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“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
― Plato

🇲🇩 🇷🇺 Moldova's top negotiator in resolving the three-decade-old dispute with its pro-Russian Transdniestria separatist enclave on Sunday ruled out any role for Russia in finding a solution as long as it was engaged in its war in Ukraine.

reuters.com/world/europe/moldo

Tiny Scottish village shatters UK record for hottest ever January day

In a sign that everything is fine and dandy at the moment, a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands was casually warmer than Barcelona this morning

metro.co.uk/2024/01/28/tiny-sc

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #Scotland #UK

Canadians to gather to say a final goodbye to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent

The former New Democrat leader, who died Jan. 11 at the age of 87, served as a member of Parliament for more than two decades, including 14 as the leader of the NDP in the 1970s and 1980s

#News #Canada #NDP #Politics
ctvnews.ca/politics/canadians-

In 1992, an out-of-control Hindu nationalist mob armed with hammers and pickaxes stormed the Babri Masjid. They tore it down by hand, horrifying many Indians and setting off religious riots across India that killed thousands.

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“The lord told us to do so.”🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

A #Colorado pastor says God told him to launch a #crypto venture. He’s now accused of pocketing $1.3 million from his followers

cnn.com/2024/01/24/us/colorado

Last month I wrote about how Silicon Valley investors secretly bought thousands of acres of California farmland. Their plan is to turn it into an instant city called California Forever. Jan Sramek, who helms the California Forever project, has continued to present his ideas to community groups, but with no concrete clarifications about how it will be sustainable, nor where its water will come from. Read more on @newscientist (open access with a free NS account).
newscientist.com/article/mg260

"Stang Exorcises The Normals." Woodcut from 16th century. Anonymous.

Said to be a prophetic vision of Ivan Stang removing pinkness from Normals via his own hands - after a suitable donation.

You can donate at sugenius.com/

US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Finland, & the Netherlands responded to the UN top court #ICJ ruling that Israel act immediately to prevent #genocide in Gaza ... by cutting off their aid to the UN aid agency UNRWA because Israel has accused 12 UNRWA members of being involved in the Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz thanked them & said this is the first step toward ending #UNRWA which Netanyahu has called for since 2017.

When I noticed last month that, with a bad cold I sounded like Carlin, I tried to get an AI to do some Carlin jokes for me to read. It absolutely wouldn’t do it, although when I told it Carlin was dead, it did give it a try. 🍸🙀
My conclusion? These guys definitely wrote the material themselves 🍸😺

nytimes.com/2024/01/26/arts/ca

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