Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
Officials from the southern African country already protested a potential U.K. ban on safari hunters importing trophies, warning in March they would send 10,000 elephants to Hyde Park in London.
So who’s paying to ship these 30,000 elephants to Europe?
Because I imagine shipping one elephant would be pretty expensive and I don’t think Botswana is a very wealthy country…
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
I personally feel like it’s every skinhead assole’s right to say racist awful shit. I also feel like if you’re going to exercise that right with reckless abandon, you’re gonna get fucked up by some people who don’t take kindly.
Is that what happened in 1930s Germany or the 1950s U.S. South?
Racism is an implicit call to violence. Suggesting that it can also be solved by violence is not borne out by history.
I’m staying with my elderly mother at an AirBnB right now. Yesterday I told her about a news article I was reading that said Mars was habitable for far longer than we thought, meaning there was a much greater chance of life developing there. She was totally uninterested. Whether or not Earth is the only planet with life on it is one of the most important questions in human history we still can’t answer and she didn’t care.
My daughter had whatever they call home ec now (consumer science?) last year when she was in sixth grade. They baked cookies.
And that was about all I did in home ec back in the late 80s too. That and sew a stuffed animal dog.
So I don’t know that home ec is actually all that worth it. Not the way it’s been done for decades, anyway.
Industrial arts was the same way. He had us make wooden tulips after telling a bunch of horror stories about how the power tools would maim you, so I refused to use them. And had I used them, I know now as someone who has used them since that cutting tulip pieces out of a piece of wood with a jigsaw is not much of a learning experience.
Under the new law, possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail....
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
Trump sues Truth Social co-founders, says they're not entitled to stock shares (www.nbcnews.com)
Botswana threatens to deport 20,000 elephants to Germany (www.politico.eu)
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J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
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The world has become Applefied. (lemmy.world)
Reasonable (sopuli.xyz)
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Oregon re-criminalizes small amounts of hard drugs after 2020 voter initiative is overturned (www.nbcnews.com)
Under the new law, possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail....
They're such great investors! (lemmy.world)