Day: 7 June 2023
Photographer Jens Heidler of Another Perspective captured macro timelapse footage of thirteen species of fungi growing over a remarkable 1,000 days. After, hundreds of hours of filming and photographing the project was edited down into this impressive and wonderful 3 minute time lapse video.
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Stand up for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Tucker Carlson described Ukraine’s Jewish leader as “rat-like”, questioned the official story about 9/11, and claimed definitively that aliens are visiting Earth as he launched his new TV show on Twitter.
The far-right former Fox News anchor opened the next act of his career with a pro-Kremlin rant claiming that it was “obvious” Ukrainian forces were responsible for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on Tuesday.
He referred to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as “sweaty and rat-like”, “a persecutor of Christians”, and in bed with American investment bankers.
- The Trump Organization
- FTX
- Fox Corporation
- Meta
- Spirit Airlines
- TikTok
That is likely ramp up the pressure on Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Labour could win 470 seats at the election, with the Tories plummeting to just 129, according to the baseline scenario of an MRP poll by Focaldata, which asked 10,140 people in Great Britain how they intend to vote. That would give Labour a huge majority of more than 140 seats, it said.
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post.
here are the myths:
Euronews » Luxembourg recently celebrated three years of free public transport. And, according to the people who live there, it has been a resounding success.
STAND WITH UKRAINE 🇺🇦
“We are very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically independent of what we are doing,” said Dirk Notz, a climate scientist at the University of Hamburg in Germany and one of the new study’s five authors. “We’ve been waiting too long now to do something about climate change to still protect the remaining ice.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened the Florida Governor with kidnapping charges after South American migrants were flown to Sacramento as a media stunt.
Meanwhile
Salon » Texas sheriff files charges over DeSantis’ migrant stunt
In 2022, Florida paid the same contractor US$1.56 million with public funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and for a possible second flight to Delaware that never took place. (AP)
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The Human Rights Campaign issued a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people living in the USA.
More than 525 bills were introduced in 41 states. Over 76 bills have been signed into law in various states as of June 5 – already more than double last year’s number, which was already the worst year on record.
“The multiplying threats facing millions in our community are not just perceived — they are real, tangible and dangerous,” the president of the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. The organization also released a guidebook summarizing state-by-state anti-LGBTQ laws, as well as a “know your rights” guide for LGBTQ+ travelers and those living in hostile states.
Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors—such as Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act and Montana’s Youth Health Protection Act—but advocacy groups and doctors warn that the effect is exactly the opposite.