Nurse Heather Pressdee, who killed three patients and tried to kill many more, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of attempted murder Thursday. The judge in Butler County, Pennsylvania, sentenced her to "380 to 760 years of consecutive incarceration" for the attempts and life imprisonment for the murders. — Read the rest

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Chris McLeod's The Underground is a blog that you can only read through a feed reader, excepting a splash page explaining this. Unless your browser is kitted out with one, all you'll get is raw XML: human-readable, sort of!

theunderground.blog is an experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader.

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A judge found Thursday that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke federal law when he told employees they would be less empowered if they voted to join a union, among other anti-union comments given in interviews with CNBC, Bloomberg and The New York Times in 2022. — Read the rest

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Florida legistlators recently passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture or sale of lab-grown meat, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed it yesterday. Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee have already done likewise. The measure, which provides criminal sanctions for offenders, is to please the meat business—but was posed by DeSantis as defending America against a global conspiracy. — Read the rest

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We've recently had a bit of ant problem in our house, and no matter how much Terro ant bait we use, the little bastards keep finding new ways in. Every day this week, at approximately 7:15am — right when I'm hopping in the shower! — Read the rest

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The first time I heard Frank Turner live was at the Space in Hamden, Connecticut, USA (a venue I literally helped to build) in 2008. The English folk-punk singer was the opening act for some other artists I was interested in. — Read the rest

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Saturday, May 4, is Free Comic Book Day, on which you can go to any participating comic book store and get certain designated comic books, absolutely free. Enter your zip code at this website and you can find the participating comics shop nearest to you. — Read the rest

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the incredible National Geographic footage of penguins leaping off a fifty-foot wall of ice into the ocean. The footage has gotten the Ozzy Man treatment, which is predictably hilarious. 

I love how he manages to give the penguins individual personalities, from yelling "To Infinity and Beyond!" — Read the rest

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Surely, by now, you've heard about the "man vs. bear" discussion happening all over social media. If you haven't stumbled upon this conversation, which is highlighting issues about sexism, violence against women, and women's safety,  here's a quick rundown, courtesy of USA Today:

If you were alone in the woods, would you rather encounter a bear or a man?

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Bullies try to dominate negotiations through aggression, intimidation and unreasonable demands. But you don't have to feel powerless or let them push you around, write Stepbanie Vozza in her article for Fast Company, titles "How to negotiate with a bully." — Read the rest

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Italy's health ministry has banned puppies from participating in yoga classes, though adult dogs may continue.

Puppy yoga typically involves puppies roaming freely around a yoga class and sometimes being incorporated in yoga poses, or a yoga class followed by playtime with the puppies.The

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TL;DR: Combine the best of a tablet and laptop with this Microsoft Surface 4! This Grade "B" refurbished model is now only $569.99 (reg. $712.99).

Whether you currently tote around a tablet and laptop to work or simply need a better machine, look no further than this pre-loved Microsoft Surface 4. It's — Read the rest

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I remember a time not that long ago when tech was regarded as a gateway to a better, more equitable future. And those tech titans were lauded as heroes… geniuses who would help us usher in this better, cleaner, more prosperous era. — Read the rest

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Southern California's retro game scene is impressive, with dozens of stores catering to every gamer's retro needs, weekly swap events, and one of the largest video game conventions in the United States, the Socal Gaming Expo. Unfortunately, some people have taken advantage of this abundance of classic carts and other memorabilia. — Read the rest

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Moscow Marge angrily displayed a MUGA (Make Ukraine Great Again) hat yesterday as she announced her upcoming motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. And although she thought the cute stunt would own the Speaker and the bipartisan Congress members who passed the Ukraine aid bill, instead her prop went up for sale to give even more aid to Ukraine. — Read the rest

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A California school superintendent was fired after she threatened to block students from participating in the school graduation ceremony for not clapping loudly enough for her daughter.

The "Clappergate" saga kicked off when Poway Unified School District Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps' girl didn't receive sufficient adoration at last year's softball awards banquet. — Read the rest

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A 60-year-old pilot flying a small plane reported engine trouble before making an emergency landing on a Long Island Beach.

The pilot, flying with a 59-year-old passenger, reportedly lost power to his Cessna mid-flight, but was able to aim his small plane towards Cedar Beach, where he successfully crash-landed his plane. — Read the rest

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In her upcoming book No Going Back, South Dakota Governor and conservative Christian adulteress Kristi Noem describes how she killed her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer dog named Cricket. "I hated that dog," she wrote, explaining that she led the young dog to a gravel pit to slay it, along with a "nasty and mean" goat with an unpleasant odor. — Read the rest

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When it became clear that seafood chain Red Lobster was headed for bankruptcy, media were eager to blame expensive promotions such as all-you-can-eat shrimp and mountains of free cheddar biscuits. But greed in the restaurants wasn't the problem—greed on Wall Street was. — Read the rest

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Basing their work on a skull unearthed in 2018, researchers reconstructed the head of a mid-forties Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago. Shanidar Z, as she has been named, was about 5ft tall and her sex determined via dental proteins. — Read the rest

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Less than two months after Boeing whistleblower John Barnett unexpectedly died, another Boeing whistleblower has passed away — this time from a "sudden, fast-spreading" bacterial infection.

Josh Dean, a healthy 45-year-old former quality auditor who worked at Spirit AeroSystems — one of Boeing's suppliers (not to be confused with Spirit Airlines) —had complained to Spirit about a "serious defect" that involved improperly drilled holes in "the aft pressure bulkhead of the MAX," according to The Seattle Times. — Read the rest

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If you upload a photo to GeoSpy, it will use AI and computer vision to try to determine the location where the photo was taken. I decided to test it out with a few photos from my personal library. Instead of using the original photos, I used screenshots to remove any geolocation metadata and to make the photos low-resolution, preventing the vision software from reading street signs or license plates. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: If you're ready to jet-set affordably, this Dollar Flight Club Premium subscription for $39.99 (Reg. $207) can help. You can enjoy even more perks with the Dollar Flight Club Premium Plus+ plan for just $69.99 (reg. $507).

As the summer comes around, you're either in a part of the world where it's scorching hot, or a place where you're looking for just a smidge more heat. — Read the rest

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Teranoptia is a dingbatty font where each letter is part of a creature, and combining them invokes ligatures which result in strange beasts indeed. It was created by Ariel Martin Pérez.

Teranoptia is a typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard.

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Arizona legislators voted to repeal the state's total ban on abortion, an 1864 law revived by its courts after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled Roe v. Wade. It was a close thing—most Republicans voted to keep the Civil War-era prohibition—but it's now on Democrat governor Katie Hobbs' desk and she will sign it. — Read the rest

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Watching this daring biker ride across an abandoned water main through the mountains is both terrifying and awe-inspiring. 

The stunning views of the surrounding forest combined with the biker staying balanced on this tiny, moss covered pathway, looks more like a dream than reality. — Read the rest

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Last night, a swarm of bees invaded Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, just five minutes before a game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodges was about to start. The bee colony swarmed into a large mass on the protective netting behind home plate. — Read the rest

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My new favorite social media account is run by Derek Guy, who describes himself as a "menswear writer," editor at Put This On, and creator of Ralph Lauren Pics That Go Hard. He provides detailed fashion analyses of celebrities, politicians, and more, and doles out interesting and helpful fashion advice, along with historical information about fashion trends, clothing silhouettes, and more. — Read the rest

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Donald Trump used to boast about not needing a teleprompter, but had a fit today when he couldn't read his teleprompter (emphasis on "couldn't read").

"Isn't it nice to have a president who doesn't need a teleprompter?" he once asked, as shown in the "then" part of a then-and-now video posted by MeidasTouch (see below). — Read the rest

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A 30-year-old gentleman from England was ordered to pay United Airlines $20,638 for being an unruly passenger. He was also arrested.

The pricey incident occurred in March on a flight from London to Newark, when the lead flight attendant asked Alexander Michael Dominic MacDonald — who was "arguing loudly" with his girlfriend — to lower his voice. — Read the rest

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