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Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara — Earth from space | Live Science
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'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different | Live Science
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Oops! Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS | Live Science
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Care workers raise concerns over illegal pay and 'misleading' job adverts - The Mirror
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Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds – Disability News Service
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DWP ministers ‘must be shown’ new research which shows likely results of ‘obscene’ plans to cut benefits – Disability News Service
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#WRAG
#Budget
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Is the state pension called a benefit so it can easily be scrapped?
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EHRC guidance dubbed ‘misogynist’s charter’ as trans people ‘could be banned from single-sex spaces based on looks’ | The Independent
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One of the subjects covered in this episode is the massacre in Dafur, Sudan against the Massalit people.

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Inside Ardamata: Anatomy of a massacre

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> Using a unique and groundbreaking investigative approach, filmmaker Sara Creta has forensically reconstructed events on the day Ardamata, in West Darfur, was overrun by rebel forces in 2023.

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#Dafur
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“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”: Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan | HRW
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Millions Could Lose ACA Help: Trump’s Refusal to Extend Subsidies Sparks Healthcare Crisis
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MAGA Vs Jesus. Round 6 . Toxic Masculinity.

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DWP Announces Major PIP Assessment Overhaul – Here’s How It Will Affect You

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Labour's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush - Big Issue
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‘I’m missing so much of my son’s life’: the families split by Labour’s asylum crackdown | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns | NHS | The Guardian
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Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank | Public services policy | The Guardian
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God, one of the most dystopian things I've ever heard... literally shit you see in Cyberpunk...


Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Update introduces two ways for the fridges to show ads.
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"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
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@Katelyn Burns I mean is anyone surprised that the current supreme court supported Trump in this?

Biggest surprise is it took them this long to intervene in his favor.

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Yesterday's news: sickness absence, driven in large part by a surge in mental health issues, is costing the UK economy £212 billion a year.

Today's news: NHS mental health services are closing.

If someone thinks that's going to save money, they are going to be sorely disappointed.

Also, quite apart from the money, it's just utterly cruel on a human level.

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#ADHD #MentalHealth #FalseEconomy

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Folk who get drained by social interaction, does that also happen to you in online spaces?

Please boost, for science.*

*The science is my curiosity

  • Yes, with friends/family and strangers (44%, 284 votes)
  • Yes, but only with strangers (18%, 116 votes)
  • No, I can chat online all day (19%, 122 votes)
  • I mostly lurk (33%, 212 votes)
636 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago

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Couldn't vote with my foggyminds.com account so have voted from my leftist.network account

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Ben Jennings on the prison overcrowding crisis in England and Wales – cartoon | Ben Jennings | The Guardian
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Disabled people who want to work say they can’t due to a ‘chronically underfunded’ welfare system and accessibility issues | The Independent

Cutting benefits doesn't get disabled people into work it just gets us into poverty.
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I know how to get the long-term sick and disabled people back to work | The Independent
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‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts | The Independent
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Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say | Poverty | The Guardian (1 year old)

And if the govt keep cutting benefits more &more people will be buying their food on the black market unless there are enough food pantries (food banks often only allow you 3 food parcels a year or other such restrictions).
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#BlackMarket
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There is a thriving shadow economy in Britain – but migrants are not to blame | Emily Kenway | The Guardian

Reducing benefits will only result in more folk working in this Shadow Economy for wages that won't get deducted from their meagre benefits. For many it's the only way to make ends meet already.
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Woman who ‘felt completely out of control’ for 25 years finally diagnosed - The Mirror

The correct diagnosis when she finally got it, as she entered Perimenopause, was PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, a severe version of PMS
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Fury as thousands of tonnes of food for starving Palestinians stuck in warehouse
Most of the 'Aid' getting into Gaza is commercial deliveries destined for shops in Gaza whilst actual aid is left in warehouses & about to become out of date.

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Doctors didn't take me seriously - until my partner came with me | Metro News.

Women getting dismissed by A&E doctors & their symptoms ignored unless they have a white male to speak up for them.
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#Racism
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#Misogyny
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DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts – Disability News Service
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor: King Charles wants brother to be stripped of his last remaining military title, minister says | The Independent

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Chris Parkinson-Brown: New water pipeline plan explained | Hampshire Chronicle
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Train attack eyewitness says ‘hero’ threw himself in front of knife | News | Independent TV

Horrific knife attack on the train. Those arrested are British born.
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What asylum seekers are entitled to while awaiting decisions on their cases | The Independent

If meals are not provided where they are living its just £49.28/week. Could you live on that? If meals are provided its £9.95/week. That has to cover sanity towels, all toiletries, etc. Even the no food provided amount is substantially less than you get on Universal Credit for general living expenses.
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And remember they are not allowed to work so they can't get a job to pay for their living expenses unless they are going to work illegally cash in hand. If they do they will be working in very exploitative conditions because they don't have any employment rights.

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UN approves resolution supporting Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara | Western Sahara | The Guardian

The Sahrawi people used to live in Western Sahara before Morocco took it over. They are not allowed to be openly Sahwari in Morocco controlled territory. Many of them have been forced into refugee camps in the desert. Simon Reeve visited them a number of years ago.

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Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor | The Guardian
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Asylum accommodations are retraumatising survivors of torture | Morning Star
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Trump ‘sad’ as he concedes the Constitution is ‘pretty clear’ on running for a third term: Live updates | The Independent
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Millions of drivers unaware over little-known number plate meaning

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Furious Prince Andrew row explodes on Good Morning Britain as host forced to intervene

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