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I see no knives on that table. His luck is holding...
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The U.N. has voted to adopt a new world map as standard. They are dumping the Mercator Projection for an Equal Earth Projection, a map that shows landmasses much closer to their real size.
It makes Africa and other equatorial landmasses look larger than previously, and shrinks Europe, North America, Russia, and especially Greenland.
The only country to speak and vote against the resolution was the USA. No surprise.
The US delegate actually sat there and claimed that the UN was ignoring real problems while working on changing maps for idealogical and political reasons (ignoring the science completely). How she stopped from dissolving in a puddle of irony I'll never know. She also claimed that passing symbolic resolutions like changing maps was why the U.N. is "losing its credibility" – the puddle deepens.
Six countries—Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine—abstained from voting.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284
#UN #World #Cartography
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"School lunch debt" is a phrase that should not exist, anywhere, for any reason, ever.
#School
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social School? No time for that! There's *hunting* to be done!
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The missing panel... 😉
*With apologies to Nick Anderson.*
#USPol
This would be my favourite #SiloArt installation in the 12 years we have been travelling. Karoonda, South Australia.
(Misspent youth on a sheep property in the far west of NSW in the 60's)
At night there is a projection displayed on the "blank canvas" section of the silos (not shown here). Different imagery at different times. If I can get a worthwhile picture with my phone I will post it.
#Travel #Art #Australia #SouthAustralia #DogsOfMastodon #Sheep
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Wow. Strong statement. Let's face it: Infantino has tarnished FIFA as thoroughly as Trump has tarnished the USA.
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@felis_catus_domesticus@toot.community @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Indeed. I'd love to see inside that particular monk's mind.
Or maybe not...
This is both excellent writing and, sadly, accurate.
I have been practicing medicine for four decades. Cancer is my vocabulary, not his. And I know what happened the last time a government borrowed it. The Nazi state’s central perversion was the medicalization of killing: the enemy as tumor, as bacillus, the nation as patient, extermination as cure.Robert Jay Lifton called it the biomedical vision. It recruited my profession first, and my profession answered willingly. When a government describes citizens as a cancer, it has written the first line of a treatment plan. On Thursday, the plan was read aloud, from a state department podium, in six verbs.
"My family left Russia in 1917. My relatives left Germany in 1933. In both generations, leaving was called excessive; staying was the reasonable position. But an alarm that was right both times it sounded is not overcaution. On Thursday, it sounded a third time."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/22/stephen-miller-marco-rubio-trump-speeches
Guess where we were today? 😁
Finally! Missed my first chance when the school excursion came here back in 1974 (no money), and it's taken me this long to make it up.
Patience is a virtue.
#Travel #Australia #NorthernTerritory
Cold and windy in South Australia today. Here's a view from a slightly warmer yesterday.
#Photography #Landscape #Australia #SouthAustralia #Panorama
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In the latest on these two ... people 🙄 ... the Crown Prosecurion Service in the UK has upped the ante.
The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Manly men, indeed.
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@Old_IT_geek@techhub.social
Yes, good to see Farr.
Pauline is doomed; she will self-immolate under the heat of public scrutiny.
Barnaby must be wondering which gods he upset. He was going nowhere but the door in the LNP, burst into PHON like a saviour, and is now watching them destroy themselves through sheer stupidity.
#AusPol #PHON
One Nation supporters charge full-tilt down the Trumpian road of bullshit and blatherskite.
A fake post is doing the rounds claiming a government minister called One Nation voters "stupid" and said they likely went to public school.
#AusPol #PHON #Laborhttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fake-online-post-government-minister-insulting-one-nation-voters/mk1bi06wp
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Hegseth has been obsessed with ushering in a new era in the Pentagon committed to what he has described as the "warrior ethos." What he's demonstrated instead is that he's as weird as the rest of the administration.
Hear here! Just another weird sycophant for whom the rules don't apply. Not even those rules they made up themselves.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Would I date a person who claims to be smart, wears a MAGA hat, and who's only claim to fame is blonde hair and cleavage?
No. No, I would not.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Nothing short of amazing. The parents still have each other and their child. The child still has both of her parents. And the rescuers have hope again.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
There are so many videos of cats who respond to their feeders by racing through the house to get to it when they hear it go off, this is a fun change. 😹
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Nah, not really. That's just the meme. They have, however, chosen to only use THEIR photos, where DJT is in the shot. Shots that don't actually show much of the team, because they're not that important 😅
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@Heliograph@mastodon.au
Mortuary Station. Open to the public and quite nice, but they do nothing with it. It's a storage area for junk unfortunately.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
It can't have been Iran.
Trump says it was Minnesota, and he NEVER lies!
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@samiamsam@mastodon.social
That's Andrew. He's the more masculine one, apparently. 🤣
@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
It's the wording! Most sound like someone from the Edwardian era.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
And the White House edited him back in for their "official"" photos.
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@paninid@mastodon.world
And yet the fate of the USA was decided, in the last few elections, by those who did NOT show up.
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@amalia22@mastodon.social
I just love the way Zionists and their supporters (aka Zionists) throw the term "blood libel" around nowadays.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Always loved Godless Mom. And the CoS know exactly how to respond, every time.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
No, I'm pretty sure Goldthwait is perfect for the job. For me, of course.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
OK, that got a wheezy LOL from my semi-carcass this morning! 😂🤣
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Our daughter can relate to this ... one week into the school holidays 🤣😮💨
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Citizens United decided corporations were effectively people back in 2010. This is just a logical step "forward".