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⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout; the incident follows a series of earlier partial disruptions and comes amid escalating military tensions with Israel after days of back-and-forth missile strikes 📉

Vickie Gray 46m ago

CBC News 1h ago

These Indigenous kids played a song to attract grizzly bears — and it worked
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squamish-nation-grizzly-bear-song-1.7564142?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into British Columbia @british-columbia-cbcnews

These Indigenous kids played a song to attract grizzly bears — and it worked | CBC News

A group of Indigenous children played a traditional song with drums on Sunday at Metro Vancouver's Grouse Mountain, and ended up catching the attention of curious grizzly bears in the process.

CBC

Vickie Gray 46m ago

Kevin Beaumont 51m ago

Handala claim they’ve hacked Agura B.C LTD - https://www.agurainc.com/company/

They’re a white label crypto service

#threatintel

Vickie Gray 4h ago

Steve Herman 14h ago

SLC Tribune - The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a student during a traffic stop — and let her go with a warning — has discovered its info was secretly shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/17/ice-detains-utah-student-after/

ICE detained University of Utah student after gaining secret access to Colorado deputy’s communications, sheriff’s office says

The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy first pulled over a University of Utah student — and let her go with a warning — has since discovered that its information was being secretly shared with ICE, leading to her detainment.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Vickie Gray 4h ago

Brian Jopek 13h ago

Among the reasons I really grew to appreciate the Peanuts cartoons Charles M. Schulz created.
#Peanuts

Vickie Gray 4h ago

tante 6h ago

Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.

Vickie Gray 2d ago

Cory Doctorow 3d ago

Check out this video from about 1:15 on, as a brass band play the leftist anthem "Bella Ciao" to drown out #ProudBoy neo-Nazis who showed up at a #NoKings rally in Atlanta yesterday. Not only is it incredibly heartening, but the band SLAPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k

ETA: A Tumblr user identified the band, "The Black Sheep Ensemble":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3zqlA1uhk

Musicians surround Proud Boys, drown them out with tubas at 'No Kings' protest in Atlanta

YouTube

Vickie Gray 4d ago

On This Day In History 4d ago

Today in 1872, 153 years ago: in Canada, the Government legalizes unions.

#OnThisDay

Vickie Gray 4d ago

Heidi Li Feldman 4d ago

There are #NoKings events worldwide, but the map for North and Central America is wild. Find the one near you at https://www.nokings.org/

Vickie Gray 6d ago

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 6d ago

We don’t know how close we are to triggering an Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC breakdown - but now we know a lot more about what it would mean for extreme temperatures in Europe. Good @carbonbrief
.org piece on a new study by the Dutch colleagues! 🌊
https://www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-current-collapse-could-trigger-profound-cooling-in-northern-europe-even-with-global-warming/

Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief

A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.

Carbon Brief