Air Canada apologizes for booting passengers who complained that their seats were smeared with vomit (apnews.com)
Benson said workers sprayed the area with perfume to hide the smell. The passengers assigned to those seats told a flight attendant that the seat and seatbelt were wet and they could still see vomit. The attendant and a supervisor told them that the flight was full, and they would just have to sit there....
Canada: 14 whales have died at aquarium since 2019, exposé reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Hold up (sh.itjust.works)
I mean, alcohol is bad at its taste (lemm.ee)
Child from Honduras is one of two people dead on or near Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys (www.dallasnews.com)
Abbott ‘has the blood of a child on his hands,’ a congresswoman said. ‘No good person would do this,’ said Mexico President López Obrador.
Europe is facing drought with more groundwater being lost than replaced by rain (news.sky.com)
Open your eyes! they are spraying our skies! (slrpnk.net)
A billboard i frequently drove by for title context:...
Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain (www.theverge.com)
It’s likely because some light fixtures that emit a ton of UV light also look “cool” and get used in the wrong setting. They’re supposed to be for stuff like disinfection. Looks like the bulbs outlining the dj both could be the issue. It wouldn’t be any of the professional fixtures. (Pic in comments because I don’t...
Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1 (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft CEO Nadella’s compensation drops… to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1::Try to hold back your tears as CEO to employee pay ratio hits: 250 to 1
World attention (feddit.it)
Don't follow your ex's (lemmy.zip)
Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Kariko and Weissman, pioneers of COVID vaccine (www.reuters.com)
Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players (www.404media.co)
ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.
TIL Peter Molyneux failed his first game so badly he started a baked bean export company, which got confused with a software firm and kickstarted his development career (en.wikipedia.org)
After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems because they confused the baked bean company’s name “Taurus” with a software company “Torus”, and he used the hardware to create a database system for the...
Rudy Giuliani "sealed his own fate" in legal loss: Constitutional lawyer (www.newsweek.com)
TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota (en.wikipedia.org)
Beepy, a palm-sized Linux hacking playground (hackaday.com)
[In Helsinki, Finland] Thousands march in antiracist protest against government, call for [far-right minister] Riikka Purra resignation (yle.fi)
“I would say this was one of the most important days of my life living in Finland,” Eugene Ufoka told the crowd of thousands from the steps of Parliament building in Helsinki on Wednesday evening....
Waiting on the ho-ho hotdogs for December (lemmy.world)
Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost (www.theatlantic.com)
Starbucks announces higher pay, but union workers will have to bargain for it (www.cnn.com)
Starbucks employees are getting more pay and new benefits, but some are only going to baristas that haven’t unionized. A National Labor Relations Board judge previously found that similar moves by Starbucks violate federal labor law, with the company appealing the decision....
One Palestinian child in Gaza killed every 15 minutes by Israeli forces (www.dci-palestine.org)
DCI-Palestine.org ( if this isn’t an acceptable submission I can remove it)
2,000 children killed in Gaza, aid group says, as doctors warn fuel shortage is a death sentence | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of...
Welsh government to write to Duolingo after updates to course 'paused' (news.sky.com)
Wales’s minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course’s continued development.