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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
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Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Nice quick watch on some cute lambs. Good for anyone who needs a bit of cheering up!
"My three naughty lambs are just like toddlers"
"My three naughty lambs are just like toddlers"
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
2 male dolphins were seen playing with an anaconda while sexually aroused in a perplexing encounter captured by researchers
Researchers observed two adult males each holding onto the anaconda and swimming in unison, in what appeared to be play, though many questions remain.
www.businessinsider.com
JimW
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What a lovely lad: Boy, 11, uses simple trick to help save young child from drowning | ITV News
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I thought this was about the Bleak House geezer at first
JimW
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Good going for a good cause: Inspirational 82-year-old man eight peaks away from completing challenge to climb all 282 Munros
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Good on them...
JimW
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Listen to Dave belting it out at 80: Retired NHS worker, 81, becomes TikTok star after care home performance | ITV News
Sang with the Beatles, y'know.
Sang with the Beatles, y'know.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
My kid's school, instead of getting all silly about 'recent events', has asked for donations to the local Basics Bank in lieu of any other tribute 
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Someone has made a rude word out of wood and nailed it to a tree in Doncaster
As roadside decorations go, it is certainly eye catching, if not exactly very courteous.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk
And kudos to whoever is in charge of pixelating naughty words at the Doncaster Free Press, for a sterling job here...
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Also, Iceland is suing Iceland 
metro.co.uk
Iceland back in court with Iceland over use of the name Iceland
There can only be one Iceland.
metro.co.uk
Patagonia owner gives away company to fight climate change.
Patagonia: Billionaire boss gives fashion firm away to fight climate change
Yvon Chouinard will give all of the fashion company's profits to a charity fighting climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Parity for low paid contractors on TfL.
TfL’s lowest paid contractors offered free transport in London
Around 5,000 people who work as contractors for Transport for London (TfL) are to be offered free travel to bring them in line with TfL's own staff, the Mayor of London has announced.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
This is near me. They've turned it into an annual event to benefit the local food bank.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn't just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug
In 2014, it was hard to miss the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that set out to raise money to fund research for the disease. And it paid off. A new treatment was funded by $2.2 million of the funds raised.
www.npr.org
The ALS Association said that $2.2 million of funds that were raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge went into funding the development and trial of the new drug that the Food and Drug Administration approved this week for treatment of ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
"We thank the millions of people who donated, participated, and enabled us to invest in promising therapies like AMX0035 that will immediately help people living with ALS," said Calaneet Balas, president and CEO of the ALS Association. "This is a victory for the entire ALS community, which came together to advocate for early approval" of the treatment.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
A better sort of hedge fund.
www.cprehampshire.org.uk
I did some hedge planting once, it's very satisfying to see the hedge we planted whenever I pass that field.
Community Hedge Fund - CPRE Hampshire
CPRE Hampshire is working to enhance, promote and protect our countryside. Love Hampshire’s beautiful rural areas? Find out more and get involved.
www.cprehampshire.org.uk
I did some hedge planting once, it's very satisfying to see the hedge we planted whenever I pass that field.
Derby teen's lost computer art unearthed 30 years after his death
He sadly died at the age of 17, but now decades later his intricate drawings have been rediscovered in an old Amiga 500
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Books, not bombs
Don't you know who I am?
Love this, if only because the receptionist did not know them. ‘I’m very pleased we’ve got the same name’: Brian Cox meets Brian Cox
Love this, if only because the receptionist did not know them. ‘I’m very pleased we’ve got the same name’: Brian Cox meets Brian Cox
Raheem
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Except two people with the same name can't check into the same hotel? O rly?
JimW
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Neighbours to the rescue: Mum praises neighbour's 'heroic' behaviour after saving her son's life | ITV News
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Books, not bombs
Exactly. Also the time scales aren't clear and if you don't know CPR you should know to immediately call 999 rather than fly into panic mode.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
California girl gets first-ever license to own a unicorn — if she can find one
The big dreamer, only identified as Madeline, wrote to the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control last month asking for approval to call one of the mythical creatures her very …
nypost.com
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Four years old, and hidden behind an annoying popup thing, but this article is a delight:
A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage. Its eyes are half-closed, and it has a serene expression on its face. But the seal’s calm demeanor is surprising.
Why? Well, there’s a long, black-and-white eel dangling from its right nostril.
“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”
Simeone wasn’t the only person stunned by the photo of the seal and its unusual facial ornament that was shared earlier this week on Facebook by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program. The picture — taken this year in the remote northwestern Hawaiian islands — has since gone viral, drawing attention to a rare phenomenon that continues to baffle scientists such as Charles Littnan, who is now begging the endangered seals to “make better choices.”
It all began about two years ago when Littnan, the lead scientist of the monk seal program, woke up to a strange email from researchers in the field. The subject line was short: “Eel in nose.”...
The “most plausible” theory, he said, is that monk seal teenagers aren’t all that different from their human counterparts. Monk seals “seem naturally attracted to getting into troublesome situations,” Littnan said.
“It almost does feel like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic it.”
Though no seals have died or been seriously affected by the eels, having a dead animal up their noses for any extended amount of time poses potentially adverse health impacts, said Simeone, director of Ke Kai Ola, a monk seal hospital in Hawaii run by the Marine Mammal Center...
In general, Simeone said, marine animals are “very stoic.” She added, “It’s amazing the kinds of things they can tolerate.”
While “eel snorting” has yet to really catch on in the seal community, Littnan said he hopes it never does.
“We’re hoping it’s just one of these flukes that will disappear and never be seen again,” he said.
If monk seals could understand humans, Littnan said he has a message for them: “I would gently plead for them to stop.”
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Walking Festival banner crudely defaced prompts mixed reaction
"This is a very, very rare example of where vandalism is transformed into comic genius."
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Books, not bombs
How old?Walking Festival banner crudely defaced prompts mixed reaction
"This is a very, very rare example of where vandalism is transformed into comic genius."www.wiltshirelive.co.uk
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