ICE gets away with murder so why not add torture to the list?
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 9h agoExclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation
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Waste workers help winner find binned €1m lottery ticket in Italy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italy waste workers help winner find €1m lottery ticket
The player only realised he binned the life-changing ticket after family told him the numbers he played for years had been drawn.
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Today I had to stick a note on my door telling Royal Mail to follow my safe place instructions - yesterday they didn’t bother and just left a redelivery note 🤦🏻♀️ And recently I had a birthday card take 10 days to travel within the UK. Their performance really has nosedived which is kind of sad 😔
They were sent back in time to save the Soviet Union. But they were too late. [🎵Terminator drums with a tremolo of balalaikas]
USSR Pictures@ussrpictures.bsky.social · 9h agoThe ORSN “Kobra” (Special Purpose Company), an elite unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, was established in Tiraspol on March 16, 1992, to combat armed crime and terrorism.
Oh I just had a bit of a spooky experience. Casper, an indoor cat, got out on the kitchen roof from a bedroom window. I was keeping an eye and gently coaxing him back in and then I heard a lady calling him a pretty kitty and telling him to go back in, but there was nobody there.
As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan
Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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I’m very much on the “don’t speak ill of the dead” side of civility but that doesn’t mean distorting what someone did with their life, particularly if they used their position to hurt others. Liddle was not a brilliant provocateur. He used misinformation to whip up hate against bedbound people.
hope this is splashed all over: it's a cut through moment of deceit.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d agoNigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Footage of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge in 1940. Oh dear no. No thank you. (No casualties, amazingly.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xggx...
Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
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Shuffle just brought up this track and I’d forgotten Just how happy it makes me (and can’t resist but dance to) ½
Justin Timberlake - CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! (from DreamWorks Animation's "TROLLS") (Official Video)
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I wrote a post about hats, singers and the peak of the Daisy Age: quantick.substack.com/p/punch-prop...
This morning, we'll: ✅ Store malware in a Facebook photo ✅ Store encrypted books on Spotify ✅ Embed hidden audio streams on Spotify ✅ Send encrypted ultrasonic messaging layer over FM radio ✅ Share free apps, code, and demos for it all ❌ Do an ad read or sponsorship www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhoJ...
There's a ZIP Archive Stored In This Video
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We've reached a point where AI chatbots have taken on the role usually set aside for psychic mediums. Talking to the dead, and making it seem they're talking back. Here, I examine a recent paper exploring the results of this sort of exchange. www.theghostgeek.com/p/are-we-cre...
Are We Creating Digital Memorials… or Digital Mediums?
When an AI chatbot imitates the voice of someone who has died, what happens when grief makes it feel uncannily real?
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Any of my friends kobo users? Ben suggests I use a voucher to get one with a hefty discount. I’m wondering if e-ink would let me read more (lighten the load on the mecfs), and how the library integration is (I’m under the impression it can be fiddly). Kindle not an option.
There isn’t evidence to exclude them either. I had a student try to do a project on transgendered women in sports (clearly on the anti side). They needed 5 academic sources… they cited a retracted paper & the retraction, a bad-faith commentary to a good source, & twisted words of 2 excellent pieces.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d agoi don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
There’s a surprising amount of child abuse casually accepted in the post-punk world described in that book. Left a really nasty taste in the mouth. I can’t listen to anything McLaren did now.
Did psychics really hack into a laptop using only their minds? www.theghostgeek.com/psychic-hack...
Psychic Hacking: New Threat or Old Remote-Viewing Claims Repackaged?
A new experiment claims psychics can steal data from secured computers. But does the evidence really show that a laptop was hacked?
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France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
This is a type of ribbing I like to add to cardigans. It's made up of rows of Tunisian simple stitches and the opposite of Tunisian simple stitches. It's got the same height as the rest of the fabric, but it lays flat, without pulling the fabric in.
Spotted a nice calathea (the variety next on my plant wish list) in Marks & Spencer just now. I touched one of the leaves and a big swarm of fungus gnats appeared 🫣 Check your plants if you’re buying from M&S! Also @chthonicsmith.bsky.social I looked for those giant biscuits - £5?!!! 😳
Death Cab for Cutie - Full of Stars (acoustic) ❤️
Death Cab for Cutie - Full of Stars (Acoustic)
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"There’s often a deep stoicism in those of us who have known lengthy illness: a quiet acceptance of bodily suffering that conceals its true burden. For our own survival, we’ve learnt to normalise feeling unwell. We measure our symptoms not against the healthy body, but against its worst potential."
Naomi Whittingham@naomiwhitt.bsky.social · 6d agoI realised there was a part of chronic illness that I'd never actually written about. Not the grief or the isolation. But the experience of living inside a body that feels so unpredictable and unsafe. Now I’ve written it. I’d love to know if it resonates with you.
YouTube just re-recommended this excellent cover to me 👍🏻 🎶 |-/ youtube.com/watch?v=-D_u...
Twenty One Pilots Cover The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" | Rock Hall 2025 Induction
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Trump still dislikes Zelensky. He doesn't like his raspy voice. He doesn't like his clothes - he thinks Zelensky looks homeless, and therefore, unhygienic. He doesn't like that Zelensky is short. Putin's height, of course, doesn't bother him because he idealises Putin. 1/3
Instead of asking whether paranormal belief is simply good or bad for mental health, this paper examines where it sits inside a larger psychological system and is suggests such beliefs may act as an interpretive framework which ultimately >> www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | The network structure of psychological wellbeing: paranormal belief is peripheral but meaningful
IntroductionParanormal belief (PB) remains prevalent within modern societies despite the dominance of scientific rationalism. While early research conceptual...
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