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WSOC TV – 19 Sep 24 Truck stolen with Spectrum utility worker still in bucket, police say Investigators said the suspect drove south along Highway 18 before crashing. Police said while the Spectrum worker was attached to a safety harness, at some point, he came out of the bucket and was suspended in the air by a safety strap attached to the bucket. The...

NPR NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering... A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award given to citizens by Congress.

ksl.com Road rage: Man arrested, accused of firing shot at slow driver in Taylorsville A Utah man was arrested Wednesday during a road rage investigation and accused of shooting at a vehicle because he believed the driver was going too slow.

Pectins: The plane pictured is an Airbus A350 (a wide body) What? Was the article edited after your comment? The pictured plane is is now definitely the one in question, N916DU

BBC News Lebanon exploding pagers latest: Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah... Hassan Nasrallah says the exploding device attacks are "a declaration of war" which paid "no heed to innocent people". Israel has carried out extensive air strikes on southern Lebanon targeting positions of the Iranian-backed group, Hezbollah The military says its warplanes struck more than 100 rocket launchers, as well as a weapons...

Holy crap, just when you think he can’t stoop any lower he posts this. The original photo is Montel Williams, Kamala, and Montel’s daughter. Remember the good old days when something like this would cause a candidate to step down and never be seen again.

the Guardian – 20 Sep 24 Revealed: Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers... Exclusive: Documents contain months of warnings about possible Ukrainian advance and also reveal concerns about morale

OWYAC: I call it her patented “Are you shitting me right now?” face Trump shits himself all the time. Or so they say.

Truthout – 19 Sep 24 House Passes Bill to Label Products From Illegal West Bank Settlements “Made... “Let’s be clear. A vote for this bill would further support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” said Rashida Tlaib. At this point , the US government has the same level of complicity as serving in the IOF.

the_borderer: Hugo Drax Why would you say that Musk is anything like that billionaire who provides space vehicles to NASA and is obsessed with eugenics?

boingboing: For some reasons that Image made me think of Dominion Tank Police. Dominion Tank Police Intro Tank police! Feel the power that we’ve got! Tank police! We’ll give it our best shot!

News – 20 Sep 24 Exceptionally warm weather in Finland's arctic region September has been warmer at Utsjoki in Finland's far north than an average July, but cooler temperatures are on the way.

He’s giving me Scarface vibes more than Howard Hughes. Amoral “businessman” makes money, destroys people around him, destroys himself when he starts getting high on his own product.

The two most Musk-like Bond villains, Hugo Drax and Karl Stromberg (remember who now owns that Lotus Esprit!), didn’t wear a Nehru collar. Not that I would expect Musk to remember or care. Musk will never be a Blofeld though, he’s more like the guy who Blofeld would drop into a shark tank because he is a liability.

ERR – 20 Sep 24 EDF chief: The €1.6 billion on extra ammo is not a cure-all A government decision to allocate €1.6 billion for additional munitions procurement is a crucial and major step forward new Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) commander Major General Andrus Merilo said, though is not a panacea and will likely need to be...

Is he also on an all meat diet that he’s spending 150tweets a day in his armoured toilet suite, guarded by an army of mercenaries, squeezing dried up shite out his arae? Get off the internet and get some exercise and vegetables dude. The world will thank you but your guts will thank you first.