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These photos are from commentariat(tm) member ‘dangerousbeans’.
Recently I was invited to do a talk for the Minnesota ISSA at their June chapter meeting; I hope they don’t regret it.
I wonder what Iain Banks would have to say, when he heard about this. I’d hope it would be long, passionate, and full of obscenities. [nyt]
There’s an article at the failing <i>New York Times</i> that breaks down how police report their time spent. The whole thing is worth a read so I’m going to comment obliquely on it, rather than quoting extensively from it. [nytimes]
I was not happy with the way the red maple burl globe turned out. It needed a bit more sturm and a lot more drang.
If you follow police misconduct, you will know that there’s a sort of ODESSA, or roman catholic church-like informal shuffling system for bad cops. A sort of protection program that allows a cop to be noisily fired for being a violent brute, and quietly re-hired by another department, given a badge and a gun, and sent back out to do it again.
The US is in the process of reviewing its statuary. [pharyngula]
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
When the IPCC talks about catastrophic extinctions if there is a rise of more than 6C worldwide, they’re talking about the long-term average temperatures getting pushed up that high. Short-term spikes are expected, too.