Three minutes in and they’re off to a running start, even for them! When satirists get angry, they get even more incisively funny. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Alasdair Beckett-King, Zoe Lyons, Scott Bennett, and Cindy Yu quiz the news.
Holy wow. This is an absolute #mustreadtrib.al/5x1RR2j
A celebratory postdebate picture, heavily edited to masculinize Vance’s features, shows how close Republicans come to gender dysphoria and trans gender theory—without realizing it.
The latest edition of the Deafblind Association New Zealand newsletter is _out_ :D Lots of amazing stuff going on - check it out! :D #a11ymailchi.mp/7c7385fbcaec...
Severe burn alert! Hehehehe. We all know (well, I've certainly always held that) that art - including satire - tends to get better when times get worse and judging by what I've seen the last few days here, yeeeeep. emilywrites.substack.com/p/the-peasan...
You probably have a child out of wedlock too don't you. DIS-GUST-ING!
👏 “A lot of nature conservation is a long game. You plant a tree, you're not going to in your lifetime see that it reached its full potential. But within three months of that river being re-wiggled the salmon were spawning in that one kilometre stretch for the first time in over 150 years”
For centuries meandering rivers have been straightened – but experts say restoring their natural bends and curves can prevent flooding and create healthy habitats for wildlife.
Teehee :P (Culture and Diet especially had me giggling.) thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-...
Parents, sorry, this is not for you.
Very well written, and says SO MUCH about 'Murica as well as said player. defector.com/pete-rose-al...
After Pete Rose’s death was announced on Monday night, a lot of clever microphone addicts opened their obligatory thumbnail summaries of him by explaining that he was “a complicated figure.” It’s the ...
This is also super pertinent, especially in a country (here) where a major Govt agency decided years ago that weather data couldn't be open data in order to protect organisational profits. [I should add that this is NOT the general way many other countries do it.] www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/g...
Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall
Aaaaand these are the very technologies which, in turn , are _contributing_ to climate change through the often-unnecessary use of things such as modern #GenAIwww.npr.org/2024/09/30/n...
Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.
7.62cm (3") across a nation is an enormous volume, and burning it is an enormous amount of pollution and atmospheric carbon 😞 Great to see this ending.
