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I don't know anything about insects and spiders, but maybe some sort of running crab spider, e.g. Philodromus cespitum?

I don't mean to downplay the incredibly violent response that the Civil Rights protests were met with one iota, but the survivors of the Kent State Massacre might object to the insinuation that student anti-war protests were a fun and light-hearted affair.

A monk well ahead of his time
Planned a clock that could measure the sky
But Cromwell, the shit,
Tore the whole thing to bits
I can't think of a finishing rhyme

@Vincent@feddit.nl was dead right in their comment here - you can escape out of the search by tapping Esc twice, at which point you're back to the URL. Panic over!

Great news, thanks! And likewise, I'll give it a chance. Ideally I'd be able to get to the URL from the omnibar with an extra click, to get the best of both worlds.

Yup - most typically to change TLD (e.g. from example.com to my own country, when I'm after local results) or as a quick way of copying the URL without unnecessary extra arguments to share elsewhere.

I've not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It's made by a Mozilla employee.

I like most of this, but if search term persistence makes it harder for me to tweak the URL (like on mobile), it's going to be really annoying. I'll suspend judgment until I've tried it, I guess.

It's not an insecure app per se, but it is an uncontrolled app, in the context of an organisation's communication. Some of the GOP have tried to imply that it's the product that's at fault, but it's user error all the way.

Revelation 22:16

Wikipedia has a very thorough write-up on Lucifer as a name in the Bible, though it doesn't directly mention the Revelations chapter.

It's worth noting three things:

• The Isaiah usage is from Hebrew הֵילֵל בֶּן־שָׁחַר Hēlēl ben Shāḥar, "bright son of the dawn" or "bright son of the [Canaanite] god Shāḥar'" - the Greek and subsequent Latin translations meaning "light-bearer" or "morning star" should be taken with a grain of salt.
• The Revelations usage is from Greek ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ λαμπρός, ὁ πρωϊνός o astír o lamprós, o proïnós, "the bright and morning star".
• I'm not aware of any material conceptual link between the two. They were written nearly a millennium apart, so there's plenty of cultural shift and difference in linguistic context.

and sometimes itn't

In a sense, that's what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.

On the fin? Looks like gooseneck barnacles. Apparently that's a thing.

Copying my comment from a couple of days ago.

In fairness, July and August weren't inserted, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis, literally the fifth and sixth months of the Roman calendar.

Much earlier, Pompilius (history about whom is largely legendary, and actions attributed to him should be taken with a grain of salt) introduced January and February and set the numbering out of line. These months were previously just lumped in as monthless winter days.

All Julius Caesar did was rebalance the calendar without changing the months. The rename of Quintilis wasn't even until after he was stabbed.

Gregory XIII then further tweaked it to give us the modern calendar.

Not at all, they're the smallest member of the bear family - really very small indeed.

There's no way you could see a tardigrade at this scale. They're very small.

Hah, I was just referring to the "pomegranate" message in the OP. In Greek mythology, Zeus' daughter Persephone was tricked into a marriage with Hades by eating pomegranate seeds.

It's typically not made from cows' milk, typically doesn't dispense drugs, but eating it might possibly consign you to the underworld.

I've used the "writing tools" extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.

I've also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.

The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.

I'm really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we've got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn't set our expectations too high. I do respect that they've not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.