Not the Onion

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/55588052

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/66894176

By the way this is real:

• Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/granthamlse.bsky.social/post/3moxmulw7qs2y
• Event page, including list of speakers: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/extreme-heat-improving-governance-and-strengthening-action-around-the-world/

Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits.

The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat.

Meanwhile six starred a male actor called Chris – of which Chris Pratt accounted for half.

However, while two of the remaining Chris instances (Pine and Hemsworth) headlined big budget blockbusters, the sixth – Christian Friedel – was co-lead in an acclaimed arthouse film: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2024). Friedel is known only to his friends as Chris.

The five films starring an older woman that made the top 100 chart in the UK over the three year period were Allelujah (2023), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023), Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), The Substance (2024) and Freakier Friday (2025).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

obligatory:

It turns out Kars4Kids is literally an Israeli Conspiracy to steal funds from the American public. They don't spend any money on kids.

It just goes to sending 18 year old Jewish kids to Israel for birthright and building buildings in Israel.

I hear you're an anti-Semite now, Father!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1091739/trio-sentenced-after-forcing-space-engineers-to-dig-dog-s-grave-in-an-ambush

Three people who ambushed, threatened, and deprived five space base engineers of their liberty have pleaded guilty.

The engineers were assessing locations for a rocket landing site in remote Far North Queensland.

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/1267410

نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/8257085

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