Ramparts is one word. It is not ram parts. That changes the whole meaning of the anthem, FFS! #Nashville

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NEWS FLASH:
United Airlines Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from San Francisco, crushing cars on the ground.
Guess they ran out of gorilla glue.

Just about 2 years ago, a convoy stopped being a convoy and blocked the streets of downtown Ottawa. Protest, however unfounded, is one thing, but doing it with big rigs on city streets with loud horns is beyond the pale.
#Politics #Protest

Quite a contrast between that
noisy unfounded protest in Ottawa that severely affected the lives and livelihoods of the citizens of Ottawa and this silent demonstration by Brigette DePape in the House of Commons during a Throne speech in 2011.

#nature I'm a squirrel watcher...I'm a squirrel watcher

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

#news #technews #ntp

'We're home': 140 years after forced exile, the Tonkawa reclaim a sacred part of Texas

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2023/12/28/tonkawa-tribe-central-texas-sacred-sugarloaf-mountain-native-americans-herzog-milam-county/71903887007/

#news #texas #goodnews

Tipped wage ≠ minimum wage. At these rates, the tip jar isn't going anywhere anytime soon. https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/#/min_wage/ #randomthoughts #minimumwage #tippedwage #economics

#comics Walt Kelly’s original art for the Pogo comic strip published on December 22, 1961.

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#BloomCounty

And from 1989 ...

Video of tanks, APC’s and MRAPS reportedly outside main administrative building in Rostov. Possible standoff between Wagner forces and Russian national guard to the left (vehicles with blue lights) via @ELINTNews

#Russia