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Photo of redacted text from the novel Project Hail Mary: Next I carry Commander Yáo to the airlock. [...] "Yáo Li-Jie," I say. I don't know how I remembered his given name. It just came to me in the moment.
headlines from Reuters: 1 Trump: No evacuation plan for embassies because it happened very quickly 2 Trump says someone from within more appropriate for Iran
Reuters headline – State of the Union live updates: Trump delivers longest address to Congress in history
Photo of secure contact details provided to would-be whistleblowers within the People's Liberation Army who want to share data with the CIA.
Screencap from S1E3 of Flight of the Conchords. Murray and Dave are discussing whether two guys is technically a "gang".
A beige hoodie hanging in a shop window, with the words "AS YOU WISH" on it.
News story where the son of a quisling puppet monarch wants to horn in on protests against the admittedly terrible regime that supplanted his family's also bad regime.
covering of a children's picture book called The Bear
Netflix announced:This unites our leading entertainment service with Warner Bros.’ iconic stories, bringing some of the world’s most beloved franchises like Harry Potter, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Casablanca, Game of Thrones and the DC Universe together with Stranger Things, Wednesday, Squid Game, Bridgerton and KPop Demon Hunters.
Friday Dec 5: FULL THROTTLE • 5:00 PM Road (2014, 102 min) • 7:00 PM: Le Mans (1971, 108 min) • 9:10 PM: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, 102 min) • 11:15 PM: The Fast and the Furious (2001, 107 min) Saturday Dec 6: GROWING UP HURTS • 2:00 PM: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021, 90 min) • 3:50 PM: The Quiet Girl (2022, 95 min) • 5:45 PM: Boyhood (2014, 165 min) • 9:15 PM: The Truman Show (1998, 103 min)
Screencap from Google Maps of the sultan's palace in Yogyakarta and, to its north, a public square which has been blurred out.
World map with the following highlighted in red: Somalia Azerbaijan Belarus Myanmar Afghanistan Central African Republic Equatorial Guinea Syria Tajikistan Western Sahara Eritrea North Korea Gaza Strip Sudan South Sudan Turkmenistan Tibet Russian-Occupied Territories of Ukraine
Lines from Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. "GUIL: He had six rhetoricals - ROS: It was question and answer, all right. Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes, and answered three. I was waiting for you to delve. "When is he going to start delving?" I asked myself"
Screencap from an email newsletter, saying "The outdoor game experienced a surge in popularity during the 2020 pandemic because it could be set up in driveways, be played by all ages, and allow for safe [...] "
YouTube thumbnail: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video), published by Talking Heads channel 10 hours ago despite the song being released in 1977.
六月，我們不忘🌹2.0 小檔即日起至6月4日，有售天然大豆白蠟燭。 🕯️大豆茶蠟🕯️ 🌿採用天然大豆蠟及100% 棉芯製作，無毒、無煙、無味。 😸適合個人或有孩子、寵物、任何家庭使用。 ⏳燃燒時間：6小時 售價：$6.4（回憶不設找續） ————————— 茶蠟用途廣泛，適合不同場合和個別需求： 🕯悼念亡者，呼喚記憶 個人靈修或默想時，無香氣干擾，讓你更專注於靜心時刻。 💡漫長黑夜中照明 用於停電應急、晚間照明或營造溫暖氛圍。 🔥保持溫度和熱度 居家長時間品茶，可保持茶壺及茶杯溫度 🐶過敏體質適合 燃燒時無毒、無煙、無味，適合過敏體質或寵物家庭。
Isle of Man TT daily roundup thumbnail showing an unflattering photo of Dean Harrison looking haggard and slightly bewildered.
Hand holding a season ticket for Hong Kong football team Citizen FC, in the form of a plastic card, same size as a credit card. White text on dark green: Citizen FC – Never Give Up Black text on light green stripe: Season 2013–2014
BBC infographic saying "135 cardinals were under the age of 80 when Pope Francis died, which makes them eligible to select his successor. However, two cardinals will miss the conclave due to health reasons - leaving 133 cardinals voting."
Screenshot of a Reddit post on r/GalacticStarcruiser entitled "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Its Demise from an Insider's Perspective"
"THE CHESS PIECES: MONOLITHIC FORMS Every chess piece has been precision-crafted with faceted surfaces, transforming them into sculptural objects in their own right. To create the pieces, the marque’s designers studied the profile of traditional chess pieces, electing to extrude them downward into square bases. Each of the highly sculptural pieces is made of ceramic-coated aluminium, contains a hidden magnet and is crowned with a jewel-like polished stainless-steel head. The weight, solidity and cool-to-the-touch tactility of them are deliberately evocative of the solid-metal organ stops found in Rolls-Royce motor cars — a shared expression of material authenticity and satisfying mechanical engagement. The black chess pieces are given a satin finish, while the white pieces feature a subtle iridescent treatment."
A poster for the 2021 film Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, featuring the titular character Marcel (a shell with shoes on) using a Tootsie Pop wrapper as a parachute.
List of finalists for the 2025 "Best Related Work" Hugo Award – one of which is Jenny NIcholson's four-hour YouTube dissection of the "Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel".
A weedy se dragon in a tank at Ocean Park, Hong Kong
A poster seen in Yogyakarta in 2024, depicting Prabowo with a skull instead of half his face on a bright yellow background, with the caption (in English) reading NEW ORBA IS COMING, meaning that his election represents a return of the forces behind the Orde Baru (Orba, New Order) dictatorship.
Screencap of registration screen of Central Market visitor app, with check boxes for T&Cs. The final, unchecked, box has the label "I am a Chinese National Citizen". The "Next" button is greyed out to indicate that registration cannot proceed.
Lesson 62, a bank robbery turned hostage situation.
Country Defense Budget 2024 (USD billions) Nominal GDP 2024 (USD millions, IMF estimate) GNI per capita (USD, 2023) Ratio to GDP Ratio to GNI per capita U.S. 968 29,167,779 80,300 0.03318730576 12054.79452 China 235 18,273,357 13,400 0.01286025332 17537.31343 Russia 145.9 2,184,316 14,250 0.06679436492 10238.59649 Germany 86 4,710,032 53,970 0.0182588993 1593.477858 UK 81.1 3,587,545 47,800 0.02260598822 1696.65272 India 74.4 3,889,130 2,540 0.0191302425 29291.33858 Saudi Arabia 71.7 1,100,706 28,690 0.06514001014 2499.128616 France 64 3,174,099 45,070 0.02016320222 1420.013313 Japan 53 4,070,094 39,030 0.01302181227 1357.929798 South Korea 43.9 1,869,916 35,490 0.02347699041 1236.96816 Australia 36.4 1,802,006 63,140 0.02019971077 576.4966741 Italy 35.2 2,376,510 38,200 0.01481163555 921.4659686 Israel 33.7 528,067 55,020 0.0638176595 612.5045438 Ukraine 28.4 184,099 5,070 0.1542648249 5601.577909 Poland 28.4 862,908 19,730 0.03291196744 1439.432337
The “G50” mapped out, highlighting those that have taken recent measures on China’s exports to show the types of goods targeted.
Cover of the Beastie Boys' album Hello Nasty.
A woman voting in today's German federal election, wearing a red-pompomed Bollenhut: a formal headdress with distinctive woollen pompoms worn since c. 1750 by Protestant women as part of their folk costume or Tracht in the three adjoining Black Forest villages of Gutach, Kirnbach and Hornberg-Reichenbach.
After a series of (genuinely good and moving) episodes about Auschwitz is an episode entitled "Top Tanks of World War 2".
Cover of the 1954 Uranium Prospectors’ Handbook depicting a dark-haired man in a red sweater kneeling in the foreground of a mountain scene, intently using a handheld Geiger counter to prospect for uranium. In the background, a blonde woman wearing a plaid shirt, sitting on a fallen tree trunk, looks on with an expression of utter boredom. Cover price: $1.00.
"Situation Room", a photograph taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Poster on the back of a minibus seat depicting a local politician's portrait. Someone has ripped the face off.
Screencap from Herring's newsletter. At the top, part of a photo of a Nazi rally. At the bottom, part of a photo of Donald Trump mocking a disabled person. In between, this text: "I always looked back at 1930s Germany and wondered how people allowed things to go the way they did and then so enthusiastically backed the results. If I'd been there I would have given Hitler a bloody nose. Or so I thought. It turns out, non-existent future historians, that when you're faced with all this stuff it's just like being in a warm bath that is very gradually being heated up further. Actually that sounds nice. It's not like that at all. Until the bath gets really hot that's a pleasant thing and you can always just get out of the bath when you start to go red. It's more like being a person who doesn't want any trouble and likes to think other people will sort things out."
Vrij also points out another tell. “Statement-evidence inconsistency is another cue,” he says. “A liar’s statements are less consistent with the available evidence than statements from truth tellers.”
An Olivetti M28 with 5¼" floppy drive.
Exhibit 526.5 Restrictions on Mailing Live Scorpions Live scorpions are mailable only if EACH of the following conditions is met: 1. Must be for delivery only within the continental United States. 2. May be sent only by surface transportation. 3. Must be sent only for special purposes of either: Medical research use. Manufacture of antivenin. 4. Must be properly packaged prior to mailing, as follows: Live scorpions is packed in a double container system, with each receptacle closed or fastened in such a way as to prevent escape. Highlighted line: Inner receptacle is made of material that cannot be punctured by a scorpion. Inner receptacle is marked “Live Scorpions.” Cushioning material is used to prevent shifting of the inner receptacle. Design of packaging is of sufficient strength, as required in 522, to prevent crushing of the mailpiece or escape of the contents during normal Postal Service handling and transport. Address side of mailpiece is clearly marked “Live Scorpions.”
LE CHIEN ET LE FLACON par Charles Baudelaire « — Mon beau chien, mon bon chien, mon cher toutou, approchez et venez respirer un excellent parfum acheté chez le meilleur parfumeur de la ville. » Et le chien, en frétillant de la queue, ce qui est, je crois, chez ces pauvres êtres, le signe correspondant du rire et du sourire, s’approche et pose curieusement son nez humide sur le flacon débouché ; puis, reculant soudainement avec effroi, il aboie contre moi en manière de reproche. « — Ah ! misérable chien, si je vous avais offert un paquet d’excréments, vous l’auriez flairé avec délices et peut-être dévoré. Ainsi, vous-même, indigne compagnon de ma triste vie, vous ressemblez au public, à qui il ne faut jamais présenter des parfums délicats qui l’exaspèrent, mais des ordures soigneusement choisies. »
Poster for the movie NIGHTBITCH (2024)
YouTuber Jenny Nicholson presenting a video entitled "Ramble: Jenny’s uncompromising condemnation of the movie musical Mean Girls (2024)"
Thread from a Reddit channel about Peak Design backpacks: NYPD investigating at PD NYC Store So yeah - seems like they’re finally talking to Peak Design. I was in the store this afternoon and two cops showed up. They asked to pull surveillance footage between two dates (can’t recall) in hopes of finding a buyer. ofdm • 2d ago Well that version of the bag was last sold in 2019… unlikely the footage goes back that far.
Headline: ‘People can tell me to f**k off if they’re not interested’ – Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch on his general election bid Image of Irish organized crime figure Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch
此外，我們早前已經向外公布會根據市民興趣、研究價值、成本效益、會員意見、歷史價值、法律風險等六項因素決定各項定期調查項目會否繼續進行。香港民研最新決定，即日起擱置政治團體民望、紀律部隊民望調查。計及今年7月份起擱置的行政會議成員民望、六四事件和特區成立周年，至今共有5個項目擱置。
29 Oct 2024 People's Daily 人民日報 front page
Person saying "Needless to say, I had the last laugh."
Quote from sing Tao interview: “It’s similar to running a restaurant. We should attract customers to fill it first, or we won’t be able to pick the right customers. After it is full and people start to queue up, we can then consider which dishes are high value-added and if we should raise the minimal charges for the VIP rooms,” Lee said.
YouTube transcript: "Possibly the worst decision they've ever made was putting me behind the pole at dinner on the Galactic Star Cruise. Perhaps [...] I would have had a totally different outlook on that and my review would have been positive and I would have tweeted such nice things that they wouldn't have gone out of business.
Screencap of news story: Conservative Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt urged her rivals to keep “dogma” out of public services, such as the NHS. “Most of the public don’t care what colour the cat is, they just want some mice caught,” she told her six rivals.