Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Hockey Arena DJ Waiting for Perfect Moment to Play “Welcome to the Jungle” ( thehardtimes.net )
read more: thehardtimes.net/…/hockey-arena-dj-waiting-for-pe…
UN finally passes a resolution recognising one of society's most marginalised groups ( www.thecanary.co )
The UN Human Rights Council passed its first ever resolution on Thursday 4 April over tackling discrimination against intersex people, despite opposition from several countries to the terminology used. The resolution passed in the 47-member council with 24 votes in favour, none against and 23 abstentions....
Environmental Fail/Nostalgia FTW: This 3-Mile Wide Garbage Patch In The Pacific Ocean Is 100% Composed Of Troll Dolls ( clickhole.com )
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3 Classic Norwegian Fairy Tales Parents Used To Scare Their Children Out Of Going On ‘Shark Tank’ Without A Clear Pitch ( clickhole.com )
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Palestinians in Northern Gaza Only Have Access to 245 Calories a Day ( truthout.org )
For months, Israel has been forcing Palestinians in northern Gaza to starve on a tiny fraction of their regular daily calorie needs, a report finds as experts warn of an unprecedented widespread famine across the region....
Ford doubles down on refusal to build fourplexes until someone explains to him what they are ( www.thebeaverton.com )
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Swiss federal ministers are giving up their free ski passes ( www.semafor.com )
Swiss federal ministers are giving up their free annual ski passes worth around $4,000....
Emails from My Dentist That Would Actually Make Me Schedule an Appointment ( www.mcsweeneys.net )
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Tensions with China Drive Investors Towards Vietnam ( www.ipsnews.net )
HO CHI MINH CITY, Apr 3 2024 (IPS) - In recent months, several European representatives embarked on trade missions to Vietnam. German President Steinmeier visited Hanoi in January. The Netherlands sent Prime Minister Mark Rutte, with the Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, soon to follow suit. Notably,...
Report: Israeli Army Uses AI to Mass-Produce Palestinian Targets for Assassination ( truthout.org )
The Israeli army is making heavy use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mass-generates assassination targets in Gaza in order to reach certain thresholds of killing of Palestinians every day, a new explosive report finds. This AI generated information is used by the military to kill targets as soon as they step into...
‘School Never Taught Us About Taxes,' Says Woman Who Wouldn’t Remember It Even If They Had ( reductress.com )
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Aw Crap: I Thought I Said Something Normal but My Therapist Responded “Let’s Unpack That” ( thehardtimes.net )
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New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down ( www.pbs.org )
NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse....
France 'Intends Legal Action' Against French-Israeli Soldiers Complicit in Gaza War Crimes ( www.palestinechronicle.com )
According to Haaretz, the “underreported announcement” came after “pressure from members of the far-left France Unbowed party,” as well as the release of “various unverified videos” on social media platforms which show Israeli soldiers “engaged in illegal acts against prisoners of war.”...
The Only Way to Save Public Education Is to Turn Every Single School in America into High-End Condos ( www.mcsweeneys.net )
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Coca-Cola Incredibly Hurt Nation Not Going To Try New Flavor They Worked So Hard On ( www.theonion.com )
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Why I Stopped Dating Guys My Age and Started Dating Guys Who Were Born as Old Men and Are Aging in Reverse ( reductress.com )
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‘60 Minutes’ Links "Havana Syndrome Victim" to Alleged Russian Spy ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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Hungary’s Support for Israel Exposes Its Fake Pacifism ( jacobin.com )
Far-right Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has claimed that his refusal to help Ukraine is a “pro-peace position.” Yet Hungary is also the only EU state that openly backs an Israeli attack on Rafah — showing the hypocrisy of Orbán’s supposed pacifism....
Israeli Forces Assault 3 Gaza Hospitals in 1 Day, Committing Massacres ( truthout.org )
The IDF reportedly ordered Palestinians to leave al-Amal Hospital “naked” and ran over survivors at al-Shifa with tanks....
Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect. ( m.youtube.com )
A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit....
In addition to clocks moving forward by 60 minutes in many parts of these 48 states next week ( lemmy.sdf.org )
HP is in the rent-a-printer business now ( www.theverge.com )
Friends don’t let their friends buy HP.
GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source privacy oriented Twitter/X client ( github.com )
Basicallly the only vialable nitter altnerative I’m aware of at the moment, biggest downsides being you need a twitter account and you can only access it through android, but it does offer the abillity to see your feed in an rss style, aka no recommendations, which is very useful if you only need to follow a few remaining...
Fox News guest decrying “migrant crime” previously arrested after getting violent over a grilled cheese sandwich he deemed too cheesy ( www.mediamatters.org )
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Litter-Robot Recalls Thousands Of Self-Cleaning Litter Boxes That Accidentally Transported Cats To Year 1300 ( www.theonion.com )
read more: theonion.com/litter-robot-recalls-thousands-of-se…
A growing hunger: Argentina’s soup kitchens battle Milei’s spending cuts ( www.aljazeera.com )
Under President Javier Milei, Argentina’s government has cut funds to community kitchens, sparking mass protests....
Ghana’s parliament passes anti-LGBTQ bill ( www.aljazeera.com )
Rights activists condemn the law that would punish LGBTQ people as well as those who promote gay rights with years in prison....
Hunger leaves children dead in Gaza as aid trickles in ( www.aljazeera.com )
Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has also gone out of service due to a lack of fuel for generators....
Israel Made False Claims About Its Own Evidence in ICJ Defense, Analysis Finds ( truthout.org )
In one example, Israel claimed an image showed aid trucks entering Gaza when they were actually driving away....
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change ( thehill.com )
China has raided seven American businesses in Beijing and arrested employees on suspicion of espionage, ambassador Nicholas Burns reveals ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
Nation Likes It When Hamburger Bun Already Cut ( www.theonion.com )
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NYC Housing Authority Paid $708 to Replace a Lightbulb ( www.truthdig.com )
The no-bid micro contracts awarded to vendors at the center of a bribery scandal are rife with wildly inflated costs, an analysis finds....
Saudi Arabia puts seven men to death in largest execution in years ( www.middleeasteye.net )
State media says men were convicted by court which has been criticised for punishing activists and protesters under guise of terrorism...
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report ( news.mongabay.com )
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
Palestinian singer running to represent Iceland at Eurovision contest ( www.aljazeera.com )
Bashar Murad said he wants to use his song to ‘illustrate’ the difficulties Palestinians face in order to be heard....
Israeli soldiers chow on McDonald's while carrying out genocide ( electronicintifada.net )
McDonald’s Israel announced in October that it would be donating thousands of meals to members of the Israeli army and state security forces....
Thousands of artists call for Israel’s exclusion from Venice Biennale ( www.aljazeera.com )
Art Not Genocide Alliance says that any works that represent Israel are an ‘endorsement of its genocidal policies’ in Gaza....
American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel ( theintercept.com )
Yossi Landau is the head of operations for the southern region at Zaka, an Israeli search-and-rescue organization. Assigned to collect human remains after the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Landau and his fellow Zaka members riveted media outlets worldwide with the horrific atrocities they saw....
Thousands of Ugandans may sue over U.S. security work in Iraq, Afghanistan ( www.semafor.com )
KAMPALA, Uganda — Thousands of Ugandans who guarded U.S. government buildings in war zones are preparing to sue their former employers who they claim failed to pay their agreed wages and cover medical bills, leaving many badly injured and mired in debt....
The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry ( www.semafor.com )
They couldn’t resist breaking the rules lmao, but face no consequences, besides being mad about it...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools ( www.404media.co )
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...