Francois T

@francoist
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Apparently, it's a national holiday here in Switzerland today. 'Ascension'. Switzerland has to be the only country that commemorates an avant-garde #jazz album by John #Coltrane. Even kids seem to get involved: They're outside right now, making loads of noise, shrieking & yelling over each other etc

📰 Russians strike village in Kharkiv Oblast: man's body found under rubble of a house – photo

🔗 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/20/7480564/

#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine

Russians strike village in Kharkiv Oblast: man's body found under rubble of a house – photo

Ukrainska Pravda
@arstechnica OK a new toy for the rich, how about news of affordable EVs for the rest of us already.

Latest comic: Using the First Amendment to end the First Amendment

#fascism #authoritarianism #media #journalism #tech #socialmedia #firstamendment

"why don't cyclists use the bike lane" #cycling
Trump stole documents on confidential informants in January 2021 and 9 months later CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning an unusually high number of confidential informants had been killed, captured, or compromised. I feel like more people should mention that.

Woah!!

Not a joke: In Australia there is a 90-tree grove made up of Wollemi Pine trees, which evolved from about 91 million years ago, survived the Late Cretaceous extinction event, and somehow survived in a small group all the way up til now. We thought they had gone extinct 2 million years ago!!

For more very cool info, here is an article:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dinosaur-evergreens-thought-extinct-for-2mil-years-discovered-by-park-ranger-90-tree-grove-is-find-of-the-century/

#Trees #Dinosaurs #Nature #Beauty #Science #Horticulture #Botany #GoodNews

Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century’

The Wollemi pine evolved 91 million years ago and went extinct according to the fossil record 2 million years ago.

Good News Network

SCREAMING

PUT UP A WIRE

A hydrogen TRAM is about the most stupid thing imaginable. If you’ve got enough traffic to justify a tram, you have got enough traffic to justify an overhead wire

WHY DO WE KEEP DOING THIS SORT OF CRAP? REALLY 🤬

https://www.elektroauto-news.net/news/goerlitz-erste-wasserstoff-strassenbahn

Görlitz bekommt die erste Wasserstoff-Straßenbahn Europas

Zwischenzeitlich war die Förderung aufgrund der Haushaltskrise gefährdet, doch nun fließen Millionenbeträge des Bundes in das Wasserstoff-Projekt in Sachsen.

Elektroauto-News.net
@arstechnica I would be more worried about finding the grenade.