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[Offline] Operation: Puppet Live!
(www.operationpuppet.live)
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The Indonesian National Revolution,[nb 1] also known as the Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during postwar and postcolonial Indonesia. It took place between Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945 and the Netherlands' transfer of sovereignty over the Dutch East Indies to the Republic of the United States of Indonesia at the end of 1949.[17]
Read more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution
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See story here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10144283/search-for-kangaroo-continues/
Questions began surfacing when local zoos confirmed all of their marsupials were accounted for.
Durham police said while they were not involved in the hunt for the animal Friday, they knew where it came from. A driver delivering two kangaroos to Quebec on Thursday had stopped at Oshawa Zoo to let them “stretch their legs.”
This is when the kangaroo allegedly made its escape.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-42170023
[...] on 3 December 1967 - the heart of a 26-year-old road accident victim, Denise Darvall, started to beat inside the chest of a 54-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky.
News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world.
Initial reports widely hailed the operation as "historic" and "successful", though Washkansky only survived a further 18 days.
It became one of the most famous events of the 20th Century, on a par with the moon landing two years later.
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2012/12/first-artificial-heart-30-years-later
[...] on Dec. 2, 1982, in the darkest hours of the morning, cardiothoracic surgeon William DeVries, MD, carefully removed the ravaged heart of Dr. Barney Clark—a heart that tore like tissue paper due to years of treatment with steroids—and replaced it with the world's first permanent artificial heart. Known as the Jarvik-7 (named after former U of U physician and inventor Robert Jarvik, MD), this aluminum and polyurethane device was connected to a 400-pound air compressor that would accompany Clark for the rest of his life - all 112 days of it.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church
"wedding" is in quotes because
The New York Times referred to a 1997 ceremony for 28,000 couples as a "marriage affirmation ceremony", adding: "The real weddings were held later in separate legal ceremonies."
See also this article from the 1997 BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1997/unification_church/34821.stm
This is also the same Unification Church from the assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abe. In more recent news: Japan asks court to strip Unification church of religious status
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It wasn't limited to the conference, there are many more sock puppets among us:
Orosz alleged that DevTernity's addition of Boyko to the lineup was "not a one-off." He posted what he said is evidence from past years of more fake speakers that were advertised at both DevTernity and other events organized by Sizovs, and 404 Media also claims that a hugely popular female tech influencer Instagram account called Coding Unicorn may have been secretly managed by Sizovs.
According to 404 Media, Coding Unicorn bills itself as the “most popular coding account on Instagram." It's allegedly managed by a real woman named Julia Kirsina, but 404 Media found that IP logs, a YouTube video, social media posts, and other evidence seems to suggest Sizovs controls the account.
Perhaps most glaringly obvious, coders revealed to 404 Media that "some of Kirsina’s Instagram posts are word-for-word copies of Sizovs’ LinkedIn posts, sometimes published more than a year later." In addition, "some of the images [Kirsina] posted on Instagram show computer monitors with code that show her logged in under Sizovs’ name." But perhaps most striking is the fact that an administrator told 404 Media that both Sizovs’ and Kirsina’s accounts were banned "multiple times" by the Lobst.ers coding forum for "sockpuppeting"—using a false identity to deceive others—in 2019 and 2020.
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An article if you're curious: https://globalnews.ca/news/4683426/canadian-thanksgiving-different-american-thanksgiving/
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TIL about Darius McCollum, a man who was arrested 32 times for impersonating a transit worker. He commandeered hundreds of buses and subway trains over the course of 30 years, staying on route and schedule without being paid. He attended Union meetings, even though he wasn’t a member.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Rails_(2016_film)
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On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers—William Blackstone, George Farrell, James Dingle, John Wilford (alias "Creighton") and Valentine Rourke—tunnelled through a sewage drain into the vault of the Bank of Australia in George Street, Sydney, and stole some £14,000 in promissory notes and coins
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Dancing Plague of 1518
(lemmy.ca)
Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took part, dancing for weeks with some dying in the process
Sockpuppet Society
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This is a community for sockpuppets reenacting events
The event can be anything, including historical, fiction, or stories personal to you.
The format can also be anything, including:
- Real sock puppets
- Quick doodles on a napkin
- Photoshop
- AI generated content
- Your old sock posed in an interesting way
Just include a sock in the post and you should be fine 🧦
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Artbot - a free tool to generate images. Pass existing images as img2img and use controlnets to follow an existing composition
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