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Vanity leads to pride. Pride leads to hate. [MMW] (dmv.social)

[MMW] The Evil Dead Troopers (lemmy.world)

Don't forget to tip your gas station (startrek.website)

Heavy Klingon breathing... (pixelfed.social)

Me taking my multivitamin after shovelling down candy (lemmy.ca)

I spy with my Cold War satellite eye... nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East (arstechnica.com)

Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.

"Wet" by Chris Hallbeck (telegra.ph)

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Director Joe Russo Takes Jab At Martin Scorsese Touting Marvel Films’ Box Office Success (deadline.com)

Healthy work/life balance (startrek.website)

Usenet communities?

I’m looking to go into Usenet / premiumize / real Debrid but I don’t know which ones are reputable. Which ones have you all had luck with or liked? And what was the cost?

Good dog (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

alt textPicard telling Riker a pun meme. Frame 1: I once purchased a dog from a blacksmith. Frame 2: As soon as I brought him home, he made a bolt for the door.

Reporters Without Borders files complaint with International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes against journalists in Palestine and Israel (rsf.org)

According to the media NGO RSF’s tally, 34 journalists have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, of whom at least 12 were killed in the course of their work – 10 in Gaza, one in Israel and one in Lebanon....

"Spell and Speak" by Mr.Lovenstein (telegra.ph)

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Female students at Dhaka University (now-Bangladesh, then-Pakistan) protesting for Bengali language rights, 1953 (lemmy.world)

What's you plan for your digital legacy?

Lately I started including what happens to my data in case I die unexpectedly in my threat model. As of now I’d like for everything to stay private. All my accounts have a strong password that I store on a keepass datbase that I store only on encrypted devices which themselves are protected only by PIN or Password with no...

Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds (www.latimes.com)

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The Contract Conundrum

I apologize if this is too long for this community or if there isn’t enough maliciousness to it. This is a true story that happened to me and I have never really talked about it in detail since it happened. Feel free to skip to the TL;DR at the end....

Halloween costume (media.tech.lgbt)

alt textHalloween costume meme, labelled “Former Gifted Child”. The package is empty, and on it there is written: "Nothing included When people ask, “What are you supposed to be?” just reply, “I was supposed to be a lot of things.”

Can we take a moment to appreciate Chekov's hair in his early episodes? (startrek.website)

I’ve been rewatching TOS recently, and I noticed that Chekov’s hair had a mind of its own for a while. I took a few screenshots, looked up the story behind it, and made this really quick for anyone like me who wasn’t aware....

"When an eight-year-old tells you that she doesn’t want to die, it’s hard not to feel helpless:" toll of Israel-Palestine crisis on children ‘beyond devastating’, UN says (news.un.org)

"Threats go beyond the bombs and mortars”, UNICEF’s James Elder stressed. Infant deaths due to dehydration are “a growing threat” in the enclave as Gaza’s water production is at five per cent of the required volume due to non-functioning desalination plants which are either damaged or lack fuel....