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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.reut.rs
I love how this is too nakedly corrupt for UEFA and the Bahraini Royal Family.
Sky NewsFIFA plans to speed up launch of new World Cup spin-off
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Dr. Jeroen W.P. WijnendaeleNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
The Coalition Provisional Authority is one of those things I occasionally remember existed and I feel like I am having a stroke. "Ah, yes. Time to place my large adult son Chadwick in charge of the Iraqi stock market. He got a Gentleman's C in intro to econ. He's got this."
Likewise, baffled that this isn't seen as one of his better movies.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxI think my oddity here is that I really liked Dunkirk, which I think tends to get ranked towards the bottom of the Nolan filmography?
Trans women being banned from Labour's Women's Conference is one of those things that just makes your head spin if you stop for a second and think about it. Imagine finding out this would be the case in, say, 2018. You'd think we'd all gone mad. Maybe we have! metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...
Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans banmetro.co.uk
(*hammering table*) "Con-trap-tion! Con-trap-tion! Con-trap-tion!"
Hugo GordonGianni Infantino is not the worst person in the world but he might be the person I most want to see get launched out of a catapult, or perhaps imprisoned in some sort of fiendish Contraption.
Thought: we should give another heave to trying to have a British municipal bond market if we're expanding devolution