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The nonprofit announced Friday plans to shutter its South Lake Union and University District locations, citing retail theft, public safety concerns and rising rents and operational costs.

Hi Lemmy friends,

Is there any way to have Lemmy's community RSS feeds provide more than 20 <item> tags at a time? Can I add a querystring variable to get the next page or two of data?

Background on what I'm trying to do: I run the Movie, TV and Game trailers community. I'd like to create a simple website / landing page that displays an ongoing roll of the latest/top/hot trailers posted to the community.

I can use the community's RSS feed for this, but the feed only includes a maximum of 20 entries (for an average end-to-end runtime of about one hour). I'd really like to get the next few pages of entries as well.

Thanks!

Around 6pm US Pacific today (July 30 2024), The Needling published the following post, but pulled it offline sometime before 11:15pm that same evening.

The url was https://theneedling.com/2024/07/30/texts-reveal-mayor-harrells-kink-for-dressing-as-dog-sitting-in-rich-peoples-laps/ but now goes to an error page.

The article text is below.

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Texts obtained through a public records request by The Needling confirm suspicions that Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has in fact spent the majority of his on-the-clock time in public office indulging a kink for dressing up like a dog and sitting in rich people’s laps.

“Up until now, we thought this idea that Mayor Harrell is super cozy with the richest people in town was more of a figure of speech, but we now know through texts he knew very well were public record that he spends much of his work time dressed as a leashed, furry pup going door to door in the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods,” said senior Needling investigative reporter Joey Tyler. “Now there’s nothing wrong with pup play–but on the job engaging in mansion backroom deals as a public servant? Some of these texts are graphic, so let’s just say he also likes getting on his knees and getting a really good sniff in there when he greets them.”

The interactions were confirmed by Stuart Sloan, the rich man and owner of U Village with whom Harrell “shared disgust” regarding Denny Blaine’s queer nude beach—enough to attempt ruining it with a privately funded children’s playground last year.

“While I am disgusted by human nudity at Denny Blaine Park, I do get off on mayors who want to wag their tails and lick my face when I need their attention,” said Sloan. “Bruce is such a good lap dog: He always comes when called. Just last night, he came over to my Lake Washington mansion, laid his floppy-eared head in my lap while I smoked $100 cigars and drank the last bottle of the most expensive wine on the planet. I told him exactly how I wanted this city run, and he agreed to every single request. Going forward, nudity will not only be banned in public parks but also inside your home.”

At press time, the city was hopeful Harrell would tie himself a little less to the demands of the rich when he was spotted playing fetch with Mr. Sloan in Cal Anderson Park’s unofficial off-leash dog area.

On Friday, July 26, 2024, during the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, an artistic performance intended to be a part of the planned program was not broadcast in the United States.

At approximately two hours into the broadcast, shortly after the introduction of France's athletes (the last group to be introduced), the program moved to a series of music and dance performances, including a floating disco and a Dionysian feast.

During this, the US broadcast cut away to advertising breaks and exclusive interviews with US-based athletes while audiences outside the US remained with the main program.

This video features a side-by-side comparison of this portion of the live broadcasts into Australia (via the broadcaster Stan.) and the United States (via the broadcaster NBC) to illustrate the differences between what was presented to each audience.

Audio for each broadcast has been isolated onto opposing audio channels (US on the left, Australia on the right), allowing viewers to use headphones to selectively listen to either channel alone, or both at the same time.

Hi blahaj folks,

I've noticed that new posts containing YouTube links no longer import the video thumbnail or appropriate text from the destination link.

The problem seems to be occurring and ongoing on some instances (blahaj, beehaw, lemmy.ml), while other instances seem to be working just fine (lemmy.sdf.org, ukfli.uk).

I found this post in the Lemmy Support community that mentions the problem, including references to the working and non-working instances. One comment suggests that it may be a problem with a German cloud provider called Hetzner (which may explain why the preview text of each YouTube link appears to be in German).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17661839

Pfft. Uh, stick, obvs.

From the article:

Diaz made two claims against PubliCola.

First, he claimed that we maliciously reported a “false rumor” when we mentioned the existence of a rumor reported in a series of KUOW stories, which Rantz and Diaz discussed in their interview. (We removed this reference, which we originally noted because Diaz and Rantz spent some time discussing it).

Second, Diaz said he never claimed that being gay is a defense against sexual harassment allegations by women, and that we said he did. According to Diaz’ attorneys, the former police chief actually made “the opposite point,” by noting that it’s possible for gay men to be “misogynist.”

“You also write that, during his interview with Jason Rantz, Adrian repeatedly ‘returned to the idea that gay men can’t sexually harass or assault women,'” Diaz’ attorneys wrote. (This is one of the phrases we edited, as described above.) “That’s also false. In fact, Adrian highlighted the opposite point during the interview, saying, ‘You know, just because you’re a gay man doesn’t mean you can’t be a misogynist.”

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/YKl7C

Kroger Co. has identified the 579 stores (across the US) it plans to sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers (aka Piggly Wiggly and Grand Union) in an effort to get antitrust regulators’ approval for its $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos.

The deal would cover 124 stores across Washington state, including the following 27 stores in Seattle:

• QFC @ 1600 W. Dravus St.
• QFC @ 2500 SW Barton St.
• QFC @ 1401 Broadway
• QFC @ 2707 Rainier Ave. S.
• QFC @ 1531 NE 145th St.
• QFC @ 11100 Roosevelt Way NE
• QFC @ 4500 Wallingford Ave. N.
• QFC @ 9999 Holman Road NW
• QFC @ 500 Mercer St.
• QFC @ 4550 42nd Ave. SW
• QFC @ 417 Broadway E.
• QFC @ 5700 24th Ave NW
• Safeway @ 8340 15th Ave. NW
• Safeway @ 2622 California Ave. SW
• Safeway @ 7340 35th Ave. NE

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17349530

Stick that goes "AAAAEEEEEEEUUUU"

A Guest column in The Needling by District 5 Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore

We live in extremely politically divisive times, and that’s why it’s more important than ever to ask for more civility by repeatedly publicly threatening to open a can of whoop-ass on anyone who disagrees with you, doesn’t immediately follow your orders like when you were a court judge, or—God forbid—holds a mirror up to your face. Here are my favorite ways to ask for more civility and why.