Time to show all these idiots at the Olympics why we don’t get free healthcare (sh.itjust.works)
Please dunk on me for my shitty oc with iPhone stickers I have a degradation fetish...
Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets (www.bbc.com)
Organised crime groups have been targeting empty shops and pubs in town centres to grow cannabis on an industrial scale, say police bosses....
U.S., Qatar and Egypt invite Israel and Hamas for summit to finalize Gaza deal (www.axios.com)
TEAR OFF YOUR SKIN (media.tummy.town)
Japan’s PM cancels overseas trip after experts issue ‘megaquake’ warning (www.theguardian.com)
Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has cancelled a visit to central Asia this weekend after experts warned that the risk of a “megaquake” occurring off the country’s Pacific coast had increased following Thursday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the south-west....
Brazilian man caught selling counterfeit Olympic medals. (www.rfi.fr)
Original Grandia Voice Actors Reunite to Bring Unvoiced ‘Sue’s Farewell’ Scene to Life (www.retronews.com)
The original English voice actors for the characters Feena and Sue in the game Grandia have returned to voice a pivotal scene that was not originally voiced due to technical limitations at the time of the game’s release....
Protesters in Bulgaria slam bill to ban LGBTQ+ 'propaganda' in schools. (www.rfi.fr)
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18878746...
In memory of the Chromecast (paper.wf)
You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry. (theconversation.com)
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX ordered by US court to pay customers $12.7bn (www.theguardian.com)
A US court has ordered the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to shell out $12.7bn (£9.9bn) to compensate customers and fraud victims, five months after its founder was jailed for his role in the collapse of the company....
Trump posts fan fiction about Biden stealing nomination back from Harris (www.rollingstone.com)
Asked about bear carcass prank, RFK Jr. says he once had a freezer full of roadkill meat (apnews.com)
It wasn’t just the dead bear....
A powerful explosion sets off a fireball on a container ship at a Chinese port (apnews.com)
A powerful explosion set off a fireball on a container ship loaded with hazardous goods at a major port on China’s Pacific coast, state media and authorities said Friday....
ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests, Ending Site-Blocking Workarounds * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Ferguson marks 10 years since Michael Brown's death. While there's some progress, challenges persist (apnews.com)
Michael Brown once told his father the “world is going to know my name,” words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart....
EXO-6 Showcases Star Trek Figure Prototypes, New Full-Size Costume Replicas at STLV (blog.trekcore.com)
European Gas Rises to 2024 High on Ukraine Pipeline Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times (apnews.com)
A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader....
Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott'. (www.voanews.com)
Archive.
3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna (apnews.com)
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister said Friday....
Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first game (www.pcgamer.com)
A Warhammer 40,000 space marine is not just your usual sci-fi super soldier. They are hulking behemoths, 10 feet tall (and about 10 feet wide too). They don’t move like people, they move like freight trains. They have the physical bearing of an industrial freezer unit and the emotional intelligence of a crocodile. They do not...
Russian attack against supermarket in Donetsk Oblast's Kostiantynivka kills 14, injures 43 (unn.ua)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/15721261...
'How could I have become so evil': Jewish-French director grapples with antisemitism (www.haaretz.com)
In an op-ed for France's Le Monde, Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius expresses fear over the dramatic change in the way the world perceives Jewish people, as if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.'
