Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Laneway off Grote Street, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Tatham Street, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Tatham Street, Adelaide CBD

People down the rabbit hole don’t always realise their experience isn’t universal, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. You might have more luck trying a new tactic

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My friend of 30 years keeps sending me social media posts and videos that I either don’t find funny or are disturbing. We live far away and rarely see each other, so we communicate through a messaging app. I’ve told her many times that I prefer positive or cute things, and I don’t follow American politics.

Her life is difficult and I understand why she spends so much time on social media. Last week she sent me multiple videos each day that were not of interest to me at all, including one with women slapping each other. She often buys into conspiracy theories until I disprove them. All of it upsets me. It’s like she doesn’t know who I am. I’m not replying to any of these messages but she keeps sending them.

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Pillars at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Thorny Gale, Cumbria, bookended the project that modernised mapping

Heritage campaigners are bidding for listing status for two concrete pillars hailed as “modest obelisks of modernity in the countryside”.

These functional 120cm (4ft) stone or concrete “trig points” formed part of a 6,500-strong network of surveying posts that were vital for the development of modern mapping.

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It’s a relief to see the pontiff decrying brutality, because it seems most current world leaders lack the necessary spine

I have never been a religious or spiritual person, even though I grew up in a religious area and had friends (and strangers) throughout school and university trying to lure me into whatever prayer disguised as organised fun they were up to. I did try it out shortly for a desperate period when I was young, attempting to pray to a god I didn’t really believe in to make me not gay, but blessedly he never answered.

Despite my resistance to organised religion, I have always had a soft spot for nuns and their counterparts. The girlies.

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Als progressief-liberaal had Marijn Kruk zijn overtuigingen lang min of meer als vanzelfsprekend beschouwd. Nu nodigt het conservatieve project van Orbán in Hongarije, dat in zwaar weer verkeert, hem uit tot herbezinning.

Hoe mensen geuren waarnemen is beïnvloed door sociale veranderingen. Er is een „interactie tussen genetica, omgeving en ecologie”, blijkt uit een onderzoek in Maleisië.

De afgelopen maanden is er een serie-aanrander actief geweest in Rotterdam. De verdachte (25) viel vrouwen lastig tijdens het hardlopen. Hij werd opgepakt, maar ging in afwachting van zijn proces opnieuw in de fout.

Rotterdam telt 275.000 vrijwilligers en mantelzorgers, die donderdag stuk voor stuk in het zonnetje werden gezet. Op het Stationsplein werd een ‘tapijt van hartjes’ gekrijt als dank. “Geen sportvereniging of ziekenhuis zou draaien zonder vrijwilligers.”