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My favorite old ladysitting on her couch ( lemmy.world )

TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists. ( en.wikipedia.org )

aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know

Giuliani bankruptcy judge frustrated with case, rebuffs attempt to challenge $148 million judgment ( abcnews.go.com )

Tired - Christian Krohg (1885) 🇳🇴 ( upload.wikimedia.org )

State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad ( abcnews.go.com )

The U.S. State Department issued a "Worldwide Caution" alert on Friday, warning U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution due to "the increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events."

Interesting ( jlai.lu )

Trump Demands Biden Take a Drug Test Before Debating and Claims the President Was ‘High as a Kite’ During the State of the Union ( www.mediaite.com )

“I just wanna debate this guy, but you know– and I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump said as the audience cheered. “I am. No, I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite.”

Blade Runner concept art- Syd Mead, gauche on board (1982) ( lemmy.world )

Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet ( www.tomshardware.com )

An Orange Fox Curled Around a Blue Ball ( lemmy.cafe )

Dots connected ( lemmy.world )

Why Speaker Mike Johnson’s trip to Trump’s trial in N.Y. mattered ( www.msnbc.com )

It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy. Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court...

No punches pulled ( lemmy.world )

I posted in politics but it was removed for not having an article in it. So where should it go? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Peter Freuchen, Arctic explorer and later part of the antifascist resistance, with his first wife, Navarana Mequpaluk (died 1921 of the Spanish Flu), picture taken ~1912 ( media.kbin.social )

Watchdog readies crackdown on predatory lending after Supreme Court win ( www.washingtonpost.com )

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to restart its aggressive crackdown against payday lenders and other companies that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor borrowers, after a Supreme Court ruling this week resolved a challenge to the federal agency’s authority to act....