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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

08.03.2026 19:14 👍 1092 🔁 484 💬 13 📌 52

The only positive thing about the gas prices going bananas is that we are heading into summer. If this war had started in November, my heating costs would have been insane. That said, this whole thing is irresponsible.

09.03.2026 15:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Heh... not again...

08.03.2026 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I have just solved a problem I have had for three years. So, many times over the years, delivery people have been trying to deliver my packages to my neighbor. It turned out that it was because Google maps put the pin to my house on my neighbor's house. But, I have now fixed it ...

08.03.2026 17:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Waging war against the very planet itself.

08.03.2026 11:39 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

We need copyright around our persons, like the Danish government introduces last year. Nobody should be able to use to identify of others like this: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

07.03.2026 16:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory.

The female scientist says 
“Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?”

The male scientist replies
“That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!”

They step out onto a balcony. She says:
“Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” 

This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds
“It's got a fax machine!”

Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

07.03.2026 15:07 👍 1308 🔁 435 💬 19 📌 38
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Feeding frenzy... ;)

07.03.2026 12:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is just getting worse and worse. First he demands that he should be selecting the new leader of Iran, and now this. The USA is just fundamentally no longer part of the free world. The USA is now in the same category of countries like Russia.

06.03.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a baby is looking out of a window talking on a cell phone . ALT: a baby is looking out of a window talking on a cell phone .

So... I'm spending my day importing all my old accounting into my new 100% digital and automated accounting system. The new system is many times better, does automatic tax reporting output, annual reports, and also imports the data automatically. But... I have to manually import all the old data.

06.03.2026 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Has BYD just destroyed the ICE car FOREVER? 1.5MW Flash Charging MASS Rollout begins!
Has BYD just destroyed the ICE car FOREVER? 1.5MW Flash Charging MASS Rollout begins! YouTube video by Everything Electric APAC

China keeps leading the way in battery technology ... now 1.5 MW charging www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrch...

06.03.2026 12:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In my latest newsletter for subscribers, I calculate how quickly you can resurface your article based on your audience churn and replacement rates. baekdal.com/newsletter/h...

06.03.2026 11:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Way more than half the audience, it's only "A third of Gen Z men" that thinks this way, so this headline is insulting 83% of their audience.

06.03.2026 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It was never about protecting the Iranian people ... Civilian death toll in Iran passes 1,000, rights group says: www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

05.03.2026 21:55 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

05.03.2026 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pulled…

Organic search traffic to ten of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped 58% since 2024, according to a new report. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...

05.03.2026 00:00 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Apple Reacts to the Global RAM Shortage
Apple Reacts to the Global RAM Shortage YouTube video by SAMTIME

Apple Reacts to the Global RAM Shortage www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9qU...

04.03.2026 16:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Holy moly... Poool to be acquired by Darwin CX

04.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hehe :)

03.03.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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three men standing in front of a door that says 5a on it ALT: three men standing in front of a door that says 5a on it

;)

03.03.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meanwhile, CNN rages at a journalism problem it created. Goes by the name of Jennings.,@status.news reports.

www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...

03.03.2026 16:05 👍 1037 🔁 279 💬 26 📌 19
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I live alone, and I also just got my very first dishwasher last month. And I just learned that those two are related ;)

03.03.2026 18:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For me, this is extremely frustrating. My home (rented) is heated with gas, and last year, we were offered to switch to renewables instead. I voted 'yes' to switch to renewables (which was more expensive in the short term), but everyone else voted 'no' arguing that gas prices were 'going down'.

03.03.2026 10:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yikes! ...

02.03.2026 06:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

01.03.2026 13:10 👍 10161 🔁 3607 💬 43 📌 57

i am distracted from the bombing of children by the raping of children, and from that by the kidnapping and caging of children, and then from that by the bombing of children and on and on "distracted" until there are no children left

28.02.2026 15:38 👍 201 🔁 80 💬 6 📌 3
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Seriously newspapers... this is the most idiotic headline I have ever seen.

28.02.2026 17:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with another man and says complete amateurs ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with another man and says complete amateurs

Why are there so many problems with the police in the USA compared to other countries? Well... here is a clue.

Education period to become a police officer:

USA: Between 12 to 21 weeks (in some places just six weeks)
Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway: 3 years (156 weeks)
Netherlands: 2-4 years

28.02.2026 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How The U.S. Stole the Middle East
How The U.S. Stole the Middle East YouTube video by Johnny Harris

Considering what is happening today in Iran, this video by Jonathan Harris is an extremely important reminder of why we even have this problem to begin with:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOd...

28.02.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Samsung Just Released the Most Boring Phone… Ultra
Samsung Just Released the Most Boring Phone… Ultra YouTube video by SAMTIME

This is exactly how I feel about all the AI crap that is being added to my phone... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOoG...

27.02.2026 22:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0