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Who will stand up for the plants?

Activists blockade McDonald’s distribution centers in UK

LONDON (AP) — Animal rights protesters are blockading four McDonald’s distribution centres in the U.K. in an attempt to get the burger chain to commit to becoming fully plant-based by 2025.

Not every conspiracy theory begins with "Q"

How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers

For UFO believers, this was the moment they had been waiting for. UFOs were everywhere, and they were suddenly respectable. With a new intelligence report on UFOs due to be delivered to Congress in June, even the U.S. government seemed poised to take UFOs seriously again.

Taking the waters, Chicago style

Chicago man jumps into Lake Michigan every day, comes out better

Who is to say where the boundary of perseverance, commitment, determination and obsession lies?

Try standing on your head

Yes

Cybercrime to Top $6 Trillion in 2021, According to Cybersecurity Ventures

“Do you realize what a huge number that is?” Blount asked.

No, it's not the zombies that are burning (they're still after you)

A Zombie-Fire Outbreak May Be Growing in the North

Beneath all that white serenity, some of those fires actually continue smoldering underground, chewing through carbon-rich peat, biding their time. When spring arrives and the chilly landscape defrosts, these “overwintering” fires pop up from below—that’s why scientists call them zombie fires.

Why encryption matters

 Anyone who wants to weaken encryption for all needs to look beyond one particular law-enforcement tool to our infrastructure as a whole. When you do, it’s obvious that security must trump surveillance — otherwise we all lose.

Don't laugh (Or, on second thought…)

Duluth Electric Fetus to close

Me, I liked the PB&J plan better

111-year-old Australian recommends eating chicken brains

PB&J

The Illustrated Nurse

Shoes…

 …are a good thing. I knew that, of course, but was reminded this morning when I stepped on a mouse trap in my kitchen. It was in the toe space below the counter where I was brewing a first cuppa, and it had been there for so long I just plain forgot. Whap.

No harm done, to me or anything else, although it did leave me prematurely wide awake.

Grumpy's

Was digging out some summer clothes this afternoon and came across my Grumpy's T-shirt which came from a rib joint in Colorado and is pretty old now, and looking the worse for wear. Got one the net to see if I could find a replacement and couldn't—but it turned out there are business named Grumpy's everywhere. A lot of them are restaurants of various stripes, including one in Toledo that advertises garbage salad. But there are also bars, sporting goods stores (fishing seems to be an especially grumpy endeavor), auto body shops, and even a bail bond service in Tennessee.

Grumps unite!