🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins

White Elephant:
🎵 Lovers

#WhiteElephant
#newRelease 🆕 single

https://whiteelephant1.bandcamp.com/album/lovers

https://open.spotify.com/track/46GaAnHzVJru9ZUp3dnubz

Bạn gặp khó khăn khi chọn quà cho trò chơi White Elephant? Một nhà phát triển đã tạo ra "Công cụ Gợi ý Quà Tặng White Elephant" để giúp bạn! Công cụ này có các bộ lọc tâm trạng như vui nhộn, ấm cúng, thực tế, giúp việc tìm quà trở nên dễ dàng và thú vị hơn.
#WhiteElephant #GiftIdeas #SideProject #Generator #QuàTặng #ÝTưởngQuà #DựÁnPhụ

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1pbb2e5/built_a_white_elephant_gift_idea_generator_as_a/

Một công cụ 'White Elephant Gift Idea Generator' vừa ra mắt, giúp bạn dễ dàng tìm quà cho trò chơi White Elephant. Với hàng ngàn gợi ý và bộ lọc theo 'tâm trạng' (hài hước, ấm cúng, thực tế), việc chọn quà sẽ thú vị hơn nhiều!
#WhiteElephant #GiftIdeas #SideProject #Generator #QuàTặng #ÝTưởngQuà #DựÁnPhụ

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1pbb2e5/built_a_white_elephant_gift_idea_generator_as_a/

#SriLanka battles wild jumbos to save #whiteelephant #airport
"The #PRC-funded & constructed airport, located in home constituency of fmr pres #Rajapaksa & named aft him, has failed to earn enuf since its 2013 inauguration. Te airport lies on a #migratory route for #birds.. Attempts by successive #governments to privatise te US$210mil project hv failed.. Te 1st foreign #airline to operate fr the facility was #AirArabia but it pulled out aft 6 weeks of scheduled services"🤦‍♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-battles-wild-jumbos-to-save-white-elephant-airport

Happy World Elephant Day.

#worldelephantday #elephant #elephantsofinstagram #elephants #savetheelephants #elephantlover #saveelephants #elephantlove #africanelephant #elephantlovers #bekindtoelephants #babyelephants #elephantprint #loveelephants #elephantart #elephantandcastle #babyelephant #elephantshirt #iloveelephants #drunkelephant #tinyelephants #elephanttattoo #elephantseals #elephantconservation #cagetheelephant #whiteelephant #elephantears #elephantgod…

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/happy-world-elephant-day/

The 747 aircraft the Qataris want to give to Trump is a white elephant that they can't sell, and that they'll be glad to be rid of the storage and maintenance charges for.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/

#trump #airforceone #dumbpresidenttricks #whiteElephant #pigInAPoke

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＜ミャンマー（ビルマ）情報＞

Today 11 years ago (Apr. 23rd, 2014)
11年前の今日（2014年４月23日）

The so-called "White Elephant" (Royal White Elephants) at the
Hsin Hpyu Daw Park in Yangon.

いわゆる吉兆の「白象」ですね。
パッと見にはピンク色ですが、実は白象の定義では色だけが重要ではない
というのはよく知られております。
はい。

#WhiteElephant #白象

Kumatori, an "Osaka Prefecture town[,] has rejected free admission for its students to the Osaka-Kansai Expo...over concerns about safety"
"...principals of the town's 8 municipal elementary and junior high schools concluded that there was insufficient information to ensure the safe supervision of students"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250131/p2a/00m/0na/009000c
🔸Expo2025 has published a "Disaster Prevention Basic Plan" but no detailed evacuation plan
https://www.expo2025.or.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/DP_basicplan_EG.pdf
#Osaka #Japan #safety #NoMoreExpos
#WhiteElephant

MY VLOG: CPEC| Debt burdens| Future of CPEC| Comparing with Sri Lanka

Pakistan is under massive debts & CPEC has yet to deliver on the operational front. Balochistan issues add to delaying projects. https://youtu.be/ItvDhoQZzoM

#cpec #baluchistan #securitybreach #baluchi #whiteelephant #dynamicscrm #army #pakistannews #baluchistan #operationalissues

Item value is determined by:

1) the cost of said item, if purchased at a store (non-cursed items)

or

2) the amount you would have to pay - based on the market rate in your area - to banish / exorcise / permanently remove the item from your life (cursed items).

Also, with Monkey’s Paw parties, there is no swapping. Once you touch an item, it is yours permanently, unless and until any magical prerequisites are fulfilled.

#MonkeysPawParty
#YankeeSwap
#WhiteElephant

"Ticket sales for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai are lagging badly..."
"...of the total 7.44M tickets issued, 6.13M (82%) were sold directly to corporations and other organizations..."
"...Expo would break even if 80% of the expected 28.2M visitors attend [but] it remains unclear who would bear responsibility for any financial shortfall..."

🔸Inevitably taxpayers will be forced to pay for the #WhiteElephant 😡
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241227/p2a/00m/0na/020000c
#NoMoreExpos #Japan

This year whoever gets my #WhiteElephant gift (none of them are on fedi dw) will receive a devious item of my own design: the Kintsugi Kit, also known as a broken ceramic tealight holder and a bottle of gold glitter glue lovingly sealed in a cookie box with super glue (a thing I do to a lot of white elephant gifts for some reason). Update on its reception to follow later this week.

Alright, decided to take some time off from social for few days to detox. Enjoyed some McRib, had nice time at cocktail party, and got some gifts at white elephant.

But, time to get back to work.

#LifeUpdate #Food #Holiday #Drinks #McRib #WhiteElephant

Greece "is the 8th country to drop out after initially planning to participate in the [Osaka] expo...amid concerns about the event's ballooning costs"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241130/p2g/00m/0na/009000c
#Osaka #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant #Japan

"#Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka...to make up for a shortage of truck drivers"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241102/p2g/00m/0bu/030000c
🔸Haven't heard any explanation why existing railroads are not sufficient for cargo transport & yet govt mumbles about loss of revenue when asked about raising tax thresholds for minimum wage workers.
Hope a hung parliament can smoke out all the wasteful pet projects LDP & Keidanren has been pushing thru up to now
#WhiteElephant

@primonatura
🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃
Wondering why Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) seems to have forgotten that Japan already has an extensive railway network; so why does it want to reinvent the wheel?
#Japan #WhiteElephant

"Work began in 2010, with a commitment that there would be energy-producing reactions by 2020" but delays "mean Iter is not going to be ready for another decade...while Iter’s budget – which has already soared to $20bn – will increase by a further $5bn"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/is-the-dream-of-nuclear-fusion-dead-why-the-international-experimental-reactor-is-in-big-trouble
🔸Technologically interesting, but not sure it's worth the effort to produce yet another heat source for driving steam turbines. Also, why recreate the Sun on Earth?
https://www.iter.org/sci/makingitwork
#NuclearFusion #WhiteElephant

"...govt aims to launch [an automated freight network] in select areas by 2034 before introducing it on the busy Tokyo-Osaka route, PM Kishida announced on July 25"
"...estimated construction cost per 10 km is 25.4B yen ($165M) for above-ground infrastructure and 7B to 80B yen for the underground tunnels"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15363084
🔸Ignoring existing freight trains allows excuse to spend billions of taxpayers' money?🤔
#Japan #infrastructure #WhiteElephant

🔸Meanwhile:
"Japanese govt on Dec. 19 [2023] unveiled the overall cost of hosting the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, putting infrastructure development at some ¥9.7 trillion (approx. $67.5 billion)"
🔸That's about ¥78,295 ($489) per person living in #Japan
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231220/p2a/00m/0na/002000c

🔸It's puzzling why people keep voting in the guys who keep dipping into taxpayers' wallets to push White Elephant projects. Old habits are hard to kick?
#Japan #WhiteElephant