If anybody from around here even needed to play the video, I'll be disappointed.
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If anybody from around here even needed to play the video, I'll be disappointed.
Just imagine some cloud-computing knob seeing this and thinking, "Well, maybe we should put together a backup for the backup"... and then crying when they see what their own data centres have done to the cost of hardware lately.
You'll be back.
About the same age here and yes, it's a fantastic look. Adding a black leather jacket to the mix replicates about 90% of the crushes I had that decade.
"Israel almost immediately closed all the crossings into Gaza, including those designated for humanitarian aid."
"Gazans fear that another of Israel's wars will go unnoticed: the resumption of its starvation policy in Gaza."
#Gaza #Palestine #Iran #USA #Israel #Aid #Food #Military
A larger red box with a clear window on the right side to show off a generic "doctor" figure in a short-sleeved white uniform with a black belt. Most of the packaging artwork is the same as that for the individual figures, but there is also a photo of the contents of the box set up on a pebbly surface: a stretcher, a patient lying prone on a gurney, operating-theatre lights, an IV setup, various canisters and blankets and cleaning basins, and a large beige (possibly) canvas tent open at one end with an MSF logo on the roof and window holes cut out of the side. Wearing a big white lab coat, the doctor action figure is posed leaning over the patient on the gurney, clearing doing Important Medical Stuff. A small white box in one corner announces that purchasing this set resulted in a donation to the charity that would pay for five doses of some vaccine or other (as opposed to the single dose you'd provide buying a figure on its own).
If you go looking for this stuff on eBay, you'll find an entire line of the toys available: a radio operator, a surgeon, a pilot, a nurse, etc. as well as patients with exciting accessories such as crutches. I think my favourite, though, was the hospital-tent playset.
Packaging for one of many Médecins Sans Frontières actions figures: an articulated-like-an-'80s-GI-Joe figure clad in very brown trousers and a short-sleeved tan uniform shirt with an MSF logo on the breast pocket is sealed inside a blister pack attached to a red backing card featuring a very '70s-looking painting of three heroic doctor-types wearing stethoscopes and communicating over CB radio as a sturdy 4WD vehicle navigates a mountain road off to one side. Assorted white or black text on the package reads as follows: "MISSION MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES™ / FIGURINE TOTALEMENT ARTICULÉE / ÂGE: 5-10 ANS / Aidez Médecins sans Frontières: une figurine = un vaccin" Various accessories for the figure are also sealed in place, including a plain white stethoscope and a white doctor's bag with appropriate branding.
Also today in "Wait, that was a thing?" news: discovering that someone in '80s France wondered, if G.I. Joe was a hit, why couldn't Médecins Sans Frontières action figures be, too? And then made donations to MSF based on sales.
Ah, memories of the Stille Post days...
“If I can’t have an underwater parking garage for my spa, maybe I can get my construction buddies to build an island for me for about a decade.” Do the favours and kickbacks ever stop?
Jim Thirlwell and Lydia Lunch ringside at the Garden for wrestling
Honestly, if certain heads of state wanted to decamp to a remote island somewhere with nothing but a bread knife and a belt of grenades, I'd chip in to buy them the necessary plane tickets.
Probably not news to anybody else, but I just learned from the artwork in a who-cares D&D update that the kids from the old Saturday-morning cartoon have been part of Forgotten Realms canon for years and also appeared in the 2023 D&D movie. Neat! gizmodo.com/dungeons-and...
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
Our deadly flaw was taking conservatives seriously, thinking they had serious principles, when all they want is money, power and the deaths of brown and queer people 😐
Went home during my lunch period at school, made a sandwich with leftover chicken from the night before, absent-mindedly put my keys on the chicken plate which was then wrapped up and put back in the fridge, spent an hour trying to find those keys so I could go back to school.
Thank you! Part of my frustration with a bunch of the clowns we elect is that so few people look at how they campaign and see rhetoric that would have been laughed out of debate club.
📈📊: Ontario appears to have pulled back on sharing data. That's an idea we put to the premier's office, which told us:
"To imply the government has reduced or removed process measures is factually incorrect and misleading to your readers.”
Here are the examples #OnPoli
Don't tell them that Jesus is going to melt their faces like the Ark of the Covenant... I want to see that shit live on TV.
*for a laugh
What I wouldn't give for a sixty-second edit window.
Google Street View shot showing the blurred-out house at 397 Pharmacy Avenue on the left (circled and identified in orange block letters here) on a sunny day in August 2018 according to the notes at the bottom of the shot. The rest is a fairly typical Ontario suburban street: two-storey houses with brick chimneys and mostly gable roofs extend into the distance. Grass grows up through breaks in the sidewalk where maintenance work has been done and patched over with different materials. Power and phone lines criss-cross the four-lane street. Large leafy trees fill several of the yards across the street and large SUVs are parked in their driveways. About a block down the street, a large white apartment building that is at least ten storeys tall is plainly visible, as are a few others further down the street and across the road.
Also, just pulled that address up on Street View for laugh. It's currently blurred out, but you can see bigger buildings literally just down the street. (Pharmacy Place, the white building in the screenshot, is just over a block away.)
My favourite bit was the insistence that the new cars from a ten-unit building would make it unsafe for kids to walk to school, as if four-lane Pharmacy Avenue is somehow free of traffic at present.
Incidentally, wouldn't it be great to be able to properly trawl through the history of Letterman performances? I'd pay good money to have this and some classic Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, and Patti Smith performances available as properly-mastered downloads.
Happy birthday to Lori Carson (68), El-P (51), and Living Colour's absolute killer album, Stain (33). www.youtube.com/watch?v=1miz...
Tarek Mansour's LinkedIn profile is one big Shithead Tech Guy alert: anime avatar, 8 months at Goldman Sachs, a year at Palantir, listing time at Y Combinator as "education". When somebody talks about financializing everything, don't download their app... push them into the nearest river.
Reading about Polymarket-this and Kalshi-that constantly makes me sad that we didn't instantly clamp down on the idea of massively expanding sports betting. And even there, the insider stuff is prosecuted, so can we please do something about the war-profiteering-for-public-servants apps?
That's really cool. Who knew the Baron had such dainty hands?
(I was thinking about our neighbour to the south as being very much like the Baron a few days ago and wondering which of his gang of goons would have heart plugs.) (Almost certainly Lindsey Graham.)
Damn, that's a cool panel. He did similar expressive stuff with Warlock's face in New Mutants and I liked that a lot on the rare occasions when I bough an issue.
I'm curious: do the Harkonnen's heart plugs show up in this series or is that a bit too much for Marvel's age bracket?
Bomb country 1300 km to the east, close western border with your neighbour who has only had an ambassador to that other country for a little over a decade because they're... close allies or something? It's clearly an urgent security matter.
