India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely (restofworld.org)
Bayer division 'knowingly sold' HIV-infected protein (2003) (www.theguardian.com)
Mars from Earth, and Earth from Mars (lemmy.world)
NJ TRANSIT Keeping the Commute Exciting (lemmy.sdf.org)
Blue sky vanishes immediately after Beijing's massive parade (2015) (edition.cnn.com)
There is a life size spray painting of The Stig from Top Gear in middle of Lillestrøm, Norway. (lemmy.world)
This cream cheese cover looks like a smiley face (lemmy.world)
This poison ivy along my street (lemmy.world)
It runs all the way down, flanking both sides. I pretend it’s a moat for protection. So lush in some places it’s difficult to not touch with your car as you drive along.
The urinal in this restaurant I went to had crazy pipes and lights (lemmy.world)
I don’t know why, but this big complex pipe structure was situated above the urinal. When you flush, the red light goes off and the green light goes on, and all the pressure dials start going crazy.
The underside of the center console in this 2022 Ram truck has some handy math formulas and some tool conversions (lemmy.world)
This sequential drive through code (lemmy.world)
Two yellow Lamborghinis crashed in Singapore (lemmy.world)
My daughter got a softball for her birthday that can illuminate in the dark (lemmy.ca)
Asian earwax > Every other earwax (lemmy.world)
Japanese WWII warplane lies wrecked in shallow water off Guam (lemmy.world)
Stockholm in the late 1980's, H&M just rebranded from "Hennes och Mauritz", people were wearing dark leather jackets as a fashion statement (lemmy.world)
I posted this previously in !stockholm, but that community never seemed to pick up any speed, so I hope more people can appreciate this historic tidbit....
LED bulb PCB after failure (lemmy.world)
I have no idea how the PCB got this effect.
Heart-stopping photos of Kai Tak International Airport (Hong Kong, closed 1998) (edition.cnn.com)
Kai Tak was the official airport in Hong Kong until 1998. It was built on the Kowloon side, and the start and landing strips were built and then extended onto an artificial peninsula....
Red-eyed crocodile skinks look like baby dragons (lemmy.world)
WORLD RECORD Kapla Tower Collapse (youtu.be)
They build a 25 meter tall tower out of wooden sticks over the course of four days and then make it all collapse. I thought it was pretty cool.
Why Do Pink Lakes Turn, Well... Pink? (youtu.be)
Bee stuck on a car antenna (lemmy.world)
Saw this in a parking lot today. I feel bad for the bee but that’s pretty mildly interesting.
Japan Still Has Ninjas — But They’re About to Go Extinct (psnaudus.medium.com)
In 2012, Jinichi Kawakami emerged as the last surviving ninja grandmaster. Kawakami believed that the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age, as we have better weapons, the internet, and better medicines. Masaaki Hatsumi, another surviving ninja grandmaster, has not appointed an heir. Once Kawakami and Hatsumi pass away,...