We interrupt your morning ablutions with this important update: IT’S RAINING! We’ll be right back after we’ve had a run around in it. 🤪☔️
Russian attack on the logistics centre of Ranok Publishing House in Kharkiv. ~8 million books were destroyed worth about 24 million USD. "According to industry estimates, more than 10% of Ukraine's annual book printing output has been destroyed in just the past few weeks." 1/6
Aaaaand that's Asia out. Infantino wouldn't even have the votes now, if he DID put it to one.
AFC joins Uefa and Concacaf in opposing Fifa plan
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) says it "stands in solidarity" with Uefa and Concacaf in opposition to Fifa's proposal to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors.
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The rest of the ALP are a bunch of gutless pissants.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoLabor conference sidesteps Gaza stoush after Ed Husic fails to force debate
NSD1698/2024 - PAULINE HANSON v MEHREEN FARUQI & ANOR Justice Perry, Justice Kennet and Justice Bennett will deliver judgment in this matter on Monday, 27 July 2026 at 2:05pm (AEST). To observe the matter remotely, you can access the livestream here: www.youtube.com/@FederalCour... #FCA #auslaw
Yesterday I stood for over half an hour in the most stunning of wet sclerophyll forests surrounded by five male Golden Whistlers in stunning peak plumage, locked in territorial battle in glorious song and rapid flybys and pursuits. I watched mesmerised, immersed in the beauty of the moment and /1
I took our drone up Glen Derry to try and find one of our farther flung fire signs, which has 'gone missing' 🙄 I successfully found another vandalised sign the other week by searching from the sky, but no luck with this one.....annoyingly. People are weird! #rangerdailydiary
The Beetrooter’s been back on the turps again, I see.
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 2w agoBarnaby Joyce crucified after trying to dodge questions on Pauline Hanson & Gina Rinehart’s vacation in Sicily — as Ferguson reminds him of the $40k cheque took from Rinehart. Joyce insists he gave it back. Ferguson “So why is it OK for Hanson to take planes, 5 star travel…”🔥
He's He's going to turn a chair the wrong way around and sit on it David Brent style isn't he?
Onze vogels in huis en tuin Leyden: P.W.M. Trap, 1869-1876. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41751911) #nature #illustration #art
So glad that Time Team are still making new episodes. And yes, Tony still narrates.
The Orkney News@theorkneynews.bsky.social · 3w agoA fascinating film bringing together the 20 years of work at the Ness of Brodgar in #Orkney #archaeology #Neolithic @timeteam.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO3l...
Cheesus… Mount Hotham has hit 11.1°C today!!! That’s 2.4°C *above* the pre-2026 July record!! Big slow moving high pressure systems creating large areas of descending & warming air hitting a radiation inversion = warm air trapped above the ground. Plus climate change… www.bom.gov.au/vic/observat...
The product is called: Insider trading
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump Media plans to charge trading firms for access to Trump’s Truth Social posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, the FT reports. The product, Truth API, is aimed at firms that rely on ultra-fast data to trade in markets that are often moved by those posts.
When Napoleon betrayed Spain in 1807, a Spanish Division was serving in Denmark under Bernadotte. They conspired with the British to defect, taking and holding the Langeland island The Royal Navy raced to reach them and helped them escape to Sweden... ...the country Bernadotte would later rule.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3w agoanyone got any good takes about the Peninsular War, or
Must say, this is all too similar to his attitude at a recent NSW Institute of Architects meeting with him to discuss reasonable planning, tempering worst changes. As soon as CEO mentioned the lack of inter-generational equity regarding their planning impositions, we were shut down…out the door
Philip Thalis@philipthalis.bsky.social · 3w agoNSW Planning Minister Scully’s aggressive stance on #4corners on the failings of Govts’ ‘affordable housing’ should fool no one - their policies aim is to shape planning in favour of large developers & existing land owners. Posturing “we’re doing more than previous Govt” - just admission of failure
They appear to have been pre assembled
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w agoTwo baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫
On this day in 1981, Richard Cobb got an honorary degree from the University of Essex. That may not seem significant to you, but it makes this afternoon the 45th anniversary of one of the finest graduation addresses ever delivered 🧵
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