• The Washington Post’s 2,600-Word Love Letter to a Drag Queen

    Anyone who reads The Washington Post regularly knows that, in its view, the LGBTQ community can do no wrong, that there’s no wretched excess that Read More

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    Microsoft 365 Roadmap Weekly: New Copilot features are coming to Word, Excel and more

    This week's look back at the past seven days on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap website includes a number of new Copilot features that will be coming soon to apps like Word, Excel, OneDrive, and more.

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    Prince William and Harry rumour rubbished by Royal butler with angry five-word statement

    When King Charles and Queen Camilla tied the knot in 2005, there were rumours that his two sons Prince William and Prince Harry were dead set against the marriage

  • Eco-warrior Prince Harry makes a surprise video appearance in Montecito for his sustainable company Travalyst and begins with a different word salad: “Travel and tourism depend on destinations.”

    Eco-warrior Prince Harry makes a surprise video appearance in Montecito for his sustainable company Travalyst and begins with a different word salad: “Travel and tourism depend on destinations.” - Prince Harry made a surprise appearance via video link at the annual general meeting of the ecotourism company Travalyst. The Duke of Sussex, the company's founder, appeared virtually from his home in Montecito, California, at the meeting where he told bosses it was vital that the travel industry...

  • Hinge Hidden Words allows you to filter out words and emojis

    The dating app's new Hidden Words feature allows users to filter out certain words from Likes with Comments.

  • Can you bury a word? How about a really, really bad word?

    A Houston playwright, inspired by a mock funeral held by the NAACP in 2007, contemplates that question.

  • 'Our Words Collide' documents 5 L.A. teen poets testifying to spoken word's transformative power

    The front rows of L.A.’s historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre were occupied Saturday by more than 20 high school students, clutching each other’s hands and reciting verses under their breath as they prepared to compete in the championship round of the world’s largest classic poetry slam. The Classic Slam, hosted and produced by L.A.-based education nonprofit Get Lit — Words Ignite, is a three-day capstone event for the 50,000-plus students who complete Get Lit’s UC-approved poetry curriculum annually...

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    Salman Rushdie’s 2015 novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, saw the Indian-born British American author take on the role of Scheherazade by spinning numerous fabulous tales and spawning umpteen exotic characters. It was set in New York in an epoch marked by so-called strangenesses where good and evil genies battled, catastrophic disasters raged, […]

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    “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into an eye-opening exchange this week with Chief John Chell, head of the New York Police Department. She excoriated Columbia University on X for mobilizing “the most violent” police to deal with students intimidating Jews in support of Hamas terrorists at war with Israel. Chell retorted, “Truly amazing! Columbia […]

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    “Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone tall.” “Short guys like us? What’s that supposed to mean?” I said, not exactly in those words. I used a colorful Anglo-Saxon vulgarism in there, once or twice, for emphasis. My […]

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    The largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and sex with strangers. Dating sites typically try to match users with other users who live in the same city. Grindr’s executives worry that this standard is growing stale, according to media […]

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    I am under no illusion that our allegedly right-wing elected officials can or even want to close the border, end the costly and unnecessary wars, balance the budget, protect the unborn, expand our right to bear arms meaningfully, or any of the other items promised every two, four, or six years. However, there is one […]