A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

This appears to be by Rusty Epstein. More: https://www.google.com/search?q=comics+by+someone+who+signs+%22Rusty%22&udm=2

“You know, Japheth… maybe this wasn’t such a great idea.”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/science_memes@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/953156/valid-point

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.”

Preliminary results are due from the Swedish Election Authority within hours, while vote counting will begin on Monday, with official results expected within a week

Leon County, Florida’s mail ballot envelope design placed the words “return service requested” 0.236 inches away from its election office’s return address, when it was supposed to be a quarter-inch, leading the USPS to reject it on September 2, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The county’s supervisor of elections, Mark Earley, called it “ridiculous.”

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What happens to decommissioned wind turbines and blades? Some are finding new life as buildings.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51873833

Carney reportedly seeks ‘associate’ EU membership as Ottawa-Washington ties hit fresh low. He will address the European Parliament next week.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1399304/football-teammates-after-scoring-a-goal

Credit to @ryanc@infosec.exchange

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Archive link: https://archive.ph/U1zEK

I switched over to Linux Mint a few days ago. While the game doesn’t work ’out of the box’, it doesn’t take too much to get working. And boy does it work - it’s loading up quicker than on Windows and seems to be more responsive while on a map too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51874146

Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.”

Since 1 September, Austria has banned headscarves for female pupils under 14 at state and private schools. Repeated breaches of the rule could lead to fines of €150 to €800 for parents.

A picture of a baby opossum exploring a cat tree.

via bluesky

Jefferson county coroner says 40-year-old woman died on Saturday, while two infants died with disease in August

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51873947

As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips\@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme\@piefed.social posted last year: https\://piefed.social/post/1258520

Project will prepare volunteers across US to monitor polls, encourage early voting and respond to disinformation

Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’

Nighthawks, the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam’s increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publisher Wadjet Eye Games, the game has been labelled ‘Adults Only’—causing it to be removed from Steam search and outright delisted in certain countries like Germany—despite claims from both developer and publisher that the RPG’s depictions of sex and nudity are very mild.

Mrs. T with Cajun and black pepper, Grandma Utz’s kettle chips and an MF Coke.

Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials will meet Monday to discuss an Omani plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz to regular tanker traffic, but a critical player won’t be at the table: the United States.

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Kaja Kallas called for European governments to take a ‘principled stance’ to back a ban on trade from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

I was doing a quick assignment for someone in Pike Place Market – not so much about making art, but rather capturing reference photos and images of signage and architecture, just moving through and capturing all the angles and all the textures and all the surfaces.

A fine bunch of nice fat carrots! Growing decent carrots has been a bane in my “farming” career. Always spindly with tiny roots. Not this time!

My partner and I went up to the Ryanair check-in desk this morning.

He had a TECA procedure to remove a cancerous mass so he is deaf in his right ear but they left the pena so he’s perfectly fine, just a lil floppy on one side. He can still move the flap too he just weaponizes it to look like the most disgruntled cat in the world

ich🏍🚲💀ielManche Leute scheinen wirklich in einer Parallelwelt zu leben. Mittlerweile kenne ich glaube ich jeden toten Winkel und jedes Beschleunigungsverhalten jedes Fahrzeugmodells.