Canadian catches meteorite strike on camera with sound in a world’s first — luckily no one got hurt from the rock crashing down next to the home at 200 km/h:
Siri, find hell.
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Inside TikTok’s Influencer Party to Welcome Trump
TikTok sponsored an inauguration-eve bash for content creators, proving that the stigma around being MAGA on social media is gone.Taylor Lorenz (Rolling Stone)
#PPOD: Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces. Arranged around Earth are images from NASA spacecraft of, clockwise from the top, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede, Neptune's moon Triton, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jupiter's moon Europa, the target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission. Shown to scale. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Arizona/DLR
South Africa's cannabis bill now essentially means that private citizens can no longer be prosecuted for growing and consuming a limited amount of cannabis for recreational purposes — so long as it is grown and/or consumed within the confines of their own private property.
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South Africa Becomes the First African Country to Partially Legalize Cannabis - UNICORN RIOT
South Africa's new cannabis laws have legalized medical and recreational cannabis use in "private spaces," but still bans recreational sales.D (UNICORN RIOT)
Endangered and exceptional: New insect species highlights Kosovo biodiversity hotspot
A new species of caddisfly, Tinodes lumbardhi, was found in a sidestream of the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in Kosovo's Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park.Pensoft Publishers (Phys.org)
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Musk says media racist to whites, Asians amid ‘Dilbert’ backlash
Billionaire’s claim comes amid backlash against “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams over comments about Black people.Al Jazeera
How fast can a train go?
The world speed record, which still stands, was set by a French train à grande vitesse (TGV) in 2007, when it topped out at 574.8 km/h (357 mph).
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Just re-upping this fantastic explainer thread, on how an EO cannot just rename an international body of water, and we need to stop describing patently illegal EOs as "doing" the things they legally cannot do. And if any big international corp (Apple, Google) buckles, hope other countries push back
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Welcome to #TransTuesday!
Let's talk 2024 trans rep in movies!
Features discussion of Ghostbusters Afterlife, I Saw the TV Glow, Lisa Frankenstein, Monkey Man, Next Goal Wins, The People's Joker, The Substance, Transformers One, and many more!
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Trans Representation in 2024 media part 1: movies - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Over the course of 2024 I tracked every movie and tv show I watched as it’s time for TILLY’S 2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 1: MOVIES! Let’s talk the good, the bad, and the oh god not again! Okay, this is going to be a three-…Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays)
this week we begin our deep-dive into trans rep in tv, and there’s so much to talk about it’s gonna take two weeks to get through
here’s last week’s part 1 on movies if you missed it!
Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday (NBC News)
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Trump orders all federal DEI employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
The Trump administration also directed government agencies to draw up plans for firing workers in DEI roles.Zoë Richards (NBC News)
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