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a woman looks out a window with a poster for the electrical life of louis wain Alt: Gif of a woman looking out a window.

'Not sure. They seem to be arguing about ... animals? Pictures of animals? No, that can't be right, can it?'

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Everything’s fine

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Good news! The curling drama is *not* over!

Trump and Netanyahu arm Kurdish militia to take on Tehran regime Support for fighters along the Iraqi border raises alarm over civil strife in Iran and a widening war that could destabilise neighbouring states

This sounds like a totally great plan, but only if you suffered some sort of terrible head injury circa 2002 and just woke up. www.thetimes.com/article/7aee...

WHY IS ROGERS GETTING A YELLOW FOR BEING HELD ON TO? #avfc

Sure, maybe panic now. #avfc

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Gary Oldman's a Villa fan? #avfc

Just do another one, Ollie. #avfc

a man in a military uniform is wearing a helmet and glasses and says `` do n't panic '' . Alt: Gif of a be-helmetted Corporal Jones from Dad's Army saying 'Don't panic' whilst looking extremely panicked.

#avfc

Aha, just had to wait for Cash to go near someone. Of course. 🙄 #avfc

How many fouls before the ref remembers where he put his cards? #avfc

Now, please carry on just like this, Villa. #avfc

Incredible, Dougie! 😱 #avfc

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Screenie of the letter

Lawyer Melanie #Schweizer has written to the state prosecutors to ask whether #Netanyahu was onboard the Israeli state airplane that has recently landed in #Berlin and how prosecutors have responded.

https://x.com/derjamesjackson/status/2028061968058220873

A true poster

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

No words can ever describe how massive the collective 2016 media’s failure of imagination was.

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

Yehuda Amichai's poem haunts me.

it’s quite ironic that because 5live have switched to continuous coverage of the israel/us attack on iran, they’ve had to pull fighting talk from the schedules

Turns out confirming the drunk violent TV personality who aggressively denies reality and dreams of being a crusader to head the Pentagon was a disastrous idea.