Yesterday while cooking I set off the smoke detector, no I did not burn anything. They go off when I cook over a high heat. And yesterday once they started going off they would not stop. I ended up having to disconnect them all (they are hard wired with an interconnect) and I replaced them this morning. Aaaaaaaand let me tell you, I had a sleepless night last night knowing there were no detectors installed.

Aziz’s Criterion Capital appears to have halted the mass eviction amid political pressure from Sadiq Khan, after we revealed the company’s intention to make vast numbers of private tenants homeless just before renters gain new rights at the start of May.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon. To date, climate researchers had assumed that carbon was stored safely for millenia in the peat.

Today’s game is Alan Wake II. Did you know these guys were on the front porch? Because I didn’t. 4 playthroughs in and I had no idea these guys were here until I went back in the house and saw one of them walking out front. I thought I was seeing things at first or it was some sort of Easter egg, but I found them out here and they were just chilling (or in the guy in the towel’s case, he was literally chilling)

When it comes to protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises, the truth is simple: good decisions depend on good data. But even in UK waters, our picture is still patchy - especially offshore, in and around Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), and then there’s the impact of the weather and the seasons. That’s a problem when these highly mobile species are facing multiple, overlapping pressures, from changing prey availability and underwater disturbance to bycatch risk, water quality impacts and the accelerating effects of climate change.

As the weather warms across Britain, hedgehogs are beginning to emerge from their winter hibernation, prompting wildlife experts to issue a warning to the public: observe these spiky creatures from a distance.

Analysis Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry Sandra Laville

“Russian warship, go fuck yourself” [a] was the final communication made on 24 February, the first day of the 2022 Snake Island campaign, by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov to the Russian missile cruiser *Moskva*. The phrase was widely adopted as a slogan during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as in pro-Ukrainian protests and demonstrations in the West.[3] Weeks later, the phrase was commemorated on a postage stamp by Ukrposhta, the Ukrainian postal service.[4]

One of the country’s leading tax experts says the explosion in housing wealth has put Australia on the path towards a neo-feudal society where your prosperity depends in large part whether your parents own land or property.

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I stole this fair and square. Hope this hasn’t been posted yet.

Demonstrations spread to Tehran’s Al Zahra University one month after security crackdown left thousands dead

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He added that the government would also implement the Safe School Zone Project, a pilot initiative in high-risk schools, to support the policy.

A CNN review of correspondence between Chopra and Epstein reveals that they shared a far more intimate friendship than was previously known.

It is their juvenile form that has turned an odd-looking, slippery fish into an expensive commodity. Elvers are now Canada’s most valuable fish. Driven by demand in Asia, glass eels can fetch thousands of dollars per kilogram (approximately a one-litre bottle full)—even sometimes more than $5,000 per kilogram. In 2022, fishers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick earned $39 million from 7,557 kilograms of elvers harvested, according to DFO.

(from “Wild,” 1954)

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Authorities mounted rescue operation after group of five lost control of ice sheet in Stockholm archipelago

As Sychov himself explained, his motivation to stay with the Ukrainian soldiers was the realization that the Russian command had given orders not to take prisoners.

A series of patents filed the past two years indicates that institutions across China are working out how to use AI to improve grassroots surveillance.

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“Under both US and international law, it is flagrantly illegal to use the military to kill civilians suspected only of crimes,” Jeffrey Stein, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Christopher Anders, director of the democracy and technology division at ACLU, said in a December statement. “Civilians, including those suspected of smuggling drugs, are not lawful targets. Just because the Trump administration says these strikes are firmly grounded in law doesn’t make it true.”

Zachery Ty Bryan is headed to jail for 16 months stemming from a 2024 DUI arrest -- and this time, he’s not walking away with probation.