Whitehall has been accused of misleading the public with “disingenuous” denials of plans to cull Dartmoor's iconic ponies.
Natural England (NE), a Government quango responsible for nature conservation, issued a denial of all allegations after the threat to the ponies was revealed last week.
The dispute hinges on NE’s Countryside Stewardship scheme, which would reduce the overall…
Chris Froome has found a new hobby.
As the Trump administration seeks exhaustive and unprecedented access to transgender youth medical records, families are taking to court to fight back.
Families in New York and California recently sued to block major hospital systems from complying with federal criminal subpoenas ordering the release of medical information around gender-affirming care for trans minors. Two separate lawsuits…
Thinking with cemeteries
Week 21 summary - a slow, rainy week.
As promised last week, this week's post is dedicated to sharing ongoing reflections on the photovoice workshop I hosted last weekend. The event was such a blast overall—I miss the space, and I miss the people. The workshop was limited to six attendees; three people attended. And it was perfect. It was an ideal number, one that gave us the chance to really know one another. We had a unique…
Apple shipped iOS 26.5 to all users last week, and now in the last 24 hours, the company has stopped signing iOS 26.4.2—thus preventing downgrades to a prior update.
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Google announced a tidal wave of AI features at I/O 2026. The through-line: a helpful, proactive, 24/7 presence that has very kindly agreed to never leave you alone.
Federal attorneys are demanding that a transgender health program in New York City turn over sensitive records concerning youth patients, including medical assessments, intake forms, insurance claims, and “documents sufficient to identify each patient,” according to a subpoena made public this week.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas subpoenaed NYU Langone Health…
President Trump has once again appeared to doze off on camera in the middle of a White House event, this time, just seconds after he spoke.
Trump was joined by Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz, Republican Senator Katie Britt, philanthropist and maternal health advocate Olivia Walton, principal deputy assistant secretary for health Dr. Dorothy Fink, and others at the White House…
As a _New Republic_ reader, you’re well aware that 2026 is a midterm year. But unless you’re a political junkie—or a voter in a handful of states—you might be unaware that primary season has already begun. Five states have held primaries already, while the rest are taking place this spring and summer. On the Democratic side, there’s no shortage of ideological disputes, age gaps, and longtime…
"I’ve been trying to avoid writing about Vargas in this space," _Baseball Prospectus_ fantasy baseball writer Michael Waterloo wrote last week. "He’s 34 years old, and the vast majority of fantasy players have never heard of him before the last two weeks. We have a nearly 1,400 plate appearance sample over his career to scream that what he is doing is not sustainable, nor who he truly is, and I…
Adobe is rolling out autonomous agents to orchestrate work across its applications, a move that will reinforce its position at the core of content and marketing workflows as AI disrupts the software landscape, analysts say.
“We’re living at true inflection point; a moment where creativity and marketing are being reshaped by AI, unlocking incredible new opportunities and raising the bar for…
Bait hives, ley lines, exotic parasitic mites and formic acid treatments … a spring medley of good and bad beekeeping topics.
Crosse Studios is set to release Lacrosse 26 tomorrow, April 24 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, bringing a new take on the sport that aims to capture how the game actually feels on the field. After being revealed last week, the focus has been on building a more realistic experience from the ground up, using motion matching and updated motion capture to drive how players move and react…
ISLAMABAD: Amid murmurs of divisions within the PTI, not a single party leader arrived at Adiala jail on Thursday, one of two days on which former premier Imran Khan is allowed visitors.
The Islamabad High Court has allowed Imran twice-a-week meetings — on Tuesdays and Thursdays — with his family, lawyers and other associates. Despite the order, the ex-premier has been largely restricted from…
They posted a job last week that is relevant to Proton Drive (Linux). Note it states:
Linux desktop application development (GTK+ or Qt)
GTK+ and Qt are large cross-platform frameworks and it takes time to be proficient. So I think they have not yet decided which framework they’ll use for GUI, otherwise they would have just specified one framework in the job description.
Their…
iOS 26.4 arrived last week, and with it Reminders got three improvements that make the app’s recently added urgent task feature easier to use. Here’s how.
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Frustratingly, my CMS, Ghost, decided to throw out my first draft of this. It was better written but they were unable to recover it. So, once more from the top, but with expedience and, unfortunately, brevity: I did not know how dead-on I was last week, saying that this would be the weird one. Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, this week we are watching Julie Taymor's Titus, a movie that…
Prominent Republicans are bristling at the Trump administration’s opaque Iran war plans, particularly after a closed-door briefing of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Wednesday.
Alabama Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House committee, told reporters after the briefing that the Pentagon wasn’t providing sufficient information about its aims in the Middle…
JFDI: A major week of commanding new and hard-earned skill.
From Alex, the founder of StatShots: Shai's shot diet and accuracy compares to some all-timers in all sorts of strange ways.
Week 10 summary - swimming lessons continue and a visit from friends.
Data management has a predictable failure mode: lack of urgency at strategy level, lack of clarity in execution, lack of mandate with the fixers. AI is about to make that dysfunction impossible to survive. The answer is not more governance. It is fewer people in the loop.
Following music generation last week, the Gemini app is upgrading video generation with templates.
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Identifying areas with endemic foulbroods, and the adjacent regions at risk from natural spillover through swarming. What choices are there in dealing with swarms originating from infected areas, including the options available for euthanising them?
Tesla is still planning to bring Apple's CarPlay to its vehicles, but a compatibility issue between Apple Maps and Tesla's own navigation software has held things up, according to _Bloomberg_ 's Mark Gurman.
Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says that Tesla found during testing that turn-by-turn directions from its maps app didn't sync up properly with Apple Maps during…
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Following up from last week, @Doubledee@hexbear.net seemed eager to play, so I don’t see any reason why not to give Beardrenched another year. No turns have been played since Episode 7, two weeks ago (here’s the file). I’m going to ask anybody else who is interested in playing to re-apply here in this thread, so we have an idea of…