Launch of Vega-C VV27 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 25 July at 23:03 local time (03:03 BST/04:03 CEST on 26 July), carrying Airbus’s four CO3D satellites and the French space agency CNES MicroCarb mission.
#launchers #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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_Texas Redistricting Exposes Democrat Hypocrisy_
"When the Texas House Democrats bolted from Austin in earlier this month, they did so with the swagger of martyrs. They cast their self-imposed exile as a noble stand against injustice, a heroic resistance to gerrymandering. But like most political theatre, the drama was better lit than written. What these Democrats inadvertently illuminated was not Republican overreach but their own decades-long monopoly on congressional cartography in the states they dominate. In trying to indict Texas, they put their own crimes on trial."
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run so the use case for AI assistants is to do performative computing so the CEO actually finally understands why refusing their password is bad and you need to put pape…FIVE F*ing NINES
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He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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ok #gm today we are making some important folded welded corner brackets that will be bolting everything in this project together. last minute i increased the thickness to make them stronger.
i love parametric modeling. it just werks
SQUIRREL: This book isn't good. RABBIT: Then stop reading it. SQUIRREL: NO! No. Because then... then the book WINS.rooniecomics.com
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Proportional tits are nice. But it's the girl's vibe - manner - personality that matters most.
They're all, unfortunately, crazy. Just try to find one whose craziness appeals to you.
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#Health #Science #Research #mRNA #Malaria
I've had malaria, seen many others with it, horrible disease, so much damage. This is awesome.
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A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria by directly targeting the proteins that enable the infectious parasite to reproduce could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at WEHI in Australia.Abhimanyu Ghoshal (New Atlas)
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There’s a tape.Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording.Thom Hartmann (Raw Story)
Armenia might formally withdraw from the CSTO and then replace Russian troops with American PMCs to control Zangezur Corridor.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
136K likes, 3,192 comments - wizard_bisan1 on August 6, 2025: "Share the UPDATES from Gaza‼️".Instagram
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[F]or those living with chronic illness or disability in Gaza, hunger is
not separate from their condition — it is made worse by it. Medications have disappeared. Treatments have stopped. And basic survival has become a daily battle. Under total blockade, diabetes or a thyroid condition can become a death sentence.
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For diabetics, skipping meals without adjusting medication can trigger a dangerous cycle known as iatrogenic hypoglycemia — caused not just by the disease, but by inadequate care.
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“Thyroid patients need special nutrition — fish and eggs are vital to compensate for deficiencies in the body. But here, almost all we have access to are canned and preserved foods that don’t meet those needs.”
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“When I don’t eat enough, my heart acts up more,” she said. “Even when I take the pill, my body doesn’t respond the same. I get dizzy. I feel like I’m fading.”
Malnutrition weakens her body’s ability to absorb medicine. Dehydration and exhaustion trigger more episodes. She must ration what little food, medicine, and strength she has left.
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#Gaza #starvation #famine
Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
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It's time to admit, that we are already living in the post-global internet world.
And there goes the last hope I had for a united humanity. The last argument for a liberal future is dead.
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Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a king in hell?
This is a famous question, that I used to consider ridiculous, but the way modern politicians treat it is outright schizophrenic. While they sing the glory of globalism, our politicians say we cannot leave the EU because "we get more money out of surrounding nations".
That is ridiculous, and when it comes to the internet, this split becomes even more obvious. They NEED to control all of the data on their territory, as if they didn't understand that lack of territory is the entire point.
I just realized this point, when I was thinking of the old Netflix. It had it's library so shattered, that a VPN was a requirement for you to use it in any meaningful way.
Well, from there.... We were already just a single step away from national nets being the only option.
@alyx
Sorry for sperging out.
I just concider the internet to be literally as important as the moon landing, when it comes to pushing the idea, that humanity could move on into the future.
I often joke, that as a child, I was politically a Star-trekkie. But that meant, that humanity could move on from racism and unite nations.
BLM completely disproved the first illusion, and it broke me for a decade. Now, they're about to break the 2nd illusion.
Commemoration
Atomic Bomb Viewing Parties: A Fad Lost to Time
by Steve Bombomarx
Once upon a crisp Nevada dawn, when the roosters were irradiated and the martinis still glowed from the night before, Americans did what they do best: turned existential dread into spectacle and called it a party.
Yes, friends and fallout-fetishists, there was a time—not so long ago—that people packed into convertibles and lounge chairs in the desert outside Las Vegas, wore sunglasses at night (because Ray-Bans weren’t just for style), and toasted the end of the world with highballs and optimism.
These were the atomic bomb viewing parties:
A peculiarly American pastime where the mushroom cloud wasn’t a warning—it was entertainment.
“Pull up a chaise longue, Dorothy, they’re about to drop the 15-kiloton special!”
From the 1950s into the early '60s, tourists booked hotel rooms with "mushroom cloud views." The Desert Inn became the Ritz of Radioactivity. Guests would rise early, don sunglasses and silk robes, and line the windows for the main event—cocktails in hand, hangovers in progress.
And for those seeking more than just a visual thrill, the high-rise honeymoon suites became launchpads of their own.
Yes, the Mile High Club had a desert chapter—members living on the edge, chasing the thrill of a bang that came with a shock wave. Nothing like a little atmospheric detonation to put the boom in boom-boom.
The Logic Went Like This:
• It’s for science!
• It’s for national security!
• It’s happening anyway, so we might as well have a ball.
One could imagine Plato, if dragged forward through time and handed a daiquiri, staring at the horizon and muttering, “These are not shadows on the cave wall. This is the cave wall melting.”
But Vegas leaned in.
There were “Dawn Bomb” cocktails and Miss Atomic Blast pageants.
One showgirl, adorned in a mushroom-cloud tutu, became the patron saint of American denial.
Eventually, the party ended.
Turns out, the best souvenirs were radioactive isotopes.
Milk got a little spicy.
Hair got a little thin.
Children, a little too luminous.
And the government—realizing the PR optics of glowing toddlers—began doing what it does best:
Classifying. Disappearing. Disclaiming.
Today, we speak in hushed tones of Chernobyl and Fukushima—but almost never of Yucca martinis at sunrise, or of that odd moment in time when the most destructive force in human history was the backdrop for a conga line.
Steve Bombomarx’s Rule #47:
If humanity finds a way to dress up annihilation with sequins and sell it with a side of fries, it will.
And so it did.
Coda, for the kids who never knew:
Imagine TikTok with a tactical warhead filter.
Imagine Coachella, but instead of a bass drop—it’s the crust of the earth rippling.
Now imagine your grandparents applauding it from a chaise lounge while sipping a Sidecar.
History is strange.
Americans are stranger.
And the bomb?
Still ticking, somewhere deep in our collective psyche, where spectacle and shadow meet.
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Roblox rolls out open-source AI system to protect kids from predators in chats
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Alors que la frontière entre le Bangladesh et le Myanmar reste officiellement fermée et sous la surveillance des gardes-frontières, près de...mcinformactions.net
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RACE WAR ERUPTS on Podcast After Nick Fuentes TORCHES Woke Panel For SHAMING White Babies - YouTube
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The dummies think they get to have a say in what you want for your family.
Nick Fuentes unleashes on the blatant racial double standard that’s been infecting mainstream discourse for decades. In a heated exchange with Myron Gaines a...YouTube
Da nun viele deutsche Medienhäuser bei ihrer Berichterstattung zu #Gaza umschwenken:
Sie machen es erst jetzt, da sich der #Genozid nicht mehr leugnen lässt. Bei dem nächsten von Deutschland unterstützten Angriffskrieg werden sie wahrscheinlich wieder so agieren.
Im deutsprachigen Raum haben u. a. @ndaktuell, @blaetter, jacobin.de, Junge Welt, Monitor und Jung&Naiv von Anfang konsequent #Israel's Kriegsverbrechen benannt und die deutsche Außenpolitik kritisiert.
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.Global Voices
“GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing”…
“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.””
—> Remember “Genocide Joe” Biden and European politicians demonising and defunding the UNRWA aid organisation, in cahoots with Israel?
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#Gaza #Genocide #EUPol #USPol #Palestine #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ICC #ICJ
United Airlines tech issue that impacted more than 1,000 flights resolved, residual delays expected
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The Paris office of Israeli airline El Al is vandalized with graffiti
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🇮🇱 Israel reports a 30% rise in COVID cases over the past week.
"A 26-year-old from Tel Aviv, became part of this statistic after contracting the virus for the 6th time"
Source: ynetnews.com/health_science/ar…
Authorities report a 30% increase in cases over a week, prompting health experts to warn of worsening outcomes and inadequate monitoring; patients report high temperature, severe pain and fatigueOr Hadar, Alexandra Lukash (ynetnews)
Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally
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The diplomatic road that paved the way for a planned Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine
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Netanyahu to seek approval for expanded Gaza military operations as 29 Palestinians are killed
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President Trump - New census will not count those in the country illegally.
US Constitution Article 1 Section 2 - Enumeration of “whole Number of free Persons…”
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Already targeted by US sanctions, the ICC chief prosecutor’s pursuit of Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders now threatens his career, his reputation, and the future of the court itselfMiddle East Eye
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TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) – Iran and Azerbaijan have underlined the need to speed up the implementation of joint border projects, including the construction of the Astara border terminal and ongoing bridge projects.Mehr News Agency
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I hear that Jasmine Crockett will lose her seat if we Do the Census Correctly.
How does that make you feel?
#minds
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