It’s Maslenitsa week in Russia

A holiday marking the end of winter and the start of the warm season

The main Maslenitsa dish is blini (Russian pancakes), symbolizing the sun and the coming spring

On the last day a straw effigy of Winter is burned — a fiery farewell to the cold

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French police raid Paris's Arab World Institute in Epstein-linked probe into Jack Lang

Cops stormed the landmark Monday over its ex-boss's ties with the pedophile

Lang — an ex-culture minister who messaged Epstein in 2012-2019 — claims he did nothing wrong

Do you belive him?

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(February 15) A massive 17-car crash at NASCAR’s Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. A moment of inattention — and the race turned into a field of wreckage.

While several drivers including Allgaier, Gilliland, and Bowman were forced to retire due to severe damage, others managed to continue with minor battle scars after the red flag.

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Whew

Again thought my bots got banned from twitter

Nope, twitter just down again

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The woman Claude (Anthropic) has put in charge of deciding their AI’s values

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Consumer Staples stocks are thriving:

The S&P 500 Consumer Staples sector is up +17% in 5 weeks, its best performance since the 2020 pandemic recovery.

Only 4 other 5-week runs have been stronger since 1990, including February 1991, November 1998, April 2000, and April 2020.

This comes as investors bought a record +$3.6 billion in consumer staples stocks and ETFs over the last 4 weeks.

This brings the 4-week average of net purchases to +$912 million, an all-time high.

By comparison, average over the previous 52-weeks was just +$7 million.

Investors are piling into defensive stocks at a record pace.

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Wtf is this painting at my dentists office

bro i need to make an excuse and bounce

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BREAKING - Fed up New Yorkers are now begging Zohran Mamdani to end Islamic prayer calls being blasted throughout the city as early as 5 AM.

Voting has consequences.

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The social platform X is currently down for many users worldwide, with feeds and posts failing to load and widespread error reports showing users unable to access their timelines or post updates. Outage tracking sites show a large spike in issues reported across the U.S., U.K., and other regions, though X has not yet given an official reason for the disruption

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