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Anas al-Sharif, smiling, sits outdoors holding his young daughter Sham on his left and his infant son Salah on his right. Both children are smiling; rubble is visible in the background.

Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah.

Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.

"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Autism support group revealed to be front for underground D&D ring A support group for autistic people has revealed itself to be nothing more than a front for a sickening underground Dungeons and Dragons ring, it has been reported. A local chapter of the ‘Little Budd...

“A support group for autistic people has revealed itself to be nothing more than a front for a sickening underground Dungeons and Dragons ring, it has been reported.”

Satire from @thedailytism.com:

thedailytism.com/autism-suppo...

Howl's Moving Castle by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh Her mind was such a blank that for a second, it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid!  The fantastic Freya Marske joins us for a discussion of John Donne, fairy tales, un...

through dangers untold (sleeping infants) and hardships unnumbered (three wildly incompatible timezones) we have managed to successfully kidnap brilliant romance expert @freyamarske.bsky.social to discuss DWJ's most romantic novel with us. Happy Howl's Moving Castle Day! zencastr.com/z/r0LaZYob

My favourite thing I learned for this episode is that DWJ had a mental image for Howl and it was Andre Agassi. 1980s Andre Agassi with the blond mullet and the tiny shorts. PLEASE look up photos you will not be disappointed.

#bluesky needs more baby goats... ☺️

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.

We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!

www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

Give that bagpipe player any damn thing he wants.

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BBC headline of RNLI crew rescuing people from the Channel

What state have we got to as a country when saving human life has to be justified?

WTF …

I can never get enough of this magnificent dinosaur bird the Shoebill… 🐦 ❤️

Aberdeen, Scotland today:

Fantastic Four MCU. Let's break this down.

Reed Richards? Humane, relatable.
Sue Storm? Unexpected MVP.
Ben Grimm? Not at all the cliche musclehead.
Johnny Storm? For the first time on a screen, never cringe.

And it leans into them being Astronauts. Strong A, no notes. FINALLY.

Two things happened today...

1) The UK brought in draconian new laws requiring adults to identify themselves online (or at a minimum prove their age)

2) The IDs of millions of women who used the Tea app leaked.

If you can't see why 1) is bad when given the evidence of 2), there's no helping you.

TERFs are astroturfing a Pedro Pascal hate campaign right now. They’re even sharing AI-generated videos on X to make Pascal look more aggressive and predatory. X users are speculating that a lot of Verified TERFs are attacking Pascal because JK Rowling has been stewing over him for months after he called her a “heinous loser” lmao.

huh good to know

www.garbageday.email/p/terfs-are-...

South Park went after CBS and Paramount too.

Oh my god...

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

Guardian headline: UK’s aid cuts ‘will hit children’s education and raise risk of death’ Cutting aid budget to 0.3% of national income will hurt many African countries, says FCDO impact assessment

The latest entry in the very long list of "Labour surely wouldn't do that - oh, they did!"

Ironically, it will increase poverty and desperation and all the other factors driving small boat arrivals.

(If your attempted defence is "the Tories did it too", think!)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Let's get one thing very VERY clear: Labour's constant foreigner-bashing is NOT being driven by a hostile media.

No, this is a path they have chosen entirely of their own accord.

🤮🤮

And there it is.

CNN: The Wall Street journal is reporting that in May, AG Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the white house that his name was in the Epstein files.

#scenicmuseap #heavensward

I can't believe I'm getting a Julie Dillon cover. I'm just fanboying over here!!

My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.

Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭 #histsci 🧵