A four-ton, building-sized piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket is believed to have crashed into the Moon earlier today at 5,400mph. The uncontrolled fragment had been drifting through space since January 2025. NASA predicted that its impact would create a crater around 18 m wide and 4m deep.

💌 Gift Article "The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta" - Anne Applebaum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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💌 Gift Article "The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta" - Anne Applebaum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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If you ever feel overlooked just remember Disney has a film literally called "The Brave Little Toaster" - but "Frozen" gets am exclusive on all the toaster tie-ins disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bra...

The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated adventure film adapted from the 1980 novella by Thomas M. Disch (his first book for children; it also first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science ...

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Ugh. Accidentally left my headlights on for 50 mins and now car battery flat and won't start. I didn't even know that was still a thing. Surely we should have fixed that by now?

Forget space exploration, global powers and private interests are racing to militarize space. William J. Astore, retired professor of history and former Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, explores how space is becoming the next battlefield. Read now. 👇

The militarization of space threatens us all

As space becomes an increasingly vital arena for war, William J Astore tracks its increased militarization.

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I Remember, Hope you do….

I can’t believe we’re relitigating the Covid response when this exists: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamq...

Sarah Cooper does Trump on Meds -JazzStoolSofteners

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Chris Hedges Much of Trump's America was foreshadowed by what he did to the Atlantic City Trump Taj Mahal — utilizing heavy surveillance on casino gamblers, Trump extracted profits from victims he was able to lure into his resort, and left the place in ruins with his contractors unpaid

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Centralised Western capitalism can't let post-colonial socialist regimes succeed, and in 1920 centralised Bolsheviks couldn't let the free anarchist soviets of the Makhnovshchina succeed - For the exact same reasons of extreme 'narrative of the inevitable' control. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnov...

Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV

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Looks Like Cheating to Win an Election…..

Wait, is this a new Poltergeist sequel or is it a total reboot?

There are two types of people in the world; Greengrocers apostrophe's, and Oxford commas.

Yeah, I flip burgers for a living... Right now I've got a a portfolio of 3 whoppers, just waiting for planning permission to extend 2 into triples & upgrade the other to bacon and cheese. While they're on the market they'll act as collateral for a Texan BBQ Double Royale I think is undervalued. 😎

Harveys Cheesy Mushroom Melt Burger

ALT: Harveys Cheesy Mushroom Melt Burger

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Only 17% of people say they are willing to pay for online news, but quality news comes at a price: if we aren't paying for it, then Billionaires, Governments and Advertisers are - which inevitability influences which stories and narratives get told.

It is reported that 46% of Brazilians who use gambling platforms and online casinos do so to earn extra income and pay bills, pushing many deeper into debt, while a powerful betting lobby resists reforms, writes Leonardo Sakamoto in the latest edition of the View From Brazil.

Online gambling is destroying lives in Brazil

Bad betting companies are targeting the most vulnerable, with the help of some politicians, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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This Russian depot supplies Putin’s war in Ukraine. Its boss has a Scottish property portfolio

A string of central Glasgow properties are owned by a company belonging to the head of an investment firm behind a Russian shipping hub. Researchers say the port sustains Moscow’s illegal invasion of ...

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Huh, writing something and just noticed when you are talking about Nestor, the eldest Achean king from Illiad / Odyssey in Ukrainian, it is нестор - like Hector the hero of Troy! 🤔

Why did you pull me over? I don't want to talk about my day. Am I being detained? I invoke my 5th amendment right to remain silent. I want to talk to my lawyer. Shut the f*ck up.

Right. It is decided. I'm moving from OpenOffice to LibreOffice...

The new space race promises a future among the stars, but as billionaires pursue dreams of Mars, profit and power, are they creating a future for humanity, or sacrificing the only planet we have? Astronomer Lucian Walkowicz (@notnotrocketscience.com) writes for New Internationalist.

Space: the billionaires’ playground

As tycoons like Elon Musk attempt to seize space for profit, the Earth is being trashed, writes astronomer Lucian Walkowicz.

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I strongly suspect what Farage finds most offensive about "Making plans for Nigel" is it harks back to a time of lifelong secure employment in a nationalised British Steel.

Is there a metric equivalent of a milestone?

Credit where it is due to Trump and RFK Jr... I hear the expanded diarrhoea lettuce program is now on track to solve America's obesity crisis. #MAHA

Interesting - the total number of active email addresses has fallen for the first time... Scientists blame over-phishing.