@huchano.bsky.social
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The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
dlvr.it
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
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An NHS hospice requested a Church of England deliverance ministry – commonly called an exorcism – following staff concerns about “paranormal incidents”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
NHS hospice called in exorcists after staff complaints
An NHS hospice contacted the Church of England after staff reported distressing incidents they described as paranormal
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
An NHS hospice requested a Church of England deliverance ministry – commonly called an exorcism – following staff concerns about “paranormal incidents”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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SHOCKING: UK News Host Has USA Meltdown - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 PM
""I really wonder when the time will be to think and talk about this [a boycott] concretely," Oke Gottlich, a DFB vice-president, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper. "For me, that time has definitely come.""
Indeed.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Indeed.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
German FA official wants 2026 World Cup boycott talks
A German football association official believes it is time to consider a boycott of the 2026 World Cup in the wake of United States President Donald Trump's actions.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 2:03 PM
""I really wonder when the time will be to think and talk about this [a boycott] concretely," Oke Gottlich, a DFB vice-president, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper. "For me, that time has definitely come.""
Indeed.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Indeed.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
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I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Barcelona has quietly cut ties with ZKP, the crypto partner they signed last month, deleting the announcement from their website and the company's branding from their list of partners.
Barcelona has quietly cut ties with ZKP, the crypto partner they signed last month, deleting the announcement from their website and the company's branding from their list of partners.
December 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🚨Exclusive🚨
Barcelona has quietly cut ties with ZKP, the crypto partner they signed last month, deleting the announcement from their website and the company's branding from their list of partners.
Barcelona has quietly cut ties with ZKP, the crypto partner they signed last month, deleting the announcement from their website and the company's branding from their list of partners.
"Over the next two years, we'll deploy Grok across more than 5,000 public schools, delivering personalized learning to over one million students..."
x.ai/news/el-salv...
x.ai/news/el-salv...
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Over the next two years, we'll deploy Grok across more than 5,000 public schools, delivering personalized learning to over one million students..."
x.ai/news/el-salv...
x.ai/news/el-salv...
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There are some lovely people in the world. Sometimes with all that’s going on it’s easy to forget, but there is good to be found. Merry Christmas.
We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
There are some lovely people in the world. Sometimes with all that’s going on it’s easy to forget, but there is good to be found. Merry Christmas.
We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“From a distance, it had seemed only baffling. Up close, though, I could see exactly why they might have done it: because the tree had been special.”
Rosa Lyster on the trial of the Sycamore Gap killers.
Rosa Lyster on the trial of the Sycamore Gap killers.
If a Tree Falls, by Rosa Lyster
The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“From a distance, it had seemed only baffling. Up close, though, I could see exactly why they might have done it: because the tree had been special.”
Rosa Lyster on the trial of the Sycamore Gap killers.
Rosa Lyster on the trial of the Sycamore Gap killers.
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AP photographers used an infrared filter on modified cameras to capture how beams are used to track vehicles and people, enable facial recognition — and ultimately, assert digital control.
PHOTO ESSAY: Seeing the invisible - how AP photographers captured infrared technology
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AP photographers used an infrared filter on modified cameras to capture how beams are used to track vehicles and people, enable facial recognition — and ultimately, assert digital control.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
Well-known Bristol football fan died in tragic fall from lamppost
City fan Paul Lumber was a published author of books about the days of football casuals in the 1980s
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
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missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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🇯🇵 The Japanese students turning walking into a viral spectacle
For more than half a century, students at Nippon Sport Science University have captivated audiences with their synchronised walking -- a practice known as Shudan Kodo, meaning "collective action".
For more than half a century, students at Nippon Sport Science University have captivated audiences with their synchronised walking -- a practice known as Shudan Kodo, meaning "collective action".
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🇯🇵 The Japanese students turning walking into a viral spectacle
For more than half a century, students at Nippon Sport Science University have captivated audiences with their synchronised walking -- a practice known as Shudan Kodo, meaning "collective action".
For more than half a century, students at Nippon Sport Science University have captivated audiences with their synchronised walking -- a practice known as Shudan Kodo, meaning "collective action".
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
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Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
Bluesky Is Clearly Not a Johnny Cash Fan
A user was banned for making a Johnny Cash reference. Where's the dividing line between serious threat and jokey pop culture reference?
gizmodo.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
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Under El Salvador’s regime of exception, thousands have suffered — even those who were once victims of the gangs. This is the security model that Bukele is selling to the world.
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
From the Bowels of Bukele’s Prisons: Survivors Recount Death, Torture, and Starvation
The voices of these survivors of the prisons of the Salvadoran regime of exception depict barbarism sparing few horrors: murders by guards; elaborate torture involving hangings, placing bricks on…
beta.elfaro.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Under El Salvador’s regime of exception, thousands have suffered — even those who were once victims of the gangs. This is the security model that Bukele is selling to the world.
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick to schedule operations
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
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Baby seal live solar-powered webcam anyone? Only ~one more week before they leave the rocks and head off into the sea.
📽️: www.seabird.org/webcams/crai...
From the 🏴Scottish Seabird centre team working on the small island of Craigleith, in the Firth of Forth.
📽️: www.seabird.org/webcams/crai...
From the 🏴Scottish Seabird centre team working on the small island of Craigleith, in the Firth of Forth.
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Baby seal live solar-powered webcam anyone? Only ~one more week before they leave the rocks and head off into the sea.
📽️: www.seabird.org/webcams/crai...
From the 🏴Scottish Seabird centre team working on the small island of Craigleith, in the Firth of Forth.
📽️: www.seabird.org/webcams/crai...
From the 🏴Scottish Seabird centre team working on the small island of Craigleith, in the Firth of Forth.