Rhys Needham

Two good Luxembourgish words for you:

If a pair of twins are identical, they are "eeneeëg".

If they are non-identical, they are "zweeeeëg".

this sounds like them trying to get a palace coup that keeps the repressive government in place with a pro-US ayatollah

Gulf allies complain US didn't notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say Officials say Iran’s retaliatory attacks in the Middle East over strikes from Israel and the U.S. have left some of America’s partners in the Gulf frustrated over a lack of notice or adequate defense.

Gulf allies (rightly) claim that the U.S. failed to adequately warn or protect them from eminently predictable waves of Iranian drone attacks.

Hegseth’s new Muscular Manly Murder Drone Strategy sure seems to be spectacularly imploding right now.

East Dakota and West Dakota.

Donitz was lucky he didn't hang for this at Nuremberg?

A young boy sits at a small table, eating from a bowl with a spoon. There is a potted plant on the table next to him. The room has a simple decor.

6 March 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Willem Philip van Naarden, was born in Amsterdam.

In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

Standing next to a succession of minor party candidates with increasingly long names and in increasingly outlandish outfits?

In today's funniest news, the Daily Telegraph, paper of choice for people who think they lived through The War, is being sold to the Germans...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a close up of a man in a suit and tie ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie

Weirder Andrew
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Grenada, Civil Registration, 1866-1940

The 15th Anniversary Escape Pod book, but the typefaces makes it look a bit like ESCAPE POO.

I think one of these books would benefit from a different font.

I once lived in a flat with incredibly thin walls, floor and ceiling. If the neighbours got too loud while shagging, I would play a 20-minute version of Barney the Dinosaur singing I Love You, You Love Me to kill their romantic mood.

This whole notion of the US not fighting a war to win comes from Vietnam and people mad we didn't just invade and/or nuke Hanoi, and has become a perpetuated inter-generational brainworm even though it makes no sense for any US war in over 50 years. It's the US version of the stab in the back myth.

It’s not a war you fucking idiots. It’s an exchange of violence between two polities to impose a political outcome through conflict.

Live musician here doing Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army of all songs. Didn't get himself in trouble singing a certain 6-letter word.

For what is still actually quite a modest media footprint?

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

Back from the dead - a tiny possum with an extra-long finger on each hand and a ring-tailed glider with a tail that can grasp branches, have been found living in remote rainforests in West Papua after they were thought to have disappeared 6,000 years ago.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A drone through the bathroom window will cool things down? 😁🤪

If/when another player's neck is snapped with that kind of play, the NRL shouldn't be allowed to wring their hands.

The Broncos were very much their own worst enemies tonight. Amateurish. However, I do wonder how many were from being squashed into the turf, Penrith routinely targetting the back of their necks, and dazing them into even more ineptitude.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

It'd probably be broadly the same in most countries outside the US - or parts of Eastern Europe. Much stronger again in most of Canada?

What few they have are some of the most unpleasant people you'll ever come across.

Gerard and Anne, too, likely. Republic supporters who did a fair bit for refugees back in the day.

A huge issue which nobody in UK politics is touching, because the minds of everyone involved been utterly warped by X (both Tory *and* Labour Right) is that about a third of 2024 Reform voters - and likely an even higher % of current Reform intended voters - think that Trump is a prick and hate him

The most seductive thing about a social media platform is its ability to create an immersive world that mimics but is different from the ‘actual’ world and in so doing teach its participants to act as if that created world is indeed the real world.

"Where's his red hat and beard? I thought he was meant to be jolly?!"

Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing YouTube video by Alexandre Ribeiro

Counterpoint: youtu.be/_JoZS6LgqYI?....

You'd expect most warriors to best a chicken most days?

Stick them in their pyjamas and a nightcap and say they're Wee Willie Winkie?

Plenty of books where children wear casual clothes, too