Found this while looking for something else altogether.
Apparently too young too die, too old to inbox.
Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to researchers.
Macron demands national database of porn preferences (permalink)
It’s been less than a year since the UK’s idiotic, doomed “age verification law” for pornographic websites collapsed. This was a plan to block all adult sites at the national firewall unless they collected and stored the identities of their users.
EY helped 'Ndrangheta sell mafia bonds (permalink)
Cops are buying breach data (permalink)
Nominally, Spycloud is in the business of helping businesses and individuals prevent account takeovers, but the company has a side-hustle: they collect huge amounts of stolen data that hackers have obtained and sell it to cops.
I wonder if this depends upon the age? One morning, I woke up to the sound of my husband voice. He said, “Oh my god. You guys, she’s gonna be pissed.”
Our kittens jumped up onto our bookshelf and knocked down two hollowed and intricately painted eggs onto the plush carpet below and proceeded to play soccer with them. One egg survived, but they thoroughly shattered the other one into tiny bits.
Sprout stinks’: Rare, giant corpse flower set to bloom at Longwood Gardens
Folks who want to experience the rare bloom may do so in person or online with the garden’s 24/7 “stink cam.”
Yay. Amorphophallus titanum and I have been friends for a long time. I seriously recommend going, at night. Also, if you got one of those thermal cameras, give it a shot.
That thing heats up to 37 degrees Celsius, all by itself.
https://norwaytoday.info/news/giant-ticks-are-on-the-rise-in-northern-europe/
Unlike normal ticks, the hunting tick waits and then runs after the prey. At the same time, it can move up to 30 centimeters per second for over ten minutes.
Previously, forskning.no has written that one such tick is enough to paralyze an entire cow.
Thread. Tolkien connection.
“muffled horror”
ETA: Gotta give 'em props for all the pockets, too!
