hmm, it's almost like relying on a country run by a mercurial dictator for 80% of your oil exports might be a bad idea 😅

lolsob at the canonical bad vendor identification conversation:

"which one?"
"that one"
"ah, yeah. we all know the one"

trust me when I say the library world knows this all too well 😅

no worries! if they look a little deeper, I'm sure they'll find the "Brexit Benefit" treasure trove, with enough cash to wipe out their deficit and then some

😘

I'm sure this is heavily coloured by my life experience, but I'm still kinda gobsmacked when I realize my kids know people in 3 of the 4 corners of the USA, plus a handful of European countries, all of whom they chat with on the regular.

no, no, milk next! lait's go!

absolutely, and you can already see examples of it happening at the local level. clean energy projects in remote communities usually replace diesel generators, and on many grids, any uptick in wind or solar generation directly displaces natural gas 🎉

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/n...

honourable mentions:

* Black bear (always neat)
* Grey wolf (amazing)
* Red fox (adorable)
* Porcupine (silly creatures)
* Common loon (amazing)
* Sandhill crane (amazing)
* Pileated woodpecker (incredible; a favourite sighting)

grey payphones were only *just* starting to roll out when I lived there. those were the GOAT if you needed to make an international call -- they accepted two phone cards at once, so you didn't get cut off when your first phone card was used up

as famously enunciated in Parliament by Boris Johnson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOff...

no state, either! pack it up, parliamentarians; we're going back to the idyllic days before the British Isles had a government

Gender Affirming Car, many such cases