Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way ( www.reuters.com )
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....
egg ID - northern South Dakota, May 2024 ( lemmy.world )
Sorry for the potato quality photo. I would guess northern bobwhite quail, but they look darker than quail egg photos I'm seeing online.
European far-right leaders gather ahead of EU elections ( www.theguardian.com )
International far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, came together in Madrid to rail against socialism and “massive illegal migration” three weeks before hard-right parties are expected to see a surge in support in June’s...
Iranian President Raisi missing after helicopter goes down ( www.politico.eu )
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — often seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei— is missing after his helicopter went down in the northwest of the country on Sunday, officials said....
Aarrr ( lemmy.world )
4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel shows two pirates, the first pirate speaks "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again." 2. Panel: The pirate continues, "They said we were a bunch of handicaps." 3. Panel: The captain himself says, "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here". 4.Panel: The ship...
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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic [The Institute for Sexual Research, founded by Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin, Germany (1919-1933)] ( web.archive.org )
"Love is as varied as people are."...
Nicotine addiction isn't that bad - tobacco companies encourage the belief that it's more severe to keep people smoking
Tobacco companies had to own up to the fact that smoking is harmful in the 1960s when undeniable evidence came out. People struggled to quit because it is somewhat addictive, but mainly because they enjoyed it....
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Teens charged with vehicle theft, criminal mischief after attempting to run away from wilderness therapy program - KRBD ( www.krbd.org )
Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video) ( www.space.com )
The mission, known as NS-25, sent six people on a brief trip to suborbital space today (May 19)....
Russian 'double-tap' strike north of Kharkiv kills 6, including pregnant woman ( kyivindependent.com )
Russian troops attacked a recreation center in a northern suburb of Kharkiv at around 11 a.m. local time, killing six civilians including a pregnant woman and wounding 27, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said on May 19....
UN humanitarian chief delivers ‘apocalyptic’ warning over Gaza aid ( www.theguardian.com )
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has warned of “apocalyptic” consequences due to aid shortages in Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive in the southern city of Rafah has blocked desperately needed food....
Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him. ( theintercept.com )
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC has launched its first ads attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The ads claim that Bowman “has his own agenda” and refuses to work with President Joe Biden....
New Florida Law Requires All Women To Produce 3 Healthy White Sons By 22nd Birthday ( www.theonion.com )
Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s Clarification on the Organization’s November 2023 Position Paper on Sexual Violence | רופאים לזכויות אדם ( www.phr.org.il )
In the extensive investigations conducted in the months following the publication of the position paper in November, some testimonies referenced within it have been disputed or deemed unverifiable, and more may face similar scrutiny in the future. We regret their inclusion in the position paper. As mentioned, a substantial...
And the death star was blown up by, let's say, Moe. ( lemmy.world )
Ghost of tsushima works on wine!
I'm playing ghost of tsushima pc right now. It works on wine, but you'll need to turn off upscaling. you also will want to install vkd3d because it doesnt seem to support dx11 or earlier. The graphics do look pretty minced sometimes and I encountered an issue where nothing showed up at all(i turned off upscaling to fix). It...
Good estate ( jlai.lu )
3000 fog machines of Yahweh ( sh.itjust.works )
A Cool guide to the most polluted cities in the US ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1cvoen6/a_cool_guide_to_the_most_polluted_cities_in_the_us/...
A cool guide to the world’s largest private equity firms ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1cvnrjs/a_cool_guide_to_the_worlds_largest_private_equity/...