.......... totally unprecedented, eh?

whooooooooops! it was already the de facto policy for Palestinians!

Do u think there might be spiders down here

My dad is such a dungeon meshihead now it's epic

He sent me a picture of the bread he made and said "I call it Steve's Underwhelming Loaf" and then followed that up by sending me this

The Lyre Player

Greek Place of Nestor ~ 1300 BCE

I'm so determined to get better let's fucking go

The night parrot was thought to have been extinct for around 100 years but was rediscovered in 2013.

A Kimberley ranger group has discovered a night parrot egg, the second ever to be collected.

Scientists will use the unfertilised egg to understand more about the bird's breeding patterns and what can be done to boost numbers.

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The discovery of an unfertilised night parrot egg in Western Australia's far north has caused a stir in international wildlife circles.

The parrot was thought extinct for over a century but was rediscovered in 2013 by a wildlife photographer who captured video footage of a live bird in Queensland.

Not long after, populations were found in WA's Great Sandy Desert on land managed by the Ngururrpa people, including 50 parrots occupying an area in WA's remote Kimberley.

But much remains unknown about the rare bird and its behaviours, and the discovery of an unfertilised egg has given hope to conservationists and scientists keen to see an increase in numbers.

"Claire Cao was only a senior in high school when she saw a vital need in her community — and filled it. 

In 2024, the teenager spent her time outside of school volunteering at Blanchet House, a Portland-based nonprofit that serves people experiencing homelessness through food donations, clothing drives, and mental health assistance programs. 

As she logged hours as a Blanchet House student ambassador, Cao soon realized how difficult it was for community members to keep track of shelter openings, rotating food service programs, and available mental health resources. 

“During one afternoon meal service, I met Dano, an unhoused man who shared his struggles with accessing basic services like food and shelter,” Cao said in a recent press release. 

“Left disconnected from essential services, Dano described his struggles of not knowing where to go or which shelters had available beds.”

Combining her love for technology, law, and public policy, Cao pulled available resources into a database and created the ShelterBridge app, which connects users to shelters and services in their area. 

“ShelterBridge wasn’t simply inspired by Dano — it was inspired by the realization that access to resources is a fundamental need that we, as a community, can do a better job of providing,” Cao emphasized. 

“I wanted to use my skills to build something that could bridge that gap, ensuring that no one falls through the cracks simply because they don’t know where to turn for help.”

In addition to linking users to services in their area, the app also has a rating system similar to Yelp. This system allows people to leave star ratings and reviews on shelters, food services, hotlines, and legal aid. 

The ratings not only help users differentiate between services in their area — but they also provide invaluable feedback to the nonprofits, organizations, and government programs that service them. 

“We've been asking for an app like this for a number of years now,” Scott Kerman, executive director of Blanchet House, told Portland news station KGW.

In mid-January, Cao won the 2024 Congressional App Challenge in Oregon’s First District for her work with ShelterBridge — outcompeting 12,682 student submissions. 

Since the app first launched, Cao and her growing ShelterBridge team — which includes enterprising high schoolers and college students from across the nation — have expanded services to California, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, and North Carolina. 

“Claire and the team she’s working with deserve all the credit in the world because they're doing something that frankly nobody else has really stepped up to do,” Kerman said. 

“To have the kind of technology that we use every day with hotels and other kinds of reservations [to] help people get into safe, supportive and dignified shelter would be a game changer for our community.”

Although the app started as a class project, Cao said ShelterBridge’s success has far surpassed her expectations. 

“I do hope to keep it up,” she told Oregon outlet KOIN 6 News, as she looked ahead to college and beyond. “I’ve made a lot of efforts to expand it to other cities as well — and it’s something I can mostly do from a computer or my laptop at home.”

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He's a scarlet ibis! THATS HIS JOB!!

average viral video in the US: homeless man getting hit so hard by a teenager he falls to target sales floor headfirst making an incredibly loud clapping sound

average viral video in china: man and his pet goose in tightly edited comedy sketch where the goose repeatedly outsmarts its owner in the pursuit of classic home cooked guangdong delicacies

Rosalinda Guillén, a farmworker and political activist in Skagit County, said Juarez is a 25-year-old farmworker and union organizer, and he was detained while driving his partner to her job in the flower fields.

“He tried to defend himself by not speaking to them and refusing to get out of the car, and they broke his car window,” Guillén told KUOW.

“He doesn’t have a criminal record, and we think that they stopped him because of his leadership, because of his activism,” Guillén added. “We’re trying to get him out.”

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going to go to a random overpass and just start dropping bricks with my eyes closed until something happens. and its this posts fault