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Extremely #overdue #book returned to Mass. library 119 years later!
#NewBedford Public #Library Director Olivia Melo reports that a copy of "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" by James Clerk Maxwell, returned 119 years after it was taken out by a borrower, is in extremely good condition. No fine was paid, though he ran the numbers and calculates that $2,100 would be owed were it not for the posted maximum of just $2, less than it cost to mail it back.
https://archive.ph/bZxlN

@aaronsgiles You might have already had this bug reported, but in case you haven't: in the GOG version of Shadows of the Empire, DREAMM 2.1b8 generally only plays the CD music once when first starting a level. It doesn't loop, it doesn't play the special music track used during boss fights (since by that point the first track has normally stopped, taking the music with it), and any levels started after the first one have no music.

Haven't tried the GOG version of Jedi Knight yet.

"I went to the library, and they forced a gardening book on me, with all of those sexually suggestive vegetables. Now I've got Debauchery Salad!"

Anyone can turn anything into a crisis. Just don't check out the books! Dakota County Library https://weststpaulreader.com/2023/07/18/lgbtq-pushback-libraries/?fbclid=IwAR3yDn9EiiZSl5Yok-7UNhMwzT-4p1waMu8wKsxNm0De6--wTrbK3Ne5IXw

Anti-LGBTQ+ Pushback at Dakota County Libraries

Anti-LGBTQ+ activists target the Dakota County Library system, including Wentworth Library in West St. Paul, culminating in a standing-room-only crowd for a Library Advisory Committee meeting.

West St. Paul Reader

The National Art Center, Tokyo
Designed by Kisho Kurokawa

#photography #photooftheday #photo
#japan #museum

~ NotMyEarthNotMyProblem.com

Everyone, I have an idea:

We should create a global holiday:

Backup Day. Everyone gets a day off to stay at home and make sure that all important files are backed up. At the end of the day you have a family dinner and share a scary data loss story to scare the kids

Edit: as some have pointed out, there already is a Backup Day! It is March 31st so I expect no less then a large celebration on @fosstodon next year. Happy Backup day everyone! 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Backup_Day

World Backup Day - Wikipedia

🚨NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency.

Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors. https://www.levernews.com/new-gop-bill-would-curb-bidens-power-to-fight-climate-change/

New GOP Bill Would Curb Biden’s Power To Fight Climate Change

Republicans are trying to thwart the president’s power to declare a climate emergency amid record-breaking heat.

The Lever
What we imagined climate change deniers would say when the climate catastrophes came, versus what they actually are saying...
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-we-imagined-climate-change-deniers-would-say.html
Tom the Dancing Bug: What we imagined climate change deniers would say...

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Boing Boing

To all the dismissive, smoothbrain, libertarian incels who chime in on my posts, mitigating Trump’s sexually violent crimes—let me make this abundantly clear:

Trump is a rapist.

Powerball has reached a billion. You could buy most of the Supreme Court for that.