Lady Jek
@ladyjek.bsky.social
cats, travels, a smattering of politics - ok, turns out it's quite a bit of politics..
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Walvis Bay Salt has recently observed jackal pups moving around the area. We kindly ask motorists to drive slowly and stay alert, as the jackals pups and other wild life may cross the road unexpectedly.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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This shit is so absurd that I can feel my brain just dismissing it. But that's how we ended up with Trump - we just dismissed the US' absurdities until they hit us in the face.
Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This shit is so absurd that I can feel my brain just dismissing it. But that's how we ended up with Trump - we just dismissed the US' absurdities until they hit us in the face.
Remember this from the before times 😁
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Remember this from the before times 😁
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The right spent years dunking on the left for wanting “participation trophies,” but they bow down to a grown ass man who needs everyone to pretend he’s won 38 consecutive trophies at the golf course he owns.
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The right spent years dunking on the left for wanting “participation trophies,” but they bow down to a grown ass man who needs everyone to pretend he’s won 38 consecutive trophies at the golf course he owns.
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One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...
Crypto’s rocky year
[FREE TO READ] The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
as.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...
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After all, who wouldn't want desert after after a starter of tuna and a main course of salmon pâté? 🙈 (yes, there is kibble available all day, too)
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
After all, who wouldn't want desert after after a starter of tuna and a main course of salmon pâté? 🙈 (yes, there is kibble available all day, too)
A really, really wonderful podcast - fascinating tales beautifully narrated.
open.spotify.com/show/2yPlb6y...
open.spotify.com/show/2yPlb6y...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A really, really wonderful podcast - fascinating tales beautifully narrated.
open.spotify.com/show/2yPlb6y...
open.spotify.com/show/2yPlb6y...
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Looking at the skull crypts in Europe and thinking either 1) popular conceptions of death have really shifted or 2) there have always been weird little guys and this is what they did before the Internet
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Looking at the skull crypts in Europe and thinking either 1) popular conceptions of death have really shifted or 2) there have always been weird little guys and this is what they did before the Internet
25 hours a day, even!!
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
25 hours a day, even!!
This is on us. It's almost unbearable to think about.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is on us. It's almost unbearable to think about.
This whole thread!
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This whole thread!
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This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This bird’s greed delights me
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"Getting through the heatwave was all about making it to the evening. That’s when the sun would finally begin to relent and the people of Jodhpur, a city in India, could at last go outside."
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Bright lights, hot city: Night-time illumination spikes during heatwaves
It reveals how people's activity changes when extreme heat strikes
www.thereengineer.pro
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Getting through the heatwave was all about making it to the evening. That’s when the sun would finally begin to relent and the people of Jodhpur, a city in India, could at last go outside."
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Days like today are good for dieting because chocolate will melt before you get it into your mouth 🤷🏼♀️
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Days like today are good for dieting because chocolate will melt before you get it into your mouth 🤷🏼♀️
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OH MY GOD HE IS PRECIOUS
Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
OH MY GOD HE IS PRECIOUS
South Africans love to moan about our government, but this little document cost me no more than two hours in *total* (including half an hour of complaining about the online application system being down, instead of just trying again the next day). Super efficient!
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
South Africans love to moan about our government, but this little document cost me no more than two hours in *total* (including half an hour of complaining about the online application system being down, instead of just trying again the next day). Super efficient!
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
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They should invent deadlines that are a few days later
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
They should invent deadlines that are a few days later
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On the back of a pub toilet door in south London: If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
On the back of a pub toilet door in south London: If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
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This sign raises more questions than it answers
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This sign raises more questions than it answers
This is actually quite a nuanced investigation that is worth a read.
Heard the one about how dozens of researchers assigned $144,000 worth of real world human tasks to the world’s “smartest” AIs to manage and…
They fucked up so monumentally that they were able to generate $1700 between them
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
They fucked up so monumentally that they were able to generate $1700 between them
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is actually quite a nuanced investigation that is worth a read.
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Lions and leopards and jackels are wonderful to see, but Mr Dungbeetle 'driving' his Mrs home was the best sighting of today.
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Congratulations. You've all achieved what Ronald Regan could never - drugs are now officially uncool.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Congratulations. You've all achieved what Ronald Regan could never - drugs are now officially uncool.
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