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@ItsAndyRyan los angeles

Is The Hague the only city with the definite article in its name? For years I'd hear 'The Hague' and assume it was a building or institution.

The Netherlands’ most wanted druglord recently had a baby with the daughter of Sierra Leone’s president and now runs his operation from there, having bought off the entire country, even appearing in photos with the country’s head of anti-drug enforcement

The account that posted this on Instagram said the police were called. They proceeded to give a police reference number and….not turn up. In large parts of the country the police simply no longer exist. It’s not just resources. It’s personnel.

Canicule : à Paris, le canal Saint-Martin se transforme en piscine pour se rafraîchir.

@IowaChill eww let's just stop going to war

All 99 Counties in Iowa have a Freedom Rock created by artist Ray “Bubba” Sorensen to honor veterans

Fair to say that the highlight of any musician's life is a credit on a Miles Davis recording. So imagine the surreality for me of surviving Beirut's bomb shelters as a teen to playing keyboards on one of Miles Davis's final remixes in the 90s. youtu.be/_9gFQfXKVdc?si…

Three 16 year old Indian students can remove microplastics from water using tamarind seeds. And they've received a $12,500 grant from The Earth Prize to develop this solution. How did they do it? Tamarind seeds have something called polysaccharide - which is a sticky compound that can natural polymer. Kinda like a plant-based glue. This glue when mixed with water can pull out microplastics and clump them together. And these kids are using the same principle to develop their product called "Plas-Stick" - which is just this power made from waste tamarind seeds. Now, "Plas-Stick" is still in its developmental stage and there is a lot that needs to be done before it can be scaled. But if they pull this off - we could have a simple, biodegradable and scalable solution to purify water for billions of people in the world. And that's something. Kudos to Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal, and Avyana Mehta. P.S. Video and Picture taken from @TheEarthPrize

Similar to this is being asked to leave a review for every single transaction you make and if you give anything less than 5 stars they take an employee out back and shoot them

Paris park includes space for nudity or 'naturisme'

@Palaumede yawn

Bâle, exposition The First Homosexuals, trois salles, une centaine d'objets, plus ou moins importants, certains difficiles à voir ailleurs, six thèmes. Dans le second, « Du concept à l'image », P. Dagnan Bouveret, 1879, coll. privée, ou Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1890, Cleveland.

@MichaelRedd_ she should never have been the number one pick.

For my WNBA folks: Why isn't Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 pick, starting or playing more for the Dallas Wings? Been watching a bit and, while at times she definitely seems timid or even temporarily lost, they're clearly better with her on the court. Genuinely curious.

@ASDem @amprog Sarah's rants against Hasan Piker were extremely off-putting

I listened to a good bit of this on my flight just now and it’s excellent. Bottom line (I saw this at @amprog Ideas too): prog and mod voters and even elected officials seem to agree on a lot, but the activist/consulting class differences are both wider and oft personality driven

Estas calles no son de Cuba, ni de ningún pais enemigo de EEUU, son las calles de la glamurosa ciudad francesa de Paris, donde hay campos de miseria debajo de los puentes mientras los turistas van a hacerse fotos a la Torre Eiffel a media hora de aquí. Esta miseria capitalista no la verás en TV, ciudades convertidas en atracciones turísticas donde la vivienda se usa para especular con el alquiler, mientras detrás del escenario hay miles de personas en la miseria tiradas debajo de un puente.

@moorehn She was a mess before she ever met him.

@moorehn i think she's a fraud but good at promoting her book. A 6th year psych Phd candidate researching queer violence in dating, who proudly announces herself as bi, gets mesmerized by a guy? is crushed that he won't 'get better' in therapy? blabs all over social media? no thanks

There's a creator on TikTok who's accomplished (PhD student, novelist, podcaster, etc), pretty, voluptuous, smart, antizionist (implied in "smart") and she has spent the past 9 months making her entire online personality about a "hot chef" she met in Paris and moved in with. You can guess what happened.

Under Bernie's 5% billionaires wealth tax, Jeff Bezos (worth $279 billion) would owe $14 billion more in taxes and starting teacher pay in America would be raised to $60,000. The average starting teacher would get a raise of nearly $12,000 & Bezos would still have $265 billion.

Today marks 55 years of Marvin Gaye's masterpiece, "What's Going On." Here's the late soul deity singing "Mercy Mercy Me," live at Montreux.

« Ce que subissent les Gazaouis est un génocide (...) Où êtes-vous médias internationaux ? Au détroit d'Ormuz, pour le pétrole et les dollars. » L'actrice Dominique Blanc dans l'émission La Grande Librairie sur France 5

At this point, Chevron is basically on the ballot. Vote accordingly.

@DayDreamThis [eye roll]

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