Russian forces attempted to shoot down a real stork with an FPV interceptor drone on the southern front. The stork narrowly escaped by entering a sharp spin at the last moment to evade the attack.
Kevin Jackson
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Just a person. Photography, wildlife and aviation are my things. Full time carer.
The decline has been fast, steep, and unparalleled.
Pete Fuller@petefullerga.bsky.social · 5mo agoI will never ever understand.
I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh
Rare bug photographed in Golden Gate Park pond: 'Total shock'
The elusive find had never been logged on iNaturalist before.
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Interesting: A Ilyushin Il-76 operated by Syrian Air has landed at Damascus International Airport, arriving from the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base. Former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly used the same aircraft to flee from Damascus to Khmeimim Air Base on the night of Dec 8, 2024.
Next they will be allowed to smoke and carry guns.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5mo agoRFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists
Reform UK candidate claimed COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, designed to control the population David Booth, who is standing for Farage's party in Croydon, said "powerful forces" in the Pentagon had seeded the virus Covid-19 bereaved families call on Reform to sack him
Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was 'Pentagon-Led Plot' in Conspiracy Theory Journal
Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was "staged" by Western military and intelligence agencies
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. What are we doing here? It’s not journalism, whatever it is.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6mo agoMarathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours. (H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)
When one of your last slivers of hope is the 25th Amendment… And then you remember Step 1 of it requires JD Vance and Trump’s sycophantic cabinet of compromised dipshits to invoke it.
I’m trying to re-home a poodle that barks A LOT. If anyone’s interested I’ll hop over my neighbor’s fence and get it for you.
youtube.com/shorts/aInlA... Priceless from @mrjamesob.bsky.social . I can not unsee it now.
'That's not AI?! That's genuine?'
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Mueller was a decorated combat Marine who leaves behind a wife and two children. There is no defending this. Trump is scum.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead.”
That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.
In the US you can have gold-plated health insurance and still find yourself out of pocket to the tune of thousands of dollars, or worse find you're not covered for your illness. We have to be ready to fight tooth and nail to prevent our NHS being dismantled. This is worth a read ⤵️
Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 7mo agoPoliticians on the right laud the US healthcare system. Yet medical bills is the single biggest cause of bankruptcy – having insurance doesn’t mean you're covered. Read now to see why the NHS is by far the better option. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
Nigel Farage told us Brexit would give £3 billion more a year to our NHS He now says Britain is so broke, our NHS needs to be scrapped replaced by US-style healthcare insurance bankrupting thousands, leaving thousands more to die He lied before He hasn't apologised He's still lying
Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.
A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party
When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
Just as the established press in America largely failed to do its job with Trump in both 2016 and 2024, our media is similarly paving the way for Reform UK. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
Media’s acquiescence to Trump will fail
"There’s no evidence that moving to a both-sidesy middle will bring in new readers, and plenty of evidence it won’t."
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
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