John Loukidelis

Ok, this is pretty funny.

A black-and-white photograph showing a muddy street filled with soldiers in uniform gathered around damaged buildings. Many soldiers stand or walk along the road, some looking toward the storefronts while others face different directions. On the right side is a wooden building with a sign reading “R & R Stores,” with additional signage advertising confectionery, refreshments, tobacco, and coffee. The storefront appears damaged, with broken windows and debris scattered on the ground nearby. In the middle distance, piles of wooden boards and rubble lie in the street near a partially damaged structure. Utility poles, trees, and several small buildings line the street in the background.

On March 4 and 5, 1919, Canadian soldiers began to riot at Kinmel Park in North Wales after their voyage home was postponed due to a number of factors.
The riots led to five deaths and 25 court martials.
This is the story.

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headline that says RFK blasts Dunkin' as Healey Replies, "come and take it."

This is the absolute only instance of Molon Labe (μολὼν λαβέ = "come and take it") that I will ever condone. 🍩 Thank you for your attention to this donutist matter.

Highly recommend PDF-Xchange.

Accountants are swamped with AI tax slop — The Logic Canadian accountants who have been hoping that artificial intelligence will ease their tax season burden are finding it is adding to their workloads instead.

This tracks.

“A recent survey of Canadian accountants … found that 44 per cent of those who encountered AI-generated mistakes now spend up to three hours a month correcting errors caused by clients misusing advice they’ve received from AI models.”

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GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw Becomes First 2026 Incumbent to Lose Primary — The Wall Street Journal The Navy SEAL, once a rising star, was defeated by GOP opponent Steve Toth, a Texas state representative popular with MAGA voters

The GOP doubles down on MAGA.

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The badge of the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company. Surrounded by an ouroboros, a skull and crossbones sits above an hourglass and the motto "Mortus quies vivis salus". I washed out of Latin shortly after discovering Caecilius was in the fucking horto, but think it's loosely "peace for the dead, safety for the living". The whole design looks like it was outsourced to a 13yo metal fan, tbh.

Bring back proper railway branding, cowards!

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

Cleaning out his mom's house, Boston man finds his ancestor's freedom papers After clearing out his mother's home, Aaron Haynes discovered his ancestor's freedom papers and began the journey of working to uncover more about the document and the man whose freedom it guaranteed. WCVB is your home for Massachusetts breaking news and weather. For your latest Massachusetts news

A Boston man discovered a document passed down through his family: his ancestor’s freedom papers. “When he touched that paper he was touching the same place his relative touched in 1834.” [youtube.com]

Yep. I guess I have to pack and go back to the Ottoman Empire (paternal grandparents), or maybe it'd have to be England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland or late-18th century British North America (maternal great^x-grandparents where x = {2,3,4}). I wonder where the Dominion Society guys will go?

😂

I first read the books in the mid-80s. I've been trying to figure them out ever since.

Is it really though?

Feb. 29, 1776: A historic marker in Lexington, Va.

Meteorological winter is done. It was top 5. Maybe top 3 warmest when the numbers are finalized. You wouldn’t know it or even believe it if you live in the East.
We heard lots about the cold and snow in the East, but the West BAKED as the warmest winter on record… 1/

It's "appeal is becoming more selective."

Want security? Get yourself nukes.

Launch party sparkles with rebirth of Temagami Dry 'We just think it's this historic brand and it needs to be celebrated'

The popular northern beverage was first bottled in North Bay by MacDonald and Sons Ltd. in 1919.
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Woohoo!

Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf

Episode 3: The Virginians who fought for the Un... by The Untitled History Podcast Before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Colonel Robert E Lee wrote: I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the…

In 1861 there were 11 Virginian colonels in the US Army. Robert E Lee was the ONLY one to join the Confederacy.

In this week's Untitled History pod, @pptsapper.bsky.social and I talk about the Virginians who didn't turn traitor. Including George Thomas. Great general. Awesome hat-wearer. #history

Yes! I don't get the hate. Even when it is too expensive.

You're making it sound like we're desperate for friends.

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A totally predictable classless response.

Bloody Hell

This is not fine, actually.

Trump punching Jesus

Kissing Trump’s ass

Kissing Trump’s ass

2026 carnival floats in Düsseldorf, Germany

It’s impossible to overstate how much the movie version of 300 broke men’s brains.