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Tips for surviving the Kerry Gaeltacht:
1. Keep your windows rolled up
2. Do not make eye contact
3. If possible, remain in motion at all times
4. If detained by locals, make sheep noises. This may confuse them enough that you will be able to escape.
Good luck.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pentagon…

Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System
This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick.

"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail."
And yet: "No plan survives the first contact with the enemy."
#plan #planning #FailToPlan

RE: https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/116440931210998640
„None of they survived“
Looking at the picture I see my baby‘s eyes and smile. The simple happyness of having eye contact with a trusted person.
Right extremists made fascism…

Three of the surviving jurors contacted the governor, asking for clemency, as did Battle’s daughter.
Read the full article: One More Reason the Death Penalty Needs to Go
▸ #DeathPenalty

One More Reason the Death Penalty Needs to Go – Bob Mueller
A recent felony murder case in Alabama shows one more reason the death penalty needs to go—and why the justice system needs a closer look.

I wager that his colleagues will sooner or later sit him down and explain the facts of life.
Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7pz99l370o

Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on despite growing calls for him stand down from his own MPs and the threat of a leadership contest.

Before and after pictures of the rocket test 100 years ago today, from the fantastic #Goddard collection at https://commons.clarku.edu/goddardlaunch/ - articles about the historical event and its context also at https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031626a-robert-goddard-liquid-fuel-rocket-centennial-where-nell.html (small parts of the hardware may have survived after all), https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-origins/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-space-craze/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-legacy/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today

I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://

Angel One (episode)
While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. The USS Enterprise-D has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a...

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

Life's journey is a tapestry of challenges, each setback an opportunity to build resilience. 🎯 We are not merely survivors; we are artists of the comeback, embracing grit and wisdom. As Churchill said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Move forward with confidence and determination! 💪