At least five people shot at Swedish school ‘with automatic weapon’ as police warn of ‘deadly violence’
Great Britain News (GBN) | February 4, 2025 | James Saunders
The Spectator | spectator.co.uk
Child gangsters: the new Swedish model“Anyone under 15 is immune from prosecution in Sweden and cannot be detained by police, even if caught with a gun.”
… Say hello to my young friend.
Sweden?
Can you help spot the fly-tipper?
Enfield [UK] Council | 28 April 2023
The Council’s new ‘Can You Help?’ campaign has been created as part of its ongoing campaign against fly-tipping in the borough and has released footage of people they would like to identify following incidents of fly-tipping.
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Cabinet Member for Environment at Enfield Council…
[That’s quite a title!]
… Cllr Rick Jewell, said: “The clear message to those who fly-tip on the borough’s streets is your time is up. We will find you, and if found guilty, we will take the strongest possible action. …
“There is never any excuse to fly-tip.”
In college, I majored in English and Art and goofing off.
STEM majors make me jealous. No, what’s the word? Sick! (We English majors are always sticklers for the accurate word.) Yes, you with your numbers and points of reference.
“STEM” is of recent coinage, of course, meaning “Science, Technology, and Em.” Not a very promising beginning for any field of study.
I know many commenters here, like Vakatunnen or Caleygraph, and I think zzyzx and some others — oh, and FrankJ — have something going for them, but if it isn’t a liberal art, I don’t give a fart. Rhymes are something that English majors excel at and STEM graduates don’t.
If there isn’t currently a meteor streaking towards the earth, what good is a STEM degree? Wouldn’t you rather hear about the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh? Damn straight. I know I would.
In summation, scientists wear weird glasses, but so do poets. It’s a bifurcated (!) mystery that neither branch of study is likely to explain — ever.
Of course, if you have a stray thought, this is an open thread …
66 million-year-old fish vomit discovered in Denmark
BBC | January 28, 2025A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark. …
Mr Bennicke took the fragments to be examined at the Museum of East Zealand…
It was too old for New Zealand
…, which confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago – a time when dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops existed.
Jesper Milan, palaeontologist and curator at the museum, told the BBC it was “truly an unusual find” as it helps explain relationships in the prehistoric food chain.
“It tells us something about who was eating who 66 million years ago,” he said.
Walrus: “Phrasing!”
Mr Milan said his museum had only sent the information to the local press but the discovery has sparked global interest. “This is the world’s most famous piece of puke ever,” he said.
There are other candidates for that title.
‘Troubled’ Housing Authority of Cook County [Illinois] spent more than $60,000 at Six Flags
Chicago Tribune | January 24, 2025 | Lizzie KaneRiding roller coasters. Chowing down on fried food. Catching waves in the pool at Hurricane Harbor.
Hundreds of Housing Authority of Cook County employees and their families could enjoy these activities and more for three years at Six Flags on the agency’s dime.
The state’s second-largest housing authority, which was flagged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as “troubled” in part because of an absentee board, low-grade property inspections, incorrect reporting on leases, high outstanding balances for tenants behind on rent and failure to submit financial reports on time, spent more than $60,000 on such trips.
The money came out of HACC’s roughly $22 million annual budget, dollars meant to be spent on providing public and subsidized housing to some of the lowest income residents in the county.
Italy Restarts Program Shipping Illegal Migrants to Albania for Processing and Repatriation – PM Meloni in Saudi Arabia to Sign Strategic Partnership Agreements With the Kingdom
Gateway Pundit | Jan. 26, 2025 | Paul SerranItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is doubling down in the new year, emboldened by the right-wing expansion in the world with the historic election of Donald J. Trump in the US, and several developments in Europe – in Romania, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK… and many other nations.
Meloni is riding this wave, reigniting her much-praised and much-maligned plan to send ‘asylum seekers’ (a.k.a. illegal migrants) to Albania for processing and posterior deportation.
FBI begins ‘nuclear incident drill’ in New York amid fears of WWIII
Daily Mail | 27 January 2025 | Stacy LiberatoreOfficials have begun a large-scale nuclear incident exercise in New York amid fears of WWIII.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said the exercise includes military aircraft, personnel who will carry out scenario threats to be ready ‘to respond in the event of a nuclear incident in the United States or overseas.’
The drills began Sunday, but the agency said the public may now see personnel practising out in the open. The exercise ends on January 31.
‘The training exercise will not pose risks to area residents. Please do not be alarmed by the activity,’ the FBI shared in a statement.
If you’re picturing a certain actor named Kevin saying “Remain Calm! All is well!” . . . Bacon!
Russian spy ship ‘detected loitering’ in British waters ‘gathering intelligence’
Sky News | 1/22/2025 | Ollie Cooper
The UK defence secretary has told MPs that a Russian spy ship was tracked in British waters this week. “Let me be clear,” he said, “this is a Russian spy ship used for gathering intelligence and mapping the UK’s critical underwater infrastructure.”
Ending sentences with prepositions?
