Have you tried hobbies?
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Mexican TikTok influencer shot dead during livestream | CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/08/05/a...
Mexican TikTok influencer shot dead during livestream | CNN
Mexican influencer César Gastélum was shot dead on Tuesday while live streaming in front of a fast-food restaurant in the northwestern Mexican city of Culiacán, according to local and federal…
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Coming soon to every airline, I imagine. apnews.com/article/jets...
Australian airline Jetstar will charge passengers to use the overhead lockers for their bags
Jetstar plans to charge passengers for using overhead compartments starting February 2027. The airline says this change aims to reduce stress at boarding gates by eliminating the need to weigh bags an...
apnews.com
The extreme heat & drought in Puerto Rico have gotten too little attention in the rest of the US. Things there are very bad. apnews.com/article/puer...
Puerto Rican cities hit with water rationing measures as record dry conditions persist
Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight.
apnews.com
"Though technical progress in this comfort-loving age has robbed the warming-pan of its usefulness, its decorative quality remains unimpaired, for copper is both beautiful and lasting"
Please show me something you've made recently. A meal! Pottery! A painting! Doodles! A cross-stitch! Whatever!
Feels suboptimal to be using the same word to describe the targeted murder of unarmed citizens / endeavours to stop the targeted murder of unarmed citizens - entering contronym territory
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
Got to show my sister my garden yesterday & she remarked on the large number of dragon & damselflies, which I appreciated because it is indeed one of the things I’m most proud of about it
🇧🇷Picapauzinho-de-barras-finas 🌎Picumnus subtilis Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O picapauzinho-de-barras-finas ou pica-pau-anão-de-barras-sutis é uma ave piciforme da família picidae. 📷 Ronaldo Rios (Eirú)
Mass funeral held in Gaza for 112 victims of Israeli strikes on Sabra three years ago
Mass funeral held in Gaza for 112 people killed in Israeli strike
The group being laid to rest were members of two extended families in Gaza, with some gathered for the event describing it as the largest funeral in the war-ravaged strip's history.
abc.net.au
The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?
Absolutely wild story. www.nydailynews.com/2026/08/04/m...
High-ranking Mount Vernon police official arrested for Bronx attempted murder for being son’s getaway driver
Jennifer Lackard, the Mount Vernon police department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety, and her son, Chase Lackard, 20, were arrested at their Bronx home.
nydailynews.com
There's a Palestinian restaurant near me that occasionally partners with an amazing DC taco joint to make Palestinian-inspired breakfast tacos and it will blow your mind Worth waiting an hour in line
Nikolai Denmark@nikolaidenmark.bsky.social · yesterdayRelated and a topic of intense interest at present
🇧🇷Beija-flor-roxo 🌎Chlorestes cyanus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O beija-flor-roxo é uma ave apodiforme da família Trochilidae. 📷 Marco Cruz
"The instinct to punish Spain's liberal approach to migration is self-defeating."
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterdayAn overdue show of EU solidarity with Spain ft.trib.al/ESt0s4Y | opinion
“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
Chipotle Pulled Jalapeños Tied to Minnesota Salmonella Cases
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.
bloomberg.com
'This multi-disciplinary project... traced over 5,000 years of history of the African comb from the Predynastic period of Egypt to the twentieth century in the UK and US...' fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...
African Combs
A description of the Fitzwilliam Museum's research on African Combs and the exhibition it produced.
fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Mayor Michelle Wu has joined more than 100 mayors and local government leaders nationwide in signing a letter calling for Congress to extend protected status for Haitians until early 2029 after the Trump administration terminated it.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, more than 100 city leaders urge Congress to extend TPS for Haitians - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts had the third-highest population of Haitian nationals of any state in 2024.
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"It's as if we have to mourn the future."
Repeated heatwaves fuel eco-anxiety and anger among youth: 'It feels like we're living in a dystopia'
In the wake of the third heatwave to hit France since May, frustration and anxiety have gripped part of the younger generations, faced with what some call 'the coolest summer of the rest of their live...
lemonde.fr
The youth are all right.
Virginia Mercury@virginiamercury.com · 24h agoMicah Nielsen, 21, arrived at the polls wearing an “I hate AI” shirt and looking for a candidate who puts people over corporate profits. Nielsen lives in an area where data center development is a concern. “I’m trying to find ways to boycott AI,” he said. virginiamercury.com/2026/08/04/l...
Today is August 5th, 2026. Today is August 5th, 2026. Today is August 5th, 2026. ...
Kaia@kbhenrickson.bsky.social · yesterdayMy favorite version of this story is the one read by Leonard Nimoy, which I found out today was published the year I was born. archive.org/details/brad...
Great. There's a new anopheles species spreading across Africa, having apparently arrived from South Asia around 2013, that "thrives in urban as well as rural areas, and is not deterred by rainy seasons." Oh, it's also resistant to insecticides. By @stephanienolen.bsky.social
An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities
The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.
nytimes.com
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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🔥 Out Today! 🔥 This #BlackAugust, we are so excited to release 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳:𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘖. 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯. Edited with @williamcson.bsky.social, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 collects Alston's thoughts that have influenced generations of radicals. Find it here: www.akpress.org/anarchist-pa...
Andrew Jackson and the 2nd Bush for modern times in my head. With the current guy getting there
This happened to me with The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow” smh.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 24h agoPhysical Media Fans Are Sick Of Expensive Vinyl Albums With Unfinished Tracks Or Missing Songs: 'A Bait-and-Switch Isn't Cool'
