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Today Tuesday 23 June I received two issues of the weekly newspaper in my letterbox, the one of Tuesday 16 June, and the one of Tuesday 9 June. No problem, just wondering how this can happen.



As she says, a geeky as shit overview of how your game character build can influence whether you're playing the game on hard mode. Yes, she's talking about real life.

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One of the possible explanations for a weird astronomical observation a while back, as mentioned by this video, is that we detected an object that's 0.6mm in size, in another galaxy. Which is amazing.


Currently the Norway Chess tournament is ongoing and Divya Deshmukh is leading the rankings* after round 5.


Photo by Michal Walusza (who takes the best chess photos), copyright Norway Chess, from here, from an earlier round.

(* the women's rankings. The time will come she'll lead the overall rankings.)

#DivyaDeshmukh #chess

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Her rise has been sensational. She only became World Girls Champion in 2024. Hopefully, she can push above 2600 and up to 2700 with Vaishali and others



Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.

I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.

Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.



Yes, I shared a video link that only had 9 views. Be here for the niche content.