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Games, Japan, pushbikes, some other stuff. See how it goes.
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This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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Calling interpreters! There's still time to register for this free webinar with lawyer-linguist Sue Leschen on Thursday this week at 11am (UK time): register.gotowebinar.com/register/499... #Interpreting #Prison #CIOL #Webinar #CPD

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📢NEW: "It’s bad leadership." Steel giant ArcelorMittal has a carbon footprint the size of Belgium, yet has decided to slow down on decarbonization. I talked to @steelwatch.bsky.social CEO Caroline Ashley about the firm's behaviour.

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冥王星の景色

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Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. It’s worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

One week on from Spain's blackout - and media outlets can talk about is solar power. So I decided to look into Spain's nuclear fleet, and discovered that in April, it was operating at its lowest levels in ten years Why? Here's a hefty piece digging into that, for you: ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/05/w...

submitted 45 days ago • 20 comments

the year is 2049 and me and my wife are investigating a tip that an old man living in a small town may in fact be a ex-ice higher-up who was never caught in the reckonings of the early ‘30s. he is wanted dead or alive and the stack of new yen we will receive upon capture will feed us for many moons

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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 51 days ago • 1328 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 55 days ago • 616 comments

More alt text: 1) A map of central USA with a marker indicating a point somewhere in rural Kansas; 2) A photo of a completely ruined brick house, apparently in a wooded area.

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冷水サンゴを地図に加える技

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 66 days ago • 686 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

submitted 66 days ago • 32 comments

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year. PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

Hell is waiting, just die already!

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my friends see me as a cautionary tale. i am the goofus to their gallant. my poor decisions precede and therefore prevent theirs. i am what-not-to-do incarnate. look upon my works, ye mighty, and disparage.

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Me pushing for impeachment is not a messaging play. It is literally in the constitution as THE thing to do when Presidents are committing high crimes. Yes, of course we need to push for it!

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

"このところは、「会陰」といいます"

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“most consequential day of deregulation in American history” - “we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion" Certainly this will open up an age of disastrous consequences - and will be seen in the future as a huge crime against himanity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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