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https://apnews.com/article/severe-weather-storms-tornadoes-05-28-2024-281c8ad4600d6e7bc688fb4f720b1f92

Sudden severe storms, including a ‘gustnado’, leave over a million people without electricity in south central USA.

@jimwaterson London Evening Standard has just told staff it'll drop
its daily print edition and become a weekly paper, blaming the spread
of Wi-Fi on the tube, shortage of commuters due to work from home, and
years of massive financial losses.

https://x.com/jimwaterson/status/1795767646970867742

Hurrah. Russians and former Tory chancellor's losing their platform

^ and David Cameron's sister-in-law. Complete coincidence, of course...

Fucking hell

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Running a daily newspaper in London should really be about as difficult as running a piss-up in a brewery, Internet or not. However:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/29/london-evening-standard-close-daily-newspaper-launch-new-weekly

Now, the Standard was never a good paper even in the 90s or 00s, but London needs a good daily. Obviously, it was damaged by the pandemic, but even before then it had been run into the ground, and stupid decisions had been made, e.g. turning it into a freesheet. You need a good business model to pay reporters, and I very much doubt the Internet will ever deliver this.

She seems nice.
She probably just needs a cuddle.

Some poor fucker's been sucked into a plane engine at Schiphol Airport.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-amsterdam-airport-passenger-sucked-32918419

That's awful

That's pretty horrific.

I for one look forward to your new paid-for quality daily London printed newspaper, and its good business model, not reliant on Internet.

A bit confusing. You say it's easy, but also impossible because of the internet.

Lebedev owning the Evening Standard was nothing more than an exercise in influence. Objectives fully achieved, with wide ranging implications for the British state and media. I can't imagine the black till of the Kremlin sees any point in putting more money into it.

A polity that was interested in protecting it's citizens interests would take steps to reverse and erase Lebedev's influence.

Not sure if serious? Nobody buys newspapers anymore.

Your best bet to pay journalists is (in order of preference) a hefty trust fund, billionaire owners or programmatic advertising (delivered via the internet).

Drive by shooting at Evin restaurant in Dalston last night. Firing into a crowded restaurant just seems so pathetic and pointless. Chances of hitting the person you want - slim. Chances of hitting random innocent civilians - high. Same with those dickheads that fired at mourners leaving a church a year or so ago.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/hackney-shooting-dalston-child-and-three-adults-shot-metropolitan-police-gun-crime-b1160964.html

am I helping or hurting the Evening Standard by sharing that link? ^

Water truck arrives in India:

https://x.com/think_or_swim/status/1796152175707455736

It was 43 in Delhi, records are falling.

If you think with the humidity 36 feels like 43. So 43 would just be sapping, actually dangerous for vulnerable people.

Verdict reached in trump trial...... Awaiting reports.

At the SMS hospital in Rajasthan’s capital, Jaipur, so many casualties of the heat have arrived at the mortuary that its capacity has been exceeded. Police in the city say many of the victims are poor labourers, who have no choice but to work outside, and homeless people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day?

Horrific. And sadly will be drowned out by the other news.

Lock him up! Lock him up!

34 indictments. That’s too quick, surely? They’ll acquit him.

They have to return verdicts on each charge separately, I'd be surprised if they could turn any holdouts that quickly but it's all guess work.

20 minutes and we will know.

No indication of deadlock so no chance of a mis-trial.