Nick Evershed!?

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

@JDfromscrubslol Had a dream there was an emoji like 💯 except it was only 60. Some post said "popeyes fries be tasting so good (60)" and I laughed so hard I woke myself up

Thinking about the 60 emoji again

Five members of Iranian women’s football team reportedly seeking to remain in Australia After being eliminated from the Asian Cup, the players reportedly escaped their regime minders and are being looked after by police in Queensland

Five members of Iranian women’s football team reportedly seeking to remain in Australia

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

unfortunately I am on secondment in the UK without my ipad so I can't personally be drawing barrels 😢

Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcasts

Rather than show him wearing his golf hat throughout the ceremony while he saluted cases carrying the remains of the first six US troops to die in his war on Iran, Fox News hid it from viewers by using old video footage of Donald Trump

O God!

is this a thing outside of romantasy/romance fandom? if you take the big dawgs of regular fantasy for example, like Brando Sando, many still write and sell third person

Iran's parliament speaker said Saturday that the attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island was carried out with support from one of the airbases in a southern neighboring country. He did not name the country. "The crime will receive a proportionate response," he said.

The US doesn’t seem to understand how many targets there are for Iran in the Gulf.

Attacking the desalination plant in Iran is monstrous in itself as so many people depend on them, but it also opens up the way for Iran to target the Gulf’s desalination plants, which would also be monstrous

Water returns to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre after summer evaporation almost dried it out. link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/jeac

A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.

Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.

#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus

Photo of a Cladonia podetium that is comprised of a thick stalk that’s grey in colour and covered in green scales/squamules plus apothecia at the top that are brown in colour with a bubbly/lumpy surface.

Cladonia sp lichen. NWT, Canada.
Lichen is about 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

NEW MARSUPIALS

classic low effort play at my kids' school is to put on whatever football jersey you own and then say the book is messi's book / sam kerr book / whatever

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site Above the pastel murals of trees, paintbrushes, crayons and microscopes, black smoke rises. The glass windows of the school have been blown out by the force of the blast, and its curtains hang shredded from the frames. Against one burned-out wall, the remains of a playground lie scattered: a red plastic slide, a jumble of child-sized chairs. On an overturned bookshelf a pair of pink plastic sandals have been neatly placed, now covered in dust from the blast. Continue reading...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

With @oregonian.com

A greenish black toad with large, widely spaced warty bumps on their back, perched on a stick! The warty bumps are brown in color, as is the top of their head, their large parotoid glands, and the back sides of their legs!

Our friend the Udzungwa Glandular Tree Toad was first described as a new species just a few months ago! Like other toads in genus Nectophrynoides, they do not lay eggs and instead give birth to fully developed toadlets! (photo by John Lyakurwa)

Map of Bahrain showing location of Stena Imperative on https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3793960/zoom:13

Apparently the US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative in the Port of Bahrain was hit, caught fire, and crew has been rescued - per Reuters, other sources.

In other news reportedly GPS and other positioning services are no longer reliable in Strait of Hormuz due to jamming.

googling "UK supermarket tier list" to see what the rankings are like

i am in an airport waiting for a flight so i have made this high quality graphic

it's a backpack with a banana tucked into the banana side pocket

wow my new backpack has a banana holder in case I need a banana at short notice

These visual breakdowns of everyday objects by Bryan Macomber are super satisfying mechanical-pencil.com

"An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Pauline Hanson’s daughter employed in taxpayer-funded job with NSW One Nation senator Exclusive: Tasmanian Lee Hanson employed as senior adviser to Sean Bell in role worth as much as $180,000

Pauline Hanson’s daughter employed in taxpayer-funded job with NSW One Nation senator

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

'Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...