Sacha Dylan

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[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

The ADHD urge to wait for “one completely uninterrupted day” to start a task when you’ve already been waiting for 27 years

[Sacha Dylan @SachaDylan]

@Thinkwert @danniemedia ‘Is it too big to eat?’

[This Account Makes You Happy @FeelYouHappy]

If you put a broken water balloon through a colander, it becomes a work of art.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Happy Commodore users. They must have got the special tape recorder to work!

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

A society that does not employ and reward young people to do useful things is an abject failure.

[Spider Hoof @spider_hoof]

I have been deregistered from voting and just had to re enroll.

This is no joke.

You all need to check that you are enrolled immediately.
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[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

This dog is like fuck you I wont play by your rules

[Iris Shackleton @irisshackleton]

Probably how the keys in the salad bowl events became a thing in the 70s. People turned up to have dinner, saw this and someone created a distraction, “I’ve got a great idea, why don’t we…?” and everyone yelled “yes!” in unison.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast.

Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.

A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore.

When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.

Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.

The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.

The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

Household living cost increases are only up 2% year-on-year in Q1 2026. Sound right? Nah, it's because cheaper mortgage costs (yellow) are pulling the numbers down compared to last year. If you don't have a mortgage, you're getting all heat no relief. (1/2)

[💧Riki Bowler🐷🐮🐔🐶🐭🐑🐱 @rikibowler]

I live in a small village, Kohukohu in the North Hokianga NZ. We have two village cats, Patches (pic) and PussPuss. They are cared for by a core group of people and loved and financially assisted by the whole town.
Just a happy post to show the world is not all bad

[Sacha Dylan @SachaDylan]

@cherrycola_nz xoxo

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

He's very good at what he does.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

If you want to understand the consequences of using AI in a military context, take a listen to this clip featuring journalist Shane Harris.

For reference, Maven is a U.S. AI system which combines satellite intelligence, logisitcal data, and open-source intelligence into a single interface for target designation purposes.

It was responsible for selecting the elementary school in Isfahan where 180 civilians were killed most of them children.

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[Geoff Keey 🏔️🏕️🐶🥧💉 @GeoffreyKeey]

First Autumn snow

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The physics of 16 uncoupled pendulums

[📹 Marcel Clemens]

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside.

She couldn’t afford her bill.

This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America.
The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box.

Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success.

Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix.

Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world.

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths.

There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name.

The first man’s country has the higher GDP.

The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon.

MAGA America calls that losing.

Ask anyone.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Rex Widerstrom @RexWiderstrom]

No. *Every* city and town should have these in proportionate numbers to their population. Drop incoming commuters at a central transit hub (or hubs) and from there they can catch a free rapid area transit electric bus to points in the CBD. A confirmed car devotee, Perth's CAT buses convinced me to sell my car when I moved to a city apartment. When I moved away again, they were always one bus or train ride away.

[Lew @LewSOS]

@Tiare_MP This is a much less outrageous proposal than the haters imagine, because there are only ~20 towns in the country with a population of at least 5k population that do not already have regular public transport services