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Voters in Conservative and NDP ridings die younger, study suggests

Outrage after Republican representative disparages Sikh prayer in the US House
Mary Miller had first mistaken Giani Singh for a Muslim and said it was ‘deeply troubling’ he was allowed to lead prayer
Maya Yang
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/us-house-prayer-republican-mary-miller

Money can’t buy him love: Republicans give Elon Musk the cold shoulder
Robert Tait in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/trump-elon-musk-reaction

Trump bill set to add trillions to US debt pile – can America stop it climbing?
Economists are concerned, politicians are angry – but the national debt keeps growing, no matter who’s in charge
Callum Jones in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/07/trump-bill-us-national-debt

The Trump-Musk feud shows danger of handing the keys of power to one person
Nick Robins-Early
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/07/trump-musk-feud-power

Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands
Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/donald-trump-elon-musk-enemies-trash-twitter-tesla

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right
Ben Makuch
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training

RFK Jr’s report calls farmers ‘backbone’ of US – but cuts leave workers lacking support
Small farmers face ‘two personalities’ as Trump team slashes $1bn in resources despite Kennedy’s vow to protect them
Jessica Glenza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/farmers-trump-cuts-rfk-jr

Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says
Government defence expert Fiona Hill warns UK to respond to threats by becoming more cohesive and resilient
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/06/russia-is-at-war-with-uk-and-us-no-longer-reliable-ally

International Pride Orchestra plays outside DC in rebuff to Trump snub at Kennedy Center
LGBTQ+ ensemble was to appear at performing arts center but moved to Maryland after president reorganized venue
Guardian staff and agency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/international-pride-orchestra-kennedy-center

Key takeaways from world’s largest cancer conference in Chicago
Experts announce findings on immunotherapy, a breast cancer breakthrough and the value of exercise
Andrew Gregory in Chicago
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/06/key-takeaways-from-worlds-largest-cancer-conference-in-chicago

Alzheimer’s blood test can spot people with early symptoms, study suggests
New test accurately picks up on memory problems by examining two proteins in blood plasma, US researchers find
PA Media
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/07/alzheimers-blood-test-can-spot-people-with-early-symptoms-study-suggests

It’s my goal to live to 100 – and it’s not just diet and exercise that will help me achieve it
Devi Sridhar
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/07/live-to-100-diet-exercise-long-life

Jantelagen: Why Swedes won't talk about wealth
A high income is a badge of success in many countries, but in Sweden a deep-rooted cultural code called Jantelagen stops many from talking about it.
Video by Maddy Savage and Benoît Derrier
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07qgx5d/jantelagen-why-swedes-won-t-talk-about-wealth

If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
Pauline McLean
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no

Lost Turner oil painting found after 150 years
Leigh Boobyer
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzp4r70m8o

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Posted by Mike Glyer

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By Steve Vertlieb: Actor Bramwell Fletcher (February 20, 1904 – June 22, 1988) became a dear friend in the mid-Sixties when my brother Erwin and I met him at his hotel on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. He was playing George Bernard … Continue reading →

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Posted by Mike Glyer

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Harrogate International Festivals has announced the shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025 and the shortlist for the McDermid Debut Award. The Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel prize was created to celebrate “excellence, originality, and the very best … Continue reading →

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(1) ANOTHER HARTWELL-WORTHY GARB-MENT. [Item by Daniel Dern.] From the David-Hartwell-worthy wardrobe catalog: the PAC-MAN Jacket/suit (from Opposuits). I first saw it posted by Mitch Wagner, a fellow sf/f fan (and telecom and enterprise industry analyst, technology writer/editor, which is … Continue reading →

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kaberett

A significant part of the problem is that we only start saying "all pain is in the brain" (or "the tissue isn't the issue" or whatever) to people with complex or chronic pain.

And there's a good reason for that! It's the same reason that I need to have a much more detailed idea of the fine detail of what an atom is and how it behaves than the vast majority of the population, for whom the Bohr model is perfectly adequate!

... and we need to explain that, we need to explain why we don't tell people with simple acute pain that All Pain Is In The Brain -- it's not because it's any less true for them, it's just that for most people most of the time they don't need to worry about that level of detail. But if you don't explain that, it sure do sound a lot like "your pain isn't real (unlike those people over there)".

Lies-to-children. That. That thing. That's a thing I need to explain.

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部首
冫 part 3
冻, to freeze; 净, clean; 准, allow/standard ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

语法
Chapter 24 quiz: Comparatives (one of those where I feel like if they don't make the full English text clear, there could often be multiple right answers)
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
糖, sugar (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
人是被冻死的, he was frozen to death
你比我更值得拥有这份殊荣, you deserve this honor more than I do
吃颗糖, have a piece of candy

Me:
他不准去那里。
你没有他那么善良。

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Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought, study finds
Controversial additive may be in as many as 11,000 US products and could lead to diabetes and obesity
Tom Perkins
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/titanium-dioxide-food-additive-toxic

Don’t rinse raw chicken: nine food safety tips from microbiologists
We all have questionable kitchen habits – experts break down how to avoid spreading pathogens at home
Adrienne Matei
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/jun/05/how-to-avoid-food-poisoning-microbiologists-tips

Minnesota’s boundary waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever
A little-known provision would open thousands of nearby acres to a foreign mining company, risking acid drainage
Jimmy Tobias for Public Domain
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/minnesota-boundary-waters-pollution

A massive outbreak has made Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby
Olivia Bowden in St Thomas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/measles-outbreak-ontario-canada

Diner dates and bathhouse chili: the colorful, defiant history of America’s gay restaurants
In his new book, Erik Piepenburg dishes on the US eateries that have served as LGBTQ+ havens and are still thriving
Tim Teeman
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/american-gay-restaurant-history

Police now say they are investigating shooting of actor Jonathan Joss as possible hate crime
King of the Hill actor’s husband claimed killing was due to his sexual orientation, which police initially dismissed
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/06/jonathan-joss-killing-investigation-hate-crime

The inevitable Trump-Musk feud is finally here – and it’s pathetic
Moira Donegan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/trump-musk-feud-pathetic

Trump’s tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks
Sidney Blumenthal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/05/trump-tariffs-republicans

Impeachment, Epstein and bitter acrimony: Trump and Musk joust in astonishing social media duel
Tensions over the Republican spending bill burst into public view as the president’s relationship with his former adviser deteriorated
Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/trump-elon-musk-fallout

Trump says Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offering
Trump says he’s ‘not particularly’ interested in reconciling with Elon Musk, who reportedly wanted to speak to president
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/06/elon-musk-signals-he-may-back-down-in-public-row-with-donald-trump

Wake Up and Smell the Corruption
How far we've fallen, how fast
Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-and-smell-the-corruption?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=apztr&triedRedirect=true

'We have a geriatric problem' - Democrats wrestle with age-old issue
Anthony Zurcher
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw7p2pjn11o

US supreme court sides with heterosexual woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ case
Judges rule 9-0 in case where Marlean Ames argued she was denied a promotion because she is heterosexual
Lauren Aratani and agencies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/supreme-court-reverse-discrimination-case

Australian navy ship accidentally blocks internet and radio across parts of New Zealand
Incident happened as one of the Royal Australian Navy’s largest ships was on its way to Wellington this week
Elias Visontay
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/06/australian-navy-ship-accidentally-blocks-wifi-across-parts-of-new-zealand

Dr Martens profits slump by more than 90%
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2kpwnr4rjo

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A foundling boy raised by a great snake becomes intrigued by a reclusive calligrapher living near the river snake and boy call home.

Numamushi by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

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By Rich Lynch: So who doesn’t like a good play about supernatural beings of all sorts, especially when it’s laugh out loud entertaining? It was a welcome surprise when Nicki found a promotional flyer for The Mystery of Irma Vep in … Continue reading →

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https://file770.com/?p=122942

(1) EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman invites listeners to feast on oysters with Kemi Ashing-Giwa in episode 255 of the Eating the Fantastic podcast. Last month’s Balticon was one of the best I’ve ever experienced, due to a combination of good programming, … Continue reading →

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redbird

We had a *weird* power outage today: most but not all of the apartment lost power. Mercifully, we did not lose power to the study, where I've been sitting quietly in the air conditioning all day (the high was 35C/95F). Our first thought was that something weird had happened to our apartment's power. Cattitude spent some time on the phone with the management company, which sent a technician. The technician looked things over and told us to call Eversource.

Some piece of their equipment broke, leaving 37 customers without power, according to the outage map, including us and our upstairs neighbors who also had power in part of each apartment. It took them several hours to fix, but fortunately we got our lights back before it was entirely dark out. The oddest-feeling bit of this was realizing that I could plug my phone in to charge, in the middle of a power outage.

I have been doing almost nothing today, to avoid straining my knee*. It's feel better now than last night, but still not great, and I'm having trouble using the quad cane correctly: even moving slowly, my foot and the cane are landing with one an inch or so ahead of the other (sometimes the foot is forward, sometimes it's behind). Tomorrow is supposed to be a lot cooler, but I'm still planning to stay home, and hopefully do some stretching.

* Yes, I buried the lede in yesterday's post, because the googly-eyed train was more interesting.

jacey

Narrated by Wil Wheaton
Fantasy, science fiction or pure absurdist literature? You’ll need to make your own mind up about that. It’s probably all three. The premise is that the moon, all of a sudden, turns to cheese. What kind of cheese? Not sure, but because cheese is less dense than rock and because the moon’s mass has not altered, it’s suddenly bigger and brighter and everyone notices. Rather than following one main character this book works as a series of interspersed stories as people from different walks of life react differently. First we meet the staff of a museum which holds a piece of moon rock; rock until it isn’t. Then there’s an academic turned pop-science author, a bunch of NASA astronauts whose dreams have been shattered, three retirees who meet in a diner to put the world to rights, a young girl who simply wants to write her great fantasy novel, and a tech-bro billionaire who manages to stowaway on his own rocket -- not to mention the American top-brass and the president of the United States. This is quirky and absurd. Wil Wheaton’s reading is at once serious and funny. Maybe this isn’t for everyone, but I enjoyed the listen.

jacey

Audiobook narrated by Humphrey Bower.

The final book in the Chaos Walking trilogy whicfh follows Todd and Viola, sometimes together, sometimes apart, as they get sucked into the politics of New Prentisstown and a manufactured war with the Spackle. Whether he wishes it or not Todd gets semi-adopted by the mayor (now President) Prentiss, and begins to follow a dark path even though he resists as much as he can. Viola is swept up in a rebellion of sorts as the women healers go on the rampage, using terror tactics against the mayor and his army. Add to that the arrival of a new scout ship with two of Viola’s old friends, and the impending arrival of thousands of settlers with no other option but to make the planet their home. Complicate all this with the mayor’s mental powers, and the ‘noise’ that all men acquire on exposure to the planet, and this is an excellent conclusion to the trilogy. Humphrey Bower’s reading is excellent. He switches accents and voices seamlessly. There’s a bonus short story, Snowscape, tagged on to the end of this recording.

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部首
冫 part 2
决, to decide; 况, situation; 冷, cold ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

词汇
汤, soup (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我已经决定了, I have already decided
我真的不用，我不冷, I really don't need it, I'm not cold
[no 汤]

Me:
这个情况怎么整呢。
你喜欢清汤挂面吗？

athenais

The Corflu 42 anthology of fannish writing about music experiences is now available as a link: https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Dancing

This is where my own article on the concerts and music I've liked over the years is published. Yes, K-pop makes an appearance, but I don't think it's too dire. And if you didn't know I used to be a Deadhead as well as a Club Kid during the New Wave years, here you go.

kaberett

On Tuesday, I picked a kohlrabi. The stem itself got eaten at the plot; the leaves I brought home to cook and eat subsequently rather than compost them. I stuck them in a glass of water to keep them going while I work out what exactly it is I want to do, and -- they are stunning. I am enjoying them so much every time I go past them: dark blue-tinged green leaves, pink-purple stems and veins (the cultivar is Azur; I do not currently have photos but will attempt to get my act together tomorrow.)
I have four spikes of ginger, one thoroughly unfurled into leaves, and at least one more thinking hard about it. I do not expect to wind up self-sufficient in ginger but I am very much enjoying the experiment.
a word you've never understood (Prophet, 9k words). I did not read it all in one gulp -- I paused to take notes -- and I'm now on my second read through, which could in theory be more of a gulp but mysteriously I seem to be taking more notes and also remembering that I wanted to shake the internet for more information about the experience termed "aftersensations", for Book Purposes. (Also I think I've lured another person into at least starting the book...)
Asparagus for lunch! Still in season; still delicious.
My house once again contains Large Quantities of hazelnuts and pecans. I Monch.

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