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Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
  • Given the backlash against environmental protestors blocking traffic, can you imagine the backlash against the oil industry when an unusually severe storm or flood or landslide blocks traffic?!

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    Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan
  • Sorry, I misread this as being a statement about someone's religion. Will delete, as that's not the same as suggesting they support certain wars,.

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    This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • Well that one you would kinda expect, as each Antarctic base is built by a different country - and complicated by some of the buildings being on stilts.

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    Trump says Harris debate was 'rigged,' ABC should lose license, but 'we did great'
  • Guessing he isn't allowed to drive a car - I remember Al Gore complaining about how they never got to drive any more [after the VP era], as the secret service wouldn't let them.

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    Tyreek Hill learned he isn’t allowed to do what white people do
  • I remember a video of a white woman closing the window into a policeman's fingers, driving off (over his foot?) getting forced off the road again, screaming insults at the police, hitting them with the car door, before they resort to, iirc, a taser or dragging her out (might be more than one such video)

    So in my mind, that's kind of the 'gold standard' for behaviour which only leads to slow incremental steps in the use of force.

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    It turns out cyclists actually should roll through stop signs. Here’s why
  • They are way overused in northamerica - just pick a priority road and make the other one give way! Or use a mini roundabout.

    Here, stop signs are rare enough that they indicate an unusually dangerous location, so you know to be careful.

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  • One of Wired's interview series, this one with Alexandros Washburn.

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    www.theguardian.com Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

    Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership

    The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.

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    www.jwz.org youtubedown help needed

    You may have noticed that youtubedown has been failing on just about all Youtube videos for the past week or so. I think something has changed about how you apply signatures to URLs, but I can't figure it out. I would like someone else to figure it out, please. In fact, I would like someone else to ...

    Seen on jwz's site. Be super careful before posting anything low-effort over there!

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    www.theguardian.com ‘It’s unbelievable the difference a path has made’: how volunteers are building a cycle network a yard at a time

    The Strawberry Line network of paths in Somerset has found a way to speed up planning permission and harness the goodwill of the community

    Nice to see some progress on making paths without all the normal planning overhead!

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    [Steve Wallis] Custom camper towed with an e-bike

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    Update on 2019 events from eBay including charging documents and news coverage

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