He didn’t just “die”. The cops murdered him. Guess what color Herman Whitfield’s skin was. No, go ahead, guess, I’ll wait. https://eu.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/04/27/herman-whitfield-pianist-indianapolis-police-taser-death-mental-health-services/9554930002/
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The Queen’s Remembrancer
The Exchequer Court is reconstituted every year for the three ancient ceremonies of the “Rendering of the Quit Rents to the Crown” by the City of London at the Royal Courts of Justice.The oldest dates from 1211, where the City pays service for two pieces of land, The Moors near Bridgnorth in Shropshire, for which […]
Mars’s Soundscape Is Strangely Beautiful
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/nasa-perseverance-mars-sounds/629706/
Greg Abbott Is Considering Declaring Texas Under ‘Invasion’
Now that I don’t have to worry about Zuckerjail: fuck this fucking cracker ass cracker. I’m ashamed to be Texan anymore. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvnewv/texas-greg-abbott-invasion-immigrants
Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn’t Buy From Amazon – Slashdot
I’m glad – I use an online converter to convert epub to mobi and it’s a hassle. https://m.slashdot.org/story/399346
What a billion square feet of warehouses looks like
https://www.theverge.com/23053387/billion-square-feet-warehouses-california-inland-empire-online-shopping
Kathy Boudin, former Weather Underground radical, dies at 78
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/kathy-boudin-former-weather-underground-radical-dies
I learned, as a child, that there was no place that was home. My great-grandfather’s farm was home, but then the Corps of Engineers came along and bought it from him so they could build a reservoir, whose shores never even came near his land. He used the money to build a replacement house in […]
Trump on BLM Protesters: ‘Can’t You Just Shoot Them?’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7da93/trump-blm-protesters-shoot-them
A Portable Wind Turbine “About the Size of a 1-Liter Water Bottle”
https://www.core77.com/posts/115554/A-Portable-Wind-Turbine-About-the-Size-of-a-1-Liter-Water-Bottle