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7.5 million Baby Shark bath toys are recalled after they cut or stabbed children (apnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by jonne@infosec.pub to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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About 7.5 million singing and swimming “Baby Shark” bath toys are being recalled after multiple lacerations and puncture wounds were reported in children playing with them.

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OceanGate listed job posting for ‘submersible pilot’ during doomed Titan rescue efforts (nypost.com)
submitted 1 year ago by can@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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I had to pull my children out of £38,000-a-year private school because of the soaring cost of living… It's been a nightmare finding a good state school (www.dailymail.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by Pat12@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Legitimately thought this was satire but it's not

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Australia says no threat from squatting Russian diplomat (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer To Fight In A Cage (deadline.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire@beehaw.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Modi flexes India’s cultural reach on Yoga Day with backbends and corpse poses on the UN lawn (apnews.com)
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Amazon Drivers Are Actually Just "Drivers Delivering for Amazon," Amazon Says (www.vice.com)
submitted 1 year ago by primaryuser@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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One of Reddit's largest communities is protesting changes to the platform by posting only photos of John Oliver 'looking sexy' (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Felemuso@feddit.de to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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You'd think it not be like that, but it do (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by zkikiz@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheUtopianCat@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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No more rides to Hel on bus 666 in Poland (apnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Felemuso@feddit.de to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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New Zealand seizes record amount of meth in maple syrup jugs from Canada (www.cnn.com)
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Nurses’ uniform too tight, says PAS MP (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
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Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Microsoft promises Starfield has “fewest bugs” of any Bethesda game (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Can we really call it a Bethesda game if it has less bugs?

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Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (www.jpost.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire@beehaw.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)
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Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT (www.woodtv.com)
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Man gets sued after leaving his blind date and her 23 relatives at restaurant (news.yahoo.com)
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Twitter Bans Accounts Promoting Other Social Networks (www.cnet.com)
submitted 2 years ago by FracturedPelvis@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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Teen sex trafficking victim who killed alleged rapist to be sentenced (repost) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FracturedPelvis@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
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original article: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2022/09/06/des-moines-sex-trafficking-victim-pieper-lewis-sentenced-killing-rapist/10233682002/