JetlagChaser
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Keeping up to date with local events when traveling is critical. These evolving events really impacted us, and I only found out about the closure as soon as I did because of @theguardian.com as my own Dept. of State sent notifications more than one week after the fact. #news #travel
Thailand’s army closes Cambodia border crossings as territorial tensions escalate
All vehicles and travellers will be prohibited from crossing border into Cambodia as relations deteriorate after shooting of Cambodian soldier
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Keeping up to date with local events when traveling is critical. These evolving events really impacted us, and I only found out about the closure as soon as I did because of @theguardian.com as my own Dept. of State sent notifications more than one week after the fact. #news #travel
July 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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July 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future
Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future
Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing’s control over Tibet
Leaders from India, the United States and Taiwan offered their support to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on his 90th birthday on Sunday, a landmark anniversary raising geopolitical questions for the future.
Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing’s control over Tibet, the territory it poured troops into in 1950 and has ruled ever since. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future
July 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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For Kurt Vonnegut, the bombing of Hiroshima was “the day the world ended,” Noah Hawley writes. How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke:
Vonnegut and the Bomb
How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke
bit.ly
July 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
For Kurt Vonnegut, the bombing of Hiroshima was “the day the world ended,” Noah Hawley writes. How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke:
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"The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements."
-George Orwell
-George Orwell
June 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements."
-George Orwell
-George Orwell
“A Gen Zer posted something the other day like "can you believe that millennials used to carry a digital camera, an iPod, AND a phone When they went out?"
The first comment was "and then you wonder why we liked cargo shorts."
The first comment was "and then you wonder why we liked cargo shorts."
This is why this late-stage flip phones that could do it all were so magical.
It had a 2 MP camera and 3G data, features worth silkscreening on the back.
It had 1 GB of music storage, another feature worth literally stamping into the plastic mold of the phone.
Nothing is that special these days.
It had a 2 MP camera and 3G data, features worth silkscreening on the back.
It had 1 GB of music storage, another feature worth literally stamping into the plastic mold of the phone.
Nothing is that special these days.
June 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
“A Gen Zer posted something the other day like "can you believe that millennials used to carry a digital camera, an iPod, AND a phone When they went out?"
The first comment was "and then you wonder why we liked cargo shorts."
The first comment was "and then you wonder why we liked cargo shorts."
June 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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From new generation aircraft to former Alitalia jets, ITA Airways have become a common sight in the skies of Europe and beyond. Here's our look at their fleet in June 2025. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
June 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
From new generation aircraft to former Alitalia jets, ITA Airways have become a common sight in the skies of Europe and beyond. Here's our look at their fleet in June 2025. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
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With the closure of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, flights over Saudi Arabia have doubled this week. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
June 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
With the closure of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, flights over Saudi Arabia have doubled this week. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
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Yesterday, Japan Airlines and Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tokyo took very different routes. Even though it flew further, Finnair beat JAL to Haneda. We look at some of the flight planning considerations. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...
June 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Yesterday, Japan Airlines and Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tokyo took very different routes. Even though it flew further, Finnair beat JAL to Haneda. We look at some of the flight planning considerations. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...
I lecture my poor kid to no end on being a good tourist. I hope this is a wake up call for tourists everywhere—Do better. #tourism #overtourism #spain #italy @ashifakassam.bsky.social
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’
Protesters take to streets in a dozen cities to march against an industry they say is wrecking communities
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I lecture my poor kid to no end on being a good tourist. I hope this is a wake up call for tourists everywhere—Do better. #tourism #overtourism #spain #italy @ashifakassam.bsky.social
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The race is on! JAL headed over the pole, Finnair taking the southern route.
🇯🇵 www.flightradar24.com/JAL48/3acffaa3
🇫🇮 www.flightradar24.com/FIN61/3ad002c3
Who will make it to Haneda first?
The race is on! JAL headed over the pole, Finnair taking the southern route.
🇯🇵 www.flightradar24.com/JAL48/3acffaa3
🇫🇮 www.flightradar24.com/FIN61/3ad002c3
Who will make it to Haneda first?
June 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🇫🇮✈️🇯🇵🏁
The race is on! JAL headed over the pole, Finnair taking the southern route.
🇯🇵 www.flightradar24.com/JAL48/3acffaa3
🇫🇮 www.flightradar24.com/FIN61/3ad002c3
Who will make it to Haneda first?
The race is on! JAL headed over the pole, Finnair taking the southern route.
🇯🇵 www.flightradar24.com/JAL48/3acffaa3
🇫🇮 www.flightradar24.com/FIN61/3ad002c3
Who will make it to Haneda first?
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Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.