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White Egret by Charles Davis, New South Wales.

Eastern reef egret (Egretta sacra)
Kadjerong Country, Cambridge Gulf, Western Australia

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1. Good for them.
2. These suits should be paid from police department budgets. They should not be able to be factored into budgets (IE. you can't pad up by 5 million, planning to a kill a few innocents in FY `25).

I hate that the reality is tax payers pay these suits. There is literally no reason the police should care or change behavior. mstdn.social/@coloradosun/1132…



VP debate highlights: Walz and Vance spar over immigration, abortion and gun violence (NBC News)

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Trump says Walz 'embarrassed himself' compared to Vance's 'brilliance' at VP debate (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

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One of our Minnesota groups needs your help picking the winner of their Tim Walz lookalike contest.

Shoutout to Indivisible Chisago Lakes for hosting the ideal watch party for the VP debate!



β€˜Shrinkflation’ is lightening your grocery cart while you pay the same price. The government wants to redo pricing rules byteseu.com/463863/ #Australia




The prediction market @Kalshi has won their case in the federal appeals court, allowing individuals to bet on US Congressional elections, including presidential elections. t.co/w77B6rGr6x

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Dawn Departure by Justin Gilligan, New South Wales.

Flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)
Lord Howe Island, New South Wales

A flesh-footed shearwater soars through endemic kentia palms at sunrise on its way to forage at sea for its fledgling.

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Microsoft has launched Office 2024, a standalone suite for Mac and PC users, priced at $149.99 for Home and $249.99 for Home and Business. It includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, with new features like Excel's Dynamic Arrays and PowerPoint's Cameo alternativeto.net/news/2024/10…


Luis Garcia was 16 when he died last year. The lawsuit blames Denver Public Schools for removing school resources officers in 2020.

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One thing they didn’t mention but I’ve seen on the news before is that flood waters often contain carcinogenic/other polluting chemicals leeched from the ground, and other waste streams. How much of that gets left in people’s soil (or wells if they have a well system), or even in their house after rebuilding?
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With diffusion being a foundational aspect of solutes mixing in solutions, the water should have an even distribution of the contaminants. However, the tidal force of water associated with a storm surge probably throws a wrench in the plan here. But generally, it's evenly spread throughout and will be found in relatively even amounts everywhere the water settles.
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It'll be in the air too. Anything in the soil will become dust in the air for years. It'll get kicked into the air every time a lawn is mowed, a hole gets dug, a dry season occurs, etc



Emperor’s Rule by Wayne Sorensen, Queensland.

Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
Ross Sea, Antarctica

A lone emperor penguin on the fast ice in Antarctica’s far southern reaches of the Ross Sea.

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Despite stricter regulations, Europe has issues with tattoo ink ingredients

"Clients and artists have a right to know what's in the inks they are using.”

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As everything else in life, getting a tattoo bears a certain risk. But for me, it's still safer than most sports. Me, i would never jump out of a perfectly working plane or go hurtling myself down a snowy mountain slope on a pair of wooden boards at high speed...

For me, getting a tattoo isn't about pleasing or showing off to others, i just like them for myself.

But yes, getting stricter regulation *and* more enforcement is a good idea.

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