I once met a koala holding a little plaquard saying “Bear X-ing”

Do you live in a Richard Scarry book?

He rejected the Polish government’s offer to send a member of the Polish foreign office along with him, on the basis that he thinks they’ll offend Trump and his officials.

Did some quick reading on this. A few articles linked back to Belgian news site 7sur7, so I’m referencing that article here:

• The group who did this was Stop Arming Israel, not Palestine Action.
• They targeted OIP Land Systems because they’re a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, who are a major manufacturer of weapons sold to Israel.
• OIP used to sell military vehicles to Israel, but haven’t for a couple of decades.
• The result was a one-month delay in delivering the vehicle shipment to Ukraine.
• The CEO described the activists as “sympathisants du Hamas”, which personally makes me mistrust anything else he says.

I don’t mean to condone the damage they did - Ukraine needs all it can get - but it would be easy to read your message and think they’d deliberately taken action to hurt the Ukraine defence effort by raiding a company unconnected with Israel’s genocide.

I really want to know the original context of the photo. I suspect the face and hair are prosthetic and it’s a younger rider doing something like a Jackass skit; like you say, the bike is easily upwards of $10k.

It’s a Specialized S-Works Epic - a high-end cross-country bike. With the saddle dropped, I think any normal sized rider would look the same.

Check out the 9-minute mark on this video for a comparison - I don’t know if it’s the same version of the bike, but it should be comparable.

The original book, Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame) is absolutely excellent. Mark Cawardine, the guy in your video, was a co-traveler for the book too. I can’t recommend it enough.

The kākāpō is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right.

It seems that not only has the kākāpō forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kākāpō will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

RIP Douglas Adams.

They’re good dogs, Brent.

Not to mention that they were happily selling Kanye West’s Nazi clothing until the press and social media called them out for it.

That article suggests another was the plotter

Not to mention that al-Sharaa was a 19-year-old with no known status in any groups at the time of the 9/11 attacks.

Apple (malum) was used of the fruit from the 12th Century or thereabouts in ecclesiastical Latin, but the first known red apple is recorded only in the mid-17th Century, when an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head and turned bright red in embarrassment.

The trend presumably picked up from there - c.f. the popularity of rouge in the French court.

The Biblical fruit is just given as “pərî” and could be any fruit. Avalon is from the Welsh aflonydd, “peaceful”, so named because it was King Arthur’s vacation spot. Raspberries have not yet been discovered, at time of writing.

Actually, the color is named after the fruit. It wasn’t until the late Middle Ages that we discovered anything other than the redcurrant that was red in color. Poppies, for example, were only discovered in ~1917, and we only found out about blood in the 1970s.

“Embryo” still implies fertilization - in casual use, it’s a broad term, but you wouldn’t use it of an unfertilized egg cell.

I don’t think most people would think of the egg itself as a chicken even if fertilized. The zygote inside the egg becomes the chicken, not the egg itself.

Not totally sure of the relevance, but you’re thinking of K.C. & The Sunshine Band’s 1975 That’s the Way (I Like It).

Speaking from ignorance, I think this is something like:

To know nothing is perilous; to know little, more so.

You don’t need to pretend Musk has German ancestry to criticize them. His father is a violent bigot who supports Russian imperialism and his maternal grandfather was a racist, fascist Southern African politician.

Now here’s Concentric Lamb with the weather.

Michel Vaujour had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery; this was his fourth escape attempt. He made his way to the roof by threatening guards with a fake pistol and nectarines painted as grenades. On top of the jail he was picked up by his wife Nadine, who had taken helicopter pilot lessons especially for the escape. They landed at a nearby football pitch and fled in a waiting car.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

The couple’s hideout was right back in Paris. Bold or foolish, they stayed in the city where they had just staged a daring escape. Three months later, they were caught not opening a charming coffee shop but robbing a bank—again. In the shootout that followed, Michel took a bullet to the head but survived. He was soon back in prison, his sixth escape attempt with a new accomplice, Jamila, ending in failure.

- https://www.readingolive.com/storyDetails?story=nadine-vaujour-the-woman-who-got-a-pilots-license-to-help-her-husband-escape-from-prison