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Mean Girls musical to open in the West End (www.whatsonstage.com)

Mean Girls - based on the Lindsay Lohan-led film - is coming to the West End. The show (by Tina Fey with music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin) will open at the Savoy Theatre in June 2024, with tickets going on sale on 1 November 2023. Dates and casting are to be confirmed...

Uncritical support for Ben Norton against the LaRouchite cranks at The Grayzone (like Max Blumenthal). (twitter.com)

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/766438...

Exclusive: US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory (torrentfreak.com)

*Russia’s incremental moves to eliminate online privacy regularly target VPNs. To ‘free’ itself from Google and Apple, in 2022 Russia launched its very own app store, which ironically offers dozens of VPNs. After the government recently announced the mandatory pre-installation of RuStore on tech gadgets, a draft law will...

[IT] Diebe zapften Hunderttausende Liter Kerosin aus NATO-Pipeline (www.n-tv.de) German

Searching for PeerTube in Bing and thus DuckDuckGo gives zero results (jeena.net)

cross-posted from: jemmy.jeena.net/post/219214...

Voici les six profils de ménages pauvres identifiés par l’Insee (www.huffingtonpost.fr) French

PAUVRETÉ - Absence de revenus, petite retraite, charges familiales élevées : la pauvreté est liée à diverses situations professionnelles et personnelles. Dans une étude de l’Insee publiée ce mardi 3 octobre, six profils de ménages pauvres émergent....

Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds (www.thedrive.com)

Les mathématiques, maillon faible des étudiants en école de commerce (www.lemonde.fr)

Child Labor Is Such a Big Problem That California Will Teach Kids Their Rights at School (www.vice.com)

A new bill signed on Saturday will require schools to teach students about child labor, workplace safety, and rights to organize....

Puffy Tenshi by Mame (dl.touhoppai.moe)

Source: misskey.io/notes/9kf3cvqnud

Readers' Top 66 Horror Novels of the Past Three Years (www.goodreads.com)

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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)

Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....

France agrees to deliver military equipment to Armenia (www.lemonde.fr)

Tunisia's Saied rejects EU financial aid, casting doubt on immigration deal (www.france24.com)

Ist Burger King Halal? Fakten und Klarheit für Halal-Essen (de.halalharamworld.com)

Unsere Untersuchung über Burger King enthüllt, welche Menüoptionen halal-zertifiziert sind. Finde heraus, was Halal-Kunden wissen müssen.

These are the four technologies the EU fears might be weaponised (www.euronews.com)

BVerfG: Krankenkasse muss experimentelle Therapie für schwer krankes Kind nicht zahlen (www.spiegel.de) German

Zwar dürften lebensbedrohlich Erkrankte nicht grundsätzlich von Behandlungen jenseits der Schulmedizin ausgeschlossen werden. Es brauche für eine gewünschte Behandlungsmethode aber »eine auf Indizien gestützte, nicht ganz fernliegende Aussicht auf Heilung oder wenigstens auf eine spürbare positive Einwirkung auf den...