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18+ Eliot_L, 22 hours ago to random

The Pizzaburger Presidency: Why the #Biden administration talks so very little about the very small number of very good things it has done.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112525835353673252

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/

#USPol

rightardia, 1 day ago to random

Such evil!

feather1952, 1 day ago to auspol

The coverage of Laura Tingle’s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she’s not in the wrong - #AusPol

https://theconversation.com/the-coverage-of-laura-tingles-comments-on-racism-is-a-textbook-beat-up-but-shes-not-in-the-wrong-231051

GofLeisure, 1 day ago to Trains

GOP: still fighting against the 21st century. It’s an embarrassment that the US has less #hsr than Morocco or Turkey. Yes, you read that right — we’re behind even Morocco and Turkey in moving people efficiently and the #GOP wants to keep it that way

#highspeedrail #trains #infrastructure #21stcentury #cahsr #amtrak

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-demand-information-california-high-speed-rail-project/story?id=110618361

andyb, 1 day ago to random

I've been reliably informed Ticketmaster are taking the data breach very seriously.

From tomorrow they're adding a $14.50 "information and network security fee” per ticket to all purchases.

BathysphereHat, 1 day ago to random

Catch and release fishing is so weird to me. You're just really fucking up an animal's day for no reason, huh?

ElleGray, 2 days ago to random

pope complaining that things around the vatican are suddenly getting too gay like we're just supposed to forget these guys have been the security guards for 600 years

andreaswiedenhoff, 1 day ago to sydney

Boarding the #IndianPacific 🇦🇺 at #Sydney Central. The train is almost 30 cars long. The 4,352 km long journey to #Perth, on the other end of #Australia, will last 65 hours they say. Plenty of mileage ahead then. And what a beautiful train!

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futurebird, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/

unseenjapan, 1 day ago to Japan Japanese

Ramen Jiro, a popular ramen chain with diehard fans, caught fire in Kabukicho and these hard-core mfers kept eating through it.

OP: "I know there are ppl who'd eat til they puked, but eating with your life on the line...Jiro, your last meal on Earth."

#japan #unseenjapan

scott, 1 day ago to random

It’s ridiculous we put up with sidewalks being so narrow and overcrowded. There’s plenty of space if we didn’t give the lion’s share to cars

steve_zeke, 2 days ago to random

Ryan Cooper at the American Prospect sums things up bluntly with but fairly:

“Biden makes some timid requests for Israeli forces to cool it a little bit; Netanyahu spits in his face, blows up another hospital, and then demands more free weapons.”

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-05-28-joe-bidens-dithering-in-gaza-gets-absurd/

#gaza #WarCrimes #Biden

rohan_p, 1 day ago to random

No-one wants to read your stupid fucking PDF through your stupid fucking emagazine web widget

andreaswiedenhoff, 2 days ago to sydney

Good Morning from #Sydney 🇦🇺 Central Station, a busy transport hub with #InterCity and #Suburban train services, #LightRail and more. It also is a nice place for the railfan (and, I understand, a convenient one for the commuters).

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rabbijill, 3 days ago to random

Perhaps it’s important to say, for those of you not in the same loop I’m in, that my friends & colleagues in Israel are in the streets demonstrating against the war and the corrupt Netanyahu government every day. The families of the hostages are also out in the streets demanding new elections. Every death - Palestinian and Israeli - is heartbreaking.

And for anyone thinking that trump is going to be a great friend to Israel, he’s not. Netanyahu and trump are bit from the same cloth. Both are dangerous.

Chrishallbeck, 3 days ago to Funny

The Internet.

These comics are made possible by my generous supporters at Patreon! https://patreon.com/chrishallbeck

#funny #comics #webcomics

gwynnion, 2 days ago to random

The reasons the US unequivocally supports Israel have nothing to do with the safety and well being of the Israeli people. Or the American people, really. Or Jewish people in general. And certainly not the Palestinians who suffer because of it. It is almost entirely to do with imperial power projection in the region, racism, and religious mania. The difference between the parties on Israel is which rationale dominates their thinking.

railmaps, 2 days ago to ilaughed

Today's historic #photo of the day: Melbourne SW6 class #tram no 918 running a city-bound route 64 trip heads north along a near-deserted St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Vic, Sunday, May 4 1986.

The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board built 120 of these SW6 class trams between 1939 and 1951; a remarkably long duration for a model to remain in production. It's even longer if you include the almost identical W6s (which followed the SW6s); a further 30 of them were built until 1955.

ki_sekiya, 2 days ago to random

The biggest problem that Queensland has is its Brisbane-centric centralisation of business.

The 50c public transport fare isn’t going to make a massive change to the underlying problem.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/qld-slashes-public-transport-costs-but-australia-has-way-to-go/103897564

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/tolls-set-to-rise-brisbane-cbd-parking-now-most-expensive-in-australia-20240527-p5jh10.html

samhkennedy, 2 days ago to random

Why do I think we should support Ukraine against Russia...because Russia is run by the mob.

No one lives safely when the mob runs the country. Hollywood taught me that.

travelfish, 3 days ago to random

Travelfish #518: The Eat Everything Again Edition.

A wrap on stuff I found interesting through the last week. Includes a great piece on lists, a plug for a new Phnom Penh street food tour, and more. Free to read for all online here: https://www.travelfish.org/newsletter/news/518

tom_andraszek, 3 days ago to poland

If you are a citizen of a European Union country, you can vote in the EU elections, even if you live outside the EU. You can use any EU country polling facilities (I haven't tested it).

In Australia, Poland is opening polling booths in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Perth on Sunday, June 9th, 7am-9pm.

You need to register by June 4th:

https://ewybory.msz.gov.pl/ (in Polish)

#Poland #Czechia #Slovakia #Lithuania #Estonia #Latvia #Hungary #Romania #EU #Elections #democracy

backupbear, 3 days ago to ai

Predictive text on phones is by far and away the best example of #AI. Automated Irritation, that is.

unseenjapan, 3 days ago to Japan

Media reports blaming foreign tourists for bad behavior in Japan abound. But some say they're just imitating what the Japanese locals do. Who's really to blame for Foreigners Behaving Badly?

https://unseen-japan.com/japan-overtourism-foreigners-blame/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #travel #tourism

james, 3 days ago to random

Hello from New York City. I’ve just spent three days in London, and my overall impression was that everything’s really cheap in London, but very expensive here in New York. Surprising, I thought it would be the other way round.