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Actual exchange that happened during my first marriage:

Brother In Law: [tells a racist "joke"]
Me: not cool. you won't say racist shit around me.
BIL: or what?
Me: or I won't be around you.
BIL: it wasn't even racist
Me: yes it was. you won't do it around me.
BIL: whatever. (under breath) bitch.

Later, at Thanksgiving dinner:
BIL: [tells a second racist "joke" at the dinner table]
Me: [gets up and gets my keys and prepares to leave]
Mother in Law: where's she going??
Husband: I don't know. Lana, where are you going?
Me: I'm leaving.
MIL: why??
Me: ask your son.

Then I left. Later that evening I got an apology from BIL, and a promise to not say racist shit, at least around me. He tested it a second time, at a different family get together. I got up and started for my car. I got an immediate apology from him for his behavior.

Look, it's not a lot. But it's a start. Stick to your guns, folks, particularly around the holidays. Hold them accountable for their racist words and actions. Deplatforming racists works.

Donald Trump latest: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt charged with gun crimes

Ryan Routh was allegedly seen in bushes at Trump's golf course - he fled in a car after being shot at, and was arrested around 38 miles away.

BBC News
As terrifying as it looks
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Here's a mind bender to Douglas Adams. He worked with computers in the 1970s and knew that 42 is the ASCII code for *.

An asterisk is used as a wild card. It can mean anything.

So the meaning of life is anything you want it to mean. 42.

The real answer to the meaning of life was given by the computer in the way a computer could relate it.

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50,000 reason why we need to urgently tackle climate change.
Blaming China is just a distraction attempt by people not willing to change their behaviour
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/12/heat-aggravated-by-carbon-pollution-killed-50000-in-europe-last-year-study
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study

Continent is warming at much faster rate than other parts of world, leading to fires, drought and health problems

The Guardian
Tiny bit of Brompton tuning ahead of tomorrow's ride.
Which if you didn't know is the Lighthouse to Lighthouse along the NE coast from St Mary's to Sunderland. 35miles and we'll chuck in a cycling tunnel and a ferry and quite a bit of upgraded cycle infra.
09:30 at the Tyne cycling tunnel north side.