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Kalavryta: The Bloodiest Nazi Massacre in Greece
Nazis invading Greece. The massacre in Kalavryta was a horrifying atrocity. Credit: Public DomainBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Here's at least some encouraging news for those already suffering from winter blues: thanks to the equation of time the evenings are now getting lighter.
This oddity of timekeeping makes the day shift up to ~14 minutes earlier in autumn and up to ~16 minutes later in winter. The flip side is that mornings continue to get darker until January.
(This only applies to UK/NL and other places at the same rough latitude. Sorry Australia, you'll just have to keep on enjoying your long summer evenings right now, grr.)
WTTC confirms Malta as Global Summit location 2026
Delivered in collaboration with Malta’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs & Tourism, the Malta Tourism Authority, and the Government of Malta, the summit willBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Cyprus shipping charts a course for growth, KNEWS
Despite international challenges, Cyprus’s shipping sector demonstrated resilience in 2025, maintaining a 7% contribution to the country’s GDP and employingBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
@futurebird it's a little hard to read because of the writing and the angle but it says cuentas de Facebook. And then it refers to the cleaning of the river. I'm assuming that is talking about when the county periodically comes through and kicks all the homeless people out of the river and takes all their stuff
I have no idea what the rest is about the author's ex-girlfriend and City Hall but it sounds like they left and went to Whittier after these events
Before getting diagnosed with ADHD, it can feel like everything is leading up to our assessment, like our assessment is the destination or end of the journey.
But learning you are neurodivergent is the beginning of self-understanding, not the end
Belarus pardons Nobel Prize laureate among 123 prisoners freed
Belarus has freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and dozens of other political prisoners, capping twoBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
When in doubt add lego for a pop of color to your plant stand! 😅 - All For Gardening
The LEGO Bonsai tree was a perfect addition my plant stand!Gardener (All For Gardening)
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 234
It appears that all 7 species of #bumblebee present in Iceland were introduced by humans. Generally accidentally.
Only the latest arrival, the buff-tailed bumblebee, was purposely introduced - to pollinate indoor crops.
#bees
#nature
#science
#education
#wildlife
#biodiversity
#insects
#worldbeesanctuary
Had it ready to go earlier. Left it on the kitchen table and turned my back for a moment and that little fucker Elf on the Shelf made off with it. Only found it now…
What? What?🙄
Oh relax…here’s your landscape bee…
#bees
So thank you!
Az
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •cycling by the river and a crow landed on the bike path in front of me, jumped in my way when i tried to go around so i stopped.
it jumped up and down until i dismounted and followed it to a nearby road where some of it's friends were squawking, all clustered around an endangered species of tortoise that couldn't mount the kerb to get to the river.
picked up the tortoise and walked it to the river, it swam off and the crows happily cawed and then all flew off.
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in reply to lizzzzard • • •@lizzard i think they realised the tortoise couldn't get off the road, they knew roads were dangerous, and they knew humans are risky but can sometimes be reasoned with and provide help.
some other possible factors they considered:
- tortoise was bitey but humans are sometimes still silly enough to try and befriend bitey animals
- cyclists also think roads are dangerous and thus appealed to my sense of comradery
Marc
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in reply to Nanoraptor • • •April
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •I didn't risk it spraying by trying to pet it but I wanted to.
Joel Michael
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •was out walking a trail in the Grampians with a visitor from Germany, she asks “why is that plant moving around?”
It was an echidna, having an ant feast next to the trail giving zero fucks about the people around.
Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.
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in reply to spiegelmama • • •From what I've experienced, skunks are very social on their terms. Let them walk up to you, but they don't like to be approached as they will hiss.
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in reply to Nanoraptor • • •Under instruction from the otter sanctuary & our countryside ranger, we went back to lift her, & she spent the night in our kitchen before we took her to the sanctuary. She was released a year later.
Akkana Peck
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •What a great topic! My contribution is pretty modest.
On a lunchbreak in Mountain View, CA, I watched a family (I assume) of crows teaching the young'uns (again, assume) to soar from one building roof to another. They started all clustered together, and one crow at a time would try soaring across, and they were all cawing encouragement to the one that was trying it, then there was much triumphant cawing when each one made it across.
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in reply to Nanoraptor • • •Michael Knudsen
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •After a few seconds to my amazement it jumped up and sat on my finger!
Worried that it might be startled and fly off, I stretched another finger and gently clamped its feet. It sat completely still as I got up, went up the stairs, and got it outside. Then I removed the clamping finger so it could fly off.
After what felt like a minute it took off and flew to a nearby bush.
Chris McCabe
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in reply to Nanoraptor • • •Not even wild, but a ram got v territorial & set to charge when I was in its field with No1 Stepson, aged 6, so I got the kid behind me & said, 'Get ready to run', then thought it too undignified to run from a sheep! Gave it a stern look, & it aborted its charge at about 10' away.
Vick Forcella ™🌈🌳❄️☑️:verifi
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •Three years ago a, what turned out to be a, black bird hopped out from below the outside table.
I had some dried mealworms for the fish in the pond and gave the bird some and he ate it happily.
He still comes by almost every day and requests his mealworms.
Chris McCabe
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in reply to Chris McCabe • • •Never worked. so far.
datarama
in reply to Nanoraptor • • •I became good friends with a wild mallard.
She had nested nearby with her ducklings, and one day the little family came wandering by my ex' porch and I decided to offer them a little selection of seeds and berries from the kitchen (not bread; that's duck junk food). This happened a few times - and then the ducklings grew up and left home.
But the mother remembered - she'd come back many times, often just to hang out (she wasn't always interested in food). She even learned to knock on the porch door with her bill if she wanted my attention and I was inside. When she saw me arriving on the footpath from the bus stop she'd run over to me and follow me to the door, quacking at me like she was trying to have a conversation with me. (And of course I'd reply - I always talk to animals). I could even pat her lightly on the back or give her scritches on the neck if I wanted. If I came out on the porch to sit she'd often come over and sit beside me.
But she was still suspicious and afraid of all other humans except me and my ex. The local children would sometimes notice th
... show moreI became good friends with a wild mallard.
She had nested nearby with her ducklings, and one day the little family came wandering by my ex' porch and I decided to offer them a little selection of seeds and berries from the kitchen (not bread; that's duck junk food). This happened a few times - and then the ducklings grew up and left home.
But the mother remembered - she'd come back many times, often just to hang out (she wasn't always interested in food). She even learned to knock on the porch door with her bill if she wanted my attention and I was inside. When she saw me arriving on the footpath from the bus stop she'd run over to me and follow me to the door, quacking at me like she was trying to have a conversation with me. (And of course I'd reply - I always talk to animals). I could even pat her lightly on the back or give her scritches on the neck if I wanted. If I came out on the porch to sit she'd often come over and sit beside me.
But she was still suspicious and afraid of all other humans except me and my ex. The local children would sometimes notice that I had a "tame duck" - but she'd flee when any of them came nearby. I'd tell them that she wasn't tame at all; she and I had just become friends.
(I think that for animals that practice parental care, "you were kind to my kids" is a near-universal way of becoming good friends.)
datarama
in reply to datarama • • •I've been trolled by a wild raven.
When I was living in my shitty student apartment, a large raven decided to establish a territory in the neighbourhood, where he* stayed for a few months before moving on. While he lived there, all the other smaller corvids vacated the area, and came back once he was gone.
For some reason, he liked to fly into a tree overlooking a footpath, and when humans passed underneath he'd imitate frog noises. People would then look at the ground, looking for the frog - there was a nearby pond where frogs and toads lived, and you obviously didn't want to accidentally step on a frog. I fell for it a couple of times - until I saw him from a distance doing this trick on other humans.
He didn't try to steal anything or swoop down; it seemed like he just did it to amuse himself.
*) I'm not absolutely sure he was male; it can be difficult to tell with ravens. But he was very large and had prominent throat feathers, so I *think* he was male.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to datarama • • •When I was in Salt Lake City, I was impressed with the pedestrian crossings. The city is a grid layout and the crossings make a different sound when the north-south or east-west crossings are green for pedestrians. This worked really well, except that one species of bird decided to mimic one of those sounds. I was very surprised when I walked past a pine tree and it told me it was safe to cross.
SamuelJohnson
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When I finally got to the Grand Canyon after driving across much of the US and stood at the edge contemplating the vastness of geological time and the scale of it all (emphasised by small plane flying far below) a pine tree beside me announced
Borsch, party of two, your dinner is ready