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Mental detritus etc and so forth. As seen on the internet since last century. Occasional Flathead Valley Police Blotter amanuensis. Gadigal, Australia.
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Books read in 2025 No.1. Drown - Junot Díaz. One of my street library finds. My first book by him.
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Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms
Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms
New government guidance is brought in to modernise practice for the first time in more than a decade.
www.bbc.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms
Thread.
JK Rowling has emerged from the shadows as a funder of the anti-feminist biology is destiny movement.
May 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thread.
May 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp
Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
May 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp
Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
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The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
nbcnews.to
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
nbcnews.to
May 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social LMAO every bit as third-rate scammy as expected. archive.md/hC37p
May 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social LMAO every bit as third-rate scammy as expected. archive.md/hC37p
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N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency
By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea stands in its "strongest...
en.yna.co.kr
May 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
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Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".
Five years on, experts say laws that allowed Juukan Gorge destruction remain
Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".
www.abc.net.au
May 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".
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Elon Musk’s Tesla met with senior civil servants several times to push the Government to fast-track its self-driving cars, The i Paper can reveal.
Read more: trib.al/Nxa7Dnr
Read more: trib.al/Nxa7Dnr
May 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Elon Musk’s Tesla met with senior civil servants several times to push the Government to fast-track its self-driving cars, The i Paper can reveal.
Read more: trib.al/Nxa7Dnr
Read more: trib.al/Nxa7Dnr
People who start changing what they say mid stream without batting an eyelid to support their 'argument' when their argument is being refuted i.e. they're not incorrect because that's no what they said.
2.0 does this, amongst many things.
2.0 does this, amongst many things.
May 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
People who start changing what they say mid stream without batting an eyelid to support their 'argument' when their argument is being refuted i.e. they're not incorrect because that's no what they said.
2.0 does this, amongst many things.
2.0 does this, amongst many things.
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"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."
Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.
www.reuters.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn.
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn.
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It is 1942. Nazi-Germany is heavily losing at Stalingrad, thousands die at the eastern front. Yet it still finds reason and time to publish a study about fairy abductions.
May 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It is 1942. Nazi-Germany is heavily losing at Stalingrad, thousands die at the eastern front. Yet it still finds reason and time to publish a study about fairy abductions.
It is 1942. Nazi-Germany is heavily losing at Stalingrad, thousands die at the eastern front. Yet it still finds reason and time to publish a study about fairy abductions.
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's A Complete Map of All Under Heaven
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's 'A Complete Map of All Under Heaven'
One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi (1644) has been acquired by The Sunderland Collection, the other two copies held by the National Archive in ...
www.finebooksmagazine.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's A Complete Map of All Under Heaven
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's A Complete Map of All Under Heaven
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's 'A Complete Map of All Under Heaven'
One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi (1644) has been acquired by The Sunderland Collection, the other two copies held by the National Archive in ...
www.finebooksmagazine.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban reut.rs/4k9xxEZ
Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued studies.
reut.rs
May 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
LMAO
Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban reut.rs/4k9xxEZ
Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued studies.
reut.rs
May 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
LMAO
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Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where it would be offered at prices significantly lower than current levels.
Japan pledges immediate rice price cuts to stop shift to foreign brands
The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March but that has yet to translate to lower supermarket prices.
www.japantimes.co.jp
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where it would be offered at prices significantly lower than current levels.
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Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...
Quolls reintroduced to Flinders Ranges are thriving
Native Australian quolls and possums are thriving in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park in South Australia after they were first reintroduced.
cosmosmagazine.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...
"Tiger mosquitoes are increasingly spreading across Europe as climate change makes environmental conditions more habitable, raising the risk that vector-borne diseases once limited to the tropics become endemic across the continent."
French regions are waging war against tiger mosquitoes as the country records rising cases of tropical diseases such as dengue, zika and chikungunya.
France grapples with high cases of tropical diseases amid spread of tiger mosquitoes
The insects can spread the virus from biting infected people.
ow.ly
May 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"Tiger mosquitoes are increasingly spreading across Europe as climate change makes environmental conditions more habitable, raising the risk that vector-borne diseases once limited to the tropics become endemic across the continent."
Australian local council planning committees LMAO.
Robyn Denholm is an Australian tech and business leader. As Tesla's chair, she's also Elon Musk's boss.
But she's finally met her match in Northern Beaches council's planning committee, amid an uphill battle to get a beach lift installed to her Whale Beach pad
www.crikey.com.au/20...
But she's finally met her match in Northern Beaches council's planning committee, amid an uphill battle to get a beach lift installed to her Whale Beach pad
www.crikey.com.au/20...
May 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Australian local council planning committees LMAO.
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Did you know that #beekeeping is a major industry in #Ukraine, and that they were targeted during the Russian invasion?
Myself and the Ambassadors for Slovenia and Belgium were interviewed ahead of the major World Bee Day events coming up this Saturday!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Myself and the Ambassadors for Slovenia and Belgium were interviewed ahead of the major World Bee Day events coming up this Saturday!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The ruthless way honey bees survive the winter and how they are helping Ukraine - ABC listen
When the head beekeeper of Parliament House Cold said cold weather leads honey bees to kill off all the the male bees in the hive, it created a buzz amongst our guests, bee enthusiasts and diplomats, ...
www.abc.net.au
May 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Did you know that #beekeeping is a major industry in #Ukraine, and that they were targeted during the Russian invasion?
Myself and the Ambassadors for Slovenia and Belgium were interviewed ahead of the major World Bee Day events coming up this Saturday!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Myself and the Ambassadors for Slovenia and Belgium were interviewed ahead of the major World Bee Day events coming up this Saturday!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Reminder that Maye Musk's parents were techno-fascists who moved to South Africa because they were fans of apartheid www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
May 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder that Maye Musk's parents were techno-fascists who moved to South Africa because they were fans of apartheid www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...