The perilous charm of Reggie the ‘friendly’ dolphin

The bottlenose in Lyme Bay has become a local celebrity – but experts warn human interaction could be putting everyone at risk

No one knows why Reggie, the solitary-sociable bottlenose dolphin, has chosen to linger alone in Lyme Bay, away from his pod or family group.

Lone cetaceans are rare in UK waters – Reggie is believed to be the 16th in 35 years – but young males do sometimes break away to live alone, probably explained by their fission-fusion society.

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Trump fears he won’t get into heaven. I think he has nothing to worry about | Dave Schilling

His concerns are understandable after decades acting in his own best interest. On the other hand, he’s very rich

“Will Donald Trump get into heaven?” I know this is a question weighing heavily on your mind right now. The current president of the United States is 79 years old, so we don’t have much time left to sort this one out. Trump clearly has eternity at the top of his agenda, having spoken on at least two occasions about what happens when we die. He called into a radio program called the Todd Starnes Show, which is a thing people listen to when the internet is out on their block. He waxed on about his military deployment in Washington DC, but also about the possible system that decides the fate of your everlasting soul. “There has to be some kind of a report card up there someplace, y’know, like: ‘Let’s go to heaven, let’s get into heaven.’ It’s sort of a beautiful thing,” he said to Starnes. He’s probably hoping they grade on a curve.

On Fox News, Trump expressed serious doubt he’s going to get called up to the big leagues of life after death. “I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.” I don’t know who he’s hearing this from. Is there a Quinnipiac poll I haven’t read? Has Steve Kornacki weighed in from the MSNBC (sorry, MS Now) big board?

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The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home

When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.

“It just felt unreal like this wasn’t a world that we could be living in right now,” said Duran Zecca, a James Beard Award nominated chef and co-owner of Amiga Amore in Highland Park, a historically Latino neighborhood in north-east LA. “I didn’t know what to do, but I knew how to feed people and love on people because that is exactly how I was brought up in my family.”

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Police investigate after Vingegaard’s team suffer bike thefts at Vuelta

  • Visma-Lease a Bike report theft of ‘several bikes’

  • Vingegaard also loses teammate Zingle to injury

On the morning after Jonas Vingegaard took the leader’s red jersey at the Vuelta a España with a stage win in northern Italy, he lost a teammate and his team lost some bicycles that were stolen.

Team Visma-Lease a Bike said police in Italy are investigating the theft of “several bikes” from an equipment truck though it was unclear if Vingegaard will be affected in stage three later on Monday.

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Can Netflix find your new favourite watch based on your star sign?

The streamer has launched a new tool it claims can predict which film or show you’re going to love based on astrology

As you will already be aware, one of the downsides of the streaming era is decision paralysis. In times gone by, people would watch television by simply turning their television on, watching whatever was showing at that precise moment and then complaining about it. But now, as you find yourself forced to pick from every single film and series ever made, you feel overwhelmed. You spend entire evenings scrolling through submenu after submenu, glazing over as your inability to find something to watch ossifies into dissociative panic.

The challenge for the streamers is how to effectively curate this infinite content. In the past they have done this by prioritising new releases, or showing you what everyone else is watching, or sharpening their algorithms to second-guess what you want to watch based on what you have already watched. But finally – finally – Netflix has cracked it. And it has achieved this with science.

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Krankenhaus review – Lake District castle has the antithesis to boring corporate music festivals

Muncaster Castle, Cumbria
Featuring steam train trips and guided walks between the bands, organisers Sea Power have made something special in this dung-scented corner of the north

From highly competitive dog shows to night-time stories read in a woodland, there’s a sense of character to Krankenhaus that is unlike most festivals. With fewer than 1,500 people, the Lake District event – created and curated by the art-rock outfit Sea Power – is intimate almost to the point of being familial. Set primarily in a barn with the faint linger of animal dung still in the air, within the stunning grounds of Muncaster Castle, it’s essentially an extended party for the band and their friends.

The Lovely Eggs make a glorious racket as they hammer out a stomping set of psychedelic garage pop before Sea Power team up with Dean Wareham to deliver an immaculate performance of Galaxie 500 songs in a set that is both gentle and sprawling at the same time. The Moonlandingz finish the evening with a wonderfully raucous set that ends with frontman Lias Saoudi screaming his lungs out in the audience over a relentless and filthy gabber beat.

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