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Lando Norris beats McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to win a chaotic wet-dry Miami Grand Prix sprint race with help from the safety car.

We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover

We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.

Dracula 2000 is a strange movie. The cast was made up of big names at the time, with Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Plummer, Omar Epps, Nathan Fillion, Jeri Ryan, and the pop singer Vitamin C. Those might not be "A-list" names, but they're all pretty well known. Also, I really liked the reveal in this movie that Dracula was actually

And yet, there's something about this movie that just feels off. Maybe it's the writing, but most of this movie feels like a B-movie horror despite the wide theatrical release and (relatively) big name cast. I still really enjoy the movie, but I can see its flaws and wouldn't argue with anyone who didn't enjoy it.

Oddly enough, despite really enjoying this movie, I've never bothered to watch any of the sequels:

I think my problem is that the sequels were direct-to-video and none of the previous cast returned so there's really no point in watching them. As far as I can tell, there's nothing that actually links them to the first movie.

Anyway, here's a trailer for Dracula 2000. You can watch it now on Pluto.

Bakery used the description for the cake a bit too literally.. - What Day? "May the 4th" - Babel Tower Climb, Metaphor Symbolic Conflicts baked-in to our attitudes and communicatins (sic, typo) expectations

source for image: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1kdubog/bakery_used_the_description_for_the_cake_a_bit/

crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/33809108

Police in Hong Kong have arrested the father and brother of US-based pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok for allegedly helping with her finances, according to media reports.

It is the first time the relatives of an "absconder" have been charged under the territory's security law, Reuters news agency said.

The authorities accused Ms Kwok, 26, of breaching Hong Kong's national security laws after participating in pro-democracy protests in 2019.

She fled the territory in 2020 and now serves as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), an organisation based in Washington DC.

Police said they had arrested two men aged 35 and 68 on suspicion of handling "funds or other financial assets" belonging to Kwok, Reuters said.

Local media later identified the two men as relatives of Ms Kwok, citing police sources.

[...]

In 2023, Hong Kong placed a bounty on the heads of several pro-democracy activists - including Ms Kwok - who had fled the territory.

[...]

At the time, Ms Kwok said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.

"That's exactly the kind of thing the Hong Kong government and the Chinese Communist party would do - which is to intimidate people into not doing anything, silencing them," she told BBC's Newshour at the time.

The former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease of the New Territories, north of Hong Kong island, expired.

[...]

I pray I do not offend by borrowing @[email protected] excellent meme-work. And I'm not proficient at superimposing images, so kindly accept my apologies.

So the centre-left party campaigned on not following in President Drink Bleach's footsteps and won. Predictable, because Australians are awesome.

Meanwhile, as for the AU moron and the comparisons to his counterpart, PP, the Associated Press had this to say:

Dutton had earlier conceded his alliance of conservative parties had been defeated at the election and that he had lost his own parliamentary seat that he had held for 24 years.

Dutton’s plight parallels that of Canada’s last opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, who lost his seat after Trump declared economic war on the U.S. neighbor to the north. Poilievre had previously been regarded as a shoo-in to become Canada’s next prime minister and shepherd his Conservative Party back into power for the first time in a decade.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-election-albanese-dutton-251063e866513dfa48b773fb4d6b0d29

crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/33809108

Police in Hong Kong have arrested the father and brother of US-based pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok for allegedly helping with her finances, according to media reports.

It is the first time the relatives of an "absconder" have been charged under the territory's security law, Reuters news agency said.

The authorities accused Ms Kwok, 26, of breaching Hong Kong's national security laws after participating in pro-democracy protests in 2019.

She fled the territory in 2020 and now serves as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), an organisation based in Washington DC.

Police said they had arrested two men aged 35 and 68 on suspicion of handling "funds or other financial assets" belonging to Kwok, Reuters said.

Local media later identified the two men as relatives of Ms Kwok, citing police sources.

[...]

In 2023, Hong Kong placed a bounty on the heads of several pro-democracy activists - including Ms Kwok - who had fled the territory.

[...]

At the time, Ms Kwok said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.

"That's exactly the kind of thing the Hong Kong government and the Chinese Communist party would do - which is to intimidate people into not doing anything, silencing them," she told BBC's Newshour at the time.

The former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease of the New Territories, north of Hong Kong island, expired.

[...]

What's in the bag, Redwen? What's in the bag??

Holy moly, we're at fifty episodes! Fifty! And to think when it first started, it was supposed to be just a one-off joke made as a DnD meme...

And now we're 50 episodes in, with an exciting story planned out for many times that, that I'm ITCHING to share with you all! Funny how things work out.

As always, should it be your first time stumbling upon this story, you can always find the rest on here, or on dedicated comic platforms like Tapas and Webtoon for ease of navigation :)

And please consider supporting us on Patreon... it helps more than I can express, and each supporter is a step closer to us being able to do this full time, on a more frequent schedule! Getting in on our wonderful growing D&D community on Discord is another added benefit :)

Any know of options for lid replacement? I love my pastel pink lululemon insulated mug and have been using it almost daily. One day, the lid flap just broke. I am trying to find replacement screw top on amazon so I can keep using my mug. Any one here have suggestions? Thank you!!!

Vacant Store, BZ Corner, WA, 2011.

All the pixels, can't miss them, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/6110374799

#photography

Dean Adamson is now officially Bedford Blues' leading all-time try scorer, scoring one of nine tries as part of a 61-38 victory against London Scottish at a raucous Goldington Road on Saturday...