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YouTube video by blumineck Why can’t men and women compete together?

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A passerby looks up at a billboard on High Park Street, Liverpool. The billboard features a black and white photograph of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury on stage, with the accompanying text Thank God for immigrants. Freddie, birth name Farrokh Bulsara, was born in Zanzibar on 5 September 1946. In 1964, fleeing the Zanzibar revolution, he and his family moved to England. And the rest is rock history.

A car with a roof rack with LiDAR machines and the words "HANDHAVING" and "Gemeente Utrecht" on it. All of inner Utrecht has only paid parking in effect every day from 9AM to 8PM. Paid parking is expanding to all of the city by 2035. The city has plenty of bus and bike options, and discounts for annual residential passes.

Utrecht has a fleet of ~6 of these cars topped with LiDAR. They circle Utrecht making images of parked cars throughout the day.

Since people don't always follow parking rules, Utrecht earns €50-100K a day. All that € goes into street improvements.

All it takes is cars with license plates (+ LiDAR)

Vietnam city sets national record with 1.7 m rain in 24 hours The central Vietnamese city of Hue recorded more than a metre of rain in a 24-hour period, smashing a national record set over two decades ago, the environment ministry said Tuesday.

🤯 1700 mm of rain in 24 hours 🤯

Previous record 990 mm in 24 hours in 1999

🧵Spotted recently at a Country Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (2?) is given a cone of ice cream covered in chocolate from a Mr Whippy truck.
He looks at it, frowns, then MASHES it against his face.
Startled chortle-splutters. (Hehe!)
Ice cream and chocolate going everywhere! (1)

Still can’t believe how often I hear “we can’t have bike lanes, we have snow for six months!”.

1. It’s more like 3-4 months in Montreal. (Less in some cities, more in others.)
2. We have machines to clear snow! Cars and pedestrians need them too!

Orange, magenta, white and pink cosmos in an open field with a moving windmill in the background and a blue sky with clouds. They want to fix your soul. Let them.

Good morning Tokyo. Breathe. Ok. Let’s go.

Denmark?

De uitslag is nog niet definitief, we wachten nog even op de uitslagen van de 10 nieuwe steden van D66

#TK25 #verkiezingen2025 #verkiezingen

Routine

New Yorkers are blocking Ice from kidnapping people. This is solidarity ✊✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾

Would be a shame if the paint got scratched... from needing to pass so close by

27 parties and 1,166 candidates crowd the ballot for the Dutch election Dutch voters face an array of choices in Wednesday's general election. The electoral commission has registered 27 parties and 1,166 candidates for 150 seats in the House of Representatives.

Dutch voters in Wednesday’s general election were spoiled for choice. That means a big ballot paper because it bears the names of all the parties and the candidates on each party’s list.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread way of life and their strange support for prominent Reform MP customs, but Reform MPs Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of comprise only 0.7 percent of the minorities on television. House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce. right. Every time you turn on "I'm not prejudiced. Some of the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. Kuenssberg." There are too many people with She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."

Private Eye.

Henk Otten, voormalig FvD, beweert dat Maurice de Hond zich door politieke partijen te laten betalen. Otten: "Ik heb zelf indertijd vele tienduizend euros betaald aan Maurice de Hond om hem gunstig te stemmen voor FVD."
Als dat waar is dan is dat een ernstige ondermijning van de democratie

Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a Black woman artist from behind in the act of creating an artwork of a Black woman basket weaver

Chiamonwu Joy, contemporary Nigerian hyper-realistic charcoal artist, creating one of her artworks #WomensArt

How to Toilet Train Your Cat: Easy Step-by-Step Guide Explore the ups and downs of potty training a kitty Toilet training your cat is a fun way to teach them a new trick while saving some money on litter. It's also a pretty simple process that you can do...

Tijd om poes te leren om naar de wc te gaan? www.wikihow.com/Toilet-Train... (geen idee of dat nou echt zo'n goed idee is trouwens 🤔 maar ze schijnen het te kunnen)

You can write it!

En wat een mooie jurk ook nog!

Anyone want a 600 year old Shinto priests house in rural Hiroshima just an hour drive from the city?
Went out to see it for myself today - so much space & views in a stunning valley location & so much potential to breathe life back into this home & gardens 💓
Owner says he'd be happy with any offer

A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:

Next up in Stepson’s 80’s movie education, we’re on a mission from God with THE BLUES BROTHERS!

🧵Spotted at a Country Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) in bare feet, green shorts and an orange T-shirt with a fish on it is standing next to the "I'm Lost" stand.
A grownup asks if he's lost and he says with absolute earnestness: "No, but my mum is." (1)

‪God‬ ‪@thegodpodcast.com‬ · 23h I'm rooting for the Blue Jays just so I can see Donald melt down over a Canadian team winning the World Series. Aoife ‪@aoife-rose.bsky.social‬ You should be rooting for the Islands full of innocent people your cat 5 hurricane is about to decimate. Could have sent Melissa directly to the source of the suffering, but no. Let's sink the entire Caribbean. Cool.

How could you possibly hate this

And in the Netherlands they generally even don't have a zebra crossing, yet it still works

Medieval Bread Discovered in Turkey - Medievalists.net Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five carbonised loaves of bread dating to the 7th–8th centuries AD, offering a rare glimpse into early medieval Christian life and worship.

Medieval Bread Discovered in Turkey www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... #archaeology #bread

Stel @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social wint morgen. Dan eis ik minimaal de komende tien jaar zelfkastijding van de media over hoe ze de linkse kiezer hebben kunnen missen.

Back in the day some rail companies allowed drivers to (un)load their cars themselves with double-decker wagons, we did this on the route 's-Hertogenbosch-Alessandria in 2012.

A map of the UK showing that all UK detective programmes in the north are grim, bleak and miserable, whilst those in the south are cosy, chummy and very upper-middle class.

You've just made me realise what the true north-south divide is.

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting playing a bass guitar while wearing a light top and pants, as well as stylish glasses

Legendary US musician Carol Kaye played on 10,000 famous recording, including Beach Boys' hits, La Bamba, Mission Impossible Theme etc etc and was one of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s #womensart