Twice “Sweet Talker” When I write about songs sung in languages I cannot understand I generally try to find an English translation. This is helpful in getting the idea of the song, but it can do a weird thing in my brain where my understanding of the song is at a remove from my experience […]
A British vicar got more than he expected from his first attempt at an online sermon when he leaned too close to a candle on a cross and his sweater caught fire.
Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw.
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Bernicoff had appeared on the Channel 4 series alongside her husband, Leon, who died in 2017
June Bernicoff, best known as a cast member on the Channel 4 series Gogglebox, has died at the age of 82.
Bernicoff appeared on the hit series – in which members of the public commentate on television programmes from their living rooms – alongside her husband Leon, who died in 2017.
Continue reading...Complaints soar over useless face masks, handmade sanitisers and school meal scams
More than 500,000 unusable face masks, and a garage selling fake Covid-19 testing kits, are among the hundreds of frauds investigated by trading standards officers since the start of the lockdown.
According to the Local Government Association, fraudsters have gone into overdrive during the past six weeks to exploit the public’s fears and the fact that they are stuck at home.
Continue reading...When councils were instructed to provide accommodation for their homeless population to protect them from coronavirus, Mike Matthews, owner of the Prince Rupert hotel in Shrewsbury, was one of the first to step in. The decision was part business decision to save his hotel, part philanthropy to help homeless people he admits he usually ignored. The new residents, including a former employee, feel it has given them some dignity back and offered them a rare feeling of family and safety. They also know this cannot be a permanent change to their lives, so what happens next?
Continue reading...This week the Upside reflects on the community spirit felt in our current crisis and the one that ended in 1945
Guardian colleagues have been up to all sorts during lockdown – when they’ve not been working hard that is. At least three have acquired pets and many are digging up the garden or allotment. Potato printing, street chalk drawing, spring cleaning, DIY, it’s all going on. One particularly ingenious staffer is knitting woollen hats for boiled eggs.
Continue reading...Would-be cyclists keen to exercise during the lockdown have cleared stores of their stock
Isabel had not ridden a bike since university 10 years ago when lockdown motivated her to seek out two wheels. But half a dozen cycle shops in south London gave her the same answer: no chance. We’re out of stock.
One or two said they could sell her a high-spec racing bike for a price in the region of £1,000. The others advised her to place an order, wait a couple of weeks for the bicycle to be delivered from the manufacturer, then another week or so for it to be built by the store. And there was no option to try before buying.
Continue reading...Mike Pence’s press secretary tests positive to coronavirus; China reports one new case; Russia reports 10,000 new cases for sixth day in a row
Donald Trump has said coronavirus will “go away without a vaccine” and is expecting 95,000 or more deaths in the US, as Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for coronavirus.
The president’s comments, at an event with Republican lawmakers, capped a horror week in the US, in which it was revealed unemployment had risen to 14.7%, up from 3.5% in February, with 20 million people losing their jobs in April.
Continue reading...We’ve passed our goal and greenlit one more episode of Multiplex 10: The Web Series, so we’ll get back into production as soon as the Indiegogo campaign ends. But we’re not done yet! We have exactly one stretch goal: for every $2,500 over the base goal, we will produce at least two more minutes of … Continue reading Multiplex 10: The Web Series is FUNDED on Indiegogo!
Пользователи Google смогут заводить банковские счета и расплачиваться виртуальной или обычной дебетовой картой. Карту показали "Техкранчу" очень надёжные источники. В платёжной системе появятся дополнительные сервисы, помогающие планировать бюджет и отслеживать траты, а Google сможет проследить весь путь потребителя от поиска до покупки..
Deep breath in, deep breath out.
Can't help but smile when you come across a pure doggo snap collection!
We've got it all -- the silliness, the funnies, the cuteness! Forty-four fetchin' doggo snaps all waiting for you!
You may dig in.
Can't spell doggo without 'good'!
It's a beautiful day for frolicking in the dog park! Just kidding, no one is allowed out and we've been cooped up indoors for months now, and others for way longer... but where is your imagination? Regardless of our current whereabouts, one thing we can always count on is doggo memes to lift our spirits!
Every week we have fresh hot doggo memes delivered straight to your face and to your heart (insert loud 'aww' sound here.)
So take a moment to sit back and relax, and enjoy all the good bois and girls this list has to offer! And just in case you're having a ruff day and need an extra lift, check out these doggo memes -- that should cure just about anything.
We know when you hear the words, "good boy/girl" you think of doggos. But we're here to change that perspective.
Dogs, as wonderful as they are, aren't the only good boys and girls in the domestic pet world and we've got the proof!
Cats. As crazy as they are sometimes, and sometimes just straight up jerks, cats can also hold tight onto that good boy/girl title.
Here are our honorable 21 good cats that deserve recognition! If you've got a good boy/girl at home we want to see them and hear their story in the comments below!
We love a good neighbor revenge story. People can turn real petty on their neighbors, and sometimes that pettiness is addressed with a calculated, borderline genius, pro revenge. In this case, the dude had had enough of his neighbors' rampant pettiness, and how they'd park in his spots. So, he towed in a whole lot of "redneck hardware" and parked it out front of their place, when the moment presented itself. Just imagining what those two weeks must've been like for those neighbors; oh boy.
Get some more neighbor revenge goodness over here with this entitled neighbor who tasted his own medicine.
School justice is a minefield of extremely arbitrary, always changing no-tolerance policies where you're just as likely to get punished for something someone else did. You never forget a stupid reason for being punished. School is a jungle, and it can lead to what people describe as their school's incident, and can continue on to awkward moments at school reunions.
This video is an oldie but goldie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns the tables on the paparazzi that were bombarding him with cameras and questions. It's a curious thing to see how the paparazzi react when being fed a ration of their own medicine. It's almost as if they don't like it, like really don't like it.
Yay, this fun little Tumblr thread involves a barista dude talking about his overwhelmingly positive antics, at the cafe. Sounds like some people get with that energetic flow, while others want nothing to do with the bubbly optimism. Either way, it sounds like this barista is completely at peace with where they are in the game of life, and thus decided to have fun with the moment as it is. Those drink nicknames are something else.
Google начала рассылать пользователям G Suite предупреждение о планах по отключению доступа к своим сервисам для сторонних приложений, не использующих OAuth. С 15 июня 2020 доступ будет закрыт для новых подключений, с 15 февраля 2021 для всех.
Потенциально это затрагивает большинство пользователей десктопных приложений (того же Outlook или Thunderbird), подключение которых к сервисам Google сейчас требует генерации пароля для LSA (less secure apps).
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Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, often spoken of as the birth of the green movement. Denis Hayes helped coordinate the first event, and speaks to New Scientist about its impact
Rocks from a 3.2-billion-year-old formation in Australia show changes in the direction of their magnetism over time that suggest plate tectonics started earlier than we thought
The UK government has refused to say how many covid-19 contact tracers it has employed, with less than three weeks to go until its target of recruiting 18,000 of them by mid-May
With social media, newspapers and politicians all espousing unverified covid-19 findings, use these seven signs to tell if a study should be treated with caution
Of course, the first comment on the comic is this BS: Nobody gets to be a billionaire without creating something that millions, even billions, of people want and pay for. If you don’t like billionaires, then trying living your life without everything they’ve made possible for you. Reassuringly, that commenter will never be a billionaire, […]
This looks like a good way to spend my time after classes are over, but I haven’t been able to find it in the Ikea catalog. Has it sold out already?
