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TIL: Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls (youtu.be)

Video of people making crazy crystal balls

I'm down and need picked up!

Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76 (apnews.com)

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died. Publicist Tom Estey tells The Associated Press that Simmons died Friday at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after his 76th birthday.

Live Free or Die (www.youtube.com)

TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)

Busytown

IOC and Saudi Arabia agree on 12-year deal for video gaming Esports Olympics (apnews.com)

Egypt charges pro-Palestine protesters with 'spreading fake news' (www.middleeasteye.net)

Egyptian security forces on Thursday detained 10 young men who took part in a protest that denounced Egypt’s role in the siege on Gaza. They are facing charges of “collaborating with a terrorist group” and “spreading and publishing fake news”....

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. It's only painful for others. It's the same when you're stupid

Bitter tensions as reporters feel misled by White House over Biden health (www.theguardian.com)

With Joe Biden’s candidacy teetering in the wake of last month’s alarming debate showing, journalists who had covered his presidency full-time for years suddenly asserted that it lacked that most basic political element: credibility....

What's the cheapest thing you had bought that by the end of its usefulness made you say "wow, this was worth a lot more than what I've paid for!"

Mine… My Xbox 360 slim only costed 129 euro back in 2012 and to this day still work like brand new, you would think that the disc drive would stop working but no. Never had the need of open it or clean it’s insides. Still great, I just don’t use it anymore since I feel it’s outdated and loading speeds are better...

Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring?

My SO and I discussed that engagement rings shouldn’t be expensive....

Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany (www.politico.eu)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24848057

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Greetings,...

New York City's Sob Parlour provides a paid place for people to cry in peace (www.cbsnews.com)

Introducing PCSX2 2.0! (pcsx2.net)

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Get in the Hilux

Stoltenberg bashes China for creeping closer to NATO (www.politico.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17929697

Flower on one of the water lilies in our fish pond (sh.itjust.works)

Sovcit doesn't understand. (lemmy.world)

Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)

They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....