The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.
The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.
As a new film spotlights her 60-year career, record-breaking film extra Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David Bowie
She’s clearly having fun, running around in circles, chewing sticks, and finding and eating cat poop. And I don’t want to discourage her from having fun when I take her outside (except for the cat poop thing – that needs to stop)....
Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. (lemmy.world)
The world's largest single-site solar farm just came online (electrek.co)
Long thought to be extinct in Kenya, giant pangolins are now being helped back from the brink (www.theguardian.com)
new rule (lemmy.world)
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! (sh.itjust.works)
The advancement of humanity (lemmy.world)
French parliament backs proposal to ban vapes (www.theguardian.com)
Super Shitter? (telegra.ph)
‘I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise’: meet the world’s most prolific film extra (www.theguardian.com)
As a new film spotlights her 60-year career, record-breaking film extra Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David Bowie
How do you discourage a dog from biting while playing?
She’s clearly having fun, running around in circles, chewing sticks, and finding and eating cat poop. And I don’t want to discourage her from having fun when I take her outside (except for the cat poop thing – that needs to stop)....
Outliers (mander.xyz)
Those of you who work 8+ hours outside in the cold regularly, how do you dress for the job?
What tricks do you have to keep warm?
sea bunnies (mander.xyz)
‘Alive with rats’: north Queensland town of Karumba overrun by plague of swimming rodents (www.theguardian.com)
Can't catch me, coppers!! (mander.xyz)
How would you rate my stick? (lemmy.world)
1-10. How good of a stick is this? I quite like it....
smh (mander.xyz)
aaron swartz day (programming.dev)
Some of us take it to our hearts to remember one of the most influential hacktivists
!newtolemmy - A community to welcome and help new users (lemmy.ca)
Join us at the front gate to welcome new users into Lemmy, and to the Fediverse as a whole!...
US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’...
America from a European perspective (startrek.website)