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An address book, a pair of socks, four Masked Marvel comic books, a tennis racquet and four hundred & ninety-seven & a half feet o' rope.

Two all-beef patties... special sauce... lettuce, cheese... pickles, onions—on a sesame seed bun.

#FoundUnderTheCarSeat
#HashTagGames

"NPR’s Batrawy also uses #WhatsApp to connect with people in #Gaza, though that line of communication is becoming less reliable...

she has been exchanging voice notes with people in Gaza, including a medical student in #GazaCity named Tasnim Ahad...

“She’s been through a lot,” Batrawy said. “She told me that sending voice notes is therapeutic almost, like someone cares. Someone is listening.”"
washingtonpost.com/style/media

#Palestine #Israel #Hamas #war #Journalism #Press #News

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23,000 Floridians died because DeSantis in his war on woke didn’t want to talk about the Covid-19 crisis in his state. It is lack of people being vaccinated. A disinformation campaign. A move that gives him a platform similar to Trump.

alternet.org/settlement-desant

A #gulfstream G650 (Reg: N628TS) reportedly owned by #elonmusk has just been detected in flight at Mon Oct 16 2023 23:55:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).

FRON was a multiplayer variant of the BASIC game Star Trek created at UCLA in 1975.

Two of its authors were future gaming luminaries:

-Don Worth created one of the first computer RPGs, Beneath Apple Manor.
-Vic Tolomei worked at Exidy on games like Venture and Crossbow. #videogamehistory

Yuga Labs, makers of Bored Ape NFTs, are boycotting OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, because it turns out smart contracts can’t actually enforce royalties.

Oops.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#YouTube is stepping things up with the #ad blocker warnings. Now instead of having the "X" right away, you get a little countdown timer in the corner before you're able to close the warning.

It's probably safe to assume the next step is to block access altogether.

#Google

Big Oil Is Only Getting Bigger - and Meaner

newrepublic.com/article/176237

> Exxon’s big purchase of Pioneer Resources last week is a troubling indication that the industry sees little reason to change course.

Not surprisingly, this [asset] forfeiture regime proved highly lucrative for law enforcement, offering more than enough incentive to wage the war on drugs. According to a report commissioned by the Department of Justice, between 1988 and 1992 alone, Burn-funded drug task-forces seized over one billion dollars in assets.

–The New Jim Crow

#LEO #Police #Cops #Drugs #CivilAssetForfeiture #TheWarOnDrugs #Theft #Government #DoJ

Leonid Brezhnev became leader of the Soviet Communist Party OTD in 1964, while Alexei Kosygin became the head of government cromwell-intl.com/travel/russi #travel #Russia

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