Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.

Oh, no! Now how am I going to find 60” of irrelevant content about your grandma just to get a soup recipe?

This shed door had outlived its functional life and a client wanted it replaced. I asked “Do you want to just get it done or do it right?”

More than 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors and influencers traveled to Israel this month becoming “the largest group of American Christian leaders to visit Israel since its founding.”

Video tutorial of Creative Generalist channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JztSbwWZzsw

Cuba on edge as US seizure of oil tanker puts supply at risk

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The fight over California’s new congressional map designed to help Democrats flip congressional House seats will go to court Monday as a panel of federal judges considers whether the district boundaries approved by voters last month can be used in elections.

Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died. He was 78.

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.

Far-right, pro-Israel candidate José Antonio Kast will become the next president of Chile after winning the second-round voting on Sunday with 60% of the votes.

An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.

AI-generated podcasts are flooding the market, with studios producing hundreds of thousands of episodes that sound increasingly indistinguishable from human hosts.

Reddit rule

KEY POINTS

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/

Hop onto TikTok and you’ll find lots of videos of young people — mostly women — fake baking under the glowing UV lights of a tanning bed. Seattle dermatologist Heather Rogers says this is an alarming trend that comes after years of decline in indoor tanning in the U.S.

https://physicsgirl.com/

*In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions*

https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2024/11/12/vision-zero-san-diego-traffic-deaths-increas

Source: Reddit Post.

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Warn you if there’s a way you could get a product for cheaper before you purchase it.

Adding to the rant

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51617013

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40211941

There is more than a little irony in the fact that Ukrainians are bleeding and dying for Western democracy and the European Union at a time when so many are losing faith in both. But they are – and they have shown that they can win.

The Heritage Foundation, an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism, has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.

New Orleans unsolved is a podcast that began in 2020 examining the unsolved murder of a young boy, Eddie Wells, in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans during the 1980s. Eddie’s life was full of hardships from an early age, and when his body was pulled from the Mississippi river, he was depicted as a “hustler,” or male prostitute in the French Quarter, despite only being 17 years old at the time of his death. However, the term “hustler,” downplays the reality that Eddie was a victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking starting at an early age.

(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)

Before the end of the year, the Trump administration is planning to eliminate up to 35,000 healthcare jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, a chronically understaffed agency that has already lost tens of thousands of employees to the White House’s sweeping assault on the federal workforce.

The amendment will need a majority vote in the House to be adopted, which could happen if Democrats get behind the proposal. But the more changes conservatives can pile onto the amendment, the less likely it is that Democrats will get behind it.

…The universality of the UV-to-X-ray relation underpins certain methods that use quasars as “standard candles” to measure the geometry of the universe and ultimately probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy. This new result highlights the necessity for caution, demonstrating that the assumption of unchanging black hole structure across cosmic time must be rigorously re-examined…

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/14/nx-s1-5644074/chile-kast-right

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