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Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Orcas be pissed, man.

Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. in c/texas@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 111 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate the juxtaposition with the sign. Great image.

Tesla Cybertrucks Are Rusting Despite Being Made Of Stainless Steel in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

"Weathered steel" was all the rage on brand new buildings a few years ago, why not on a "truck"? 😏

"Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia in c/australia@aussie.zone

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LNP always on the wrong side of history. 🙄

Time to bring him home! #FreeAssange

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Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt (www.abc.net.au)

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It may not be on the news radar in the English-speaking world, but the turbulence sweeping parts of Africa is the biggest challenge to French influence on the continent in 60 years.

Civilian governments backed by Paris have been toppled in military coups and Russia has wasted little time in taking advantage. The Wagner group was infamous for doing Russia's bidding across Africa, but now a new organisation loyal to Vladimir Putin is infiltrating the region's coup belt.

ABC News Australia - Norman Hermant reports.

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Nineteen Tasmanians banned from public native forestry estate after logging protests | ABC News (www.youtube.com)

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19 Tasmanians have received indefinite bans from entering any of the state's public native forestry estate — an area covering 812,000 hectares.
It follows protests against native logging near Takayna/Tarkine, but most of the protesters live locally, and say the bans will impact their lives.

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Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago by Sarsaparilla@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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It may not be on the news radar in the English-speaking world, but the turbulence sweeping parts of Africa is the biggest challenge to French influence on the continent in 60 years.

Civilian governments backed by Paris have been toppled in military coups and Russia has wasted little time in taking advantage. The Wagner group was infamous for doing Russia's bidding across Africa, but now a new organisation loyal to Vladimir Putin is infiltrating the region's coup belt.

ABC News Australia - Norman Hermant reports.

Pod of orcas trapped in drift ice off Japanese coast in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The movie, "Big Miracle", seems to have been based on a real event known as "Operation Breakthrough". There was a time where something like this would have the entire world holding it's collective breath and doing all it can to save the animals. Today, hardly anyone knows it's happening. 😢

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Pod of orcas trapped in drift ice off Japanese coast (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Sarsaparilla@kbin.social to c/news@lemmy.world

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Footage aired by the Japanese broadcaster NHK shows a pod of orcas, also known as killer whales, apparently trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido. At least 10 were seen poking out of a small gap in the surface and struggling for air.

30 Years on, TNG's Ghost Sex Episode Remains as Unhinged and Awful as Ever in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Only to be topped by Voyager's Season 2 episode 15 ... the warp 10 salamander story.

Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

‘Your Product Is Killing People’: Tech Leaders Denounced Over Child Safety in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

I mean, sure, but I feel it probably wasn't the greatest unmasking. Some of the stuff was just plain ignorant and embarrassing ... for the lawmakers. Like this exchange with the Tik Tok CEO. I feel like they probably don't really understand what they are up-in-arms about. 🤷‍♀️

Georgie Purcell: Adobe casts doubt that Photoshop automation was to blame for Nine News editing of her image in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

So it could've created the mid-drift, maybe, but not enlarge her breasts.

Apple's rules to allow third-party app stores in the EU are not beneficial for users or developers in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Epic lost their case with Apple regarding Fortnite, yet now Epic are looking to make Fortnite available on iOS in EU. But from the article it seems an alternate "app marketplace" would still need Apple approval anyway. It will be interesting to see how all this is going to work.