A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”
"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.
wow!
Black and white photo of a Māori woman wearing a piupiu and holding a tewhatewha.
Portrait of Mere, circa 1900.
Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, probably at Whanganui.
Ref 1/1-003087-G, National Library of New Zealand.
3 narco subs in Solomon Islands in the past 12 months
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
REPORTER: Sir, can you tell us what happened with the elephant?
ME: (huddled in a space blanket) Of course: I was minding my business when the beast grabbed me with its trunk. My penis, exposed for unrelated reasons, functioned as a sort of axel by which I was rotated like a holiday noisemaker
here it is in English - edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/e...
The Norwegians are arresting #Epstein people. French will be next -- nos.nl/artikel/2602...
Petag' Tabriz Carpet, Northwest Persia. ca 1920
the design based on 16th cent Safavid 'Vase' carpets, on an unusual green ground
did this at Saints park the other night whilst walking the dog. it was the Sandy Dragons u18 boys. huge units, very good at footy. except i botched the kick back and sprayed it 😅
The British Museum – which is already a permanent archive of ‘Stuff the British Stole’ (HT @marcfennell.bsky.social) has taken the word ‘PaIestine’ off its exhibits thanks to pressure from lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI)
The place has been known to history as PaIestine since Herodotus
ABC News headline: Muslim men had permission to pray before officers removed them from Sydney protest, police say
NSW Police admit the Muslim men had received police permission to pray during the Sydney protest before they were disrupted by officers!
Imagine the media outrage if this had been a Jewish group or a group of Catholic nuns! #SydneyProtest
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Amazing. (if you're into whales and/or audio recording)
www.popsci.com/environment/...
#ambient job
ooo lovely. what great pedigree. thanks!
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Glad you grabbed this one, Michael
turns out the conspiracy theory is real
the eugenics related stuff emerging is.......disturbing (to say the least)
how interesting. what an excellent piece
I find it hard to believe this snake oil will actually regrow my hair. Have you seen a snake
Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.
don't care what you like to eat mate. this is called phoning in an exhausted clickbait column for the cash
www.theage.com.au/traveller/re...
"As much as the hunt for #Ingram feels like outback noir, with a gunman fleeing into scrub and red dirt stretching into a cloudless and edgeless sky, there is an awful truth to the offending"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
great newsletter all round 👍
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The making of a tobacco warlord - "the enforcement of the legislation also introduces an anxious role for the state’s 14 tobacco inspectors."
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
'RUINS: Make you dream and give poetry to a landscape.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺
In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.
interesting
