• Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning in a targeted attack outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
• Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference when he was killed.
• The New York Police Department reported that the suspect fled the scene and remains at large; no arrests have been made.

Take Off, eh

Guardian journalists launch 48-hour strike in protest at planned sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media

NUJ members at the Guardian and Observer are walking out for the first time in more than 50 years

This says it’s actually “tip-toe goose” which . . . also good.

CanadaOwl flight 007 now arriving on vole #2

Heh, no but it looks fun.

I thought it was no guardian articles until Thursday?

*noble*

Just wait til the insanity reaches a fever pitch and stays there for four years.

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

One further step towards Gilead, eh.

I sure hope nobody stuffs her in a trebuchet to the sun.

Remember when the prototype iPhone4 got left at a bar and ended up with a Wired Gizmodo reporter? That was an interesting story.

Well here’s the story about losing it but I was thinking about the reporter’s complete story which I understand was published by Gawker. And thus is gone.

Remember Gawker?

Peter Thiel remembers Gawker.

Awwww . . . . fine

Agent Western Screech Owl 24-963, good job! It’s important to maintain your undercover status while recuperating.

No one can know you’re actually Jed Lazlo, international owl of mystery and crime-solver!

Awesomenosity

oOOOo a chocolate-caramel owl! Now just need to find some graham cracker owls and a marshmallow owl.

Looking good, Ember!

Do owls ever cross-breed? Thinking of an Eastern Screech-Whet.

Just in time!

Ahhh i remember my grump boy stage. Good times. Good times.

*Ahem* Uh, excuse me, but I don’t believe Mr. Spock wore a red shirt.

Ha! I mean - heh - are we to belive the Enterprise’s Science officer is now suddenly a part of the security and engineering detail??

I hope whoever it was got fired for that blunder!