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Another one bites the dust.
Russia's oil & gas money machine is being demolished. Repairs were already hampered by sanctions on critical components from abroad, but skilled crews should also be in short supply by now.
https://kyivind…

Russian gas processing plant stops production following drone attack, Reuters reports
The Astrakhan gas processing plant in southern Russia has stopped production following a fire at the facility caused by a drone attack, three industry sources told Reuters.

At some point, DOPs should stop going for even shallower depth of field or even weirder anamorphic lens distortion. I'm feeling like an old guy complaining about how "you can't see anything on the screen! It's too dark". Only I'm like "nothing is in focus anymore you doofuses!"
Yes, this is a subtoot about #Brick on

A look at micro dramas, like those on China's ReelShort: a whole season typically films in two weeks and features tired tropes and actors from ad backgrounds (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-reel-short-dramas-video-social-media/
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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China
How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight?

A similar trend is reported in Italy. Is violent crime becoming more violent and international? Is "someone" (a state actor perhaps?) flooding the black market with weapons?
Overall violent crime has been falling for decades pretty much everywhere in Europe so it's interesting to see these trends

On Atomic Line Opacities for Modeling Astrophysical Radiative Transfer
Jonathan Morag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17003 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17003

On Atomic Line Opacities for Modeling Astrophysical Radiative Transfer
In astrophysics, line opacity is a primary source of uncertainty in theoretical calculations of radiative transfer. Much of this uncertainty is dominated by the inability to resolve the width and separation in frequency of sharp atomic transition lines, leading to the common use of approximate frequency-averaged treatments for the lines. In a previous paper, we calculated shock-cooling emission following explosions in core-collapse supernovae using a mult-group radiative transfer code, and comp…

Ripple Effects
Hosted by Soph Dicker from So Invested following Australian founders and VC operators on a transformative two-week journey in Tanzania...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ripple-effects/

60 years ago #OTD #comet #IkeyaSeki reached perihelion, -10 mag., was visible in daylight and showed a spectacular tail in the following weeks: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/32770 and https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/sept-18-1965-discovery-of-comet-ikeya-seki/ and https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-01854/

Atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of the A-type eclipsing binary system RR Lyncis A and B
Yoichi Takeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20047 https://

Atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of the A-type eclipsing binary system RR Lyncis A and B
A spectroscopic study was carried out for the double-line A-type eclipsing binary system RR Lyn A+B based on the disentangled spectra, with an aim of clarifying the differences in photospheric chemical compositions between the components, where T_eff (effective temperature) and v_t (microturbulence) were determined from Fe lines. The resulting abundances of 30 elements revealed the following characteristics. (1) The brighter/hotter A shows metal-rich trends of classical Am stars; i.e., heavier …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Flying Vipers:
🎵 Astral Underground
#FlyingVipers
https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/track/astral-underground
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l5gTtQtDgsGHhJIqnOVKw

Heeft de coalitie dan toch iets "bereikt" voor hun achterban?
Nederlandse EU-invloed 'verschrompeld' tijdens kabinet-Schoof https://nos.nl/l/2587472

Nederlandse EU-invloed 'verschrompeld' tijdens kabinet-Schoof
De afgelopen anderhalf jaar is ons land flink wat invloed kwijtgeraakt binnen de EU, zeggen diplomaten tegen de NOS.