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Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms New government guidance is brought in to modernise practice for the first time in more than a decade.

Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms

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The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp

Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

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@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social LMAO every bit as third-rate scammy as expected. archive.md/hC37p

N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea stands in its "strongest...

N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

I'm still confused. Was this his first interaction with a thing they call a story?

How are ppl/ organisations/ businesses etc justifying paying for ticks/ getting money from ticks from someone who has been lobbying 2.0 to push the white genocide nonsense (amongst other things)?

Five years on, experts say laws that allowed Juukan Gorge destruction remain Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".

Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".

Elon Musk’s Tesla met with senior civil servants several times to push the Government to fast-track its self-driving cars, The i Paper can reveal.

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People who start changing what they say mid stream without batting an eyelid to support their 'argument' when their argument is being refuted i.e. they're not incorrect because that's no what they said.

2.0 does this, amongst many things.

Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."

I know that I confuse easily, but I am trying to work out how this conflation happened.

I've never been somewhere when there's been monarchy-related cheering, but I would absolutely find it somewhat disconcerting.

I think so. What's also funny is the number of ppl posting about how this is how they learned that there's a monarchy there.

This was a couple of months back and I already forgot to go back and take another look. Actually that's an interesting broader topic - books that 'do better' (however you wish to define this -sales, reviews, whatever) in translated languages than their original. Or abroad vs orig. country of publ.

EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience

EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn.

Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience.
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It is 1942. Nazi-Germany is heavily losing at Stalingrad, thousands die at the eastern front. Yet it still finds reason and time to publish a study about fairy abductions.

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The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's 'A Complete Map of All Under Heaven' One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi (1644) has been acquired by The Sunderland Collection, the other two copies held by the National Archive in ...

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's A Complete Map of All Under Heaven
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

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@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social Hahahahaha

LMAO

It does look dangerous, doesn't it? The most hilarious thing is that there used to be one there, acc to the article, so it's not a new idea for the spot.

I did. Have you read it? I'm accidentally reading in circles atm - 4 bks ago I read the Harvill Bulgakov 'Diaboliad' which incl. 'The Adventures of Chichikov'. Decided to read Sōseki bec @nelsonrarebooks.com was there. Now LX - first story is 'Diary of a Madman', insp. by Gogol (not read the Gogol)

Japan pledges immediate rice price cuts to stop shift to foreign brands The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March but that has yet to translate to lower supermarket prices.

Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where it would be offered at prices significantly lower than current levels.

Oh hang on. I just looked it up. I've *watched* The Awful Truth. I forgot the name. Sigh. I can't recall all of it, though.

The time has come. I'm going to read the Lu Xun short stories. I just finished Soseki's 'The Tower of London' and because of one of the translator's notes (about someone else), I thought of Lu Xun. Looked it up and it seems he read Soseki when in Japan.