Calum Stuart

Cambridge University returns legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments The University of Cambridge today announces it has transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections to Nigeria’s National Commission f...

Cambridge University returns legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

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When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:

shes right, it was my idea to have kamala enlist The Cheney Clan to go on a human entrail spreading spree

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

In 2014, Hakamata Iwao was finally released from prison, pending a retrial. He was seventy-eight years old, and had spent almost half a century on death row in Japan—making him likely the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner. It took another ten years for him to be fully exonerated. Throughout all this time—an ordeal of fifty-six years—his older sister Hakamata Hideko has been his staunchest advocate.

The way she tells it, she’d assumed the role quite naturally. She’s always been close to Iwao; the extroverted, expressive older sister to the placid introvert of few words. The youngest two in a family with six children, they never fought. She wasn’t about to turn her back on him—especially since she was convinced the authorities had got the wrong guy. The biggest motivation, though, was their mother, who struggled to come to terms with her son’s situation. She died without seeing Iwao’s name cleared. “I suppose you might say that I carry that burden of my mother’s feelings,” Hideko says. “That’s why, after my mother died, having witnessed her anguish and sorrow firsthand, I thought I had to do something about it.”

“Looking back now, fifty-six years is indeed a long time. But when I was fighting, I didn’t have time to think about what year it was, what month, what day. I never once thought, ‘How many years have I fought? Five years? Six? Ten? Thirty?’ I just kept pushing forward.” — Hakamata Hideko

Bringing Iwao home by Kirsten Han Read more at mekongreview.com

In our November 2025 issue, we interviewed Hakamata Hideko about her decades-long fight for her brother Iwao—likely the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, finally fully acquitted of murder in Japan in 2024.

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digital art. cat with their head under a faucet sticking their tongue out trying to get a taste of some running water. the water is hitting their head in a funny way

cat with their head under a faucet sticking their tongue out trying to get a taste of some running water. the water is hitting their head in a funny way

cat

We're finally learning what it's like to die. And it's not as bad as you think... | BBC Science Focus Magazine What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to finding out what happens in our brains during our last moments

We're finally learning what it's like to die. And it's not as bad as you think... www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests Two of those eyes may have evolved into a part of the brain called the pineal gland

Dorks

something something eat the rich

Family’s Euphemism For Genitals Really Weird

Family’s Euphemism For Genitals Really Weird https://theonion.com/family-s-euphemism-for-genitals-really-weird-1819575047/

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart | CNN A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.

They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.

They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.

He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.

A 🧵 of ICE abuse

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

"That devil has to follow you everywhere"—activism in Singapore A conversation with Singaporean editor, writer, and activist Kirsten Han.

Kirsten Han, editor of 'We, The Citizens' and @mekongreview.com talk to me about

-Singapore’s political landscape
- The illusion of democracy, media control
- LGBTQ life in Singapore
- Public perceptions of the death penalty
- Cultural context of drug policies, sex work vs. drugs and much more…

Okay timeline cleanse let’s all enjoy this scene

(Data allegedly has no emotions but he is clearly SO ANXIOUS ABOUT HIS PRECIOUS CHILD) youtu.be/46fKmI9sVaE?...

Frodo and Sam, hobbits from the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy, walking through a pastoral field.

Sam carrying an unconscious Frodo with extreme effort up Mount Doom. The sky is bleak and they are very dirty.

doing the laundry vs. putting away the laundry

Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI deepfakes Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok due to its misuse in generating explicit images.

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

If an avian wing is bird-like and a chiropteran wing is bat-like, what term is used to describe a wing similar to that of a pterosaur?

#GVerse #FeelGoodMoment #TimeLineCleanse #HappyCaturday
This cat dragged a stray kitten home...but It was a bobcat cub …and then:

Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid

Tabby and white stray cat, probably a few months old, just lounging the fuck out on the floor in my house surrounded by pillows

Up all night because a little stray cat followed us home and absolutely will not leave. Happy new year

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

We got rick rolled by Rian Johnson

wishcasting our merry way to hell: how the press utterly failed us in 2025 what the hell do they imagine they’re doing?

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A seahorse skeleton those weird Little Critters practically have an exoskeleton where you see the whole shape of the body and its head

#til

"Seahorses actually have the skeletons that Spirit Halloween would market as a 'seahorse skeleton' decoration"

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I have so much to say about James Ransone, his immense talent, the joy of working with him, his troubles, his struggles, his friendship. But I've had a long day on the road and I just want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to every one of you who reached out, called, texted, or said kind words about PJ.

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...