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Yarrrrrr! Return to Monkey Island is 70% off right now on Steam[1] for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Honestly my number one top game of the 2020s, admittedly I'm biased.
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060130/Return_to_Monkey_Island/

Unsere „sauberen“ Stromautos machen den Dreck halt vor fremden Haustüren: https://www.geo.de/wissen/-the-impact-of-nickel-mining-on-halmahera-island--von-mas-agung-wilis-yudha-baskoro_35584898-35584862.html…

"The Impact of Nickel Mining on Halmahera Island" von Mas Agung Wilis Yudha Baskoro
Seit 70 Jahren kürt der Wettbewerb Menschen, die einen besonderen Blick auf die Gegenwart eröffnen. Nun stehen die Siegerinnen und Sieger der sechs Weltregionen fest

Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee
when she asked the technician to get her husband, Keith McAllister, to help her get off the table.
She said she called out to him.
The man, 61, entered the MRI room while a scan was underway
The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain around his neck, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department.
He died Thursday afternoon

Man dies after heavy weight-training chain around neck pulls him into MRI machine
A man whose large metallic weight-training chain around his neck pulled him into an MRI machine in New York after he wandered into the room has died. Nassau County police on Long Island say the 61-year-old man died Thursday afternoon, a day after he entered a room while a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan was underway at Nassau Open MRI. The police department said in a statement that the strong magnetic force drew him in by his metallic chain. Authorities did not release his name. A person who an…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

"Could giving this pod of dolphins the same legal rights as humans help keep them safe?"
#Dolphins #Animals
…

Ukraine raids Russian-occupied Black Sea island, lays mines and destroys vehicle, intelligence claims, shows footage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/ukraine-raids-russianoccupied-black-sea.html

The number and breadth of extremely mainstream businesses who aren't afraid to participate in Rhode Island PrideFest is wonderful, given the way companies have been targeted just for acknowledging basic human rights. Nice to live here.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Psychic Mirrors:
🎵 Island Girl
#PsychicMirrors
https://psychicmirrors.bandcamp.com/track/island-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/2n2C5eahczWXA8mY08TqgR

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again // S3E1: Monster Island Tour
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pWpoYeicM2Y&si=UobW11htK4cmMSzJ

Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

Unreleased Epstein files include logbooks for private island, records show (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unreleased-epstein-files-include-logbooks-private-island-records/story?id=123851356
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p5#a250718p5

Obligatory reminder that pirates with accordions are even less historical than #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🏴‍☠️
The “pirate accent” dates to Robert Newton’s movies (Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard (1952)
https://youtu.be/wdGuGaNDH6Q

Blackbeard The Pirate in 2 Minutes (Arrr!)
Arrrr! It be the 1952 movie ultra-condensed! Robert Newton hamming it up in the title role, yarrr!

Picture in picture.
#Photography #prince_edward_island

So this got me thinking:
Starter primers:
Andor: Leftism/resistance
Barbie: Feminism
Matrix: Philosophy
Good Place: Ethics/Moral Philosophy
Sesame Street: Coexistence
Mr. Rogers: Empathy
Gillian’s Island: Capitalist Theory
https://youtu.be/rsRjQDrDnY8

Sky and ITV renew their long-standing content partnership, ensuring major ITV shows remain on all Sky TV platforms in the UK, without disclosing financial terms (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Sky and ITV Renew Long-Standing Content Deal
ITV's biggest shows, such as 'Love Island' and 'Trigger Point,' will remain available across all Sky TV platforms in Britain.

#Neurotypicals: You need to be bored. Next time you go to the gym, don't listen to that podcast. Just try to be in your head for a while. Maybe you'll think about the meaning of life, and maybe you'll figure it out.
My #ADHD brain trying to unload the dishwasher without a podcast: Hey, Remember the intro to Clifford the Big Red Dog? That song? You sort of paid attention to it for a few seconds while our kid was watching it. I remember those 5 seconds. Let's sing that intro... just that first part though. We're just going to keep doing that, over and over, hundreds of times in a row.
Neurotypicals: People don't like to be bored. People will give themselves electric shocks to not be bored. They don't want to think about the big questions
My ADHD brain, still trying to unload the dishwasher without a podcast: ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪
https://youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8

#DavidHasselhoff #AngelaVisser #JeremyJackson
Season 3 Episode 13 "Island of Romance"

Undulating patterns of Hysteresis loops in diurnal seasonality of air temperature in Urban Heat Island effect: Insights from Paris and Madrid
Suman Dharmasthala, Vittal Hari, Rohini Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13075

Undulating patterns of Hysteresis loops in diurnal seasonality of air temperature in Urban Heat Island effect: Insights from Paris and Madrid
This study examines the dynamics of the urban heat island (UHI) effect by conducting a comparative analysis of air temperature hysteresis patterns in Paris and Madrid, two major European cities with distinct climatic and urban characteristics. Utilizing high-resolution modelled air temperature data aggregated at a fine temporal resolution of three-hour intervals from 2008 to 2017, we investigate how diurnal and seasonal hysteresis loops reveal both unique and universal aspects of UHI variabilit…

Monkey Island: Gold-Master ist 35 geworden
Bei "Monkey Island" dürfte vielen eine warme, wohlige Erinnerung aufkommen. Vor 35 Jahren hat Ron Gilbert den Gold-Master erstellt.
https://www.he…

🪦 “It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
#work

“It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.

Trump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.

Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

"Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds"
#Philippines #Frogs #Deforestation

Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds
In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they heard a cacophony near their campsite. In a puddle that skirted the forest, hundreds of chubby frogs with big, bright eyes had gathered, looking for mates to breed with. Brown said he remembers hearing two […]

@… Perhaps of interest?
https://www.islandinnovation.co/events/virtual-island-summit-2025#speakers-page-1…

Island Innovation - Sustainable Development for Islands Worldwide
Island Innovation is a leading consultancy specializing in sustainable development, climate resilience, and innovation for island communities worldwide.

Lots of fuss about an offshore wind cable through the Wadden Sea and the island of Schiermonnikoog. Much less attention for the fact that the entire tidal flats of the Wadden Sea will start drowning when sea level rise reaches a rate of 6 mm/year. https://nos.nl/l/2575462

Omstreden stroomkabel bij Schiermonnikoog komt er toch, 'op z'n minst kortzichtig'
De minister zegt dat de kabel met respect voor de natuur en perspectief voor de landbouw wordt aangelegd, maar burgemeester Ineke van Gent noemt het een slecht besluit.

Vulkanausbruch macht bei schlechtem Wetter keinen Spaß.
#Island

Hello @… is that "an official book"?
https://lookbehindyou.de/produkt/monkey-island
or just someone who used …

Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island
"Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island - Auf Kapertour mit Pixel-Piraten!" ist eine Hommage an die Abenteuer von Guybrush Threepwood ™, mächtiger Pirat. Aber es möchte Ihnen auch in vielen Details schildern, wie Monkey Island durch seine einzigartige Erzählkunst zum Meilenstein der Videospielgeschichte wurde. Darüber hinaus bietet es die Gelegenheit, auf die turbulente Historie von LucasArts

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E.:
🎵 Strong Island
#JVCFORCE
https://pryvetpeepsho.bandcamp.com/track/j-v-c-f-o-r-c-e-strong-island-pryvet-peepsho-remix-2

Bonus content on PEI's focus on disappearing farmland. The island isn't getting smaller, or bigger, but housing and industrial development are putting pressure on those potato fields.
#Farming
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-news-farming-land-agriculture-1.6974633

stuff busta would enjoy

Fallout: Spies On Norfolk Island
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Pulp - Spike Island (live on Later with Jools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BygudvVijU

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island #Antarctic

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island
Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University.

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

"Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship"
https://pen.org/press-release/rhode-island-freedom-to-read-act…

Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship - PEN America
Joining a growing number of states that are passing laws to protect the right to read, Rhode Island’s newly signed Freedom to Read Act provides safeguards for both public and school libraries, protections for librarians and staff and is the first in the nation to guarantee writers and readers a special right of action against censorship.

‘Swashbuckling and cheeky’: island festival celebrates Ireland’s ‘pirate queen’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/29/grace-o-malley-pirate-queen-ireland-festival-achill-island?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Monkey Island: Gold-Master ist 35 geworden
https://www.

On an Indonesian island, traces of human presence over one million years old have been discovered
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/08/08/on-an-indonesian-island-traces-of-human-presence-over-one-million-years-old-have-been-discovered_6744181_10.html

Join us at DWeb Camp Cascadia this August on Salt Spring Island https://dwebyvr.org/camp/
You can follow the @… account or just use / foll…

Million-Year-Old Evidence of Epic Journey Near ‘Hobbit’ Island Discovered by Scientists https://www.404media.co/indonesian-island-sulawesi-early-humans-hobbits-calio/

Local control of parity and charge in nanoscale superconducting lead islands
Stefano Trivini, Jon Ortuzar, Katerina Vaxevani, Beatriz Vi\~na-Baus\'a, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Jose Ignacio Pascual
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12150

Local control of parity and charge in nanoscale superconducting lead islands
Small superconducting islands can exhibit charge quantization, where Coulomb interactions compete with Cooper pairing. Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we probe this interplay by measuring the charging energy ($E_C$) and the pairing energy ($Δ$) of individual nano-islands. Below a critical island size, where $E_C > Δ$, we observe a crossover between even and odd parity ground states. By applying controlled voltage pulses, we continuously tune the island's electrostatic potential and map…

Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference, June 11-13, 2026, Ionian University, Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece - Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality
https://ift.tt/tKOJl8V
updated: Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 9:56amfull name / name of organization: The Society for…
via Input 4 RELCF…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Dre Island:
🎵 Nice Again
#DreIsland
https://ineffablerecords.bandcamp.com/track/nice-again
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BGbSqFrkCC5fgMVrwmloK

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
https://www.…

As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
htt…

Also finished “Wild Dark Shore” by Charlotte McConaghy. A woman washes ashore on a cold and bleak island between Australia and Antarctica. A widowed father and his three children live there as caretakers of a seed bank, critically important in this time of further advanced climate change. They have a secret and she might too. Can they trust each other?
Great characters & a very visceral setting, but some cringy romantic moments.
4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Wild Dark Shore
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed …

Me: Hey, we could ride those bikes!
Partner: They’re locked up.
Me: Are they, though?
(That was last night. There were two bikes there. Note that we are on an island, there’s only so far a thief would get. There are tons of unlocked bikes around. I’m sure the owner just went for a ride. Still a funny photo though!)
#bikeTooter

We made a little Virtual Cache when we were on holiday at the Frisian island of Norderney in Germany: https://www.opencaching.de/viewcache.php?wp=OC18806
Seems a fun tradition to make one of these whenever we visit a fun spot that doesn't have anything there yet. It's …

Western Honey Bee flying away after visiting a Canary Island Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

It's now been 16 years since the Special Edition remake of The Secret of Monkey Island shipped 19 years after the original game.

"Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air"
#Energy #Renewables
https://

Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

Disney and ITV agree a deal to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, starting July 16; both can sell ads (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/97a2dea6-4639-45c1-8499-aa3eed935413

lol that's quite the caption https://gothamist.com/news/staten-islands-lost-city-of-wild-beaches-is-a-spiritual-refuge-for-new-yorkers

Staten Island's 'lost city' of wild beaches is a spiritual refuge for New Yorkers
Many of the borough's beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s key to their appeal.

Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean;
Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner have spent over $1bn on an Albanian island that will be a luxury resort – once unexploded ordnance has been removed
https://www.thegua…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. Suspect my finished list was totally different to my first ten selections. #hottest100

Okay guys, where is the last one?

coming soon: all gary panter issue of desert island #comics' smoke signal, available for ordering or free to local #brooklyn #comix heads when it comes out.

Misread this as Robben Island, and wondered why they’d encroach on the site of Mandela’s imprisonment. 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115109611723253602

Material-Limited Switching in Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
Tony Chiang, John J. Plombon, Megan K. Lenox, Ian Mercer, Punyashloka Debashis, Mahendra DC, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Jon-Paul Maria, Jon F. Ihlefeld, Ian A. Young, John T. Heron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12353

Material-Limited Switching in Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
The ferroelectric switching speed has been experimentally obfuscated by the interaction between the measurement circuit and the ferroelectric switching itself. This has prohibited the observation of real material responses at nanosecond timescales and lower. Here, fundamental polarization switching speeds in ferroelectric materials with the perovskite, fluorite, and wurtzite structures are reported. Upon lateral scaling of island capacitors from micron to nanoscales, a clear transition from cir…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Islet near the LaHave Islands in Nova Scotia.
#Photography #SilentSunday

A Corrective Frequency-Constrained Unit Commitment with Data-driven Estimation of Optimal UFLS in Island Power Systems
Miad Sarvarizadeh, Lukas Sigrist, Almudena Rouco, Mohammad Rajabdorri, Enrique Lobato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05062

A Corrective Frequency-Constrained Unit Commitment with Data-driven Estimation of Optimal UFLS in Island Power Systems
This paper presents a novel corrective \gls{fcuc} formulation for island power systems by implementing data-driven constraint learning to estimate the optimal \gls{ufls}. The Tobit model is presented to estimate the optimal amount of \gls{ufls} using the initial rate of change of frequency. The proposed formulation enables co-optimizing operation costs and \gls{ufls}. The aim is to account for optimal \gls{ufls} occurrences during operation planning, without increasing them. This would potentia…

Good issue of the European Correspondent on #SOTEU messages. Then @… 's analysis of the Poland situation was very interesting too .
But piece on #Samsø the sustainable Danish Island warmed my heart. Visited recently and it's all true!
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/rv03kj8tcubwq09e17y9240phn9c0u5736zkgkg0k47i/2866

I wonder if the US will eventually overcome it's cultural (wilful?) obliviousness to irony, because it's settling in drifts as far south as Te Wāiponamu (the South Island) of Aotearoa (NZ).
Perhaps, one day, they might develop an appreciation of irony as I have since emigrating. And even savour it.

At the Hiroshige exhibition, in the British Museum. It's so peaceful and cool here. And the colours are magnificent.
#art #japan

Rising seas could put Easter Island's moai at risk by 2080, study warns
https://religionnews.com/2025/08/15/rising-seas-could-put-easter-islands-moai-at-risk-by-2080-study-warns/

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Herbie Hancock:
🎵 Cantaloupe Island
#HerbieHancock
https://djtron1.bandcamp.com/track/herbie-hancock-cantaloupe-island-dj-tron-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tckg6GRaTodmxnDd4Cxkl

Does Rapunzel’s 👑 cover the cost?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25258332.private-scottish-island-castle-sale-5-5m/

Private Scottish island with castle up for sale for £5.5m
A private Scottish island with a castle has been put on the market for more than £5 million

JD's joke's on us, there *are* no left wing billionaires
Ain't that many left wing politicians left in the USA, either, and I bet the ones we have left *weren't* on Pedophilia Island chartered flights

Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference, June 11-13, 2026, Ionian University, Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece - Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/…

Fascinating article, from the island of Seil:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/biology-mycorrhizal-fungi-map-restoring-world-forests

Call For a Ban on Horse-Drawn Carriages in Mallorca #AnimalRights

Call for a Ban on Horse-Drawn Carriages in Mallorca
Dozens of horses on the Spanish island are forced to pull tourist carriages until they collapse from exhaustion. Join us in calling for a ban on this cruel practice.

"Philippines protects huge coral hotspot off the coast of Panaon Island"
#Philippines #CoralReef #Environment

Philippines protects huge coral hotspot off the coast of Panaon Island
The corals around Panaon Island in the southeastern Philippines form some of the healthiest and most climate-resilient reefs in the world, and they’re now a legally protected seascape. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved the Panaon Island Protected Seascape law on Aug. 29. It creates a 61,204-hectare (151,200-acre) marine protected area within the Pacific Coral […]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c66APUihMSvbniRdka1Er

Der unersättliche Energiehunger der künstlichen Intelligenz treibt die Tech-Branche in die Arme der Atomkraft! 🔋⚛️
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10463412?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&amp…

Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/202

'Like Ordering McDonald's:' Malta's MiCA Fast-Track Draws Oversight Concerns
Some people think Malta is nimble and innovative when it comes to regulation. But others see a fast track to regulatory arbitrage.

It did happen before, but 43.6°C on the island of Gran Canaria, in the Atlantic Ocean, is quite extreme. Hottest place in Spain yesterday.
(That's 110.5F)
Source: @aemet.es

Trump says he turned down visit to Epstein's island (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/28/trump-jeffrey-epstein-island-visit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p60#a250728p60

Disney and ITV agree a deal to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, starting July 16; both can sell ads (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/97a2dea6-4639-45c1-8499-aa3eed935413
…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Quiet Island:
🎵 Downtown
#NowPlaying #QuietIsland
https://quietisland.bandcamp.com/track/downtown-3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Brian Eno:
🎵 Over Fire Island
#BrianEno
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Sodk3mkwv4Gvp2sF3obaE

"Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change melts nearly 25% of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island
Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Piteyo Ukah:
🎵 Uyas Gerakun (Small Island mix)
#PiteyoUkah
https://smallislandbigsong.bandcamp.com/track/uyas-gerakun-small-island-mix

Wait there’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University?
Can’t make this up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Schank

Microsofts KI-Stromhunger: US-Atomkraftwerk soll vorzeitig reaktiviert werden
Das Kernkraftwerk auf Three Mile Island könnte Microsofts KI-Rechenzentren früher mit Energie versorgen als angenommen, meint Betreiber Constellation Energy.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c66APUihMSvbniRdka1Er

"Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources"
#Chile #Environment

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
Daniel Caniullán has been diving in the cold waters of the Guaitecas Archipelago in northern Patagonia, Chile, for more than 30 years. “Just by looking at the seabed landscape, you can tell what species you are going to find,” he says. Just as it is possible to recognize the loss of a diverse forest on […]

Up close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c66APUihMSvbniRdka1Er

"Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease"
#Belize #Environment #CoralReef

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease
PLACENCIA, Belize — After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World Heritage site as a coral graveyard. But a small group from the coastal village of Placencia, Belize, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the island, saw hope. In 2006, the park […]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands,
for a mission that its flight crew knew would make history
‘My teeth told me’:
What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
https://www.washingtonpost.co…

‘My teeth told me’: What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
Eighty years ago, a group of B-29 bombers flew a world-altering mission. Here are memories of the crew.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Herbie Hancock:
🎵 Cantaloupe Island
#HerbieHancock
https://discoafro.bandcamp.com/track/herbie-hancock-cantaloupe-island-disco-afro-breakbeat-remix

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Dre Island:
🎵 Nice Again
#DreIsland
https://ineffablerecords.bandcamp.com/track/nice-again
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BGbSqFrkCC5fgMVrwmloK