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Greenland signs a minerals deal with the EU. Ten hours later Trump slaps 50% tariffs on the EU.

"swarming spiders". Never change Australia

Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

"Albanese says extreme weather events...are becoming more frequent and intense as a fifth body has been found in the disaster-hit region." What the PM didn't say: 'It would be irresponsible of us to approve any more gas fields or coal mines.' #hypocrisy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Not now newly discovered bacteria on space station…

You might think you know about liminal spaces, but driving home from Liverpool last night the M62 was closed so at 1am I was lost on an industrial estate near Hunslet while my Satnav showed a pixellated version of my car flickering in and out of existence against a featureless void.

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain  economist.com/science-and-...

NEW | A look at how trends are covered… MAKING A MAJOR LABUBU Mania over a new brand of creepy dolls offers a classic example of how the media covers trend stories. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/34-making-...

This screams 'late night drunk purchase' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminder that currently OnlyFans pays their fair share of tax in the UK (they're based here) amd have neber tried to dodge it. Unlike every other massive online company. Guess that'll change. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

yurt glampers? president of the netherlands?

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

My wife to our Robot mop : “Hey Juliet…” Shortly followed by: “Don’t turn around and look like you heard me. That’s scary.”

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

this timeline is fucking wild

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

Europeans visiting the US vs Americans visiting France #badgeographyjoke

this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

pictured here: why you don't have global variables in your code

“.. Low-information voters may be fooled for a little while, but bond markets won’t.”

You don't have to be a Harrier pilot to understand, it's a lot more expensive and time intensive to regain a capability than to maintain one

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

Please share: I am looking for Canadian and Indigenous creatives for an online event promoting the two Canadian Worldcon bids: Montreal 2027 and Edmonton 2030 The date is 15th/16th August. If you are interested there are more details here. forms.gle/7D2Z6uoiJKh1...

🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!): 1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.

then the rules are shit then aren't they www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They need to keep their taikonauts up there until they're sure this is not the next apocalyptic plague. We've all seen films that start like this.

typical feature roadmap

I read recently that most historians believe that the Reichstag fire — long used as the ur-example of a false flag justifying Nazi totalitarianism — was probably just set by a dude acting alone and not at the behest of Nazis. That it was a violent act that served as useful idiocy.

I have been reminded of this excellent TV commercial for MILKRUN and I think people everywhere need to see it. I quite like the six-titted cow, among other things. “MILKRUN. Milk it for 10,000+ grocery items delivered in minutes” www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTu7...

Pandas! Panninis! Protocols! Pachyderms!

Pop stars doing their bit.

If M.R. James wrote safety signage

Domino’s Australia is flying close to the sun

Hold me closer

This is a wonderful performance of a Bach Concerto for 4 harpsichords. However, the filming angles of the harpsichords remind me of a *very* bizarre Dr Seuss movie about an evil piano teacher who…well, see next post for that one! In the meantime: music.youtube.com/watch?v=emkJ... #ClassicalMusic