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A thank-you for your sweet and confectionery factory museum volunteers and the people around them: sugar boiling, rock making and chocolate demonstrators, sweet shop counter volunteers, guides, engineering and machinery, collections, archive, family history, oral history, education, shop and café volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A row of glass sweet jars, a copper sugar pan or the old factory gates as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, hot sugar, food, allergy and machine safety, an honest word about sugar, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
I Am the World’s Most Annoying Website
Orientation time. Watch this video from three years ago. It’ll autoplay, with no visible pause button and a scrubber that doesn’t respond. The video only lasts ninety-four seconds. But know that it’ll reload at least twice.
↳ via McSweeney’s
A thank-you for your ice house and country-estate heritage volunteers and the people around them: the ice house team, guides and walk leaders, grounds, woodland, veteran tree, lake, boathouse, ha-ha, wall, outbuilding, folly, collections, archive, family history, oral history, wildlife and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. The ice house door in autumn leaves, the estate lake with the house reflected in it or a row of estate cottages as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, ice house, bat, water, tree and ha-ha safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your slate and quarry museum volunteers and the people around them: the guides, the splitting and dressing demonstrators, quarry walk leaders, mill, machinery, smithy, workshop, shop, railway, incline, collections, archive, family history, oral history, building, site and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A fan of split slates, a stepped quarry face, an old incline or the barracks on the hill as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, edge, water, tool and machinery safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your wheelwright and cooperage museum volunteers and the people around them: the guides, the demonstration, tyring-day, forge, workshop, shop, timber, machinery, collections, archive, oral history, building and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A wooden cart wheel, the cooper's block or a row of oak casks as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, fire, tool and machinery safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
As Embattled Democrats Equivocate on Trans Issues, A Rare Ad Goes on Offense
The ad, which The Hill reports is part of a larger buy worth over $1 million per The Hill, begins with a young girl entering a bathroom and to her horror, encountering an older white-haired man sitting in the stall waiting for her. He greets her with a short hello. Immediately, the girl presses the man for answers, “What are you doing? Who are you?”
It ends with him saying, with the creepiest goddamn smirk on his face, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl."
Honestly? Spot on. Most republicans currently in office, or running for office, are proud members of the Epstein class. This is the most accurate portrayal I’ve ever seen in a political ad.
↳ via Them
A thank-you for your tannery and leather museum volunteers and the people around them: the guides, the demonstration, leather workshop, shop, machinery, collections, archive, oral history, building and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. The old tan pits, the curriers' bench or a stack of finished hides as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, pit, tool and machinery safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your rope walk and ropery museum volunteers and the people around them: the guides, the spinning and laying, machinery, rope making, shop, knot and rigging, collections, archive, oral history, building and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. The long walk, the coils of rope or the old spinning wheel as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, rope tension and machinery safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
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Mystery Flyers Sow Mass Confusion Ahead of Texas Election
Some residents have received pamphlets and fliers from the “Texas Transgender Student Union,” a made-up organization, advising them on how to emancipate from their parents and receive out-of-state medical care. The pamphlets seem to be leaning into right-wing hysteria over gender-affirming care for minors.
It’s not enough to simply spread lies and scapegoat innocent trans people. Conservative politicians also have to spend millions on a ragebait campaign to back up their false narratives and intensify hatred towards trans people among those who already hate them for existing.
Republicans don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves, or about anything except holding onto power and lining their pockets.
↳ via The New Republic
Two out of five Americans regularly get their news on Facebook
Pew did not give respondents a definition of “news,” instead letting them use their own understanding of the term when they filled out the survey. More than half (59%) said that they get news from social media “often or sometimes,” but only 19% actually prefer social media as a place to get news.
That’s… not surprising. Just this morning my girlfriend had me convinced Kim Jong Un had died because she saw a post from TMZ on Facebook about it. A quick web search showed that he already posted photographic proof he’s alive and well. It started as a rumor posted on X, where a bunch of tabloid sites picked it up and ran with it, and then shared it on social media. I’ll stick with my trusty RSS reader.
↳ via Nieman Lab
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A thank-you for your brewery and maltings heritage volunteers and the people around them: the guides, the malting floor, engine, cooperage, dray, collections, archive, oral history, building, hop garden and education volunteers, the trustees and the founders. The malting floor, the copper or the kiln cowl as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, alcohol-free thank-yous, building and machinery safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
