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Fire Map Today Maps Australia’s Bushfires

firemaptoday.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 84.0
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A live national dashboard combining satellite fire detections, official warnings, fire danger ratings, total fire bans, planned burns, and air quality.

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The site groups nearby satellite detections into individual fire events, archives conditions by day, and breaks the current picture down by state and territory. It clearly says it is not an official warning service, directing people to follow state fire agencies and call Triple Zero in an emergency.

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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers

August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.

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LBGT.BG: A Private Guide to LGBTQ+ Life in Bulgaria lbgt.app

A Bulgarian-language information resource covering LGBTQ+ health, rights, history, faith, self-acceptance, organizations, and urgent help.

 JP's Flower Chain for Monica jpsflowerchainformonica.com

A memorial site invites friends and strangers to choose different days to send flowers, memories, photographs, or private messages to Monica after JP's death.

 Cabinet des Mécaniques: Where Time Comes Apart cabinetdesmecaniques.digital

A Besançon museum devoted to horology, automata, and the instruments built to measure time.