in any given sector. It can't be a cautionary tale because market consolidation is in itself a cautionary tale.
But it’s also worth acknowledging how the timing could not be worse. Library use is way up right now, which is indicative of the times. People are buying less for various reasons. People also seem to like the idea of putting a little friction between their media consumption habits and Big Brother, even at the expense of a little convenience.
“We kind of made our own bed a little bit because we didn’t branch out,” said Hughes. “We didn’t find other solutions to this, and we were relying essentially on two giant companies, one of which folded so quick it was not even funny.”
sounds good to me? per this announcement the new affinity app will combine photo, publisher, & designer & will be free to all, no license purchase required
won't need to upload anything to cloud services online to use
as an Affinity Photo 2 user, i like what i'm hearing so far...
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •-slices of a good quality tomato + slices of mozzarella + large fresh basil leaves, open face on toasted bread. Drizzle with Greek olive oil. Works well on many diff types of bread
- smoked salmon with a smear of whole grain mustard on toast "buttered" with philadelphia light.
- my personal weirdness; any kind of fruit on bread, sometimes with a little cheese. Especially nice is thick slices of fresh pear on buttered toast.
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •hard to argue with a great Reuben. I have two other favorites:
- a well made classic Cuban sandwich
- there’s a chicken sandwich here in town called The Colonel: Sweet tea brined fried chicken, white BBQ sauce, scoop of pimento cheese, lettuce and tomato on a toasted bun. It’s so good.
Sandwiches are the best.
Ross of Ottawa
in reply to tsutrav ⁂ • • •isaiah
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •there are too many favorites.
BLT or BLAT
bhan mi
thanksgiving: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, etc
but on a hot summmer day i like the simplicity of a tuna salad sandwich
grilled cheese of any variety. i love them all. with lots of extras or just a slab of bree melted into a baguette.
french dip. reuben. cheese steak. turkey avocado hoagie with peppers and artichoke hearts.
and, obviously, peanut butter and jelly. the humble king of all lunchboxes. i could live on them.
Ross of Ottawa
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