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The home office has resumed the process of moving asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm ( www.theguardian.com )

Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates ( www.theguardian.com )

Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves...

‘I prefer women’s jeans – men’s lack design subtlety’: why men are buying womenswear ( www.theguardian.com )

Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs ( www.theguardian.com )

Vladimir Putin escalates nuclear rhetoric with threat to resume testing ( www.theguardian.com )

Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game ( www.theguardian.com )

It is concerning to watch UK disengage from the world, says Irish PM ( www.theguardian.com )

Republican congressman to nominate Trump for House speaker ( www.theguardian.com )

Troy Nehls, from Texas, calls Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’ and says he will nominate him to replace Kevin McCarthy...

Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal ( www.theguardian.com )

Conservative cardinals had challenged the pope to confirm teachings on LGBTQ+ issues...

Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging as picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ is perceived as reference to 1989 massacre ( www.theguardian.com )

Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of the two women in profile showed Lin’s lane number, 6, next to Wu’s lane number, 4....

Urban and rural foxes equally persistent/innovative according to one study ( www.theguardian.com )

Study here. Essentially, they put food behind some puzzles and figured out how many foxes approached the puzzle and how many solved it. More urban foxes approached the puzzle than wild ones, but they solved at about the same rate. (I will admit I skimmed the actual study, so correct me if I’m wrong!)...

We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world ( www.theguardian.com )

When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?

Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law ( www.theguardian.com )

Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law....

Sheer stupidity is a threat to our scientific progress | Letters ( www.theguardian.com )

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/742098...

‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people ( www.theguardian.com )

‘No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism ( www.theguardian.com )

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”....

Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone ( www.theguardian.com )

Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS...

Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall ( www.theguardian.com )

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England....