Scotland now generates over half its
electricity from renewable sources like
wind and solar power. The goal is for
the entire country to stop depending
on fossil fuels and produce 100% of
its annual electricity needs with
renewable resources by 2030. Source Source 2
Category: General
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A major day in science history. Learn more about the polio vaccine at the CDC.
if you don’t know how big a deal this was, learn about it, omg
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Considering he was written to represent Jewish values, he should probably be Middle Eastern.
I’m so here for black Jewish Superman
YES (ps I read is Superman Jewish fyi he is)
Black Jewish Superman? Then we know who needs to play him.
Clark Kent:
And then he changes…
…into Superman.
it got better
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*choked sob* please
yo turns out wE HAD A SECRET WEAPON
AN IMMIGRANT WE KNOW AND LOVE, WHO’S UNAFRAID TO STEP IN.
IT GOT BETTER.
listen I am RIGHT THE FUCK HERE for a black Jewish superman
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Yuri Gagarin with his Matra Bonnet Djet VS coupe
Via Flickr:
During his 1965 tour to France, Yuri Gagarin was presented with a Matra Bonnet Djet V S coupé by the French government, the car was later photographed wearing Soviet license plates.This colouring is product of russian-american cooperation: we did it it together, Patty Allison and me.
Here the site of Patty:
imbuedwithhues.wordpress.com/author/imbuedwithhues/
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Even before the show aired on Sunday night, Melissa McCarthy knew that she’d be making history at the MTV Movie Awards. For the first time ever, a woman would be winning MTV’s Comedic Genius Award, and it was McCarthy who’d be receiving the honor.
Fittingly, in ways both spoken and unspoken, McCarthy used the occasion to prove how much of a trailblazer she really is — when it comes to comedy, but also to red carpet fashion.
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I’ll never, never understand why people think it’s their business to comment on other people’s bodies. I go to a spa in LA sometimes, a Korean day spa, and all the women there are nude. And I’ve never felt so in love with the human form as when I’m walking around and seeing all those bodies, thinking, Oh my god, we’re all just built so differently. And every single body is beautiful. I will never understand that shame, and the reinforcement of that shame. It’s crazy. (x)
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As promised. Middle ID’s.
(Thanks to @joshcheek aka joshprops)
To this day, whenever I seen Natalie on another show, I assume that she is playing Wendy Watson on a deep-cover assignment.
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OH GOD, this pic tho! Someone PLEASE tell me the original source.
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So far, today has gone better
I spent this morning watching Big Clive tearing down a cheap USB charger which, for unfortunate part-failure reasons – passed mains straight through to the USB port. Sadly for the makers, who actually seem to have given a fig about design – and who’ve actually gone to more trouble than seems common to build a reasonable piece of kit, they were let down by a parts failure.
Anyhow, the thing is gently soothing to me, reminding me of sitting reading while my dad would strip down and repair electronics.
So it finally got me motivated to try and move the cable from the knock-off apple supply (which said “MagSafe” but actually appears to provide the full 85W regardless of whether it’s connected or not) to the old apple one I had which had a faulty cable. I’ve got an array of toys here now, most importantly in this case my temperature controlled iron which was complete overkill (and proved I need a different tip for it – so I’ve added some new tips to the selection of stuff that I’ve got in my AliExpress cart…for later).
Anyhow. The general impression when I stripped the knock-off one down was that it was poorly made:
Although I didn’t get in to actually looking at the design. After a fair chunk of time and a bit of a battle I managed to desolder the apple cable and replaced it with the one from the knock-off – which seems to be working nicely. The poor apple brick is now held together with tape tho’.
I also trekked out to return the case I bought from Blinq – they turned out to be very nice people, giving me a chunk of refund for the massively delayed motherboard delivery – and promising to refund the money from the case that was smashed in transit.
Also, the nice guy at the FedEx place taped the box shut for me, when I asked about tape :)
Then I headed over to what has become my favourite computer store and started peering at cases – explained my predicament (i.e. it normally lives out of sight, so I want something that’s functional, has lots of bays, and is also fairly cheap) – and they produced a second hand case for $45. Bargainateous, if you ask me.
Having got home I commenced the joyous task of rebuilding my PC using a new motherboard but the same everything else – not really an upgrade, more a side-grade.
Once thrown into the new case, it booted straight up and seems, surprisingly, pretty happy. I’ve now started trying to sort out the pigging mess the file systems had become – with the spurious resetting problem seemingly better (it just moved 160 Gig of files in one go, and before that another 90 Gig), it’s looking like it might be possible to at least get it working and the files back where they belong. Once that’s done I can start contemplating the possibility of sorting out a raid array for it.
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this is horrible.
[CW: Rape culture, murder, everything is sad]
Every single thing about the murder of Ingrid Lyne is horrible. Lyne—a local woman, a medical professional, a mom, and a human being—was murdered after planning to go on a date with a man she met on the internet and had been out with before.
Her remains were found in recycling bin.
It is profoundly tragic and sad and unfortunately extremely indicative of the fact that misogyny literally kills people and that men are one of the single biggest threats to women’s safety.
You would think that, given the details of this extremely awful, painful, terrible thing, it couldn’t get worse. And yet somehow, people are making it worse. Because of course they are.
Should we know better than to read the comments? Of course. But as several people have informed us, the comments on this story confirm that rape culture is the realest of real.
Yes. People are literally blaming this woman for being murdered.
Look, in the United States, three women are killed every. Single. Day. by intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime in this country. At least one-third of women killed in the United States are killed by their partners.
One of the most dangerous things a woman can do is live her life.
We know our readers are better than this, but maybe tell your friends. Tell your family. Misogyny kills. Violence against women is deadly. And it can’t be stopped by women staying home.