Новости за 19.04.2023

Last night, after reading authors like Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and Anne Fausto-Sterling, I tore up my identity card. I am tired of being locked into an identitarian, dichotomous, and infringed normative framework. Something has stirred...

U.S. officials in Congress and the White House on Tuesday urged Sudan's warring parties to stand down after four days of clashes in the capital, but analysts say Washington's leverage over Khartoum may be limited. Fighting in Khartoum sparked Saturday between members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Their leaders – SAF head General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and RSF chief General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, popularly known as Hemedti – joined forces to mount a 2021 coup that returned the country to military rule. Читать дальше...

Twitter no longer bans users who refer to people using biologically accurate pronouns. Instead, it now allows accountholders to determine how they express themselves. This victory for freedom of speech won scorn from outlets existentially dependent on freedom of speech....

As 2023 is shaping up to be one of the dumbest years in American political history, virtually nothing is a surprise anymore. Even so, stupidity is often painful to watch. Yesterday’s column in this space dealt with the Democrats’ stupidity...

Marin Catholic pitcher Liam Smith, at 6-feet, 7-inches tall, is an imposing figure on the mound. Smith, however, didn’t need to be overpowering Tuesday in a crucial MCAL baseball contest against visiting Redwood. Instead, the rangy right-hander mixed a nasty overhand curve with his explosive fastball and blanked the Giants over six innings as the […]

Father Bob Maguire, a self-described larrikin, was a long-serving parish priest, an unlikely TV and radio star and determined to be of “earthly use”.

J.D. Martinez got his second home run of the night to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3-0 lead over the New York Mets.

A little over two weeks ago, writer Tom Scocca published a story on LED light bulbs for New York Magazine that went surprisingly viral (previous BoingBoing coverage here). Apparently, a lot of people have had those uniquely terrible experiences with LED bulbs, and Scocca's piece really resonated with them! — Read the rest

For three-plus years, as Jack Hughes was learning to be an NHL professional through his late teens, he’s been chasing the hype that has come with his unworldly physical talents.

The embattled airline cited a "technical issue" as the case for the one-hour nationwide stoppage.