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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 10:15 am)WhatsApp says the move aims to push its 90 million users in Russia to a "state-owned surveillance app".
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 09:02 am)Katie Holmes pays tribute to her late co-star's "bravery, compassion, selflessness and strength".
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 04:24 am)Zhang Youxia, widely seen as Xi's closest military ally, was in January removed from his post.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 03:24 am)The veteran actor of stage and screen appeared in more than 80 films and TV series.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 01:42 am)Six Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to back a resolution that seeks to end the tariffs Trump imposed on Canada last year.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 02:01 pm)More than half the population is affected and most infrastructure destroyed in Toamasina, Madagascar's main port.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 11th, 2026 02:20 pm)Leila Micheloud had gone to the court where Jacques Moretti was being questioned over the deadly Crans-Montana fire.
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ride_4ever Feb. 12th, 2026 12:33 am)
ride_4ever Feb. 12th, 2026 12:33 am)Firewhiskey Fic will be running its Valentine Edition inebriated fanworks-a-thon this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Prompts are now posted in the comm. You can see the prompts and details about this no-signup, no-stress, no-sobriety event at the Firewhiskey Fic comm on DW.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 03:24 am)The veteran actor of stage and screen appeared in more than 80 films and TV series.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 11th, 2026 11:29 pm)The father of six starred in multiple popular shows and films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Dawson's Creek and Varsity Blues.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 11th, 2026 10:25 pm)The US President said "nothing definitive" was agreed during the meeting between the two leaders at the White House on Wednesday as nuclear talks intensify.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 11th, 2026 05:21 pm)The BBC visits the Iranian capital for the first time since authorities used unprecedented force to put down protests last month.
Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky. That sure was an Adrian Tchaikovsky novel! It succesfully did what it did but I've read enough Tchaikovsky that I didn't feel like it really stood out.
Chroniques du Pays des Mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. Still having to resist from reading ahead of book club pace, but also this past week I went and reread/skimmed everything I'd already read to help keep track of all the plot/worldbuilding details. Our protagonist has just left home for the first time and I'm curious to know what comes next.
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, by Jessica Pan. Saw this recommended as a self-help book, and thought I'd try it. It's very readable -- the author is the sort of shy introvert that I can easily relate to, and I appreciated that her writing voice was very confident in discussing her anxiety. This sort of self-help memoir is a bit odd in that she's trying to position herself as an everywoman, but reading between the lines it's clear that she wasn't just working to break out her shell so she could make more friends and overcome anxiety, but also so that she could write a book based on it; which seems like it has advanages both in motivation and in getting access to expert professionals to provide advice.
To Ride a Rising Storm, Moniquill Blackgoose. Sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath. At heart these are school stories, and even when they're not at school the focus is still on the characters and relationships, with a lot of social commentary about colonialism in an AU North America, with the political plot and the dragons and alchemy, while present, being less of the focus. I liked the new characters here, in particular the Jewish ones. (This AU, instead of "Jewish", uses a different word with Slavic etymology; I'm aware there's a related word in Russian that's an offensive slur; I wasn't bothered but some people migh be. Anyway AU Judaism does not seem to have any noticeable differences from our world.) This book ended on a rather abrupt cliffhanger, so now I can't wait for the next one.
Chroniques du Pays des Mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. Still having to resist from reading ahead of book club pace, but also this past week I went and reread/skimmed everything I'd already read to help keep track of all the plot/worldbuilding details. Our protagonist has just left home for the first time and I'm curious to know what comes next.
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, by Jessica Pan. Saw this recommended as a self-help book, and thought I'd try it. It's very readable -- the author is the sort of shy introvert that I can easily relate to, and I appreciated that her writing voice was very confident in discussing her anxiety. This sort of self-help memoir is a bit odd in that she's trying to position herself as an everywoman, but reading between the lines it's clear that she wasn't just working to break out her shell so she could make more friends and overcome anxiety, but also so that she could write a book based on it; which seems like it has advanages both in motivation and in getting access to expert professionals to provide advice.
To Ride a Rising Storm, Moniquill Blackgoose. Sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath. At heart these are school stories, and even when they're not at school the focus is still on the characters and relationships, with a lot of social commentary about colonialism in an AU North America, with the political plot and the dragons and alchemy, while present, being less of the focus. I liked the new characters here, in particular the Jewish ones. (This AU, instead of "Jewish", uses a different word with Slavic etymology; I'm aware there's a related word in Russian that's an offensive slur; I wasn't bothered but some people migh be. Anyway AU Judaism does not seem to have any noticeable differences from our world.) This book ended on a rather abrupt cliffhanger, so now I can't wait for the next one.
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Regalia
It used to be
People
Put on names
And a suit of clothes,
And were known.
The unknown god
Takes up his staff,
Puts on his beard,
His signs of power,
And when so garbed can say,
"And now you know me."
What raiment is mine,
What tools,
What adornments,
That will make me known?
I know not.
Footnotes on this one are: conversations about names on bsky, the lecture I went to tonight on queer/trans experience in the American colonies, a passage quoted in Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods, and
graydon's comments about how gender is the means of signaling what sort of improv one is doing....
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 01:42 am)Six Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to back a resolution that seeks to end the tariffs Trump imposed on Canada last year.
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bbcnewsworld_feed Feb. 12th, 2026 01:04 am)It's the first election since the 2024 Gen Z uprising that toppled Bangladesh's long-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
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scans_daily Feb. 11th, 2026 05:01 pm)
tcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily Feb. 11th, 2026 05:01 pm)When we last left our intrepid heroes, they were at Doomer Disneyworld, trying to figure out how theme park employees have outlived the rest of the population of this alternate Earth. As you may have deduced, they haven’t: the employees are all animatronic robots.
The JLE keeps trying to investigate in the face of the robots’ relentless cheer, but they can only hear “It’s a Mauled World After All” so many times before they snap.
( 🎶 It’s a world of fallout, a world of trash, it’s a world of rubble, a world of ash, and it has to be said, it’s too bad we’re all dead… 🎶 )
The JLE keeps trying to investigate in the face of the robots’ relentless cheer, but they can only hear “It’s a Mauled World After All” so many times before they snap.
( 🎶 It’s a world of fallout, a world of trash, it’s a world of rubble, a world of ash, and it has to be said, it’s too bad we’re all dead… 🎶 )
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