I hope you had a pleasant New 12 months celebration! The House Needle reportedly regarded nice. Sadly, 2025 appears to be all downhill from right here.
Wow, #Seattle completely crushed it ringing in 2025! Epic lights and fireworks, and that Drone present was complete next-level!!! Even the climate was on level, blowing the smoke away from the present in contrast to final yr. Cheers to beginning the brand new yr with a bang! #alaskaairlinesNYE… pic.twitter.com/anpk6jlIN0
— Sigma Sreedharan (@sigmas) January 1, 2025
Unhealthy omen: Tahlequah, the southern resident orca J pod-member who carried the physique of her lifeless calf round for 17 days and 1,000 miles in 2018, gave start to a different calf on Christmas Eve. That calf, a daughter, was confirmed lifeless on New 12 months’s Eve. Tahlequah is as soon as once more carrying her lifeless calf which she does by “pushing it forward of her along with her head, carrying it atop her head, or holding it by a tiny fin along with her tooth,” in line with a heartbreaking description by the Seattle Instances. This doesn’t bode effectively for the struggling southern orcas nor for the editors on the Instances who will certainly must area an analogous mountain of unhappy poems from readers because the one they acquired final time Tahlequah mourned her little one. Let’s not even delve into the superstitions of this sort of factor occurring on New 12 months’s Eve.
Bollards wanted: Bourbon Avenue, a pedestrianized zone, often has brief steel posts referred to as bollards blocking its entry factors from autos. These bollards had been down for repairs on the time of the New 12 months’s Day assault. New Orleans was within the technique of changing the very important infrastructure forward of town’s internet hosting of the Sugar Bowl, an effort meant to stop vehicular assaults. Specialists say bollards are the best strategy to maintain folks from weaponizing autos and inflicting mass assaults. Time to pedestrianize all widespread public areas?
Las Vegas cybertruck explosion: A Tesla cybertruck exploded outdoors of Donald Trump’s Las Vegas resort on New 12 months’s Day. Authorities discovered “fireworks mortars, [fuel] canisters, and different explosive units” at the back of the truck. The explosion killed one individual—the motive force—and injured seven others. The cybertruck was reportedly rented in Colorado. Tesla CEO and new Trump inner-circle member Elon Musk helped monitor the truck’s journey by offering video footage from Tesla charging stations.
One individual died and 7 others had been injured Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck that gave the impression to be carrying fireworks caught fireplace and exploded outdoors President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas resort, authorities mentioned. pic.twitter.com/Farj4ENFJP
— The Related Press (@AP) January 1, 2025
A hyperlink between tragedies? Investigators are trying into whether or not the Las Vegas and New Orleans incidents are related. The assaults have a number of similarities in frequent, reminiscent of how the individuals who rented every of the vehicles within the assaults used the identical rental app, Turo.
Capturing at Queens nightclub: Late Wednesday, “three or 4 gunmen” opened fireplace at a bunch of younger folks ready to enter Amazura nightclub within the Jamaica neighborhood of town’s Queens borough for a personal occasion. Of the 15 or so folks outdoors the membership, 10 had been wounded by the pictures. The gunmen fled on foot.
At the least 12 lifeless in Montenegro: After an alleged Montenegro bar brawl, a person pulled out a gun and killed the bar proprietor, then killed the proprietor’s kids, after which his circle of relatives members. He then killed himself. Montenegro is in mourning.
Teen lifeless in Lynnwood: A 14-year-old boy is lifeless following a taking pictures. One other teen was additionally shot and injured.
Palate cleanse: At the least we now have the UK’s greatest ever dinosaur footprint web site to get pleasure from.
I’m thrilled to have performed a small function within the excavation of the UK’s greatest ever dinosaur trackway web site at Dewars Farm Quarry, Oxfordshire, in June 2024!
The excavation uncovered over 200 footprints, together with these of 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 and 𝘊𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 🦕 pic.twitter.com/UCrY2Uqf2t
— Dr Emily Swaby (@EmilyJSwaby) January 2, 2025
ICYMI: A 17-year-old Texas teenager confessed to killing her 15-year-old rival’s present goat by force-feeding the goat, Willie, a pesticide with a drench gun.
You already know what time it’s: Time to faux that is the yr you are going to do a whole 30-day yoga problem. Reside within the bliss of who you possibly can be.
