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This is a completely crap thing Luke. I'm sorrybit has happened.

Miracles abound

How does the United Arab Emirates’ financing of the Rapid Support Forces perpetuate political violence against civilians in Sudan? Author: Trisha SayalJuly 16, 2025IntroductionWith each passing minute, the situation in Sudan grows more dire. The conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and the...

The UAE is also solidly alleged to be funding the annihilation of Sudanese people via weapons provision and financial support to the RSF.
www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/how-doe...

Agree, a helpful, poignant perspective. "There has always been infighting among Iranians in the diaspora. The community has never been monolithic. It spans monarchists and leftists, secular nationalists and devout Muslims, people who left last year and people who left in 1979. What has changed...

Ah, thanks.

Would you mind adding details of the graph source please Brendan.
Not questioning it - just interested.

Yep. Lots of places around me have Awabakal or Darkinjung language names.

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through February 2026. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 429 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in February 2026. Note that I also just updated my annual mean growth rate plot for 2025 on my personal climate indicators website.

10 years ago February averaged about 404 ppm.

Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Why miserable Sandy? You always seem to soak up as much good as possible in your travels. It's rare to hear you sound less than delighted.

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says | Australian foreign policy - Bytes Europe The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Donald Trump’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says | Australian foreign policy

https://www.byteseu.com/1858595/

The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Donald Trump’s interests in the growing Iran war, …

Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz"

Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here

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Like someone used a common crow butterfly chrysalis to craft a mosquito.
Beautiful.

No advice, just care.
You're such a vital person here 🌷

Can you add unkeyed bolts to those doors as a second line defence?

Worrying.
But, if the doors are bolted inside, they shouldn't open from outside, even with a key.
If they were just locked, not bolted, and you think someone may have found and taken a spare key, get the lock changed asap.

If the tail is cup shaped, it reminds me most of an eye wash cup.
Even the fish body is eye like if you see the detail as lashes rather than fins.

Neither did he. He learns best from personal experience and immersion.
As an adult, he's self-supporting, has lost most of the narrow views he accumulated through school, learned a new language, travelled and lived in fascinating places and collected friends from everywhere.

Isn't it!
Kid tells me his Spanish is pretty fluent now but he needs to learn to listen better.
My very tactful response was that we probably all do, regardless of the language we're speaking.

Tehran has been discussing the likely need to abandon the city and move the capital due to the lack (and declining volume) of water.
The loss of a desal plant would be significant anywhere in Iran.

Oh my!
You'd barely got settled.
There are some stunning spots around Coffs though so hopefully it's a good move for you.

Lemon verbena infusion.
Crush the leaves, steep in boiling water and chill.
Good hot or cold.
Ditto Mentha australis.
Easy at home of course, not so when out in the world.

Do you think much has changed Victoria?
Perhaps some people are more aware their comments are on a permanent record and, may come back to haunt them if they're stated publicly but, I don't believe the underlying misogyny has decreased at all in the last 2 decades.

Even if we shared just basic conversational phrases, it might help to decrease the 'othering' that's so damaging.

I was chatting with my son (living in Colombia) yesterday as he was on his way to a language exchange bar. You find people happy to chat in the language you're learning. I think we could adopt the idea here - so many languages spoken.

Surprisingly, I've seen no advertised protests. I keep expecting them to see them promoted so Australins can register their opposition to ANY involvement.

I assumed I'd inherited my nanna's (5ft 11). I hit 5ft 4 somewhere between 10 and 11 and that was it. A lifelong disappointment beyond the nuisance value of most tools being designed for someone 5ft 10 with large hands (mine are stupidly small).

They're glued?

'Most brazen acts of corruption': Obeid family loses $30m worth of property After investigations spanning a decade, the New South Wales Crime Commission says it has taken control of more than $30 million worth of properties linked to former New South Wales Labor politician Eddie Obeid.

After investigations spanning a decade, the New South Wales Crime Commission says it has taken control of more than $30 million worth of properties linked to former New South Wales Labor politician Eddie Obeid.

Lovely breakfast and a quiet day sounds like a wonderful idea.

Whilst his licence was suspended for an unpaid fine and driving an unregistered, uninsured vehicle.