I assume the witch parked the broom there (after using it to get down to street level–who needs a ladder?) and walked to Starbucks. Or something.
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Could be just a broom to sweep the pavement kept at hand, could be put there to ward off Travellers.
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As a kid, you’d never be able to keep me off that ladder. I would never use the door.
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I think this is just gorgeous design.
The Dweller in Bottom Left (Apartment 1A?), can climb three rungs, walk across a tiny roof, and then monkey their way over three more bars to fall in through their kitchen window, narrowly missing the stove and the kettle perched thereon.
Meanwhile, their Neighbour opposite in 1B has merely to leap to the fifth rung before janking themselves across a nifty 45 degree angle with a shopping bag or three to the safety of the window which absolutely does not open out above the twenty-five-litre fishtank they bought in a yard sale last August.
Above them, to the left and to the right, live worshippers of the Spider-Gods of Old.
Y’know, I actually started this post with something positive in mind. Then I got carried away. And now my point is irretrievably lost… 
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Oh for the good old days of old fashioned flash mobs.
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For some of them (the weirdly patterned carpeted ones), I think I’d close my eyes and go down on my butt.
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That photo is from Finland and we have AFAIK three Starbucks two in central Helsinki and one in Helsinki-Vantaa airport so that might be a long walk. I see those sometimes need to take photo next time I see one.
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A popular manga predicted catastrophe — and Japanese tourism took a hit
Japanese officials are dismissing alarm over the prediction of a July “catastrophe” in a comic book, “The Future I Saw,” which is deterring some summer tourists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/19/japan-manga-tourists-ryo-tatsuki/
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What really scared me were the multi-unit dwellings…
#17 A Fire Escape Of The 38-Story Copan Residential Building In São Paulo, Brazil
So, no escape for most of the residents. 
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Someone clearly didn’t watch Office Space.
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Something like this happened ~40 years ago with a lottery in some British tabloid or other.
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Alternate (and older) article talking about the same issue
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