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A list of countries that have been hit by missiles / drones in the past 48 hours:

- Iran
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Palestine (Gaza)
- Iraq
- Oman
- Afghanistan
- Cyprus

Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed a regional war that will impact millions

What it is Like to Accidentally be Trapped in a Country at War

By Zack Davisson

Hey! You seen on the news of evacuation orders for Americans whose vacation was suddenly disrupted by a little war as a treat? Well, it happened to me too.

Gather round for story time! Destination, EGYPT!!!

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I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

I'm reading a bunch of Coruna reports after dinner because I am a cool person who knows how to party. Of particular interest: not only does Coruna not work against iOS in lockdown mode, but if it even detects lockdown mode running, it bails. This is why I talk about lockdown mode so damn much.

eventually we'll get to the heads in jars phase of 1946 presidents

Meme. Painting of two eels in the water. They are yellow, and so is the background, so it's unclear if these are yellow eels, or eels seen through a yellow filter. They don't much care, I would guess. The eels are dark on top, and are casting shadows below them, such that they seem like eel sandwiches stuffed into the bread of darkness. They deserve names, so we shall call one of the Olivort and the other Trovilo. You can decide which is which. One is looking to the left, and one is looking back over its metaphorical shoulder to the right. Neither is looking at you, and I think that's a choice. You should maybe spend some time thinking about why, and then try to move forward and live your life as the sort of person that eels would want to look at. Meme text reads: "Weir gonna climb Right over your dam"

Let's talk about eels & dams. 'Cause dams are a problem for eels now, but they haven't always been.

Eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland. Young eels climb up & around small waterfalls as they migrate. And so many medieval dams weren't a problem for them. 1/7
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Lately* I find myself missing the convenience of living on a college campus. Being able to walk after dinner to a building where something is happening with people is highly underrated.

*I don't know how lately, I've definitely been thinking about this for a few years.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Shout out to the @theatlantic.com for platforming my stalker now know as the DC metro hair toucher!

What we know, final edition—in 2 parts.

1. Progressives oust 3 Dems who were helping GOP in NC.
2. Dems flip legislative seat in AR.
3. Al Green + Dan Crenshaw down big.
4. #TXSen? Talarico up. GOP runoff.
5. Right holds supreme court seat in AR, but no blowout.
6. TX far-right generally strong.

"Never forgive them for what they did to the computer." - @edzitron.com

The Cover of the Revised Edition of Victory Gardens for Bees with a Bumble bee on a red pincushion flower.

Gung hay fat choy! Happy Year of the Fire Horse, which happens to be my sign. (So now you know how old I am!) Today my book launches in U. S. bookstores, so I feel it's and especially auspicious occasion! #victorygardensforbees #bees

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

This is one of the main reasons “pregnant person” is used

Because far too often for my pressure and my broken heart

The person that’s pregnant is not a full adult

My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.

In the midst of all THIS, I happen to be reading a book about the Manson Family murders, and honestly, sometimes it’s worse and sometimes it’s less stressful than what currently going on. 🤷

dusting off my "yeehaw is not a foreign policy" bumper sticker

A day will come soon when young people ask us what it was like when software worked reliably and you only had to pay for it one time

I know! Let’s send large slow-moving targets into the arena!

I told you so

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B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

Congrats, BC!

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

8 months out from midterm and the guys who promised nativist isolationism just started Gulf War III.

They are just starting to realize the depth of their error, and they are going to come SO hard for our last vestiges of democracy.

They are completely backed into a corner.

we're adults and it's time to settle the fight between elder millennial and late millennial/gen Z of "is it worse to have been promised an incredible world and have it ripped away the moment you became aware of it? or to be born into a world without hope?"

our media LOVES war

they LOVE explosions and fighter jets and flak jackets and The Troops

and we are a couple of days into this conflict and already they are starting to lose the narrative except in the most hardcore propaganda shows (Hannity et al)

it took years for Iraq to fall apart, not days

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.