Interesting! Blake Lively was spotted grocery shopping the same... weekend as Taylor Swift’s bachelorette party, which involved jetting off somewhere fabulous.👀 She’s in the worst outfit, looking that miserable. Stay home Blake, u seem to have destroyed ur personal relationships.show more

Taylor Swift doesn’t just end relationships—she erases people. After... a dinner with her squad, Joe Alwyn wasn’t just dumped—he was ERASED. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds joined Taylor’s inner circle in unfollowing him, making the takedown loud and public. Blake used that same playbook against Justin Baldoni during It Ends With Us. On her orders, the cast unfollowed Justin, isolating him while Blake maneuvered to seize control. Fans are finally catching on. One Swifty admitted Taylor and Blake’s bullying tactics made her rethink everything. Is this the blueprint for isolating and destroying people who don’t fit their narrative?show more

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Both Crushing Pre-Wedding Workouts... in NYC! 💪🏃‍♂️ — (Video: AI) Taylor wasn’t the only one getting that glow-up in the Big Apple today. While Swift’s been turning heads with her fitness routines, Travis Kelce was spotted jogging through Tribeca, working up a serious sweat ahead of their massive wedding weekend. Considering the debauchery they’re likely to be involved in over the coming days, this is good planning. Either way, they’re exercising — and that’s something all Americans need to enjoy. NYC has its issues, but one positive is celebrities can often walk or run around and be left alone. Kelce in point. This is a healthy, high-energy vibe from both Travis & Taylor to start off their wedding wonders. Would you agree?show more

Ok, this is just weird now.. 13 Years ago,... Erika Kirk, stared in a music video "She's My Kind of Crazy" In the video, she can be seen zip lining past the time 9:10, which is the same date Charlie Kirk was assassinated, 9/10. In addition to that, she commented on the music video, saying Tyler and her had a blast shooting the video. —— no idea who she’s referring to at that Time… maybe her co-star? I’m going to keep looking. There was also something very interesting… the license plate in the old Ford Truck they drove off to Vegas is different compared to the same truck they left Vegas in. — To Vegas: “4991”, with an unidentifiable symbol to the left, and in an unidentified format — Leaving Vegas: “E-Drive 12” in a California format. Look up which states have 4-digit license plates… Several U.S. states issue standard passenger vehicle license plates that consist of exactly 4 digits (numeric only, in a format like 1234). These are typically low-numbered or legacy plates reserved for special purposes, such as VIP’s, political officials, dignitaries, or long-time residents through lotteries or inheritance. 🔻 What does all of this mean? I have no clue. Just pointing out some very strange anomalies. Weird…. Very very weird. Full Video Zip-lineshow more

We made full detail, life-sized statues of some of... our hero characters for the marketing of #Transformers ROTB. To create these, we sent 16K turntable renders of the chosen characters in a studio environment to the manufacturer along with the 3D models so that they could replicate them as closely as possible. I worked on the Optimus Primal 3D delivery and can confidently say that those last few days of preparing the character for renders and send-off were some of the most stressful of the entire production. I remember working until 4am on the Friday delivery day to get the character sent down the pipe, ultimately having to skip the MPC Summer Party which was held on the same day. Shout out to everyone involved in the creation of these statues, they turned out amazing!show more

OK, I have a definitive word on the CJ... Abrams play from today's Pittsburgh Pirates at Washington Nationals game after talking with Elias Sports Bureau on this. This play will stay as a sacrifice fly. The originial ruling of NOT a sacrifice fly was for the exact same reason that I thought, which is that the infielder is not running into the outfield, which is year's past would have been correct As it was explained to me, in past years, an infielder had to be running almost in a straight line towards the outfield wall to be considered "running in the outfield". Here, since he is running, and he ends up further away from home (157 feet) than when he started (145 feet), this is going to count as a sacrifice fly. That definition is changing, in part from this play to help bring greater consistency, and to take some of the guesswork out of it (the argument that he is running into the outfield as opposed to more parallel). Now, folks all the time ask "why doesn't MLB publish the OS Manual" and I always say because it is a living document that can have the wording change, and the wording for this play will be modified to something like "more towards the outfield wall than towards home plate" to eliminate any confusion. The big key to this play is that he was running on a full sprint. Also, and this is helpful for me, but for all fly ball outs that score a run, Elias Saba reviews to ensure consistency. So, yes, it's a sacrifice fly, and now that I have that info from Elias themselves, that sort of settles this one. Sounds like the guidelines for this definition will be changing, either this season, or certainly for next season.show more

If you believe that none of the people leaving... 34 Fairview, some of which saw the Lexus near the flagpole & knew John O’Keefe was coming over, saw John’s body in the yard … then why is it so out of the realm of possibility that Lucky didn’t see him either? I mean he confirmed what all these people said which is that they didn’t see John laying in the yard by the flag pole: •Jennifer McCabe •Matt McCabe •Brian Higgins •Sarah Levinson •Julie Nagel •Ryan Nagel •Caitlin Albert •Tristin Morris It’s interesting to see the same testimony “I didn’t see a body” considered differently by various people. The video below mimics the exact movements of the McCabe vehicle as they were leaving the house that night. Jen & the 2 girls in the back might’ve been engaged in a conversation & maybe weren’t paying attention. Matt, however, would have been looking straight ahead as he was driving. When he switched gears from reverse to drive, the vehicle would be still & his headlights would have been shining DIRECTLY on John’s body. So did he not see John’s body because John wasn’t there? Or is he lying about not seeing John laying there? Help me understand. #KarenReadshow more

UPDATE: Charlie Kirk Blood Spatter, Earpiece, or Necklace? This... video is going viral from someone named RangeDayBro on YouTube, saying this is 100% evidence Charlie was shot in the head, BUT… it’s kinda wrong. I was the original person to point out that something looked like it hit Charlies right side of his head when it happened… when I first started looking, I thought the exact same thing he did about the “Blood Splatter”. But I kept slowing down the video, and discovered what appears to be an earpiece or necklace. He also gets the “FLASH” wrong, 100% wrong. Stating that’s where the shooter was.. then said he was hiding in the bush. After combing through video footage, I found what I believe to be 100% the muzzle flash. The shot did not and could not have come from that location because it’s merely the top window panel of the interior hall of flags (I think that’s what it’s called.) The muzzle flash was 100% a reflection off that glass panel from a far off distance, notably in the same general direction they said the shooter was. (See post below) Conclusion: Now, I’m not saying he couldn’t have been shot from anywhere else.. nor in any direction. In fact, I don’t buy the story at all that his neck bones stopped that bullet. As we saw that day, there were several distractions, which I feel played a significant role to allow the real people to get away. I’m only saying his suggestion about the “blood spatter” is just his earpiece or most likely a necklace... It’s important to be accurate and process eliminate these things. Maybe Turning Point USA can confirm if in fact his necklace did pop off, it could settle some of these “theories”. All we want is the truth.show more

BREAKING: Trooper Nicholas Guarino just testified that #KarenRead’s cellphone... data showed that her phone connected to the WiFi at Officer #JohnOKeefe’s house at 1 Meadows Ave at 12:36am after she dropped John off at the after party at 34 Fairview Road. This is further evidence exonerating Karen Read given the Commonwealth’s theory states that she struck and killed Officer O’Keefe outside of 34 Fairview with her vehicle at 12:45am. The Commonwealth’s theory that Jen McCabe still saw Karen Read’s vehicle in front of 34 Fairview at 12:40 and 12:45am, as reflected by Jen’s text messages to John O’Keefe’s cellphone in which she’s acting like she still sees him/Karen’s car outside, is completely destroyed by Karen Read’s cellphone data, home WiFi network & router data, and Ring camera footage—all of which establish she was long gone from 34 Fairview by that time and had already arrived back home. Therefore, Karen Read did not and could not have killed Officer O’Keefe. Therefore, that’s further direct evidence of #JenMcCabe’s concerted efforts to fabricate a timeline, mislead investigators and ultimately frame Karen Read, similar to her attempt to blame her 2:27am incriminating Google search on Read. #KarenReadTrial #JusticeForJohnOKeefe #FreeKarenRead #CantonCoverup #PoliceCorruptionshow more

Today, I heard the most wonderful and uplifting thing.... Andrew Bragg gave a commitment to leave the Liberal Party if it dropped Net Zero and exited the Paris Accord. A treaty that should never have been signed. It is the shadowy figures behind Andrew Bragg, Alex Hawke and the rest of the useless Labor/Teal-“moderate”-left-faction of the Liberal Party that got the party and the country into this mess. They rolled Tony Abbott, who won a mandate, promising to scrap the carbon tax. They have betrayed that promise ever since. Our energy woes have been a long time coming. We didn’t just wake up one day in an energy poor and deindustrialised nation. We have been under sustained attack for decades, an attack that has been marshalled by the left of politics. They control Labor, they have ruined the Liberals and have overrun just about every institution in the country. It is why the business council, sounds the same as the Australia Institute, and they both sound the same as the Greens. We are a nation in a hole, and Bragg admitted as much in his interview on Insiders today. We really need more coal, because the energy transition is failing. It is worse than that, the transition has failed. It was a bad idea, just like the rest of Net Zero. Our predicament is the result of irresponsible governments across Australia. Labor and Liberal, both have set policies that destroyed coal as the backbone of our grid, as they duchessed the Green grifters around their respective states across Australia. They played along with whatever bad idea the Greens were spouting at the time. Close this facility, replace it with a windmill. No to nuclear. No to gas. Close it, shut it, and replace it with fantasy. Turnbull, Kean, Perrottet, Berejiklian, Andrews, Morrison Albanese, and all of the rest, on a unity ticket that flushed our energy future down the toilet. All because they were afraid to upset Greta Thunberg. Because they were afraid to upset a youth, that they allowed our institutions to indoctrinate into a cult of ignorance. The world is slowly pulling in a new direction. Because hard reality has chased down fantasy. They’re waking up to the monorail that is ‘green’ energy, and ripping out the tracks. The National Party spurred by One Nation have cottoned on, and the Liberals will be dragged into the modern era, kicking and screaming. There is no doubt that if they don’t drop the Net Zero cake, and all of the icing that goes with it, they will never be a party of government again. Which brings us back to Andrew Bragg. Australia would be better off if he was not pretending to oppose Labor from the Liberal benches. We need people in opposition that understand the problems we have as a nation, and how to solve them. Not people who have only ever worked in the industry of politics, sending happy snaps along the way. Bragg knows his only chance at a job in the red house is through the blue team. He knows that blue voters don’t prioritise action on climate. But he sits there wasting a space advocating against the things the people that vote for him want. So if he had any decency, he would go, today. Because with friends like Andrew Bragg, you don’t need enemies. I just want Australia back.show more

4 years ago Scrooge told me his man from... the town had a crush on me, I didn’t care I just wanted a free meal at Pasha so I told Brianna get dressed. U ain’t wanna seem thirsty so u sat across from me and not next to me but I seen you staring from under your bucket. You wasn’t as thirsty as I expected which was kinda admirable but I was too busy eating my free food to care. Terry sat next to you and I ain’t kno that was your homegirl so I said OH HELL NO and got up and moved her bag to sit next to you. The first thing u said was “you acting like I won’t kiss you on the mouth right now” I rolled my eyes and said eww and then said so do it! And you did, and then your thirsty ass asked me to move in with you the next day. The next 4 years I learned valuable lessons from you but the most valuable of them all is that the most powerful thing on earth is love, there isnt a dollar amount, a bag, a shiny object on God’s green earth that could top your loyalty or make me turn on you, fuck the world, Us until the end or until u piss me off, which ever comes first SO STAY ON YOUR SHIT❤️show more

This #Ayurveda treatment for EYE SIGHT I can vouch... for. 👍👍👍 It really works‼️ I witnessed it myself (though from a different Ayurveda-shala) in Kerala. One of our cousin was very upset that her daughter in pre-KG had poor eyesight. Chechi/ didi told me she had the same issue as a kid and AYURVEDA treatment with oil and urad daal helped her. That cream colour dough u see is usually made of URAD DAAL. Chechi took her daughter to the same Ayurveda shala she went as a kid for treatment. I think complete cure takes place if the procedure is followed religiously for a few months. Since they were living in UAE, chechi bought the oils to be used, from Kerala, and continued the treatment of her daughter, here at her home. That kid — my god! has perfect eyesight now. Touchwood‼️ Albeit I understood that if the eyesight related issue is genetical then despite curing it, the same problem recurs in the next generation. As long as you’re ready to do the AYURVEDA treatment religiously, I dont think it matters. It produces results for sure. Apparently, in kerala now they have such EYE SIGHT related Ayurvedashala everywhere. Its just that some have greater expertise. 👍 I spotted this video and thought I will jot down our cousin’s experience. Hope it helps. 👍 PS: The Ayurveda shala mentioned below is not the one chechi visited. It was different one in Thrissur. There are many such Ayurvedashalas all over kerala. 👍show more

I’ve never shared the full inside baseball on the... inside fastball that broke my jaw April 5, 2008 at Ole Miss, we were facing projected 1st rounder and future Big Leaguer, Lance Lynn Before it became widespread, Lance had success pitching towards the top of the zone with a fastball that appeared to rise He got me out my first at bat on a high fastball that I should have laid off So my 2nd at bat I told myself to see the ball down in the zone My eyes jumped from his release point to the area I was trying to see the ball down to. I never ended up seeing the pitch until .01 before it hit me If you’ve ever gotten hit in the face, you don’t know what happened at first. So it took me about half a second to realize what happened When I did, I fully expected to spit teeth out and when I leaned over to spit and saw that only blood came out, I assumed I was fine Then I heard the Ole Miss head coach yell “it hit his bat,” because the cracking of my jaw sounded like a foul ball off a mental bat I turned around and yelled “shut the fuck up” at their dugout and proceeded on to first base My trainer came up to me and his first words were “oh fuck,” Knowing that was poor bedside manner, and that I was probably very fucked up, I joked “you’re not supposed to say that,” At that point I knew I was coming out of the game but I was so full of adrenaline that it didn’t hurt and wouldn’t begin to hurt for a couple hours Both the pitcher and coach felt so bad after it happened that both came to apologize to me at the end of the inning while I was beside their dugout being tended to by my trainer and their doctor I actually had to walk to the parking lot through the stadium seats and all the fans looked at me in horror as I had a white bloody rag hanging off my face. It was surreal watching their reactions to my blood We drove over to an Oxford medical center that was clearly not the best location for me to be in, so my coach’s wife drive me up to Nashville to get surgery that night We got swept that weekend and I got my jaw wired shut for the first of 6 weeks I stupidly tried to come back and play the following week. My coaches let me as I was medically cleared to hit with a face mask, but the rest of my season I was a different hitter I was hitting .400 at the time of the fracture, 2nd in the SEC, with 2 months left in the season I finished the year hitting .312. Meaning I flipped from one of the best hitters in the conference to one of the worst before and after the incident Despite finishing my Vandy career 7th on their all time hit list, this play is what I hear about the most when I return I’ve been lucky that I haven’t had much issues with my jaw thus far post incident, although I did find out that 2 of the nerves of the impacted teeth are dead, and I will likely need to get one of those teeth extracted at some point When they showed me the X Ray it was a clear break. A scary image that could have been WAY worse if it were 3 inches higher, as I likely would not be able to see out of my left eye (and wouldn’t be as handsome as I am) Anyway, to have interesting ideas you must have interesting experiences and this was certainly oneshow more

Blake Lively’s Met Gala Moment Was Deeply Tone-Deaf Blake... Lively showing up at the Met Gala this year, smiling like nothing happened, honestly felt surreal. Not in a good way. More like… are we all just expected to pretend the last two years didn’t happen? Because that’s what it looked like. A reset. A clean slate. As if everything that went down with Justin Baldoni just evaporated the moment she stepped onto that carpet in a Versace gown. And I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work like that. You don’t get to be at the center of a situation that serious, with that much damage done to someone’s reputation, and then just reappear in full glamour mode like it was all some minor inconvenience. Whether people want to admit it or not, that whole situation left a mark. On him, on the project, and on how people see her now. What makes it worse is the timing. Walking into one of the most visible events in the world right after everything wrapped up just feels… off. There’s no reflection in that. No pause. No sense that any of it actually mattered beyond being something to get past. And then there’s the bigger issue. When something tied to a story about domestic violence turns into this kind of public spectacle, it cheapens it. It stops being about the message and starts being about ego, control, and image. That’s the part that doesn’t sit right. You can call it strategy, you can call it PR, but to a lot of people it just reads as tone-deaf. Versace dressing her? That’s their choice. But let’s not pretend fashion houses don’t pick sides when they do that. They know exactly what kind of attention it brings. Same with the Met Gala. They don’t “accidentally” invite people. Every name is a decision. So yeah, people are going to question it. They should. Because this didn’t feel like a comeback. It felt like someone stepping right back into the spotlight without acknowledging the weight of what just happened. Like the expectation is that the audience will move on simply because she has. Not everyone will. And honestly, they shouldn’t have to. PS: That’s the only soundtrack that actually fits that red carpet. moment.show more

In a big twist in the death of real... estate firm director Ketan Vishal Agrawal, police on Tuesday arrested his fiancée and her lover for allegedly pushing him into a deep gorge off Lohagad Fort in Pune and passing it off as an accident, officials said. While the incident, which occurred on June 18, was initially believed to be a case of an accidental fall at the historic Lohagad Fort, the investigation pointed to a murder conspiracy, they said. Agarwal (26), a resident of Gahunje in Pune district and director of a family-run real estate business, was found dead in a gorge near the fort on June 18. The police had then said Agarwal fell nearly 400 feet into the gorge while taking photographs during a trek with his fiancée and friends amid strong winds at the fort. An accidental death report was registered after his fiancée, Siya Goyal, told the Lonavala rural police that Agarwal had slipped and fallen while the couple was on an outing at the hill fort. Agarwal was scheduled to marry Goyal later this year. It was learned that the families had made elaborate wedding preparations, including booking a palace in Udaipur, Rajasthan, for the ceremony. Superintendent of Police, Pune rural, Sandip Singh Gill, said the circumstances surrounding the death appeared suspicious, which prompted police to investigate the case thoroughly. "Our teams examined multiple angles, including financial disputes and personal relationships. During the probe, police allegedly found that Goyal was in a relationship with another man, identified as Chetan Babulal Chaudhary (22), a resident of Kondhwa in Pune," he said. The investigation showed that Goyal was unwilling to marry Agarwal and considered him an obstacle to her relationship with Chaudhary, the official said. The two allegedly conspired to eliminate Agarwal. As part of the plan, Goyal took him to Lohagad Fort under the pretext of an outing, while Chaudhary was called to the spot later. The duo then allegedly pushed Agarwal off the fort, leading to his death, police said. Based on suspicion, the local crime branch took Chaudhary into custody. During interrogation, it emerged that since Agarwal was becoming an obstacle in Chaudhary's relationship with Goyal, both of them plotted to eliminate her fiancé. Goyal was also arrested based on Chaudhary's interrogation, the police said. "Following a complaint lodged by Ketan's father, Vishal Agarwal, the Lonavala rural police registered a case of murder and criminal conspiracy under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on Tuesday," Gill said. Further investigation is underway to establish the exact sequence of events, collect forensic evidence and determine if other persons were involved in the alleged conspiracy, police officials said. Lohagad fort is linked to the history of Maratha empire founder Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It is one of the 12 forts in Maharashtra listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.show more

The Ministry of Defense warned Kiev about strikes on... the energy sector. Why? Last night, there was a loud explosion of asbestos cement products at a plant in Kiev. The Ministry of Defense reports that the plant's storage facilities were used to store explosives for the company "Smart Ammunition," which manufactures drones and their components. But the second part of the latest report is even more interesting. The troops have been tasked with preparing massive strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The wording is dry and bureaucratic: "preparing to launch." This is a response to what Kiev has been doing to our fuel and energy complex all summer: oil refineries, oil depots, substations, and civilian facilities near the border. Each time, it was presented as "legitimate military targets," and each time, Europe nodded in agreement. Okay. The logic is accepted. We'll use it. But we are a country with a strong foundation, while they have a crippled energy system that they have been patching up with transformers from all over Europe for the third year. The difference in strength is where it matters most. A reasonable question arises: why announce it in advance? Surprise is worth more than money in war. And there's not much surprise to lose here. You can't move a substation to the forest, and you can't hide a transformer with a capacity of 250,000 kilovolt-amperes underground in a week. The only thing the enemy will be able to do is to rearrange the anti-aircraft batteries between facilities. And they already have fewer of those than they have facilities. The average Ukrainian citizen is being shown the cause-and-effect relationship in plain text. Podolyak has long since stopped hiding the fact that strikes on our rear are aimed at the average Russian citizen, so that he feels the war on his own skin. Zelensky says the same thing, but a little more carefully: Russia will feel the war in its own home. Okay. A person in a Kiev apartment building is already looking for a generator and a power bank, which have doubled in price overnight. The owner of a shopping center is calling an electrician and calculating how much diesel will cost. No missiles have arrived yet, but the expenses have already started. While the war was happening somewhere near Krasnoarmeysk, it could be watched on the phone like a series. While our Ryazan and Volgograd were burning, it was called "work on legitimate targets" on the telethon, and people clapped. But when the elevator stops on the sixteenth floor, when the pump stops pumping water, and the temperature in the apartment rises to plus twelve, the show will be over. The war will come to the hallway, to the meter, and to the radiator. And that's when the person will first start to wonder who exactly signed that bill for them. Not in Moscow. But on Bankova Street, where they drew beautiful graphs of strikes on Russian oil refineries all summer and received applause for it in London. In essence, the statement by the Ministry of Defense gives them time to think. Maybe days, maybe weeks. The anticipation of winter is more oppressive than winter before Александр Коцshow more

Most impressive and memorable Songkran 💦 🧸: can you... believe that I used to play Songkran in Silom (a well-known street in Bangkok for playing Songkran) for two years? But my dad was there too, I wasn’t there by myself. I was there with my friends from school, and the parents were all behind us. My dad would shoot (water gun) people who’d shoot me. 🦋: dad is protective 🧸: yes! I’ve never had anyone dabbed powder on my face. I don’t allow it to be touched as I’m very protective of my face. I’m mainly focused on spraying the water. This year I’m not sure where I’d be playing or if I’ll play, but let’s wait and see because I might pop up somewhere to play or I might just be sleeping at home. ……………………………………………………………………….. 🦋: on the back of a pickup truck in/around Chiang Mai moat (famous for playing Songkran in Chiang Mai) and got to have ice as well (in the water). Went all out! I used to be a real fan of Songkran, but since I’ve grown up, I’m like…there are very few days of sleep for me, so I feel like on days off I‘ll just sleep. 🎤: spend time with your family 🦋: yes, I tell my mum and dad to stay at home and sleep. ‘Let’s sleep at home. We’re not going anywhere, we’re not gonna get stuck in traffic. We’re going to stay home.’show more

I lost some of my faith in people yesterday.... Do you all remember this story of the woman we found on the road carrying a dead child? Around 3pm yesterday while I was at the hospital, I got a call from Ope Ola Grace. She sounded really confused. I asked what’s wrong then she said she saw this woman at Lafenwa begging for alms among the beggars. I told her to wait there and make sure she doesn’t leave, that I am on my way to confirm with my eyes because it can’t be possible. I got there with Seeker of Truth and it was indeed true. I couldn’t believe what I saw. How’s this possible?? We set up a business worth around N300k for her last December, gave her money, gave her husband extra money to keep. Enrolled her kids (all 3 of them) in school, supplied all needed school materials for one year. Bought at least 3 months worth of food supply for them as well. The Hon Commissioner for women affairs Hon. Motunrayo Adijat Adeleye also sent delegates to her with lots of needed items; 25kg bags of rice twice in the last 5 months, 10 crates of soft drink for the wife in January. The commissioner also made sure that her husband was among the 100 beneficiaries of the N100,000 disability grant of the RHI shared on the 17th of April by First Lady Remi Tinubu in Abeokuta. He confirmed that he received the N100k the same day. I called her at the spot to show her the woman and she was confused too. Like, “Jack, what else could we have done?” I asked people there, they said she’s been begging with them for more than a month. When I explained in details all the help we have provided for her in the last 5 months, they got angry, saying she should leave. That’s not even the worst part of this story. The worst, I fear, is she appears pregnant again. However she insisted she’s not, that she just ate eba, that’s why her stomach is big. We took her back home, the husband (visually impaired as I stated then) said he was not aware that she has been begging, and he can’t see, so no way to confirm if she’s pregnant. Everyone in her community said she goes out for 3-4hours everyday when the kids have gone to school to get ‘supplies’ for their mini-stall. They said some other troubling things about her that I won’t want to share here. I am confused on what to do next.show more

‘I was screaming’: Scientists shocked as dolphins filmed using... shells to trap prey for the first time | New York Post Researchers are shell-shocked at the latest marine discovery. Dolphins have been filmed using shells to ensnare their prey off the coast of Australia, marking the first time this clever tactic has been caught on camera, per a bombshell paper in Marine Mammal Science. “The second I saw that shell in the air, I immediately knew what was happening,” the study’s head author, Alexis Levengood, a marine mammal biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, told ScienceAlert. Levengood said she and her team were on a research vessel off Hervey Bay when they spotted a female Pacific bottlenose “dolphin raising something large out of the water,” the BBC reported. She instantly recognized the behavior as “shelling,” when dolphins flush prey into a large empty seasnail shell. Then, the impromptu fish trap to the surface and drains the quarry into their mouths like a fishy oyster shooter. In the dramatic clip captured in 2025, the brainy cetacean can be seen holding a shell aloft, and then dropping it in the water, before snatching up a fish that escaped its calcified prison. “I was screaming to the students that were on the boat with me in excitement, because I was just so excited that we were actually witnessing this here on the east coast,” exclaimed Levengood. While the behavior had been observed in 2013 in Shark Bay, Western Australia, this was the first video evidence of the ingenious prey-snatching method. And this wasn’t some fleeting party trick, either. In another clip from Hervey Bay, a mother and a calf could be seen shelling together, demonstrating that the behavior is passed down from generation to generation and not between peers as previously believed. “We saw the mother surface with a shell, the fish inside escaped and the dolphin dropped the shell to chase the fish,” said Levengood. “Then, minutes afterwards, the dolphin calf picked up the shell and held it the same way as its mother.” While it’s yet unclear if either was successful in their trapping efforts, the scientist said the “footage provides the first potential evidence of maternal social transmission — a process by which offspring learn behavior by observing the actions of their mother.” When coupled with the observations from 2013, this eye-opening footage demonstrates how populations of dolphins learned to use tools in the exact same manner despite being thousands of miles apart. “They may have both invented this or innovated this independently of one another, or it’s even possible that there might be some populations up north that are doing this that we don’t even know about yet,” Levengood told Science Alert. She concluded that either way, “these findings highlight just how smart, clever, and innovative dolphins are.” On a larger scale, shelling could also help shed light on how humans evolved to use tools as well. “But better understanding of shelling and other tool use in non-human animals will continue to teach us more about ourselves and how and why we evolved the way we did,” said Levengood.show more

Some inconsistencies between official reports and eyewitness accounts of... the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. ⬛️ Millions of video surveillance cameras are installed in Moscow. At the same time, terrorists, armed to the teeth, are easily moving around the city in cars with fake license plates. ⬛️ Crocus has a contract with the Okhrana Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the National Guard. But the video from the lobby and other rooms where terrorists are shooting people shows no resistance from the guards. There are no guards among the dead or wounded either. ⬛️ Survivors report that the guards did not check bags and clothes before entering Crocus, and the metal detectors were turned off. Even without taking into account warnings about possible terrorist attacks from foreign embassies, the Russian authorities are already constantly reporting about increased vigilance. ⬛️ Terrorists leave a "lead" in the form of a car in which they arrived and about which everything is already known. ⬛️ It is reported that the very same white Renault with terrorists was detained in the Bryansk region on the way to the Ukrainian border. Why didn't the attackers change the car the whole country was looking for? Even if they were on their way to Ukraine, why through Bryansk, where the border zone is maximally fortified and protected? ⬛️ It is claimed that the building was set on fire using gasoline from canisters. Was it really enough for a fire of this magnitude in a building built to all fire safety requirements? ⬛️ Why are there no signs of automatic fire extinguishing systems working? They were checked so thoroughly after the tragedy in Kemerovo's Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping mall. ⬛️ Spetsnaz drove for over an hour, even though the OMON military base is 8 minutes from Crocus. The firefighters did not put out the fire before Spetsnaz arrived. Spetsnaz waited until they finished putting out the fire to start the assault. As if someone was interested in more casualties or the escape of terrorists. At the moment, it is reported that the number of victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus has reached 143 people. The video shows the completely collapsed dome of the Crocus City Hall concert venue.show more