Gnarled old red cedar, "Giant's Toes" cliff walk, Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, Connecticut. August 13, 2024, 3:48 PM.
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Houston rolls out an old-school, candy-red Cadillac. It’s college football pageantry done right https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7718443/2026/10/24/houston-college-football-slab-cadillac-pageantry/ Slabs have been part of Houston’s culture for decades. Now the Cougars are honoring the tradition during their pregame walkout. #AmericanFootball
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PENYRHEOL: ‘The Punch’ Colin Jones painted on the wall of his old boxing club
A giant portrait of boxing great Colin Jones has gone up on the wall of Penyrheol Boxing Club, the club he boxed for as an amateur.
It is the latest community mural by artist Steve Jenkins, who paints as Jenks.
The black and white portrait shows Jones mid-punch in red gloves and red shorts with “Colin” on the leg, against a packed arena under the lights.
Jenks shared photos of the finished wall on Facebook, writing: “This one is celebrating another local sporting legend, Colin Jones MBE.”
He said he’d had “a great time squeezing this one in during dry weather this week”, and that he had “some inside bits to do in the gym next”.
Jenks at the wall of Penyrheol Boxing Club. (Image: JenksArt)Colin Jones: from Penyrheol ABC to the Montreal Olympics and three world title fights
Jones was born in Gorseinon in 1959 and learned his boxing at Penyrheol ABC.
He was 17 when he boxed at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, the youngest British boxer at the Games, according to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame.
As a professional under manager Eddie Thomas, he won the British welterweight title in April 1980 by stopping Kirkland Laing at Wembley.
Commonwealth and European titles followed, the European belt won by stopping Hans Henrik Palm in Copenhagen.
In 1983 he fought Milton McCrory for the vacant WBC world title, drawing the first fight and losing the rematch on a split decision.
His third world title fight, against Don Curry in Birmingham in 1985, was stopped in the fourth round on cuts. He finished with 26 wins from 30 professional fights, 23 of them inside the distance.
Jones, known as “The Punch”, painted mid-jab. (Image: JenksArt)Known as “The Punch”, he went on to coach Welsh Commonwealth Games teams and the British Olympic squad. He entered the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 and was made an MBE in 2020.
Jenks: the artist behind murals from Pontyates to Port Talbot
Jenks started out painting NHS tribute murals while furloughed from a factory job during lockdown, and went full-time as the requests kept coming.
He told Swansea Bay News that story in June, when he finished the Pontyates village mural, a wall packed with ideas from the village’s schoolchildren that he called his “gift to the community”. Among the pupils’ picks was EastEnders’ Dot Cotton, because actress June Brown was evacuated to Pontyates during the Second World War.
His other work includes a five-panel seafront mural in his home town of Llanelli, which he paid for himself, and a tribute in Port Talbot to Meyrick Sheen, the late father of actor Michael Sheen.
Back in 2023, he worked with pupils at Tŷ Trafle School in Gowerton to turn their own designs into a graffiti mural on the school wall.
Not every wall has lasted: his Brunel mural in Briton Ferry was painted over in July after the building’s owner objected.
For the Penyrheol wall, Jenks thanked councillors Andrew Stevens, Jan Curtice and Nicola Matthews “and of course Colin”.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
Dot Cotton, dragons and miners: the Pontyates village mural
Jenks on the wall the village’s children designed, and how he went full-time.Jenks transforms Llanelli seaside wall with five-panel mural
The self-funded tribute to his home town.New Port Talbot mural pays tribute to Meyrick Sheen
#Art #boxing #CllrAndrewStevens #ColinJones #Gorseinon #Jenks #mural #streetArt
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We watched #StarTrekTNG's "Redemption II" tonight. Even though I only recently covered the episode, I'm always amazed by the new things that strike me when rewatching an old episode, like the juxtaposition of the red Klingon/Romulan light and the blue light on the Sutherland bridge.
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Bi-Partisan Revulsion at Vivek .
#MAGA Not big fans of #Vivek and not happy about him playing low down dirty with a White woman.
#gop JFC Vivek we have trouble in every RED state and thought Ohio was safe even with Trump going full late stage dementia gay admiring Husted's ass and body !?*# and you had to pick a 12 year old child rapist's mother .
This is #Ohio . Midwestern values . No matter what #Epsteins BFF tells you CHILD RAPE is still no beuno in the Buckeye state.
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"Would you like me to seduce you, Miss?" Ben Asked.
"I beg your pardon?" Ms Robins was taken aback.
Behind Ben, his friends started giggling
"Ben, you're 11 years old. Do you know what 'seduce' means?"
"It's… like deduce, it means to explain something."
The laughter spread throughout the class. Ms Robins' keen eye spotted Charlie and Khalid high-fiving each other.
"I expect your friends put you up to this?"
Ben's face was deep red. He didn't like to squeal, but he equally didn't like that his friends had made him look so foolish.
"Charlie and Khal promised me a tenner if I said that sentence. They told me that seduce meant to explain, like would I explain it to you."
Charlie opened his mouth to say something, but a sharp look from the teacher stopped him.
"Well, your friends lost ten pounds. So, I'll spare them detention this time."
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Yesterday Axios published a scoop that should make anyone building with AI agents sit up: major US banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting actions that appear to go beyond what the customer asked for. Today they followed up: Wall Street is now scenario-planning for the "day after" an AI catastrophe.
The headline reads like a security story. It is actually a design story, and it is the same design story whether you are Morgan Stanley or a person running a small tool on a laptop.
The problem is not intelligence, it is permission
Read the Axios reporting carefully and the core issue is attribution. A bank can see an action. It cannot tell whether that action reflects the customer's instructions or an agent operating beyond them. That is not a model-quality problem. No amount of benchmark scores fixes it. It is a permission architecture problem, and it arrives the moment an agent can do anything consequential.Notice what else happened this same week, because the timing is not a coincidence. 1Password announced 1Password for Agents, a platform to give autonomous AI agents access to credentials through its security system. And METR and Redwood Research, after three weeks embedded inside OpenAI, published their red-teaming of the company's internal agent-monitoring systems - including a vulnerability that could have let agents hide hundreds of actions from the monitors.
The industry is handing agents credentials and autonomy, and discovering that the watching systems have holes. In the same week.
Read access and act access are different products
Here is the distinction I think gets lost. An agent that reads your balance is a convenience. An agent that can initiate a transaction is a financial actor. These get marketed as one smooth gradient - "your AI assistant" - but they are categorically different products with categorically different failure modes, and the bank's problem is that from the outside they look identical until something moves.I think about this from a much smaller chair. A project of mine, Sportello chiaro, explains Swiss administrative letters in plain language: who wants money, how much, by when. The whole prototype is about 306 lines of Python standard library.
That narrowness is the entire debate in miniature. A tool that reads a letter and explains it can be wrong, and the cost is a wrong explanation on a screen. An agent with bank credentials that is wrong in the same way moves money. Same category of error, wildly different blast radius. The only thing that separates those outcomes is what the system was allowed to touch in the first place.
Capability minimalism is not nostalgia
There is a lazy counterargument that says: just monitor the agent. The METR and Redwood findings are the direct answer to that. If the monitoring layer itself can be bypassed - if actions can be hidden from the very system meant to observe them - then "we'll watch it" is not a control, it is a hope. Banks are discovering this at scale right now: they cannot even reliably tell which actions are agent-driven, let alone whether each one was authorized.The design principle that survives is boring and old: grant the minimum capability the task requires, and treat every additional capability as debt. Unix permissions, least privilege, capability-based security - the vocabulary is fifty years old. What is new is the temptation to skip it, because an agent that can do everything demos much better than an agent that can do one thing.
What I would want as a customer
If my bank detects an agent in my account, I want three things, and none of them are exotic. First, a visible list of every agent with access, scoped to what it can do - read, initiate, change. Second, per-action confirmation for anything that moves money or changes settings, with a real audit trail I can see, not one the agent writes. Third, a kill switch that does not require calling anyone.Notice that none of these require better models. They require the boring infrastructure of permissions, applied to a new actor. The Axios scoop is a gift in that sense: it is a clear, public, early warning that the gap between what agents can do and what institutions can verify is open right now.
The agents are already inside. The permission architecture is still on the whiteboard. That order of operations is the story.#ai #agents #security #banking #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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A few weeks ago, I had one of those heart-stopping developer moments.
I was tinkering with a local autonomous coding agent running on a small open-source model (Qwen 2.5 via Ollama). I gave it access to a bash tool so it could install dependencies, run test suites, and clean up build artifacts.
Everything was going smoothly until I asked it to clean up some old logs.
In the terminal output, I watched it calmly propose:
bash rm -rf /var/log/mongodbAnd right after that, it started poking around files outside its project folder.I hit Ctrl+C so fast I almost snapped my keyboard.
The "Polite Prompt" Trap
Like most developers, my first instinct was to fix it with prompt engineering:
"You are a careful assistant. Please ONLY touch files in ./workspace. NEVER use sudo. NEVER delete system folders. Pretty please."
And you know what happened on the very next run?It did it again.
Here’s the thing we don't talk about enough: Small, open-source models (3B, 7B, 14B) don't have the massive alignment layers that GPT-4 or Claude 3.5 have. When an open-source agent gets confused, hallucinates, or hits an edge case, your polite system prompt is the first thing out the window.
If an AI decides to read your private banking statement or a .env full of production tokens, you shouldn't have to convince the model to behave.
You wouldn't ask an untrusted web request to "please not do SQL injection"—you use parameterized queries.
So why are we begging AI agents not to nuke our hard drives?
What I Actually Wanted
I wanted a simple rule: The agent can think whatever crazy thought it wants, but before any tool touches my operating system, someone checks its badge at the door.
If the agent decides to read bank_statement.pdf, the system shouldn't plead with the AI. It should intercept the file call, say "Nope, not happening", and ensure 0 bytes of that file are ever read.
That was the spark behind AgentGuard.
How It Works:
AgentGuard is essentially a bouncer sitting between your AI agent and your OS. It does three straightforward things:
[ AI Agent / Ollama / OpenDevin ]
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│ 1. "Hey, I want to run: cat bank_statement.pdf"
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┌───────────────────────────┐
│ AgentGuard Gateway │ ◄── [ Backboard.io ]
└───────────────────────────┘ (Remembers previous blocks)
│ │
[ BLOCK ] [ APPROVE ]
│ │
│ └──► Rings your dashboard bell:
│ "Agent wants to pip install something. Allow?"
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Refusal sent back to Agent:
"Access to banking file blocked. Stay in ./workspace."
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Agent self-corrects:
"My bad! Reading ./workspace/logs/debug.log instead."- Pre-Execution Interception (0ms latency)
When an agent calls a tool (shell command, file read, file delete), AgentGuard inspects the request synchronously before execution.
Trying to run sudo? → Blocked.
Trying to touch .env, id_rsa, or a file matching bank or tax? → Blocked.
Escaping ./workspace with ../../? → Blocked.
The file handle is never opened. The shell command is never spawned.- The 5-Minute Human Review Queue
What about grey-area actions? Say the agent wants to run pip install pymongo.
You don't want to completely block package installs, but you don't want an AI silently pulling unknown wheels from PyPI either.
AgentGuard pauses the agent and puts the request into a Human Review Queue:
You get a notification on a clean web dashboard.
Each request has a 5-minute cryptographic timer so old, stale commands can't accidentally execute hours later.
You click [ AUTHORIZE & RUN ], and it runs inside a controlled sandbox right in front of your eyes.
- Giving the Agent an "Immune System" (Backboard.io)
One thing that drove me crazy about local models was amnesia. If you tell an agent "don't delete that folder", it apologizes... and then tries again two turns later.
To fix this, I plugged in Backboard.io for persistent cloud vector memory.
Whenever AgentGuard blocks a command, it writes a short lesson into Backboard:
"Incident: Agent tried to run 'sudo rm -rf'. Blocked by policy shell.destructive_commands."
Next time you start a task, AgentGuard pulls the relevant memories from Backboard and feeds them into the agent's context. The agent literally remembers what got it in trouble yesterday and stops proposing bad commands in the first place.
What the Dashboard Looks Like
I didn't want a clunky terminal-only tool, so I built an industrial, dark-mode cockpit with React and Tailwind:
Top KPI Cards: Live count of blocked attacks, total actions governed, and learned Backboard memories.
Review Queue: Tabs for Pending, Approved, and Expired actions with inline terminal output.
Threat Lab: A built-in sandbox where you can test 1-click red-team scenarios (ransomware simulations, credential exfiltration, path traversal) to see if your local model can break out. Spoiler: 0 escapes.
Making It an NPM Package: Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK)
Right now, you can clone the repo and run it locally with FastAPI and MongoDB.
But I realized that's still too much friction for developers who just want to npm install something and start coding.
So I'm packaging this as a standalone Bring-Your-Own-Keys (BYOK) NPM SDK:
bash
npm install agentguardYou drop in your own Backboard API key (for cloud memory) and your own LLM key (or Ollama endpoint):
typescript
import { AgentGuard } from 'agentguard';
const guard = new AgentGuard({
backboardApiKey: process.env.BACKBOARD_API_KEY,
workspace: './workspace',
});
// Wrap any agent tool call:
const check = await guard.inspect(proposedCommand);
if (check.isBlocked) {
// Feed safety feedback back to the LLM so it self-corrects!
console.log(Blocked: ${check.explanation});
} else {
await guard.execute(proposedCommand);
}Zero servers to host. Zero background databases to manage. Just pure protection.
Wrapping Up
We are entering an era where AI agents aren't just autocomplete engines anymore—they are active operators on our computers. They write code, manage files, and execute bash scripts.
We have to stop treating AI safety as a philosophical prompt problem and start treating it as a systems architecture problem.
Don't convince the model to behave. Just put a guard on the wire.
If you're building autonomous agents or playing with local models, I'd love to hear how you're keeping them safe. Have you had an AI agent do something terrifying on your machine yet?#agents #ai #privacy #security #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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HAMAS=ISLAM=EVIL TERRORISM
An Intro to a Daily Mail Post
Who Is Hamas (PHOTO from The Jewish Educator Portal under title “Who Is Hamas?”)
Intro by John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Intro © October 23, 2026
If it originates in the UK, I’ve always assumed a sympathy for Left-Wing these days. I came across a U.S. version of the Daily Mail with the title, “Hamas issues ‘unprecedented’ warning it is prepared to carry out a repeat of the October 7 massacre”.
Since I know the Daily Mail has UK origins (ABOUT & LEADERSHIP), I was a bit surprised by a warning about Islamic Terrorism. So I did some political spectrum checking. According to Biasly.com the Daily Mail is 50/50 leaning Right. Quizlet.com has a list of UK Media which lists the Daily Mail as Conservative and Right-wing.
And so, I share this short Daily Mail post that was actually updated for 10/23/26. AND I will use an intro title that will probably get censored as against Community Standards from the Blogger Platform (owned by Google) where my blog SlantRight 2.0 is located. Today Blogger censored this 10/21/26 post exposing Red-Green Alliance in France Riots which can be read at Substack (John’s Newsletter) and WordPress (Conservative-Patriot Christian Right).
And so an Intro title to the Daily Mail post, I’m going with HAMAS=ISLAM=EVIL TERRORISM.
JRH 10/23/26
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Hamas issues ‘unprecedented’ warning it is prepared to carry out a repeat of the October 7 massacre
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER
Published: 14:39 EDT, 22 October 2026 | Updated: 04:23 EDT, 23 October 2026
Hamas has threatened to repeat the October 7 massacre in an ‘unprecedented’ warning to Israel, as the terrorist group faces mounting pressure to disarm.
The group said it would be prepared to unleash violence against targets in Israel, Judea, Samaria and abroad whenever the opportunity arises, according to the chilling message.
UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov was tasked with conveying the threat to the Israeli leadership by senior Hamas officials, who met him last week at his office in Gaza, Ynet reported.
They informed Alakbarov that Hamas was struggling financially and losing control over the Gaza Strip, largely due to continuing Israeli military operations and the shifting of the Yellow Line demarcating the border with Israel.
Hamas has also grown frustrated by the actions of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who cancelled the elections scheduled for the end of November.
Alakbarov is understood to have met Major General Yoram Halevy, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), to pass on the warning.
Insiders are said to have described the threat by Hamas as ‘unprecedented’ in its directness.
The threat comes just after Israel announced a Hamas terrorist who took part in abducting and killing Shani Louk on October 7 had been killed in an air strike in northern Gaza.
Hamas has threatened to repeat the October 7 massacre in an ‘unprecedented’ warning to Israel, as the terrorist group faces mounting pressure to disarm (© Majority World Universal Images – DM Photo)
Hamas issued the threat as the group continues to refuse to surrender its weapons. Pictured: Men transporting food packages in Gaza City on Thursday (© AFP via Getty Images – DM Photo)
Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh was the final member of a Hamas cell deemed responsible for the 22-year-old Israeli civilian’s death.
Three other Hamas cell members were killed earlier in the conflict, while one has been captured by Israeli forces.
Infamous photos taken by AP freelance photographer Ali Mahmud showed a half-naked woman, later identified as the German-Israeli, lying unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza.
Footage spread of her being paraded through the streets of Gaza by a group of armed men, becoming one of the symbols for Hamas’ atrocities and raising concern over her welfare.
The tattoo artist was kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Re’im on October 7, 2023, and died in the Gaza Strip.
In late October 2023, forensic examiners confirmed Ms Louk’s death after they identified a piece of her skull.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers operating in Gaza located Ms Louk’s remains in May 2024 and returned her to Israel for burial.
According to the IDF, al-Sabbagh had carried out advanced attacks on Israeli troops and civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities ‘in systematic violation of the ceasefire’.
‘The terrorist was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed,’ the IDF said.
Elsewhere, the Board of Peace and international mediators have repeated demands for Hamas to disarm.
The condition is necessary for the US-brokered ceasefire, which calls for eventual reconstruction of the territory.
But little progress has been made as negotiators have failed to agree terms for Hamas to surrender its weapons and Israel to withdraw its troops.
Israeli airstrikes have stepped up in recent weeks. At least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, according to the territory’s health officials, while Israel says four soldiers have been killed.
Palestinian authorities say more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, launched after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people during the October 7 atrocities.
© 2026 Associated Newspapers Limited
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From the spooky to the serene, the 10 perfect spots to take snaps around W.A.
With more than 2.5 million square kilometres for locals and visitors to explore, Western Australia is one of the most photogenic places on the planet. Whether you’re snapping away to fill the Insta feed, or showing off to friends your road-trip shenanigans on Facebook, look no further than on the land and shores of this great state for ideal locations to shoot. Here are 10 key destinations to slide into your #dreamfeed.
‘Blue Boat House’, Perth
The Crawley Edge Boatshed (@westernaustralia, @courts.jay)
The iconic Crawley Edge Boatshed, or as more than 25,000 Instagrammers know it – the #blueboathouse, is situated on the banks of the Swan River (Debarl Yerrigan) at Matilda Bay and is one of Perth city’s most desirable insta and wedding photo hotspots for tourists and locals alike. The Boatshed is known for being the most photographed attraction in Perth ahead of other iconic vistas such as Elizabeth Quay (Goomup), Cathedral Square and the Bell Tower. Perfectly positioned near Crawley’s brand new Wonil Hotel, take a leisurely stroll along the river before stopping off for a snap of the city skyline at Perth’s most popular tourist destination, Kings Park.
Lucky Bay, Esperance
Kangaroo at Lucky Bay, Cape Le Grand National Park (@westernaustralia, @dylan_alcock)
Esperance’s (Kepa Kurl) stunning coastline has no shortage of picture-perfect beaches, but only one can claim the honour of being the world’s best beach. Surrounded by the turquoise water of the Indian Ocean, Lucky Bay has been made famous for its unique residents – the inquisitive sunbathing kangaroos, attracting more than 57,000 posts on Instagram. Combined with sparkling sands, freshwater pools, and the surrounding granite outcrops of Cape Le Grand National Park (Mandoowernup), it’s clear why Australia’s whitest beach claims its rightful spot in this list. For bonus points, jump on a flight with Fly Esperance over the nearby Rainbow Lakes, a group of more than two dozen pink and multi-coloured lakes best seen by air.
Emma Gorge, El Questro
Swimmer at Emma Gorge, El Questro Wilderness Park (@megankgale)
Emma Gorge is one of the Kimberley’s most spectacular and accessible gorges, set in the one-million-acre wilderness of El Questro. Located in the East Kimberley, Emma Gorge is El Questro’s most Instagrammed location, with almost 8,000 posts of its tranquil waterfalls and ancient mountains. Fed by a droplet waterfall and a thermal spring, enjoy the cool shade and dramatic beauty of its sheer 65-metre cliffs while you stay at the nearby Emma Gorge Resort. WA’s own Megan Gale is living proof it’s impossible to resist a snap and a swim in its crystal-clear waters.
Injidup Natural Spa
Injidup Natural Spa which is located at Injidup Beach (@westernaustralia, @gypsylovinlight)
Tucked away on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Injidup Natural Spa is a natural rock formation that has quickly become a South West visitor staple. As waves crash over the rocks, a small natural waterfall forms that serves as the perfect shelter for a dip in the icy cool, crystal clear water. Visit at sunrise or sunset during golden hour for a true WA icon – as the sun puts on a spectacular light show moving over the water. Perfectly positioned along the Cape to Cape track, join a self-guided Cape to Cape Explorer Tour so you can relax leisurely at your own pace.
Nature’s Window, Kalbarri
Nature’s Window, Kalbarri National Park (@westernaustralia, @brooke.blurton)
Nature’s Window is one of Western Australia’s most iconic natural attractions, formed from layers of tumblagooda sandstone that are more than 400 million years old. Located at the beginning and end of The Loop in Kalbarri (Wurdimarlu), an 8km walking trail with views of the winding gorge below, Nature’s Window is a picturesque lookout point that perfectly frames the rugged upstream view of the Murchison River. A short walk away from the Kalbarri Skywalk (Kaju Yatka), float on air as you take a thrilling walk 100m above the gorge.
This extraordinary natural landscape was selected by world-renowned artist Antony Gormley to display his Inside Australia exhibit – a collection of 51 individually cast black chromium steel sculptures stretching across 10 square kilometres.
Lake Ballard, Menzies
Antony Gormley Sculptures at Lake Ballard, near Menzies (@westernaustralia, @keiranlusk)
The white salt plains of Lake Ballard create a dramatic setting for the largest outdoor art gallery on Earth. This extraordinary natural landscape was selected by world-renowned artist Antony Gormley to display his Inside Australia exhibit – a collection of 51 individually cast black chromium steel sculptures stretching across 10 square kilometres which was gifted to WA for $1 and celebrated its 20th anniversary recently. The best times to visit are early morning or late afternoon, when the sculptures’ shadows stretch across Lake Ballard, with the vast bright salt plains marking the perfect spot to capture your most striking outfit in the gentle caressing wind.
Cable Beach, Broome
Sunset Camel Ride on Cable Beach in Broome (@natalie_barr7)
Discover the beauty of the Kimberley’s golden hour as the world-famous Indian Ocean sunsets of Cable Beach dazzle in shades of pink, orange and purple. A sanctuary of sugar-white sand and gin-clear waters, Cable Beach’s renowned camel trains make for a striking silhouette against the flame-red sky. Get in the saddle with Broome Camel Safaris, Sundowner Camel Tours, or Red Sun Camels, and join this swaying, stately procession as it makes its way along the sparkling shoreline. The Sunrise queen herself Natalie Barr even gave it her tick of approval!
Monkey Mia, Shark Bay
Underwater view of a friendly Monkey Mia bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)(@westernaustralia, @aussiedestinationsunknown)
Wild dolphins have been visiting the shoreline at Monkey Mia virtually every day for more than 40 years, and 57,000 Instagram posts agree this spot in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area is one of the best and most reliable places for dolphin interaction in the world. Visit between 7:45am-12:00pm daily for a magical encounter with these gentle creatures, and stop off at Shell Beach on your return – one of only two beaches in the world with shores of shells. Change your camera setting to ‘live mode’ and hold the capture button down as someone throws a handful of shells gracefully in the air to capture another magic moment.
Elephant Rocks, Denmark
Aerial View of Elephant Rocks, William Bay National Park (@westernaustralia, @daveyjjwatson)
With more than 12,000 kilometers of coastline ripe for exploration, Western Australia has no shortage of stunning World Heritage scenery, though Elephant Rocks is a crowd favourite amongst Mother Nature’s most inviting swimming pools. A picture postcard of clear emerald waters, pure white sand, and gargantuan sculpted rocks that shelter the bay from the swell beyond – it’s the perfect spot for a snap and snorkel. A short stroll away from the equally iconic Greens Pool, these Denmark icons have backgrounded countless photo shoots that will leave you with plenty of ‘grid-worthy’ options.
#quokkaselfies, Rottnest Island
Fortress Adventure Tour with Segway Tours WA, Rottnest
Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) is a car-free slice of paradise, with bindingly white sand, water so clear you can see your toes, and majestic coves formed by naturally sculpted rocks. But it’s perhaps best known as the home of Australia’s cutest animal, the affable quokka. Featuring in more than 300,000 posts on the ‘gram, these friendly, fuzzy marsupials certainly know how to strike a pose, and the ‘quokka selfie’ made famous by A-listers such as Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, and Rafael Nadal has become a rite of passage for visitors to the island. Read more here for our best tips on how to snap a playful pic in between coastal dips.
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New computer: “I hear that you're frustrated."
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#RetroGames #WindowsXP #Tech #TeamSpeak3 #VideoGames #OldSchool #Gameplays #Nostalgic
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Join us this Saturday, October 24, for the consecration of Bishop Elect David Castro in Colombia.
The service begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (9:00 AM in Colombia). Bishop Juan Carlos will serve as principal consecrator. Everyone is welcome to watch live at https://video.myocci.social
This is a joyful day for the Old Catholic Churches International. A new bishop is a gift to the whole Church: another shepherd called to serve God’s people, to guard the faith, and to welcome all who seek Christ. We give thanks for Bishop Elect David’s yes to that call.
We would be honored to have you watching with us. Gather your family, parish, or prayer group and celebrate with us from wherever you are. If you cannot watch live, please keep Bishop Elect David in your prayers.
Pax et Bonum
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Good old times...
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Krakow Old Town hosts district day on 24 October
Krakow Old Town (Stare Miasto w Krakowie) hosts Old Town District Day at the Barbakan on 24 October…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Krakow #heritageevent #KrakowOldTown #medievalarchitecture #museumevent #OldTownDistrictDay #StareMiastowKrakowie #tourism #travel
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Random Old Comic: Riddle https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2025/10/23/riddle/ Riddle #BobaFett #FennecShand #GamorreanGuard #StarWars
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Every Old-School Italian Restaurant for Pizza and Pasta in Westchester
Photo courtesy of Augie’s of Larchmont While there’s no shortage of fine Italian dining in Westchester, nothing says comfort like Italian food — with a glass of vino on the side, of course. Few things are more soothing when …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancafefood #cafefood #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy
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Their old school reverb makes for yummy surf guitars, it's free until tomorrow!
https://pointlessaudio.gumroad.com/#musicproduction #vst #surfGuitar #surfmusic #reverb #daw #guitar
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Keeping Old Wi-Fi #Radios Alive With Stream Conversion | Hackaday
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The old ladies might have had a point; rule-breaking might be "contagious". At least in the sense that the odds are that more people will break the rules if they see someone else doing it first.
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Century-old mosque near Indian PM’s residence under gov’t threat https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/24/century-old-mosque-near-indian-pms-residence-under-govt-threat?traffic_source=rss
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Century-old mosque near Indian PM’s residence under gov’t threat https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/24/century-old-mosque-near-indian-pms-residence-under-govt-threat?traffic_source=rss
