I'm pretty principled. I block as much tracking as I can in my personal use of the web because what I do isn't anyone's business but my own. So, the idea that I have to put trackers on my site is pretty noxious to me, and I have thus far refused.

This isn't an ad and I don't want my personal account associated with my business, so no URLs, but I would like to know what you all think: is this something worthwhile that people will appreciate, or am I letting my principles guide me off a cliff because nobody cares that much?

For decades, the mental health field has operated on a half-truth: that curing depression means removing sadness. A new study argues that the most dangerous part of depression isn’t negative emotion, it’s the absence of positive emotion, known as anhedonia.

No one that was with me was hurt. Miraculously, all of my neighbors survived too.

The US Fox News channel cut off one of its own reporters just as she seemed about to give away what people are saying is foreknowledge among Donald Trump’s inner circle about the ‘assassination attempt’ at this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner.

White House Correspondents Dinner ‘shooter’

Trump had said, for the first time ever, that he would attend. An alleged shooter then tried to rush past guards before being detained.

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But many people on social media are wondering if Trump knew about it beforehand. This is because Fox correspondent Aishah Hasnie was seated with Nicholas Riccio, the husband of Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Riccio, she said, told her “You do a good job… you need to be safe tonight” then looked around the room suggestively. But Fox stopped Hasnie even finishing the sentence:

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That was far from the only weird aspect of the event. Several journalists talked about the lack of security at the event. Bags were not even being checked, and at least two correspondents said they left almost as soon as they arrived because it “felt wrong”:

Trump looked entirely unconcerned, even smirking, as the White House Correspondents Dinner ‘attack’ happened:

Chaotic footage of President Trump being evacuated pic.twitter.com/KzageVO0h0

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2026

The lack of urgency among bodyguards to remove Trump was clear, with vice-president JD Vance rushed out relatively quickly – before anyone went to remove Trump:

Pro-Israel Trump figures seemed to know the identity of the alleged shooter before the name had been announced:

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A photo of Allen, face down and handcuffed, was given to Trump within moments so he could post it on his ‘Truth Social’ platform, as political commentator Tom Santos observed:

Active crime scene. Alleged shooter in the same building as the President and Vice President of the United States.

And someone gets to snap pictures like this of the shooter and then send them to Trump so he could use them on his socials moments later.

Totally legit. pic.twitter.com/gBNU2AhkRv

— Tom Santos (@tommysantos14) April 26, 2026

Trump later took the opportunity to say the attempted shooting justified his ridiculous new White House ballroom – and was amplified by dozens of MAGA accounts in a clearly coordinated campaign.

Build the White House Ballroom. pic.twitter.com/3CBVZtf4cK

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 26, 2026

Santos found it all a bit too much to swallow:

You want me to believe that:
– This is something like the 3rd or 4th Secret Service failure.
– Tump boycotts the correspondence dinner every year.
– He’s pitching an unnecessary ballroom no one asked for.
– And there happens to be a shooter incident at the event when a large…

— Tom Santos (@tommysantos14) April 26, 2026

He’s surely not the only one.

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The presentation was minimal, included some code snippets and was super easy to follow. Appears that it was put together all in Markdown, using a very popular open source tool (which I was not aware of): sli.dev. Highly recommend it for folks who make technical presentations.

p.s in the same space, someone also recommended https://revealjs.com/

I'm itching to play something like Cities Skylines, but also something that isn't just about growing and growing, rather building within certain (spatial?) limitations and/or solving problems or something. I hope this isn't a contradiction, but I'd also like if it had a bit more focus on individual buildings and livability rather than optimizing car traffic, if that makes any sense. I guess i'm looking for something that is a bit more than just a city sculpting sandbox, but less than a full blown metropolis-society-simulator.

My pronouns are there/there....

Operation Red Dog (1981)

Mon Apr 27, 1981

Image: Weapons confiscated from the "Bayou of Pigs" conspirators

On this day in 1981, nine white supremacists, including Stormfront founder Don Black and Canadian neo-nazi Wolfgang Droege, were arrested by federal agents as they attempted to initiate an armed coup on the island country Dominica.

The plan was to restore former Dominican Prime Minister Patrick John back to power and profit from capitalist enterprise in the country. The conspirators were arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag.

The plan was titled "Operation Red Dog", however the incident was mocked in the press as the "Bayou of Pigs". Mike Perdue and six other men pled guilty to violation of the Neutrality Act while two others were found guilty by a jury. The men received three-year prison sentences.

• Date: 1981-04-27
• Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, web.archive.org.
• Tags: #Fascism.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

The template was another one from Odin down in Texas. The hide was a 2-3 oz Cognac chrome tan from Montana Leather Company. On this one, I tried laser engraving out for my company logo and spent extra time dyeing the edges black and burnishing to a high gloss.

Gov. Janet Mills has vetoed legislation to temporarily ban the development of large-scale data centers in Maine.

The bill passed through the state Legislature with bipartisan support earlier this month. It would have enacted an 18-month moratorium on new data centers using more than 20 megawatts of power. If enacted, the law would have been the first of its kind in the U.S.

But the governor had asked for an exception to allow a $550 million facility planned in Jay. But an amendment to the bill that exempted the Jay project was defeated in the Legislature.