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Black cat is somewhat annoyed about something. What have you done?

I've been getting a farm share (CSA) for several years now, and I'm increasingly grateful for it!

I started to excerpt parts of the article for a tl;dr, but this is an excellent article. It covers the war's impact on food production in multiple regions and in many different (and some non-obvious) ways. I encourage people to read it in its entirely as it's an excellent overview of potential food-related events (fertilizer shortages, weather problems, export restrictions, civil unrest) later this year.

If it's an option in your area, you might consider joining a farm share or Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in your area: you pay the farmer up front and get a share of the harvest in return. It ensures local farms can continue to exist and gets you lots of high-quality local produce.

If the disruption continues, consumers could see higher prices for bread within six to 10 weeks, eggs within a few months and pork and broiler chicken within six months.

In my college Sociology class, my professor ran us through a couple situations, then ran them back for us. Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening. Which apparently leads into two "classic" complaints between M/F partners.

Men tended to think that women were "always changing their minds", because the men interpreted the women's nods and interjections as agreement instead of "I'm listening to you".

And women tended to think that men "weren't listening to them" because men never provided this feedback.

Hey, here's a TIL: that's a specific part of a newspaper article, generally called a drophead or a deck. The drophead appears between the headline and the byline, is often in a font partway between that used in the headline and that used in the article, and typically provides one of three types of additional information:

A) important additional context, usually some combination of who, what, where, when, or why;

B) explain why it matters;

C) or sets the tone.

As a specific part of a newspaper column, it has it's own set of linguistic and stylistic rules. One of those rules is that (as with headlines) it may drop "unnecessary" words. In this case, the drophead has been transformed from Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, [who is] known for [his] lavish lifestyle, [is] also accused of theft and being [an] illegal immigrant after [a] man [was] allegedly shot in back to it's current form.

My one quibble with this particular drop head is the use of "being illegal immigrant" instead of the "illegal immigration" that I personally would have found 'smoother' to read. However, there may be language differences that explain their decision [it was written by the South African correspondent of a British paper, and I'm from the States]; alternatively, there may be some legal distinction between being accused of "being [an] illegal immigrant" vs being accused of "illegal immigration". I don't know what the reason for that specific wording is and I'm not invested in this article enough to go research it.

But anyway, tl;dr: that's a drophead, which is a specific part of a newspaper article with it's own linguistic and stylistic rules.

My understanding was this was supposed to be a streaming film but the stars protested it should be in theaters, so it eventually got a theatrical release. Fitting it into existing commitments by the theaters may have contributed to it not lasting long in theaters.

Hey, if you're too busy to play with us, we'll make our own entertainment!

They're on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

How to find "undisclosed" videos in the Epstein files.

Oh - and, looking slightly away from them, yawn widely with your eyes closed, then lick your lips a few times.