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Police in Cebu, Philippines are concerned about 61 Black Americans marching in a Cebu subdivision
https://www.gmanetwork.com/regional...rs-stirs-residents-in-minglanilla-cebu/story/
What Cebuano police report about them
https://www.gmanetwork.com/regional...rs-stirs-residents-in-minglanilla-cebu/story/
What Cebuano police report about them
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Wait... did these guys tell the police 'we were just LARPing bro'?
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The panic over this reminds me of those videos when a black person takes a mask off and the little Asian ladies almost have a heart attack lol
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Sorry for double posting. Yet another TikTok trend has hit the second tower as retards record themselves seasoning and eating packaging peanuts
(It is a Vice article so it’s written in the most braindead way imaginable)
(It is a Vice article so it’s written in the most braindead way imaginable)
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The idiot who wrote the article claimed they're made of styrofoam, even though the article says they're the plant-based starch, so technically edible. I wouldn't trust them to be food quality though. I have actually eaten a couple of these when I found out what they were made of, since it sounded like they should be edible. They are, but I wouldn't recommend it. They'll dissolve in water or in your mouth, the texture just sucks and there's no flavor at all.
Anyway, it's not completely insane, but it's on the "niggers eating cornstarch" level.
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Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender woman who has nearly 450,000 followers on TikTok, was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in jail after being found guilty of spreading hate speech against Christianity.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/11/asia/ratu-thalisa-blasphemy-indonesia-scli-intl/index.html
"An Indonesian social media influencer who suggested Jesus should cut his hair has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in jail after being found guilty of spreading hate speech against Christianity.
Ratu Thalisa was sentenced by a court in North Sumatra province over the comments made to an image of Christ, according to a statement from rights group Amnesty International and local media reports"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/11/asia/ratu-thalisa-blasphemy-indonesia-scli-intl/index.html
"An Indonesian social media influencer who suggested Jesus should cut his hair has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in jail after being found guilty of spreading hate speech against Christianity.
Ratu Thalisa was sentenced by a court in North Sumatra province over the comments made to an image of Christ, according to a statement from rights group Amnesty International and local media reports"
Tootsie Bear
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A transgendered Muslims sounds like an oxymoron.
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Some Muslims demand any gay people transition to make it halal I guess. I think it’s a thing in Iran at least.
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I always have to share articles about my favorite critters of all time. This is a short one
A couple of friends come across a giant Pacific octopus on their hike in Washington
Unfortunately I can’t embed the video but you can watch it here
If you are hiking off the coast of northern Washington and exploring tidepools, the last thing you would probably expect to find would be a giant Pacific octopus swimming around in it! But a group of lucky hikers was in the right place at the right time last week, and that's exactly what they found in Bellingham, Washington.
ABC7 Chicago News shared a video on Facebook on March 7th that was filmed by Micah Moeller. It shows Moeller and his friends experiencing both disbelief and excitement as the eight-armed cephalopod swam in just a few feet of water in the calm tidepool. But it didn't stick around long (no pun intended)!
ACB7 said in the video's caption, “The giant Pacific octopus can grow to nearly 20 feet across, and is found throughout the northern Pacific Ocean, its habitat extending from Korea to Mexico, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.” I'm not sure how big this one was, but it looked pretty big!
Viewers were delighted by the video and left nearly 9 thousand comments about it. I couldn't agree more with @Canna Nana who said, “Thanks for leaving it alone! Just enjoy nature as you see it.” @Haley Marie felt the same way, “Notice how they remain away from it, don’t try to touch it or pick it up, and appreciate it from a distance. That’s nice to see.”
The giant Pacific octopus is the biggest in the world, with an average length of 16 feet. They weigh in at 110 pounds and could easily attack a human if they chose to. Fortunately for the most part, they are known to be shy and usually friendly towards us.
With the exception of the blue-ringed octopus, all octopuses (yep, that's the correct plural form!) bite with their large beaks and inject venom, but the venom is not fatal. Only the blue-ringed octopus could kill a human with one of its venomous bites. Octopuses' have suckers (“suction cups”) on the arms that can become dangerous if they lock onto a human and would be very difficult to try to remove if they didn't want you to.
I scuba dived for many years, and I was always on the lookout to find an octopus. I never did, but it would have been an incredible experience to swim with one in the wild!
A couple of friends come across a giant Pacific octopus on their hike in Washington
Unfortunately I can’t embed the video but you can watch it here
If you are hiking off the coast of northern Washington and exploring tidepools, the last thing you would probably expect to find would be a giant Pacific octopus swimming around in it! But a group of lucky hikers was in the right place at the right time last week, and that's exactly what they found in Bellingham, Washington.
ABC7 Chicago News shared a video on Facebook on March 7th that was filmed by Micah Moeller. It shows Moeller and his friends experiencing both disbelief and excitement as the eight-armed cephalopod swam in just a few feet of water in the calm tidepool. But it didn't stick around long (no pun intended)!
ACB7 said in the video's caption, “The giant Pacific octopus can grow to nearly 20 feet across, and is found throughout the northern Pacific Ocean, its habitat extending from Korea to Mexico, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.” I'm not sure how big this one was, but it looked pretty big!
Viewers were delighted by the video and left nearly 9 thousand comments about it. I couldn't agree more with @Canna Nana who said, “Thanks for leaving it alone! Just enjoy nature as you see it.” @Haley Marie felt the same way, “Notice how they remain away from it, don’t try to touch it or pick it up, and appreciate it from a distance. That’s nice to see.”
Cool Facts About the Giant Pacific Octopus
Some commenters mentioned how scared they be if they were in the same situation. But according to American Oceans this cool color changing animal is not a dangerous one, “The Giant Pacific Octopus is not generally regarded as a dangerous octopus, unlike its counterpart the Blue-Ringed Octopus.”The giant Pacific octopus is the biggest in the world, with an average length of 16 feet. They weigh in at 110 pounds and could easily attack a human if they chose to. Fortunately for the most part, they are known to be shy and usually friendly towards us.
With the exception of the blue-ringed octopus, all octopuses (yep, that's the correct plural form!) bite with their large beaks and inject venom, but the venom is not fatal. Only the blue-ringed octopus could kill a human with one of its venomous bites. Octopuses' have suckers (“suction cups”) on the arms that can become dangerous if they lock onto a human and would be very difficult to try to remove if they didn't want you to.
I scuba dived for many years, and I was always on the lookout to find an octopus. I never did, but it would have been an incredible experience to swim with one in the wild!
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Sorry for double posting again but didn’t feel this was worthy of posting a full page on it
An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial
This of course is potentially good news depending on if you trust The Science
or not. Think of the norovirus as the worst food poisoning you’ve ever had in your life but multiplied by 10, that hand sanitizer doesn’t even touch.
An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial
This of course is potentially good news depending on if you trust The Science
or not. Think of the norovirus as the worst food poisoning you’ve ever had in your life but multiplied by 10, that hand sanitizer doesn’t even touch.
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A once in a lifetime experience, I hope to see the ocean one day and at least get close to seeing an octopus one day
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If you've ever had this you know it's true. It was the sickest I'd ever been (other than double pneumonia as a small child that I don't even remember). It was basically three days straight of simultaneously puking and shitting, being too weak to even get up instead of literally crawling from bed to bathroom and back again, and having to drink water constantly, not because I could even keep it down but to have something to throw up instead of having agonizing dry heaves.This of course is potentially good news depending on if you trust The Science
I'd honestly take COVID-19 over it or the worst flu I ever had any day.
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I just went through it and actually lost a couple pounds of water weight from the amount of purging I was doing. Was sleeping curled up on the bathroom floor when I wasn’t sitting on the toilet with a trash can crying because of how much pain I was in
Days later I still don’t have much of an appetite and have to force myself to drink water and eat some soup
Can only imagine how devastating it must be to an older person with poor health and limited mobility. I truly do hope this vaccine is legit and it can be rolled out within the next couple years after more testing
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Get probiotics back in you asap. That shit messes you and your symbiotes up pretty bad.
din365
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get a load of this pile of Canadian cringe. holy shit no wonder this pile of red and white shit bombed.
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LRADS used against civilians in Europe
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Trump admin reconsiders proposal to protect monarch butterfly
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is reconsidering adding protections to the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is reopening the public comment period for 60 days to help evaluate if the insect is likely to become at risk of extinction in the foreseeable future.
“Everyone can play a role in saving the monarch butterfly,” the FWS in a press release. “Because of the species’ general habitat use and wide distribution, all sectors of society have an opportunity to participate in a broad range of conservation efforts throughout the butterfly’s range.”
The move comes five years after the first Trump administration declined to give the monarch butterfly protections. At the time, the FWS said it needed to devote its resources to higher-priority species.
About 61 species were given a higher priority than the monarch on the waiting list for protections.
Monarch butterflies are known for their impressive long-distance migration and large clusters they form while overwintering in Mexico and coastal California. Once abundant, monarch butterfly populations have been steadily declining since the mid-1990s due to several threats, according to the agency.
By 2080, the probability of extinction for eastern monarchs ranges from 56 percent to 74 percent, and the probability of extinction for western monarchs is greater than 95 percent, the service explained.
Planting native milkweed and flowers are essential to sustaining the butterflies.
Come on Trump, DO IT FOR WORMY!
Also I had no idea there was actually a long and complicated process to add any creature to the endangered species list.
When I was a kid I remember these guys were quite common…the last time I saw one was a couple years ago in an ally with its wings crumpled up
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is reconsidering adding protections to the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is reopening the public comment period for 60 days to help evaluate if the insect is likely to become at risk of extinction in the foreseeable future.
“Everyone can play a role in saving the monarch butterfly,” the FWS in a press release. “Because of the species’ general habitat use and wide distribution, all sectors of society have an opportunity to participate in a broad range of conservation efforts throughout the butterfly’s range.”
The move comes five years after the first Trump administration declined to give the monarch butterfly protections. At the time, the FWS said it needed to devote its resources to higher-priority species.
About 61 species were given a higher priority than the monarch on the waiting list for protections.
Monarch butterflies are known for their impressive long-distance migration and large clusters they form while overwintering in Mexico and coastal California. Once abundant, monarch butterfly populations have been steadily declining since the mid-1990s due to several threats, according to the agency.
By 2080, the probability of extinction for eastern monarchs ranges from 56 percent to 74 percent, and the probability of extinction for western monarchs is greater than 95 percent, the service explained.
Planting native milkweed and flowers are essential to sustaining the butterflies.
Come on Trump, DO IT FOR WORMY!
Also I had no idea there was actually a long and complicated process to add any creature to the endangered species list.
When I was a kid I remember these guys were quite common…the last time I saw one was a couple years ago in an ally with its wings crumpled up
Super-Chevy454
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A guy from Dothan was arrested again weeks later after Biden commuted his sentence. Just to said then Scott Adams was right again.
https://1819news.com/news/item/dothan-man-arrested-again-weeks-after-biden-commuted-sentence ( https://archive.ph/iCMbJ )
https://1819news.com/news/item/dothan-man-arrested-again-weeks-after-biden-commuted-sentence ( https://archive.ph/iCMbJ )
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