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“The huge yellow somethings went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them—which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years.” — HHGG

Senior Bowl Top 300 reveal: 2027 NFL Draft prospects to watch in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/senior-bowl-top-300-reveal-2027-nfl-draft-prospects-to-watch-in-2026

The Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
I'm considering blocking anyone who posts content from Meta platforms, as I already do for X content. It's always just rage-farming. People, mostly, are idiots. As a result, a big chunk of what we say is junk. Meta and X thankfully have more than their share of the worst idiots, so I avoid them.

The cost of the war doesn’t end when the last shot is fired.
Veterans will draw care and disability payments for decades.
Historically, these costs don’t peak until 30 to 40 years after a war ends.
Meanwhile, US weapons stockpiles will need replenishing
and American facilities in the Middle East
—damages to which are reportedly more extensive than the Trump administration has acknowledged
—will need to be rebuilt. 
Taken all together, $37.5 billion …

The Iran war’s other bill—and you’re paying It
The costs go way beyond gas. Delivery fees are up and diapers, baby wipes, and stuffed animals are likely next.

Still going through numerous recorded webcasts and TV broadcasts of the ecent Total #SolarEclipse on YouTube - and finding to my surprise that many of the experienced groups or large TV channels blew it right at second contact which is arguably the most important moment for the audience: image out of focus, solar crescent just leaving the FOV, using an H-alpha telescope only which is counter-productive for total eclipses etc. From what I've seen so far the clear winner remains the feed from Iceland of all places, mentioned earlier in the thread, and in https://www.facebook.com/groups/SolarEclipseChasers/posts/28259718680290370/ I mention four other interesting cases - and ask for links to other winners. Know any?

Just got new tube of soldering paste (the blue one on left), but still not shure if it will somehov be any better than the one i was getting earlier.
I honestly want to try and get the "better" ones which are almost all sold in US, but i cant get them because either they dont deliver in Moldova or the services which deliver stuff from other countries here consider for some reason flux to be dangerous...
If you know anything good for soldering that sels worldwide please …

Ed Yong announces his next book: Life Beyond Measure, is coming out next July. I'm already jonesing. If I can score a pre-release version, I'll have read it twice by then. It's about ALL life from microscopic to blue whales.

Spent the weekend with a few friends at Beautiful Days festival out in Exeter, which is the one that The Levellers run and fill with mostly 90s bands.
So lots of old men on stage and in the audience. Including me. It's me.
Weather was mostly good as you'd like. Not quite as too-hot as it's been lately and only The Undertones made the weather gods angry. After the end of their wet set the double rainbow promising no more rain proved a true promise.
Mostly either old things, or things I'd never heard of, because I haven't really paid attention to music since the 1900s.
Young new folks seemed to be mostly half Welsh, and included Gwenno who was beautiful in her cat-mask and sang a song in old Cornish about cheese, Gina Larner who was playing country rock with her beautiful sparkly country boots, Trampoline who had one guitarist replaced by a cardboard cut-out for some reason I missed and are from Swansea, and Ben Brown whose rider included a lacy fancy dress and seizable stick - his merch song as he danced around and stripped off the ten tee-shirts he sells and was wearing all at once for the first half apparently was memorable.
Old folks on stage included Billy Brag, who is so right-on and woke you wonder why all the other musicians are so apolitical. Madness, who have banger after banger but lack some energy now they're so old. The Undertones, who angered god by still singing about Teenage Kicks in their sixties, Super Furries who, inexplicably drew a much smaller crowd as people watched the Proclaimers instead I guess. The Divine Comedy, who acts very sophisticated mixing cocktails on stage. Also The Wonder Stuff who still mock their own audience but got us all nostalgic and emotional, they're loved and welcome in my home too.
And of course the Levellers who fill the field because they don't put anyone else up at the same time as them and so WAY up on the hill behind the ice cream van where you can't really see but at least you can move.
The Nanaz are both old and new, in that they've only been playing for a few years and yet are already each as old as the grandad bands playing here singing songs about menopause and being told they used to be beautiful.
It's a lovely smallish festival, big enough to have choices and headliners, but small enough to walk across, with hardly any bandwidth and which is too far away really. That drive home was very tedious.
Bravo though though. Hope it outlasts the Levellers, and both keep going for decades more. Hope to be back.
#music #festival #uk #beautifulDays

Scott Wiener was the only Democrat in the Senate to vote against this bill closing a loophole that lets corporations not report toxic chemical discharges. Those others are all Republicans. #SB954 #sfpol

Indivisible SF (@IndivisibleSF@sfba.social)
Attached: 1 image Ask Your Assemblymember: Vote for SB 954 to Close the CEQA Loophole Last session, the California legislature punched a loophole in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which would exempt industries from reporting on releases of toxic chemicals, among other things, when proposing to build facilities. SB 954 will close that loophole. After passage in the Senate, it is now up for passage in the Assembly. Call your Assemblymember: vote yes on SB 954! https://indivi…

Tehran has set out a protracted negotiating timetable
designed to keep Donald Trump embroiled in the Iran conflict until the midterm elections,
in the hope of inflicting the same ruinous blow on his presidency
as Jimmy Carter suffered over the 1979-81 US embassy hostage crisis.
For many inside Iran, inflicting meaningful revenge on Trump is a legitimate and self-standing war aim,
reflected in the mood of those attending the funeral of the supreme leader Ali Kham…

Iran plots to deal Trump a blow in midterms by keeping him entangled in war
By dragging out talks, Tehran aims to damage the US president politically – but some fear a bruised and weakened Trump could lash back