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At Saturday’s event, attended by a few hundred — with perhaps as many protesters waving signs and shouting beyond a fence line — Feucht led a band in Christian rock songs, interspersed with speeches about saving Seattle.

Outside the rally — which was sparsely attended compared with the large park space that had been fenced off for it — protesters blew airhorns and kazoos and chanted through bullhorns that the rally’s conservative Christian message was not welcome in Seattle.

Some waved pride flags and carried signs saying “conversion therapy for transphobes,” “protect trans youth” and “Jesus taught love, not hate.”

A couple also held up signs at the rear of the concert crowd accusing Feucht of profiteering off his rallies. Whistleblowers who used to work for his ministries have publicly accused him of mismanaging finances and hiding how he has spent millions of dollars, according to Christianity Today.

As the author says in this article, it's not their original idea, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it.

It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.

I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.

and how do you deflect prying questions about you and limit these rituals to 2 minutes instead of wasting 30 minutes?

asking as somebody who, if not on the spectrum, is socially awkward, likes solitude, boundaries and to be left alone (to do the job)

I still believe none of your answers is going to help me because neurotypical solutions don't work for me but I have nothing to lose with this question.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/49058131

@JPP@aus.social on Mastodon.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/17008512

Pretty self explanatory.

Sorry if it's not allowed here

@ellisjrosen

playlist link:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6F3sCPmocAQDMNRNg7TZZb

My partner works at the NGLVC and this saw whet owl made a home in their owl box along their boardwalk trail over the summer

It's kinda tiny in the picture but tbf we don't have a professional camera and it's a long ways from the trail for the owl's privacy/no disturbance

In March, Joanna Sadler, an organic chemist at the University of Edinburgh, received an unusual email. It promised £35,000 to advance her research—no strings attached. The offer came from a program at Imperial College London that had developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to spot promising climate-related research that was close to commercialization.

Sadler’s work on engineering bacteria to convert disposable cutlery into acetone—an industrial solvent currently derived from fossil fuels—had made the cut. At first, Sadler didn’t really understand what the email was. But after meeting with members from Imperial’s Climate Solutions Catalyst (CSC) team, she realized it was legitimate and decided to take them up on the offer.

As AI continues to improve, universities, public funding agencies, and venture capitalists are all considering how machines could be used to identify breakthrough research. In addition to speeding up grant reviews, some researchers say the technology could help level the playing field for researchers who may be hesitant to seek out commercialization opportunities. But others warn that relying on AI for funding decisions could introduce biases and compromise confidentiality.

Alberta recently directed schools to purge library books from shelves that fit its definition of “explicit sexual content” by 1 October. If the policy is applied precisely as outlined, a host of books face being purged, including George Orwell’s 1984 due to passages in the text that discuss sexual intercourse and rape.

Academics and researchers who examine censorship say the policy specifically targets books that affirm LGBTQ+ identities – which they say is the goal of rightwing parents’ groups.

Turk says he and his colleagues are following more than 25 socially conservative groups across Canada that have similar mandates.

Many of these groups emerged as anti-vax groups during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then used social media to widen their scope of causes, including strict parental oversight.

“It’s a major initiative right now that grows out of this notion that ‘our kids are our property’,” he said. “It’s a very backward-looking, reactionary way of understanding how children learn.”

Lobbying by some parents’ groups has also prompted Alberta to institute “opt-in” sex education in fall 2024, instead of “opt-out”, which means parents must now actively sign their children up for those classes.

In June, following advocating from the Alberta Parents’ Union, Alberta also introduced new rules that require all presentations focussing on gender identity and sexuality to be vetted by the provincial government.

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Original Title: A recent study reported an outbreak of canine influenza virus (CIV) and canine distemper virus (CDV) co-infections in an animal shelter in Liaoning Province, 2023, demonstrating that co-infection with CDV increased the prevalence of CIV.

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