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Happy Mardi Gras from Australia’s Eucalypts! They come in every colour of the rainbow and are the original supporters of diversity with over 800 species.

Have fun tonight if you’re celebrating! 🌈 x

Never Ever Have I Ever Felt This Low more relevant in this economy.

Not Nice?

Have been to a France v Ireland Euro (football / soccer) game.
Pre match anthems were half the contest.

In Memory of Dr. Elaine Ingham YouTube video by Build Soil

I just heard about Dr. Elaine Ingham's passing and I didn't want to leave it unremarked. This is a clip from a longer ramble.

I'll have more to say later.

youtu.be/_rpyZ0RmgdI

So that's where the Bitcoin money went.

True, but some context:

This is the third resignation of his career due to scandal (not including last year's dismissal).

And he remains a peer for life still making decisions in the House of Lords.

Not sure this particular example is ashamed easily.

France for the wins.

You get bonus points for forgetting Cole.

I am a mythical creature to you.

A snapshot of a fantasy football score history showing 107 points scored this week and 100 points last week.

No goals - only an injury scare.
Another Fulham star (Robinson) helped me clear 100 for the second week in a row.

Stealworkers

I think it's simply added to cover the farm logo on the box being packed for privacy reasons.

Greenthieves

The Swiss, however, could not.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

I went off long term sick with Long Covid from Covid I caught at work because they got bored of asking employees with Covid to not come in maybe, and eventually resigned due to ill health, and I didn’t even get a get well / leaving card.

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

“Baudin’s or bauxite – we can’t have both”

It’s a stark warning … but Alcoa’s proposed expansions to its bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forests will be catastrophic for the endangered Baudin’s black cockatoo.
#wildoz #ausbirds #ozplants #bauxite #conservation

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If it helps, when Infinite Sadness was released it was the 30 year anniversary of The Beatles' Help!

You go first?
You are the street binfluencer?

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

FFS. This country is literally famous for its droughts. We already regularly have to be told to limit showers, use recycled water on gardens, turn off taps while brushing teeth... And they want us to spend our water budget on the lying plagiarism machine? REALLY?

Still find it funny when I remember that someone said his name is short for Matthew Cashew.

Portishead, Dummy album cover with a woman sat in a chair.

Cheating by a few weeks to get this one in...

Shop window display?

True. Definitely boycotting.
Just out of curiosity... are Schär & Burn first choice centrebacks this season?

Chart: Annual US measles cases Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation

Despite measles being declared eliminated in the US in 2000, annual measles cases have reached a 33-year high — and it's only July.

This is the tragic result of the spread of anti-vax disinformation, and will only get worse in the coming years because anti-vaxxers now lead our health agencies.

Can't answer that now.
Will cross that bridge when I get to ot.

Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes (April 2024) - This study measures the impact of rapidly placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness, crime, and health. Using a caseworker placement ten...

Providing homeless people with housing reduces crime, increases employment, improves health, and does not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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